detroit news. apparent recordings of donald trump himself in 2020 allegedly pressuring to election officials in michigan not to sign the certification of joe biden s victory. plus, the special counsel strikes back, urging the supreme court to immediately consider trump immunity claims, as his former lawyer, rudy giuliani files for by cropsey, hours after being ordered to pick election workers for lies he told for trump. will he pay up? giuliani s attorneys are here. even more accusations of plagiarism against harvard embattled president. the two student journalist who broke the story joining us this hour. kaitlan collins is off tonight, i m brianna keilar, and this is the source. we begin with breaking news. there is brand-new work reporting on another recording of a phone call allegedly made by donald trump in 2020, pressuring local election officials. this time in michigan, on november 17th 2020, two weeks after he had lost the presidential election in that states by
at least 12 people have been reported killed, and it brought epic rain and flooding to the central part of the state. hundreds of people have been rescued, that work continues overnight. over 2 million homes and businesses are without power. today president biden visited fema s headquarters in washington, d. c. and said federal aid is on its way to florida. this could be the deadliest hurricane in florida s history. when conditions allow it, i ll gonna be going to florida. will you be talking to florida ron desantis when you re down there? the answer is yes if he wants to see. let s go right to nbc meteorologist, michelle grossman. i know michelle, that we got the 11 pm update from the national weather center just moments ago. what did you learn? hi there stephanie great to see you. well it s strengthened even further, so back to a category one storm. we re looking at 80 mile per hour winds. it did weaken earlier this morning to a tropical storm, dropped into the at
taiwan there is what growing speculation that she will visit taipei as soonest tomorrow. of course that s not sitting well with beijing because it views the independent nations as its territory. chinese foreign minister terry spokesperson is making it abundantly clear there will be serious consequences if that visit goes ahead saying we would like to once again warned the united states that we are fully prepared and solemnly waiting to bear the people s liberation army will never sit by idly and if nancy pelosi insists on visiting taiwan as for what measures exactly, we will take and see if she dares making the visit. you know i think about, this doesn t have to happen in my view. this be the first time in 25 years you d have a house speaker visit, the biggest visit of united states official going back to 1987. it s an porton it happens because a verbal commitment was made and we must show strength. and you think about all of the foreign policy debacles we ve had starting
service are backing up the bombshell testimony from a former trump white house aide that an irate president trump demanded to go to the capitol on january 6th. since cassidy hutchinson went under oath, there has been an ongoing campaign by trump and his allies to discredit her testimony about what she saw and heard on january 6th. cnn has now spoken with two secret service employees who both say they also heard about a confrontation inside the presidential suv that day, a story they say spread widely around the agency in the weeks and months that followed january 6th. they say trump indeed demanded to be taken to the capitol and when the secret service said no to the trip, trump berated his security detail, saying something to the effect of, i m the effing president of the united states, you can t tell me what to do. the other concerning development is the new information about who may have been pressuring hutchinson ahead of her sworn testimony. a source tells cnn one person
captured on camera. here it is. to get what is this regarding? open up. it was serious, they had weapons , they barged in, they went through the whole place, they tore the house apart, ther is another team coming they said . and they were right, two days later they hit the home of jame o keefe, so why were the fbi coming to the homes of employee at project paradigms, what did they do? where they involved in human smuggling ring, were they bringing fentanyl in from china and killing more americans? now, the fbi leaved they were i possession or head information about the diary written by joe biden s daughter ashley biden. the fbi claimed that diary had been stolen we now know the fbi knew that diary had not been stolen. as james o keefe pointed out at the time what if it was stolen. having stolen diary is not a federal crime, so what s in tha diary was so important that joe biden sent fbi agents to get it back? here s what o keefe said good. they indicated it had explosive