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
the u.s. economy. in his already challenging first midterm election year. joining me, cnn s dana bash, phil mattingly and mcclatchey s francesca chambers. phil, in the trump presidency, president trump was always very accommodating. very nice. actually half the time repeating vladimir putin s propaganda while his team actually had a tough on russia policy. the state department and treasury department were trying to impotion sanctions. they called out putin as a bad guy. how does this president work when he has an issue with vladimir putin which right now his team is at the white house? it s a team experienced in dealing with russia and vladimir putin and the issues. you have seen in the posture that the white house and the administration has taken over the last several weeks, a willingness to get on their front foot, be more proactive than reactive. it s far different than what we saw from the obama administration where many of these same officials once served either in the state dep
mcclatchey. do you think their just lighting it up? president trump and his campaign are carpet-bombing facebook and the better investment seems to be in digital ads. just a start about how they spend their money. i don t think either one of is going to be the nominee. i don t know if they want to be a cabinet secretary. i don t know what the end goal is. michael bloomberg seems to be generous about being the nominee and going against trump, but he s not clear about why after decades he s coming in so late. and buying all the tv ads? what do you think? well, the ads are directed toward donald trump, and he says he also plans to keep offices open in some of these crucial states for whoever the nominee is. i m curious if that s not him how that would work, whether or not that s considered some sort of donation or whether the dnc would take these offices over, whether or not he s consulted with them on that.
will be able to spend thanksgiving at home. jim. 95, the oldest living former u.s. president once held by george w. bush in 94. nick valencia, plains, georgia, thanks very much. well, the anonymous senior trump official who first wrote an open ed and a book about the efforts to check the president is now pledging to come forward and tell more. the anonymous author telling reddit use, i will not keep my identity shrouded in secrecy forever. donald trump has not heard the last of me. there is more to come. other people who are currently serving, and who have left, are also considering adding their voices before voters in 2020. with me now political reporter for bloomberg, francesca chambers, white house correspondent for mcclatchey, d.c. thank you guys for coming on here, tell me about the level of
i m dead serious. before running with any of these anti-trump stories. brian: emailed don jr. with cryptic information. they didn t email with anything. spammed email information was on the internet. deutsch bank story about trump back records. wrong. the mike flynn story that he was told to contact the russians when trump was a candidate. wrong. the mcclatchey story about michael cohen in prague. wrong. these stories have been wrong over and over. you have to wait 24 hours. the story will shortly be debunked. if true standard? someone trying to claim to us in the media that everything from this point on should be asterisked saying if this story is true? that s not journalism. that s beyond poor tabloidism there. steve: certain members of the media say if true, however buzzfeed says they stand by their story. let s see how that works out. dan bongino, thank you very much for joining us live.