jackpot winner, and now we wait to see who that person actually is. i m hoping that hit the jackpot. i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. in eastern kentucky the death toll rises, and the catastrophic floodwaters begin to recede. the horrors are now becoming more clear. 25 people confirmed dead, including at least four children from the same family. their aunt tells us that they were between 2 and 8 years old. kentucky s governor tells cnn that the national guard has gone on more than 660 air rescues. the floodwaters washed away roads, ripped away bridges, making the ongoing search efforts even harder. it s unclear how many people are still missing at this hour. the governor fears the death toll will be climbing. i m worried that we re going to be finding bodies for weeks to come. keep praying. i hope there are no. we ought to expect there will be more loss. prayer for the families that have already lost individuals. they re go
reportedly discussing among themselves about using their own constitutional power to stop the president. what those who talked already have said to the committee and what others might say, we just don t know, but what they could say given the positions they held and what they were privy to is formidable. they include secretary of state mike pompeo, who we first reported last night is expected to sit down with the house select committee, perhaps as soon as this week. also former treasury secretary steven mnuchin, who we learned today has already been interviewed by the committee. negotiations are underway with the former director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, for a sitdown with him. and finally there s former acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney, who we spoke with earlier this week on the program. he was spotted on his way out, after speaking with the committee today. mulvaney, as you know, was serving as envoy to northern ireland when the attack happene
nobody s got ton the bottom of 9/11 unfortunately, and they should have. he then tried to put some sort of positive spin on the event by touting the, quote, great people who were there, and the, quote, fun they all would have. in 2016, before he won office, a long-classified report about the hijackings of the aircraft was released. and it reads in part, quote, while in the united states, some of the september 11th hijackers were in contact with and received support or assistance from individuals who may be connected with the saudi government. what s more, months before that report was released, the former president gave a completely different answer during the two different events about saudi involvement. who blew up the world trade center? it wasn t the iraqis. it was saudi arabia. open the documents. it wasn t the iraqis that knocked down the world trade
genuine rebels. they are it s the far west effectively. people used to go to the west to escape government controlling their lives. and hopefully it will happen again. this is a very serious time. it s very clear why the petitions for the recall went through across the board. republicans, democrats, gene party, independents, libertarians, this is about quality of life it transcends partisanship. clip you played comparison to recall supporters to september 11th hijackers landing that plane of hate. i mean, it makes no sense but it s vicious, it s ugly, it is reflection of an establishment political class that has contempt for the american people, we see it in washington, he clearly is an extension of this, gavin newsom is, in california. and the difference is this time, steve, is that there is one year, the election is in a year in november.
we re going to head over to saudi arabia right now, the country, of course, where the majority of the september 11th hijackers were from. nbc senior correspondent keir simmons is there this morning. good morning. what is the country telling you about since the attack? reporter: good morning. it s been a long time since the attacks, of course, but those attacks have cast a long shadow on saudi arabia and across the region because as you mentioned, 15 of the 19 hijackers were from saudi arabia. of course, infamously osama bin laden came from saudi arabia. here they are waiting for the release of those documents that you were talking about a little earlier, that fbi 16-page