Good monday morning, im philip mena. Im frances rivera. President trump igniting a firestorm with a tweet and he suggested they go back and help fix the totally broken and crimeinfested places from which they came. While he didnt mention anyone by name he appeared to be referencing four freshmen democrats, none of whom are white, and all but one from the United States. Craig boswell has more from d. C. Democrats denounced the comments as racist. Reporter good morning, everyone racist is the key word and the four progressive congresswomen have fired back at the president as reaction from the president s tweets continue to add up this morning. Targeting a group of democratic congresswomen. The president saying they should back to the crimeinfe places y came from. All four are u. S. Citizens all but one born in the u. S. A sad state of affairs when the president of the United States is going to use race in a way that the divides the country and then be ignorant about who all these people
Me and that are me, of course, but it excludes a lot of people in his base as well. And i think that hes trying to divide so he can conquer, not unite so we can all conquer. Anything he can do that is not all Megan Rapinoe said early today starts right now good monday morning im phillip mena and im frances rivera. Great being back with you again. Its been a couple of weeks. Sure has. Everybody its hard to leave vacation, right . But when you love your job as much as i do, makes it a little bit better well, glad to have you back we begin with communities under water, coastal ones, as tropical depression barry churns over the south floods putting people in louisiana and six other states as barrnt battle wn the coast guard rescued 12 people left stranded in flooded homes. Kerry sanders is in louisiana with the latest. Reporter good morning, frances. The flood waters are lower than they were, but the troubles here in louisiana are far from over in louisiana, barry still making a mess omino
Ed isly the president picked up what facebook is looking at. He has a proposal of his own coming up as well. First to the story that broke earlier today in washington, the embattled labor secretary alex acosta from stepping down from his position in President Trumps cabinet. Blake burman live at the white house with the latest on that. Reporter connell, the timeline fairly quick when you look how it unfolded last week. On saturday the feds took Jeffrey Epstein into authority. The Southern District of new york laid out its case, the newest charges they presented against epstein. That forced labor secretary alex acosta to go before cameras here in washington, d. C. , on wednesday to defend the 2018 nonprosecution agreement deal that he strong with epstein and epsteins attorneys back in florida more than a decade ago. Fast forward to this morning, friday morning, acosta submitted his letter of resignation to the president. The president was complimentary of acosta who said he is stepping
Just out he says that we know we need to take the time to get this right. And he expects that the time between now and the launch period will be an open process and he acknowledges that it will be subject to Regulatory Oversight and review he also says that he agrees with the concerns of fed chairman jay powell, that reviewing libra needs to be a patient and thorough process rather than a sprint to implementation david marcus also calls Economic Empowerment one of facebooks core values. Thats why theyre participating in the development of this currency he says and emphasizes that libra will be a payment tool and not an investment. He likens it to cash rather than to boyitcoin but he also lays out the danger of failing to act. He says that if the u. S. And facebook does not take the lead on this issue, we could soon see a Digital Currency controlled by others, whose values are dramatically different so there you see david marcus agreeing that the organization that will create this Digit
There is more than just another grand slam title at stake for the american athlete. On the rock its great to have you along everyone turkey has received the 1st shipments of a russian s 400 Missile Defense system despite the threat of sanctions from the United States and concerns of its nato allies of the white house has threatened turkey with quote real and negative consequences while nato has warned the russian system could reveal sensitive details about the alliances defenses. Turkish t. V. Broadcast this footage of a Russian Air Force cargo plane at an airbase in ankara delivering parts of a russian s 400 Missile Defense system but Turkish Foreign minister confirmed deliveries had begun. And if we say this each time this is a done deal and the process continues. Russian sources say yes 400. 00 anti aircraft system could reach targets at an altitude of up to 30 kilometers and has a range of 400 kilometers turkey is a member of the western Nato Alliance the u. S. Has wanted it will n