The team is out with president ial hopefuls. Rebecca buck is in iowa, Political Correspondent mj lee in massachusetts. Lets begin in lawrence, massachusetts with mj lee. Good morning to you. What are you seeing there this morning . Reporter good morning, guys. In just about an hour, we expect to see Elizabeth Warren take the stage behind me and formally announce shes running for president. Just so viewers know where we are now, were standing outside an old textile mill. This is the site of a historic 1912 labor strike led by workers, mostly women and immigrants to protest wage cuts. And this is going to be the backdrop that Elizabeth Warren uses this morning to talk about the issues that are important to her, including workers rights, corruption in government, and racial economic discrimination. These are all themes we have heard her talk about over the last months or so, since she announced her Exploratory Campaign new years eve. This is one sign that the 2020 campaign is ramping up.
Governed, not the governors. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government and we need that right now as much as ever. Watch this case. The implications go way beyond julian assange. Thank you for watching. Cnn tonight with d. Lemon right now. As the old heads used to say, and they still do, boy, you aint never lied. That means you are telling the absolute truth. We need a free press more than ever. Thats why its so important what we do. I couldnt be prouder to be a journalist in this moment in time. Listen, this has invigorated journalism, the period were living through right now, mistakes are being made, were seeing strengths and weaknesses but weve never needed it more and its not about assange. Im not a fan. I dont like what his people said about me when the emails were dropped, they were wrong, i was worried about this happening then, i was worried about the espionage act being expanded by government then and its happening now. We have to look a
Look at this. Oh, semi over the road. Oh, my, look at that. Its just now knocked a semi over. Were going to check on this driver. Okay, so this yeah, this semi just ran smack into that trngsd. Theres a lot of people trying to help him out right now. You folks in mineola, this thing is headed right in your direction. All right. That is incredible. And we have more of that video to show you a little later in the show. Certainly hoping that man is okay. Kudos to all of those people who are going to try to help him. A look at the Severe Weather set across parts of the country is ahead for you as well because there could be more of this coming today. Lets turn now to 2020, the battleground state where President Trump cemented his win in 2016, were talking about pennsylvania. In a few hours, joe biden is going to hold a major rally in philadelphia. The home of his headquarters. This is the final leg of the kickoff. And its happening as he gains more chershare of voting. Yvette, what are you
Attorney general spear heads the third and latest probe of just how the russia investigation all began. But thats not all. The president also gave barr complete authority to make public any sensitive or classified intelligence that he wants. Even while refusing, ironic, to let congress see any of the underlying intel of the Mueller Report. Our ivan perez our senior justice correspondent joins me to break this down. Irony aside for the moment about the white house calling for full transparency here. Absolutely. What do these new powers mean that bill barr got overnight . Exactly. This is extraordinary, as you said, for the attorney general who is a noted vocal skeptic of the origins of the russia investigation to now have the power to essentially go to the cia, to the director of National Intelligence, to all the other intelligence agencies that were working with the fbi at the beginning of this investigation and have them declassify, have them essentially make Public Information that h
Press . Especially, i say this every single night, especially if you actually read the Mueller Report . Imagine if there was no free press telling you to read the report, heres whats in the report and you only heard what the government was saying about the report, imagine, there are people who do believe the summary and believe the president , total exoneration and all those things. But they havent read the report. Where would people be . I know exactly where theyd be. You and i, one of the blessings of this business, sometimes it occurs, is that weve been all over the world. Uhhuh. The difference between a culture of freedom and not is a free press. Right. It is always in place if freedom is in place. Yeah. You know, on a personal note, a serious note that you and i discuss is we also get attacked. And we also have to deal with, you know, false allegations, attacks, people fwlyelling at y people sending things to your home and you have to have security, none of which ive ever had to h