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same. >> yeah. it is significant that the saudis have agreed to allow israeli arab muslims to fly directly from there to saudi arabia. that's a major breakthrough as well. nic robertson will continue our coverage for what's going on. that does it for me in this hour from jeddah. swreel a lot more coverage. there's a lot going on. in the meantime, let's head to tlarn for other top stories, kim? >> thanks so much, wolf. a war behind the front lines that's turning food into a weapon. wheat fields are on fire, raising concerns millions could gogo hungry around the c countr. stay with us. ... and move toward relief after ththe first dose... with injections every two months. stelara® may increase your risk of infectitions, some serious, and cancer. before treatment, get tested for tb.
he's the man in the room where it happened. and what happened was a year before any of these "access hollywood" or any of the other affairs that came out was a meeting where they discussed a scheme to conceal his affairs from the voters. so on two fronts you have -- it's a very significant development. you have another person in addition to michael cohen pointing a finger at donald trump himself, not just the campaign. and it now seems to be a very premeditated, orchestrated scheme. not some kind of reaction to the "access hollywood" tape that swreel to mitigate the damage any further. this was really a designed plan from the get go. >> peter baker, of all the consequential stories and consequential nights when you and i speak at this hour, where, in your view, does this one rank? where does this story rank? where are we on the temperature scale? >> well, that's a great question.
>> one quick follow up on taxes. the president repeated the claim in the oval office saying we had the highest taxed nation in the world. why does the president keep saying this? it's not true over all. >> we are the highest tax corporate tax in the developed economy. that's a fact. >> but that's not what the president said. >> that's what he's talking about. we are the highest corporate taxed country in the developed economies across the globe. >> so that's accurate. but the president keeps repeating the claim that we are the highest taxed nation. >> we are the highest taxed corporate nation. >> that's not what he said. he said highest taxed nation. >> highest corporate taxed nation, sorry swreel to agree to disagree. >> president talked about economic development. does he see that as a way to basically get tax reform through? are they going to work hand in glove? >> we certainly want to move tax reform through. i think the president's
president deals with these things, often he will let his advisers hang. that was not the case on this. i am told because the president was offended by it. but, jake, also he found what you were talking about, typical washington. $52,000, paying that amount of money does not begin to cover the amount of jet fuel or anything else. so the question we have tonight that we have not got an answer, will former secretary price after midnight, will he still cut that check for $52,000? we don't know if he will or not. swreel to see, jake. >> well, i'm not going to guess. but let me ask you a question, jeff. there are other people in the trump administration who has been reported in the last week flew on private charter jets, including the interior secretary, and the treasury secretary, steve mnuchin who is
and at times he was in communication with intermediary. and i think the chairman and i are in agreement we need complete answers to the questions we asked today. and if we can't get those valve tarry. swreel to subpoena him to come back. >> stone made another claim during the hearing today on twitterer. he said this. he said, this is stone tweet, read by adam schiff, both claim in my hearing the dnc did turn their email server over to the fbi controversy to comey testimony. >> he misstates the conversation. but i don't think that was an accurate representation of what was discussed. >> can you tell us, did the dnc hand over the server? >> you know, the issue, wolf, is whether the dnc was asked to
republican running for the gop nomination. so ron paul throwing his hat into the ring. swreel more on that in our political segment just up ahead. well, cnn in depth. troubled waters. along the lower mississippi river there is a nervous wait-and-see. it is likely that the morganza spillway will be opened to keep major floodwaters away from new orleans. but what that does, it puts other cities and towns basically in harm's way. and they're getting prepared. our cnn's ed lavandera. >> start pumping the water out when it starts coming in. >> reporter: gerald will fight off the watt we are a little bayou ingenuity, his homemade levee wall. do you think this wall will be enough? >> i'm hoping so. if it gets any higher, ain't going to be much in the neighborhood for sure. >> reporter: disaster is flowing downstream and residents in towns like stevenville and morgan city are at the end of the line. >> the closer it gets, starting
outrageous spending increases and skyrocketing deficit. and huge drillins in debt on children and grandchildren and tax increases waiting for news january. the american people know those are bad policies and tomorrow, if republicans win the victory i hope we'll win, swreel the american people swril repute yaited obama's policy. i think that is the main thing. you know, obama seems to think so, too. the way he's campaigning for his policy makes me think he recognizes a big defeat for him is a big defeat for his policy autos it's funny. a lot of candidates don't want him in the state. i think it's more interesting. he shows up in ohio with 5,000 empty seats in a small arena, nearly half empty. >> i'll tell you for us, the big thing sharon angle mentioned it, is getting out and voting tomorrow. we look great in the polls and
reliable, i don't think anyone is expecting unexpected from her, swreel a four-member block appointed by democratic presidents and four-member conservative block, plus justice kennedy. it will be the most partisan court since at least the new deal. >> because they're named partisan they're going behave partisan? >> no. but alignment of the court will fit alignment of the political parties. it's become more politics reached a court in a way it hasn't completely before. >> what have we learned about sonia sotomayor this year? >> she's performed as expected and she's voted with the liberal block on every major decision and in many cases actually been more liberal than some of the liberal justices. we had a situation last week, where the supreme court struck down three cases from the ninth circuit in each of those
but could she in a divided field, alex, actually become the republican nominee? it's entirely possible if the field of republican nominees is so divided in 2012 and she can take, you know, 30% and run with it, that's actually mathematically possible. is she electable in a general election, different question. >> a.b. stoddard, swreel to ask you again, then, i guess. thank you very much. >> thanks, alex. >> okay. the longtime home of the dallas cowboys now reduced to rubble. texas stadium, you saw it imploded early this morning right there. all that's left of the 65,000-seat stadium is 6 million pounds of steel and concrete, 95% of which will be recycled. the cowboys left that stadium in 2008 after 38 historic seasons there, taking residents in a new