Learn more, go to lumi do. Com im Natasha Bertrand at the pentagon. And this is cnn robinson, the controversial and socially conservative republican running for governor here in North Carolina, made a series of inflammatory comments on a Pornography Website. All of it would be unexcusable and disgusting language that should be condemned in the strike im just terms of calm a Law Harris is historic candidacy has ignited a surge of activism among black women and what weve seen in the last two days is a Death Toll among his butler members, the likes of which have not been seen in a 48 Hour Period london. This is Cnn Newsroom with Max Foster Hello to warm, welcome to our viewers joining us from Around The World. Im Max Foster. It is friday, september the 20th, 9 00 a. M. Here in london. And this 4m in North Carolina where republican Candidate Mark Robinson is refusing to drop out of the race for governor of North Carolina. This comes after a Cnn Kfile Investigation revealed but Robinsons Hi
relentlessly attacking republicans and proposing big, liberal ideas like a new 28th on guns. newsom has shown america he s comfortable at the white house. remember his confident sleeves rolled up appearance while joe was out of town. now newsom is getting his message out to a larger audience by sitting down with sean hannity. do you think he is cognitively strong enough to be president? i have conversations with him all the time. yes. i have talked to him when he s been overseas. i ve been on air force one, marine one, in the limo. you never answer my question directly. how many times has your phone pinged with people saying you need to get in this race. ruling he s not up to the job. it s a fair question. i m asking. not answering. judge jeanine: well, you can catch the full interview with gavin newsom airing tonight on hannity on 9:00 p.m. eastern. meanwhile, biden has a new excuse to stay out of the spotlight: a root canal. the president canceling all events to
top of the hour here in the cnn newsroom. thanks for joining us. i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. happening now, attorney general merrick garland on capitol hill to testify before the jen at judiciary committee for the first time here. you see senators cruz and holly. he is expected to be hit with a wide range of questions including allegations from republicans as they said that the justice department is being weaponized against conservatives as well as updates into investigations into trump and biden and we ll take you there live as it happens. the annual cpac conference happens today as we get new cnn reporting about what trump s allies are doing to get house republicans in his corner. for 2024, not all of them are there. sdwloo also ahead, closing arguments are expected to begin today in the double murder trial of disgraced former lawyer alex murdaugh. jurors in that case at the crime scene at this hour. we will take you live to south carolina. let s begin this hour with
of mar-a-lago for classified documents. but also since he launched not one, but two special counsel investigations into both former president trump and president biden. we just saw garland walk into the hearing room moments ago. he didn t answer any questions on the way in. we are live on the hill. also, congress intensifies its scrutiny of china. one lawmakers even warning of a, quote existential struggle with the nation during the very first meeting of a house select committee dedicated to china. what we learned. plus, the warning from the head of the fbi about china s efforts to hinder investigations into the origin of covid. we are also following breaking news in greece, a devastating head-on collision between a freight train and a passenger train carrying 350 passengers. officials saying dozens were killed with reports of people being thrown out of windows from the impact. the desperate search this morning for survivors in the wreckage. and an extraordinary moment
there was a time, before the war in ukraine, when europe thought about its place in the world, and how it could become less dependent on the united states. as washington turned inwards, and administrations refocused us foreign policy towards asia, france and germany talked about the need for strategic autonomy . but today in warsaw, at a meeting of the bucharest 9, it was the american president sat at the head of the table. all nine members of this group were part of the former soviet union or the defunct warsaw pact. the commitment of the united states to nato, i ve said it too many times, i ll say it again, is absolutely clear. article five is a sacred commitment the united states has made. we will defend literally every inch of nato, every inch of nato. and this is an important moment. i look forward to the discussion, the next steps we can take together and to keep our alliance strong and to further deter aggression. because what literally is at stake is notjust ukraine,