Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, the white house is pressing the senate to move quickly on the Health Care Bill passed by the white house to replace obamacare but some republicans are voicing concern and today on capitol hill will be on russias interference in the u. S. Election and the testimony of former acting attorney general sally yates. Hena daniels is here. Good morning, hena. Good morning, annemarie. In the meantime the Trump Administration continues to defend its plan to overhaul obamacare, which faces significant changes in the senate. Former acting attorney general sally yates will speak publicly for the first time today. Detailing her january warning to the white house about Michael Flynns contact with russias ambassador to the u. S. Here as to who knew what when, what was done with this. Questions could also be raised about whether the Trump Campaign colluded with last years e
It borders on a constitutional crisis. The more that a broken system items you that youre wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead. From abc news, its a special edition of this week. The firing of director comey. Here now, chief anchor george stephanopoulos. Good morning. And to all the moms out there happy mothers day. When this week began, the Trump White House was on something of a roll. Obamacare repeal had passed the house. Preparations for the president s first foreign trip including a meeting with the pope, were at pace. That was the calm. Then the storm. The decision to fire jam comey has plunged his white house into chaos. Galvanized his opponents. And raised the most serious questions yet about the president s competence, credibility, and judgment. Sit true that before last week, comeys toughest and president s do have the right to fire fbi directors. But its only been done once before for good reason. Preserving the idea that Law Enforcement is
Airports. And its a war of music. Well take you to the worldwide battle with more than a few political notes. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. In the tweet you said that there mige ht b rtapeecordings. That i cant talk about. I wont talk about. All i want for comey to be honest. President trump sends a message to james comey. All of a sudden youre raising somebody nobody had imagined and saying youd better wah out. That sounds more like a mafia boss than the president of a free republic. He fired him. Trump is acting like a petulant child. The president can do what the president wants to do, but we certainly object. We dont have press conferences. You dont mean that. You just dont have them unless i have them every two weeks and i have them. I think its a thess pre should be celebrating about this. If im the press, getting donald trump out there every two weeks, that would be a dream. Theyre scrambling following a massive cyber attack. Its not
And district of columbia. The immigrant scientist taking the coveted miss usa crown overnight being called one of the most intelligent contestants ever inspiring young girls around the world, but backlash growing this morning. Why her answers are sparking a social media firestorm. Good morning, america. Hope everybody had a wonderful mothers day weekend. A bit of a reaction to the new miss usa born in italy, grew number virginia. And this is the second year she represented d. C. And second year they won that title. She has a Community Outreach program called science exploration for kids and wants to inspire girls miss usa without some controversy. We have more on that. She is setting a good example as you said. Two big breaks stories. The latest on that massive cyberattack but first breaking new details about that north Korean Missile launch. New photos show kim jongun celebrating the test as north korea claims their rocket could carry a nuclear warhead. Our chief Global Affairs anchor
And mild. Lows 5964 winds sw 5 mph wednesday partly cloudy. Hot and humid. Highs 9095 winds s 510 mph happening right now. Metro opening up happening right happening right now. Metro opening up with safetrack fifteen now in effect. Starting this morning five stations on the orange line will be closed. Those are New Carrollton, landover, cheverly, deanwood and minnesota avenue. We are live at the New Carrollton station monitoring the impact. Well have a live report coming up at 5 15 now to our top story. Fast moving developments after a bombshell from the Washington Post. That report that President Trump handed over classified information to russian officials. The information was reportedly about how isis plans to use laptops to sneak bombs onto planes. The white house, swift as officials issue a strong denial. From the denial at the white house to outrage on the hill we are covering every angle of this developing story. Chief political reporter scott thuman begins our coverage. This mo