Its taking a toll on me. Outside the lines. Questions swirl around President Trumps altered hurricane map, was it a bungled attempt to prove his false statements about alabama being in the storms path. That map that you showed us today looked like it had a sharpy. I dont know. I dont know. I dont know. And comic relief. Joe biden brushes off questions about his gaffes on steven colbert. Have you have asked michelle for advice . Only to be my Vice President. Im only joking. Michelle, im joking. That was a joke. Good day, everyone, im Andrea Mitchell in washington. As Hurricane Dorian rips across the carolina coast today, a dangerous mix of wind, rain and storm surge. Putting tens of thousands of people and of course their homes in harms way. Were seeing flooding today in South Carolina along stretches of coastline from charleston up to myrtle beach. With Hurricane Force wind gusts pushing more water on shore. The storm is moving toward North Carolina now. Local crews are preparing for t
Multiple diplomats to that country but cnn is just now learning when it came to his decision to block the millions of dollars in critical aid to ukraine the president of the United States was the one under pressure from within the white house and far beyond. Cnn global correspondent sara murray and Jeremy Diamond have the new reporting. Lets dig in. Jeremy first for you. What are you learning about when the president actually finally decided to release this aid to ukraine . Reporter well, brooke, it came down to a phone call between the president and ohio senator rob portman on september 11th. In the afternoon, were told, according to six sources familiar with the call, that ohio senator rob portman repeatedly urged the president once again to release these funds. The president , were told, put up his usual defenses blaming european allies for not providing enough funding to ukraine. What happened after the call is unusual in terms what happened for months before. The president withhol
Aid. Manu raju is on the hill. Manu, tell us why democrats wanted to hear from sondland. Sondland played a key role in discussions about setting up a meeting and having discussions after President Trump talked to the president of ukraine zelensky about the president s desire to investigate joe biden, have the ukranians investigate joe biden. Around that conversation the president had with zelensky, someone engaged with individuals about moving forward in setting up both a meeting with the ukranian government and the president of the United States. That meeting had been put on ice. The ukranians had raised concerns about that. Also he was involved in discussions about why military aid was withheld. He said in one of the Text Messages with another diplomat that there was no quid pro quo and then there were more messages in that text message exchange. Someone said, call me. He told that to bill taylor on capitol hill. They also wanted to see these Text Messages of his own that had not bee
Million good jobs here at home. Bernie fights for the average joe. The new leader who can on day one stand with our allies, know them by their first names. Back to the 2020 race and the democrats a bit later. We begin the hour with a very Serious Court setback for the white house and the president ial reaction you should not take seriously. The president this morning saying he would actually like for all of his top aides to testify to congress. Dont take that seriously, but one of those aides, the House Democrats would love to hear from is the secretary of state. He was asked about that last hour. Listen. Sir, the president tweeted just a short while ago that he encouraged you essentially to testify in the impeachment investigation. Is that something youre considering . When the time is right, all good things happen. A little bit of a smirk from the secretary of state. Those tweets and the reaction follows a court rebuke to the white houses claim that it has brought immunity that prote
This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. A lot going on. Were going to catch you up on all the big headlines. Were just hours away from cnns big democratic debate in iowa. The final debate before the Iowa Caucuses in three weeks. But as the 2020 Election Year gets under way, as the democratic race starts to narrow and tighten, how can the candidates break through to American Voters while President Trump has impeachment and the conflict with iran that takes up all the oxygen in the room . Tonight well get some answers. Democratic candidate tom stoeye here live. And well hear from joe bidens campaign. President trump gaslighting again on twitter. This time falsely claiming he has protected people with preexisting health conditions. In fact, he has tried to gut those protections by weakening and even eliminating obamacare. And royal family feud, Queen Elizabeth convenes a crisis meeting of the royal family i should say to deal with the decisions by prince harry and his wife meghan to step back