doing. face a hearing this week with donald trump s former chief of staff, mark meadows, or evolves along sideshow legal issue. compared to the larger problems facing the former president. he wants to move his case from state to federal court. we ll learn from his nearly four hours of questioning has locations of a change for venue for the. trial in addition to giving us the first sense of what the argument may be from a number of trump s legal coconspirators. of which there are many. the testimony was another flashing warning sign of what a second trump term could look like. let s keep defense for mark meadows. he argued that the allegations outlined in the indictment, you know, the unrelenting pursuit of baseless claims of election fraud. the pressure campaign on georgia officials to find votes. the conspiracy trump in power. he says all of that was quote, part of my role. and he doesn t think anything he did including overtly political campaign activities was o
you don t own pads like that, do you? i was a basketball guy. i couldn t take hits like those in football. it s not my game. you are still tough. i want someone to call foul if i get hit. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. i m omar jimenez in for victor blackwell. we have lot to talk with. so glad you are back. it is back to work this week for lawmakers on capitol hill and with the dwindling number of days, their to-do list is quite long. can they avoid a government shutdown? a major question. also, right now tens of thousands of people are stuck in the desert at the burning man festival after a rainstorm turned the site into a mud pit. people are being told to shelter in place. amazon s ceo tells employees to get back in the office or their days may be numbered. they are not alone. we talk to an expert about whether whizzes and their employees can find some common ground. and college sports before to look a whole lot different.
i m rah hall solomon in for fredicka whitfield. after two to three months of rain fell in 24 thundershowers swamped camp sites at the popular burning man festival. take a look at this video. thick, ankle-deep mud making it impossible and even drive in some places. attendees have been told to conserve food, water and fuel. they re stopping anyone from going in or out with the exception of emergency vehicles. some festival goers have trucked on food to reach main roads. that includes comedian chris rock who described hiking four miles before being able to hitch a ride from a fan. julian bergeron left burning man and is back in charleston, south carolina. how did you get out? it was kind of a crazy thing. i hitched a ride with an atv that was heading out that needed to get somebody more important than me out to the front area. they were willing to let me sit in the back. got a ride out to the main road. when i got out there, i immediately found a guy who was towing a vehi
we begin our second hour with several major developments in the georgia election interference case. donald trump pleaded not guilty to 13 criminal counts on thursday, waving his arraignment. trump s lawyers submitted the plea in writing and notified the court he will not appear in person this coming wednesday. rudy giuliani became the latest codefendant to waive arraignment, entering a not guilty plea on friday. in total, 12 defendants have done this so far. the ex president and some of those charged along with him are also pushing to break up the broad 19 defendant rico case, in a separate filing, trump s lawyers act judge scott mcafee to sever his case from his codefendants who have asked for a speedy trial. at least two defendants have done that, former trump loyal sidney powell and kenneth chesebro. chesebro has been scheduled for october 23rd. like trump, they ve asked to have their cases tried separately from others. as trump and his codefendants push for their preferen
not going anywhere, the federal government. we are here to help as long as it takes. fema and the small business administration are here to help residents whose home and businesses are destroyed in the damage. you can determine whether you are qualified and how to get help. if you ve not been condo already you can go to disasterassistance.gov and register for assistance. if you have any damage go to disasterassistance.gov to register. earlier this week i visited the fema headquarters in washington to thank the personnel for working 24 seven here in florida and in maui and hawaii. i want to reiterate that appreciation today. i also convene my entire cabinet as part of a whole government response. that response is to increase the number and intensity of the extreme weather evidence and be aware we will use all the resources available in the government to do it. no one can deny the impact of climate crisis. no one intelligent can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore. ju