i'm poppy harlow with our special coverage of the terrorist attack in new york city.other news to get to. it appears from your reporting some planning went into this attack. what can you tell us? >> at least preliminary, we are told by sources there are some indications this attack had been planned. officials and investigators have been able to build out a preliminary timeline of the events leading up to the attack, and they believe sometime around 2:00 p.m. yesterday, maybe earlier, there will be some adjustments to this, that he went and rented this pickup truck and drove over to george washington bridge. he appeared to know where he was able to access the bike path. there are sections of the bike path that are blocked by barricades, and they believe he knew a section of the bike path that he could get onto where there were no barriers. that could be what is partially leading authorities to believe there was planning. as was reported earlier, they have found isis-related material on social media. all of this is starting to paint a picture for officials as they gathe

i am poppy harlow. the prospects for tax reform look different depending literally on how you stand. on the house side it's full speed ahead, and house republican leadership confident they will get this thing through. on the senate side, though, republican reservations and a surprise rejection could mean real trouble for their version. the no vote being promised right now by ron johnson is over so-called pass through businesses. what are they? they are small and medium-sized businesses not slated right now to get as big of a tax cut as big corporations. >> it's job krcreation. let's not upset the apple cart and harm our economy. >> in a little over two hours president trump will visit the house side. maybe he should go to the senate side because he has bigger issues there. >> reporter: the version that passes the house today that will not become the final version to become law. there are senators raising concerns about the bill being considered right now with the senate finance committee. they will have

i am poppy harlow. >> i am john berman. we are learning about the man that confronted the church massacre. >> all i am thinking is i have got to get there. >> more from the interview in just a second. >> also the gunman's violent pass. his obsession with his estranged wife's family, and he spoke to them the day of the horrific shooting, and as the air force confirms it failed to relate critical information from the gunman's past that would have prevented him from buying those guns. what is the latest, diane? >> reporter: you know, poppy, at this point investigators are still trying to nail down exactly what the motive was, and they said they don't believe it's religiously or racially motivated, and they think it stems from a domestic dispute. they believe his obsession with his family dispute and in-laws, he was fixated on it, increasingly obsessed with the issue they had. in fact, we are told he sent threatening text messages to his mother-in-law the morning of the shooting. she was not in the church, but, of course, his w

i'm poppy harlow in new york. we have a lot of news to get to.t departed on his high-stakes asia trip. you see him as he is about to board air force one there. he is heading to five countries, this as tension keeps escalating with north korea. the russia controversy is also hanging over the white house, as the president departs. moments

. >> time for "newsroom" with poppy harlow and john berman. >> i am john berman. >> i am poppy harlow. he's back home from asia and promising the fruits from his long and successful trip will be for many years to come. he comes home to a tax cut battle that looks different than it did yesterday. it now has obamacare wrapped up in it. >>> what does the president think about roy moore this morning? he has five statements on twitter so far but none of them about the senate candidate on the ballot accused of assaulting a 16-year-old girl. he has not said if he thinks roy moore should drop out of the race. but first let's talk about taxes or is it health care. >> reporter: we do expect to hear from the president. we expect him to tout his accomplishments following the marathon trip to asia, a very likely also to talk about asia, and perhaps an opportunity to weigh in on the news that china is now sending an envoy to north korea to restart the talks, also expecting, as you said, the president to talk about his accomplishments. he did tweet this morning that there are friendships and benefit

i'm poppy harlow here in lower manhattan. the deadliest terror attack to this great city since 9/11. we are learning a lot, but before we get to those details on the attacker and the investigation, a moment for the victims. eight people murdered at 3:00 yesterday afternoon, just about a politblock from where i'm sta. 13 more people injured, in the hospital, as we speak. some of them in critical condition. what do we know about the attacker? 29-year-old uzbek national? we've learned in just the last hour that he is talking, from his hospital bed, with authorities. somewhat cooperative. what is he saying? that we are still to learn. also, his house in paterson, new jersey, being searched extensively. authorities there speaking to his wife, who is also talking to them. he is the father of three children. we know from law enforcement officials, telling our shimon prokupe prokupecz, that he has been planning this attack for some time. there are many, many more questions. and there are many people in new york who witnessed this. th

i'm john berman. >> i'm poppy harlow.n tuesday night republicans eager, perhaps more eager than ever, to pass their tax overhaul. selling it as a middle-class tax cut is getting harder as the details come out. this morning the white house chief economic adviser gary cohn put it this way to cbcs the who trickle down is good for the economy the most excited groups are the big ceos. >> not part of paul ryan's talking points. they need to come up with $200 billion or so, what's that among friends, suzanne malveaux follow this on capitol hill. action on both sides of capitol hill this morning. >> a lot going on here, john and poppy. first on the house side we're seeing the mark up process continue in the house ways and means committee, essentially they are presenting what is their final tax plan before it

i am john berman. >> i am poppy harlow.s morning, charlie rose is suspended after eight women say the veteran newsman made unwanted sexual advances towards them. >> and so his co-hosts had a respond to the reports. it was emotional and difficult and remarkable. >> i also want to say this, that this is a moment that demands a frank and honest assessment about where we stand and more generally the safety ofom

i am poppy harlow. >> i am john berman. the news this morning, the attorney general is considering the special counsel to vest tkpwaeu investigate hillary clinton. just minutes from now attorney general jeff sessions sits before the house judiciary committee. democrats promise tough questions about why sessions keeps denying the trump campaign had contacts with russia, despite the two campaign advisers told sessions they did. >> then the revelation overnight the justice department says sessions asked prosecutors to examine whether or not to name a special counsel surrounding hillary clinton, something that the president has openly campaigned for for a long time on twitter and elsewhere. wait, there's more. this news out just hours after we learned donald trump jr. exchanged messages with wikileaks around the time that wikileaks was posting those hacked e-mails from democrats and clinton campaign officials. we have a lot to cover. let's begin this morning with our justice correspondent. evan, he's going to sit there and take

i am john berman. >> i am poppy harlow.ay the democrats suffered the defeat they thought would be unthinkable, they are save ring. democratic lieutenant governor ralph northam is governor-elect after walloping ed gillespie. >> virginia has told us to end the divisiveness, that we will not condone hatred and bigotry, and to end the politics that have torn this country apart. >> now despite the fact that polls show there was palpable anti-trump sentiment, the president trump says it's not my fault. this is what he wrote. ed gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what i stand for. still, republicans are reeling. one said to me, unblanking believable. the losses when in every state at every level including in n

i am poppy harlow.rospects for tax reform look different depending literally on how you stand. on the house side it's full speed ahead, and house republican leadership confident they will get this thing through. on the senate side, though, republican reservations and a surprise rejection could mean real trouble for their version. the no vote being

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i am poppy harlow. >> i am john berman. we are learning about the man that confronted the church massacre. >> all i am thinking is i have got to get there. >> more from the interview in just a second. >> also the gunman's violent pass

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poppy harlow is with me in new york. 26 people were killed here. 20 others hurt. the victims range from 5 years old to 72 years old. at least eight members of one family were killed. the 14-year-old daughter of the church's pastor, a pregnant mother. horrific, heartbreaking, inexplicable. the question in community is asking, this country is asking this morning, frankly, the question it needs to ask, was this preventable? the killer is an air force veteran who spent a year in military confinement for domestic violence. he was released from the military on a bad conduct discharge. he is dead this morning, either shot by himself or by a citizen who undoubtedly saved lives by chasing him to the next county. the sheriff now says the shooter's in-laws attended this church, but they were not at yesterday's service. they did come after they heard what happened. president trump is in asia, where today he attributed the texas killings to a mental health problem at the highest level. so many questions this morning. we are live in tokyo in just a moment. first, here with me i

i'm poppy harlow, let's get right to it. >>> good friday morning, everyone.t to. president trump is about to take off for a huge critically important five nation tour of asia. there you see air force one. not before though, taking some parting shots at a litany of his favorite targets. a lot of tweets this morning,

. >> i'm poppy harlow. we begin with breaking news. a search and rescue operation is under way off the coast of japan after a u.s. navy plane crashes with 11 people onboard. >> eight people have been rescued and three, though, are still missing. barbara starr following this for us from the pentagon. barbara, what are you learning? >> good morning to both of you. u.s. and japanese authorities are continuing their search for the three still missing when this navy c2 aircraft crashed as it was operating around the aircraft carrier ronald reagan. now, the c2 is a small fixed wing airplane that carries personnel back and forth from aircraft carriers. we are told 11 navy personnel onboard, eight were rescued. now onboard the ronald reagan in good condition. they are still, of course, searching for the other three. this happening about 500 miles off okinawa where the ronald reagan was operating. this comes as the fleet out there, the seventh fleet in the pacific has had a very difficult and deadly year in 2017. two serious collisions. the "us

i'm john berman. >> i'm poppy harlow. we begin with breaking news.d rescue operation is under way off the coast of japan after a u.s. navy plane crashes with 11 people onboard. >> eight people have been rescued and three, though, are still missing. barbara starr following this for us from the pentagon. barbara, what are you learning? >> good morning to both of you. u.s. and japanese authorities are continuing their search for the three still missing when this navy c2 aircraft crashed as it was operating around the aircraft carrier ronald reagan. now, the c2 is a small fixed wing airplane that carries personnel back and forth from aircraft carriers. we are t

i'm poppy harlow in new york. we have a lot of news to get to. moments ago the president departed on his high-stakes asia trip. you see him as he is about to board air force one there. he is heading to five countries, this as tension keeps escalating with north korea. the russia controversy is also hanging over the white house, as the president departs. moments ago as he left the white house, with the first lady, he took some questions from reporters and made a lot of news. at the top of the list of questions, a meeting he attended in the spring of 2016 with foreign policy adviser george papadopolous, who has now pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. listen to what the president said. >> i don't remember much about that meeting. it was a very unimportant meeting. it took place a long time. don't remember much about it. all i can tell you is this, there was no collusion. you want to look at hillary clinton and you want to look at the new book that was just put out by donna brazile where she basically bought the dnc a

alisyn is off, poppy harlow by my side. thank you for helping us start out the week.ening to sue "the washington post." that is, of course, the paper that reported that the he had inappropriate contact with

i'm poppy harlow in for erin burnett. standing up to trump, more republicans going against the president, coming out to say that roy moore is not fit to serve in the senate one day after the president staunchly defended moore. three more republican congressmen disagreeing with trump's assessment that any republican candidate is better than the others. >> i watched the other clip this morning about one of the ladies who came forward and how she's agonized over many years about what to do about it and it seems to be that most everybody that's heard those things that has more experience in this kind of thing than me seems to line up that this guy is a bad guy. >> i saw the man give his interview. me personally, i don't think it was sufficient enough. i certainly don't feel comfortable with his explanation. >> also today arizona's republican governor with more harsh words for roy moore. >> this was bad behavior 40 years ago and bad behavior today. if i was in the private sector, i'd terminate this guy. i'd like to see a diffe

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. >> i am poppy harlow.his morning, charlie rose is suspended after eight women say the veteran newsman made unwanted sexual advances towards them. >> and so his co-hosts had a respond to the reports. it was emotional and difficult and remarkable. >> i also want to say this, that this is a moment that demands a frank and honest assessment about where we stand and more generally the safety of women. let me be very clear there's no excuse for this alleged behavior. it's systematic and pervasive and i have been doing a lot of listening and i will continue to do that. this i know is true, women cannot achieve equality in the workplace or in society until there is a reckoning and a taking of responsibility. i am really proud to work at cbs news. there are so many incredible people here, especially on this show. all of you here. this will be investigated. this has to end. this behavior is wrong, period. >> i certainly echo that. i have to say, norah, i really am still reeling. i got an hour and 42 minutes of sleep

good morning, i'm john berman, and i'm poppy harlow. the white house seems to finally reveal where it stands on the alabama race. kel kellyanne conway says, yeah, the white house wants alabama to vote for roy moore. why? because they want the tax reform passed. >>> this, leigh corfman describes this interaction with moore. >> i met him around the corner from my house. my mother did not know. he took me to his home. after afghanistan at his home, u -- after arriving at his home, he laid out some blank either in the living room, and proceeded to seduce me, i guess you would say. during the course of that, he removed my clothes. he left the room and came back in wearing his white underwear and, um, he touched me over my clothing, what was left of it, and he tried to get me to touch him as well. at that point i pulled back and said that i was not comfortable, and i got dressed, and he took me home. but i was a 14-year-old child trying to play in an adult's world, and he was 32 years old. >> there would be people watching who say, why now? w

i am poppy harlow. >> i am john berman.this morning, the attorney general is considering the special counsel to vest tkpwaeu investigate hillary clinton. just minut

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i'm poppy harlow. >> and i'm john berman. unblanking believable.t's how one republican described the scope of the defeats around the country. but he didn't say blanking. he said the size of the democratic victory and the breadth at every single level should be a message about the political risks of this president. >> the marquise race in virginia where the democratic lieutenant governor crushed the former nominee, ed gillespie. but the president says it is not his fault writing, ed gillespie worked hard, but did not embrace me or what i stand for. but a republican congressman from virginia says, not so fast. >> i think that last night was a referendum. i don't think there's any way you could look at it in a different way, to be honest with you, and to be intellectually consistent. >> ryan nobles is in richmond, virginia, for more. it is not only at the top, it's all the way on down to virginia. >> you're absolutely right, poppy. and think of this. ed gillespie last night collected more votes than bob mcdonnell, the last republican to win here state

the one and only poppy harlow by my side. >> good to be here. >> once again, you bring news. here's our starting line. a defiant roy moore now threaten to go sue the "washington post". that's the paper that reported that the alabama senate candidate had an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old girl and pursued three other teens when he was in his 30s. now, more has always denied the accusations. some are trying to discredit his accusers. several members of president trump's team now calling on moore to step aside if the allegations are true. that is a very vexing situation. there will probably be no trial. i don't understand what more proof will there be. so we're watching this. the president, as you know, is in the philippines. he said asian countries have rolled out the red carpet for him like never before. the president said he will make a major announcement wednesday on trade and north korea. but this morning, there are c conflicting reports about whether he and due tear toe talked about human rights. the white house said they d. a philippino spokesman said they d

i am erica hill in today for poppy harlow and john berman. the president going after just one of the accused, slamming democratic senator al franken amid accusations he groped and forcibly kissed a woman in 2006. the woman releasing this photo taken during a uso tour, and she later described that kiss to cnn. >> he just mashes his mouth to my lips and, you know, it was like, wet, and he puts his tongue in my mouth. my reaction, it was just sort of a -- you know, i push his chest away with my hands. i am like, if you ever do that to me again -- i was so angry. >> and let's get to joe johns to what the president is and isn't saying? >> reporter: the president's tweets weighing into the controversy over democratic senator, al franken. his tweet last night giving him the characteristic trump nickname, this time it's al frankenstein, although franken stein is spelled incorrectly. and there's a photo of the senator groping. he says it speaks appear thousand words. then there's a second tweet. and to think that just last week, he, being franken was

greg leaks told me and poppy harlow today he thinks john should step down.hleen rice said nothing he think john conyers need to leave congress all together. jason, we are seeing members in both parties taking strong stances against their own. >> john, these are troubling allegations and i think there's a bigger thing going on, and that's the fact congress has been using tax payer money to settle some of these suits. i think that might be the biggest scandal going on here. i'd also caution my republican friends out there not to rush too much into this john conyers situation because we don't foe what republicans on the hill are going to get swept into this next week. going back to a point maria said a moment ago, the night before thanksgiving, taking a step back and what's going on with the country and why are we seeing so much of this out there. the fact about people taking pictures the night before thanksgiving really feels like we hit the skids when it comes to a new cycle. everyone should spend time with they're family and loved ones tomorrow, have some tu

i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm john berman. a remarkable morning in television and maybe a significant moment for women. for the first time we're hearing from the women who anchor or maybe anchored "cbs this morning" along with charlie rose, he's been suspended after scathing sexual assault allegations surfaced. >> this is what important reporting brought forward, eight women are accusing the veteran journalist of harassment. the allegations include groping, lewd phone calls, allegations of inappropriate nudity in front of them and more. this morning, rose's coh-anchor issued strong reaction not giving him a pass, listen to this. >> i also want to say this, this is a moment that demands a frank and honest assessment about where we stand and more generally the safety of women. let me be very clear, there is no excuse for this alleged behavior. it is systemic and pervasive and i've been doing a lot of listening and i'm going to continue to do that. this i know is true, women cannot achieve equality in the workplace or in society

i am erica hill in today for poppy harlow and john berman.fter just one of the accused, slamming democratic senator al franken amid accusations he groped and forcibly kissed a woman in 2006. the woman releasing this photo

. >> poppy harlow correctly says "i think the bus just left" there's the bus and gary cohn is under it>> on the yap, yap, yapping which is just one side of the story from that senator we talked after that interview to senator coons who was on the call and this is how he remembers things. >> it was a long call, it was clear there was some eagerness in the room for us to resume our conversation. we heard a lot from the president. i do remember senator carper making that suggestion. i don't think gary cohn abruptly hung up on the president but it was a challenge to transition him off the call and i think gary cohn handled it appropriate ly. >> "transition him off the call" does not equal "sorry mr. president, the connection is bad" and letting him go, right? >> the white house adamantly denies senator carper's version. let me read you the statement "senator carper's statement is false, gary cohn continued to speak to the president privately before they concluded the call." that's the white house version and chris coons says he remembers it differently but the reason it resonated and so ma

poppy harlow with me now. she was at the scene yesterday. >> right after you. >> president trump declares that the new york terror suspect should be executed. this comes after he called the american judicial system a joke and laughing stock. clearly pushing his hard line immigration and national security agenda. but he ignores a fundamental constitutional degree, due process of law. and he may have comp indicated this case. we'll tell you why. the president's brash response stands in such stark contrast to the refusal to address the bigger issues after las vegas. when that gunman opened fire on thousands of concertgoers. and, remember, we still don't know why. >>> stunning new details this morning about the deadly attack here in new york city. but federal prosecutors say the suspect, the a taerbg, was inspired by isis, planned this attack a juror ago, conducted a trial run last week. authorities revealed that he planned to continue the killing spree to drive over the brooklyn bridge and was stopped by the hero

poppy harlow joins me. >> we know a lot more now. >> absolutely. there is a new wrinkle. late night tweeting once again changing the dynamic of a very important story. new york terror suspect he says should be executed. just after the president called the america judicial system a joke is and laughing stock. harsh on immigration, restricting who can come into this country. >> we're also learning stunning new details about the attack in this city. prosecutors say the suspect was inspired by isis. authorities also revealed he planned to continue this killing spree, trying to kill more innocent civilians. >> reporter: good morning, poppy. president trump react to go outrage focusing on punishment, talking about the death penalty which is unusual for a president. blasting the legal system. and at the same time getting democrats into a debate over immigration, raising questions about when it's appropriate to start talking politics after a national tragedy. >> diversity, lottery sounds nice. it's not nice. >> reporter: overnight president trump tweeting that the suspect in new

alisyn is off, poppy harlow by my side. thank you for helping us start out the week. defiant roy moore. he is threatening to sue "the washington post." that is, of course, the paper that reported that the he had inappropriate contact with a 14-year-old girl and pursued three other teens when he was in his 30s. several members of president trump's team are calling on moore to step aside, but a huge caveat. they say if the allegations are true, but we're not going to see any law enforcement investigation here. where will the proof come from? >>> the president promising an announcement on wednesday on trade and north korea as he wraps up this 12-day asia trip. but the united states notably left out of the framework of asian nations and this morning conflicting accounts whether the president and philippine president spoke about human rights and the war on drugs. the government spokesman said we did not. let's begin in alabama. >> roy moore certainly indicating that he is going to be fighting back. this morning we are seeing that defiant and seeing more dig in his heels ev

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good morning, i'm john berman, and i'm poppy harlow.hite house seems to finally reveal where it stands on the alabama race. kel kellyanne conway says, yeah, the white house wants alabama to vote for roy moore. why? because they want the tax reform passed. >>> this, leigh corfman describes this interaction with moore. >> i met him around the corner from my house. my mother did not know.

poppy harlow standing by in new york. 26 people killed behind me in this church. we do have new developments. the governor of texas, greg abbott, said it was not a random act. this church, not chosen at random. the killer's in-laws, members of this church, but not inside at the time. they did arrive afterwards. not a random act, but a horrible act. a terrible act. an act of unthinkable tragedy. so many of the victims children. the sheriff here says more than ten of those killed were children. the victims range in age from 5 to 72 years old. one of those killed was the pastor's 14-year-old daughter. the pastor's wife says most of our congregation is gone. we have many questions about the killer himself. why was he allowed to buy a gun? he was discharged for bad conduct from the air force. he served time for domestic abuse. he was denied a gun permit in the state of texas, yet still was able to buy the ruger assault-style weapon that he used to carry out this horrific killing. want to bring in cnn's brian todd from a different vantage point here at this church for w

minutes now and it shows no sign of slowing down protesters are chanting the word coup which means poppy harlow they say philippine state forces together with president hu they go there are stooges of the united states. more than two thousand people showed up and there is no shortage of zeal or anger. but the history between the two countries is so intertwined it will take more than a few protests to separate the united states from its former colony. duggan i'm just here in manila. i certainly does and china have agreed to start talks on drafting a new guideline for the south china sea the philippine foreign ministry says the countries will negotiate a fictive code of conduct over the long disputed territory but it spokesman gave no details on when the talks are going to begin for more than a decade leaders of the ten member bloc of struggle to reach a deal with china which claims most of the strategic waterway. well let's take a closer look at what's at stake and who claims what in the south china sea china bases its claim on the so-called nine dash line which considers a virtually all of the

this is what gregory meeks told me and poppy harlow earlier. >> i really think that probably the appropriatehing right now is he should step down as the ranking member of the judiciary committee. and be subject to this ethics investigation. >> "the detroit free press," conyers' hometown newspaper ran an editorial calling on conyers to resign. this is after accusing the dean of the house, the longest serving member of sexually harassing a staff member and then paying her to settle. conyers admits to paying but denies any wrongdoing. i want to bring in sunlen serfaty here. the house ethics committee is investigating these allegations, but congress is off so it's unclier what will be done, right? >> reporter: that's right, john. we know that congressional investigations take a lot of time often, but in the meantime, we have heard from some members of congress, particularly from congressman meeks, going the farther with what he said to you today, calling for him to step down from judiciary until the ethics committee finishes their review. congressman mike quigley saying if he were in conyers' pl

i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm john berman. now. >>> thank you, john, thank you, poppy. hello, everyone. i am kate balduan. it's no secret that republicans in washington want roy moore out of the alabama senate race and nowhere near washington. senator mitch mcconnell even floating his own idea for who he would like to see as a write-in candidate now. >> the alabamian who would, you know, fit that standard would be the attorney general, who is totally well known and extremely popular in alabama. that, obviously, is -- would be a big move for him and for the president. >> so, is jeff sessions a possibility? >> we don't know. but he fits the mold of somebody who might be able to pull off a write-in. >> so no secret there. but what is a secret, though, still today, where the president stands on all of this. he's back from his overseas trip. he was up early, very clearly, just check his twitter feed. and while taking time to tout the success of