West point seniors, theyve already tested positive for covid19 upon returning to campus and were reportedly isolated before being allowed to rejoin their classmates. Trumps speech to the military academy also coincides with a growing tension between him and the Senior Military Leadership in this country. An unprecedented number of military leaders from the past and the present have broken their silence to speak out against donald trump for his mishandling of the nationwide protests and the public outrage ignited by the Police Killing of george floyd. Most recently, the pentagons top general, mark milley, who walked alongside donald trump in this infamous photo now just weeks ago as protesters were forcibly dispersed for trumps church photo op. He apologized saying his presence created a damaging perception of the militarys involvement in domestic politics. As many of you saw the result of the photograph of me at Lafayette Square last week, that sparked a National Debate about the role
Newsroom starts now. Hello. Im fredricka whitfield. Crews now scrambling to reach survivors after an earthquake killed at least 235 people. The first pictures of the rescues coming in to cnn right now. Take a look at this. We understand this to be a little girl who is on that stretcher being pulled out of the rubble of a collapsed building. It reportedly took them hours just to locate her under need that fallen concrete. Scenes like this are playing out across the quake zone right now. The earthquake struck equadors central coast. There are no reports of any americans killed. Joining me right now, cnn Latin America Affairs editor rafael romo. So these rescuers really are up against a very tough situation with these giant pieces of concrete, buildings that have collapsed. Yes, thats a very good point. Just to put it in perspective, the earthquake hit just before 7 00 p. M. Last night. There are great areas in the country that are essentially in communication with the rest of the country
Himself, but everybody else on the plane is safe. Everybody is fine, there were no injuries. That said, the plane did go off the runway and it chewed up the runway pretty good over the course of this hard landing. After the plane, the mike pence plane skidded off the runway at laguardia, the airport was actually closed. Laguardia was shut down after that incident, so we are going to have a live report in just a moment with someone who was on the plane. I will also refresh you on that news that chris alluded to last hour, that there was some very unusual news that we reported just about exactly one month ago about the map who had previously been the pilot for mike pences charter aircraft over the course of this campaign. Its weird that a Vice President ial plane makes news once, let alone twice. Im sure it is coincidental, but there is a weird history with mike pences plane and pilot, so well get into that over the next little bit, including, as i said, a live report. In addition, weve
Party for rigged system in selecting delegates. The doors do not open until many hours later. They waited. Trump is hoping to get momentum after losing more delegates to ted cruz this weekend. Those delegates at colorado selected by party insiders. Trump taking to twitter once again saying, how is it possible that the people of the great state of colorado never got to vote in the republican primary . Great anger. Totally unfair. Ted cruz firing back later today. When people vote against him, theyre stealing the election. Its a really odd notion. Well, what is this democracy of which you speak . We begin with sarah murray who is outfront at the trump rally. Rigged . Reporter thats certainly what were going to be looking for. We all know trump has gone out there on the stump and said hes an amazing businessman, an amazing manager, an amazing negotiator, but he has struggled in the wheeling and dealing that goes on behind the scenes in the fight for the nomination. Tonight, ted cruz quest
Nbcs intelligence and National Security reporter ken dilanin who looked through the report. Ken, this mentions other secretaries of state and how they handled emails as well. Yes, it does, tamron. It points out former secretary of state colin powell did not comply with the federal records act and used personal email for government business and some of those emails have yet to be retrieved, but this is going to have huge reverberations through the Political Campaign because it takes on some of the central assertions that Hillary Clinton has been making about her use of private email. For example, she has said that by sending her personal email to government accounts, that was a way of preserving the records under the federal records act. The audit specifically says that was not true. That was not an appropriate way to preserve the records. Also remarkably the audit quotes the Senior Information Technology people at the state department saying they were never asked to approve clintons pe