Do you see hostility . You hear a little bit about aggression from a couple of the players. What are you feeling . Yes, sir. We have safe and independent operations out here throughout the theater. We do feel safe. Lets start the hour with cnn senior White House Correspondent jeff zeleny. Hes in south florida where the president is spending his thanksgiving. Jeff, happy thanksgiving to you. Talking to the president there and listening to part of his phone call, he answered a lot of reporter questions after he put the phone down, doubling down on his controversial decision to support the Saudi Crown Prince. Reporter he did, brooke. Happy thanksgiving if here in florida. The call started out in a routine way, the president reaching out to Armed Service members. Most commanders in chief do things like that but it quickly turned political, as you heard there. It was meant to be deflect some heat the president was taking for not yet visiting an active war zone as his other predecessors have
The Russian Investigation and the corresponding lack of answers from the white house. The latest Developments Center on Paul Manafort and Julian Assange. When we left you last night manafort had just been accused in a court filing of repeatedly lying to investigators there by breaching his plea deal with the special counsel. Today this, Britains Guardian newspaper reporting manafort met secretly with assange several times in london. According to the guardian one such meeting took place around march 2017 weeks before wiki leaks released democratic emails. The guardian says it is unclear why manafort saw assange and what was discussed and should point out that both strongly deny the meeting ever took place at all. Manafort says he doesnt know assange. Separately cnn has learned team mueller has been looking into a meet manafort had last year with equ equidors president. Clearly any possible connections between the Trump Campaign and wiki leaks appear to be a focus for the special counsel
Special report. Look at how close he is. Wisconsin barely in play. This is a relily democratic state. It was pretty clear that this was an earthquake. It was a shock. 2016 election was the first in 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights act. Voters blocked from ballot boxes. Im trying to stop voters from committing fraud. These voter i. D. Laws are not to prevent voter fraud but to keep certain people from the polls. Voters stifled by rigged maps. My neighborhood has been split. The line was drawn right through it. Has ta la vista to gerrymandering. Voter suppression is not a conspiracy. If you make it harder to vote then we should make it a lot harder for you to get reelected. Now a new front in the war on voter rights. What it takes is the boots on the ground. The time has come for voter i. D. Weve got to spring into action. And the time is getting more urgent. Tonight, a cnn special report, democracy in peril the war on Voting Rights. Cnn now projects that donald
This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. The polls closed two days ago. Some key races still undecided tonight. House democrats have so far picked up 30 seats but that number could grow as more outstanding races are called. Tonight some stunning news coming out of florida. Governor rick scott who is running for the u. S. Senate is calling for an investigation of his own race against incumbent Democrat Bill nelson. Also tonight, more fallout over the president s firing of Jeff Sessions. Sources telling cnn there is a growing sense of concern over the man who is now acting attorney general. Many white house staffers were apparently unaware of Matthew Whitakers multiple public statements questioning the Mueller Investigation and undermining its premise. He plainly stated he doesnt believe in the basis of the investigation that he is about to be in charge of. Whitaker now has the authority to overturn anything mueller does if he deals it. So inappropriate as he said or unwarranted under establis
Miss universe there. He was enamored with putin. He wanted to get in there. Chris, you can do that any time. There is no timeline on when you can build a building in moscow. If your priorities are if your priority is to win the presidency, to do the business of the people of the United States, basically become an employee of you and me, the people of the United States, then why not do that . Thats where your priorities should be. His, according to him, his daughters, his sons are perfectly capable of running the business without him and if there if it even smacked some some sort of impropriety or of some sort of collusion as he says then maybe he should have not done it and wait until he figures out or until its determined if hes going to be the president of the United States. There is no timeline. Right. Right, of course thats what he should have done but he didnt want to do that. But he didnt. And you say, well, the kids could have run the business. I dont think the president believe