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New yorkbased legal adviser, described as a tenacious litigator to represent him, thats as the former head of the cia testifies in public for the first time that he saw evidence that the russians were trying to court trump aides. Weve got the latest on both big stories for you this evening. Lets get right to cnns Cnn International correspondent atika shubert. The uk raising its threat level new details about the bomber ng salman abedi. What can you tell us about this investigation . Reporter wel...

Have no idea. A lot of people dont like when i say it, he was a young man of 26 or 27 when he took over from his father when his father died. Hell dealing with tough people, in particular the generals and others. At a young age, he was able to assume power. A lot of people try to take that power away whether it was his uncle or anybody else, he was able to do it. So, obviously, hes a pretty smart cookie. But we have a situation that we just cannot let we cannot let whats been going on for a long...

Focus, donald trump, jr. New york times reporting that the president s son met with a russian lawyer after being promised damaging information on hillary clinton. The times says the meetings took place, the meeting took place on june 9 of last year. That was two weeks after donald trump pledged the nomination. This is the first public indication that at least some in the Trump Campaign were willing to accept help. Donald trump jr provide krp with the statement that reads like this. Ways asked to...

Stressing diplomacy. James mattis says right now the u. S. Effort in the tense standoff is being diplomatically lady by nikki haley. President trump thanked russian president Vladimir Putin for pushing american diplomats out of moscow and cutting the state departments payroll. And the president continues to attack Mitch Mcconnell telling the senate gop leader to goet wo get to work on the trump agenda and asking him to resign if nothing gets done. Lets go to Barbara Starr at the pentagon. Good m...

Declared it a major disaster. Now to tell you about another storm of a political nature. As harvey beared downed on texas the u. S. President pardoned a controversial sheriff. Joe arpaio was convicted of criminal contempt of court. And then there was another story to tell you about. Another trump official out of a job, Sebastian Gorka, has left the position as the president s Counter Terrorism advisor. A lot to tell you about again this day. Lets start, though with the monster storm at hand that...

Florida and the gulf coast. 11 feet of surge is significant. 80plusmileanhour winds are significant. Spinoff tornadoes are significant. This is the worst hurricane that has impacted missince hurricane katrina. Patti ann the mayor of new orleans has lifted a and tory curfew. But people are urged to shelter in place. Reporter there was a big concern in norms which is below sea level about the potential for storm surge. People are moving back on down here to bourbon street. The bars are open again ...

That was evan sigfried on our show yesterday. Roy moore has been accused by multiple women of making sexual advances against them while they were minors, claims that he denies. What about al franken . He has admitted wrongdoing. I think thats a very clear distinction. I think that puts them in two different categories. I dont know. Look, i dont want to speak for al franken. I dont know what happened. I just heard about conyers two minutes ago. As far as frankens concerned, hes going to have to s...

Un. But they come with conditions on the United States. Will that make the whole denuclearization deal a nonstarter . Welcome to our viewers from the yoits. And of course around the world. This is cnn newsroom. There is mounting pressure among u. S. Republican lawmakers to move ahead with the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. They want to hear from the woman who accused him of Sexual Assault years ago but rejecting her call for an fbi investigation first. The push for a monday hearing...

Stories of it was scary trying to go through the fire when it is all around you. You have fire on the left, fire on the right, ashfalling on you. We barely got out. We barely got out. There was wall to wall flames. Flames going underneath our car, over our car. We thought we were going to die. If we would have waited five more minutes, we wouldnt be here today. Im grateful that im alive. Search crews say they are sifting through the ashes now looking for anyone that didnt make it out. Families a...

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