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as well as Afghan Frigures and president ghani to talk about a peace deal. Obviously the memory of 9 11, other than deep, deep skepticism about the talibans sin sicerits that many feel this deal has been ram rodded through throughout the proper checks and balances and would you the preconditions and without the guarantees that a lot of people would like to see from the taliban committing to Work Together with the Afghan Government, committing to protect womens rights, and committing to stop attacks on civilians, things of this nature that had not been presented as preconditions of many people felt kind of skewed the deal in the talibans favor and giving them all of the kind of leverage without extracting the kind of concessions from them that people would like to see. Clarissa ward, thank you so much. Joining us now is cnn White House Reporter sarah westwood. In addition to what heard there, we know that President Trump blasted his predecessor from talking to the taliban and now he wanted to do the same thing facetoface on u. S. Soil. Reporter thats right. Victor, we havent heard much from the white house or the state Department Since the president blasted out those surprising series of tweets yesterday. The bottom line is the Trump Administration was negotiating with the taliban over a period of many months, even though in 2012, President Trump criticized his predecessor doing the same thing. Here is his tweet from several years ago. Of course, we know President Trumps longterm goal was to withdraw the troops from afghanistan and something that he talked about on the Campaign Trail and we have heard him talk a lot about it before. The preliminary deal that the Special Envoy to afghanistan, the lead u. S. Negotiator said he agreed to in principle about a week ago would have involved bringing thousands of american troops home in exchange for the taliban meeting and certain conditions. Obviously, the fate of that deal now extremely unclear in the wake of this bombing. Source tell cnn that even though President Trump did go out and cancel the meeting yesterday that there are new dates under discussion for another potential summit with the taliban with afghan leaders. Sources also say that was it the white house and the State Department that pushed for the cancellation of that meeting not the Afghan Government so it remains to be seen whether the taliban leaders will ultimately find their way on u. S. Soil to continue these negotiation. Sarah westwood, we appreciate it so much. Thank you. We want to talk to you about what is going on in the bahamas today. They are rapidly deteriorating
conditions. Of course, because of Hurricane Dorian. There are efforts under way to move evacuees but hundreds need to get to safety and muchneeded supplies, water, food, medicine, are being brought in but bahamian Officials Say the situation has developed into a humanitarian kris. Crisis. 43 people is number killed and they expect the number to rise. Paula newton is reporting from Marsh Harbour. Reporter this is the area of Marsh Harbour and it took the bankrupt of Hurricane Dorian. You can only imagine the terror of people who are living here. They dont have an estimate as to how many people were here or how many people managed to get out alive. But look at this. Family belongings strewn everywhere. It is impossible to make out even where the homes were and
where they stood. The issue is that they do not know if victims are still buried somewhere under all of this debris. We spoke with morticians who have been hired by the bahamian government to come here. Also a canine team from the government who is looking for body. They told me that this is a difficult job and it will be very tough to search this entire area thoroughly and that will still take a few more days. That might be another reason why we dont yet have an accurate, an official death toll. The government says, itself, and admits, look. The death toll will rise and rise sharply. We just dont have an estimate yet. The people who were living here, a lot of them were hattieian migrants and many were here illegally and afraid to be
deported bark to haiti. Getting information out has been very difficult. It will take a very long time to even clear this area so that its safe even to walk through. The government is trying to be realistic what the challenge is ahead and being very blunt about what its going to take to even find the victims and then identify them. Paula newton, cnn, in Marsh Harbour. The worse of the damage from dorian is in the bahamas but damage in the u. S. As far north as canada with heavy wind pounding nova scotia. Here is a look at the strength. A Construction Crane in halifax is crushed. A witness tells the news in canada, the crane kind of split in half on impact along with a lot of damage. There are downed trees. Wind and rain from dorian left more than 300,000 people without
power across nova scotia this weekend. Cnn meteorologist Allison Chinchar is with us now. Is dorian still a Tropical Storm . Im amazed we are still talking about this literally seven days later. It is still here. It has transitioned to posttropical. Its the equivalent of a category one hurricane. Its still lashing at portions of canada even extreme northern maine still getting some impacts from this storm before it finally will move off. But it made its fifth, yes, count them, five. Three landfalls in the bahamas and one in the United States and just made its fifth landfall yesterday over portions of nova scotia. The second largest landfall ever in nova scotia, the strongest in 1963. This storm coming to an end, good news but the peak of tropical season. We have other storms to keep an eye on for. We have this section here this
cluster of storms to the north of Leeward Island only about 20 chance of developing into something but the concern here isnt whether or not it becomes a Tropical Storm, its where its headed because regardless of whether it gets name or not its headed back to the bahamas and the last place strong to severe thunderstorms at this point in time. We are also keeping an eye on this cluster here which has about a 40 chance of development and something we will keep an eye on all of these systems the next couple of days. Allison, thank you so much. States are getting ready to ditch their republican primaries, but President Trump is not the only republican running for president. Former Massachusetts Governor bill weld is challenging the president and calls the move unfair, undemocratic and we will talk with him next. Plus, dont do it. The warning sent to workers at the countrys top Weather Agency hours after the president claimed Hurricane Dorian would hit alabama. Using life stories to teach
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primaries even though other rops are v republicans are vying for the republican nomination. Not everyone agrees with that saying it shows that the president has a steel grip on the gop establishment. Former governor of massachusetts bill weld is one of the republicans running against the president. Thank you for being with us this morning. Hey, victor and christi, a pleasure. Thank you, gomvernor. You said cancelling the primaries is silencing President Trumps opponents. Are you talking about having conversations and meeting with any of the state leader to try to make some changes here and keep those primaries alive . No. I think they will make their own decisions and, technically, they can do so. Im just having a hard time figuring out what the president and the republicans in washington are scared of, having other voices heard. He even tried to cancel the new
hampshire primary which is the very famous first in the nation primary and its the source of a lot of New Hampshires clout in this country is that they do have that primary and the Company State committee, at the urging of washington and the national committee, said latet cancel the primary and not have a primary in New Hampshire. That felt like a Lead Balloon Put that is the extreme case. Beyond a certain point, if they try to cancel all of the primaries, i think it raises the question what are they scared of . On one hand she they say they are insuperable and they dont want them to vote because the president doesnt want any contest. We have three people now. I think mark sanford from South Carolina is likely to get in and joe walsh from illinois is already in and im already in and not like there is no competition. In the past when these primaries have been cancelled by state
parties, usually nobody else was running. Let me ask you this. You ran on the libertarian ticket in 2016 as the vp nominee. Some of the republicans who dont exactly love the president or the hectic naltsthture of T Administration and love what he is doing and what leader mcconnell is doing there. They like it because of the social issues and issues like life and abortion. When you were running in 2016 you said this to an interviewer in slate. I have run as a republican many times but i always carried the Republican Party position on social issues on my back as a 300pound monkey. I never agreed with the social issues approach of the Republican Party. You wont win the love of the republicans who love trump. He protects they believe this 300pound monkey thaw dont like. Im the same guy ive always
been and always had the same positions and always pro choice on the issue of reproductive rights. I think what the president and some of the other states, alabama and georgia, are trying to do now by saying if a woman is literally raped, she has to carry the rapist child to term no matter what she and her husband want. This is completely unconscionable and i dont believe with that and i dont know why the twothirds of the people in the New Hampshire party shouldnt have an opportunity to express that by voting. Is this a campaign to win or is it a campaign to wound . No. Im in this to win. Im a twoterm governor and elected with 50 and reelected with 71 . There were no republican governors in my state for 20 years before i was elected and then after me, there was four in a row. So i think ive helped the Republican Party a lot over the years. Ive registered as a republican when i was 18 years old. So im in this and ive had much more foreign experience than a number of the other people running for president. Ive said for sometimes i think i could start monday in that job. I spent a lot of time hanging around the white house in both the Bush Administrations, even bill clinton who was a democrat, and, you know, ive got things i want to do, like no more trillion dollar deficits and no more denying that climate is an issue in the world, which the president just has his head in the sand on so many issues. I think we do need fresh leadership in washington, d. C. So what is your strategy to beat the president . Strategy in a word would be to enlarge the electorate that is voting in the republican primary, so im focusing on the 20 crossover states that allow independents and democrats to take a republican ballot and vote in the primary and im saying even to democrats that if
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