Of donald trump from the Supreme Court nominee. Neil gorsuch using the words demoralizing of the attacks on the judicial. Minority leader Chuck Schumer was involved in the meeting. This was all complaining about the president. The letter reads lawyers believe the president s personal attacks on individual judges and the Judicial Branch are improper and destructive. Judges face ethical constraints, the letter calls on the president to retract and end personal attacks. The president has been firing off tweets pressuring judges or criticizing them like this about the judge who suspended his travel ban. The opinion of this socalled judge takes Law Enforcement away from our country is ridiculous and be overturned. Decision on whether that judge crossed the line when he halted the executive order could come as early as today. We get more from cnns jeff zeleny. Reporter christine and miguel, in a speech here in washington, the president delivering a sharp tone generals judges. Questio questio
Kennedy you mean 100 years ago . Brian i think it was victrola. Harris their smartphones, you can take it all in this time. Lets start with the news, tonight President Trump will announce his plan to go forward in afghanistan, former adviser to the United States and nato commander in afghanistan, andrew peake was waiting in earlier. The president has a strong cultural bond with a lot of the enlisted ground forces. He talks in warlike terms, talking about defeating the enemy, i expect him to tell them that they are not in afghanistan to nation build, but if more troops come to afghanistan, there to hunt terrorists, not to nation build and kind of prop up the Afghan Government. Harris Jennifer Griffin is live from the pentagon. Jennifer, our nations longest war. Thats right, it has been seven months since the inauguration, tonight President Trump will announce his strategy for afghanistan. We do not expect to hear the president talk troop numbers tonight. We do expect him to announce tha
Hardest hit in southwest houston. Whats the latest there. This is a very large residential area. We talked to Houston Police and they say this is one of the hardest hit area. They are pouring resources into the area. We been here for a few hours. People have abandoned their homes. A short while ago a woman was locked out with a tv covered by plastic and that seems like that was basically all she had. There are steady walls of rain. We been on the ground for about 48 hours and this has been pretty consistent. As you see, your heart goes out to the people who live there and its kind of horrifying because you said yourself, this water has to keep going somewhere. Its collecting in this neighborhood. Obviously its nighttime and it makes it much more difficult for people to get inandout. I would say half of the apartment are now evacuated. A short while ago on fox, a female vote broke through here and there were officers shouting in the home. If you have women or children or if you are sick
Of the United States. And it comes as he returns from a working vacation that was mostly work and during which he struggled with a tragic day in charlottesville that reignited the racial divide. So, in just a moment, we will be joined by retired four star general jack keane but first we go to chief White House Correspondent john roberts who is live in fort meyers, virginia tonight a few hours from here where the president will speak in a couple hours. Good evening to you. Martha, good evening to you. You can see behind me a few hundred yards away filing in for the president s speech to occur in just under two hours now. What the president will say tonight is far different from than what he was saying just a couple years ago. Maybe back as far as 2013. In regards to afghanistan. Where he thought that the United States should not be there. That we should pull out and we should focus on efforts on rebuilding the United States and spending the money that were spending in afghanistan here s
It just went over the island of barbuda. You have the storm surge, the winds and flash flooding. At this point puerto rico, the dominican republic, haiti, cuba, all in the direct line of fire as you see on your screen. The big question mark, florida. So florida is under a state of emergency even now as irma approaches. People are emptying out store shelves, dealing with long lines at gas stations. Were also this morning following two other big stories for you. Thats the fallout from President Trumps decision to end the program that protects dreamers from deportations. In a few hours, President Trump has a critical phone call with chinas president over the north korea threat. Cnn has Global Coverage of this like none other. We begin with Hurricane Irma and cnns leyla santiago live in puerto rico. Whats the situation there, leyla . Reporter were certainly feeling the winds pick up, the water, the waves come in a little more aggressively here in puerto rico. Irma right now at this hour, 2