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the state sponsored doping scandal, in life on the run. good evening and welcome to bbc news. we live here in great yarmouth, where people are collecting sandbags as we speak, preparing for high tide and a possible storm surge in just over one hour s time. but up and down the east coast of england, there are severe flood warnings in place. 17 severe flood warnings, that means a possible threat to life, and another 91 flood warnings that mean immediate action should be taken. here in great yarmouth, 5000 homes are being evacuated by police and military personnel. although many people have said they want to stay in their homes to defend them if they have two. in essex, inj wick, 2500 homes being evacuated there as well. jaywick. from early this morning people in great yarmouth braved the cold and snow to prepare for worse, potentially life threatening, conditions ahead. there are some centres on there you can go to. emergency services knocked on thousands of doors, urg ....
testimony before congressional investigators, they say he told the senate judiciary committee that he personally had not had any contact with wikileaks during the campaign. he also said he could not recall anyone else on the campaign having contact with wikileaks. the senate judiciary committee earlier this week published a letter in which they say specifically that jared kushner not only received an e-mail detailing his contact with wikileaks, but then forwarded that as well. that letter signed by dianne feinstein and chuck grassley also claims that jared kushner failed to provide them with certain key documents they requested. some of them specifically pertaining to wikileaks. the attorney for jared kushner abby lowell put out a statement saying senators are asking gotcha questions. here s what he told us. this is a classic gotcha question. mr. kushner was asked if he has contacts with wikileaks. gucifer or d.c. leaks, and he said no. he said he didn t know of any such conta ....
i want to start with garrett haake, you are in the center of the action. we ve been hearing from lawmakers. to my ears, i don t hear any break in this gridlock. what s your take at this hour? . reporter: yeah, you with choose your own news here at this point, depending on who you re talking to. i m outside a meeting that s been going on susan collins office and the democrats coming out have said no comment, on made vague comments like there s been progress. lindsey gram just left. he s been probably the sagele-most key negotiator. he sees some of the dynamics as potential something to be optimistic about, specifically this idea that the senate would be able to move forward sometime optimism their close to turning a corner. the work will continue at least until tomorrow. just to drill down on the point you make, they are considering essentially the deal that seems to be gaining the most team is this short-term three-week deal. so the question is why would democrats go f ....
hillary s lawyer. i wonder if they made him help the choice. t the president steered clear of this topic during his event at the white house today designed to highlight economic numbers. as trump wrapped up kristen welker asked him about michael cohen. is michael cohen telling the truth? is michael cohen telling the truth? is michael cohen telling the truth? as we say it s been ten times now the president has ignored reporters questions since the cohen audio first aired tuesday evening. there s only been three white house press briefings in the entire month of july. on the cohen front politico reports the president advisors have been taken aback by cohen s no holds barred approach and his willingness to publicly reveal potentially devastating details of his private conversations with the president. asked to describe the mood among trump s close confidants, one person close to the president replied simply not good. trump is enranged over the cohen revelations. emily jane fo ....
Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. a source says michael cohen is prepared to tell robert mueller that donald trump knew about that meeting before it happened. he did not participate in any meeting about the russia transaction. the president? the president did not. i m happy to tell him, he wasn t there. he wasn t at the meeting. the meeting with the russians. how can you be sure that the president didn t know beforehand? you re saying it s just a he said, he said. nobody can be sure of anything. earlier this evening, a long time former trump organization employee said this about the possibility of such a meeting occurring without trump s knowledge. based on my experience working with trump and everybody that worked for trump, something major, something newsworthy, something press worthy, would always go before trump. always. i think that he would have told donald about the meeting and then if it didn t am ....