thank you for your time. the ron desantis wait is almost over. sources saying the paperwork will be filed next week. his how to beat trump battle p plan is a blizzard on abortion, guns and transgender rights. plus the paper trail punctures a donald trump defense. new reporting reveals the special counsel will soon have his hands on 16 records that show, yes, the former president and his advisers knew how the declassification process was supposed to work. and president biden is in japan for a meeting of the world s leading economies. peers want assurances the political divide over the debt ceiling won t lead to a global financial mess. and we have new reporting on relationship between the president and speaker mccarthy. we re not there. we haven t greened to anything yet. and i think we have a structure now. and everybody is working hard. and we re working two or three times a a day and going back and getting more numbers. i have the greatest respect. they are exceptiona
Good morning to you all. Welcome to cnn this morning. Im amara walker. And im victor black well. So good to be with you. Tropical Storm Warnings are in effect this morning as lee is downgraded from a hurricane to a post Tropical Cyclone. New england starting to feel the impact of the massive storm. Boston logan is experiencing a spike in Flight Cancellations. So far, 25 of flights leaving boston have been cancelled. Thats according to flight awe ware. Lee is not expected to make landfall, but coastal cities can can expect powerful 50 to 60 mile per hour winds from outer bands of the massive storm. Heavy rain and storm surge could cause flooding along the n nebraska coast. Authorities are telling people to prepare to hunker down as the storm pushes north through the day. Lee is also expected to cause dangerous rip currents along the Atlantic Coast with many states warning people to stay out of the ocean this weekend because of those dangerous surf conditions. We are cover canning all pa
walk a fine line. gaza is a crowded, urban area. i hold hamas just as responsible, if not more than the idf for civilian casualties in gaza because hamas puts their command and control centers underneath refugee camps, underneath hospitals. hamas told palestinian civilians to disobey the order to evacuate that territory. so it s a difficult road to walk, but israel must destroy and degrade hamas. that s their mission. i m sure they are determined to go about the mission, put they do walk a fine line. secretary johnson, your perspective is invaluable this morning. cnn this morning continues now. a deal has been reached to release all foreign nationals being held in gaza along with critically injured civilians. explosions in refugee camps flattening apartment buildings and leaving behind a giant crater. they are able to kill the commander of the battalion. doctors without borders have condemned this airstrike. children wounded. one man saw the strike said it felt
Election. And i cant believe it. But Lindsey Graham last night at maralago said he wanted to continue investigating hillary clinton. And the clinton emails. Its just its absolutely rid its absolutely ridiculous. And i think the democrats have a constitutional responsibility to continue to conduct oversight of this administration. And just because the republicans didnt do it doesnt mean the democrats shouldnt. Thats exactly what they should do and let the facts like Robert Mueller let the facts lead them to their conclusions. So stick with us, if you can. Just want to reset for those who might be just joining us. It is 5 00 p. M. In washington, where were following and in new york and on the east coast entirely. Where were following breaking news. Last hour we received a fourpage summary of the Mueller Report. The summary was provided by Attorney General bill barr. Before boarding air force one, the president stopped to speak to reporters about those
findings. He said it was a complete
so what you can imagine prosecutors are trying to do here is to say, all of these other times you wered a eadherio this process. so here s all the times that you said this. one of the president s lawyers are clearly awe ware of the dlts. one of them said this. if you look at the constitution, you look at the presidential records act, there s absolutely no basis for saying that bureaucracy rules and the president doesn t have the authority entrusted in him by the voters to possess and declassify and to hold on to documents. is that because you say it s been untested in court? what is it? that s simply not accurate. think about every area, assigning treaties or issuing executive orders, the president can do that, but there s a