i m melanie zanona in washington and this is cnn hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me on for greek of whitfield and we begin with the dangerous weather situation okay. texas that could get even more treacherous this weekend, heavy downpours and parts of the state have swept away vehicles, damaged homes, and triggering evacuations some areas have gotten hit with almost two feet of rain triggering widespread flooding and more rain is in the forecast cnn correspondent rosa flores as in houston for us. so rosa, people living in the flood ravaged communities are bracing for more rain. and i see the air boats behind you. they re ready for evacuations, are picking up people this just happened in the last few seconds fred, so i ve actually haven t been able to talk to them other than one individual who just got off this vote and said that there was water in his house and he literally was just rescued but this is literally happening as we re going live. so i haven
Was probable cause to believe that crimes had been committed here. it s very difficult to dismiss this all as a partisan witch hunt when you have this many tentacles out and you have, at the highest levels of the justice department, people saying, we sign off the probable cause of looking into this stuff. you were associate and former counsel during the whitewater investigation. you were a graduate of the college of law in baltimore. the president says this is a witch hunt and attorney-client privilege is dead. does he have any point at all? it is so disappointing to hear that. career fbi agents, career lawmakers, they had to overcome this as well as rod rose stein. but there are a lot of procedures in place to ensure this is not a witch hunt, and a witch hunt being just a did hei.
Will at 12:30 p.m. eastern announce alexander acosta as his pick for labor secretary, replacing andy puzder. he is the dean of the college of law at florida internal university. he clerkedw on the court of appeals. been. he is a civil rights attorney. was assistant attorney general in the civil rights department and was the u.s. attorney for the southern district of florida. that announcement will come in 40 minutes from president trump in the east room where he will hold a news conference. businesses are protesting the president s immigration policies by shutting their doors. it s called a day without immigran immigrants. closings are planned 600 employees of one restaurant in one restaurant in washington, d.c. will be allowed to use a vacation day. immigrants are telling
Seriously going wrong and somebody being killed. we re joined now by jeffrey korn, an assistant professor of the college of law for more than 30 years, including as a j.a.g. officer. you may have heard more of this. what s your thought on what this means, this audio that we re getting now from serial? well, i mean what it s doing is it s previewing for you his defense theory if his case is actually sent to court-martial, which i think it probably will be. and that s going to be what lawyers call the defense of justification or necessity. he s going to tray and argue that he was trying to serve some greater good. but candidly, i think s more implausible listening to him than it was when it was hinted in the media. and for a number of reasons. there s an obvious iron ey