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This morning the act is being investigated as an act of terror. And heartbreaking video in back of a police car after Philando Castillo was shot and killed by an officer. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. Drenching the southeast with heavy rains and lifethreatening flooding. A young boy was killed in the stormrelated incident. Cindy will likely hit the coast with maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour. A Tropical Storm warning is in effect from st. Louis pass, texas, to grand isle. Some could see 15 inches of rain by tonight. Hena daniels has the latest. Reporter heavy rains and strong winds battled galveston saturday night as Tropical Storm cindy hit closer to the gulf coast. Toppling tries in bow loxy, mississippi. We had to take off because i think the road is goin ....
Also President Trump meets today with congressional leaders, all republicans, to discuss health care and tax reform, but the administration concedes that the russia investigations are distracting from the president s agenda. Meanwhile, were only two days away from the fired fbi director james comeys testimony before the u. S. Congress. Comey is expected to discuss his conversations with the president and he could say whether he felt pressured to drop the Michael Flynn investigation. Were also standing by for todays White House Press briefing set to begin the top of the next hour. The press Secretary Sean Spicer, he will be back at the lectern today taking reporters questions and there are lots of them. First lets gets to the news out of paris. The breaking ....
Lets bring in our allstar panel to talk about all this, this breaking news. We have cnn political analyst Maggie Hagerman and david gregory, Chris Cillizza and Senior Analyst jeffrey toobin. Let me start with you. This arrest, 25 yearly young woman with the most 21st century name ive ever heard. Reality winner who has now been arrested and could be. Randy under espionage act for handing over these classified documents from the nsa. What do you see here . If the facts are as the government alleged, this is a very simple case, a contractor, like a government employee, has an obligation to keep secret materials secret. She intentionally and knowingly shared it with the intercept. Thats a crime. Unfortunately we as journalists rely on leakers like this who take these sorts of risk but cant she be considered a whistleblower ....
President , when the president allegedly asked him to back off the investigation to Fire National security adviser michael flynn, but when it comes to the russia investigation, sources say the former director will be somewhat limited as to what he can say. This morning, the president s son in defense of their father, calling the whole russia investigation a witch hunt. Heres what they said. Its the greatest hoax of all time. I was there throughout the campaign. We have no dealings in russia. We have no projects in russia. We have nothing to do with russia. I mean, to me, its without a question, you know, reads and smells like a witch hunt. Witch hunt. Weve heard those words from the president , also from russia, by the way. Lets begin with cnn senior washington correspondent joe johns at the white house this morning. Joe, 48 hours from now exactly, we might learn quite a bit. Reporter at least we hope to, john. And quite frankly, t ....