All year round. So call today. Because nows the perfect time to learn more. Go long. Im jim accoosta for wolf blitzer. Maria on the move. Churning north and gaining steam. What the storm is leaving behind and who is next. The hunt for survivors after a deadly earthquake grows more frantic and we will take you there live. Turning to trump. The Special Counsel seeks new documents about the president s actions in office including a meeting with the russians. We begin with Hurricane Marias rampage with 3. 3 million u. S. Citizens. It has been devastated and President Trump approved a
system. In san juan, what is the situation there right now . Its strange because people are beginning to move around again. You see people stopping to pause and look around and take stock of the scope of whats changed in a little over 24 hours. We were here before the rains moved in to see a perfectly functional city, but there is a Puerto Rican Flag trying to go in the breeze. Part of today has been about taking the shots down and trying to get a glimpse of what the new normality looks like. It can be cleaned up and shops can be repainted, but with the power going down. What could be four to six months
and doe you go to work and the hospital for medical treatment. The much more immediate term, there is no cell phone service. People cant check on their loved ones without physically going to see them and going back a century in terms of Interhuman Relations and saying how bad was that storm . You can see its not available. And when is the airport going to open . Its like lly that thats a hug task too. Two weeks before Hurricane Irma hit, near bankruptcy and cost A Billion Dollars worth of damage. The hurricane slammed into the east coast yesterday morning and
and the next stop is into the turks and caicos. Storm surge will be a huge factor. While it may only be a 5 to 10 degree spread, thats enough to weaken the storms quickly. We talked about comparisons to irma. Especially where its right here. This is the point in which irma and maria are on the same track. Maria started off further south. The yellow line is irma. From there they will go to the north. Jim . Thank you very much. We appreciate it. Researchers are clawing through the rubble of an elementary school. Its Heart Breaking to watch to reach a 12 yearly old girl and two other survivors trapped two days after a magnitude 7. 1. 26 bodies including 21 children have been found at the school. 11 others have been rescued. One girl described what happened as the building collapsed. [speaking foreign language] translator just when we were going to run down, part of the building collapsed and you couldnt see anything. The english teacher helped us come down because we couldnt use the stairs. The Rescue Everydafforts rep and rescue teams are hoping for more victories like this one. Of the task there in mexico city. Lets go to Search And Rescue expert who joins us via skype from santa paula, california. You heard miguel there. You probably didnt find it surprising he was speaking in a whisper as he was reporting from the scene and shows you how we are taking great pains to be delicate in the reporting on the scene. You have trained and you work with trained Search And Rescue teams. There are fears that this building in mexico is unstable. What do they have to do to keep a structure like this from collapsing more . Honestly if the structure is going to collapse, thats whats going to happen, but they will Consecentrate Onshoring up the areas where these children are. Especially this little girl. They will try to go in and from two different directions, its
have been involved in from the get go. Thats when mistakes happen as well. Hopefully they will go into a little bit of a rotation so that they can be a little more focused and on task. Things are far more organized today and thats great. Its really got to be systematic on this. There is a lot at stake. Im always curious and how do you get food and water and medicine to the people that are trapped . When you see them through perhaps a roll in the rubble and you can reach something down to them even though you cant pull them out, i cant imagine how frustrating it might be while that is a lifeline for the person who is trapped. Liquid new trigz and trisdragz
huge. They have been there long enough now that they need to get that food and water. They are coming up with all kinds of ways to do that. And not sure how she is pinned. That will make it a little bit more challenging. As far as the medicine goes, if they can open it enough to get somebody down there its the small guys that kind of dig down into there. Its the nature of the game and a slow process and also very
focused. Hopefully all the rest of the folks as well as those who are strapped all over the region. Its heroic work and thank you very much. We will come back to the scene in a moment, but major new developmentsed which aring a report that the Campaign Chairman, Paul Manafort offered private briefings to a billionaire close to vladimir putin. Jimmy kimmel doubling down on his criticism of the health care plan. He is becoming a thorn in President Trumps side. More on the breaking news. The president announcing an Executive Order Targeting Companies to do business with north korea saying china is on board. This is special live coverage. Well be right back. Rcycle insurance with geico. Goin up the country. Later, gary i have a motorcycle wonderful. Im goin up the country, baby dont you wanna go . Im goin up the country, baby dont you wanna go . Geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. When this bell rings. It starts a chain reaction. Thats heard throughout the connected business world. At t Network Security helps protect business, from the largest Financial Markets to the smallest transactions, by sensing cyberattacks in near real time and automatically deploying countermeasures. Keeping the world of business connected and protected. Thats the power of and. Whfight back fastts, with tums smoothies. It starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue. And neutralizes stomach acid at the source. Tum tum tum tum smoothies only from tums
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delivering blunt damage offering a warning to foreign bankers and leaders that you can do business with the u. S. Or trade with north korea, but threatened to cut them off. This is a sign that on north korea, this administration is searching for one strategy and trying several things. Threatening Military Options and trying to squeeze them economically as well. A bigger headline than we were expecting getting south korea on board as well trying to present a unified front in the region. Less fuel for the rocket man. The president was asked about possible dialogue with north korea. What did he say . That was interesting at the end of that announcement this morning, he was asked if dialogue will continue. He said why not. He left it hanging there. This is something the president
has been a bit all over the map on if he would have dialogue or talks with north korea. He did not rule out that possibility. Taken together, the fiery rhetoric we heard earlier in the week, this is more of a normal action of a previous u. S. President here for an economic sanction, a clear sign that Military Options is not the prefer route of anyone despite that rhetoric. Less brinkmanship today outside trump tower. Trumps former Campaign Manager under scrutiny in the russia probe and the offer he made to a billionaire close to vladimir putin. How Robert Mueller is turning to the president s actions while in the oval office. Flonase changes everything. Paul manafort offered a russian billionaire private briefings on the election while he was Campaign Chairman. The paper said the billionaire has close ties to the kremlin. Part of the team that broke that story is cnn legal analyst and follow prosecutor. The post said that your story said there is no evidence these briefings took place, but what are the concerns raised here in you dont want the Campaign Chairman making these offers to russian billionaires. At minimum you have a conflict of interest, but if you are part of the Counter Intelligence team that is reading those emails, it sounded like he was offering to be to their ears an informant. Telling someone that they knew
was in regular contact with putin and had a very fraught relationship with putin. Somebody was who probably trying to impress putin by showing he had access within the trump campaign. We dont know everything because whats in emails is obviously just a piece of this. The emails are cryptic in the words that are chosen and initials are used and sometimes code names are being used. We dont know what mueller had access to beyond what we are seeing. Probably there is a lot more we dont know. We were just talking about this out of the break, but you never cease to be amazed by the shoes that are dropping and its hard to get your mind and arms around the idea that a Campaign Chairman would be having these kinds of thoughts. That he would somehow be able to provide briefings to somebody with another country. An adversary of the United States. Its so absurd at this point
in time, the almost mountain of careless mistakes or things being made, but what you have here is somebody who is trying to profit or capitalize and monitize on his relationship with the president of the United States or who would become the president of the United States. For the prosecutor, you are saying what would be the motive behind trying to do that and is there incentive for someone to receive or act as a liaison between a foreign entity and the Campaign Position . When you have that, you have got the absence of that smoking gun, that one piece of evidence that ties the whole case together, but the key to a successful prosecution when you dont have that are being able to establish the motive and leverage. All this heaping up about Paul Manafort is that you have leverage in the eyes of Robert Muellers team. You can have this person cooperate in the investigation to get to that smoking gun. Cnn has reported that the Special Prosecutor requested documents covering a wide range of actions by the Trump White House that includes firings of Michael Flynn and President Trumps meetings with them in the oval office. How significant is this . What we are seeing here is obviously some of it goes to what the president chose to do. Was there an attempt to obstruct justice in these cases . Whats clear is how much he is front loading with the investigation. We know they interviewed the dni and the director of of National Intelligence and one of the first interviews was with mike rogers and the director of the National Security agency. Both of them were asked by the president if they could tell the world that there was no evidence of collusion. This is all part of a chain. Piecing together this picture. Was the president trying to either change the narrative or actually intimidate people, trying to get people to drop the investigation. I want to get to something the Vice President was asked about earlier today. Whether the Mueller Investigation veered outside of the jurisdiction. He said thats for others to decide. Take a listen. What i can assure you is that we are fully cooperating with the Special Counsel and we will continue to do that. I made clear that during my time on the campaign i was not aware of any contacts or collusion with russian officials and i stand by that. We will provide any information they require, but honestly, this is not what the American People are focused on. Notice he said there was no collusion during my time on the
campaign. A little bit of 46ing and trying to preserve his own purity. For reminds me of when donald trump said not to my knowledge and never that i knew. You want to protect the flip against you. Thats a certainly that he is in fact an enemy of the white house and turns out the Investigation Points directly at them. Whenever you tell somebody dont look over here, your tendancy is to look at what you were told not to look at. The irony on the criminal probe is that we are not digging up evidence we wouldnt otherwise have. We are not probing into things we couldnt see. We are using the president s words and mike pences words and what manafort said and its coming back to haunt people in a real way in realtime. You will see the distance
happen. Im not surprised by it, but not sure at this point that manafort is truly cooperating with muellers team enough to have that be justified. The president left plenty of bread crumbs. Thanks to both of you. Republican senators comment about the Health Care Bill raising eyebrows about the motivation of his partys rush to obamacare. The bill covers Preexisting Conditions. We will fact check that as jimmy kimmel launches another attack on republicans. Coming up. Tech when you schedule with safelite autoglass,
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here specifically to discuss and we will be reporting back to you later. Thank you all very much. You heard what china was doing today in terms of the banking system. That was a tremendous move and we have Great Respect and also would like to thank president xi of china. It was a great thing he did today. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for being here. [speaking foreign language]
[speaking foreign language] lets break out of this for a moment and we will go back to this if there is more news that develops, but i will go to Gloria Borger to talk about this. We heard the president referencing the new actions and new sanctions aimed at north korea and he is hitting there with the japanese Prime Minister. One of the things he said is china is starting to exert influence on this through the banking system. And enforce sanctions that had not been enforced. That is key to this. Thats what we hear the president referring to and he is thanking the chinese here for
cooperating. Contrast that with what we heard a couple of days ago. The president threatening to totally wipe out north korea referring to kim jong un as rocket man. He is falling back on what president s have done with rogue regimes and go after sanctions and try to use the levers that are normally accompanying the powers of the presidency to try to keep people in line. Not so much of the brinkmanship today. There isnt. Speak softly and carry a big stick goes to speak loudly and carry a big stick. Smaller stick today. Thats still the nature of this president. He will level every threat he can and we will destroy you and fire and fury. What he wants to do is unnerve the north koreans and im not sure it has the intended effect. Joining us as we are watching
this unfold. We will go back to the president as he makes news here. What do you make of this move that the white house is taking against north korea. A lot less fire and fury. It doesnt work if you are only threatening fire and fury alone. If there is a moment to come together, the powers that exert influence, it was going to be this week at the un general assembly. This is a positive step if he is stepping up enforcement. Thats the key thing that is missing and to solve in this crisis. Nobody wants to have a Military Approach happen. Even if there is an option there. It would be very, very messy. If china loses the leverage, they can bring this to closer to a resolution than it has been. If they are ready to take a softer tone, that potentially means things are moving in the right direction. Thats why you say fire and fury
in the first place. Thats supposed to lead to the diplomacy and not necessarily using the stick. It may have scared the chinese more than the north korea koreans. They are being hustled out of the room so we wont see more questions to the president. I know about that in those situations. Lets talk more about this after a quick break. We will talk about that and the health care news. Jimmy kimmel dominating the Health Care Debate when we come back. Every morning, i thought i had to make a choice. Do i use a toothpaste that whitens my teeth or one. Thats good for my teeth . Now i dont have to choose my dentist told me about new crest whitening therapy. So, i tried it from crest 3d white comes new whitening therapy. Its our best whitening technology. Plus, it has a Fortifying Formula to protect your enamel. Now i get a whiter smile and healthy teeth, all in one. The 3d white collection from crest. Healthy, beautiful smiles for life. Theres nothing more important than your health. So if youre on medicare or will be soon, you may want more than parts a and b heres why. Medicare only covers about 80 of your part b medical expenses. The rest is up to you. You might want to consider an aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. Like any Medicare Supplement insurance plan, these help pick up some of what medicare doesnt pay. And, these plans let you choose any doctor or hospital that accepts medicare patients. You could stay with the doctor or specialist you trust. Or go with someone new. Youre not stuck in a network. Because there arent any. So dont wait. Call now to request your free Decision Guide and find the aarp Medicare Supplement plan that works for you. Theres a range to choose from, depending on your needs and your budget. Rates are competitive. And theyre the only plans of their kind endorsed by aarp. Like any of these types of plans, they let you apply whenever you want. Theres no enrollment window. No waiting to apply. So call now. Remember, Medicare Supplement plans
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regulations so experience companies could raise premiums for people who have medical conditions. Republican who is support the Graham Cassidy plan defended this by saying states would have to basically offer assurances that everyone gets adequate and affordable coverage, but the big red flag here or the problem here is that there is no real way to define what adequate or affordable means. As you know very well, what is adequate for one person is not adequate for Somebody Else who might have a lot of health issues. What is affordable for one person is not affordable for someone else who may not have the means to pay for what they need to pay for in terms of treatment or going to the doctor or the hospital. Politically speaking, this is going to be a huge Sticking Point next week if there is going to be a vote. Someone like susan collins, for example, who raised a lot of concerns about Graham Cassidy and when i was talking to her, she said look, the way i see it
is that this bill is just as fraught as the last bill that i voted against and had the Preexisting Conditions as a problem. This is a major issue and we will follow that closely if this bill does come up. Thank you very much for that reality check. Lets go to perry bacon. You dont have coverage if you cant afford the coverage. Right. That seems to be the distinction here with the new bill. They require to be covered, but they can charge whatever they want. So if you cant pay a huge amount, you are not covered. Talking about jimmy kimmel, in general celebrities im not sure matter that much in terms of politic, but we are talking about john mccain who follows the news carefully. I think the way he pushed back against the bill is the millions of views in his comments. He is playing a powerful and surprising role here. Lets talk about that. One of the loudest voices ask oppositions to this bill is jimmy kimmel and he called out bill cassidy the senator who he said broke a promise by supporting this bill. Lets listen. When senator cassidy was on my show in may he told me he believed that every American Family regardless of income should be able to get Quality Health care. I believed he was sincere, but sadly the bill indicates that he was not sincere. It is by many beings the worst Health Care Bill yet. There is no way President Trump read this bill. He just wants to get rid of it because obamas name on it. They should rename it ivanka care and guaranteed he gets on board. I urge you to call your senators to let them know you care. The video of the monologue has millions of views and a lot of people have seen it and shared it, but the new york times
contacted the office of susan colins and claimed at her office the call volume she got is the same as usual. If that is true, this is why things like this keep happening. Because we dont do anything about them. Stop texting for five seconds and make a phone call. Gloria borger, a little jab at all of us. Our hyper screened up world. What do you think the impact will be . Its remarkable. I do. I think its remarkable. One key impact is that he took the time to explain whats in the bill. He took the time to explain the issue with Preexisting Conditions which is what people care about. People want to know about their health care and why this is a divicive issue. They want predictability and stability when you are talking about your own health or your Childrens Health or spouses health, you want to know your health care will be there. What if you happened to live in a state, for example, that
decides that okay, you are going to have to pay more if you have cancer. What does that do to you . Do you move if you cant afford your coverage . The individual states where the governors and the state legislators, if we put it all out to the states, the state lawmakers and the governors potentially impacted by the lobbying forces necessary that particular state. If you have a strong and Thriving Health Insurance Industry in indian a those lawmakers can be heavily influenced and the protections in that state can be drastically different than in others. All the Insurance Companies are opposed to this. They dont want to be the bad guys in this. And they will be. I was going to say dependent on a system that can function in those states because the federal dollars that are going to
supplement the Health Dollars in general speaking are going down over time and may fall off the books entirely by the middle of next decade. So the question is basically what kind of system can these states put together to catch the people who get thrown off, will it be effective, if its not effective do they end up saying, okay, we cant subsidize that so you have fewer limitations on what the Insurance Companies can do because its so much in their lap. Theres a lot of unanswerable questions right now because it has to go into effect for the states to kind of see what happens. But thats a very dangerous process. Perry, let me ask you this, theres this conventional wisdom that if they dont keep the promise to repeal and replace obamacare somehow their voters are going to punish them. But yet they cant get over the finish line here in terms of actually repealing and replacing obamacare. Is it really that toxic for them if they dont take this leap . I think theres two things were talking about here. My understanding is a lot of the donors have said im not giving
you money anymore if youre not getting this done. That is a problem because you need money to run election. But the voters do not feel this way. Theres a lot of polling showing Republican Voters do not support rolling back restrictions. Republican voters support medicaid. So its not just so this bill is probably we get a poll soon 20 , these bills have been opposed majority of the public in every instance. So i think its always hard to explain to me why you should support a bill opposed by 80 of the public doesnt make a lot of political sense to me. Iowa republican senator Chuck Grassley had an important point on this, said the sub tastance the bill is less important. Heres what he said. Quote, you know, i could make give you ten reasons why this build shouldnt be considered, but republicans campaigned on this so often that you have a responsibility to carry out what you said in the campaign. You know, it is kind of remarkable to see it just sort
of boiled down in this political essence that Chuck Grassley is boiling it down to. And for a guy whos been in d. C. For as long as he has, its very interesting that Chuck Grassley has a lot of these moments where hes brutally honest about whats going on there. Hes just putting it out there. I mean, thats basically what he said. But this is true. Look, theres been you had almost eight years of, you know, buildup to were going to repeal obamacare with no planning of what youre going to do and you have this scramble to actually get this done before they lose their Parliamentary Authority to do it with just 50 votes and have to actually Court Democrats and what would be a very, very different bill which then probably couldnt get past the house. So this is really whats going on in the heads of lawmakers. But to perrys point before, i mean, yeah, this has never been a very popular sort of an issue repealing obamacare with the voters. But the question goes back to the jimmy kimmel question. How much are people actually paying attention this time . How much effect do these celebrities that are trying to rally the public having when the
focus has not exclusively been on health care the last few weeks and there is a fatigue about talking about this. So youre not seeing the same volume of calls and demonstrations and everything as you were the last time around. Thats why they want to shut the window on it. They have a deadline coming up on september 30th. But only in washington, only in washington would someone say it doesnt really matter what were voting on, we just have to get it done because we promised we would. So when they voted on it for all those seven years, they knew there wasnt going to be any result because they knew it wasnt going to go anywhere. So how do you have the United States senator, i want to know, go out there and say it doesnt matter whats in the bill, which is effectively what he was saying. We just have to do it because we promised we would. Yeah. Thats not legislating. Thats not what john mccain is talking about, by the way. Hes calling for regular order. Doing this in the regular way. It may be too late for that, but isnt it better than just closing your eyes and voting . Right. And whatever happened to
quote unquote, chuck and nancy, speaking of comments that is difficult to get your mind around, after a few weeks away from the camera were now seeing more on former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer including this from abcs good morning america. Take a listen to this. People have hard feelings towards you because they feel you lied to the American People. Have you ever lied to the American People . I dont think so. You dont think so . No, i dont cheat on my taxes. Unequivocally you can say no . Look, again, you want to find some thing i have not knowingly done anything to do that, no. Ive not knowingly done that. Apparently he thinks more people came to trumps inauguration than obamas. I guess thats what we conclude he knows, right . He was just at the emmys giving a major winkwink, nudgenudge, i know im in on this with you. To then turn around and be like i didnt get the joke is a little bit strange. I have not knowingly is such, again, washington. Youre right. Yes. To the best of my
recollection, i have not knowingly yeah. Not exactly a tellall interview there. No. He wasnt telling all there. But, gloria, how difficult is it going to be for sean spicer and other figures from this administration to do this . Because we saw this so much during the first several months of this administration where, you know, they were telling us that the sky wasnt blue and that two plus two didnt equal four. Hard. I think its hard. I think sean, whom weve all known for years and years and years in many incarnations, i think hes trying to get this monkey off his back to a certain degree. And i think hes having a difficult time. And i think others might as well. All right. Much to discuss on this. We cant do it all in this hour, but thank you all very much for that. We appreciate it. Guys, thank you. Coming up, Hurricane Maria gaining strength again. Again ravaging the caribbean. What could it mean for the u. S. . Well get the latest on the storms track. Thats coming up. Plus, when every minute matters, the desperate race to reach survivors trapped under the rubble of a major earthquake. Weve been watching this all morning. Stay with cnn as we continue to
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