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You just got the new reporting on the a. G. Barr deciding not to release the report today. Why . Whats going on . They didnt explain to congress exactly the rationale for not providing the principal conclusions to the key committee, thats the House Judiciary Committee and the Senate Judiciary committee, other than saying it is not coming today. There is an expectation it could very well land tomorrow. Bill barr himself said in his letter to congress, last night, that as soon as this weekend, they could get briefed, lawmakers could get briefed on the principal conclusions of the Mueller Report. Now, theres still a lot of questions about what that means. Will there be summarized anyway by the attorney general . How much detail . What do lawmakers get . But nevertheless, today, people are awaiting, in anticipation of learning what bob mueller found. It is not going to happen today, according to multiple congressional sources and a Justice Department official and perhaps because bill barr is still going through the report, as he did today and we will see if the lawmakers learn tomorrow, there is of course a lot of high anticipation here on the hill. Fred . And manu, we know that apparently coming out of the Mueller Report, there will be no further indictments, and now, House Speaker nancy pelosi has sent a letter to house democrats, ahead of this caucuswide, you know, phone conference later on. Just about an hour away. And what is she saying . What is she wanting to make clear . Well, she wants to get her caucus all on the same page. Theres a lot of anxiety among democrats now that this investigation is over. Democrats want to know what the next steps are for their new majority, how they plan to pursue, it and essentially try to keep everybody on the same page. Well, nancy pelosi said in this letter today, that she expects, she was demanding the full report, to be released to the public, as well as to provide the underlying evidence that underpins the decisions by bob mueller to prosecute. And not to prosecute, to be given to capitol hill, and she said this in the letter, even if d. O. J. Chooses not to prosecute additional individuals, the underlying findings must be provided to congress and the American People. The attorney general has offered to provide the committees with a summary of the reports conclusions, is insufficient. Congress requires the full report, and the underlying documents so that the committees can proceed with their independent work, including oversight and legislating, to address any issues the Mueller Report may raise, and one of those committees is the House Judiciary Committee, which has launched this investigation into potential obstruction of justice. They are demanding documents from a range of individuals close to the president , and were now learning that jared kushner, the president s soninlaw, and senior adviser, has agreed to provide some documents to the committee answering a range of their questions about what happened in the campaign, the inauguration, the transition and in the white house. Well see what they learn from that. But democrats are trying to make the case, this is just the beginning of their investigation going forward. But they need to see what mueller has as a road map of sorts for how they plan to proceed. Fred . Manu raju, thank you so much from capitol hill. Jessica schneider is at the u. S. Justice department. Right now the attorney general still reviewing the russia report. Is this an indication that perhaps he is changing the approach of what conclusions would be presented . Needs a little bit more time . Well, overall, this is really a process. We know that the attorney general sent this letter to Congress Pretty quickly yesterday, after receiving this confidential report from the special counsel Robert Mueller. That reception of the report was around 4 00 yesterday afternoon. Shortly thereafter, around 5 00 p. M. , thats when we saw the letter that he sent to congress, advising them that he would be reviewing this report, and then advising them of the special counsels principal conclusions. So today, were getting word from the Justice Department, confirming that those principal conclusions will not be transmitted to congress today. However, in that letter, the attorney general said that he expects it as soon as this weekend. So were still on standby perhaps for tomorrow. But again, this is a process. You know, the attorney general has to go through this confidential report from the special counsel. He reviewed it for a few hours yesterday. And was back at work this morning, coming here to the Justice Department, just before 10 00 this morning. You know, but he has to review the report, and then after that, he has to write his own report, to congress, where he advises them of these principal conclusions, and no doubt, there will be a lot of scrutiny on this report, that the attorney general issues to congress, because it will be made public, so no doubt, that is on the attorney generals mind as well as hes working through this throughout the day today. Something important to note here, fred, the attorney general is not doing this on his own, he made it clear to congress and weve heard here at the Justice Department obviously that he is in consultation with the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein, Rod Rosenstein front and center because he is the one who appointed the special counsel way back 22 months ago in may 2017 and who oversaw this entire process, while the attorney general at the time, jeff sessions, had recused himself from the russia investigation. So theyre essentially working in tandem. And to that end, you know, from this letter to congress, that is something that bill barr made explicit. He told congress i intend to consult with Deputy Attorney general rosenstein and special counsel mueller to determine what other information from the report can be released to congress, and the public, consistent with the law, including the special counsel regulations, and the departments longstanding practicing and policies. So fred, not only talking with rosenstein, but also perhaps consulting with the special counsel here, the one who drafted this confidential report, but now, were in this holding pattern. It looks like it will not come to congress today. So of course, with that expectation that it could be as soon as this weekend, we stand by and see what happens tomorrow. Fred . Thank you, barr consulting with the principles involved, a 2 month investigation after all. Jessica schneider, thank you so much. So as all of this unfold, President Trump remains silent as he spends the weekend at maralago and this afternoon, we did see the president golfing at his club in west palm beach. Cnn White House Reporter Boris Sanchez joining us right now. So boris, no comment from the president so far. But his actions, you know, come across as rather relaxed. Yes, we just heard from the Deputy Press Secretary who was with a group of reporters, where the president was golfing today, at his golf club here in west palm beach, and he was asked what the president s mood was and it was a bit of a short response, all he said is that the president is fine and good, and he pointed to a statement put out by press secretary Sarah Sanders yesterday, via twitter, responding to this news coming from the department of justice, where she says that she is looking forward to the process taking its course. So the white house at least publicly has been restrained in its response. Privately, though, its a bit of a different story. One white house source telling cnns pamela brown, that the fat lady has sung. They were suggesting that democrats and the press should be embarrassed by this news that Robert Mueller had wrapped up his investigation, without any further charges, and that no one, no trump associate was ultimately charged with collusion or conspiracy, either during the campaign, or his time at the white house. Another source on the Trump Campaign telling cnn that yesterday was a good day for america. So theres certainly a sense of vindication, as to whether we will hear from President Trump on this or not, that is yet to be seen. We know he is surrounded near maralago by top aides you whethering two top attorneys, so whatever the white house says, you can bet they will weigh in and have some input on what the president s response will be. And boris, you know, the white house has announced who will represent the u. S. In beijing, looking ahead, because the white house is trying to do that, when trade talks resume next week, and give us details on that. Thats right. Sarah sanders put out a Statement Today confiring that trade representative Bob Lighthizer and the treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin will be headed to beijing next week to try to finalize these trade talks, in some form of a trade deal, with china, and something that the president has long been working toward. We have been hearing from sources that there was potential that he would invite chinese president xi here to maralago to sign off on that deal at some point this month. That ultimately had to be delayed as the talks are still ongoing. White house sources indicate that may actually happen next month, fred. Boris sanchez, thank you so much. Lets talk further on all of this with me now, cnn senior White House Correspondent pamela brown, cnn crime and justice reporter shimon prokupecz, jeff mason, a White House Correspondent for reuters, and steve hall retired cia chief of russia operations. Glad you could all be with me. So pamela, this is something else, that the president has not said a peep, you know. So the whole team is there in support of, and likely controlling him from tweeting out, commenting. How hard are they working to do that . Trying to. I think weve seen the president kind of does what he wants to do. Its clearly a wait and see approach by President Trump. He was very vocal before this news came out yesterday, in that interview, where he said, look, Robert Mueller didnt even get vote, and now hes going to write this report on me. Now that the report is delivered, the president has a muted response, he is not even saying anything and even the white house response yesterday was pretty restrained saying basically we will leave this up to bill barr and i spoke to a source close to the president s legal team who said look, this is a wait and see approach. We feel confident, but lets get the plane on the runway and see what we got. Lets see what is actually in this report. So while privately, white house officials, as boris said, are framing this as a win, as an indication there were no indictments, no charges on collusion, the president never had to sit down for an interview with Robert Mueller, there is a level of anxiousness about what could be in the report. Is there any conduct written out in the report about the president that is unseemly, or concerning . They dont know. So i think youre waiting, what youre seeing from the president is, he is waiting to see how he should respond. And then i wonder, shimon, this is the president s pick, bill barr, perhaps this is also deferring to giving him some respect to do his thing. Im going to refrain from commenting. And im hoping that, you know, to a degree, hes going to shape the narrative. I think, so i dont think bill barr is going to shape the narrative here. What i do think is you do make a good point that this is his pick, the people certainly around the president really like this attorney general, thats why he was there, and he also made certain requests before he went in, and took the nomination, so they know hes a serious guy. They trust him. I do think that there is a lot of trust there with him. And so far, i think what weve seen from him, we all should have a little trust in him. I think weve seen all more than we expected in the early stages of this, that letter that was sent to members of congress yesterday, indicated things that we did not expect to see, like the issue about the principal conclusions, the idea that he was going to work through this weekend and get this out as quickly as possible. And i think those are positive signs, and theyre working through, theyre trying to be transparent, they say, well see. And perhaps barr trying to be rather honest today by saying i need a little bit more time. Not going to release that information today. It may come tomorrow. The letter said sometime this weekend. So steve, while we do know that there are no new indictments, you know, what does this mean for all of the russian nationals who have been connected, upwards of 29, i mean is there really any hope, or thought that they would ever be prosecuted, brought to the United States, to talk . No, i dont think so, fred, i mean those people are unlikely, as has been said many times, so see the inside of an american courtroom. It is no small thing that these russians will pretty much in perpetuity into the future will not be able to come to the United States and many of them like to travel internationally. You know, as frustrating as it is, fred, we just dont know yet what the full report says. And even deeper than that, as part of the entire process that mueller was the head of, he spun off we know, several things, to places like the Southern District of new york, which are very, very well equipped to do counterintelligence investigations. And those are the longest and most complex types of things that go on, that sometimes have very difficult legal and of course, National Security implications. So we really dont know yet what is going on. And when it is going to go on and where it is going on. We have to remember that some very notorious spies not that im saying any american is a spy but guys like ames and hanson who were spies for russia were prosecuted in the Eastern District of virginia. So these directs have a lot of, districts have a lot of ability to continue counterintelligence investigations which is my main concern. Yef, tjeff, the president ha a few reasons to feel vindication, he escaped a oneonone face to face interview with Robert Mueller and we are learning there are no further indictments, however all of this could still shape his tone for his reelection. Oh, totally. I think if the report comes out and the optimism that seems to be coming amongst some republicans and maybe in the white house now, because of the fact that no more indictments are coming, yes, i mean that could turn out to be really good news. On the other hand, we dont know whats in that report. Because there will be details. Yes, i mean they had, he has a story to tell in that report, and we dont know what that story is yet. But whatever it is, certainly if it is more positive towards the president , then hes going to use that as he goes out into the reelection campaign. And the other side of the aisle, the democrats are going to use it, too, if it goes more the way that perhaps they were expecting it to go. So pamela, there is a pretty good chance that they would, the white house would exert some sort of executive privilege to try to contain any of those details from that report, from getting out. How might we see ha . Thats right. And ill tell you, the white house has been bracing for a fight over the report, over the disclosure of it, and the expectation is this very well could end up in a federal court, with the judge deciding who gets to see this report. While the president out wardly says put the report out there and let the people see it, the white house lawyers have been strategizing how theyre going to deal with this because it wants to have, the white house wants to have the opportunity to exert executive privilege before it goes to congress, thats one of the Big Questions right now, will bill barr share what he is going to share with congress with the white house beforehand. We dont know the answer to that yet but the expectation is they will have the opportunity to do so, and theyre going to try to shield as much information as possible, particularfully it is unsleemly or looks poor for the president. Now, if it is exonerating. If it is exculpatory, they may take a different tact. They are also waiting to see. And steve, shielding some information because it is classified information is also a pleasure that just might be taken. Yes, this is always a really tough thing when youre talking about again counterintelligence, and foreign national, and youre talking about sources and methods, and although i very much want to see whats in the report, because i still have some significant counterintelligence questions that i would like to see answered, you do have to worry about the sources that were used, the methods that were used, and of course from a legal perspective, you also got to be careful about people who might have been investigated but ended up not being guilty or involved in any way, shape, or form so that is always a tough line to walk. And you know, there was an expectation of who might be the big fish, you know, more indictments, and it turns out really it could have been Paul Manafort and you know roger stone, right . Roger stone, the trial coming up. I will tell you the big fishes. The big fish is the russians in the end, right . Theyre very much responsible for what happened here in terms of the interference. And i think that has always been the main concern for the fbi, and really the special counsel team. Its the russians. What were the russians doing . It is why they wanted Paul Manaforts cooperation am many ways. I know we were very much focused on the president and whether or not his cooperation was going to somehow harm the president , but if you look in these hearings what the questions that they wanted from, and the answers that they wanted from Paul Manafort, was like this meeting that he had with constantine kalimnik a russian that goes to the heart of the investigation, and that part of this is not going away. And theyre going to continue, the fbi is going to continue, doing that work, trying to figure out exactly what the russians were doing here, and we have other people, obviously, that are still cooperating, like rick gates, who is probably cooperating with the Southern District of new york, and other u. S. Attorneys offices. From everything i can tell and from what i have been told, he is a star witness for the department of justice. He is bringing them a lot of evidence. Theyre not ready to finish with him. They dont want it out there publicly what hes doing. Michael flynn is kind of done. With were just waiting for one case. And if reportedly there are no more indictments then whats the cooperating . Other cases. Other what other information could come that would be helpful . So other cases. We know the sdny is investigating the trump nug ral committee. Rick gates was a senior official on the inaugural committee. So presumably, hes helping on that case. But clearly, theres not going to be indictments according to our reporting related to the central mandate for mueller which was collusion with russia, in the Trump Campaign and obstruction of justice. So that in and of itself, were done, i mean thats basically what we learned yesterday. One has to wonder, jeff, potentially it is these other offshoot investigations, will that explain all of the lying, whats with all of the lying with so many parties in all of this, and if it doesnt come from the Mueller Report, when wilt we ever know . Not to mention the instinct by the president and people around him to undermine the investigation, by calling it is a witch hunt, by saying it wasnt necessary, im very curious to see how the president will react, if the report comes out to exonerate him. Will there be backtracking from the effort to say it is a ridiculous process or be sort of a turnaround and say he did a good job, you know, that he really is a respected person, and im glad he is the one who was leading this. Well see. Well see. And we could also say, look, i said it was a witch hunt, it was a witch hunt, there werent any other charges brought, on collusion, i mean it wasnt, well see how he tries to frame this. Thanks to all of you. Appreciate it. Thank you to everyone. Still ahead, even though the Mueller Report is complete, there is still potential for legal jeopardy for the president , the other investigation swirling around the white house, next. There is this place. It cant be found on just any map. A place miles from the beaten path. Overcoming twists and turns, ups and downs. Whatever life throws. A place to always strive for. For all the journeys that make us stronger. Might mean a trip back to the Doctors Office just for a shot. 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The special counsels russia investigation may be over, but the president s legal troubles are not necessarily finished. Prosecutors in the Southern District of new york have already issued a broad subpoena to President Trumps inaugural committee, and there is also an investigation into campaign finances, including the hush money payments to stormy daniels, and karen mcdougal. New york prosecutors were also the ones to obtain a guilty plea against trumps personal attorney michael cohen. I want to bring in cnns erika orderen, glad you could be with us, there you are, hi. What can you tell us about some of the other investigations now, particularly, sdny . So there is a broad array of investigations regarding trump and those in his orbit, mostly coming out of new york, new yorkbased agencies and offices, and you mentioned some oust manhattan u. S. Attorneys office that involved the Trump Organization including an inquiry whether there are reimbursements efforts towards michael cohen. There is also the new York Attorney general, has a civil lawsuit against the trump foundation, theres an inquiry from the new York State Department of financial services, into the Trump Organizations insurance practices. And theres several other beyond that as well. So if there is a kind of collective relief that, you know, President Trump, and those close to him are feeling, as a result of the Mueller Report, not promising any more indictments, is there a way in which to measure away these other lower district, or state cases, are they less serious than any kind of federal prosecution that could have come from a Mueller Report . I wouldnt say theyre less serious. Some of them are federal inquiries, all of the manhattan u. S. Attorneys cases, it is a federal prosecutors office, so those would be federal charges, if they were to bring cases involving them. In addition, the other inquiries could have significant impacts for the Trump Organization business, its also, the attorneys lawsuit, has also, has already impacted the president s, what is now his former charity, the charity has agreed to dissolve, and so there could be various other consequences for the organizations and people close to the president. All right, erica orden, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Josh campbell, a former fbi supervisory agent who worked for james comey and former new york city prosecutor and cnn legal analyst paul callen, thanks for joining us. Josh, lets start with you, with news that we are getting, the rick gates case before judge Amy Burman Jackson will be handed off to the dc u. S. Attorneys office now. Is there anything you can share about that . So this shows that there is still work to be done in a lot of these investigations. Now if you were in the white house, or youre part of the trump family, obviously, weve heard some reports that their celebrating a little bit in the sense that there wont be any additional indictments but there is still work to be done, and if you look at the shear number of cases that Robert Mueller has brought since the beginning of his investigation, it shows that there was righteous criminality here, that he was charged with investigationing. 199 charges in all. 199 charges. Thats right. And thats just bob mueller. And you know, you asked erica a very good question then, about the state charges, whether it is any less serious than what mueller has done and i have to tell you that jail is jail, and whether the bars in front of you are funded by taxpayers of the state level or federal level, jail is jail and this family is facing serious legal jeopardy with investigation on top of investigation. So bottom line here, i dont think there should be champagne corks popping down 1600 pennsylvania everybody. I think there are all of these other investigators doing this work. Had is how i liken to, it is like putting out the fire in your kitchen only to remember you have a termite problem. It is good to have it out of the way, but they are not out of the woods yet when it comes to people looking into their lives. Josh, is there a feeling even if the Mueller Probe is complete, that the expansion of these other cases could actually deepen or even widen . They could. Because if you remember, Robert Muellers mandate was very limited. And in the sense that it was two prongs, the first being trying to determine whether there was collusion between the Trump Campaign and the rush bes and the second prong, if he identified any other crimes during the course of the investigation, but those were the guardrails. Now, compare that with what state prosecutors can do, compare that with what federal prosecutors in new york can do, and lastly, what the democratic investigators can do in the rouse of helicopter risks, they dont have those same house of representatives, they dont have those same constraints, so it will get worse before it gets better in my judgment. What do you think is going on with the attorney general william barr, we understand as he is pouring over awful these details in what is called a comprehensive report from bob mueller, the deputy ag. Rod rosenstein, is there, that barr would say yesterday that these principal conclusions would come this weekend but apparently were getting word it is not going to happen today. What do you suppose is happening . Is he reshaping . Is he simply trying to read through all of this . I think hes got a tough job, fred, because we know that mueller is very detailed and very thorough. Look at. So indictments that were handed down, look at some of the indictments that were handed down, they lay out in enormous detail the facts of the case with exhibits, so you can imagine, since there have been dozen, literally dozens of indictments, and more than, i think around ten guilty pleas in the case, there is an enormous volume of information that barr could be looking at in this report. And hes got a choice. He can rewrite and submit, you know, a shortened version of the report. Or he can use his troops in the Justice Department to go through the entire report, and try to redact references to secret grand jury testimony, and counterintelligence classified information. We just dont know what he is doing at this point and what he means by principal conclusions. So thats a lot. So redacting is one thing. And then, you know, if you are shortening or coming up with your own version of conclusions, youre not going to do that unless youve read through all of it. And 22month investigation, i mean that, i cant imagine how many pages were talking about, paul. It could be an enormous report. And ill tell you something. Books. The thing that im looking at, is the president is hardly a recluse in terms of his wanting to trumpet that this is a witch hunt and that he has been exonerated and now were only hearing what he is doing on the golf course, so this report has to be so detailed that even his white house lawyers are saying, you know, you better hold back until we have a complete picture of whats there, bought iecaus stel you even if trump is exonerated on the russia connection, it is bound to have embarrassing statements and connections and the one thing that we take away from the report, that mueller has opened pandoras box against the president , because when he started looking at the Trump Organization, he just set off a whole new inquiry that could go on until the end of the trump presidency. Right. So josh, the president and those close to him, perhaps even his family, theyre not necessarily out of the woods. Just because the president may feel some level of vindication from the ending of the Mueller Report. All of those other cases that you have been talking about, that that graphic showed us, ongoing investigations, that have come from the Mueller Report, theyre still a lot of potential, isnt there, of charges and probes . Yes, absolutely am and if you think about it, too, these investigations dont have the same constraints in the sense, not only substantively, i mentioned what muellers mandate was, but also, federal prosecutors in new york, their their investigations can go on and on and on until they have, until they have that sense of confidence that there is no crimin criminality or they finished their investigation and this could go on for a come more years and with respect to the president with regard to the Mueller Report, we dont know what is in it, we are still waiting to he waiting to hear that but although weve had the signaling that no others have been indicted, we have seen the collision of politics and law in the last two years but the question will come down to, will mueller say the president has been involved in criminality but mueller and the department of justice chose not to prosecutor by nature of his position as president , that doesnt mean he is innocent, that means theyre not moving on him and it is a new phase on capitol hill, what do they do with that, when the Prosecutor Says the president committed wrongdoing but we cant move on him and thats why i agree with paul, this could be a couple of tough years and things dont look good in my estimation based on the number of investigations under way. That sounds a lot more comeyesque, post the Hillary Clinton probe, but do you see mueller taking that kind of tactic, you know, injecting, we wish we, could but then we didnt, and we couldnt, or just be a little bit more pragmatic about his conclusions . I dont know, thats a great question, fred, because when you look back at comey, when comey had that press conference, where he exonerated hillary, but was highly critical of how she had handled classified information, many people think that cost her the presidency, and of course, it cost comey his job, in the long run. So is mueller going to go down that same road . You know, the Justice Department has always had a policy that if they do an investigation that does not result in criminal charges, they generally dont make detailed public statements about such investigations. But here, of course, we have an investigation involving the president of the United States. So im not so sure that the same rule book will apply. All right. And if i could just add there, i mean thats the key difference, right, between the hillary case and the president. A candidate versus now sitting president. Right, the fbi didnt have to describe her actions, where as if the president is offlimits because of the nature of his job, what do the American People do with that information if there is criminality out there but theyre not allowed to do anything with it. Josh campbell, paul callen, all fantastic thoughts. Thank you so much. Thank you. Still ahead, Coalition Forces say they have defeated isis in syria, driving the terror group from its strong hold. How weeks of fierce fighting finally came to an end, and what happens next. woman what should we do with it first . man road trip. woman yes. woman offroad trip. couple [laughter] couple vo whoa man how hot is the diablo chili . waitress well. Youve got to sign a waiver. [laughter] ranger you folks need bear repellent . woman ah, were good. man yes. vo its a big world. 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The president says in part, im pleased to announce that together with our partners in the Global Coalition to defeat isis, including the Iraqi Security forces, and the Syrian Democratic force, the United States has liberated all isis controlled territory in syria and iraq, 100 of the caliphate. But as the Syrian Defense forces raise liberation flags over the final isis stronghold, its a victory that can only resonate so far. The breeding ground and ideology of isis still thrives. Cnns ben wedeman has been on the ground in syria for the past 50 days now, ben, how exactly did this historical territorial victory happen . Reporter well, it happened as a result of a confluence of interests between local forces, whether that be the kurds, in syria, and iraq, and the shia in iraq, and ironically, iran, the United States, the western powers, all coming together, realizing that isis was a very broad threat, threatening the regional order here, in the middle east, so for instance, i was in parts of iraq, when american and iranian force, they werent working together, but they were working in parallel to bolster iraqi forces. So one of those rare moments in history, where enemies come together, to defeat an even worse enemy, in this case, and that of course, was isis, which was a sort of regime the sorts of which had not been seen here in the middle east. Utterly sectarian. It had no qualms at mass murder. And reviving the institution of slavery in the 21st century. But of course, now that isis has been completely eliminated, were already beginning to see the old tensions coming to the fore. 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I will read you more of the statement where kraft essentially apologized where he writes throughout my life, i have always tried to do the right thing, the last thing i would ever want to do is disrespect another human being, i have extraordinary respect for women, my morals and my soul were shaped by the most wonderful woman, the love of my life, who i was blessed to have as my partner for 50 years, referring to his late wife there. What is interesting is this is coming a week after his attorneys announced that they would seek a protective order that would essentially block the release of the surveillanvideos police are considering evidence in the case and it is as cast is expected no to take up prosecutors on the offer, to dismiss charges in exchange for his admission that we have been convicted if the case had gone to trial and as well as other various consequences such as a fin and community service. 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You can see the ship in the distance in the video here. Helicopters in fact, covering above the ship, air lifting people off the ship, one by one. Multiple boats are also taking part in rescuing the 1300 passengers and crew on board. So this is going to take a bit of time. Norwegian Emergency Services say that the crew sent a may day distress signal reporting engine problems and bad weather there. This is all happening off the west coast of norway. The rescued passengers are being flown to a nearby town. And there were reports of high winds in the area when the ships engines experienced problems. The viking sky is owned by viking ocean cruise ships. And we have not received any reports of injuries thankfully at this time but it does look pretty harrowing and frightening and the weather is not cooperating. All right, here is a look at other top stories for you, hundreds of thousands of protesters marched shoulder to shoulder today, in the streets of london. They are demanding a second referendum ahead of crucial brexit deadline. And british Prime Minister theresa may has until april 12 12 to get others to agree to the brexit deal or leave without a deal and if parliament agrees to a deal, the European Union will give the u. K. Until may 22 to leave. A petition calling on the uk to cancel brexit has reached over four million signatures. Meantime, the search is on for two men in the deadly shooting of an offduty Chicago Police officer. Police say two offduty officers, and two others, were leaving a nightclub in Downtown Chicago early this morning and thats when two men approached them. One of them pulled out a gun and started shooting. Two people were shot, including one of the officers. Chicagos Police Superintendent says it appears the attack was unprovoked. First responders lined the streets in a procession for the deceased officer. He has been identified as a twoyear veteran, john rivera. 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