good morning, everyone, and welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, december 9th, i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for joining you this morning thank you for joining us this morning. it was my birthday and thanksgiving. it s been a couple of weeks. i had to get that out. a federal appeal court has upheld the gag order in trump s election aversion case. who he can and can t talk about and how he is responding to the ruling. hunter biden is facing new criminal charges. what the white house is saying. it was an emotional day for family members of the victims of ethan crumbley. i came within sight. you intended to kill me. the sentencing he and hiss parents are u no facing. the potential impact and the major cities we re walking through the weekend. and major rivalries kick off today. the 124th army/navy game on cnn this morning. we begin with both leading presidential campaigns being forced to deal with legal issues in the run-
Trying to lie into maralago last weekend while the of the United States was stay tlg. And what she had on her is raising sr. Concerns tonight. According to prosecutors we have the entire document here what they filed. They she held two pass parts from the republic of ch four childrens external hard drive and thumb drive that contained malicious malware. According to prosecutors the woman chamd a chinese friend charles told her to travel to maralago to speak with a member of the trump family. Shimon is outfront. On a lot of levels, disturbing. You know, some of it you go, is this real life . It is. Do investigators haveny idea who this person is and what she was doing at maralago . That is the big question certainly at this, erin, is exactly why was she there. Authorities not telling us, you know, why she was there, why they think she was really there. Theyre obviously investigating the secret service, other Law Enforcement partnering looking into this. The thing is, whats really troubl
Has concluded his investigation of russian interference into the 2016 election and related matters. It then continues. The special counsel has submitted to me today a confidential report explaining the prosecution or decoration decisions hes reached as required. Im a position to advice you of the special counsels principle conclusions as soon as this weekend. Thats obviously crucial. Separately, barr, continues, i intend to consult with Deputy Attorney rosenstein and potential counsel mueller to derm what information can be released to the public and Congress Consistent with the law including the departments longstanding practices and policies. I remain committed to as much transparency as possible, and i will keep you informed as to the status of my review. We have a team of reporters standing by. Evan perez is with us. Abbey philip live outside the white house. Laura jarrett, manu raju live on capitol hill. And i want to start with evan. Evan, a couple of crucial things. Youre being
Smoking gun . And will we, the American People, see muellers report . Today, President Trump tried to act like its all fine, its all fine. He doesnt care. Should the Mueller Report be released next week . That will be totally up to the new attorney general. Hes a tremendous man. A tremendous person who really respects this country and respects the Justice Department. So that will be totally up to him. The new attorney the new attorney general. Yes. Will the word, tremendous, work . The president today choosing to kiss up to his new attorney general because bill barr does hold the Mueller Reports face in his hands and President Trump knows it. For once he chose not to demean, diminish, insult, you know, otherwise slam the investigation because keep in mind, since it began, 644 days ago, President Trump has attacked muellers investigation about 1,100 times, which adds up, obviously, on average to about twice a day. And, you know, you know the words, which hunt quwitch hun hoax. All of th
Personally and professionally is in shamble hambles, now, i wan emphasize, this is a remarkable moment in history, Campaign Chairman of a president ial campaign sentenced to prison, going in handcuffs, 47 months. I want to say this is a big blow for mueller as well. They had asked for 19 to 25 years. The judge, ellis, going against that request from prosecutors and going for only 47 months. That is a stunning development. Obviously, manafort is going to be sentenced again in a week in the d. C. Court. But this is not what team mueller had been hoping for. Now, manafort is the first person from trumps inner circle to be sentenced. He was, of course, the first person who was indicted by mueller. I want to go now to Shimon Prokupecz outfront outside the virginia courthouse. Shimon, this is not what team mueller wanted. They wanted up to 25 years. 47 months. Thats what they got. Reporter way lower than what really anyone expected, erin, when you think about it, way lower than what the pros