without an attorney present is the crucial question. and i suspect it s going to be an all-day affair but i suspect we ll have an answer to that pretty quickly. if she declines to talk, that will start leaking out pretty quickly. republicans may be quick to claim that this means the president s strategy is holding. we could know within the hour whether or not she s sitting for a long deposition or staying mum. these are staffers who will be conducting the deposition, but lawmakers are able to be in the room. we saw mark meadows walk in. we know that devin nunez is in washington, or at least at the studio. as we take a look now at the door entryway there to see who else may be going in and out of that room. matt, your thoughts here? it is really hard to overstate how dangerous it is for the white house to be saying that these people shouldn t testify, shouldn t testify without a lawyer present. normally when you ask for a lawyer to be present, that s to protect you, the witness. thi
she s alive. miss cook, she got stuck in her basement door entryway there. she s all right, too. i did know that miss freeman did make it, too. she s in the hospital somewhere. okay. well that will make it easier to find her. cnn found grandma ellen freeman at an arkansas hospital and she is doing okay. she had been transferred to three different hospitals in the chaos of that tornado. president obama arrived in poland just a short time ago to wrap up his european trip. he flew there from the g-8 summit in france and he and other leaders held talks today with the prime ministers of tunisia and egypt. but the g-8 did not come up with the cash to help the new democracies. they suggested that international lenders were ready with $20 billion in assistance, and another $20 billion could come through gulf arab states and other sources.
are so demolished they have to be identified with spray paint on the sidewalk. that s the bathroom. they always say the safest place to be is in the bathroom. look, it s just even if she would have been in there, she wouldn t have made it because it s collapsed on itself. reporter: she drove to joplin from oklahoma hoping to get answers after not being able to contact nearby relatives and trying on-line services. i still have a lot of family and friends in joplin, just the not knowing, you know. i know a lot of people are missing, loved ones. reporter: earlier i met neighbor aaron cole who says he knows almost everyone on the block. she is alive. miss cook, she got stuck in her basement door entryway. she s all right too. i did know that miss freeman did make it. she s in the hospital somewhere. okay. that will make it easier to find her. yeah. we called freeman hospital in joplin to see if she was there. she wasn t.
malveaux. i want to get you up to speed for friday, may 27th. secretary of state hillary clinton is in pakistan today to smooth things over with the government leaders. they are still angry over the secret u.s. raid that killed bin laden. sources say clinton told the pakistanis that american aid is on the line, unless they do more to rout out terrorists. today we discussed in even greater detail cooperation to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al qaeda and to drive them from pakistan and the region. we will do our part. and we look to the government of pakistan to take decisive steps in the days ahead. a cia forensics team will also be heading to pakistan. pakistan will let cia experts scrub osama bin laden s compound for evidence. now, the team will use sophisticated technology to look for anything hidden in the walls or the ceilings or items that are buried on the grounds. the patriot act gets a four-year extension. this was just minutes before that law was set to expire.
and welcome to american morning. it is friday, may 27th. the beginning of a long holiday weekend for many in this country. that s right. hopefully the beginning of some nice, calm, summer weather which we have not seen. we haven t seen. it s not going to be a great weekend for those in joplin, missouri. the search for the missing there continues. the state officials are releasing a list of 232 people who are still unaccounted for, a list they concede may not be entirely accurate. the death toll right now stands at 126. we re getting a look at some dramatic new video when just after the tornado struck. watch as aaron cox and his fiancee brook mckinsey watson race to find aaron s sister amid the destruction. let s take a look. look at this. oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh, aaron. oh, my gosh. right through here. i don t know i don t know where we are. i don t know. i don t know where to go. we have to keep going this way. don t step on any of this. c