East coast, President Donald Trump has a busy week ahead of him. On monday hes expected to take questions from reporters in a joint News Conference with the visiting Prime Minister of italy. Mr. Trump will likely be asked about his latest twitter rant against the Special Counsel, Robert Mueller. The president now claiming mueller has multiple Conflicts Of Interest in the russia investigation. In addition to that, there are still questions about the tapes the president s former attorney just released as well as mr. Trumps threat to shut down the government to get funding for his border wall that he said mexico would pay for but in fact he means the taxpayers will pay for. Cnns Boris Sanchez is traveling with the president , or he was in new jersey. He has more on mr. Trumps twitter tirade. Thats hard to say. Reporter cnn has reached out to the white house to get clarity on specifically what President Trump was referencing when he mentioned Business Conflicts with the Special CounselRobert Mueller. We have yet to hear back. But previous reporting may indicate what the president was talking about here. Earlier this year theWashington Post and the New York Times separately reported that the president had privately expressed frustration with what he sees as Conflicts Of Interest with Robert Mueller rooted in what he believes are unpaid dues that Robert Mueller owed his golf club in virginia. A spokesperson for the Special Counsel at the time responded to the Washington Post saying that those claims being made by President Trump were inaccurate. Of course the broader context here is that reporting came out when the New York Times published that four sources had told them that President Trump tried to fire Robert Mueller last year and that in that process he expressed his frustration to don mcgahn, the white house counsel. Don mcgahn refused to carry out that order to fire mueller. In fact, he threatened to resign according to sources. At that point President Trump backed off of his decision to try to fire mueller. Now hes obviously frustrated again, tweeting out some of his
most direct attacks on the Special Counsel. The backdrop of that of course is this bombshell reporting. Sources close to Michael Cohen, the president s former attorney, saying he is prepared to testify to the Special Counsel that President Trump approved that june 2016 meeting between his son donald trump jr. , other members of his campaign, and russian nationals, promising dirt on hillary clinton. It also comes on the heels of the release of that secret recording made by Michael Cohen of a conversation that he had with President Trump. Rudy giuliani, the president s relatively new attorney, talked about those recordings this weekend, suggesting that they had been tampered with or doctored. Listen to this. He abruptly ended that recording as soon as the president said the word check. We are now what were investigating is why did how did that happen . What actually did happen . What was eliminated . And then hes got to raise that question with every one of these
tapes, how many of them did he play around with. We have determined the fact that he tampered with the fact in the sense that he abruptly midconversation turned it off. Now, we know he didnt do that for a good reason. Reporter the president and his Legal Team Strategy here is clear. They want to question the credibility not only of Michael Cohen, who just a few months ago they referred to as an honorable man, but also the veracity of the recordings that he made. Boris sanchez, cnn, traveling with the president just outside bedminster, new jersey. Boris, with the report,thank you. And now dlooipthser with scott lucas. Scott a professor of International Politics at the University Of Birmingham live this hour in birmingham, england. A pleasure to have you on the show with us. Look, we understand the publisher of the New York Times told the president his attacks on the media were divisive and dangerous. The president then on twitter airing out his typical grade school name calling. Nothing new to that. But noteworthy to point out he is leaning into these media attacks more as we get closer to the midterms. How will that play beyond mr. Trumps base as people now see the president s playbook . Weve got two fronts going on, george. One that Boris Sanchez referred to is the trump russia investigation. And this is not just a question of questioning the credibility of the former lawyer Michael Cohen or the credibility of Special CounselRobert Mueller. Trump and his camp have to destroy the credibility of those men and possibly others to keep the investigation from closing and possibly bringing the president down. But the second front of course, as you mentioned, is the election front. We are now just about three months away from the congressional midterms. And amongst the tweets yesterday donald trump was also tweeting about immigration. And what is quite clear is that the Trump Campaign is going to double down on Zero Tolerance on immigration despite the separation of children from parents. Its going to double down on the idea that the media is their enemy and they hope the combination of those attacks on journalists and focusing on
The latest news from around the world. Actually take over and bring him down. As the relationship continues to unravel between Michael Cohen and donald trump and were seeing their legal team, scott, no longer sharing information, theres also the issue around Allen Weisselberg being subpoenaed. Weisselberg, the chief Financial Officer of the trump foundation. This is the man who knows all of the financial inner workings. How big of a risk could this be to trump world . How big is a mountain . Or rather several mountains. Just to repeat to viewers, this is now three interlinked investigations. One is around the Trump Campaign. The second is around the workings of the Trump Organization including before the campaign. Thats why Michael Cohen is so important. And the third is the trump foundation. And money which was supposedly spent, supposed to go to charity but there are question marks. And thats why Allen Weisselberg is so important. Im not saying that this necessarily means the end of donald trump, but what it means is this is more than simply now an issue of one particular
russian hacker. And on top of this remember one other thing, george. The trial of Paul Manafort, trumps former campaign manager, starts this week and goodness knows what comes out of that. It will be interesting. That case certainly focused on bank and tax crimes. Financial fraud. But you know, not connected to the trump camp, mr. Trump directly, but the question is how will that impact Paul Manafort with the bigger investigation playing out . Scott lucas, thank you so much for your time today. Well stay in touch with you. Thank you. In a few hours the Trump Administration is facing another reunification deadline order by a judge. Were talking about whats going on at the border. This time the administration has to provide a list to the American Civil Liberties union detailing the Migrant Children it has reunited with their meantime, President Trump is returning to a Central Campaign issue that fired up his base in 2016. His promise to build a border wall. We are going to build a great
on the impact of President Trumps Zero Tolerance policy, weve learned no two Family Stories are the same. But there have been some Common Threads among them. That of confusion and frustration. At times chaos and incredible challenges in communication. The story that best encapsulates where we are today, though, is that of a woman well call alejandra. About a month and a half ago she and her 6yearold daughter crossed the u. S. Border. They had fled their home country of honduras because of the Gang Violence there. When they crossed the border, they were detained and separated. 11 days ago alejandra was told that she would be reunited with her daughter later that day, given her paperwork for release. But that never happened. As of today she continues to sit in a Detention Facility in texas. Her daughter remains in new york. And as alejandra asks questions, as she sits in limbo, heres what she says shes told. Translator the first thing that i ask is always, do you know when will be, my girl will be brought here so she can be reunified with me . And they tell me, no, i dont know anything, they say to me. Reporter alejandras daughters attorney has been
The latest news from around the world. The president has adopted a view with which i completely agree. Hes a free trader. And he wants to have no tariff. Kudlow claims President Trump is trying to fix a completely broken World Trading system. A ferocious wildfire tears through northern california. Firefighters may have finally turned a corner in containing it. But the tragedy continues as people have lost their lives. He said come get me. He said come and get me. The fires coming in the back door. Come on, grandpa. I said im right down the road. Its a very emotional story. It will stick with you. Cnn speaks with a man who lost his wife and great grandchildren in one of those raging wildfires in california. Stay with us. My name is jeff sheldon,
and im the founder of ugmonk. Before shipstation it was crazy. Its great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize ive got a hundred orders i have to ship out. Shipstation streamlined that wh the order data, the weights of , everything is seamlessly put into shipstation, so when we print the shipping ll everythings pretty much done. Its so much easier so now, were ready, bring on t. Shipstation. The number one ch of online sellers. Go to shipstation. Com tv and get two months free. The fire was just intense. But i still tried to get down in there and they come and stopped me, wouldnt let me go down in there. So i got in my car and took off and passed everybody in the dirt and went all the way around to the other end of quartz hill and come up keswick, and my son was in there. He was up there, but i didnt see him. He was up there and then gary, my son, was on the other side of the house. And gary opened the door to go run to the house and it burned his hair off. And took his breath. So he got back in the car and then he couldnt even hardly see nothing for smoke to get out of there. His house was on fire. He said there was flames probably 70 feet high. I talked to junior on the phone till he died. He just kept saying, grandpa. He said, come and get me. The fires coming in the back door. Come on, grandpa. I said, im right down the road. He said, come get us. Emily said, i love you, grandpa. He says i love you grandpa. And junior says i love you, come and get us, come and get us. I said im on my way. I said he talked until he died. I tried to call him back, and it just went to nothing. Poor babies and my wife. Just so, so sad. The poor man. Heart goes out to him. Ed bledsoe said nobody really talked to them about evlacuatin. He said his wife called 911 and they told her someone would come get her. Well, firefighters have been fighting uncooperative weather since theyve been trying to contain this fire. That isnt the only obstacle facing these fire crews. One danger sen tirely manmade. Drones. We have noticed that there are Drone Footages online of
folks flying drones over this fire. That poses a huge safety risk to our folks. If you fly, we cannot. We have to ground all of our aircraft if theres reports of drones over the fire. And its quite a process to get our aircraft back in the area as we try to clear those drones, find out where theyre coming from, and chase that down. So we ask that you please remain from flying drones over the fire. Lets bring in Bus Foozzfeed reporter brianna sacks. Brianna following the story in redding, california. Thank you so much for taking time with us there. Tell us about the situation, the conditions as they stand now. As people say this is one of the worst fires theyve seen before. The temperature there, the conditions on the ground. What are you seeing . Sure. So whats interesting is they
keep saying weve been dealing with over the past almost year that each one is unprecedented in its conditions, its behavior, its pattern. So weve been at tripledigit temperatures for the past few days here, and thats supposed to remain until i think tomorrow morning or maybe tuesday. And were going to get some but the thing is its hot, its dry. The winds are erratic. And its giving firefighters trouble in terms of trying to actually hold the line. Theyre still very much in the saving residents and homes phase. Thats why the amount of acreage has jumped up. Were at a little above 95,000 now, the latest numbers released at 8 00 p. M. Tonight. But the good news is it did jump to 17 containment and it had been hovering at 5 for the past few days. And every bit of, you know,
acreage that theyre able to contain, that is good news, and we appreciate you sharing that information with us. But i want to press further with the firefighters themselves. Were seeing an image right now, and now were seeing the flames theyre dealing with. But talk to us about what a days work must mean for them. Youre talking about men and women putting their lives on the line for sure. Dealing with some really long days and nights. Yeah. I actually just got a story out on this. So these firefighters, many of them have been constantly on these unprecedented blazes for, you know, months on end and they just from incident to incident. Theyre out on these lines for like sometimes 24, 48 hours at a time. They come back, they get a few hours of shuteye, and then theyre back out again. And you know, they go for about like maybe two or three weeks without seeing their kids and they tell me that when they
do have a break its usually about two days, which is really not a lot of time to recharge. You know, one firefighter said to me, i was like oh, how do you deal with, you know, kind of the emotional toll . And hes like oh, i dont have time to have feelings. It gets in the way of the job. So its theyre stretched. Just like the states resources. Theyre putting everything they have into these fires, and they just keep getting more and more destructive and more frightening. And now id like to talk about the people there. This area just to the west of the city of redding, so many roads closed there, so many new communities being threatened. What is the situation with making sure people evacuate in time and also making sure people get that message clearly and in time to take action . Yeah. So alerting residents has kind of been an ongoing hot topic of
conversation with the fires now because you know, they do destroy cell towers and the way that people really get the word out is when police are knocking at their door. I went home with one man today who lost his home. He was saying they were kind of just waiting around for Police Officers to come and get them. They were trusting that. But the fire moved so fast that a Literal Firenado he called it was at his door in a matter of minutes. So alerting residents has become a very difficult thing because the fire is moving so fast. What they keep saying is the speed at which the flames move is really, really unprecedented. So its hard to get the word out. All these people are upset. Theyre like why didnt they tell us sooner . But theyre kind of trying to roll with it as much as the residents are. Its really like i havent really found a good answer for that unless they evacuate large swaths of the population days in advance. And that creates chaos as well. So its tough. Brianna sacks, im sure you heard that story just a few minutes ago of Ed Bledsoe Talking about the fact his wife called 911 and they told her that someone would get her. So certainly the evacuation word getting that out very important. Thank you for your time today. Well keep in touch with you. No problem. Well, the good news is the fire went from 5 contained to 17 contained, and well see if the weathers going to get any better. Pedram javah