welcome to weekends with alex witt. here s what s happening. severe storms across the nation s mid section leaving a path of destruction behind them. in evansville, indiana, howling winds crushed a house. heavy rains causing street flooding and wind gusts hitting 50 miles per hour. nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer has the forecast. hi, dylan. good morning, alex. we are going to see a lot happen this weekend with storms and snow. it is strong across country. showers and storms across western tennessee. lighter snow showers in and around the denver area. they re very light right now, but as we go especially into sunday night, that s when we re going to see heavier snow. it s basically going to turn into a snowstorm with accumulating snow in parts of the rockies. you can see possibly up to 6 to 12 inches of snow. more as you go up into the higher elevations. the white here across parts of idaho, that s 3 to 6 inches. it will be messy for the monday morning commute. as for severe
residents and representatives. jon: president trump has unvowed to do the agenda, whether he can reverse national monuments is unclear. let s talk about erin from the paste washington post. why is it unclear? the president used an authority since 1906. we haven t seen an example of a president trying to undo one of those designations, so we really are in unchartered territory if president-elect trump does want to undo this specific designation. now, we don t know specifically if this is one he will object to. certainly many republicans in congress do. but this would be one of the areas where there could be a legal fight if they do decide to fight back. jon: president-elect trump maintains that the fact that he s moving into the white house is a direct repudiation of so much of the obama administration stands for and yet, the outgoing president seems to go pedal to the metal to get some of these things done that he thinks are important, witness the banning of drilling on t
not just president trump online but some of his top advisers seems to be, hey, wasn t us, look at them. reporter: nothing to see here is the message from the white house. the i shall iofficials continue distance the president from the first criminal charges that special counsel robert mueller unleashed yesterday. this is the president s response, hallie. he tweeted earlier, this morning the fake news is working overtime as paul manafort s lawyer said there was no collusion. and events mentioned took place long before he came to the campaign. few people knew the young low level volunteer named george, a reference to george papadopoulos, already proven to be a liar. check the dems. george papadopoulos getting a lot of focus, of course, he did plead guilty to lying to the fbi. well, the trump campaign actually put out this picture of george papadopoulos meeting with then candidate trump. this was during the spring. and, of course, court documents have revealed that george papa
just asking. let s start with that i am etch p impeachment push. doing double duty on capitol hill today. clearly it is vacation season. there s a high likelihood it is not going anywhere. what are republicans hoping to do? mark maude doueadows and othersg this. reporter: this move by the congressional allies at the very least ensures that the first serious talk of i am speechment here on the hill is focused on someone other than president trump. you ve got mark meadows and jim jordan and other members of the fl freedom caucus accused rod rosenstein of obstructing their efforts to get to the bottom of what they see is anti-trump bias affecting the fbi investigation and also the continuing investigation into russia s attack on the 2016 elections. so these articles of impeachment accuse rosenstein of withholding documents and information from congress, something he denied. and also accuses him of abusing the fisa warrant application process and we now know that rosenstein sig
mine for over ten years. she s someone i have great affection for. i am as mj lee reported the godfather to her son. she s a single parent. she s now in the cosmetology business. at this juncture, mr. mueller has had full access to my e-mails and therefore he is well aware that there s no evidence whatsoever. blake: garrett tenney live now from washington. how does kristen davis figure into this investigation? well, blake, roger stone said in the interview last night that the only reason he can think of for mueller s team that would want to speak with her is because of her close ties to him and stone has long been a person of interest in the special counsel s investigation in no small part because of his contact during the campaign with the hacking group, which we know now was operated by russian intelligence officers. in an interview with the washington post, friday, kristen davis describes stone as one of her best friends and called the mueller probe a witch hunt saying q