the white house press corps have had for him all week about this. he also left for bedminster this afternoon, ignoring questions once again. it s just a pattern of this white house refusing to answer for why statements made both from the president and also from his senior aides at the white house press podium have not turned out to be true, or at least they are now under question based on what we now are hearing from what michael cohen might have to say to special counsel mueller. it wouldn t be the first time that sarah sanders has had to correct herself after making statements about what the president knew and didn t know, but this time sarah sanders hasn t even been available to answer questions about this. the white house has been virtually silent. yeah. is there reporting on how the president is feeling about the latest news? reporter: well, the president has been very angry. that s what we re hearing from an administration official this week. he s been watching the coverage
The latest news from around the world. reporter: trump jr. testified he never told his father about the meeting. when asked, did you inform your father about the meeting or prior to the meeting? trump jr. responded, no, i was not. when he was later asked why he didn t share news? i wouldn t tell him anything until i knew what was myself. last year he testified before two congressional meetings. a source familiar tells cnn, he did not testify trump had any advance only in of the meeting. now his attorney rudy guiliani is attacking the credible. man is a liar a proven liar. there is no way you will bring down the president of the united states on the testimony uncorroborated of a proven liar. i germany tee you, this guy is a proven liar. reporter: when just a few weeks ago, guiliani seemed to have plenty of faith in con s truthfulness. if he believes it s in his reporter: no, they re not. but i think in this sort of lexicon of international diplomacy, which mr. putin who is
case of the white house making statements about what the president did and did not know. senior trump officials have said the president didn t know anything about these payments. that turned out to be completely untrue based on the audiotape of the president himself talking about that payment were michael cohen before the election. but, again, here the white house refusing to talk about it. white house aides are now referring questions about this issue to the president s outside lawyers even though some of these issues involve the statements made by people who worked in the white house now or very recently. so, anderson, they re hoping that we don t continue asking questions about this. there hasn t been a white house press briefing in several days. there have only been three this month at all. they are clamping down on the opportunities that reporters get to ask both the president and also senior white house officials questions about all of these matters. abby phillip, thanks very
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newsroom starts right now. our top story, u.s. president donald trump fighting back against the latest accusations from lhis former attorney michael cohen. the president again denied having prior knowledge of a 2016 meeting at trump tower between his top campaign advisers and russians. according to our sources, cohen says the president knew about it. if cohen is telling the truth, it could be problematic for the white house. there are at least 20 instances over the past year in which mr. trump and his advisers have said mr. trump was not aware of the meeting. here are just a few examples. did you tell your father anything about this? it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. donald trump jr. put it all out today. did you he know the time that they had the meeting? no, i didn t know anything about the meeting. let s focus on what the president was aware. nothing. it must have been a very unborn meeting because i never h
Neighborhoods scorched as smoke and fire climb through hills fueled by the dried landscape. no idea what we re going to do tomorrow. hell, we don t know what we re going to do tonight. reporter: they never imagined they d see their house like this. we didn t think the fire was going to come here so we didn t take things out like everybody else that was scrambling like at the last minute to take things out when they saw the fire on the ridge. reporter: it s one of several major blazes burning across the state and one of some 89 across the country. this is that new normal, that unpredictability, the large explosive growth fires. reporter: leaving firefighters to control the flames and limit the damage as residents race against the clock to evacuate their homes. and here in redding it is just an hour and a half before sunset but eerie and ominous.