you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in atlanta. we re less than 40 minutes to the launch of axiom two. it s the second mission to the international space station. on board is a former space station commander who has spent more time in space than any other american along with a pilot and two mission specialists from saudi arabia. we ll bring you that launch live in about a half an hour. and negotiations will resume over the debt crisis. they will set the stakge for a high-stakes meeting tomorrow. the president is flying home from the g-7 summit in japan. here s what mccarthy had to say about that conversation. i believe it was a productive phone call. and so at the end of the phone call, what we need to do is, we re going to have patrick mchenry get back together with he s going to ask his team, get back together. so we can walk them through literally what we ve been talking about. i think some of the challenges here they might not completely understand h
yet to be identified as police work to determine a motive after a gunman killed at least ten people at a dance hall saturday night in monterey park, california. the shooter a 72-year-old man a fixture at that dance hall. police say armed with a semiautomatic weapon and extended magazines and died sunday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. it could have been so much worse. shortly after the attack, he went to a second location where a man there disarmed him, and this morning he described their frightening confrontation. i needed to get the weapon away from him. needed to take this weapon, disarm him or else everybody would have died. when i got the courage i lunged at him with both my hands, grabbed the weapon and we had a struggle. we struggled into the lobby, trying to get this gun away from each other. he was hitting me across the face, smashing the back of my head. i i was trying to use my elbows to separate the gun away from him, create some distance. finally at one
in some ways. well, thank you. that s what i was aiming for. well done, my friend, thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. so anything much going on in the news? enjoying these sleepy summer days without much happening? aghh. all right. we have a bunch of stuff to coffer tonight. first, the former president of the united states is going to be sentenced for 34 felony convictions next week on thursday. the prosecutors who brought that case and who prosecuted in court that case against donald trump, they were due today to make their sentencing recommendation to the judge. in a new york state case like this, it s not the jury that convicted trump that will decide what his sentence is. it s the judge who oversaw the case. it s juan juan merchan who will sentence trump. the maximum sentence under law that trump could face is four years in prison. it s very possible, however, that he might not get any prison time at all. for he does get a sentence of con
Necessary, yes. The president had effectively an extramarital affair slush fund. Then Scott Pruitts luxury trip to rome on the public dime. Lets have no illusions about what was really going on here. And what primary night in america looks like in the era of trump. Im basically trumpier than trump. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The president and his lawyer are applying the same strategy that got the president elected, to his rapidly multiplying legal threats. Overwhelm the public with enough noise to drown out the facts and muddle the issues. Whether it can work this time is still an open question. The president today spent his morning executive time, as he so often does, tweeting about the criminal investigation into his campaign, his allies and his Family Members and himself. And this comes after the president s new personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, claimed in an interview over the weekend that the mueller team might try to set up the preside
Here is Rudy Giuliani, President Trumps attorney in an interview this morning. We know of Something Like 183 unique conversations. That are on tape. One involving the president. There are 12 others, maybe 11 or 12 others out of 183 in which the president is discussed at any length by cohen, mostly with reporters. All clearly corroborating what the president has said in detail on many of those tweets. He didnt know about the payments to either one. He only found out later. Cohen made them not for the kpa campaign. Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Hes been saying that for a few days. Hes been backtracking from Last Night On Whether The Cohen Tape was doctored. There is way to define this strategy from Rudy Giuliani or does it make sense to you. How can anybody know the truth here. I think its baffling. A lot of observers have expressed concern over the strategy. Jay has gone on the record saying ta Rudy Giuliani is doing the preside