Americans and book your first cleaning today for just 19 this Situation Room with wolf blitzer. Week nine to six point cnn you are in the cnn newsroom. Hi, everyone. Im jessica dean and washington and we start with Breaking News. As Severe Weather threatens more than 70 Million People. This Memorial Day Weekend, intense tornadoes baseballsized hail, and hurricaneforce winds, all threatening parts of texas, oklahoma, and kansas take a look at this storm chaser video in oklahoma city. You see blue sky overhead, but they are also driving straight into that gray sky as well. Its very ominous looking cnn meteorologist elisa rafah joining us now, and at least it looks like those tornadoes are starting to spin up and it typically happens are a lot of times when the suns starts to go down yeah, the sun is what we need to fuel the atmosphere to create these intents and strong thunderstorms. And its been doing that all de the atmosphere has been cooking all day. Thats why the storms are blowing
Them the next leaders in civilian and military life. But without naming donald trump are really making a direct Election Year appeal President Biden also under scored the values that he has previously said are at risk if his republican rival were to take a second term, for example, protecting democracy and also the nature alliance. Now on that front, the president talked about us leadership on the global stage, including, for example, again, that nato lyon saying, for example, that russian president Vladimir Putin are testing his assumption that nato would not be able to unify and support ukraine from his invasion. Saying quote, putin was certain that nato would fraction of course there speaking directly to the invasion of ukraine and instead, the president said, it is the greatest Defense Alliance in the history of the world. Now of course, President Biden has been a defender of nato, especially earlier this year when former President Donald Trump said hed encourage russia to invade t
insecurity as an imposter. i think he knows full well that he s in that office way over his head and so he has to diminish everyone else. i turn to susan page who is writing a biography of the house speaker. she s so effectively been an advocate. and yet she was the most reluctant to go toward impeachment. she held back democratic forces who wanted to impeach the president until this ukraine matter erupted. she said then to me and others that then there was no choice, so clearly in her mind an impeachable offense. she s incredibly disciplined. she says nothing she does not intend to say. she said a couple of important things, imposter. that s a pretty fierce word. he s going to love that. that s questioning the legitimacy of trump s presidency. she s also talked about bribery and it s an effort to cast this whole ukraine affair in terms