Welcome, everyone, poppy harlow coming to you live from Hofstra University in new york, the site of the first president ial debate. We are two days away from the debate here on cnn. We do begin with breaking news this hour as you have been watching, as fredricka has been reporting, breaking news out of charlotte, North Carolina. Police there considering and discussing whether or not to release video showing the shooting death by police of Keith Lamont Scott in charlotte tuesday. Scotts death tuesday triggered sometimes violent protests every day and night since then. Those protests intensified when the Charlotte Police said they would not release dash cam or body camera footage to the public. Dont shoot him dont shoot him. He has no weapon. He has no weapon. Dont shoot him. Dont shoot him. Since then, scotts wife released the video, video she filmed on her cell phone. The family said it was important for them to get it out for people to see it in the name of truth and transparency. Our
This is the cnn newsroom, im Fredricka Whitfield live from washington, d. C. You are looking live at the white house where in 69 days, here it comes. Right now the u. S. Capitol is behind me. Soon, you will see the white house. Well, that will be the home of the next president of the United States, donald trump. There it is right there. Just as a reminder, trump campaigned hard with slogans like, build a wall, repeal and replace obamacare and lock her up, referring to Hillary Clinton. We will build a great wall along the southern border. And mexico will pay for the wall. The repeal and replace obamacare act. Fully repeal obamacare and replace it with Health Savings account. If i win, i am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. All right. Since Donald Trumps win, we have been hearing a different tone. The wall street journal declaring trump signals shift on obamacare and the Washington Post writing this, trump team is hedging on so
President elect trump and former republican president ial candidate mitt romney are meeting at trumps bedminister golf club. One topic will likely be the secretary of state position in trumps cabinet. Meanwhile, gop Spokesman Sean Spicer is hinting we could hear a new cabinet appointment today. Reporter yesterday the focus was between the announcements and the landing teams arriving at the various agencies with national security. It is very possible that you will see an additional announcement today of an appointment in that same area. And in the president elects schedule, we may have an announcement this that area. In that area. Both trump and pence will be locked in nonstop meetings this weekend as they continue to build the president elects cabinet. Cnns Phil Mattingly is following the story and joins me live from bedminister, new jersey. Phil, it seems that trump really took the additional first step in trying to patch up their relationship. Yeah, no question about it. One holding
And take a look at it. It says a real donald trump is bringing back plants and jobs to michigan. Justin, who is a congressman from michigan, is a big liability. And then scavino essentially calls out the trump train asking them to defeat him in a primary. Now donald trump is kind of talking broadly about perhaps taking on some of these Freedom Caucus members in primaries in the next two years, but never have they specifically called out a member of congress. One of the bigger critics of the Trump Administration seems to be the first person in their sights showing that this white house is prepared to take on people within their own party if they feel they need to. All right. Interesting strategy. Ryan nobles at the white house. Thank you so much. Appreciate that. Lets talk more about all of this with cnn political commentator matt lewis. Also a senior columnist with the daily beast and lynn swede with the chicago suntimes. Were seeing a threat from the president in terms of saying hes u
Reporter weve learned a lot of details in the past 24 hours. The resignation has been long coming and rumored for months but it came to a fever pitch this week with the new Communications Director making pretty serious allegation against Reince Priebus saying he was leaking information to reporters. And Reince Priebus was actually asked about this during his interview with wolf blitzer last night. It was his first interview since he resigned. So lets take a listen to what Reince Priebus had to say to wolf. Are you the leaker in the white house . Thats ridiculous. Wolf, come on. Give me a break. Im not going to get into his accusations. Why not respond to because im not going to. Because it doesnt honor the president. Im going to honor the president every day. Im going to honor his agenda. And im going to honor our country. And im not going to get into all of this personal stuff. So is there a leaking problem in the white house based on wa youve seen . Yeah. I think that general kel hi