Big question for the world tonight. Thanks for joining us. You can watch us any time, anywhere on cnn go. Have a good weekend. See you monday. Ac 360 begins right now. Good evening. We begin with more startling headlines from President Trump. In just a last four days, hes threatened north korea with fire and fury, said maybe that wasnt enough of a threat. Said American Forces are Locked And Loaded and late today he said even more. Appearing this morning outside his new jersey golf club, the president went before reporters. When he was over, he raised the possibility of u. S. Military action in venezuela and renews his warnings to north korea. Nobody loves a peaceful solution better than President Trump, that i can tell you. Hopefully it will all work out. But this has been going on for many years. It would have been a lot easier to solve this years ago before they were in the position that theyre in. But we will see what happens. We think that lots of good things could happen, and we
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Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. There. Its just bad weather, stay there, my friend. Rain, rain, rain. Thank you so much. Joining me now political reporter for the guardian and steph knight, reporter for axios. Ladies, thanks. Sabrina, is there any indication that were getting to the end, the final stretch of whether or not the president will submit to an interview with Robert Mueller . Weve been having the same conversation for months as to what the scope of that interview might look like and the ongoing negotiations with the president s legal team and an interview that would be partially done in person. And then there would perhaps be some questions in written format. So it doesnt really seem like much progress because its something is that we were talking about earlier this year. Whats quite clear is that, the president s legal team does not want him to sit down with the Special Counsel. And i think Rudy Giuliani himself has al
Whats happening, he knows what roger knows about him, how much negotiation is there going to go on right now with sentencing coming, the type of prison, whether its allenwood, lewisberg, something much less pleasant, where they dont have a tennis court, where theres white collar criminals or sleaze balls, how much negotiation is the president capable of right now . In terms of where roger stone is sentenced, if hes sentenced to prison, thats not up to anyone other than the bureau of prisons. Didnt barr get involved with Manafo Manafort . The bureau of prisons does report to the attorney general. But in almost every case ive heard of, its a designation based on risk and how much time
is to be served. A second point, i also think roger stone has rendered himself absolutely useless. He has lied almost every time hes opened his mouth. It would be very hard for prosecutors to turn to him now to get Additional Information that they could use against others. Roger stone is useless. Hes a conv
backing of a shift, if you will in the media s backing of trump. the murdoch owned new york backing of trump. the murdoch owned new york post that had been pretty skating new york post that had been pretty skating of new york post that had been pretty skating of trump in the last few weeks skating of trump in the last few weeks and they have been particularly favourable to trump s closest particularly favourable to trump s closest rival. the florida governor, now am closest rival. the florida governor, now am miles is really hitting the nail on now am miles is really hitting the nail on the now am miles is really hitting the nail on the head here which is trumpism nail on the head here which is trumpism as a movement is still really trumpism as a movement is still really the trumpism as a movement is still really the defining feature of the republican party today. and i think that we republican party today. and i think that we are going to have to see something na
bill and abortion rights, and so i would say they re having a really good summer. so i actually want to pick up on this momentum and the efforts by some that want to blunt momentum. pacs sent out misleading text messages ahead of the vote. a text meant that approving that measure could allow the republican-controlled legislature to outlaw abortion would safeguard choice if the amendment fails. constitutional protections would remain in place, buttressing the current law that allows abortion in the first 22 weeks of pregnancy and it seems like supporters of the amendment used every trick in the book and yet somehow they still lost on this one. yeah. that s exactly right. i mean, it was not a winning argument for them as the congresswoman and alexy and i mentioned on the merit when you re trying to get someone to vote in a way they don t feel