congressional representatives at the u.n. security council. jasmine, following it all for us. thank you. also this morning, some wild weather. 50 million americans are under wind advisories in the east right now. violent storms tore through parts of alabama last night. wow, look at that. cnn s derek van dam joins me with more on this. derek, good morning. there are winter storm alerts along the great lakes. how bad is this going to get? yeah. you know, in fact, this is a very multi-faceted storm that brought snow on the north side, the cold side of the storm and severe weather to the south. you can see how much is at play here in the atmosphere. that tug of war between the cold air to the north and the warm air to the south. unfortunately we had four tornado reports in alabama. we had over 40 severe wind reports and several hail reports. we had over 100,000 people without power or customers without power across the eastern half of the country. stretching towards the deep south. t
you can do about that. they are trying to say how do we get away with this politically because of course we are guilty. and they cannot get the president to behave because he knows that he engaged in this, and he frankly thinks there is nothing wrong with him engaging in this. you are dealing with a client that thinks it s all right to rob banks. so how do you have a defense against that. you are trying to get somebody in the jury to just hang the jury. and that s what they want the senate republicans to do. i was in alabama last night. my mother was from alabama and she said, son, you were born and raised in brooklyn, new york, you don t know anything about farming. i will give you one clue. i said what is that. she said if you throw a brick in a pile of hogs, the one that hollers is the one you hit. we sow who was hollering today. the only one who was hollering was donald trump. he was hollering over twitter while everyone else was being civilized.
relations committee member on what lawmakers may do to stop the president. what do you say? let s get after it. look, it matters that it s all men make these decisions. 25 lawmakers voted to take away a woman s right to control her own body in alabama last night. now, this afternoon the state s female governor did sign that extreme anti-abortion bill into law. it will make it a felony for a service provider, medical provider, a clinician, a doctor to perform an abortion at any stage of pregnancy, even if there is a health risk to the mother. not even impregnation by rape or impregnation by incest. neither is excluded. listen to one of the four women in the alabama senate taking her male colleagues to task. do you know what it s like to be raped? no, ma am, i don t. do you know what it s like to
about the military plans this president and his pals are working up to deal with iran. where is congress in the equation? the constitution says they are supposed to declare war, not the president. we have a senate foreign relations committee member on what lawmakers may do to stop the president. what do you say? let s get after it. look, it matters that it s all men make these decisions. 25 lawmakers voted to take away a woman s right to control her own body in alabama last night. now, this afternoon the state s female governor did sign that extreme anti-abortion bill into law. it will make it a felony for a service provider, medical provider, a clinician, a doctor to perform an abortion at any stage of pregnancy, even if there is a health risk to the mother. not even impregnation by rape or
it s certain, dave and christine, that he s making some digs at the current president. yeah, for the former presidents out there watching the political discourse in this country and remaining mostly quiet, one wonders behind closed doors what they really think. maybe some of those students will be able to elicit some comments on the record. thank you. former fbi director james comey is urging all who believe in this country s values to vote for democrats in the upcoming midterm elections. the lifelong republican tweeting last night, this republican congress has proven incapable of fulfilling the founders design that ambition must counteract ambition. policy differences don t matter right now. history has its eyes on us. comey continues to be the target of harsh criticism from the president and his allies over his role in the clinton e-mail probe. republican congresswoman martha roby survived a primary runoff in alabama last night. cnn projecting she s defeated