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At 3 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast, we are learning more about the list of witnesses to be interviewed by the fbi in the probe of Brett Kavanaugh. Apparently neither judge kavanaugh nor his accuser Christine Blasey ford are on that list. The president continues to insist, though, the fbi has free reign to speak to whomever they choose while conducting this oneweek limited probe. But sources tell cnn the white House Counsel is working with the Senate Republicans behind the scenes to keep the i...

Were coming to you live from atlanta. Im natalie adams. And im George Howell from cnn world headquarters. Newsroom starts right now. At 4 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast we start with breaking news here in the United States. In South Carolina reports of party goers injured when a floor collapsed at an apartment complex. On the map you see here happened just a few hours ago in clemson. Again, at an apartment complex near clemson university. Property management said party goers were dancing toget...

Dozens of bushfires. They are scorching millions of acres and claiming more lives. Thank you for joining us. Our top story. We begin with the impeachment of u. S. President donald trump and the unexpected delay in sending those articles of impeachment to the u. S. Senate. President trump is falsely telling his supporters that democrats violated the u. S. Constitution when they impeached him last week. And he said nancy pelosi has abandoned the issue even though thats not true. The one fact he di...

Missiles and antitank systems. ukraine has told the u.s., paula, that it needs about 500 of those every day. >> all right. our thanks there to phil black whos live for us from ukraine. natasha bertrand in busless and kevin liptak in poland. steven erlinger is with us now from budweiser lynn. good to see you as we continue to follow now going into the second month of this conflict. we were just talking about the unity among the allies. obviously its impressive and yet were just a month in here....

Differently. but this feels very, very vague to them. so trump has a good argument when he says theyre using a small issue to try to throw me out of office and you, who voted for me, are the targets, the real targets. thats his line, and hes going to stick to it. >> as many people are sticking with him. all right. theres a long way to go to the election. so well be speaking with you again. thank you, steven, as always. >> thanks. well, there are new signs that north korea may be expanding its lo...

Support of this president in 2020? >> no. you know, just need more outsiders in washington. >> reporter: not all the republicans i spoke to hearsay they support the president. they object to him because of his personal faults. they will likely do in 2020 what they did in 2016, which is simply not vote. like other trump strongholds where i asked if there are any democrats they might consider, everyone here is unanimous. no. martin savidge, cnn, altoona, pennsylvania. there you have it. lets go ...

To do. hes not going to declare a national emergency, so he has to reach out to the democrats to find some kind of compromise. i suspect theyre willing to go the distance -- >> all right, steven. thank you. wanted to ask you a couple more questions but were having a bit of trouble with your audio so well get back to you. >> sorry about that. >> thats all right. bombarded by calls to resign, losing support from his own team. on sunday ralph northam held a meeting with top administration officia...

From him is a slowing down of the process and an effort to reassure his allies -- our allies in the region that america will not cut and run. >> and we also heard from our reporter there, boris sanchez, steven that the president may make this time to unify the country. thats not a particular tone he takes that often. do you think with this speech he might try and restore the support that he lost during the government shutdown? >> well, i think hes certainly going to try. as i was trying to say b...

That was scheduled and held over the weekend was there as a platform for the governor to explain the photo and that it was supposed to be a forum for people to understand the governor and hopefully the governor was thinking it would give him time to kind of think through what his next steps might be. were told the governor is evaluating things minute by minute, day by day. but right now the only reason that the governor would resign was if he was not able to govern effectively. and currently he ...

Him to stand up speaking to the nation, you know, in a more unifying tone. his base has got nowhere else to go. so i dont think he needs to worry about that. but i think it would be help him in his re-election efforts to get more legislation passed on issues that matter to him. >> steven erlinger, we could hear you just fine and clear. always appreciate your insights. steven, thank you. >> thanks, natalie. okay, we have been saying this for years, and we may actually end up saying it again and...