closed captioning, brought to you by mesobook.com. this is just in to cnn. the source come from the federal grand jury investigating january 6th has subpoenaed the former white house counsel, pallone. abc news was first to report that. cnn has now confirmed that, as well. abby phillip, david axelrod, all back with me here. thanks so much for joining. this is big news. what say you, david? i think we have seen, over the last couple of weeks, this escalation in this grand jury process. that is separate and apart from all of the doj investigations and prosecutions into those that actually stormed the capitol and broke into the capitol. this is now has been and we have seen as aids were called in, what have you, the inter-sanctum. we don t get more inner sanctum than the white house counsel. right. we know, through testimony given to the january 6th committee, running down the hall to the oval office to try and stop meetings from progressing, who was trying to get the
16-year-olds on this show. good morning, welcome to early start on this monday. i m ashleigh banfield. happy to have you this morning. i m zoraida sambolin. let s get started. tropical storm beryl making landfall in northeastern florida near jacksonville beach. it s packing a wallop, 70-mile-per-hour winds, torrential rain, more than 24,000 people without power this morning in the area. take a look at the pictures on your screen. that shows you the wind. the wind warnings, storm warnings all up along the atlantic coast from florida to georgia to the carolinas, putting a severe dent in a lot of the memorial day festivities. rob marciano has been pretty much up all night in the severe weather center watching all of this. things getting better tleels for now? well, the wind has died down but the rain is still coming. this event is far from over. at one point winds at 70 miles an hour, almost a hurricane. and some could argue that it was a minimal category 1 hurricane whe
that s when everybody started freaking out. a passenger who shot this video. check out this video showing a tornado strike in kentucky. look at that roof. it s blowing right off. it was part of the killer storms that hit the nation last weekend leaving a huge path of destruction. former u.n. secretary kofi annan is trying to prevent a full-blown civil war. he s meeting in damascus to halt government shell iing and attac that killed thousands of people. he s expected to press the president to step down. the meeting comes as 12 people were killed in syria today. thousands of antigovernment demonstrators took to the streets in moscow. it s the first since vladimir putin s victory sunday. they are trying to keep up their momentum despite his victory and the arrest of hundreds of protesters. washington is pushing the reset button. president obama phoned putin to congratulate him. they discussed how the u.s. and russia can cooperate on trade. they touched on syria and missi
also i want you to look at something playing out hundreds of miles out above us right now. this is remarkable we can get a live picture in space. this is happening right now, drew foystle and mike fink are doing a second space walk, two endeavour astronauts. it looks like a lot is going on up there. they have some maintenance work on the space station. we ll get more about that. that is a live picture. fascinating to watch them do this work and they were able to get the live pictures. from the cnn center hey it s me and reynolds. hey! good morning to you all. i m t.j. holmes. i m reynolds wolf, we ll be checking in with him in a second. it s may 22nd on this sunday. as always, good morning to our servicemen and women watching us on the armed forces network around the world. glad you could be with us and glad you do what you do. mitch daniels is not running for president. he doesn t have the flash of donald trump or name recognition of mike huckabee his decision