Could still see the potential for damage with Flash Flooding as well. The yellow track irma, the red track, maria. Maria will make a righthand turn, at least we think so. We always wait for that turn, guys. Right now we hope its a gutter ball between bermuda and the u. S. 48. With all of the attention on maria, we seem to have forgotten for a second about hurricane jose. Is that Doing Anything right now . Yes, let me get to it. Its here on this graphic. Hurricane jose, it will eventually die out in the atlantic, but right now a category 1, category 2, somewhere in there, and then dying to a category nothing in about 48 hours, but will take a long time. This is sunday. Its almost five days away now and its still sitting in the same place making waves and wind. The waves and the rip currents across the northeast are tremendous today. Stay out of the water, please. Thats all you need to do. Chad meyers, we will take your advance. Thank you. Puerto rico is bracing for a direct hit from hurricane maria, that will happen tomorrow. Nick valencia is live in san juan. Good morning, nick. Reporter we have already started to see conditions deteriorate. Walk with me a little bit and i will show you what we are dealing with on the beach. These waves are starting to swell, and the clouds are starting to creep into the blue sky and eat up what is left of it. We still see people on the beach. Earlier we saw some of the Hotel Officials trying to keep people off the beach and they are not listening clearly and want to get in their last good swim before what local Officials Say will be great wind and rain tonight. There was a press conference on Facebook Live and said conditions will get worse and
worse by the hour, and reminded people that Flood Something a major problem. One of the locals told us we are in a flood zone, and on the inside of a lagoon. This area floods during a normal rain event and thats not expected to be the case tomorrow but expected to be a category 5. Shelters have been put in place, about 500 across the island. We understand its being reported that some food is being rationed, including baby formula. They want to make sure everybody has resources at their disposal once the storm hits. We cant expect miracles. This storm is not going to change and people here are preparing for the worst. Alisyn. Thank you and be careful. We will check back with you. Sources tell cnn u. S. Investigators wiretapped former trump chairman Paul Manafort before and after the election. We have broken this story and we have all of the breaking details about why the government was listening to somebody so close to the president. And tell us everything you have learned. Sources tell us that the fbi got permission from the secret Surveillance Court to monitor the former Campaign Chairman before and after the election. This is an extraordinary step for the fbi to do surveillance of a Highranking Campaign person, and there are interceptions that raised concerns about whether manafort was encouraging russia to help the campaign, and other sources tell us the investigation was not conclusive. Robert mueller has been told of this. What does that mean . Theres a lot we dont know
about what was said. We were told the fbi does have communications between russian operatives Relaying Communications Involving Manafort himself. None of this amounted to what officials tell us is considered a smoking gun in the investigation, and theres a lot more work being done to determine if theres a criminal violation here. Manafort has previously denied he knowingly communicated with russian intelligence operatives during the election, and hes also denied helping russia undermine u. S. Interests. Evan, why two separate times . Why did they get two fisa warrants to monitor him . The order that began on manafort began back when he was a subject of an fbi agent in 2014 and that centered on work that was being done by a group of washington consulting firms, including his, for ukraines
that the president and manafort were still talk into earlier this year, and thats well after the campaign and after the president took office. During this time the fbi was listening to manafort and its possible those conversations were collected. You remember the president tweeted that trump power oh, yeah. Was wiretapped. Does this mean he was right . Well, it doesnt. The Justice Department denies the own lines were wiretapped but its possible conversations were picked up with manafort. As recently as last week the Justice Department told a Certain Court it would not conform or deny where there was a fisa on any of this. What does it all mean now for that Robert Muellerinvestigation . It points to the fact that prosecutors and lawyers working for him are pushing forward on manafort. Its not clear what the plan here is, but as best as we can determine they do plan to charge him. This is something the New York Times reported last night, and according to our own sources, thats accurate. The picture that is emerging they are going to use financial issues, tax issues and possible financial crimes to put pressure on him and perhaps use that to flip him. Whether he has any actual information to provide for this broader investigation is a big question, but, again, the big unanswered question is what has been found to prove whether theres any crime in the weird connections that have emerged between the Trump Campaign associates and the russian government. Evan, thank you so much for sharing all of that Exclusive Reporting with us. Lets bring in our legal plan that will jeffrey taouza, and
chris cillizza, and susan hennessy. Great to have all of you. Jeffrey, evan just gave us so much information there. Lets start at the end. Their reporting suggests that Paul Manafort will be charged with something and that they then might try to flip him or use him somehow to get to something different, bigger, more information. What does that tell you . It tells you they think Paul Manafort is the key to the investigation. If you look at the tactics, especially the Search Warrant at his house, which is very unusual for a White Collar Crime investigation, not unprecedented, but an extremely unprecedented tactic and it suggests they think Paul Manafort is still hiding things from them, and they want to get him to tell the truth and plead guilty in the process. Whether he has committed any crime and whether he has any information to implicate others, we dont know. It certainly shows the Mueller Investigation thinks manafort is the key to the investigation. Susan hennessy, you were trying to explain the significance of the developments overnight, and it was in 30,000 words, and i will sum it up in one word, really significant. You point out the timeframe as fascinating. The first fisa was before the campaign and the second after. So its not necessarily clear as we sit here this morning what Robert Mueller might go after him for. Exactly. There really do appear to be two distinct investigations, but there are connections. The first one, the early fisa warrant was for his connections to Ukrainian Government officials, and that predates the campaign, and the second one was related to the investigation into the russian and campaign
official contacts, and the Connective Tissue there is Paul Manafort, and his connection to individuals with russian interests and connections to that country, but we are talking about two separate buckets here. What is interesting, as jeffrey mentioned, that muellers team does appear to be Mount Pressure and be aggressive on Paul Manafort, and the real question is what else might he know . Obviously this is huge and breaking and exclusive that cnn has. This is more specific and bigger than things that we had heard previously. The New York Times also has new reporting with color about what was going on at Paul Manaforts house while Robert Muellers team is trying to poke around and get more information. So heres this from the New York Times. Manafort was in bed Early Morning in july when an agent picked the lot on his front door and raided his home, and they took binders and copied his Computer Files and photographed
the expensive suits in his closet, and then the prosecutors told mr. Manafort they planned to indict him. Your wheelhouse as politics, what does this all mean politically . I thought Tommy Lee Jones is going to play mueller in the movie. That kind of stuff really sounds like movie they are picking the lock and take pictures of the suits and issuing warnings. To susans point, they are taking a very aggressive approach here. I think you guys evan about this, and what i have seen politically speak something what you are see something trump and his associates trying to c conflight in some ways to prove Donald Trumps tweet in early march he had been wiretapped, and thats wrong, right . Its just wrong. Paul manafort Being Wiretapped and donald trump Being Wiretapped by the orders of barack obama, thats not the same thing. Again, its so important to remember. This operates on two tracks. Yes, theres a political track. Theres the attempt to discredit bob mueller, and donald trump is saying again and again this is a witch hunt. The legal track continues and continues aggressively and really operates in a lot of ways, while, of course, the political pressures are there, and operates totally separate from it. No matter what is said, well, see, donald trump was right bob mueller and his Investigation Continues on here the way that politics is not terribly influenced by it. Can i make one point about the investigation. We put a lot of emphasis on who
will testify, will donald trump, jr. , testify . These cases are made on evidence, paper trail, thats where this case is going to stand or fall. We know that witnesses by and large are not going to implicate donald trump if they are not forced to buy a paper or electronic paper. The fact that there are tapes and emails, thats what this case is really going to come down to, not the testimony. There are tapes, again, a significant phrase right there that we could not have said yesterday because we did not know that to be the case. Susan hennessy, chris used the term plotting along, and i am not disagreeing with chris cillizza. One thing to keep in mind,
there are a lot of different threats. One investigation into Paul Manafort, and investigations into michael flynn. There are a lot of pieces. This is an indication that the manafort piece of this investigation has progressed to the next phase. If he has, in fact, received a target letter, its not clear from the New York Times reporting what occurred but he has been informed hes going to be indicted. That might mean Robert Mueller is prepared for the next stage, which is the next stage. In trumps judgment, remember that first the Ukrainian Fisa warrant On Manafort Well Predates him on the campaign, and he had done a lot of work in
foreign countries, and some of it that had raised questions. I heard those sorts of things when manafort was brought on, and yet donald trump instituted him at the top of his campaign in order to try and secure him the nomination. Thats not a legal thing but it does get to the judgment factor. You could have seen the potential problem with Paul Manafort coming a mile away. This was not something that even with the most basic digging you might have been able to surface. In terms of the different areas of investigation, the one that we should not forget is the whole idea of a possible Obstruction Of Justice by Firing James Comey who was investigating the president. That is obviously another major focus of the Mueller Investigation. Again, its no small thing when a president s Campaign Chair is indicted. If that happens, thats a giant, giant thing. We tend to overlook the
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many good things and some tricky ones happening. We have a great team. Good speech at 10 00 a. M. Were told the president will address a deeply philosophical address, and thats what the white house is calling it. He will single out north korea and iran. And jane harmon is the director and ceo of the Woodrow Wilson center. Congressman, lets start with you. Yesterday we had tony blair and he said the world is confused by President Trump, they want clarity from the president today. We are told he will give a deeply philosophical speech, marrying the u. S. With common goals. Possible . I think its possible. The world is confusing. I am not sure anybody could make sense of it, including tony blair who admits that. I would have to give trump high
marks with north korea. The Obama Administration focussed on iran and not north korea and now north korea is the most dangerous place in the world and trump is focusing on it. From what i hear he will read his text today and stay within boundaries. Nicky capable is very capable at the u. N. This is his biggest