Reporter its packed inside the east room and everyone is here. Weve seep some people already take their seats but most of them are going to make the procession in just a few minutes and we are talking about superstars. You cant believe the number of press and people and guests the excitement is palpable. S Ellen Degeneres is being honored. She couldnt make it into the white house because she didnt have her i. D. So she tweeted out a photo waiting until somebody gotten a i. D. And she was able to come in. But security as you can imagine is pretty tight, it always is here at the white house. But then she went back to the Reception Room and did a mannequin challenge with all the other honorees and they posted that on twitter so you can imagine theres a lot of fun people are having. But weve philanthropists bill and melinda gaits, sici ze cecily tyson, Kareem Abduljabbar, Michael Jordan. Then we saw snl creator Lorne Michaels who was here. Well try to get a question to see how hes feeling
Twitter barrage extreme even by his standards. The question is why. He was busy lurching between grievances. Gm and the autoworkers union, snl reruns, hillary clinton, robert mueller, even fox news and the late senator john mccain. That got a ton of pushback. So he did it again. The president criticizing the late senator for his ties to the russian dossier. And also going after mccain for his vote appealing obamacare, even calling him last in his class at annapolis. A strong response from mccains daughter, she tweeted no one will ever love you the way they loved my father. I wish i had been given more saturdays with him. Maybe spend your with your family instead of twitter obsessing over mine. And here is a prime example of the control trump has over his party. Senator Lindsey Graham, mccains closest friend in the senate, stopped short of criticizing the president for those comments. Instead graham tweeting mccain stepped forward to risk his life for his country, served honorably under
Buying President Trumps claim he has been cleared. 53 say they dont think it exonerates the president of obstruction. A federal Prosecutor Says the grand jury investigation started by muellers team is continuing robustly. Breaking, the president has switched folk us from the Mueller Report to now an all out legal attack on owe bbamacare vg to replace it with something better. Sources say theres no alternative plan and note that key cabinet officials oppose the move with even vicepresident mike pence raising questions about the outcome. I will speak with the vicepresident s chief of staff. Our correspondents and analysts are standing by with full coverage. Lets start with the breaking news. Lets go to manu raju on capitol hill. You had a chance just now to speak with the chairman of the house Judiciary Committee, jerry nadler, about his conversation today with the attorney general bill barr. Tell us what he told you. Reporter he spoke for about ten minutes with bill barr about the Muell
Louisiana, first casey live from new orleans where levy system have perhaps biggest test since hurricane katrina, hey, casey . Eric, you can say that again, government leaders say that the post katrina Hurricane Protection system passed the test with flying colors, they say the pumps worked and they say that the gates that were closed, 244 of them helped keep the storm surge at bay and all of the federallymaintained levies along the Mississippi River held, you mentioned some problems with overtopping of levies down, emergency repairs have been successfully made to those as we were showing you yesterday, however, this was certainly not smooth sailing, there were a lot of problem areas for lower line perishes down here, look at the video, 12 rescues, 14 if you count two family pets were carried out by the u. S. Coast guard on morgan city, louisiana, rising water closed roads and communities where we were live yesterday particularly along the north side, the storm surge warning for lake p
T it will be mustsee tv. House democrats subpoenaed Robert Mueller. Mueller is set to testify in public three weeks from today. Dubois and, the surprise of a lifetime for a veteran who gave so much for his country. Welcome home, kevin. Dubois good evening. Im maurice dubois. This is our western edition. We begin tonight with an image that many will find upsetting. It shows the dangers so many are willing to try to face to sneak into this country. A father and young daughter drowned in the rio grande. As the photo went viral, fingers of blame were pointed. Heres the president today, sounding off on democrats. They want to have open borders, and open borders mean eanme, and open borders means people drowning in the rivers. Dubois Omar Villafranca is at the border with more on the people in this disturbing picture. Reporter its a haunting image of desperation. Oscar Alberto Martinez ramirez and his almost twoyearold daughter valeria, face down in south texass rio grande. The childs arm is