All right, an important reminder of what today is all about. Memorial day as you look at these live images of the world war ii memorial in our nations capital. A day when everyone should pause to honor those who lost their lives and gave the ultimate sacrifice defending this nation. Soon a fallen soldier will be brought home to his family at Dover Air Force base and then President Trump will arrive at arlington to lay a relief at the tomb of the unknown soldier and well see the president and hear from him in a bit. Im poppy harlow in new york. We begin with a major story happening right now outside of baltimore. One person is missing after flash floods ripped through Ellicott City, maryland, overnight. This is a scene just hours ago that murky brown water ransacked the towns historic main street and this morning a clear view of the utter devastation left behind. The governor declared a state of emergency. Lets go to Suzanne Malveaux who is there. What do we know about this missing pers
Considering pardoning Martha Stewart. Jeff zeleny is on the ground. Jeff, explain the president s thinking here that hes considering pardoning people who all seem to be those he knows from the world of politics. Reporter this certainly is a new development. The president landed here a few moments ago. Behind me he is greeting a few military officials at Ellington Field just outside of houston. We are told by pool reporters on the plane that the president invited reporters up to his office on air force i which is a makeshift oval office, if you will, and he talked to these reporters for about 15 minutes or so. The part he wanted to put on the record was the new specific information about how he is thinking about pardoning former illinois governor Rod Blagojevich as well as Martha Stewart. This is certainly coming as the president is giving a lot of attention to pardons. Hes been doing it with more frequency. Of course, had an earlier tweet this morning, but it is the Rod Blagojevich pot
Its a surprising move given today today the Senate Intelligence committee released this. A 67page bipartisan report on election interference. And it calls to for more to be done now to protect against russian attacks. And not only that, today the president s own fbi director warned that russians are still attacking the United States. We expect much of the same in 2020, especially with new cyber tools kinning to fall in the hands of adversaries who would do us harm. Do us harm. And it was just yesterday that the former special Counsel Robert Mueller who spent two years investigating russian interference sounded a sirens blazing alarm. Did you find evidence to suggest they will try to do this again. It wasnt a single attempt. They are doing it as we sit here. As we sit here. But according to the senate intel report, again bipartisan, trumps Team Struggles to fully get it. Let me read this. This is coming from page 10. They say the threat remains imperfectly understood. And yet they go on
Overturns lower court injunction. Allows border wall to proceed. Big win for the Border Security and the rule of law. Boris, this is still not the dollar figure that the president wanted back in february, but it is a big jump toward that, enough to make people in the white house very happy this weekend. Yeah, thats right. If you remember back at the beginning of the year when President Trump declared that federal emergency, it was just after the Government Shutdown when he wanted to get some 6 billion from congress. He couldnt get that from democrats tochlt the white house came up with this 2 1 2 billion dollars from the pentagon. A judge decided that the white house couldnt use these funds and a broader decision was made in the lower courts was made about the president using these funds. The Supreme Court in that 54 decision didnt weigh in on whether its appropriate generally for a president to use those funds to bypass congress to build his longpromised border wall. This is a win but