Tim obrien, always a pleasure. Thank you very much. Lets continue on. Top of the hour. Im brooke baldwin. Breaking news today. Jeff sessions will testify in public tomorrow in front of the Senate Intelligence committee. As a multiple investigations into ties and russia and Trump Associates are moving forward. This comes after of e questions swirl after the sworn testimony from james comey that the president made the attorney general leave the room before he suggested comey let go of the investigation into former National Security adviser michael flynn. Comey saying he went to intervene, wanted sessions to intervene, but sessions did not. The white house responded moments ago to whether or not Jeff Sessions may invoke executive privilege tomorrow. Do you believe he should invoke executive privilege. It depends on the scope of the questions. To get to a hypothetical at this point would be prema sure. In any way did Jeff Sessions or folks at the doj ask for the white houses permission for
this is so exciting to share this with you. cnn asked several of our anchors to feature an organization that really inspires us, challenges us and changes us, and i knew instantly who i wanted to interview, the heros project. this is this awesome organization that combines several of my passions, mountain climbing, helping our nation s veterans and just being a bad ass. the heroos project founder features vets who come home facing amputation and ask them from their hospital bed if they want to go climb a mountain. not just any mountain, but often one of the seven summits of the world. i ve interviewed tim and having climbed mt. kilimanjaro myself, i had a tough time pulling it off with both legs and i ve been in awe of this organization ever since and in particular this young woman who i recently met. we went out to joshua tree national park and faced a daunting climb. i walked off the ledge of this cliff with kirsty innis who lost
good balance. good balance. let it go and lean back. all right. come on down, brooke. i m a little nervous. lean back. push off. all right. slide down. go right down below kirsty, all right? i was an aerial gunner on a .50 caliber machine gun. you were the gal hanging out the door with the big gun. yes. the actual day of my crash, the last thing i remember is the crew in the back calling for power, and i remember wearing my night vision goggles and look at the ground. all i had time to think is this is going to hurt. see went in for her amputation and they cut her
you. thank you. that means a lot to me. these are things i m doing for the first time all over again with one leg, and to be able to share that with you, that s extremely meaningful to me. when you said you have to be comfortable with the uncomfortable, and i love that. put one foot in front. other and get the [ no audio ] up a mountain. absolutely. how do we get down? i just want to give a huge, huge schutte shout-out to the heros project, to my friends tim and kirsty. they will be headed to carson s pyramid at some point this summer. it s like 16,000 feet, an incredibly technical rock climb. i ll leave the climbing to them, but i just wanted to thank them from the bottom of my heart for allowing me over to joshua tree and teaching me how to do that, and for anyone who is in the new york area, come join me. i definitely will be in the front row of this it s called cycle for heros. this is how they help raise money for the amazing men and women for the heros project.
veterans. i went down to the hospital and i was there with kirsty s mom and said are you ready to climb a money than? you have to be comfortable with being uncomfortable, and you have to suffer well. we re going to get the hard stuff out of the way. just drop off that 100-foot cliff. why did you want to become a marine? i needed to figure out what i was going to do to serve of people. 17 years old, i remember looking around. my chemistry lab, no, this is not where i need to be right now and i walked straight out and went to the recruiter s office and convinced my parents to sign the paperwork. see you guys below. to take somebody who just lost a couple of limbs i don t really feel like going fishing is really going to get them back to being that soldier, that marine that they were. we have to put them back in harm s way to really truly heal them. christ, what am i getting myself into? don t worry here. i ve got you.