More superstorms and floods. More damage and more money to fix it. Those are the daunting headlines of a new climate report from the white house this morning. Well talk to white house counselor john pedesta about what action the white house should be expected to do. And ohio may brag about being home to the most president s, but why hasnt there been one from there in nearly a century . A tdr 50 take on why the road to the white house never starts in ohio anymore, even if it finishes there. Good morning from washington. Its tuesday, may 6, 2014. Take a listen. There it is. You know what the music means. There are people voting somewhere, because its tuesday, but its not just any tuesday. It is the start of a sixweek gauntlet. Half the country is going to be headed to the polls over the next six weeks and it all starts today in three states. So lets get right to my first reads of the morning. Just soak in the music, right . Doesnt that make you feel good . Get you fired up . Polls are op
The paris climate agreement while a mad scramble inside the white house to convince the president coming from both sides. Hearing from a lot of people both ways. We begin this morning with all eyes on former fbi director james comey expected to make his first public testimony since his sudden firing as early as next week. But theres a new twist this morning. President trump could actually block him from testifying and i have a great team to break it down. Taking you first to nbcs Peter Alexander live at the white house. Peter, theres a lot of news overnight. I hope you had your wheaties. Not only that james comey is set to testify, but we have a new round of subpoenas . Youre going to have to buy your boxes of wheaties in bulk these days. We will be focused on this Russian Investigation for some time. The newest subpoenas being issued go out for the president s personal lawyer, man by the name of michael cohen, but also for his ousted National Security adviser Michael Flynn as well as
Reporter shortly after midnight a walmart employee called 911 after someone approached him in the parking lot and asked for water. Fire chief charles hood said inside a semitruck parked behind the store san antonio paramedics found several dozen overheated people in crisis. Onio paramedics we have eight patients that hre deceased. We had another 20 patients that were either in extremely Critical Condition or very ve ous condition. And theyve been transported to a number of hospitals. Imbeemperatures had climbed well above 100 degrees. No air conditioning, no water. Everyone alive inside had a heart rate above 130 beats per tnute. They were very hot to the touch. So these people were in that trailer without any signs of water. So you are looking at a lot of heat stroke, a lot of dehydration. Reporter in a statement u. S. Attorney Richard Durbin called it an alien smuggling situation gone horribly wrong. All were victims of ruthless sman smugglers indifferent to the wellbeing of their hu
But first, flynn is appearing in federal court in washington, d. C. Now. Court documents we have here released this morning show that he is charged with a single count of, quote, willfully and knowingly making false statements to the fbi. Those statements about two conversations with the Russian Ambassador last december during the president ial transition. All right. Nbc news intelligence reporter ken dilanian joins us. We have been speaking throughout the morning. We knew something was coming. But here we are. Mike flynn pleading guilty admitting to lying to the fbi. What does that mean . We did know it was coming. Weve been reporting it was coming, but its still a remarkable, dramatic thing for me to be standing outside the federal courthouse knowing he is inside getting ready to plead guilty to a felony. And its about the interactions with the Russian Ambassador. We learned something in this document. We knew for some time there were questions about flynns account with kislyak befor
Part of a crime. You cant commit a crime or at least most crimes without the knowing part. Say what you will about him. He has elevated himself to this position in the doj. He is not a bad attorney. He said not knowingly. Rachel i hope we can put up some of the crazy adds so stupid. Facebook. The Vice President of ads has said listen, based on the type of ads. More importantly when they were put up he doesnt think that the russians were trying to raskt the outcome of the tweet. Griff the president was pointing to these tweets. And this is what rob goldman, the head of ads for facebook says. The majority of the russian ad spend happened after the election. We shared that fact but a few outlets have covered it because it doesnt align with the main media narrative of trump and the election. Very telling. He continues most of the russian meddle egg involves their affect. I have seen all of the russian ads. Can i say very definitively that swaying the election was not the main goal. Preside