Informed on air force one on the way to tulsa the crowds were completely under what they expected. They had billed this event to be filled to the rafters, as many as 19,000 people in that enclosed arena, and the reality on the ground is that it was really more like 6,000, maybe 10,000, depending who you ask. The Tulsa Fire Marshal or the campaign. No matter what, it cant be disputed, thousands of empty seats there, which the president , were told, was furious about. Erupted in anger asking aides what happened . Why it was even an outdoor event, supposed to address a crowd of thousands before the rally also scrapped because they couldnt get people together. They did end up blaming protesters for this but our own colleagues outside the gates didnt see evidence of enough of a closing of any of the checkpoints suggesting that thousands of people couldnt make it. All of these supporters had to sign a liability waiver. They did do temperature checks, but masks werent required. So, frankly, a
Podca podcasts. We have the same conversations that you and i are having right now. Thank you so much for joining. And have a good night, brian. Thank you, everyone, for watching. Our coverage continues. President trump getting back on the campaign trail, preparing for a rally in a state where covid19 cases are spiking and threatening any protester trying to steal the spotlight. While the president claims coronavirus is going away in america, the facts tell a different story, with several states setting a record for the number of daily cases. And another apparent friday night firing by the Trump Administration. This time, one of the most important u. S. Attorneys shown the door. However, hes refusing to leave. Welcome to ourers in the United States and around the world. Im natalie allen. Cnn newsroom starts right now. Tulsa, oklahoma, is bracing for tens of thousands of people on saturday, as President Trump holds his First Campaign rally since the coronavirus shut down much of the cou
Rayshard brooks shooting to the National Debate over race and policing. We are tired. And we are frustrated, most importantly were heart broken. We need to hold them accountable and we cant stop fighting. Were hurt and broken, but we cant stop fighting. Welcome to inside politics. Im conjijohn king. Thank you for sharing your sunday. The trump rally is back, not quite the crowd the president was expecting. The unhinged left wing mob is trying to vandalize our history, desecrate our monuments, our beautiful monuments. They want to demolish our heritage so they can impose their new oppressive regime in its place, they want to defund and dissolve our police departments, think of that. More on the politics and the Public Health risk in tulsa in a moment. But we begin with a law and order question. Because two crises are apparently not enough for this president. The president on saturday fired a top federal prosecutor, a prosecutor known to be investigating people close to the president. Pe
Ukraine, who has since resigned. Kent will appear on the first day of public testimony next wednesday along with ambassador bill taylor. Kent is expected to detail the irregular policy process that sought to pressure ukraine to investigate trumps political rivals. Todays transcripts confirming the president s explicit desire for a commitment from ukraine to investigating his political opponents from. That testimony, kent, Ambassador Gordon Sondland had talked to the president and potus wanted nothing less than president zelensky to go to the microphone and say investigations, biden, and clinton. Kent also details the level of alarm among career officials about the Pressure Campaign run by that irregular channel of officials and Rudy Giuliani. He describes an interaction with a colleague in which he warned of the danger in pressuring a Foreign Government to do Donald Trumps political bidding. Kent, on august 15th, the new special assistant to special representative volker, catherine cro
To place. As agents investigated whether his associates conspired with russias election interference operation, people familiar with the draft of the Inspector Generals report said. Now the finding is one of several by mr. Horwitz that undercuts conservatives claims that the fbi acted improperly in investigating several Trump Associates starting in 2016. The blow to a onetime favorite trump talking point comes on a day of developments in the ukraine scandal that are calling into question Donald Trumps chief impeachment defenses and bringing into focus the appearance that the president was withholding military aid from ukraine despite multiple warnings from within his own administration that what he was doing might be wrong. Another report in todays New York Times reveals that trump was briefed on the whistleblower complaint that ignited the entire ukraine scandal well before he finally unfroze that aid. It poses a significant challenge to the claims we keep hearing from the president s