We kind of expected that. Gillian ive made it a practice not it. This comes a day before roger stone was set to report to prison. Now several democrats and at least one Senate Republican says the move was politically motivated. Mark joins us from the white house. Gillian, ive come to expect a busy saturday. President trump says that he believes that roger stone was unfairly targeted by prosecutors and commuting the sentence days before roger stone was is et set to go to prison. He hes convicted on witness tampering and lying to congress. And the white house released a statement roger stone was treated unfairly as were many others in this case. Roger stone is now a free man. This decision drawing immediate bipartisan outrage on capitol hill. That the president cannot issue a pardon if the crime that is the person is in jail for is one caused by protecting the president , which this was, its appalling, appalling. Utah republican senator mitt romney weighing in saying unprecedented histor
Leland gillian, nice to be with you as well. The suffering in louisiana, the southern part of the state, its unimaginable for most of us at home with air conditioning and watching television. Im leland vittert. The president will touchdown first in lake charles. Well take a look at damage hes going to see. Woo we head to the white house where the president just left. Hi, david. Hi, leland. Its been a difficult day for people in louisiana and east texas. And the president of the United States should be the comforter in chief. Thats a role that he will take on today as he meets with people in louisiana and texas. Hes in the air right now as gillian said, should be landing at some point in the next hour and a half, two hours, depending how much time he makes up in the air. The president did not stop for cameras as he got on air force one at joint base andrews. Sometimes he comes over, but not the case today. Hell makes comments on the ground in louisiana and texas. One of the hardest hit
We begin with rob in morgan city. Rob. Reporter hey, charles, if you can hear me there, i dont have isp, i hope you can hear me, but were in morgan city, louisiana. Ive lost my earpiece out here in this nasty storm weve got here. Still barry is a Tropical Storm at this point here in southern louisiana. It could become a hurricane here at any minute. Were about 75 miles east of new orleans which is where a lot of the attention for this storm has been because it is a lowlying area, very populated area. But here just to west is where were really getting hammered. Were not too far away from the storm which is making its way onshore. Were here on a lake which looks like the gulf, its just getting pounded so hard. The waves are high, and this is usually just a flat lake that you can ride your boat around on. Not today though. Here in morgan city weve seen gusts at about 55 miles an hour, sustained winds a little lower than that and a lot of pounding rain as these outer bands and now a little