Discredit the special counsel. The latest issue Transition Team emails. And senator john mccain will miss this weeks final vote on tax reform. Hes back in arizona. Hes recovering from side effects of chemotherapy. All right, good morning, everyone. Good monday morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Its a very early start this monday. Im dave briggs, monday, december 18th. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. We start with Atlanta Airport, the power back on. Limited operations are expected to resume this morning at atlantas hartsfieldjackson airport following sundays total blackout that left thousands of holiday travelers stranded. Nightmarish experience for many people. Dark terminals, evacuation with temperature in the mid40s, a ground stop that trapped people on planes for hours and little to no guidance from authorities as passenger frustration built throughout the day. Now, the outage started with a huge fire in a Georgia Power underground facility. Officials say the fires
Good morning to you. Were so grateful for your company as always. Im christi paul. Breaking news out of egypt. The number of People Killed at that horrifying massacre at a motioning has climbed to 305. This as egyptian Officials Say the attackers were carrying isis flags and automatic machine guns when they surrounded the mosque and its entrances. That happened yesterday. Meanwhile egypts air force launched air strikes. These air strikes on the attackers and, quote, tear riflt outposts containing weapons and ammunitions. We have a detailed report in just a moment. But first. The agency cast with helping you safeguard your finances is leaderless. Once the clock struck midnight, as you were sleeping, most likely, Richard Cordray stepped down from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Here is the problem. His replacement depends on who you ask is the replacement. A lot of confusion this morning over who is leading the top u. S. Consumer watch dog agency. Here is why. President trump t
This weekend, a loud and clear endorsement for his opponent by the president of the United States who is trying to take his support for roy moore to every single voter in alabama this weekend. Cnn correspondents Kaley Hartung and alex mar twok are both in alabama. Kaley hows the president trying to reach these voters one at a time right now . Reporter this is the latest effort by President Trump in the last stretch of this campaign to galvanize roy moores base, the evangelicals in the state, the conservatives in this state that donald trump won by 28 points in 2016 so while we saw him endorse roy moore last monday on twitter and turn out to pensacola not far from the state line here on friday, now people in their homes throughout the state of alabama will hear President Trumps voice on the other end of the line. Take a listen. Hi, this is President Donald Trump and i need alabama to go vote for roy moore. If alabama elects liberal Democrat Doug Jones oall of our progress will be stoppe
The president s tweet yesterday saying that peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation put people on a rant. I was horrified but i was also very shocked. As many people have noted, jake, this is not the rob porter we worked with in the white house. People should look at the result of how this was handled. What is the result . The result is one week ago rob porter was a top aide to the president of the United States and today hes out of the white house. I think there was probably a lack of communication of different elements in the white house. But the fbi runs this clearance process. And when they provide somebody an interim clearance, that means theyve done an initial vet and say this person is okay. I dont know, to be honest. I dont know who knew what when. He said, please tell jake that i have full confidence and faith in john kelly. They are mostly being fed by people that are unhappy they have lost access to the president under john kellys leadership as c
This is cnn newsroom. Around the world, good day to you. We begin with the growing outrage over an alleged chemical attack in syria. The u. N. Security council set to meet in the coming hours, this after diseases of civilians were reportedly killed in a gas attack in douma on saturday. We want to warn you, some of the images that were to be show you, they are graphic but important to see. The Syrian Government and its allies denied theyre responsible for a chemical attack. The u. S. President doesnt seem convinced. On twitter, he said there will be a big price to pay. Mr. Trump may have been reacting to videos like the one youre about to see. Again, a warning, it is graphic. This video appears to show some of the victims lying dead on the ground. Many of them children. There is foam on their mouths which is potential evidence of a chemical attack. Mr. Trump will meet with his top advisers in the coming hours, and they will have to is tied how the u. S. Responds to scenes like ones youv