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CNNW Early Start With Christine Romans And Laura Jarrett October 9, 2020

Six charged federally with conspiracy to kidnap, and seven others associated with an Extremist Group facing state firearm and terrorist charges. Authorities believe several of the suspects with supporters of the antigovernment boo ga loo movement. Motivated by the belief that whitner was a tyrant because of the controls on the coronavirus pandemic. We get more from shimon prokupecz. I never could have imagined anything like this. Reporter a plot to kidnap the governor, foiled by the fbi. The fbi charging six men in the conspiracy. The fbi began the investigation earlier this year after becoming aware that through social media that a group of individuals was discussing the violent overthrow of certain government and Law Enforcement components. A months long investigation alleges the men met on june 6th with several others and discussed taking a sitting governor before one of the men, adam fox, reached out to a michigan based antigovernment group. The complaint says on june 14th a confidential informant recorded a conversation between fox and the group saying he needed 200 men to storm the Capitol Building before the november 2020 president ial election. Officials say fox and others met again on june 20th to discuss plans for assaulting the state capitol. Planning for firearms and Tactical Training in july. In august, a group allegedly shifted their plan to kidnap whitn whitmer at her vacation home. They conducted coordinated surveillance on the governors home. Reporter the group used crypted messages, and successfully detonated an improvised explosive device while fox confirmed he purchased a taser to use in the kidnapping. The Group Planned to meet again on october 7th. The fbi and state police executed arrests of several of the conspirators when they were meeting on the east side of the state to pool funds for explosives and exchange tactical gear. Reporter several others linked to an Extremist Group were charged separately for planning to storm the state building, taking hostages, including whitmer and planning to instigate civil war. All of us in michigan can disagree about politics, but those disagreements should never ever amount to violence. Reporter and the fbi director recently warned members of congress that unwith of tone biggest threats this country faces are from domestic Extremist Groups, that this is something they are very concerned about. Shimon prokupecz, cnn, new york. Thank you so much for that. Governor whitmer is specifically laying some blame for the plot to kidnap her on President Trump. Just last week, the president of the United States stood before the American People and refused to condemn White Supremacists and hate groups. Like these two michigan militia groups. Stand back and stand by, he told them. Stand back and stand by. Hate groups heard the president s words not as a rebuke, but as a rallying cry. As a call to action. When our leaders speak, their words matter. The president and other governors have attacked whitmer for her pandemic restrictions. Earlier this year, the president tweeted that residents should quote liberate michigan. The Trump Campaign pushing back on the governor for her comments. These are some pretty shameful comments from governor whitmer. How come . Because how you can go from a moment of unity to attacking President Trump i thought was just completely ridiculous. If we want to talk about hatred, then governor whitmer, go look in the mirror. The fact that she wakes up every day with such hatred in her heart towards President Trump. The governor told Cnns Chris Cuomo last night what she thinks the white house is trying to do here. The only word out of the white house is the spokesperson trying to gaslight me, and i think the majority of people arent buying it. We know that, you know, a decent person would pick up the phone and say are you okay and condemn terror organizations that are threatening and intimidating and plotting against fellow americans. Whitmer says she has asked the white house and republicans in her state to tone down their inflammatory rhetoric. She believes it helped spark the alleged plot. President trumps physician giving him the all the clear to return to public engagements on saturday. His doctor says that trump has completed his course of therapy for coronavirus. Meanwhile, there has been no information on the last time that the president tested negative before he tested positive for the virus or even when he was last tested. Despite all of this, the president talked to sean hannity last night about the Campaign Rallies that he wants to do this weekend. I think im going to try doing a rally on saturday night, if we have enough time to put it together. We want to do a rally probably in florida on saturday night, might come back and do one in pennsylvania the following night, and its incredible whats going on. I feel so good. Have you had a test since your diagnosis a week ago . Well, what were doing is probably the test will be tomorrow. Okay. Doing a rally tomorrow means doing a rally while potentially contagious. But just how contagious, we dont know because we have so Little Information on the state of the president s health, but whats clear is that he is still fighting this virus, gasping for air and clearing his throat during that same interview. The last time i had a big problem, they oscillated my mics when i had the one debate, three debates with hillary, and i think the first debate, they excuse me, on the first debate, they oscillated the mic. I wanted to vote, but i will say this, absentee is okay because absentee ballots, excuse me, absentee ballots are fine. Cnns Kaitlan Collins has more from the white house now. Reporter yeah, laura and christine, we havent seen the president on our own since monday when he returned back to the white house, and since then, its just been these edited videos that have been produced by the president s political aides but he did phone into fox news last night where he refused to answer three pretty direct questions about when or whether or not he had last tested negative for coronavirus. That would be since that positive test and could potentially give some kind of indication of where hes at right now in his diagnosis, but the president did not answer that question and said he would be tested today. Said he didnt see a reason to test a lot, and even seemed to try to cast doubt on the idea that he was ever infected at all with coronavirus, though of course we know he was. We have spoken to his doctors about this. The president very much did have coronavirus, but this comes as the president is really trying to put his own spin on his health by saying things like hes no longer contagious, something that his experts, the Health Experts have not said, since we havent seen them in person since monday either but also saying other things, hes basically ready to get back on the road on saturday, holding a rally in florida or pennsylvania, you know, just about ten days after he first tested positive for coronavirus, and the president is saying hes ready to do these rallies, talking about getting back on the campaign trail, though of course we do not know if the president has tested negative for coronavirus, and thats something that i think most people would want to know before they felt comfortable being in the president s presence. Kaitlan. Thank you so much for that. The next president ial debate may be off the table after the president rejected a plan to go virtual. Now the Trump Campaign is suggesting next weeks event be delayed, while insisting the president is well enough to debate joe biden in person. The Debate Commission and the former Vice President , theyre not convince. We get more this morning from cnns arlette saenz. Reporter laura and christine, after President Trump objected to a virtual president ial debate, eyjoe bide and his campaign moved forward making other plans, they scheduled a town hall with abc news on october 15th, the date the second president ial debate was supposed to take place. The Biden Campaign is hoping the october 22nd debate will be a town hall format, instead of the planned one on one match up between the president and joe biden. The Trump Campaign simply wants the debates pushed back one week, with the final debate taking place on onctober 29th. The Biden Campaign insists the final debate should be october 22nd. President trump and his team would assure the commission that no one in their team attending that debate is infected with coronavirus something that will be watched in the coming weeks. Joe biden traveled here to phoenix, arizona, with his running mate, kamala harris, and he was asked by reporters about President Trump calling harris a monster. Take a listen. Its despicable. Its despicable. So beneath the office of the presidency. And the American People are sick and tired of it. They know who this man is, its got to stop. Reporter biden and harris traveled to phoenix, arizona, and recent polls in the state have shown biden ahead of President Trump in arizona as the Biden Campaign is hoping to turn this traditionally red state blue in november. Now later today, biden is heading to las vegas, nevada, where he will hit the campaign trail there, wrapping up his First Western swing as the democratic nominee. Laura and christine. Thank you so much for that. Stimulus whiplash, the president killed a stimulus deal to help struggling americans, and seems to have changed his mind. The president now wants a large scale deal, complete reversal. But its uncleasive deal would include and theres lots of skepticism that an agreement is even possible here, the treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin in a call with nancy pelosi says the president is now interested in coming back to the negotiating table. Pelosi says democrats are open to more talks but made it clear that the agreement must be comprehensive. This is deadly serious. So lets take a serious, not a skinny, not an emaciated, but a serious, appropriate approach to crushing virus. There are still big hurdles, one, the price of the bill democrats have put 2. 2 trillion on the table. Republicans dont want to spend that much. We do agree that another rescue package is needed. We have vast differences about how much we should spend. They both agree more stimulus is needed, checks to american families, maybe more jobless benefits, the question is will americans, millions of them, have to wait until after the election to get it. And laura, its just been, i mean, whiplash this week, and no one really knows whats in the president s heart and mind about stimulus here. He is so against giving money to states, democratic run states, that he has killed any kind of help for everyone else. Now, he seems to be back on the table. In the middle of a reelection campaign. Voters care about this. Voters need the help. You would think this would be priority number one. We will have to wait and see. Still ahead, right now, hurricane delta is bearing down on some of the same gulf coast communities that were just hit by another storm weeks ago. We have the latest on the storms timing. Were tracking it all, next. We live in uncertain times. However, there is one thing you can be certain of. 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In essentially the same area ravaged by hurricane laura six weeks ago, delta will be the fourth named storm to hit louisiana this season, a record for the state. Lets get the latest on the hurricane from pedram javaheri, whats the National Hurricane center saying . This is still a major hurricane, still a category 3. Winds 12 miles per hour, shy of being a category 4, and the forecast here fortunately is for a potential weakening as we go in towards landfall at around 6 00 p. M. Local time. Youll notice, 120 miles per hour, about 200 miles or so south of cameron, louisiana, a serious storm system. Along the continental shelf, water temperatures a little bit cooler. With that and wind sheer ahead of this, we expect this to weaken potentially to a strong category 2 on approach. As you noted, six weeks ago to almost the exact date where we had laura make landfall, delta to come ashore a few miles east of cameron, louisiana, in an area that incredibly has Power Outages still from six weeks o ago. Think about the significance of what happened here, upwards of 8 to 12 billion in losses across the state of louisiana. Hurricane warnings prompted across this region as the sys m approaches and model consensus is pretty good agreement between the american and european models, as far as timing and intensity. Best bit is category 2. Worst case scenario, maintains intensity, and comes in as a category 3. Major hurricane, fourth named system to make landfall across the state of louisiana, and storm surge potential up to 11 feet in an area that still has tarps on a lot of rooftops here, a lot of Properties Still in shambling from the previous storm that made landfall here. What a brutal Hurricane Season this year. Yes. Thank you so much, nice to see you. Weve got breaking news for you. The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the United Nations world food program. Lets go right to cnns phil black whos in london for us. Phil, what more can you tell us about this win . In what was undoubtedly a highly significant year for the Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Committee has in a not unexpected way, picked a winner, a laureate which will be surprising, but no one can question its worthiness. They say at this time they want to turn the worlds attention to consider the millions of hungry people around the world. And so for that reason, they have chosen the world food program. The United Nations key vehicle for combatting hunger and Food Insecurity in countries all around the world the Committee Said just last year alone, the food program assisted 1 Million People in 88 countries dealing with Food Insecurity, and they have talked about Food Insecurity and hunger taking a negative turn in recent years, and in this year, especially, it has teamed up with the coronavirus pandemic to increase suffering in some of the countries that are hardest hit by the virus as well. In terms of its connection to peace and the end of conflict, the Nobel Committee has made the point that it is impossible to aim for zero conflict in the World Without also eradicating hunger as well, laura. Phil, thank you so much for bringing that breaking update. Appreciate it. Still ahead for you, a coronavirus outbreak has upended part of the nfl schedule this weekend. Weve got the bleacher report, next. With spray mopping to lock away debris and absorb wet messes, all in one disposable pad. 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