as imperious as always, he emerged today if he s going to take any questions to defend his departments actions lea via president trump yuri to speak on my role is to be completely consistent during the special counsel regulations. following the regulations. laura: let s be very clear here. the issue is are you acting in good faith or part of a political operation to get a conviction of trump by any means necessary? 81% of republicans believe this about this is all about politics and protecting one of the more destructive presidents the united states has ever had joe biden. and they are right. consider the situation this way. no one believes that merrick garland would still be ag if he didn t, hadn t green light a special prosecutor in this case. everyone at msnbc and cnn believed that merrick garland s trying to put trump in jail. no matter where the facts leave. otherwise, they would be calling tonight for his removal. it s really not that complicated. any of the lawyers
Weve just seen donald trump leave the courtroom in manhattan. Donald trump back in court today at the Hush Money Trial in ny. The former president is accused of falsifying Business Records to conceal damaging stories that would have undermined his bid for the white house. Back on the stand today was the lawyer who negotiated a payment for porn star stormy s daniels. Keith davidson has been detailing how that 130,000 payment was arranged. But in the course of his testimony, prosecutors took him back to the election night, in 2016. And a text message he sent at 3 in the morning to the editor of the national enquirer. What have we done . He wrote. 0ur North America correspondent Nada Tawfikjoins us from new york. The suggestion being that their efforts to quash these stories had in no small part assisted Donald Trumps route to the white house. Thats exactly right, christian. He was asked to say but that text message meant. He said the understanding was all of their efforts had in some way
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
China set up its first national supercomputing internet platform on Thursday, blazing a new trail in the establishment of a powerful national supercomputing internet consortium.