Commanderinchief cant seem to help himself. We will get to that in minutes. We got breaking news from the meteorologist, its the 5 00 p. M. Forecast. It came out moments ago. Bill, i tell you, hurricanes do crazy things, make crazy things, to every advisory, people are on the edge of their seats, what can you tell us . Every storm is different. Its the first thing you learn as a meteorologist, this is like none ive ever seen before. We were thinking yesterday at this time it could be a cat 5. Its down to 125 mile per hour winds, its holding onto the middle ground of a category 3. Thats good news the weaker the better, the less water it can push onshore the weaker the winds the better. 120mileperhour winds. The reason its weakened a bit, there are some physics things in the center why the eye is regenerating itself. Movement still at 16 piles per hour. That will slow down dramatic ally tomorrow. Heres the all important forecast track. Ive zoomed in here. This is the outer banks, cape ha
First cnns senior White House Correspondent je corporat correspondent. Reporter the president clearly had something on his mind today and it was clearly bob mueller. He talked about his decision to strip the security clearance of the former cia director. The president said he had gotten a terrific response from that. Thats true, but not all of it has been positive, some of it has been negative. Including tonight a letter he got from 60 cia officials saying the president is trying to silence them. President trump further closing the door tonight to the idea of sitting down wifor an interview with Robert Mueller. Go sit down and write a report, if hes writing an honest report, he would go to the other side. Leaving white house for a fundraising trip to new york, the president talked for the first time in days about the russia investigation and mincing no words about the special counsel. Mr. Mueller is highly conflicted. In fact comey is like his best friend, i could go into conflict afte
Agree to a deal that would include cooperation. This is breaking tonight and days ahead of when manaforts next trial is supposed to begin. A key part of this reporting, you may remember bloomberg had pieces of this but the new parts come tonight from abc news which is reporting mueller wants to lock manafort into cooperation for information pertaining to yrks e, donald trump and the 2016 election but manafort is resisting. This is key when you think about the logic because bob mueller probably isnt just guessing theres some information that he wants from this high profile and now convicted defendant. There is a signal that the mueller team has some evidence, foundational or reason to believe, that manafort does possess some kind of incrimin e incriminating information in his mind or somewhere about what happened in 2016 and manafort talking about a plea suggest this that could be signaling something else. Hes already convicted, he is signals a plea without cooperation. What does he wan
On Paul Manafort. A harsh spotlight just got brighter after a major bombshell report from the guardian yts. Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy during the president ial campaign. Quote, a well placed sourced has told the guardian that manafort went to see assange around march 2016. That would be the month manafort joined the campaign. The guardian says months later wi wikileaks release add stash of stolen emails. Manafort has previously denied involvement in the hack, this news coming a day after the special counsels office said it is seeking to break its plea deal with manafort. Bob muellers team says the onetime Campaign Chairman lied to them and the fbi quote, on a variety of subject matters. Manaforts team insists that he was truthful. The result speculation of a president ial pardon. Today the president attacked mueller in a series of three tweets. He put quotation marks around justice in one of those tweets, around justice department. He said
Crimes. They are suggesting that manafort is being railroaded because special Counsel Robert Mueller hasnt been able to prove collusion. Breaking, a top House Democrat is raising questions about why the president tried to hide his role in ordering a top secret security clearance for Jared Kushner, his soninlaw and senior adviser. Eli Elijah Cummings is asking about dirt that might have prompted intel officials to warn against gra granting him clearance. Our correspondents and analysts are standing by. Lets go to pamela brown and shimon pr shimon. Manaforts team says he apologizes. These crimes were serious. They claim that the proposal of 24 years, which is what muellers team is asking the judge for, is disproportionate to the crimes. They are saying the punishment thats proposed does not fit the crimes. They are claiming in this latest filing that because mueller couldnt find any evidence of collusion, that Paul Manafort was involved in, that they were so intent on charging him they a