Answers right now and to sara murray traveling with the president as we speak. Sara, first on human rights its a huge issue when it comes to the philippines. Was it discussed or not . It is a huge issue here in the philippines. Duterte has been here presiding over what has been a bloody drug war, raised alarms against human rights activists, saying thousands are being killed without going through proper judicial proceedings and should be a relatively simple answer did it come up in the president s meeting with duterte or did it now. Dutertes side says that human rights did not come up. It was not brought up during this meeting. The white house is insisting something different. A spokesperson and in an official statement insisted human rights were on the agenda and at least briefly discussed. So two conflicting versions of whether this very important issue came up at all. And once again, it seems when it comes to russia, sara, i mean where exactly is the president today on what has been
Twitters story disappointing. And grounded. Tom price is facing growing heat over his use of private planes. The white house wont say if trump has confidence in price and some advisers are encouraging President Trump to fire him. Is prices job on the line . We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news. The crisis engulfing puerto rico in the wake of hurricane maria. A week after the disaster, the federal government is cutting red tape and appointing a threestar u. S. Army general to oversee the effort. But Health Officials on the island are warning the situation could get much worse in the coming days with more than two dozen hospitals inoperable tonight and others struggling with shortages of fuel for their generators. Puerto ricos governor now says at least 16 people have died as a result of the hurricane. Also breaking tonight, sources are telling cnn th
On his relationship with Mitch Mcconnell after another Obamacare Repeal set back. Im not happy about it. Im going to look at it. Im not happy about it and i let him know it. Do you have confidence . I do. An emotional return for Steve Scalise to the house floor. You have no idea how great this feels to be back here at work in the peoples house. We will go right to the white house and hear from the Homeland Security adviser in the white house and the acting secretary of Homeland Security. Lets listen. Its starting to clear so we get the continual amount of supplies into puerto rico. We have supplies on around island and have the necessary food and water and we are bringing in additional for replenishment in addition heavy equipment and other things needed for the islands recovery. We have been working on yesterday principally getting distribution that last mile. To do that we had to remove debris and restore roles and had to clear landslides across the island and have done air drops in
Rob President Trump heading to las vegas today meeting with First Responders and victims. The worst mass shooting in modern american history. It was the wings of angels. There were so many people that werent wearing a gun and and badge and fire uniform that came from nowhere to help. Brian all right, everybody. Were going to continue to pursue you this story predominantly. This is a fox news alert. The girl friends of the las vegas shooter arriving back in the u. S. Overnight in a wheelchair. Ainsley Marilou Danley returning from the philippines greeted by the feds moments after landing there at lax, los angeles. Steve she is now considered a person of interest once again as the police and the fbi try to figure out what led the killer to the deadliest mass shooting in modern american history. Bine brian they also want to know what danley knew as the family speaks out, yep, her sisters saying the gunman sent her away so he could unleash the massacre. Thats going to be key. What did she
Puerto rico faster by waving restrictions and an obscure law about foreign cargo ships. It was a charge the accusation of being slow to react to hurricane. With those charges being leveled at the trump administration, the white house came out swinging. The white house pushback against criticism that its response to Hurricane Maria has been, as one democratic member of congress put it, ineffective and inexcusably slow. Tom bossert saying some news reports are lagging behind. A lot of the reporting is understandably not wrong but dated. Officials insist response efforts are moving as quickly as possible. 10,000 federal workers including 7200 u. S. Military are on the ground there. Threestar general Jeffrey Buchanan has been sent to oversee the response in the hospital ship uss comfort is teaming for puerto rico. Distribution from the island has been a challenge. We had to remove debris, clear land slides. We have done things like air drops. At the request of puerto ricos governor, Presid