News the Trump Administration accused of a gross abuse of power. Weaponizing the Justice Department. Sources telling cnn that doj prosecutors looked looking to track down leaks seized records from more than 100 people, including those of two prominent democratic lawmakers, along with their staff and their families, even seizing the electronic records of a child. A stunning use of the u. S. Justice department. Well have more on that developing story in just a moment. Lets begin with Jeff Zeleny live from falmouth, england. Jeff, after four years of President Trumps america first agenda, we saw that repeatedly disrupt, cause some mellowdrama at events like this, even during the photo. A different tone. A different tack with President Biden. What do we expect to see today . Jim, good morning. We all remember that well. President trump arriving at these world summits and elbowing his way in, quite literally, in some of these photos. Were going to see President Biden really in the next seve
Water crisis across texas after five Straight Days of record low temperatures. Broken water pipes have left nearly half of the residents of the state without clean drinking water. Power has been restored to all but 192,000 people but around 13 million texans are still under a Boil Water Advisory. And take a look at this. This is video just into cnn. More than 80,000 bottles of water delivered from the Travis Air Force base in california to the city of galveston, texas, trying to help those struggling. The winter blast is also causing serious delays in Vaccine Distribution and in several parts of the country. Soon President Biden will head to a Pfizer Manufacturing plant in michigan. This comes as his administration said the nation has major work to do to try to make up for this lost time because of the extreme weather. So lets begin this hour with our colleague natasha chen in houston with more on the ongoing crisis across the state. It is so far beyond a weather story. To not even hav
Rolling back the policies and separating children from their mothers, make no apology for that. Rolling Back Policies remain in mexico sitting on the edge of the rio grande and muddy circumstance, not enough to eat, i make no apologies for that, for any programs that did not exist before trump became president. Paul lets bring in our panel, kim strassel and bill mcgurn and Editorial Page writer, jillian, who has just returned from reporting on the southern border. Jillian, you are down there, what did you see . How big is the problem . Its big. Thousands of encounters with migrant at the border, anything you have going on here is perversion, dysfunctional but Central American migrant, you go to the southern border, is not a way for you to go up to the Port Of Entry seek asylum, your only option is to cross illegally if you want to seek asylum, turn yourself in so is a great under the current restrictions, if youre traveling, he will be expelled but if your and unaccompanied child, a fa
earlier we saw the australian market opening lower. business reporter suranjana tewari is across the story from oui’ newsroom. oil prices expected to rise at the start of the asia trading day. although a lot of this has been priced in. on friday, oil prices were at a six month high. that s because investors really expected that iran would retaliate on that suspected israeli attack at the beginning of the month. traders say any gains will depend on the scale of israel s response. i think we ll see volatility, i think that will be on the framework. if there were to be some sort of counter move by israel i think that would rock it markets very much to the upside as far as crude oil in the us dollar as a safe haven. we see how this all plays with it but i do expect the markets to appreciate in value, itjust depends on how significant this response is going to be. or is it can be any response from israel. shipping that oil could also be affected. around a fifth of the world cons