And right now on ana cabrera reports, Breaking News, Extreme Weather turning deadly in texas. At least four People Killed after torrential rain and tornados rip through the lone star state. We have the latest from houston. Plus, Michael Cohen dueback on the stand monday. Has the defense delivered any knockouts to the prosecutions star witness. And desperately needed aid finally reaching gaza by sea. Why humanitarian groups warn its not nearly enough. We made it to friday. It is 10 00 eastern, im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york. We begin with that Breaking News from texas where at least four people have been killed from a powerful storm system. It knocked out the lights to more than a million homes along the gulf coast, Spawning Tornados and floods, destroying property. Heres a look at some of the debris flying just outside the lobby. This is a houston skyscraper there, and then look at that, the Blownout Windows Leaving Gaping Holes all the way up the side of houstons downtown well
anita hill and clarence thomas in his hearing. one element really stood out in this piece. one part of this story. ford says that she took a polygraph test administered by a former fbi agent. and the results concluded that ford was being truthful. so how do you think that plays into all of this? well, we know that a lie detector test even though it is something that has been used often for credibility reasons is not, you know, admissible in a court of law. but it does give her credibility in this situation. it also brings to the fore the idea that this vote that is coming up and before the senate judiciary committee and therefore once they have the votes needed there, going to the full senate, is premature. i think that it is necessary for credibility sake for the american people. it is one thing for a federal court judge at a trial court level, even the appellate court. but when we get to the nation s
it will be very difficult for the president to handle maybe that s why they keep leaving. you keep seeing a shedding of talent around him because it gets hard to justify things that you know aren t true or at best counterproductive. rudy giuliani has every right in representing his client to make the best case for him for legal exposure and even to spin it for credibility reasons. however, he made another choice, jeffrey, he talked about the people who searched cohen s home, people that michael cohen said were professional, respectful, did their job the right way, people that rudy giuliani has celebrated for decades, called them storm troopers. i don t think he was talking about star wars, i think he was talking about the way we understand that term from the nazi era and that is really ugly and that s not a legal strategy, that s playing into the hate parade that trump is doing, trying to destroy the institutions of democracy. and remember, who those storm troopers were. those
will and he was joined in that by russia. syria s ally. russia doesn t take obama s word seriously at all. he was joined in that by some of our allies in the gulf. one worries the iranians have this feeling. i hate to be in the position of arguing that you need to use military action for credibility reasons, that sounds like the cold war, but in this case, we re seeing the consequences of that kind of credibility of american power slip out of the system and it s dangerous. cokie roberts, the president said assad must go like he said mubarak must go, like he said gadhafi must go and then, of course, he, quote, led from behind. this appears to be the president s first rhetorical jab in every major international crisis, how much credibility does the united states lose if they do not follow through after that and two red lines being cross sfds. i think that s why we re here