Closer and closer to Floridas Gulf Coast. Were breaking down a Brand New forecast of bidens potentially catastrophic Power And Pam more than 1 Million floridians have now been ordered to evacuate. And the governor is warning residents theres little if any time left to get out safely. This hour, ill speak with local and federal officials about the devastating Toll Milton could take on a region still reeling from Hurricane Helene, plus new revelations about Donald Trumps secret talks with russias Vladimir Putin while trump was president and after standby for details from a new book by The Legendary Journalists Bob Woodward, that also describes President Bidens private complaints about Israels Benjamin going to turn you and much more welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im Wolf Blitzer youre in the Situation Room News on Hurricane Milton regaining strength and growing in Size Hi big time, this Monster Storm is bearing down on florida with landfall expecte
i m victor blackwell. good to be with you. three weeks from election day, and today president biden is putting abortion rights front and center for voters. this afternoon he promised to make roe v wade the law of the land. promising to send a bill to congress to codify the law. they re hoping this could galvanize voters. if you care about the right to choose, then you ve got to vote. that s why in these midterm elections, it s so critical to elect more democrats to keep control of the house of representatives. folks, if we do that, here s the promise i make to you and the american people the first bill i will send to the congress will be to codify roe v. wade. when congress passes it, i ll sign it in january 50 years after roe was first decided as the law of the land. cnn s phil mattingly is at the white house this afternoon. what s behind the strategy here of making abortion a focus of the mid terms. polling is showing that it s not the boost it was a few weeks ago
shared classified documents with bob woodward, such as those now infamous love letters from north korean dictator kim jong-un that we know trump took to mar alaggo. listen to what trump says to bob woodward as he hands them over. nobody else has them, but i want you to treat them with respect. i understand. i understand. don t say i gave them to you. okay. i think it s okay. normally i wasn t going to give them you make a ph photostat? no, i dictate them into a tape recorder. really? yeah. don t say i gave them to you. it s really a classics example of what woodward says in the audio book is a casual dangerous cavalier way that trump dealt with classified information. it s also a stark reminder of
of the united states, is actually not in his prepared statement. that seems to have been an ad lib along the way. let s just take a step back and look at what woodward and costa report in their book. they reported that they received a full transcript of that phone call between speaker pelosi and general milley, and it is verbatim. there are quotes, and i m going to read you now what they have from the transcript of that phone call. speaker pelosi says, who knows what he might do? he s crazy. you know he s crazy. he s been crazy for a long time, so don t say you don t know what his state of mind is. he s crazy and what he did yesterday, referring actually to january 6th, is further evidence of his craziness, and general milley responds, madam speaker,
i agree with you on everything. so, there s either a little bit of clean-up on aisle 6 here with that ad lib today or, you know, we are reporting what woodward and costa report in the book, but i called them this morning, and they stand by their reporting. all of that said, alisyn, i do think that it was both extraordinary that general milley had took the time as part of his opening statement to address all of the reporting from the woodward and costa book and some of the other books that have been out there, because he clearly felt the need to say that he had been acting within his authority. he went through the phone calls with the chinese generals and