Special counsel jack smith against donald trump. In an interview with cnn, maralago employee brian butler painting a painting a very specific picture of trumps inner circle, and how it operated more like a mafia family than anything else. With loyalty prized above everything. A world where fealty to the boss led to criminal exposure. Now, nbc news has not independently confirmed butlers identity as trump employee number 5 and he declined nbcs request for comment. In his interview last night, butler says he helped trumps codefendants, walt nowta and carlos move those boxes containing some of our nations most Sensitive National security secrets. Watch. He followed me. He pulled out, got behind me, got to the airport, i ended up loading all the luggage i had and he had a bunch of boxes. You noticed that he had boxes. Oh, yeah, they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. Thats what i remember. Did you have any idea at the time that there was potentially u. S.
hello and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom. the china and the u.s. working to improve relations that haven t been this bad in a long time. we re live in china how a trip by the american secretary of state might change that. plus i m looking forward to this campaign, yoipt to know why, because you ve got a story to tell, we ve got a story to tell. president biden in his element as he officially kicks off his re-election bid. we ll take a look at the message he brought to a battleground state. and scientists make a groundbreaking device when it comes to synthetic human embryos. the ethical concerns that come with this new creation. we begin this hour in beijing, where the u.s. secretary of state is on a diplomatic mission to mend fractured ties with china. antony blinken has been meeting with the country s foreign minister for sttalks on a rangef issues, that are e
continue to slaughter more innocent ukrainians. we don t want to see that. again, we ll see what these leaders come out with and what they say at the end of these discussions. we ll watch this very, very closely. again, we have communicated privately to the chinese. we certainly have communicated it publicly that that would not be an outcome that s to the better, not only of china and their interest, but certainly to the ukrainian people and to the whole idea of peace. what does it say to you that after the international criminal court issued that arrest warrant for putin, that, a, xi did still show up in russia, but you saw putin over the weekend in mariupol, in all of these other cities. i think to your first question, you ve got to keep this relationship in some sort of context here. these are two nations who chafe and bristle at the idea of u.s. leadership or u.s. influence around the world. they don t like playing by the r rules, that the world order has in place and
thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber and this is the final friday until the elections. we head into the weekend campaigning, four days out from election day and the campaigns are bringing out some of the big guns. i said it was up to the citizens of pennsylvania, and of course, but i will tell you all this. if i lived in pennsylvania, i would already have cast my vote for john fetterman for many reasons. there it is. that s oprah pushing democrats in the key battleground state of pennsylvania. we can report that tomorrow, there will be rallies there with biden, trump, and obama. so if you think about it, if there s one thing both parties do seem to agree on right now on this final friday heading into the midterms weekend, it is that pennsylvania is clearly important. important because it s close and it could decide control of
hitting him?! reporter: disturbing video showing the violent arrest of a young black man following a failed traffic stop. they re using force. they re using a taser. they re wrestling him. they re using a baton. i m definitely having nightmares. reporter: and new russian air strikes on a ukrainian port, just one day after both nations approve a grain export deal. i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. summer swelter. some 85 million americans have spent the day under heat warnings and advisories. blistering temperatures are baking much of the nation, from its midsection to the northeast, many are seeing triple-digit highs. extreme heat is helping fuel a wildfire near yosemite national park in california. the oak fire has raced across 6,500 acres in two days. there is zero containment and some rural community have said evacuated. and the northeast is taking the brunt of the oppressive heat. tomorrow s boston triathlon has be