Basement. And it looks like im immune for, i dont know, maybe a long time or maybe a short time. It could be a lifetime. Nobody really knows. But im immune. So, so the president is in very good shape. All this as dr. Anthony fauci, the nations leading Infectious Disease expert says his words were taken out of context in a new Trump Campaign ad that touts President Trumps handling of the coronavirus pandem pandemic. Lets get to cnns jeremy diamond. First i want to play the ad and then lets talk about how fauci is responding. President trump is recovering from the coronavirus. And so is america. Together we rose to meet the challenge. President trump tackled the virus headon, as leaders should. I cant imagine that anybody else could be doing more. Jeremy, dr. Fauci is not happy about this. Reporter no, hes certainly not. With good reason. You know, the ad takes dr. Faucis comments completely out of context and also youll notice there is no time stamp for when that ad took place, when dr.
Bert myrtle beach, South Carolina. Reporter fred, the city resolution here says that people were really problematic last weekend in not abiding by social distancing and observed behavior problems especially when it came to some modes of transportation, and that is what they referred to when they made this executive order banning golf carts and in addition as you said giving Police Special authority to do things such as shutting down businesses between 11 00 p. M. And 6 00 a. M. Perhaps asking for local state and federal assistance to enforce some of the rules here, and, remember, this is a city that is still under a civil emergency, and South Carolina is still under a general state of emergency. If you look behind me on the beach here, i dont think you can tell there is any emergency, so to speak. We can see that people are keeping their parties separate from each other for the most part. Other than that, theres not that much difference than what another memorial day weekend would have
Hurricane barry. Moments ago the mayor of new orleans once again urging residents to stay put. Although you may not have seen rainfall as weve been discussing, it is coming our way. So, please, continue to listen and react accordingly. Weve also learned a levee in myrtle grove is overtopping, about 40 miles outside of new orleans. It is one of two levees that was not reinforced and Hurricane Katrina. Power lines snapped, more than 77,000 people without electricity in louisiana. Were covering the storm across the region now. Natasha chen is west of new orleans in morgan city. Natasha, youve been hit by bands of rain in and out. What else are people feeling and experiencing there . Reporter its a lot more wind than rain just at the moment. We ran into the Public Information officer for st. Mary parish, the parish were in right now. He was talking about some of the concerns they have. Theyve gotten a couple of medical calls, for example, in a neighboring city and there are growing concern
Whistleblowe whistleblower. This revelation coming as democrats ratchet up their impeachment inquirinquiry. They have now subpoenaed the Vice President mike pence. Key testimony coming up on capitol hill. Gordon sondland and Marie Yavonivitch are scheduled to give testimony behind closed doors. Mitt romney made a twitter attack to President Trump calling on ukraine and china to investigate the bidens. Chuck, i just want the truth. The American People want the truth. Do you not trust the fbi . You dont trust the cia . No, i dont. Absolutely not. Here to break this all down is cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez. Ever evan, what do we know about this new report . We know the whistleblower came out and said the first whistleblower was correct. What we do know is this person also shares the same lawyer as the original complaint. We know that they work in the Intelligence Community, and this person allegedly has firsthand knowledge. We dont know exactly what that means. We know that
Stumping at a fish fry in cedar rapids, iowa. The event is a critical weekend for candidates in the polls, that have grown increasingly tighter. We begin with another event consuming washington. Im talking of course about the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. House democrats have a full slate of officials, some currently in the white house, others who left recently. And they want to speak with all of these potential witnesses next week. Whether they get the chance, the democrats, though, is another story. One of the officials, Energy Secretary rick perry who has met with ukraines president , who is refusing to testify behind closed doors without an attorney, but perry would consider a public hearing. And then theres the ongoing fallout from the white house ukraine expert Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman who was so concerned about what he heard on President Trumps call with the counterpart that he told the top lawyer on the National Security council that it was disturbing. A