Gauging reaction. We begin with ken wayne on the president s first address in two years. Reporter the president wasted little time explaining why the Syrian Regime should be held accountable. The images from this massacre are sick ening. Men, women, children lying in lines killed with poise an gas. Reporter president obama said that syria has admitted it has chemical weapons and theres ample proof that president Bashar Alassad used gas on their own people. They distributed gas masks to troops and fired rockets from a regime controlled area into 11 neighborhoods that the regime has been trying to wipe clean of Opposition Force snooze the president said failure to act will lead to the spread of chemical weapons by other dictators. Our troops would face the prospect of Chemical Warfare on the battlefield and it would be easier for terrorist organizations to obtain these weapons and attacks civilians. He said that military action would be limited. A targeted strike, deterring the use of ch
Carolina saying its bathroom law amounts to state sponsored discrimination and violating the Civil Rights Act and other federal laws. And kim jongun already has absolute power in north korea but now as added the title of Party Chairman. Cnn gains extraordinary access to a rare meeting of the communist elite. Well take you inside. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. A day before primaries in West Virginia and nebraska, donald trump is the only gop candidate left in the race and the presumptive nominee is getting ready for november and beyond. Hes named new Jersey Governor Chris Christie to head his white house Transition Team, and trump is already pivoting toward the general election on the issues, shifting his stance on the minimum wage and taxes on the wealthy. None of this will ease the concerns of Establishment Republicans, some of whom are refusing to support trump and are even looking at a possible thirdparty effort. House Speaker Paul Ryan has made it clear hes not yet
This caused major privacy concerns about males entering female facilities or females entering male facilities. The feds shot back filing a countersuit against North Carolina just minutes ago. And when the attorney general comes to the podium we will bring ta to you live. Let me get right to cnns martin savidge. What is the main argument from the Governors Office . Is it that issue about safety and security, men going into womens bathrooms under some false pretense . Well, thats been sort of the emotional trigger as they describe the potential outcome of all of this, is that they worry there could be Something Like that. The federal government pushes back and says youre already stigmatizing a specific class of people, transgender, as being some kind of pervert in some way, which, of course, they are not. So i have to stop you there. Im sorry. Well come back to you afterwards. Heres the attorney general loretta lynch. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for being here. I am j
Longer, tempers shorter, and today, the secretary of Homeland Security promised action. At j. F. K. In new york, average wait times have doubled to more than 20 minutes, but the wait monday at chicagos Midway Airport was more than 90 minutes. It took the passenger who shot this video so long to find the end of the line, we decided to play it in real time as you watch our report from kris van cleave. Reporter the long lines at airport checkpoints stretch from t ast to coast, about as long as the line at midway must have felt. Weve been in this line ever since st. Louis. Reporter many frustrated fliers are using the hashtag ihatethewait to complain about the terrible. Ive never had to do this before. Terdeporter yesterday in phoenix it was checked luggage that got waylaid. A glitch in t. S. A. s automated screening process left thousands of bags sitting in a hot parking lot. The t. S. A. Said checkpoint delays are being caused by an 8 increase in Airline Travel and a shortage of security
Victory speech. He has not come to the microphones as of yet. Our understanding is that it may happen within the next hour. You can see now that they are switching this raw feed that were getting out of france at the moment to video of the streets and we can see some of the security in the region there in paris. Then here in front of many where you potentially visited. Thats the louvre. Thats the tricolor out there in full force, supporters of macron in front of the museum and the plaza. Getting ready for that speech that it appeared that we saw earlier of Emmanuel Macron getting ready and practicing potentially and they may not have wanted to be streaming that video. But we got a little peek behind if you will the factory doors in terms of what is going to be upcoming for the newly elected president of france, Emmanuel Macron. Only 45 minutes in to this distinction for this 39yearold. On that note, the youngest ever president there in france and again, not even 40. 39 years old. And e