Former President Donald Trump has spoken very highly of him. Of course, you talked about former House Speaker Nancy pelosi. When it comes to the importance of tonight, this is supposed to be a night of unity during what is a very fractured and seemingly devices time divisive time. There have been questions about what will President Biden do . One of the questions, a lot of Focus On Former House Speaker Nancy pelosi. We know Those lawmakers closest to pelosi have come out and asked biden to step aside, so many questions and what happens next but the focus here tonight really being on raising funds and really throwing their support behind Those democratic lawmakers, politicians who are running in november on a local level. In terms of how people here are feeling, i want to take you from what we heard from one person all the way from philadelphia to be here tonight. I think, for me personally, you know, the stakes and what we are voting for and what we are voting against do not change, no
Democratic heavy hitters turning out to help california governor gavin newsom as he tries to keep his job. The message they are hoping breaks through to voters in the final days before the recall election. Welcome to your sunday, september 5th. We are so grateful to have your company, as always. Good morning. Hope you are enjoying this sunday. Good morning, christi. Good morning to you, too, boris. For the second time in less than a week president biden is visiting an area of the country that has been ravaged by hurricane ida. Tuesday he travels to new jersey and to queens, new york, to survey the damage, and this is following his visit, of course, to louisiana last week. Yeah, there have been at least 50 stormrelated deaths across six states in the northeast. The remnants of hurricane ida brought unprecedented rainfall that led to catastrophic flooding along the gulf coast, meantime, gas is in short supply. People have been waiting in line for hours to fill their cars and gas cans, to
And we want to wish you a very good sunday morning. Welcome to new day. I m christi paul. I m boris sanchez. Building back from hurricane ida. Louisiana s governor says that his state has a long way to go its recovery, what he calls the biggest challenge in the recovery effort. Senator joe manchin is squaring off with delfellow democrats and potentially throwing up roadblocks for president biden s agenda of that massive spending bill. Plus, last man out. Cnn sitting down with a pilot who flew the final evacuation flight out of afghanistan. Also, going to extremes. From devastating floods and powerful hurricanes, how climate change is fueling this extreme weather and why we can see more of it. It is sunday, september 5th. We are so grateful you are spending part of your labor day weekend with us. Good morning, christi. Good morning, boris. Yeah, happy labor day to everybody. Maybe a little extra day this there for you, we hope. So we re talking about president biden, he is preparing to
The first time ever has declared a flash flood emergency in new york city as one tornado touched down in new jersey. Others in pennsylvania, new york and maryland. Kind of weather, john, that this place never sees. No, we just don t see something quite like this. Again, nine deaths now up here, which is more than when hurricane ida hit louisiana as far as we know. We may learn more from louisiana and mississippi, but nine deaths from what was a really bad rainstorm here tells you just how catastrophic it is. And i have to say it s not surprising based on what i ve seen on my way in here to you, which has been a little bit of an odyssey this morning. Trees down everywhere. Cars smashed from the trees. Hopefully no one left in the cars. And then really, just cars abandoned everywhere. Clearly people were caught in this, didn t expect it last night. They were out on the roads. The parkways the highways, and couldn t do anything. They got either their cars lite literally got swept away or
Department in the closing days of the previous administration. He said that he had this information from his own secret sources that said the chinese intelligence had a special thermometer that could use to alter vote totals. The answer, of course, is they don t. But he asked his superiors in the justice department, joeff rosen and richard donoghue, to get a special classified briefing from the director of national intelligence to check this out. He went over for the briefing at the turn of the year, and was told that the intelligence showed there was no evidence that there was foreign interference that altered the vote total. Something we ve known. And he came away not convinced. He kept pushing this idea, and we know he helped try to orchestrate a coup in the justice department, try to get trump to fire rosen. We know trump didn t do that, but it shows you how close things came in those crucial days. It s it just everything, it grows more absurd by the day. Cnn is learning that the j