Tremendous reporting. Should read their deeply sourced reporting about all of that. It is fascinating and devastating at the same time. Yes, exactly those two things, yes. Have a good weekend. You too. In august of 2020, donald trump was campaigning for reelection. We were in the throes of the covid19 pandemic. The summer saw a wave of protests and up risings over the murders of george floyd. To top it all off, the state of california was experiencing its largest wildfire season in recorded history. And it was that last crisis that prompted donald trump to say this during a campaign rally in pennsylvania. I see again the forest fires are starting. They re starting again in california. I said you have to clean your floors, you have to clean your floors. Many many years of leaves and broken trees. And they re like, like so flammable. You touch them and it goes up. I ve been telling them this now for three years. But they don t want to listen. The environment, the environment but they hav
We start this hour with some breaking news. The death toll from hurricane helene has now risen to 89. 30 of those deaths were in north carolina which has seen a record 30inches of rainfall. Nearly 2 million people are without power. And joining general honore. Good to have you on the show. Let me get your assessment from someone like you who knows the damage you re seeing right now. What do you make of the damage we re seeing across the south. Well i think you clarified the point. This was amongst the storm that attacked florida. Made its way through georgia and into north carolina and tennessee. And even parts of virginia. It s a massive storm. I dropped enormous amount of water. Not measured in inches but by a foot in some places 2foot of water dropped. It overdropped the terrain. And when you do that it s going go into the valleys. A lot of commune tips had not experienced that. And what we have seen, with condolences to everyone who lost their lives the impact of the flash flooding
Theres a lot happening all the time. The days sometimes feel like weeks in the weeks feel like years. The stakes feel impossibly high. Because they are. Tonight we will do our best to make sense of this moment that we are living through together with two very smart and sensible people. Democratic senators elizabeth Warren And Jon ossoff will be here at this table, and i cant wait to talk with both of them. First, i want to get you up to speed about where we are right now. Starting with the fact that for the second time in about two months, authorities are investigating what the fbis calling an appear in Assassination Attempt. Here is what we have been able to piece together. Yesterday afternoon, secret Service Agent at the floor to Golf Club spotted a subject armed with what he perceived to be a rifle on the public side of the golf course perimeter fence. Less than 400 yards away from trump and where he was playing golf. Phone records show the same guy had been waiting there for about
right here on cnn newsroom. rival us court rulings put access to a widely used abortion pill in jeopardy will tell you where the issue could be headed for a final resolution. two young black men expelled from the tennessee house of representatives over their protest following the nashville school shooting. here with their constituents have to say and separate attacks in the middle east. leave at least three people dead. we will go live to jerusalem for the latest live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with poland. two conflicting u. s federal court rulings have thrust the abortion debate back into the stop into the spotlight. access to medford. best crestone, a key medical abortion pill is now up in the air, with one federal judge ruling to suspend its approval from the food and drug administration and the other ruling to protect it. cnn legal analysts and former manhattan chief assistant district attorney explains what s at stake. most women now choose to do this medical
rivals. and affecting bidens two years in office. the battle he faces in congress. our favorite historians is here as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening, i m alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle. it has been seven months since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. but today, antiabortion activists came to washington for the annual march for life. the first since roe was struck down. and two days before the 50th anniversary of that original decision. the anti-abortion rights movement has achieved one of its main goals, the washington post points out there is a, quote, internal debate about how to make an abortion ban nationwide. march leaders emphasized friday that rose overthrow was just the start, that they will be launching dozens of local marches. most abortions have been banned in more than a dozen states and a support for national ban has been the major theme for today s march. the march began as a response to roe, we don t and as a