come with emory in tokyo and this is cnn it is monday, may 27th memorial day. and right now on cnn this morning, over 100 million americans facing potentially deadly, whether on this memorial day after a weekend of violent storms killed at least 18 people rough air for the second time in less than a week passengers or injured by severe turbulence during flight plus the libertarian party should nominate trump for president of the united states. donald trump cutting his campaign speech short after getting heckled and move 601 here in washington, that is a live look at the world war ii memorial on the national mall on this memorial day, when we think so many who gave the ultimate sacrifice for us. good morning, everyone. i m jessica dean infer kasie hunt. it is great to be with you today. more than 120 20 million people are under severe storm threats after deadly thunderstorms battered the southern plains this weekend, killing 18 people. in northern texas at tornado reduce p
great day i m as following all of it from jerusalem. jeremy, tell us more about the reaction to this strike wellbore is sadly this incident in which dozens of palestinian civilians were killed in an israeli airstrike is not an outlier in gaza in the nearly eight months of war that we have seen. but what is an outlier is the way in which the israeli government and the israeli military are responding to this. the israeli military s top lawyer today launching a full-scale investigation into this incident with the israeli military, even saying that they did not expect that there would be any civilian casualties as they conducted a pre strike assessment, the israeli prime minister himself on the floor of the israeli parliament saying this i launched alone she alone if garbage can move of him, despite our best effort, not to harm those, not involved unfortunately, a tragic mistake happened last night we are investigating the case hello and again, boris, we have just never seen
To be an optimistic speech, notjust to be an optimistic speech, notjust to be an optimistic speech, notjust to be American People but to the american congress. There are at least two audiences, if not more for this address. For these big addresses. The president needs to win over the people in the room, and just as importantly, win over those watching on television. The numbers of those watching on television have declined by almost 50 in the last few decades. President pays attention to his ratings, so it will be interesting to see how many people to tune into this. The president. I think it is crucial in this address, he really has to start legislating. He has not introduced any legislation yet. A lot of Members Of Congress have expressed concern about him not pushing hard enough, championing things for. Has done a lot of Executive Orders but not a lot of policies. Here is the joint session of congress, the floor of congress. You have members of the senate and the House Of Representa
Ayes have it. We remain adjourned until 10 00 tomorrow. Announcer with the house in recess we are waiting the democratic response from the Democratic Party. The designated survivor went to an undisclosed location. Justices thomas, alito and , the be a secretary in washington earlier today. We open our phone lines in just a moment to get your reaction to the president s speech which ran just over an hour. In comparison, resident reagans speech in 81 ran about 30 minutes. Ran 42 minutes. Bill clinton tying President Trump for just about an hour. Peter . Peter in just a few minutes, we are going to hear from former Kentucky Governor steve bashir with democratic response in louisville. Cheers and jeers as former Kentucky Governor steve bashir prepares to take the national stage. At the capital, is National Exposure is seen as an opportunity to spot like kentucky or as an embarrassing reminder of what is wrong in the state. I am really excited and proud and all kentuckians ought to be proud
No action. How will his message play, across america and inside the capital . I hear your voice, and i promise you, i will deliver. Now arrives the hour of action. Live, from the nations capital, a president ial address to congress. Now reporting, george stephanopoulos. Good evening from washington, where the president is about to enter the capitol, and address the congress. And look at the light, as the president reads his speech to his family. The president ready to go, hes been working on the speech all day. Weve been told hes been adding a lot as well. And there you see the speaker of the house, paul ryan, Vice President mike pence. Members of the Supreme Court. Justice anthony kennedy, and Melania Trump. Its been no honeymoon for the president the first 40 days. And democrats galvanized against him. Jon karl is in the hall. The republicans looking for some direction from the president. Theres no question about that, on one hand, theyre ener because the republicans for the first ti