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Americans and book your first cleaning today for just 19 this Situation Room with wolf blitzer. Week nine to six point cnn you are in the cnn newsroom. Hi, everyone. Im jessica dean and washington and we start with Breaking News. As Severe Weather threatens more than 70 Million People. This Memorial Day Weekend, intense tornadoes baseballsized hail, and hurricaneforce winds, all threatening parts of texas, oklahoma, and kansas take a look at this storm chaser video in oklahoma city. You see blue sky overhead, but they are also driving straight into that gray sky as well. Its very ominous looking cnn meteorologist elisa rafah joining us now, and at least it looks like those tornadoes are starting to spin up and it typically happens are a lot of times when the suns starts to go down yeah, the sun is what we need to fuel the atmosphere to create these intents and strong thunderstorms. And its been doing that all de the atmosphere has been cooking all day. Thats why the storms are blowing up now. And the danger is its dishonest going to set soon here, shortly, and that poses an even greater rescue cant see these tornadoes in the dead of night. Youve got to Tornado Watches in effect throughout a lot of kansas, oklahoma, and then going into texas, the watch there were watching very closely. Is this one that includes wichita oklahoma city, and then goes into Wichita Falls there at the top of texas. That but is it being labeled a particularly dangerous situation . Not just because were expecting tornadoes, but the tornadoes that we are expecting can be strong. They can be violent, they can be long lived. So we tag it with that elevated heightened risk. And this goes until 11 00 this evening. Could see there have been multiple Tornado Warnings just this out, the nice there Wichita Falls, where Storm Chasers have spotted a tornado there. And the warnings do continue. We do have another couple of warnings getting closer to oklahoma city, as well as the supercells ignite. And they start to rotate the risk here again goes from Wichita Falls up to wichita, kansas and then into springfield, missouri because weve got these discrete strong and violent tornado is possible now. But then this will evolve into a threat four damaging wind gusts up to 84 Miles Per Hour and hail up to the size of grapefruits are possible as well. Heres that highest tornado risk again, ef2 or greater possible. Then well have the wind thread stretch into missouri as we go into the overnight hours. This is the risk for the strong violent tornadoes. You see you all those discrete dots, those are the super sounds that can really spin and be quite violent. Then you see how they organized into a line thats the damaging wind threat that pushes through southwest missouri overnight and then continues into the ohio valley as we go through through tomorrow. So the threat continues through sunday, millions of people need to watch out for their Memorial Day Weekend holiday. Jessica, i know, hoping everyone stays safe out there at least a rafah. Thanks so much for that. Next our former President Donald Trump is scheduled to take the stage at the Libertarian National convention in its unusual stop for the Presumptive Republican nominee. But a clear sign the campaign is worried about thirdparty candidates like rfk jr. And also looking to hopefully sway some of these voters. In recent weeks, trump has stepped up his attacks against the antivax candidate jay junior. I call him junior by the way. Hes radical dont Think About It dont waste your vote. We need a conservative person with common says cnns Steve Contorno is joining us now. He is. There were the former president is set to speak and steve politicos reporting essentially a brawl broke out at the Convention Last night in protest to trumps speech tonight. Is the former president prepared to be in front of what could be a somewhat unfriendly crowd jessica, he better be because theres already been fireworks in this audience already tonight between trumps supporters in some of these Convention Attendees who dont understand why their party invited donald trump to speak here in the first place. Theyve been Trading Jeers and chants backandforth with each other. Some of the candidates for the president ial nomination for Libertarian Party have been addressing trump criticizing him. One of them said, hes a great source of humor for libertarians and said, we have a lot to teach donald trump. We dont know if he has the capacity to learn donald trump is here though, hoping to change some heartsandminds, knowing that this is going to be a tight election, and theres not a lot of room for air. Listen to why he said he is here this weekend but we have to join with them because they get their 3 every year no matter whos running. And we have to get that 3 because we cant take a chance on joe biden winning i just spoke with a Trump Adviser here tonight. Hes sort of explained what trumps pitch will be. Two these Libertarian Voters, therell be focused on getting government out of our lives, ending foreign wars, and teaming up together to beat joe biden. Thats his pitch will see if theyll listen. Jessica. All right. Steve can turn out for us. Thanks so much for that reporting. Meantime, President Joe Biden spending the morning at americas esteemed west Point Military academy. He delivered the Commencement Address at west point for this years graduating class of cadets, calling them, quote, leaders of character. Cnns Priscilla Alvarez is here with us now and priscilla, the president , offered concrete examples of why these west point cadets are so valued here at home and in the world and those examples were directly tied to the ongoing conflicts that we are seeing around the world, for example, the war in ukraine and ongoing conflict that the president reflected on, including the strength of the nato alliance. And he also talks about the situation in the middle east, not only the ongoing us efforts to get aid into gaza the Important Role that the military plays, but also reflecting on the moment in the situation where he was surrounded by military leaders when there was that Iranian Missile attack against israel. So clearly underscoring how important these cadets are and will be in the future and saying so himself, take a listen women and men in uniform are hard at Work Stretching are alliances because no country has allies like ours invested into terms anyone who thinks they can threaten us. Thanks again. Defending our values by standing up to tyrants and safeguarding the piece. A protecting freedom and openness thanks to the usr forces were doing only american can do now that mention of freedom, the importance of alliances, really kind of a key theme. Two of the president s campaign, he did not mention former President Donald Trump by name, and he didnt make a direct Election Year appeal during this Commencement Address. But it is those types of values of the president has previously said are at risk if his republican can rival does take a second term. So all of these themes times gathering this Commencement Address, but the important part of all of this, the president really underscored is congratulating the cadets and also calling them the next generation of leaders in both civilian and military life. Priscilla alvarez, always good to see you. Thanks so much for that and joining us now, cnn senior Political Analyst often Senior Editor at the atlantic, ron brown, steen ron, great to have you as always, the Biden Campaign is casting the former president as quote antifreeze. And this is the head of his speech tonight at the Libertarian National convention, which Steve Contorno just described to us. Theres already been some kerfuffle leading up to his speech how do you think this is going to play out tonight well look for libertarian for true pure Libertarian Voters. Neither party is a great fit. Obviously, democrats i believe in too much government activism and regulation on the environment, for example, for their tastes and republicans are too big on policing personal behavior and social values on issues like abortion or lgbtq rights. In 2016 Libertarian Vote did matter. And then gary johnson got fourandahalf million votes. Looks and it probably hurt Hillary Clinton in providing kind of an escape valve for young voters in particular, who didnt like her and didnt like trump in 2020, the Libertarian Vote was only about a third of that, maybe a little more than a third of that and they got in 2016 and i think most studies agree that that decline probably went for the biden then to trump. I think its going to be difficult as i said, for a pure Libertarian Voter and neither one of these candidates is really a good fit. But this time, i suspect there may be some room for trump in those ranks given how active as biden has been on a variety of front and expanding governments role it is interesting if you kind of take the last week and what we saw only saw trump in the bronx making his pitch to voters of color. We saw the Biden Campaign reaching out to nikki haleys voters after she said that shes going to support donald trump, were seeing the campaigns go on offense, try to reach beyond their bases of support. How do you think theyre both . Doing when it comes to that . Thats a really good observation. I mean, really what were looking at in polling this year is a pretty striking both racial and generational inversion, where biden is holding his support relative to 2020 better among white voters than he is among nonwhite voters. Most of trumps improvement in the polls from 2022 now is among nonwhite voters. The voters he was courting in the bronx, whereas biden, i think in many ways, if he if he cant entirely get back to where he was in 2020, among those nonwhite voters. Hes going to need to improve somewhere to offset that. And the most logical place for him to go so our would those collegeeducate d suburban nikki haley tied voters even if they werent literally nikki haley voters in the primary. So the focus of each campaign in this week gives you an unusual splitscreen of what may be the two most movable pieces of the electorate, white collar college, educated socially liberal voters toward the democrats and blue collar nonwhite voters discontented about the economy. Toward the republicans will see how either of them can hold up all the way to november, but that clearly are the pieces at those clearly suited be the pieces that are most in play at this point in the Election Year. And you know what . I thought was really interesting. Im curious what your take is on this. We had some reporting from that nikki haley, the call within haleys support from the Biden Campaign. And this is anecdotal because it was one person saying their opinion, but that that voter was saying we told them we know democracies on the ballot. You keep telling us that we know we want to talk about other policies. We want to talk about other issues. And it seems like the Biden Campaign that is that is a huge issue for them. It does pull very highly when people are asked about it. But, but what do you make of that . Well look. You know, it were talking literally about nikki haley, voters on Economic Issues to closer to trump than they are to biden. And if biden is going to win, those generally previously republican voting center, right independent College Educated suburbanites, the kind of people who helped him win georgia, for example in 2020 or made him the first democrats is harry truman in 1948 to win maricopa county, which is centered on phoenix. If he is going to win them, it is going to be primarily on rights and values and democracy. I mean, i think those voters tend to see trump as better on the economy. I dont think biden can reverse that. They may be sympathetic victor, some of his environmental goals, but theyre at like the libertarians, not big regulation people ultimately, his pathway to those kinds of voters is primarily on these nonEconomic Issues. And its probably more with women than men in those groups. I know that the Biden Campaign feels very confident that they can run even been better than they did in 2020 among College Educated women after all, dobbs didnt happen until after the 2020 election, but they are worried that economic concerns might depress their numbers among College Educated men. That is a kind of an interesting schism there. And im also looking ahead to the debate thats coming up in roughly a month or so and we had some new reporting from our colleagues here about how the two candidates are preparing, or in some cases not really preparing. We know that biden is planning for these extensive sessions. They sequester to Camp David Kinda the more formal preparation that were used to Trump Advisers say formal, show up right here, isnt going to show up. Is he going to practice it all . I mean it is interesting and a commentary on both of these men and their approach to all this right . You can watch the biden speeches and the trump speaking, the trump rallies, or just kind of this, you know, long freeform kind of loosely attached grievances you know, i think i think in the Biden Campaign, you see i think a clear imperative emerging for them consistently polling now, the retrospective view on trumps presidency his Approval Rating in retrospect is higher than it ever was at any point in his, in his presidency. And as i said to you before, i think thats because voters are judging his performance now more by comparison, the issues on which they are most discontented with biden so the thought, the thought that things life was more affordable under trump now overshadows other elements of trumps presidency that voters didnt like at the time. And you can see that by the Biden Campaign is very clearly working to try to remind voters of Everything Else they didnt like about trump as president as obviously january 6 appointing the Supreme Court justices on abortion the very fine people in charlottesville separating kids from their parents at the border. The Robert De Niro ad that ran the Biden Campaign unveiled this week, very much aimed at that. And i would suspect that if theres an overall structure digit goal for biden heading for the weeks heading into the debate, it is to try to remind people of why trump lost in the first place in 2020. Because right now they are judging trumps primarily it appears by the issues on which they are most discontented with biden, and thats inflation. And to some extent, integration prime very, very interesting. Ron brown, steen, great to see you. Thanks so much thanks for having me fill ahead. It has now been two years since the Uvalde Texas School shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers how the families of the victims are still trying to hold people accountable for that massacre. Youre on the Cnn Newsroom Russia for trying to spy on us. We were spying on them im miss it, frank this is a war, but secret war, secrets and spies, a nuclear game, premier sunday, june 2 at ten on cnn nothing comes close to this place in the morning. Im so glad i can still come here. You see i was diagnosed with Obstructive Hcm and there were some days i was so short of breath. 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And say, hey you know, you got shot in the arm and hopefully they see it. Theyll change their minds about guns, right . You just put on there together like that. Yeah. Our new foe, reyes, is the teacher whos survived two years ago. He was shot in his arm and his back, then was just simply tortured for 77 minutes. By the gunmen. Police were outside as he was inside, fighting for his life, somehow a miracle he survived after speaking with parents and stuff. Theyre like they saved you. The kids . Yeah they saved you that they became angels instantly and save aj was in the classroom next two races, the gunman shot him in the leg welcome to this have been better a little walking or you have injury. Yasmin better . I dont tell me what life life has been like for a look past two years since this happened, its been sad. I can map has been having and the two as2 years have passed and you reflected on Different Things what do you want people to know please . All like any towns four people who are nagar, step up to the plate 11 yearoldnearly 400 Law Enforcement officers responded and yet they fail to immediately take action and enter the classrooms with the victims du you miss being in the classroom . I do. I do miss it. That was that was my identity and my my life. Do you want to go back . Oh, no i dont i dont want to have that response its ability again many of the victims have had trouble returning to school. A newly elected School Board Member with ties to the families is bringing new hope to this town we need to rebuild trust and transparency and get them in school. I had a Family Member reach out to me and she said, if you get on that board, im taking my daughter back to that school. It its a lot. I mean, i feel like its a big weight on my shoulders, but i take it very serious. Numbers raise now spends all of his time at a store. He runs with his mom, wonder the gifts that you bring is telling us what happened that day. And if it wasnt for people like you so that we would ever get some part of the story that was it that happened inside. Yeah. They probably would have told not told anybody anything but we survived in an i think thats the reason that i keep going. I keep going and i keep on talking because its for them. Its for the kids and for all 21 that day i just want. To be more no more like School Shootings or nothing. Every time i see you, youre always smiling and i think these situations people always want to find hope. They always want to see that theres something positive what do you think that is is happening . We have happy. 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Several americans have learned this the hard way after traveling to tropical, the tropical paradise, Have Turks And Caicos with ammunition in their suitcases cnns raphael romo begins with pennsylvania bryan hagerich, just returning home after a much longer stay in Turks And Caicos than he anticipated. Raphael jessica Historic Deal seems to be over, but there are several other americans facing the same charge whose fates are still undecided. Bryan hagerich is now describing his involuntary stay of more than three months in Turks And Caicos as the hardest time of his life, the american from pennsylvania returned friday night after spending more than one hundred days and the British Overseas Territory where he was charged with possession of ammunition. This is a moment he reunited with his Children Hagerich was facing a 12 year sentence after pleading guilty to a charge of possession of ammunition, he was able to return home after getting a suspended 52 week sentence and a 6,700 fine, according to to his representatives, he expressed great relief and gratitude after landing last night in pittsburgh. Its just amazing how just in a matter of 12 hours, my life has just its been a complete one at looking at 12 years to now, my biggest concern is coaching my kids baseball games. Tomorrow on that is such a relief. Jessica hagerich, just not the only american arrested. Other similar circumstances for others have been released on bail while they await their court dates in Turks And Caicos. But one of them was allowed to return to the us for medical reasons. Among those still the territory is ryan watson. He and his wife, valerie. Were stopped by Airport Security just before theyre returned flight home. 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But its and wasnt 100 we were told they visited course recently, a segment on the dangers of Us Biological weapons calls and tells cnn he was unaware the clips were being shown but for months snack, kremlin has been casted with Tucker Carlson. He lost the job on fox news last year. Mr. Tucker, when as a truth speaking American Media star even if branch is rare is very low glad screen thats cinema. But across the country to much shame. I watch this movie light of big respect to our president s this near to use the chesney all of three, you ive seen it twice, says another its great to hear the opinion of our great leader. She adds Tucker Carlson isnt the only outspoken american celebrated by moscow im going to lets warm Marjorie Taylor greene is also praised on kremlin tv earlier as gas out, as his republican senator mike lee, both staunchly opposed to us military aid to ukraine. The position of course, shared by the kremlin the war in ukraine drags on. There are concerns kremlin propaganda and to ukraine pro russia is increasingly finding its way into the us political debate one republican congressman told cnn recently on the house floor and moscows interest lies in bolstering those who it feels, at least in part, are you. Its skeptical sometimes distorted worldview Matthew Chance, seen in london now, you thank you in here now to discuss this, is professor of history at New York University and the author of strong men, mussolini to the present. Ruth been yacht ruth, thanks so much for being here with us on this saturday evening. First, i just want your take on the russian obsession with Tucker Carlson and also what hes been doing as well to kind of feed that so, took carlson has been the poster boy and the mouthpiece of viktor orban. Any autocrat he can cultivate. And of course now that hes not with fox anymore, hes looking for a new niche. And so hes been, as you know, traveling around, trying to interviewing or bond than interviewing putin who actually humiliated him on television. So he could be seen as what russians call the useful fool. The foreigner, or native person who perhaps the autocrat up and then is used by him because out of crafts follow a use in discard policy with people even those who helped them. And we saw in matthys piece there russian t state tv holding up some members of the Republican Party on capitol hill and it comes after we heard from republicans who chair the Intelligence Committee and others who said that its as if russian propaganda has infected parts of their party. Do you think thats true . I do. Because the sad truth is that the Republican Party has been, has become an autocratic party. Unfortunately, it has exited from democracy. And this is why were in this very weird and surreal situation where a bipartisan nation and one party is not before div, of democratic ideals and norms anymore. Thats why they still support the january 6 violent insurrection they have been influenced greatly by the kremlin. And there are people like Marjorie Taylor greene, who a lot of what she says, people like to mancur or were even call her stupid. But a lot of which she says are lines up with kremlin talking points, especially on foreign policy, things. Now this week we saw the former President Donald Trump post on his truth social, that russia will release jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich as soon as hes reelected, saying putin and well do that for me, but not for anyone else. And when he was asked how that was possible in an interview with fox news, he said its because quote putin respects me do you think thats true . Do you think any of this is true trump is no friend to journalists. Hes been calling journalists enemies of the people for a long time. And he also treats people like ponds, just like a fruit and et cetera. This is about trumps but line, youre going to hear this more as the election approaches that the world is safe for with trump in office. And its not because hes a friend of democracy. Its because he is a friend and ally of autocrats so here hes boasting about his relationship with putin. Now, i see this with a grain of salt because we know that important Kremlin Television Propaganda shows routinely mock trump as weak sycophant and they dont respect him. Hes mocked in the open so it remains, remains to be seen, if anything would actually happen to this journalist or any other Person American who is unfortunate enough to be captured im also curious about your thoughts as we head into the back half of this Election Year and people start to click in, especially after this summers over to the president hill election and other elections that will be happening for different offices just the shades of all of this that you write about in your book and how that might start to come out in in camp and campaigning and social media. In other russia or chinese influence or meddling in the election, things like that. Yeah we are in a fight for our democracy that we level. Weve never had to be in before and we have multiple enemies. And unfortunately the more we dont stand up for democracy, Including Helping Democracy Excuse Under Siege such as ukraine the more the whole world becomes. Very dangerous because autocrats watch what other autocrats du. And so has xi jinping is now doing military exercises. And taiwan and he sees whats happening in ukraine. He also knows that half the political life of the country is not into democracy anymore, as we discussed before, and is actually theres a wing of the Republican Party thats proputin as is this is valuable information. So were in a crisis point and Inflection Point and this is the most important election that of our lives and also this week, trump shared this post talking about creating a quote, unified reich. The Trump Campaign eventually took it down after about 18 hours after it was up. Then they blamed it on a staffer. Biden immediately seized on that and accused trump of using hitlers language. But again, as someone like you who studies this sort of language studies how its used and has been used through history what do you think about seeing that pop up i think that the phrase unified reich, its of uncertain origin, but trumps supporters on the far right, but people he wants to keep interested in him they look at the word reich and they know what hes talking about and that video which ive analyzed in an oped for cnn, really kind of gives the message that trump will become a world historical figure. Its set, its made as though its the 1930s documentary, like newspapers. You, he will become famous history because he was able to enact mass repression. It talks about as though 15 Million People had been deported from the united states. It shows somebody wearing a hoodie being arrested but its kind of a dystopian vision of a police state. And thats what the Trump Campaign thinks will make. Trump but as famous as the dictators, he admires. All right, ruth bend. Yeah. 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