cnn in atlanta. i'm george how el following the headlines for you this hour jo the "washington post" reports the white house official were so concerned with this meeting they moved to keep it under wraps. according to the "post" president trump said he wasn't concerned about moscow's interference with the election in 2016. >>> mr. trump's phone call with a ukrainian counterpart was also kept quiet. there was also a phone call with the russian leader and no transcript was made after he spoke with the crown prince of saudi arabia. the u.s. special envoy has resigned. kurt volker's resignation comes a day after his name was included in the whistle-blower complaint. >>> three members of the house committee have issued statements relating to pompeo not handing over documents. he has until friday to produce the documents or be part of the impeachment investigation. >>> congress was informed on september 9th that there was a whistle-blower complaint, and we're learning now what the administration officials

that was cnn then. cnn today clearly wants no conservatives. clearly is on a mission against donald trump. and it's audience clearly is leaving. the members last time i checked, 500 and nation of 330 million, 571,000 viewers on a good night. to put that went in perspective, that's two-tenths of 1% of the american population. that's what is it reaching now. to put that in its proper perspective, that are more people who own chickens then watch cnn. >> host: to be fair though, what about digital numbers, social media? >> guest: will go there in a second. i've got to finish my fun story but you're absolutely right. there are more practicing witches and there are views of cnn. and my favor, that are more prostitutes in america and are views of cnn. i'm not sure that wins means. does that mean cnn is completely irrelevant? no, no, no. go to cnn.com. cnn.com has got about 20 million people on its site. what's the difference between cnn.com and cnn? you get a lot more news on cnn.com and you'll get on cnn. it's like cbs.com. it's quite good place to g

cnn has reports from kiev, london, jerusalem, and south africa. >> the resources of cnn on display this morning. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. we start with president trump acknowledging he did discuss in a july call with the president of ukraine. cnn has reported the president pressured zelensky to investigate biding, as it was hanging in the balance. >> last week, the secretary-general said the whistleblower was worried about multiple actions by trump. the issue has two top democrats going further than they ever have before on impeachment. >> reporter: the president on sunday, acknowledging for the first time he did bring up the former vice president, owe biden, during the call with the ukrainian president. that's now at the center of this whistleblower complaint. alleging other

this is cnn "newsroom". i'm natalie allen. >>> our top story, new cnn polling and a new name a top of the list of presidential hopefuls in a key state. the cnn des moines register poll shows senator elizabeth warren running ahead of the pack, just edging out former vice president joe biden. keep in mind the poll is just for the state of iowa and it is within the margin of error. but iowa is a crucial step toward getting the democrat's nomination and taking on president donald trump. cnn political director david chalian gives us directive. >> reporter: there is a new state of the race in the first critical kickoff contest in iowa. a brand-new exclusive cnn/des moines register poll shows the new state of the race. elizabeth warren has surged in iowa. she is at 22% now among likely iowa democratic caucusgoers. joe biden at 20%. bernie sanders at 11%, pete buttigieg at 9%, kamala harris at 6 wers a% and booker and klo at 3%. it is important to note that there is no clear leader in this race. the margin of error

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you're live in the cnn news room. developing now, president trump is confirming the death of son of osama bin laden. the president released a statement saying younger bin laden was killed in a counterterrorism operation in afghanistan, pakistan region. not clear when he was killed. cnn reported july 31st, the u.s. believed ham za bin laden was dead. he has the name of his infamous father. do we know what if any role he played in al qaeda? >> no, it is not really clear how important he was in the organization, al zawahri is still the leader. many believed his son was a rising figure inside the organization and that he had already at the age of 30 started to reach out to some al qaeda franchises and branch network groups to sort of start correlating operations, maybe help plan some. there was a legitimate concern that this was a future star leader of the organization. >> when osama bin laden was killed in 2011, items seized in the navy s.e.a.l. raid indicated he was grooming him to replace him as al qaeda leader. what i

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straight to fake news cnn. oh, likely lying and guilty straight to cnn. it was extracted with russia in 2017. by the way, spying on our behalf for, quote, concerns of president trump and his administration repeatedly mishandling information.and cout source as a spy. well, that's a lie. that was fake news again. fake news cnn was contradicted by "the new york times." the times reporting they said there was no public evidence.thy open dangerrerred the source and other american public officials insisted 66 that the media source alone was the impetus for the extraction. oh, the media was responsible. reporting from the media. the mob. not donald trump. the media mob all based on leaks from the intel community. that was the reason for the extraction. in fact, in 2016, under obama, the cia first offered to extract this source because of the media's reporting.nbut, there id it doesn't have anything to do with president trump.late 2016,e welcome and a gift to the incoming administration, then president obama, he declassified and publicly released the dni report o

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you are live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm ana cabrera. and we begin with new developments into the spooeimpe inquiry. cnn has learned that donald trump's call to the president of ukraine is not the only call that the white house has gone to great lengths to hide. people familiar with the matter tell cnn the white house has also taken remarkable steps to prevent a call with saudi crown prince and a call from vladimir putin from ever becoming public. because of this, we may neff know what the president said during either conversation. but consider this, todays "washington post" uncovered a stunning remark president trump allegedly made during an oval office meeting with the russians back in 2017. yes, that same meeting where the president shared highly classified information and bragged about firing james comey. now, according to this new report by the "post," president trump told the

>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> you're watching cnn on this friday merchandise ap great to be with you. i'm brooke baldwin. a short time from now actress felicity huffman learns if she'll go to prison for her role in that massive college admissions scam. just arrived at the boston courthouse alongside her husband actor william h. macy where she will be sentenced after pleading guilty to paying $15,000 to a fake charity to rig her daughter's s.a.t. scores. the "desperate housewives" star is hoping a judge will allow her to avoid serving any time behind bars asking for probation, community smps a service and a fine. it could be a precedent setting for others in this historic case. staking out the courtroom in boston. the key question, will she serve time? >> reporter: that is the big question. it's going to be answered very soon by that judge, brooke. i'll let you know my colleague mark morales is inside the courtroom giving details and he said felicity huffman had about a dozen family members and friends and, of course, you mentioned her husband william h. macy alongside

i'm natalie allen, and this is cnn "newsroom". thanks again for joining us. there is a new leader in the race for the democratic nomination in the critical early voting state of iowa. a brand-new cnn/des moines register poll shows elizabeth warren has surged there, right past joe biden. 22% of iowa caucusgoers say they back senator warren, while 20% back former vice president biden. keep in mind the two points between them is within the four-point margin of error. meaning it's anyone's race right now. >> voters got to hear from the candidates firsthand saturday at an event called the iowa state fry. jessica dean has that. >> reporter: 17 candidates, 10,500 steaks at the steak fry. hear to listen to all the candidates and really see who might sit with them. in the midst of heavy rain here at the end. we have new cnn/des moines register polling showing a tightening the race. they are essentially in a dead heat. we see the tightening race right at the top. we heard from senator cory booker today. he was making a plea to his supporters. he needs $1.7 million befo

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i want to ask you about the story first here on cnn. trump administration officials telling us a spy had to be extracted from inside russia in this secret mission. now we learn the president is skeptical of using foreign spies at all. so we'll talk to the congressman about that, next. since you're heading off to dad... i just got a zerowater. but we've always used brita. it's two stage-filter... doesn't compare to zerowater's 5-stage. this meter shows how much stuff, or dissolved solids, gets left behind. our tap water is 220. brita? 110... seriously? but zerowater- let me guess. zero? yup, that's how i know it is the purest-tasting water. i need to find the receipt for that. oh yeah, you do. the amount of student loan debt i have i'm embarrassed to even say i felt like i was going to spend my whole adult life paying this off thanks to sofi, i can see the light at the end of the tunnel as of 12pm today, i am debt free ♪ not owing anyone anything is the best feeling in the world, i cannot stop smiling about it ♪ to the wait did frowe

and sources tell cnn former u.s. special envoy to ukraine, kurt volker, plans to appear before his deposition on thursday. he resigned his post. jeremy diamond reports from the white house. >> reporter: with democrats moving quickly towards impeachment, president donald trump on saturday, ever a day of golf, going on the counter offensive. in a series of twists, he insists he should not be impeached because the good job he says he's doing for the country. and he also writes this, the conversation with the good and new very good ukraine president, who told the fake news at the united egg nations that he was not pressured by me in any way, shape, or form. as it related previously to special counsel robert mueller's investigation. the president is still directing some of his ire at his white house chief of staff mick mulvaney is what we are learning from multiple sources on saturday. he is directing his eyes at mulvaney not because of releasing the transcript but because lack of a strategy to handle a fallout of that co

this is cnn newsroom. i'm natalie allen. ahead this hour, the impeachment inquiry against donald trump is moving quickly. stunning developments. plus, what the white house did to restrict access to donald trump's conversations with russia's president and saudi arabia's crown prince and why. we begin with the impeachment inquiry with president trump's dealing. that will soon take center stage in congress. we learned how other activity by the president has been shielded from the american public. "the washington post" reporting that during this 2016 meeting at the white house, mr. trump said he wasn't concerned about interference with the 2016 election. >> we know that essentially, this was no longer available to people who might actually ordinarily have access to it. if you're a country expert or issue area, you would not get access to that area. at the time this conversation happened, the white house started restricting these memos, fearful of press leaks. this memo between lavrov and kislyak, was even more tightly. what happ

one former trump administration official told cnn. now in addition to the fear that such foreign intelligence sources will damage his own relationship with foreign leaders, trump has expressed doubts about the credibility of the information they provide. another official told cnn that trump, quote, believes people are selling out their country. now, remember, even in public trump has looked down on these crucial foreign assets as they are known in the intelligence community. you may remember responding to reports that the cia recruited kim jong-un's brother as an informant. this is what the president said at the time. >> i saw the information about the cia with respect to his brother or half brother and i would tell him that would not happen under my auspices, that is for sure. >> remarkable for a u.s. president to say the u.s. will not spy on adversaries. his skeptical view on informants undermines one of the most essential ways that u.s. intelligence agencies gather information about u.s. adversaries including analysis of their capa

tweet the show at the lead cnn. our coverage on cnn continues right now. >>> happening now, breaking news. utter devastation. we're getfaas the eye can see. a cnn crew sees hundreds of homes underwater as ordinary citizens work to rescue survivors exhausted from clinging to roof stops. seven-foot surge. dorian is due to move dangerously close to florida tonight bringing the threat of a seven-foot storm surge as it moves up the coast towards the carolinas. millions of americans are under evacuation orders. trapped below deck. 20 bodies are recovered from the wreckage of a dive boat which went up in flames off the california coast. the victims were trapped during the inferno. the search is suspended as investigators now focus on what went wrong. >>> and playing weatherman. president trump spends the weekend playing golf and playing weatherman. he predicted alabama would be hit hard by the hurricane only to be corrected by forecasters that say alabama will not see any impact. the president then insisted he was right. d

cnn's ryan young was there. >> reporter: youanother tragedy an american city. so many questions about why this shooting happened, but what we do know so far is police officers getting ready to pull over a man in a car. apparently they were pulling him over because of failure of using a signal. that man used a gun it shoot through a back window toward officers. from there a spree started of gunfire and a police chase. it ended with police surrounding the 36-year-old man and shooting and killing him. at a memorial sunday night, we saw hundreds of people come together to pay their respects to the fallen. 7 people are dead, 22 are injured, but the biggest question is, why did this have to happen? in fact, two of the youngest people here had to pay respects to a friend they called senseless. >> even though she's gone, she's still here in my heart, and this is all for her. so people can know who she was. because she was everything. and everyone, this shaun lis le hernandez. i just think she needs to come -- in my mind, i want her to come back but she can't. i don't k

you are live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm ana cabrera in new york. our breaking news tonight, rescue efforts on hold off the coast of georgia after a massive cargo ship nearly 700 feet long capsized in st. simon sound. the coast guard says it was able to rescue 20 crew members before a fire onboard made it too risky for them to continue, so now the fate of four more people onboard remains unknown. cnn's natasha chen has made her way to st. simon's georgia. natasha, i understand you are learning about the harrowing rescue of the 20 people that managed to get off that ship. what are you hearing? >> reporter: well, ana, it sounds like it was a team effort and very difficult to accomplish. right now, this site behind us, this ship that we want to show a little closer view of, it's a sight that stops you in its track. this is one of many cargo ships that pass here on a daily basis that locals see, but never have they seen a ship not going anywhere, on its side. you can see right now that the u.s. coast guard is kind of on standby right outside the ship th

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sources tell cnn some of mr. trump's top advisers, including the vice president has warned him against meeting with allies of the 9/11 terrorists. >>> also breaking, more fall out from his defense of his claim that hurricane dorian might hit alabama. the new york times now reporting the commerce secretary wilbur ross threatened to fire top noaa employees after the agencies birmingham office contradicted the president. i'll get reaction from jerry connelly. >>> first, let's go to our white house correspondent. the president is rejecting harsh criticism of his willingness to meet with the taliban at camp david. >> reporter: he's standing by his location choice even though he's facing push back not only from democrats and republicans. he got some criticism for the choice by members of his own staff who said they thought the venue of camp david just days away from the 9/11 anniversary was inappropriate but now the meeting the president pushed for himself and said he cancelled by himself has been scrapped at the last

a cnn producer and also a cnn political commentator. good to see all of you. kylie, you first. secretary pompeo has missed two deadlines. his third and final chance to turn over documents is this friday. any plans he will cooperate or might he be stonewalling? >> well, the state department hasn't even responded to our questions about this subpoena. if they will be complying, if they won't. that's not really all that surprising because they haven't replied to any questions, requests for documents over the last few weeks from this committee on the hill. but it is important to note that they have -- this administration has ignored subpoenas in the past. but here it's a little bit more impactful if they do because it would then amount to evidence of obstruction of justice -- i'm sorry. it would amount to evidence -- it would go toward the house impeachment inquiry, right? that would be evidence they're trying to not work with congress, this administration, and it could make things even worse for them. so we're still waiting to hear from the

you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being here. as the bahamas takes its first steps towards cleaning up and rebuilding after hurricane dorian, the nation is preparing for the grim task of locating and burying those who did not survive. 30 people are now confirmed dead and hundreds are missing. but officials warn that that number will go much higher, significantly higher, that's the quote from the health minister. in the abaco, an island chain that was decimated, people who live there are trying to get help, they have gathered what is left of the airport to just get supplies. the prime minister says an estimated 60% of those homes there have been destroyed and cnn's patrick ottman has been in the bahamas throughout the storm and has the very latest. patrick, just these stories that you've been telling, what more are you hearing today? >> reporter: hey, brook, so many more things. we just had a coast guard helicopter literally behind us. and they've hovered for maybe five minutes, very,

now cnn getting it wrong it putting it at risk. do you think cnn was biased here? >> i think bias plays into it. bias plays into a lot of what happens these days. i miss the days of investigators who would just find the facts. we need to be careful with national security information in putting it in the public. as it says, it does place -- people who work night and day to gather this information. liz: eric o'neill, you are terrific. we appreciate your insights and expertise. >> we warned you about this. we were all over this first. top republicans kevin mccarthy. house democrats led by jerry nadler are purposely refusing to call in doj inspector general michael horowitz to testify to congress about this recent probe. james comey violated the rules. why are they not calling him in to testify? democrats fear it would ruin their impeachment trump against trump. >> it shows their lack of substantive concern for issues that should matter when the director of the fbi conducts himself that way. when i walked through a snowstorm for a cigarette, that's when i knew i had to

it is increased since the last cnn poll. but if you go back and look at history, in 1973 when the watergate impeachment proceedings began, only 19% of americans supported impeaching or removing the president. a year later it was 57%. and nixon resigned from office. we're starting from a higher bar here. we're almost at 50%. we're only one week into this. that is kind of amazing. not to mention the fact that nixon was a popular president just re-elected and in a landslide election -- >> 49 states. >> exactly. in a landslide election and donald trump barely got elected and lost the popular vote and unpopular. he's never been above 50% in the public opinion poll averages so i think democrats are in a strong position going into this. the public still has to be educate the but that is the purpose of the impeachment inquiry. >> and i'm struck by that number, that movement among republicans, that 9% movement among republicans. that is significant. that is the number i'm paying more attention to. and what i would caution democrats i

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cnn's brian todd is here with details. and brian, bolton used his first speech since leaving the white house to say the president is basically wrong about kim jong-un. >> brianna, bolton said the president is wrong, police guid -- misguided and naive ant without mentioning trump by name but the messenger was clear john bolton believes his old boss is getting hood-winked by the supreme leader in pyongyang. who north korea once called a war monger and human defect is firing back tonight giving what he calls his own unvarnished view of north korea's kim jong-un and his relationship with trump. >> under current circumstances he will never give up the nuclear weapons voluntarily. >> reporter: in his first public speech since getting axed by the president about three weeks ago, trump's former national security adviser had no problem contradicting his old boss's optimism about kim's intentions. >> he wants to denuclearization. >> i think the contrary is true. i think the strategic decision that kim jong-un is operating through is

also, cnn's white house reporter jere jeremy diamond. ben, give us the details on these attacks. >> reporter: what we understand is there were no casualties in the attacks, but as you mentioned, half of saudi arabia's oil output has been put out of operation. that's about 5% of the world's oil production. now, what happened was -- and this was claimed by a spokesman for the houthi rebels in yemen. they fired ten drones towards these two oil facilities, but keep in mind, yemen is 500 miles away from those facilities. so it would indicate that somehow the houthis, perhaps from iran r getting a kind of sophisticated technology that nobody thought they would have, that would be so precise as to hit these facilities. the pictures coming out of saudi arabia are breathtaking in terms of the size of the fires that are going on. now, saudi officials say the fires are now under control. officials say they hope to get production back to normal in the coming days. but certainly this has raised tensions significantly, hitting saudi arabia's oil facil

cnn which was really weird. i also had, like, the youngest audience. and it was always a fight just to be able to put stories on the air that i knew were important. and then penguin came and offered me a book deal which is really cool. so i was excited. i signed a deal to write a book with penguin. and i wrote a book. but in my contract, cnn had the right to review the book before it was released. they had to go through the entire manuscript and redact and redact. and they said it was for legal reasons. i included a chapter in my book about everything i just told you. the history of the u.s. intervention of latin america. they took it out. they said, you can't say that. i said, why can't i say that? they said, we just, we don't talk about that. this is the guy who runs the -- mid-. the guy that runs the standard for cnn. some standard, right? we don't tell the truth. omission, man, omission, omission, omission. in journalism, it's not -- it's what we don't say that becomes our destiny. but we don't say that beco

cnn also learned from multiple sources that the special envoy to ukraine has resigned. and secretary of state mike pompeo has been subpoenaed to turn over documents. michael, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> let's start with secretary of state mike pompeo. we've seen the white house defy subpoenas before, but that was outside of the context of an impeachment inquiry. >> sure. >> what's the potency of any executive privilege now that we're in this new climate of the house impeachment investigation? >> the law is not going to help the administration. there's a case that goes back to the nixon time that simply allows the executive privilege to be used very sparingly, and generally it's if the investigation or other things will take precedence. that's going to go by the wayside and we'll finally get to the facts. one thing, too, congress needs to enforce it. we had a silly episode the other day when you had someone claiming executive privilege when he wasn't even president. what we might have happen is have the sergeant of arms come in and say we'll let you sit down

this is the benefit of blue. >>> welcome back to cnn newsroom. i'm rosemary church. i want to check the headlines. more than half a million travelers are stranded worldwide after thomas cook declared bankruptcy. all of the british company's flights have been canceled and the uk will launch its ever repatriation to bring home more than 150,000 of thomas cook's british customers. >>> the u.s. president is defending a call with his ukrainian counterpart back in july. donald trump is slamming the whistle-blower who reportedly filed a complaint about it and says he hopes the call is released. a source says mr. trump pressed ukraine to investigate the son of his political rival, democratic presidential candidate joe biden. >>> well this, is not the first time president trump has been accused of using a foreign leader to try to target political opponents and the latest scandal is fueling calls for impeachment. >> donald trump has made clear that he does not respect the rule of law. congress has one responsibility on this and that is to impeach. >> we need to absolutely righ

cnn ed lavandera is in beaumont, texas. ed, as i understand it a loose barge with an unknown substance on it? >> reporter: a barge that collided into a portion of interstate 10 causing all sorts of problems for traffic moving between houston and the beaumont area where we are. and even though it hasn't rained significantly for most of the day, all of the rainfall and water moving downstream is still having neighborhoods on heightened alert. northwest beaumont, the area behind the tree line is under a mandatory evacuation. there are about 1,500 people who lived there two years ago headed into hurricane harvey. in 1,000 never moved back and about 500 are left there and once again dealing with another significant flooding event. one woman said her house took on seven feet of water during hurricane harvey. she had to evacuate. says she's in shock having to go through all of this again. as we were standing here we saw one man coming from the distance. as he got closer realized he was bringing four horses with him. talked how he'

asked for comment, brittney bramle the cia director of public affairs told cnn, cnn's narrative that the central intelligence agency makes life or death decisions based on anything other than objective analysis and sound collection is simply false. misguided speculation that president's handling of our nation's most sensitive intelligence, he has access to each and every day, drove an alleged exfiltration operation is inaccurate. a spokesperson for secretary of state mike pompeo declined to comment. stephanie grisham told me the following, quote, cnn's reporting is not only incorrect it has the potential to put lives in danger. however, we should note this, this removal happened at a time of wide concern in the intelligence community about mishanding of intelligence by trump and his administration. those concerns were described to cnn by five sources who served in the trump administration, intelligence agencies and congress. i should note that cnn is withholding several details about this spy to reduce the risk of the person's identification. >> when it comes to the big picture here

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now this was an exclusive interview with cnn affiliate iyivision. ortiz says the first thing he felt was a sting when the bullet hit him. then just the feeling of trying to survive. >> he actually got real emotional noting how close he was to death and he was upset by the rumors surrounding the incident. police say ortiz was not the target in the attack, that the shooter was aiming for one of ortiz's friend. >> antonio brown is expected to be on field for the new england patriots when they play the dolphins later today. >> andy scholes is at hard rock stadium in miami. what are the conversations going on there, andy? >> reporter: good morning. it's pretty much all about antonio brown before this patriots and dolphins game. he is expected to make his patriots debut on this field later today, despite the sexual assault allegations made against him early this week in the civil suit. brown who has denied those allegations was on the team plane with the patriots to miami here yesterday according to espn. now there was talk of whether the nfl should put b

. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> you are live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm alex marquardt in our washington, d.c. headquarters. we are following two major breaking stories tonight. we are of course keeping a close eye on hurricane doriantion every move as it nears the florida quoefcoast. as we speak it's a category 4 hurricane powering across the atlantic. but first tonight, yet again another mass shooting in america. it happened this time in west texas. a state still grieving four weeks to the day after the mass shooting in el paso, texas that left 22 dead. this time it happened in the odessa, midland area of west texas. lots of questions still remain after a dramatic series of events starting at just after 3:00 p.m. local time this afternoon that left at least five victims dead as well as the shooter. 21 people are hurt including police officers and a child under 2 years old. the authorities are still piecing together what happened. this is what we know so far. the rampage began shortly before 3:30 p.m. local time when a trooper tried to stop a gold ho

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host of cnn "smerconish." what do you make of this? the president's personal lawyer is pointing a finger back at the president's administration? >> so rudy giuliani has been portrayed in a lot of this thus far as a rogue agent. in the complaint, the whistle-blower uses the word "circumvention" to describe concerns he was hearing from others about rudy giuliani's role. now giuliani responds and shows these texts. one of which is thanking him for his involvement and comes from someone named volker, our special representative to ukraine. the point giuliani wants us to realize he was very much on the team and acting at the behest of the state department. i look at that and say to myself, okay. mr. volker, one more person whose testimony will probably come out in the wash that we will hear from before this whole process runs its course. >> the reporting out of the volker camp is basically that they have rudy giuliani running amok and they're trying to contain him and he's the president's personal lawyer. so they're

andrew, contributor to cnn. andrew mccabe fired by jeff sessions at the behest of donald trump and i note, let go, i believe, within 24 hours of being eligible to receive his pension after two decades at the fbi. fired by john kelly. i said previous twitter john kelly who fired omarosa. i don't know about quibbling for that and the mooch after his 11-day run. lots and lots of ways to be fired by donald trump. notice what wasn't on a screen? fired in person by donald trump. he's not big in that. >> how about that? and came to partial fame. going down the firing rabbit hole, thank you for that refresher. meantime, lawmakers are looking at how to stop more mass shootings like the tragedies in texas and ohio. the house judiciary committee taking up several gun bills to limit access to high capacity magazines block anyone of misdemeanor hate crimes buying firearms and for states to adopt referred to as red flag laws. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell resisted bringing the bill to the senate expand federal backgr

>> the cnn global -- >> there we go. howie: had to show to america. >> the president has blurred line between that and serious politic, but the situation is one in which the spaghetti model the president followed early on they call it showed multiple tracks, including touching alabama and delighted the hurricane didn't get that far. thank you, that's the seriousness. we are talking about hurricane, a lot of people lost their lives. >> you're talking in the bahamas. >> trump shouldn't have played two rounds of golf over labor day weekend when dorian was hitting the bahamas and heading to u.s., opposition party that says the president shouldn't play golf during crisis. >> when president trump started calling the media opposition party or using harsh language, fake news is the enemy of the people, this is ridiculous, we have seen media outlets and there's no question that they're the primary people opposing him and leading the effort, everybody sees it, that's bad for the media because they need to have credible voice. >> o

cnn's matthew chance is in kiev. matthew, tell us more. >> reporter: with respect to the reaction to kurt volker, there's been some reaction from former officials in this country that dealt with kurt volker directly. he was a key figure with ukraine that ensured free flow of aid and military equipment and training to this country from the united states in its battle in ukraine's battle with pro russian rebels in the east of the country. i had a conversation with top presidential aide to president zelensky of ukraine yesterday and he said it was with deep regret he heard that kurt volker resign. his consistent and comprehensive support for ukraine throughout his tenure meant a lot for our country. there was some regretful words coming from ukrainian officials. the reaction that's been from ukrainian officials to the whistle-blower report. been very mutted, deafening by its silence. ukrainians took a strategic decision not to say anything publicly at least not in an official capacity in case it makes things worse than

nic robertson, cnn, london. >>> the u.s. special envoy to afghanistan says he has reached an agreement in principle with the taliban. pending the final approval of the u.s. president. the u.s. could start pulling troops from five bases across afghanistan within 135 days. so long as the taliban meet conditions set in the agreement. now, this comes as the taliban claimed responsibility for a massive blast in kabul on monday. the explosion killed at least 16 people and wounded more than 100. on saturday taliban militants attacked the city of knnduz. >>> we turn to the lebanese/israeli border and it's mostly calm there right now but on sunday it was a much different scene. the lebanese militant group hezbollah fired a barrage of anti-tank missiles into israel triggering israeli artillery fire. now here's our report. >> reporter: a very different day unfolded on monday in northern israel than what we saw earlier. yes, we heard drones overhead as the military, the idf remained on high alert but other than that it was mostly a retu

the cnn newsroom starts now. 2:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast and around the world good day to you starting with the president facing an impeachment inquiry. donald trump is tweeting up a storm. attacking his opponents, firing up his supporters and trying to discredit the whistle-blower at the heart of this ukraine scandal. the president is calling the whistle-blower his accuser and says he wants to meet him. mr. trump is also trying to depict himself as the victim of espionage and warns there will be, quote, big consequences, some view that as a threat and there are fears someone might try to out the whistle-blower. his attorneys wrote in a letter to the acting national intelligence director, it says, in part there are, quote, serious concerns we have regarding our client's personal safety. we appreciate your office's support thus far to activate appropriate resources to ensure their safety, end quote. despite those concerns the democratic chair of the house intelligence committee says the whistle-blower is planning to testify. adam

sources tell cnn volcker resigned from his position last night. he was mentioned several times in the whistle-blower complaint. he ee said to be a key figure between rudy giuliani, the president's personal attorney. they want his and the others' depositions completed by october 10th, victor and christi. >> sara west wood, we appreciate it. thank you. >>> she voted to impeach president nixon and she said she would do the same for president trump. congressman holtzman joins us next. >>> we have more information on the alleged bomber who terrorized new york. what if other kinds of plants captured it too? if these industrial plants had technology that captured carbon like trees we could help lower emissions. carbon capture is important technology - and experts agree. that's why we're working on ways to improve it. so plants... can be a little more... like plants. ♪ and my side super soft? be firm? with the sleep number 360 smart bed you can both... adjust your comfort with your sleep number setting. so, can it help us fall asleep faster? yes, by gen

the "cnn newsroom" starts right now. it's 3:00 a.m. on the east coast. the u.s. president continues to fight an impeachment inquiry. democrats came out on the talk shows and several insisting president did nothing when they say he froze military aid to ukraine and republicans say he did nothing wrong when he asked the president to investigate joe biden, a political rival. and let's listen. >> president trump is trying to look into the interference by russia so it doesn't happen again. i thought you would be want to be concerned to make sure that doesn't happen again. >> shocking evidence? that is a collusion they claim happened in ukraine and it happened in ukraine and hillary clinton and george thoos company was funding? >> you accept it's not true? >> i accept it is true. >> it is based on hearsay and we will not impeach a president on hearsay. this is a sham. this is a political smell to this. >> well, they had a lot to say but the democratic chairman of the house intelligence committee isn't buying it. adam schiff is defending the inquiry and says the whistle