Leaving the white house. Stand by for our exclusive report. Plus, we are awaiting a final vote in the House Of Representatives on the Debt Limit Deal. This hour ill be getting reaction from a key Progressive Democrat who says she is voting no. Also tonight, attacks on russian territory appear to be escalating. Kremlin officials calling the situation near the Ukrainian Border alarming. One day after Drone Strikes shook the russian capital city of moscow. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Wolf blitzers on assignment. Im Alex Marquardt, and youre in the Situation Room. And lets get straight to cnns new exclusive reporting on this Special Counsels criminalvection of former president donald trump. Katelyn polantz and paula reid have been working their sources. They are joining us now with the latest. Kaitlan, i want to go to you first. What are you learning about this critical key new piece of evidence . Well, alex, this is an audiotape that the Just
Ive got a lot of people that care about me. And its going to disappoint them to hear that i did this. I would like to apologize to each and every one of them. Just a broken guy. Got a few screws loose. You think this will get me a job as a pilot . I think theyll yeah, right. Can this thing do a back flip . Do you think . A barrel roll . If that goes good, and im just gonna nose down and call it a night. Lets try to land that airplane safely and not hurt anyone on the ground. All right. Oh, damn it, i dont know, man,
theyre likely transcribing a lot of what you just heard there to get the full picture here of what was going on in this mans head. Of course social media is going to be important too. We know the Sheriffs Department said he was suicidal, but the fbis going to want a fuller picture. Did some specific event trigger him to do what we saw him do yesterday . The ntsb just gave a briefing. We know theyre on the ground. You saw that plane crashed. He died. It crashed in a very hea
This is cnns breaking news. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world, i am wolf blitzer in washington. This is a special edition of the situation room. The death toll approaching 114,000 and nearly 22,000 of those deaths are right here in the United States. The u. S. Also reported more than 550,000 cases spread across every state and nearly every u. S. Territory. Also, some stunning word from the nations top Infectious Disease experts, dr. Fauci believes more lives could have been saved if the white house put out social distancing guidelines earlier as Health Experts inside the administration had recommended. You can say if you had a process that was ongoing and yo could have saved lives. What goes into that decision is complicated. You are right, if we had shut everything down, it may have been different. There were a lot of push backs of shutting things down back then. Also this is new tonight, new york city is now reporting more than 5600 additional case
Jennifer griffin at the pentagon. What is new about this Missile Launch . Reporter the pentagon said this is not a missile it has seen before. It was fired from a launch head never used before, flying for 37 minutes. Weve also learned that u. S. Intelligence watched the north koreans prepare for this launch in advance. They saw the missile being fueled. We are told this new icbm missile used liquid fuel which means it takes time and if left mobile than if solid fuel had been used. Late yesterday the pentagon responded to the test by releasing this video of American Army and south Korean Military units near seoul testing short range surface to surface missiles which can travel up to 200 miles away. Keep in mind seoul is only 35 miles from the dmz, the border with north korea. North korea has thousands of artillery units pointed at seoul. Melissa i have heard a lot of people ask the question, why didnt the pentagon just shoot it down. Whats the answer to that . Captain jeff davis said th
If he goes in and testifies under oath, instead of this being a dispute, they can say it is perjury. If they elect to believe comey instead of trump. Contrast that to what he told abc in july. How is he a good witness for the president if the president was asking him or directing him to let the Michael Flynn go. He didnt say that. He said can you give him a break. Can you give him a break . Which is it . The president never asked comey to give him a break or he did . Last june, the former fbi director told the president told him during that meeting, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go. To letting flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go. Serious concerns in the white house now we know former aide Omarosa Manigault newman was able to sneak a recording device into the situation room. Omarosa appeared on meet the press. She claims the recording you are about to hear is chief of staff john kelly firing her last december. I think it is important to understand