It was suddenly quiet after the big boom, and it was white clouds all over. That was Sarah Nir with her daughter overnight. They heard sounds of the building creaking. She ran to the lobby. She saw the Pool Deck Area, the Garage Area Collapse first. Got outside, and then thats when the rest of the building, she says, went down. I want to bring in someone who has been reporting extensively on this disaster, Usa Today reporter. Thank you so much for being with us. Your work has been terrific here. I want to get to the investigation and the Engineering Questions in just a second. But first, we did get some news right here on new day from the israeli commander who has been helping with the Search And Rescue operation. So more bodies recovered overnight. Well get official news when they have the conference. This is what weve been waiting for. Only in the tunnels and voids where you have a hope of finding any survivors. Well, i think thank you so much for having me. I think one of the things
where he ll finally experience consequences for some of his actions. next week, tuesday, marks the beginning of the second e. jean carroll defamation trial. news on that later on. but first things first, developments ahead of closing arguments. tomorrow in new york s $250 million civil fraud lawsuit. the judge revealed he would not allow donald trump to deliver part of those closing arguments himself as he had requested. the reasoning, neither trump nor his attorneys ever got back to the judge agreeing to preconditions. in truth, it is hard to imagine what trump wanted more, an opportunity to put himself at the center of proceedings to deliver his message in his own way, or an opportunity like this, to complain, whine about being silenced, despite the fact his own team failed to respond to the judge on time. remember, in both cases, e. jean carroll s defamation and new york s civil fraud, trump s guilt has already been determined. these decisions will only settle the punish.
Candidate. so, there are any number of combinations of thinking around how does christie position himself in a race he knows he won t win to still be an effective player in that race and to have a role to play. he greeted the crowd. i ll be quiet because he s speaking. all right. happy to be here. thanks for coming. we re having better weather than yesterday. we were in rochester yesterday, and it was snowing, like real new hampshire snow. it was good to experience that. thanks for coming tonight. i appreciate you being here, appreciate your support. you know, we start these town halls the same way ever since we were up at st. anselms in june to tell you why, why we re in this race. and we re in this race to tell the truth. from the beginning, we ve been
Threats. so, that s the concern that we can t walk away from our responsibilities as citizens or our profepgss because of threat and intimidation. the problem, of course, is law enforcement is being tied up endlessly these days with response to these threats, and they must take each one as a viable threat, lest they show up and someone is dead because they didn t take it seriously. my biggest concern, and i hope i m wrong, is that inevitably somebody is going to get hurt. the fbi and law enforcement cannot every single time get out in front of the threat and stop it before it happens. it s a numbers game. so far they ve been successful. sadly, we have to spend over $4 million to simply surround a prosecutor and his family with 24/7 security? that s the world we live in? but they can t do that for everybody at all times. i m glad you landed there. i m struck by that number, the justice department spending $14.6 million on smith s work, about a third of that
I don t know if he d ever endorse him. but maybe he can speak to the gettable soft republicans, a small number of people, honestly, but the 2%, 3%, 4% of people in the swing states that have been traditionally republicans that don t like donald trump that don t want somebody that s borderline constitutionally ineligible to be the president. can chris christie carry a message that will land with them in the speech about just how unfit donald trump is and how that is the rationale for his decision today and for his candidacy. i hope he can do that effectively. tim, what do you think about the time og of this? why today? does it have anything to do with the debate tonight? my sense is he s been getting pressure. i think there are a lot of people in christie s ear of good faith. i think it s been a judgment call, right? do you keep him in because he s been the one person speaking truth, or is the right thing to