Good morning, its wednesday, september 20th. We are following a number of stories. President trump was America First se u. N. And steps up his warnings to north korea meanwhile, republican as far as see daylight on Health Care Reform. Some gop governors arent so sure about that. The Russian Investigation rolls on with new details on whos paying the president s legal bills but first, two Natural Disasters unfolding in real time. Rescue efforts happening right now in mexico after a powerful earthquake ripped through that country yesterday and Hurricane Maria about to slam directly into puerto rico. Well go straight to meteorologist bill karins with a check on the storms latest track. Bill. Power knocked out. Roof damage done, structural damages beginning as the strongest weekends are moving on shore in puerto rico. Overnight, can you see the storm, 124mileperhour winds in st. Croix. Now the storm is about to make
landfall. Lets get into the zoomed in radar. You see san juan to the north
revoked entirely over these allegations of attempted witness tampering. then on june 15, manafort will appear in court for a hearing, and that s when he finds out whether or not he will head directly to jail. earlier this week, a manafort spokesperson said he s innocent, and these allegations do not change his defense. this as the new york times reports tonight on how former associates of manafort abandoned him. the times reports the special counsel s accusations this week, quote, originated with two veteran journalists who turned on mr. manafort after working closely with him to prop up the former russia-aligned president of ukraine, interviews and documents show. the two journalists who helped lead a project to which prosecutors say mr. manafort funneled more than $2 million from overseas accounts are the latest in a series of one-time manafort business partners who have provided damaging evidence to robert mueller.
then on june 15, manafort will appear in court for a hearing, and that s when he finds out whether or not he will head directly to jail. earlier this week, a manafort spokesperson said he s innocent, and these allegations do not change his defense. this as the new york times reports tonight on how former associates of manafort abandoned him. the times reports the special counsel s accusations this week, quote, originated with two veteran journalists who turned on mr. manafort after working closely with him to prop up the former russia-aligned president of ukraine, interviews and documents show. the two journalists who helped lead a project to which prosecutors say mr. manafort funneled more than $2 million from overseas accounts are the latest in a series of one-time manafort business partners who have provided damaging evidence to robert mueller. their cooperation with the government has increasingly isolated mr. manafort as he awaits trial.
joining us now, national reporter care lee. flood to have you on board, a spokesman for campaign chair paul manafort is call on the justice department to investigate reports that manafort had previously been wiretapped be i the fbi, on monday cnn report thad the fbi has been interested in manafort as far back as 2014. the report, with i is unconfirmed by nbc news claimed manafort had been wiretapped both before and after he ran donald trump s presidential campaign, cnn citing unnamed sources plans the reported eavesdropping has been authorized under the foreign under surveillance intelligencing a. if response to that reporting, jason maloney, manafort spokesperson says if true it is a felony to reveal the existence of a fisa warrant, regardless of the fact that no charges ever emerged.
trump accepted the republican nomination. manafort spokesperson confirmed those e-mails where this came from were, in fact, true and confirmed that us to us here at nbc news. this investigation, folks, will go on for months, perhaps years, and hard to keep up with all the information. now a group of national security experts and even celebrities hoping to organize the deluge of information with a new nonprofit initiative and yet you have morgan freeman promoting the non-partisan committee to investigate russia and one of its founders of the group and member of the advisory board actor, writer, director rob reiner. welcome back. thank you, chuck. the last time we talked at the democratic convention about archie bunker. that s right. and its impacts on 2016. let me ask this your committee is the committee to investigate russia. with all due respect, we ve got a lot of committees investigating russia now.