we wait for those details with you in west palm beach. we'll take the news conference when it begins. >>> president trump u is in the air flying to hanoi, vietnam, for his second summit with kim jong- jong-un. as the president works toward a future of denuclearization, his past just may steal the spotlight from this major foreign policy event. you see, president trump's long time personal fixer, michael cohen, will finally testify before congress this week and while cohen can't talk the russia investigation, the now convicted felon can open up about a lot of other issue before he heads to prison may 6th. he pleaded guilty to tax fraud, making false statements and campaign violations and on top of all of this, the president's national emergency declaration to build a border wall will face its first official challenge from capitol hill. those three stories playing out in a big way and most of it in public view all before this friday. so let's get to what happens when. i have with me now, cnn politics reporter, chris cillizza with me. so the

similar businesses within palm beach county? >> it's hard to say because the investigators are the jupiter police. then you have the martin county. then you have vero beach. it's hard to say if there are more arrests based on their investigation. i was asked early today about rumors about bigger fish. i said that would be news to me. it's hard for me to talk abreu mores, especially false ones. [ inaudible question ] >> no, there are two cases there. there are two counts. correc correct. >> what was it about the fact, what is the most he did in this case? >> well, all the cases are being charged as misdemeanors under the tougher statute. the reason that was made, that statute has a mandatory 100 hours of community service. mandatory $5,000 fine. mandatory class on the dangers of prostitution and human trafficking. not to mention a potential for an increased jail sentence from 60 days to a year. >> multiple homes here and up in massachusetts, would he be given a summons? >> there was a question whether or not mr. kraft lived here i

. >> west palm beach, florida near the president's mar-a-lago estate. >> hi, eric, lovely day in palmeach county, 80-degrees and the president remains at golf club, the trump international golf club over southern boulevard in palm beach county. the traffic pool thought he was leave to go head back to mar-a-lago, however, they were told to standby at the lie -- library where they wait for him to leave, the motor caid -- motorcade, landing at pest palm beach airport, a small crowd invited on to the tarmac, president trump and first lady melania greeted them warmly, the president signing autographs. earlier president trump announced he was signing the budget deal, avoiding another partial government shutdown but also declaring a national emergency over the southern border with mÉxico and with that he plans to take funds from other services to take money for the wall than the legislation. >> we want to stop criminals and gangs from coming into our country. >> shortly after that, democrat-controlled judiciary announced they would investigate the president's declaration stating the fact tha

my jurisdiction is only for palm beach county. i am talking about the general subject of human trafficking, the larger picture. there is no allegation that any defendants were involved with human trafficking. they are not being charged with such. i like to make the conversation broader because this country needs to have a reality check on what's going on out there when koi coming to forced labor and forced sexual conduct. prosecutors have been involved for a long time. i have been aware of this for a while. i have been involved in fighting human trafficking for a while. nothing surprises me. i am on the attorney's general statewide passport for human trafficking. when it came across my desk, i was not surprised and i was not surprised by defendants of this matter. it is the reality of the time we live in. >> what do you think should be done on the supply side of business? it is a good question. well, the laws are in place, we need to encourage victims to speak up. victims don't know that there are services available to them. they

national cabbage day apparently very popular down in west palm beach.y had a cabbage toss. >> i have never heard i >> pretty intense. the emphatic slam on the cabbage on the first run. doolittle tweeting out this video with the caption, quote, when the server asks if i want a side salad or french fries. >> oh! >> saying, taking that cabbage, i doare if it's national cabbage day. max scherzer's team ended up victorious in that one. >>> so the capitals in the middle of a six-game road trip coming off a huge win over one of the best teams in the league. they take on the ducks ld er tonight 'll have highlights. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. that does it for us. ,bc nightly news" is nend we will see you again tonight for news4 at 11:00. good night, everybody. >>> tonight, the dramatic new twist in a bizarre case, whether the attack on actor jussie a hollet was hoax created by him, despiteis denials. >>> what happens now to he thousands of captured foreign m fighters,y from europe, who joined the nks? what president trump says about their arte. >>

phil keating in west palm beach where it's 79 degrees. >> reporter: it is absolutely spectacular down here in south florida. this weekend, good weekend for the president to come on down. he is back at his winter white house, the mar-a-lago estate on palm beach. he spent six hours, maybe six and-a-half hours this morning and early afternoon at his trump international golf club, presumably golfing and maybe enjoying the restaurant. air force one and the trumps arrived friday night. they were greeted by a small crowd who was invited onto the tarmac. there president trump signed autographs and made it home by 7:00. this came after a big day dealing with the budget deal before signing the funding bill into law, the president first announced that's what he was going to do and he did that there in the rose garden and of course this avoided another partial government shutdown. that's when he declared a national emergency over the southern border with mexico and with that he plans to take funds from other sources to spend more tax dollars for the

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new york city to palm beach, florida. >> this is the tip of the tip of the iceberg. >>> the summons robert kraft received yesterday isn't much different than a speeding ticket. for first offenders like kraft in this situation, it's very unlikely he will see jail time. don't expect to see robert kraft in handcuffs or even in court, his attorney can handle that. thank you for telling us the details. joining us now is laura coast, a former prosecutor. do you agree with everything we've heard even though this carries up to a one year prison sentence, robert kraft is not going to jail? >> i do agree it is unlikely he will. the reason is he's not yet being attached to the human trafficking element. if that were the case, if this were to somehow evolve into him either knowing there was human trafficking inside or complicit in some way or part of a larger operation, this sort of crime likely will be a probationary or one that involves the community service element or, as the press conference noted, the whole goal is to attach it to an educational element. jail or not, he will likely sitting

. >>> they're all down in west palm beach now. with super snow moon you have to show up.ould be in florida right now. with what doug has cing for us. position players reported. ase wait on bryce harper to land a deal lasted how long? >> how long, dave? >> thank you for asking. we're seein stories about where he hasn't going. yankees a cubs columnists are asking why no harper. with him everything for now is a maybe witthe phillies still reportedly a fair vorite to say yes. meantime, nationals have their own questions to answer. >> how do you dor great on y launch angle? >> launch angle? >> the old q stion about the launch angle. the next generation of baseball ,he s has a science project due friday brian dozier answering those fan questions. position players reporting to spring training. the first full squad tomorrow after the super snow moon. and it's finally to feel like baseball season is here for the skipper. >> as they start trickling in, i start realizingt's game on. hey're here, excited. andtoday, after seeing them alld getting their physicals, i'm excited about tom

. >> down to west palm beach. these guys living the good life there. >> i'm just trying to get you in the mood here. we've been freezing all day. let's talk baseball. pass the peanuts and cracker jacks. life in the fast lane. pitc crs andchers just reported on monday. manny machado signed with the padres. bryce harper, bad example. he still doesn't have a team. there is a momentum building in baseball, genuine anticipation because of all the fun of fundamenls, the week will end with real games where sherree burress is in well pm beach. reporter: the nationals will be putting all this practice to use saturday in their first game of spring training. away. three days but for some of the players it's not soon enough. >> it seems like it gets faster and faster each year. the games are sooner and sooner, but, you know, we're excited. we're puttingor the in and we'll be excited to see it pay off. >> first part of spring training is for the pitchers to get re iy. after whaaw the first two days, they're ready to compete an

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jon: ellison barber join withs us from west palm beach with the latest. ellison?reporter: we're moving closer and closer to that new shutdown deadline, and as we get closer, president trump seems to become increasingly pessimistic about those bipartisan negotiations. >> i'm saying the democrats are obstructing. and they're always doing that. you hear about human trafficking, drugs, gangs, crime. they're only doing it for one very simple reason. it's one simple reason, couldn't be simpler, because they think it's good politics for 2020. because they say maybe we can beat trump because this is a big issue. >> reporter: the president describes the talks as a waste of time. during an interview with "the new york times" when he said he would allow them to finish the talks, them being the group of republicans and democrats on that bipartisan conference committee. at the same time, mr. trump seemed to give reporters a bit of a wink and a nod when talking about his emergency declaration and his state of the union address. >> but are you saying now you expect to declare --

if you are outside palm beach county, if you are out of state, then you will have a warrant for your arrest here in florida. >> reporter: a spokes person for mr. kraft has this to say. we categorically deny mr. kraft alleged in this manner. it is unclear what the next steps are for mr. kraft if and when he will be potentially traveling to florida. >> dana: do you have any other information about how this came together? it is interesting that it was a multimonth investigation, going back eight months. >> reporter: yeah. multiple agencies involved. really, there was a lot of just very patient detective work that went on. lot of surveillance. lot of watching who was coming in and out. they have very detailed, can't put most of this on television, but detail about various activities that occurred inside of this spa. >> dana: thank you, molly line. for more, attorney and fox news contributor emily campagne. i wanted to get you here so you can help explain. bob kraft is saying he's innocent. but what does happen if you are charged in another state? >> well, it would be smart if he would ob

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phil keating, part-time weather forecaster, full-time news reporter down in west palm beach.he president is at his golf club, looks like a pretty good day for it. >> could not be more perfect in the 70's and now 80 degrees. the lawsuits first have been filed now against the president's national emergency declaration. more lawsuits certainly are to follow and the president himself should be wrapping up his 18 holes of golf. he's been at his trump international golf club since about 8:30 this morning. the white house certainly expected legal challenges against the national emergency declaration and the administration has indicated they are prepared to fight. air force one and the first lady, as well as the president, all landing in west palm beach last night around 6:30 p.m. and a small crowd was invited to the tarmac and the president and first lady greeting them warmly and signing autographs. and in the rose garden the president indicated he was signing the deal averting a shutdown and an emergency, and more for the law than what the compromise legislation gives. >> it's not

arthel: let's go to allison barber live in west palm beach with the lat latest. >> reporter: president trump finishing up his morning, his afternoon of golfing with jack nicklaus and tiger woods. they golfed at trump national golf club in jupiter, florida, 20 minutes away from where we are here and where the president typically golfs in the airof arf west palm beach. this is the president's first visit since thanksgiving. he was expected to come here, to spend time here with his family during christmas. he canceled that trip due to the shutdown. president trump talked a lot about this idea of whether or not he will end up h eventually declaring a national emergency when it comes to discussions involving the border wall. he hinted to reporters this week that perhaps that sort of announcement, that decision could be made during his state of the union address. >> are you saying now you expect to declare a national emergency? >> i don't want to say. you'll hear the state of the union and you'll see what happens after the state of the union. i think there's a good chance we'll have to do th

so a fresh start today as the players coming out of the clubhouse here in west palm beach.s a fresh start, the first full squad workout for the team today. and they play their first training game this saturday. the skipper hoping to improve from last pyear's secondlace finish in the division and missing out on the playoffs. the disappointment is now motivation. >> not making the playoffs is a failure for us. it's a good place to be. we've come a long wayo where we're expected to make the playoffs everywhere, that's the kind of organization you want to be involved with. >> i think failure is one of the more positive words in the and we had a lot of nary last year.dictio i think everybody h thinks it's going to be a better year. a push forward because of how we struggled and how we can get out of it and moveorward. >> reporter: the big breaking news today former oriole and dger manny machado signing a edly with san diego, repo agreeing to a 10 $300 million deal. the news wcomed in the nationals clubhouse, seeing a town not like new york or l.a. land such a star. >> you have s

ellison barber travelling with the president down in west palm beach.ou know, ellison, you had to stick around over christmas up in d.c. we're glad you got some time in the sun. >> thank you, we're glad that it finally let up a little bit of the rain. we went from snow to now sunny and it's rain now and now it's turned into a beautiful day and the president is here this weekend. he is expected to be here through sunday. we're told that he'll spend some of his time this weekend, working on tweaking his state of the union address. president trump has said that those bipartisan negotiations, that bipartisan conference committee was negotiating on capitol hill to try to come up with some sort of border security package that the president will sign by february 15th. he says those are proving to be a waste of time. the president said on multiple occasions that he's prepared to declare a national emergency in the event of that negotiation, a deal was not reached by the end of those negotiations. president trump hinted at the white house yesterday that that sor

to trump international golf club in west palm beach florida... this just days after the president declared a national security at the border. (jrstone) the house judiciary committee is launching an immediate investigation of president trump's new national security declaration at the border. (justine) democratic leaders argue that he didn't need to take this drastic action to build his border wall.but the president was clear during friday's announcement.jim acosta reports: trying to take a victory lap after a stinging defeat in congress, president trump declared a national emergency at the border to start tapping into administration funds to build his wall.but the president may have already undercut his case when he indicated his real motivation is to speed things along.pres. trump:"i could do the wall over a longer period of time, i didn't need to do this, but i'd rather do it much faster. and i don't have to do it for the election; i've already done a lot of wall for the election, 2020."adding in more than one billion dollars authorized by congr

even low 80s. >> i was in in west palm beach a few weeks ago and it was 59 degrees. >> if you're going to be almost 80 in february, you're going to swelter and sweat all summer long. >> that's >> that's the price you pay. >> i had to come back here for the snow. >> we have all four seasons in ay. no summer in the forecast. mild r,weatold, rain. and fortunately or unfortunately depending on how you view snow chances, we do have a chance of snow. so far reagan national picked up 14 ihes of snow. first inch came back three months ago in the middle of er nove our biggest winner was second weekend injanuary. dulles five inches ahead of snowfall. right now we've warmed well into the 40s. no snow in forecast for today. the breeze is blowing so there are windchills below freezing across northern maryland. afternoon highs in the mid to upper 40s for most. probably closer top 50 in downtown with a blustery north and northwesterly breeze. for ltomorrow, a littls sunshine. a lot less wind. and milder. we'll be down below freezing early tomorrow morning but respond nicely to the sunshine and the re

laura: phil keating for us live in west palm beach, florida.hat about this claim that some cabinet members were on board to invoke the 25th amendment. john, let me be very specific. the report is former top fbi lawyer james baker testified in closed door session to congress that he allegedly discussed invoking the 25th amendment to remove the president from office claiming he was told rod rosen steinle said two trump cabinet members were ready to support such an effort. what do you make of this? >> i agree with senator graham that this is stunning. this is a threat to our democracy. it doesn't matter if you agree with president trump or support him or you don't. we remove presidents at the ballot box. we have an election coming up shortly. the house judiciary committee could consider impeachment. but a small group of people in the fbi or the justice department to even contemplate this is shock. the 25th amendment was ratified after the assassination and death of president kennedy to clarify succession. this a provision if the president is disab

this happened inside the emergency room in riviera beach outside of west palm beach.ice say they arrested 59-year-old double amputee from michigan. the doctor was struck while attempting to subdue the patient when he fired the gun. >> 4: 21. to a follow-up, the race for north carolina's congressional seat now faces criminal charges. he's in jail facing charges of illegal ballot handling and conspiracy. fourrkg fore him were also charged. this stems from their handling in the absentee 2018 republican prim ear in north carolina. >>> well, a man suspected of murder in danville shoots and kills himself in illinois. detectives say 51-year-old mark sippian murdered john moore sun. he drove to his parents house where ps he shot himself. he dated their daughter. they filed a restraining order accusing him of stalking and domestic violence. >>> p public defender jeff adachi who died last night. hundreds gathered for a vigil and marched to city hall. he was the only elected public defender. he stunned co-workers who praised him for tenacity and assistance. >> i knew jeff 28 yea

the president set to take the flight short trip from west palm beach over to miami. south florida community has the largest venezuelan american population in the country so a natural place for him to give this speech. the white house claimed out a few items the president will touch on your. next hour the support for guiado to push for humanitarian aid to be allowed into that country, but a larger theme for president trump is making the case that it is a move towards democracy that is necessary for venezuela. the president national security adviser john bolton told reporters on the ground a little while ago the administration would be open to the possibility of having talks with maduro about his terms. pushing back on the notion that maybe they underestimated the staying power of maduro appeared director of strategic communications, mercedes schlock. >> absolutely not. more and more countries are -- trinidad sound bite there is you can see. she said more countries are recognizing guiado as the true leader of venezuela 50 plus countries at this point, the u.s. at the f

. >> reporter: today we could find out more coming from the palm beach attorney general office about what may come next for the men identified as seeking out the paid sexual services in various spas located here in florida. of course we're outside one of them which is where police say robert kraft visited on at least two occasions. his spokesperson has denied that mr. kraft did anything illegal. i should mention though that as we wait for more from authorities, we're learning really a bit more about what is happening inside of these locations. the women mainly adult aged women from china were subjected to some shred difficult conditions inside, forced to work as basically modern day sex slaves. take a listen. >> it was clear that multiple women were working and living inside the spas. they were cooking on the back steps of the business. they were sleeping on the massage tables. they had no access to transportation. >> reporter: the sheriff goes on to say this was a massive multimonth, multiagency investigation. believe it or not, it actually started as one red flag that came from a h

abc's victor oquendo joins us from palm beach, florida, with the latest. >> reporter: good morning, michael. this is the outcome everyone was hoping for. police able to track down that monkey named kali. she has now been returned to the palm beach zoo and we're told she's in good health. this morning, kali, the rare monkey stolen from the zoo is home safe. police announcing this morning that kali is home, thank you to everyone that helped secure her recovery. this after an urgent search for the person in this surveillance video breaking into the palm beach zoo monday stealing kali, a 12-year-old monkey likely worth more than $10,000 on the black market. zoo officials say the suspect seen here on surveillance broke in early monday morning from behind the monkey's enclosure when the zoo was closed. this is the enclosure where kali was being kept. take a look. this is where zoo officials say that suspect cut the mesh and stole kali. weighing just one pound she requires a special diet and anti-inflammatory medication. do we have a timetable for her? like, what

phil keating in west palm beach with more. >> welcome to sunny and warm palm beach. 82 degrees out here not necessarily good conditions for golf. over at the trump international golf club. later today expected to conduct further trade talks about china in upcoming negotiations. a lot of talk about the 60 minutes interview where he candidly talks about the time right after president trump fired the fbi director. he discussed with james baker and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein about positively possibly invoking the amendment to remove the president and secretly considered recording the president over concerns about his actions and motives regarding russia and u.s. policy. >> discussion on the 25th amendment is simply rod raised the issue in discussed it with me in the context of thinking about how many other cabinet officials might support such an offer. >> rosenstein was actually openly talking about whether there was a majority of the cabinet would vote to remove the president. >> that's correct. counting votes or possible votes. >> according to baker, rosenstein told him they g

. >> the boys in florida, west palm beach, the first workout for all the players and sherree burruss is killing us with the shades and going sleeveless. it was sunny, what are you still like1 instead of 82 down there? >> something like that. nice and warm needless to say. it feels so good to be in warm weather and hearouhat nice of a baseball hitting a bat and glove. today the first full squad workout for the nationals a wrapping u couple hours ago. there were some young excited fans getti the day started kicking off the day for a hot and beautiful one in west palm beach for some the tone was set when the last week for all the playe wh travelled for spring training, those who live in florida in the off season and the veterans of the game, they share the same excitement that comes with the first day of workouts. >> you get on the mound and face hitters you want to have f itl like baseball. nothing like getting on the mound and having a hitter ready to swing the bat. >> it'sood to get down here with the guys, be in the beautiful weather, obviously b d k into it. >> you have the gan bac

. >> reporter: florida police have been cracking down on sex trafficking in the area around palm beach. they will be issuing a warrant. craft lost his wife in 2011 after nearly 50 years of marriage. his spokesman said in a statement that he categorically denies engaging in any illegal activity. hilary lane, cbs news, new york . >>> the charge could lead to jail time. community service is more likely. >>> prosecutors have charged r kelly with 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse. in the past few minutes, a judge has authorized a nobel a warrant does a no mail warrant. >> southern california, parents accused of torturing their 13 children have pled guilty to 14 felony counts expected to serve 25 years to life in prison. the charges include false imprisonment and cruelty to adults and children. they were arrested back in january 2018 after their 17- year-old daughter managed to escape their home in called 911. >>> house democrats are responding to president trump national emergency declaration. they have introduced a resolution to terminate the effective action. the house could take it up

>>> president trump arriving palm beach tonight. heading to mar-a-lago. first time in 68 days. trump had avoided flying south during the shutdown apparently to avoid criticism about being there. and emphasized the point of his loneliness in the white house. critics have arranged for trump to be greeted by a new billboard. roasting him for being cozy with russi russia. exploring how trump is a safe space for trump. >> just this past weekend you had a big party in palm beach. take a look at the monitors, if you will. >> he's very attractive. >> mar-a-lago has also had its share of controversies. there was of course the 6 foot tall portrait of donald trump that he used charity money to buy. there was the four mar-a-lago members who have been tapped for ambassadorships raising cozy questions plus three club members who have secretly shaped trump's policies at the v.a. and the time trump began negotiating what appeared to be an attempt to solve an entinternational crs with a japanese prime minister in the middle of the mar-a-lago dining room. this is also wher

prosecutor 11 years ago when the justice department reached a plea deal with jeffrey epstein, a palm beachusing as many as 36 underage girls in a sex ring. on thursday a federal judge in south florida ruled that acosta and the justice department broke the law by not discussing the plea deal with victims as required. >> in november "the miami herald" reported that epstein got the deal of a lifetime, no trial and just 13 months in prison. the plea arrangements effectively shut down a probe. earlier this month republican senator ben sasse says the justice department told him it opened an investigation in to how doj handled this case. acosta says he welcomes that review. >>> michael cohen is in washington preparing for a high stakes week ahead. president trump's former fixer spent several hours on thursday inside the senate intelligence committee secure spaces. that is unusual for a witness the panel has already interviewed as part of its russia probe. he will be interviewed behind closed doors tuesday, wednesday he goes public, and then back behind closed doors on thursday to talk to the hous

on his way down to palm beach.er doubling down on border security, the president leaving open to potential national emergency declaration, in order to get funding for the wall. let's get to blake burman, with more on this at the white house. blake. reporter: cold as it looks. i bet they have the heat pumping there through air force one. president trump about to leave the white house here any moment, said earlier today, relates to the national emergency along the southern border, there is a good chance that could happen. the president loves to have viewing audience. he set up state of the union on tuesday evening as possibility of potentially making that announcement then. >> we will be looking at a national emergency, because i don't think anything is going to happen. i think democrats don't want border security. >> do you expect to declare a national -- >> i don't want to say. you will hear the state of the union. you will see what happens after the state of the union. reporter: you will see what happens after the

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he is a palm beach billionaire accused of sexual abusing as many as 36 underage girls.al judge ruled that acosta and the justice department broke the law by not discussing that plea agreement with victims as required. >> in november "the miami herald" reported that acosta gave epstein no trial and just 13 months in prison. the plea agreement effectively shut down and on going oig fbi probe and granted immunity to any potential co-conspirators. earlier this month ben sasse says the justice department told him it opened an investigation into how doj handled that case. acosta says he welcomes the review. >>> north carolina board of elections voting to order new elections in the ninth congress allege district. the republican candidate mark harris was under scrutiny for hiring a political operative accused of election fraud. the board investigated claims that leslie dallas ran an illegal scheme. harris says his campaign was not aware of that, but just one day after his son testified that he had warned his father about dallas, the candidate says he now favors a revote. >> kno

cnn white house reporter sarah westwood is in west palm beach not far from where the president is spendinghe weekend at his mar-a-lago resort. what is the reaction thus far to the president's latest interview? >> well, democrats are pushing back on this suggestion from president trump that they don't support any kind of border security and they're slammingle for a second government shutdown later this month when the temporary spending bill runs dry. now, pelosi's team is hitting back, accusing trump of twisting what democrats actual positions on border security are after trump accused pelosi of playing political games by opposing the wall. those two leaders, they've been trading insults this week, but they haven't met face-to-face. since that contentious meeting on january 9 in the situation room during which trump stood up, left the room when talks weren't going his way. that's all set to change on tuesday when trump goes to capitol hill to deliver his state of the union address. pelosi responding quickly through a spokesman yesterday to trump's comments. said in a statement, president tr

kerry sanders, nbc news, palm beach county, florida. >>> r. kelly is a free man this morning after spe the night in jail. the singer was released yesterday after posting bond. in court, he pleaded not guilty to several sexual abuse charges involving minors. an attorney representing two of the victims says he believes more charges will be filed aggnst kelly in the com weeks. the singer denies all accusations of sexual misconduct. >>> right now police are investigating a case of anti-semitic vandalism at a ayground in falls church. they believe it happened some time between friday and yesterday. e vandals targeted mt. daniel elementary school on oak street. police say a teacher found fabric slashed in several placee onplayground's canopy. one set of cuts was in the shape of a swastika. the canopy was removed and the parents.endent notified police released a statement reading in part, they take these acts of anti-semitic vandalism very siously andill not stand for hatred. >>> today, the united methost church iet to vote on whether to change the c

no emergency declaration for the president on saturday in west palm beach, though. check out what he tweeted. he was golfing with legendary golfers tiger woods and jack nicklaus during his first trip to mar-a-lago in 2019, first trip since the 35-day record-breaking government shutdown. boris sanchez, cnn, traveling with the president in west palm beach, florida. >>> well, let's talk about what we might expect this week from the president's state of the union address with the professor of international politics at city university of london and frequent guest on our program. good to see you. >> thank you, very nice to see you too. >> the president has hinted, we heard in that story, he will make an announcement regarding the border wall during his state of the union. what do you expect from mr. trump? >> well, mr. trump is coming off the back of a disastrous government shutdown where he is perceived to have had to step back and allow the government to run again. he's coming back off the largest defeat in midterm election history, really. he lost that popular vote by

that epstein put together a network of underaged girls and forced them to perform sex acts at his palm beachicking minors from overseas to various sex parties at his homes around the world. bottom line, he was facing a 53-page indictment and a life sentence in maximum security prison and, yet, ended up serving 13 months in a private wing of the palm beach county jail allowed to leave six days a week to go to work. how is that possible? well, that's where labor secretary alexander acosta comes in. in 2007 acosta was miami's top prosecutor and accepted a deal called a non-prosecution agreement, which allowed jeffrey epstein to plead guilty to prostitution charges in state court and get immunity from federal charges. the deal also protected epstein's accomplices meaning if ever well-known influential people were also having sex with minors they would not be prosecuted. and to top it all off, the alleged victims had no recourse. in fact, the victims' attorneys say it's as if acosta allowed epstein to write up the agreement. but now a federal judge in florida says prosecutors led by acosta broke

a lot of them are palm springs people and palm beach people. women are means who love him and feel like they've come to know him over the many years they've been members at mar-a-lago. so i know our team in new york prepared some sound for you from some of the members and guests who attended last night who wanted to show their support. let's take ap listen. >> i'm actually here because i believe in the united states of america. >> trump stands for everything that is not foolish, that is totally wise, that is totally right for our country. >> you've seen the spirit of america uplifted because of our president. we are all-in for president trump. this is a great event to show our support for him. >> it's a celebration for the president of the united states, and long before he was president he was mr. trump, and i think you can be convinced that this is a room full of all of his friends. >> you can see there were people from all walks of life. it was really interesting. it's not something you see all of the time. but we also got a chance to pull er

his private club which he resides in many a weekend in palm beach. the associated press also was saying they found little evidence of such large-scale damage to coincide -- in other words, damage not necessarily commensurate with the payment itself. david, we're just getting a little bit of an idea of some of the details that could really blow this case open. >> yes. and donald, you know, claimed damages because of 9/11, even though his real estate was not at all affected by it. he has made claims in the past of tax deductions that two different judges threw out and found that he engaged in civil tax fraud. and he's filed many insurance claims over the year -- over the years. one of the most curious ones, although they may not go back this far to look at it, was the crash of a helicopter that killed three trump executives and the payout. that particular helicopter's never been involved in any other crash like the very unusual circumstances of that crash. >> what do you make here, david, of the amount zuberi, illegal lobbying, that whole point that ke

no emergency declaration for the president on saturday in west palm beach, though. check out what he tweeted. he was golfing with legendary golfers tiger woods and jack nicklaus during his first trip to mar-a-lago in 2019. his first trip since the 35-day record-breaking government shutdown. boris sanchez, cnn, traveling with the president in west palm beach, florida. >>> and let's talk about his speech coming up with leslie ben murray from chatham house think tank. thanks for coming on. >> thank you, natalie. >> i want to talk about what we just heard there, the president's theme for his speech, choosing greatness. do you think somewhere in there he's going to choose to go and build that wall somehow without democrats and make that announcement? >> it would be quite something if -- and remember, this is a state of the union address that was originally designed to take place a week earlier than it will. it was delayed because of that shutdown. so the idea that the president would actually declare a national emergency in order to fund the wall that has been so deeply

trump's longtime friend was having dinner at mar-a-lago in palm beach with the president over the weekend suggesting to our own christiane amanpour that the director of national intelligence, dan coats, could soon be out of a job because he publicly during that testimony on global threats, that the united states faces, disagreed with what the president has been saying. >> you know, if i were dan coats, i would not buy any green bananas, metaphorically speaking. in my experience, chris ruddy is an extremely reliable guy to what donald trump is thinking. i've interviewed him many times for just that purpose. he does not make things up, and, you know, i -- it's maybe a good thing or it may be a bad thing, but my -- my belief is that if chris ruddy says dan coats is on his way out, dan coats is on his way out. >> he said he didn't get that from the president, himself, he got it from others around the president. that's what he's suggesting. he was at mar-a-lago having dinner with the president, as we know and as we've reported. we've seen this movie, david swerdlick, before, all of a sudden, w

charge against kraft comes amid a widespread crackdown on sex trafficking in that area surrounding palm beach county. about 200 arrest warrants have been issued in recent days and more are expected according to authorities. a spokesperson for kraft says he denies engaging in any illegal activity. now when i update on the sexual assault allegations against virginia's democratic g. it appears republicans in the state legislature are laying the groundwork for a major investigation. correspondent gillian turner tells us what she is hearing tonight. good evening. >> good evening, bret. it's been over two weeks since two women came forward to detail the sexual assault allegations against virginia's lieutenant governor, justin fairfax by the states republicans to stay until today, they have been crickets from democrats. >> we try to work diligently, but the colleagues across the aisle, a partisan way to investigate. it was declined. >> in a breakout move today, republicans from estates house of delegates said times up and announced a hearing today. >> we will invite dr. tyson, miss watson to testify

>> kelly o'donnell in west palm beach. thank you. >>> a reminder, nbc news will have full coverage of the president's state of the union address on tuesday night at 9:00, 6:00 pacific. crisis in venezuela in that interview today, putting new pressure on theary intervention is an option. nbc's kerry sanders is in caracas tonight with the latest. >> reporter: the quiet in venezuela's streets mask a growing humanitarian crisis. painful food shortages and a hyperinflation that has made life here so difficult. president nicolas maduro refuses to accept outside help, as u.s.aid is moving rations to the country's borders for venezuela's malnourished children. yesterday dueling protests both for and against maduro. this afternoon he supervised military exercises, praising the loyalty of the armed forces. those who want to see president. they support juan guaido, the i interim president who has the backing of the united states. >> what would help venezuela? i don't want to say anything, but it's an option. >> an option with geopoli

general saying they may be filing lawsuits as well e president is spending this weekend at his wt palm beach golf club. the white house says defend lawsuits all the way to the supreme court. >>> a lieutenant preparing for e career in army stabbed to death in a suspected hate crime. tonight, his parents tenews 4 h they ensure his legacy at no time. >>> the potentially deadly drug once again plaguing city streets. >>> we'll show you a liv look at 30 rock tonight. don cheadle getting rdy toea -ah, the old crew! remember when we all uiad to go to the cafet and just chow down midday? -you mean, like, lunch? -come on. voted "most likely to help people save $668 when they switch." -at this school? -didn't you get caught in the laminating machine? -ha. [ sighs ] -"box, have a great summer. danielle." ooh. danielle, control yourself. i'd like tslow it down here with a special discount for a special girl. danielle, this one's for you. . >>> tight the parents of a slain bowie university are mourning the loss of their son. a stranger stabbed him to death in what police are calling a hate crime. news 4's

>> kelly o'donnell at west palm beach, florida, thank you. >>> the woman expected to be trump's nominee ambassador to the united nations was withdrawn from consideration. state department officials say the issue was heather nauert's failure to pay taxes on a foreign-born nny. she paid retroactive taxes several years late and she is not going to continue as a state department spokeswoman. >>> president trump is now calling on europe to take back hundred of foreign fighters captured in syria and put them on trial or else the president threatened, the u.s. could be forced to release them, but as nbc's lucy cavanaugh reports that idea is facing opposition abroad. >> reporter: in syria, isis is cornered, and u.s.-backed kurdish forces are closing in. with the islamic state all, but gone, the question now, what to do with the foreigners who remain? like british teen shamima begam who ran away with classmates in 2015. >> i saw the videos on the internet and that kind of attracted me to them. >> reporter: speaking from a syrian refugee camp she says she has no regrets about joining isis. >> i h

. >>> finally, nationals kick offspring training dn in sunny west palm beach tonight against the astrosst pitch coming up in just a few minutes at 6:35 p.m. sherree burruss was down there in beautiful west palm as we've been dea ng with this less-than-pleasant weather. a little bitter, i'm just saying. >> very nice segu and withthat, somara. >> let's go ahead and take at look weather. tomorrow will be relatively pleasant, temperatures near 70. ha, take at. but the only thing is we are weather alert because of winds. winds will gust upwards of 50 miles per hour, 60 miles per hour possible in frederick county, ryland. but plenty of sunshine in the afternoon. you want to see what the next ten days holds? take a look at your screens. right now we are looking at a pretty dry start to e week. the one caveat is the winds. it could betty damaging tomorrow so keep a close eye on that. be in atures are going t the upper 60s tomorrow, guys, and then we'll slowly work our wak towards winter at the end of the week. >> we'll get another chance of seeing snow next weekend as well? on e'll keep a close

his first day following that emergency declaration at the trump international golf club down in palm beachthis photo of president trump at the club's omelet bar went viral, getting retweeted thousands of times over. >> seth: there's no clearer sign this is not a real emergency than the fact that he is at an omelet bar. [ laughter ] in a real emergency, no one goes to the omelet bar. [ laughter ] "the building is on fire!" "i'll be right there! oh, yeah, onions, green peppers, ham, do you have ham? [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] put it in a to go box!" also, it's good to see your emergency wear is the official uniform of golf grandpas everywhere. [ laughter ] look at him. he looks like a six-foot-tall band-aid. [ laughter ] i'm shocked he wasn't wearing a fanny pack and trying to get them to take an expired coupon. [ laughter ] i'm sorry, but that is not how a president should look ever, but especially during an emergency. when president obama got bin laden, he was in the situation room surrounded by generals. can you imagine trump overseeing that mission from the omelet bar at his go

from west palm beach. thank you. joining me, atima o'mara, elected member of the democratic national committee from virginia. you're the perfect person to talk about this. you have virginia all over your resume. >> yes, i do. >> let's get into this. first and most notably, you were involved with ralph northam's campaign for governor. so this racist photo, was it a surprise for you, and do you feel betrayed in any way? >> well, yes. i mean, to start off, what happened i think just to kind of take you back a little bit, what sort of happened friday night when this news sort of broke, was you know, i'm very, very glad, one, for having unlimited text messaging and phone call services. >> wow, yes. >> because everybody in virginia, especially involved in politics, especially black virginians involved in politics were calling each other, trying to figure out what happened. like many folks, i had not been paid staff, but i had been a surrogate on the campaign. i hosted a fund-raiser, which he came up for. i had a good relat