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Watching at fubo tv. Com, a cnn special event, the Vice President ial debate. Tuesday at nine everyone, welcome cnn this morning it is saturday, september 28. Im Amara Walker alongside Danny Freeman and jim sciutto. We begin this morning with major breaking developments in the middle East Cnn Breaking News the concerns continue to grow about the possibility of a widening war. Now that hezbollah has confirmed its leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in israeli airstrikes In Beirut. Nasrallah, who l...

Those republican members as the insurrection unfolded? >> so, that is an answer -- that is a question i dont have a clear answer to, but youre very right to point out that we all should be sorted sort of looking in corners where were not hearing the loudest voices from. of course, we hear a lot from the people who are refusing to testify or cooperate in some regard, mark meadows, scott perry, jim jordan, ivanka trump, also, has been asked to cooperate. peter navarro. but that -- they are outlier...

Back to the 9090s or he simply doesnt understand it. there is no in between. >> mark, play this one out for me though. because what weve seen from the president since helsinki is instead of talking about what happened in the meeting with putin, which everyone wants to know, the president just blamed the media for not covering the meeting. that was like one of the more m jeff glor last night. there is no way anybody could cover it any other way because this is the way the president wanted it, he ...

But, you know, john could tell us more about this. the thing ive been hearing from a lot of people is usually you dont have two leaders meeting right away. you usually work things out at lower level staff, people that were not really hearing about that arent in the public eye just quietly negotiating on what a deal could be possibly. and then you send people that are a little bit higher up, and then you might have the leaders meet. and they dont meet until they kind of know that there is going t...

Think about is the impact these indictments and papadopoulos has on lower level staff in the white house who have to look over their shoulder and wonder what other e-mails are there and have to higher attorneys of their own at great cost. >> yeah. one republican operative i think at the white house post tonight in touch with people at the white house described it as the walls are closing in. people feel that in the withist wing. theres no doubt, as much compartment alzbliegs as youd like to acco...

I think he was right to hit the reset button and i think it was something that i think the white house needs. i think its healthy. >> okay. he thinks its healthy. hes gone. thats what you say. the question is, what next? what changes? can general kelly, the anti-trump in many ways -- believes in order, discipline. he thinks before he speaks. can he change the behavior of the presidents inner circle and, more importantly, can he change the behavior of the president? >> yeah. i think two things we...

Of his life from the beginning of his presidency. when you have a conspiracy prosecutor, it started with a look into land deals in arkansas and that special prosecutor was still around when the allegations around his affair with monica lewinsky and sexual misconduct came up years later. it can be tremendously debi debilitating for a white house or not. what most people in any white house need to do in a circumstance like that is always tell the truth. always do what you think is right. and have ...

Because you have lower level staff, right. its tough for them to bear the cost going forward. but on this issue, as it does just politically here now, because the bob mueller as a special counsel has enormous power that many members of the congressional committees -- and im sure theyve expressed to you. theyve expressed to me -- frustration, from the intelligence community. thats not a problem that bob mueller is going to have. >> its not. its not. no question theres frustration from democrats a...

And the dropping of a truly massive bomb on afghanistan. president trump, through all this, is on vacation. more on that shortly. cnns suzanne malveaux is at mar-a-lago. matthew chance in moscow. jim acosta is at the white house tonight. lets bring in suzanne from florida. so for president trump, sort of a working golfing weekend for the president? >> reporter: you could call it that. they say they are ready for anything, that they are prepared. his chief of staff reince priebus was with him in ...

Out of the white house staff which some say actually is helpful to go first. he has been able to fill his cabinet without fully flushing out -- we know his top advisers, but not the rest of the down the level staff of the white house. then there is a lot happening behind the scenes that we dont have a camera on every day watching who comes in and who comes out. there are staff with the transition rolling out going into each agency and trying to get their arms around the bureaucracy there. the te...