The next hour of cnn this morning starts now. Good friday morning. We are watching Hurricane Hilary this morning, a powerful category 4 storm as it barrels towards the west coast. It is supposed to weaken. Thats good news, by the time it reaches the u. S. It is expected to bring heavy rain and maybe flooding to the southwest over the weekend, as we learn fema is running out of money for Disaster Relief after an historic year of disasters. One of Donald Trumps close allies and codefendants was at the Capitol On January 6th with Conspiracisy Theorist alex jones. President biden about to hold summit at camp david to figure out how to counter the looming threat from china and north korea. National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby will join us live to preview this highstakes meeting. This hour of cnn this morning starts right now. Developing this morning, Hurricane Hilary a category 4 storm rapidly intensifying and on its way to the west coast. It is expected to weaken by the time it r
White house correspondent Jacqui Heinrich is at camp david tonight. Good evening, jacqui. Good evening, bret. The leaders convened to show, give a show of force, rather, against threats from north korea and also from china. They announced a new Joint Commitment to consult with each other in times of crisis, increase their military exercises, jointly in the region. Step up intelligence sharing, and also a new plan to convene annually at a new summit. The leaders did Call Out North Korea by name. But they were careful not to oreillyrile china. Make clear this is not the beginning of a new formal alliance. The president s domestic problems loomed in the background, too. Get some lunch . President biden dodged the press for a full week after david weiss, the u. S. Attorney investigating his son, was elevated to special counsel. And today he ended up taking his first question about it shoulder to shoulder with two major u. S. Allies. I have no comment on any investigations going on thats up
first off, i would like to respond to what the campaign said. it s not a campaign memo. there is no desantis campaign. the entire desantis campaign is being run by the never back down super pac. they ve gotten all the people at the campaign fired that they didn t like. and now they re writing strategy memos and putting them on the internet where everybody can see them. look, this just shows you it s not easy to run for president, everybody. and if you can t run for president in a way that doesn t create embarrassing process stories multiple times a week, you certainly can t run the white house and run the federal government or be trusted to sit across from president xi or vladimir putin or kim jong-un. it s an indication of something much, much bigger in terms of problems with governor desantis. but, you know, i ll show up wednesday night. we ll see how it goes. let s talk about how it s going to go. you called trump a coward for
country, rather than some of the other static that s out there right now. static like leaked document discussing understands debate tactics, though his team points out it came from a super pac, not the campaign. adding a statement, quote: we are by now well accustomed by the attacks from all side as the media and other candidates realize ron desantis is the strongest candidate best positioned to take down joe biden. criticize christie slamming the florida governor. the entire desantis campaign is being run by the never back down super pac. and now they are writing strategy memos and putting them on the internet where everybody can see them. desantis was advised to take a sledge hammer to the vivek ramaswamy on the debate stage. now, ramaswamy using that memo to raise campaign cash. this weekend christie and ramaswamy get their turn in atlanta but today it was tim scott led off the event looking back on that warm reception he got in des moines. i went to the iowa state fair. #
desantis super pac memo several times. this is what he said. there is no desantis campaign. the entire desantis campaign is being run by the never back down super pac. they have gotten all of the people at the campaign fired that they didn t like. and now they are writing strategy memos and putting them on the internet where everybody can see them. look, this shows you, it s not easy to run for president, and if you can t run for president in the way that doesn t create embarrassing process stories multiple times a week, you certainly can t run the white house. and that s my biggest question about posting this allowing people like shane to scoop it, jerk movement, right, but greed great to read, because it creates another news cycle and then to shane s poirngts like, how does this not get in your head as a candidate? walk me through this as an advisor. what are you doing? governor desantis has the