Welcome to sunday as we kounlt down to the debate tonight. Its 5 00 here an the east coast and im christi paul. So grateful for your company. Victor blackwell in the place where its going to happen tonight. Victor. Christi good morning to you. Were live in st. Louis at Washington University, the site of the next big showdown, the second president ial debate. Were beginning, of course, with the Republican Party in meltdown. Facing a political disaster really unlike anything weve seen in modern times. A few hours from now here at Washington University, donald trump will take the stage to battle with his own political survival. Were now less than a month before election day. Top leaders of trumps own party are banning together. There is this growing drumbeat of an exodus here. It comes after a stunning video revealed trump in 2005 casually talking about what many people say is sexual assault. He has apologized. But trumps own running mate is refusing to defend him. Senator john mccain say
Im jake tapper. Any moment were expecting President Trump to sign into action more executive orders including a followup to that basele baseless claim that millions of votes were illegally cast in the 2016 election. A breach with a key trading partner south of the border, today mexicos president canceled a planned meeting with President Trump, a protest over President Trumps insistence that mexico pay for a border wall between the two countries. As the president forges ahead on the wall and other policy priorities today, he addressed the group that will decide which of these goals will become law first and how much funding it will get. Thats republicans in congress, of course. Cnn rorl cnn reporters across the hemisphere covering trump and the uproar between the u. S. And its southern neighbor. Well begin with jim accosta in the great city of philadelphia. The president spoke to members of congress who are at a retreat. Jim, the white house Just Announced how the president wants to get
May to sort of play up his natural warmth, if you will, to britain there. He talked about his mother loving the queen, the pomp and circumstance. You know, i think that sort of that tone may be in the conversation as well. This is a tough one for her. Its a difficult line to walk. I mean, she wants to do improved trade relations with the United States, but in which areas . Agriculture is potentially one of those areas, but that alone for her could be contentious. Do british farmers really want to import beef thats treated with hormones, these sorts of things . Its those technical details, Technical Specifications in trade deals that are hard to work out. She wont get into those details, but she will try to use any commonality she can. We heard her lay out britains vision on parallel on track with the United States yesterday. She will be trying to use that and anything that commonality, that common heritage to persuade him of her views. Were going to be hearing a lot more over the next
A gop congressional retreat. He gives a Campaign Style pep rally, but leaves without taking questions from lawmakers. Are they on the same page . And the opposition, President Trumps chief strategist who previously added a right wing website says news organizations have been humiliated by the election results. He calls the news media the Opposition Party and says it should, quote, keep its mouth shut. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news, tensions exploding over a plan to build a border wall after saying his country will not pay for a wall, mexicos president cancels a meeting with President Trump. The white house followed that stunning move by suggesting that attacks on imports from mexico could pay for the wall. That would hit American Consumers in the pocket as they pay higher prices for a vast array of products from mexico. The president meanwhile picks up where he left off with his unfounded claim of voter fraud and he say
Speak or conceal. I dont think many reasonable people would do i differently than i did no matter what they say today. Sandra Katherine Herridge is live outside the hearing. What did we hear in general about the decision to reopen the clinton email probe 11 days before the election . He was asked multiple times about that. Reporter the fbi director james comey testified that clintons aide routinely sent emails to her husband, Anthony Weiner to get them printed out. In the process when the fbi got inside Anthony Weiners computer you know what its like after these hearings. Everyone is clearing out. Anyway, when the fbi got inside Anthony Weiners computer as part of a separate investigation, they found thousands of clinton email, many were new to investigators and classified. This one in late october, less than two weeks before the election. The fbi director testified to senators today that he felt he only had two options and that was to either go public or to conceal this evidence. I sa