All of those has had its hands full. I think if anything could be said about the secret service, its that they wont be able to wait for this pope to leave. Stephanie. Del walters, stand by. I want to bring in libby casey who i believe is in the capitol rotunda. Libby, describe what is happening around you and the anticipation. I just saw senator Patrick Leahy come out to just wave and look in awe at this massive crowd we are looking at live here. I think this is awe on a lot of levels as members of Congress Watch the crowds outside. They also prepare to hear the pope speak, it means Different Things to different members certainly. There are a lot of catholics in congress and we do expect to see the Vice President here, secretary of state john kerry here, both catholics, as well as four members of the supreme court, three of whom are catholic and plan to attend today. There is a lot of interest in what exactly the pope will say, how he will delivery his message. The invitation has come
Court on tuesday. Meanwhile violent protests brokout in berkeley california. The main target was a rightwing commentator scheduled to speak. Things didnt go well when President Trump phoned australias Prime Minister. Mr. Trump became agitated over an agreement negotiated by his predecessorer, barack obama. Everybody that he talked to characterized the call as really hostile. Ended very abruptly. That it was a combination, trump was badgeering the australian Prime Minister, was complaining about a deal regarding americas agreement to take some refugees that are being held in an australian Detention Camp and also used the call to try to brag about his Electoral College win and call attention to his success in the election in november and then when the australian Prime Minister tried to move on to other subjects including syria, trump wanted to get off this call, told the australian Prime Minister i talked to a lot of other foreign leaders, including vladimir putin. This is the worst call
Number on your arm so that you can be identified. So there is that take on it tonight. Im martha maccallum. Good evening, everybody. This is the story. Hurricane harvey is where we begin tonight. The president is monitoring this from camp david with his team at the readies we watch this thing as it churns off the coast of Corpus Christi about 30 some miles latest estimate. This is where the toughest stuff begins to eat the coast line. We will go live to Steve Harrigan who is live in Corpus Christi being hit hard at the outer bands of this hurricane. Steve, good evening. Martha, good evening. The edge of the eye wall of that storm conditions to get worse over the next four to five hours. Right now a category 3 hurricane with sustained winds more than 125 Miles Per Hour. By the time the eye crosses over, it could be 30 with a category 4 hurricane. If the scale doesnt mean all that much to you, let me tell what you a category 3 hurricane can do, it can snap trees and take chunks out of we
First shots were fired. Good morning, everybody. It is june 3rd. Im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside nbc News White House correspondent jeff bennett. Earlier this morning President Trump land in the uk for the start of a three day state visit as part of a ceremony to commemorate the 75th anniversary of dday coming up on thursday. Prior to leaving the president previewed his trip. Well be going to the uk. I think it will be very important. It certainly will be very interesting. Theres a lot going on in the uk. Im sure its going to work out very well for them. As you know, they want to do trade with the United States. And i think theres an opportune for a very big trade deal at some point in the near future and well see how that works out. Our country is doing incredibly well. Our businesses are doing well. Well clog up the border. Stop the border. Mexico is making hundreds of billions of dollars for many, many years. And they have to do something about the border. Everyone is coming through
Committee. Why would he have to have a secret analysis of Climate Change . Why does he need it to be a secret . Lets get back to the science of it. But its not science. Youre not quoting science. Oh my. Republican congressman Thomas Massie and former secretary of state john kerry during a hearing on Climate Change. Rolling stone posted the question, was that the dumbest question in history . And to that kerry replied, its almost as if someone said congress has hit rock bottom to which massie replies hold my beer. Congressman has a masters from mit. He knows better. And kerry knows better. In response to your question, steve king has called in and hold my beer. We have mike barnicle, former treasury official steve rat per, washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay is with us, intelligence and ken dilanian, and we were going to talk about mcauliffe wrestling an alligator but we have news. Julian assange was arrested in london. Wikileaks founder has been hold up there. So, i