When you look at these specific questions about outreach by the campaign to russia, arent these questions about collusion . Once again, im not going to get into a back and forth about questions leaked or anything having to do with the Special Counsel and i would refer you to the president s attorney. With the exception a swipe at schiff. The white house passes the buck. While the president says the buck doesnt even exist. Keeping them honest, the buck may not stop there. The president didnt wait long to weigh in on these possible mueller questions. Reporter while the president tweeted about these things this morning, he did not answer the question. I was in the oval office with him earlier today and asked him if he wanted to comment on these questions. And he declined to do so. It appears that be the white house and the president prefer
from House Republicans who have been backed by speaker paul ryan, turned over documents giving the republicans access. There are thousands of other doc
Later, the head of the centers for Disease Control and prevention, saying that every model the cdc tracks, forecasts 100,000 deaths in the u. S. By the 1st of june. Just over two weeks from now. Now, that comes as 28 states have seen a downward trend on their rate of new cases. Even though the country adds, roughly, 1,500 deaths a day. Sometimes more. The current u. S. Death toll, now approaching 88,000. Meanwhile, the u. S. House passed a 3 trillion coronavirus aid package. Mostly, along party lines. Republicans, though, say the bill is dead on arrival in the republicancontrolled senate. And word that retail sales dropped 16. 4 in april. And the retail icon jc penney, filing for bankruptcy protection. Now, the White House Coronavirus task force is adding five new members. Interesting because they include agriculture and labor secretaries and they are clearly a clue that the group is going to be focusing on the economy going forward. But the most pressing issue and the biggest challeng
Stays, the worse the Health Problems will get. The americorps began releasing water from two floodcontrol dams in houston this morning to prevent an even greater disaster. Many people are questioning why houston was not evacuated before the storm. Federal officials will hold a briefing in the next hour to update all of us on their response to this unfolding disaster. As President Trump says he plans lets begin with cnns alex mark cart live in houston. Reporter across the city, roads have turned to rivers, catastrophic flooding, as you mentioned. Theres an suv is that is almost completely submerged. A truck right behind that that has also gotten stuck, just to give you a sense of the rainfall, 20 to 25 inches falling so far on this area with reports of 30 inches in harris county, the most populous county here in houston with much more to come. This is an allhandsondeck rescue effort. An additional thousand National Guard troops has. The authorities have been telling people to shelter in
Im standing in, this is wil dloet chester west. They will have to rebuild. Their houses are subsumed right now. The first floors, driveways, garages, by water. The white house estimates more than 100,000 homes are either damaged or destroyed. T entire neighborhoods that were once green are now submerged with water. So, of course, there are concerns about contamination and diseases in these floodwaters. I can tell you, chris, the mosquitos are out in full force this morning. They, of course, thrive in this standing water and humidity here. Ill tell you what, really a sad picture of the tragedy is that where you are, if you look at that home behind you, thats almost the best Case Scenario right now for people, is that their home isnt completely saturated with water, but the neighborhood is unlivable and time is going to be the factor. This is not going anywhere for weeks. Alisyn, stay away from those bugs. Fema announcing they have approved assistance for nearly 100,000 people. Remember,
Present. Hashtag democrat shutdown. Correspondent manu raju joins us now live from capitol hill. So manu, what are you hearing about these meetings . Reporter well there is dividing lines stark this morning. I can tell you the republicans in this Conference Meeting largely united behind their insistence that immigration should not be tied to any bill to open the government. They are saying out of this meeting the government should be reopened first before we deal with any side negotiations on the issue of negotiations before that march deadline where all of those d. R. E. A. M. Ers, people under the daca program may lease legal status. They dont want to tie the two issues together. But im told about a senior democratic source that they will democrat insisting that needs to be part of any funding solution. Some resolution on the daca issue. Something similar to the socalled d. R. E. A. M. Act that democrats have been pushing for a very long time. They are in sifting there needs to be a