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"cnn newsroom" starts right now. around the world good day to you. all across washington people usually in the know are trying to read the signs. when will robert mueller drop his report? they look to the clues. does it mean anything that the special counsel drove into a parking lot at his office wearing a baseball cap or that his team of 16 prosecutors has now dwindled to 10 or that the grand jury has not been seen now for weeks? few people really know when mueller will release his report or what will be in that report. and those that do know, they're not saying a word. but one thing is clear. the white house is bracing for the report to be released very soon. our abby phillip is in washington with this report. >> no collusion. no collusion. i have no idea when it's going to be released. >> reporter: the white house on edge today as they await the release of special counsel robert mueller's report. behind the scenes, aides have

been preparing for a number of scenarios while they remain in the dark about what exactly 3450u8er will reveal. one white house official telling cnn today, "we're tea leaf reading like everyone else." but emmett flood, the white house lawyer charged with dealing with the russia probe, has held meetings in recent weeks to determine how they might respond. their response will be based on what attorney general bill barr decides to disclose to congress about mueller's conclusions and what if anything implicates the president in wrongdoing. but as the wait has dragged on the president this week has ramped up his attacks. apparently seeking to undermine public confidence in the report before it's released. >> but it's sort of interesting that a man out of the blue just writes a report. i got 63 million votes. and now somebody just writes a report? i think it's ridiculous. >> reporter: meantime, the white house today also rejected a request from congressional democrats to obtain documents tied to president trump's communications with russian president vladimir putin.

>> i have great confidence in my intelligence people, but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. >> reporter: in a letter to three democratic committee chairmen the white house counsel claiming presidential communications with foreign leaders is protected and confidential. saying "while we respectfully seek to accommodate appropriate oversight requests we are unaware of any precedent supporting such sweeping requests." as soon as the mueller report is finished, the white house is bracing for a flurry of media attention as well as attacks from democrats. and some aides are also bracing for something else, a sense of relief that this two-year investigation is finally over. and the president's advisers are happy about one part of this, that if it ends at this moment it would have meant that the president did not sit down for an in-person interview with the special counsel. but of course democrats on capitol hill are expected to pick up right where robert mueller leaves off. abby phillip, cnn, the white

house. >> abby, thank you. the top democrat on the house oversight committee is accusing trump administration officials including son-in-law jared kushner of using private e-mail and message apps to conduct government business. if true this would be a major security breach. the chairman of the house oversight committee elijah cummings sent a letter to the white house demanding information. it details potential violations of the law by kushner and ivanka trump. saying will kushner has been using whatsapp as part of his crucial -- rather his official duties in the white house. it also says abbe lowell, kushner's attorney, also confirmed that miss trump continues to receive official e-mails on her personal e-mail account and she does not forward the e-mails to her official account 37 let's talk about all of this now with richard johnson. richard a lecturer in u.s. politics and international relations at lancaster university in the united kingdom. joining this hour from lancaster. good to have you. >> good morning. >> let's start with this row

over personal'll e-mail use. representative elijah cummings saying officials are using personal e-mail for work. also jared kushner accused of using an encrypted app to talk to foreign leaders. where do you see this going from sneer it's reminiscent of the whole hillary clinton firestorm over her private server. >> you're right. it does bring back memories of the 2016 presidential election. what's at issue here is the presidential records act, originally passed in 1978 but brought up into the 21st century in 2014 to include requirements about e-mails. and one of the expectations about amendment to the act is that people who are doing government business must do so on government e-mails and if they don't then those messages need to be forwarded in a timely manner. and i think what's at issue here with ivanka trump is the supposition that she's both conducting government business off of government e-mails and

also failing to forward them on. and then added into the mix, these whatsapp messages which some people have said that could go all 9 way to jared kushner contacting mohammed bin salman in saudi arabia. those would be violations of the law on the face of it, and you know, when the law is violated it should be taken seriously. i think it's reasonable for the democrats to look into this. >> richard, the mueller report could drop any day now, and the white house is on high alert as they get the first look. they could even apply executive privilege in some areas. how great of an advantage do they see that? as they get to see it before anyone else. >> i think it could be a significant advantage but maybe not a durable one. what i mean by that is in the 1990s there was clarification about the attorney general would be able to screen special counsel reports. just to make sure that you know, there wasn't anything that would

have been damaging to american national security but there would be an understanding that if it wasn't something that would be damaging for the country's safety then those findings would be released. the democrats, the key thing is the democrats have taken control of the house and therefore have the all-important subpoena power. so now the question is does the attorney general want to get in a fight with democrats over handing over documents and them using the subpoena power or does he want to just pre-empt that and start on a kind of good faith basis? i think that remains to be seen. >> and of course democrats will be fighting to make as much of that report public as possible. democrats also firing back after the white house rejected a request for documents related to president trump's communications with the russian president vladimir putin. >> yes. you know, i think what we're seeing now is we're seeing the consequences of the 2018 midterm elections. and i think what whatever else

the democrats try to do legislatively, i think that's going to be fairly limited. but think where they can really cause some political damage to the white house and, you know, exercise a degree of accountability that might not have been there before-s by using these powers of investigation, subpoena, in a proactive way. and we'll see that state down the line. >> finally, richard, donald trump's nextatifixation on the john mccain. never seen anything like it before. what your thoughts on it? >> i think this shows is not only is there a personal issue here and the president's engagement with people he doesn't like, he's very unrelenting, unforgiving, even those who have passed away. but also i think it signals the president's triumph ease sees it over the republican party and the future direction of the republican party.

i think that whatever other legacies president trump may bring perhaps one of the most consequential is reshaping the republican party in his image rather than the image of figures it was once associated with such as senator john mccain. >> richard, we appreciate your time today. thank you. >> thank you. u.s. policy in the middle east has always been carefully crafted and nuanced for decades. then came twitter, though. then came the u.s. president. mr. trump moving to undo a great deal of diplomacy with a single tweet. he wrote this. "after 52 years it is time for the united states to fully recognize israel's sovereignty over the golan heights, which is of critical strategic and security importance to the state of israel and the regional stability." israel seized the territory from syria in 1967, in the 1967 war, and annexed it more than a decade later. it had been regarded as disputed land ever since op our oren

liebermann has this story from jerusalem. >> reporter: president domd trump upended decades of u.s. policy and not for the first time. in recognizing israeli sovereignty in the golan heights. israel seized the golan heights from syria in the 1967 6-day war and it's been considered occupied territory ever since. israel annexed it a decade later, a move no country had recognized until now. the move comes just a few weeks before plm benjamin netanyahu faces a tough re-election campaign and the u.s. is certain to give him a boost. no one, not trump, not u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo, made mention of the election but it seems clear the trump administration is openly caping for netanyahu. earlier today pompeo visited the western wall in the old city of jerusalem with netanyahu. when trump visit aid couple years ago, when vierntd mike pence visited, that was done alone because of the sensitivity of the site between israelis and

palestinians. no more. pompeo went to the wall with netanyahu which lends more credence to the idea trump is pushing for netanyahu to win. and this could be just getting started netanyahu heads to washington this week for aipac, the american israeli lobby conference. he'll be staying at the blair house as an official guest of the white house and he'll meet with trump in what will basically be a campaign stop for netanyahu. turkey and the palestinian authority have already condemned the white house move saying it will further destabilize the region and could lead to more violence. lebanon and syria will also certainly condemn the move. and that's worth noting because pompeo flies from israel to lebanon for meetings with officials there who are not going to look favorably at trump's move. oren lieberman, cnn, jerusalem. let's talk more about this now with samantha vinograd. samantha a cnn national security analyst joining us this hour in new york. samantha, good to have you with us. >> thanks for having me. >> so the president's decision to recognize israeli sofrntd over the golan heights, it's

certain to draw the ire of syria and lebanon who argue such a move would destabilize the region. what are your thoughts about the regional and international impact of this decision? >> i tack a step back and think about what motivated the timing of this decision. i worked on national security for president obama including decisions related to israel and various territories that israel currently controls. and when we look at the timing of this, secretary pompeo's in the middle east. he gave a press briefing hours before the president made this policy announcement by tweet. there are two things that really strike me. one is president trump knows that prime minister netanyahu, who is a current lie, is up for re-election hay few weeks and president trump is deeply popular in israel. it's fairly obvious him making this kind of announcement would help netanyahu. and the other factor we really have to consider here is political motivations here at home in the united states. president trump and the republican party have really

been painting democrats as anti-israel and anti-semitic for the past several weeks. so by making this kind of -- by making this twitter statement and this announcement on a very serious policy issue he could be trying to garner more support from republicans and get democrats to really say that they're against this. in terms of implications finally, this will deshl certainly draw ire from syria, lebanon, and even russia because russia is syria's protectorate. but i'm even more concerned about the precedent this sets for international law. there is a u.n. security council resolution governing the inadmissibility of acquiring territory through wars. and the president is completely disregarding that. >> i want to delve deeper into two points. first it is noteworthy, you talk about the timing around an election in israel and when asked whether mr. trump thinks his decision will have a positive impact for benjamin netanyahu here's his response. >> i wouldn't even know about

that. i wouldn't even about that. i have no idea. i hear he's doing okay. i don't know if he's doing great right now but i hear he's doing okay. but i would imagine the other side, whoever's against him, is also in favor of what i just did. every president has said do that. i'm the one that gets it done. >> mr. trump there speaking. but what is the impact for benjamin netanyahu, who's in a tough election? he seemed to enthusiastically embrace this news from president trump. >> i just have to shake my head a little bit because where do you even start with that quote from an analytic perspective? first, several presidents before president trump have not promised to do this. in fact, many of them have respected the fact that the u.n. security council resolution has actually been quite the opposite and has said that this territory should not just be annexed by israel and should be part of a negotiated settlement with syria. number two, if president trump really doesn't know that prime minister netanyahu is up for re-election in just a few weeks and he doesn't know that prime

minister netanyahu is under pressure, then someone get this president an intelligence briefing book or suggest that he read a newspaper. this is a commonly known fact and ostensibly having seen classified intelligence in the united states the upcoming election would be something president trump would be briefed on regularly. and finally, especially because he's meeting he prime minister netanyahu next week. >> meeting with the american israel public affairs committee, aipac. delving deeper, what does it mean for president trump given his support here in the u. u.s.? >> i actually helped prepare president obama for aipac speeches, an aipac speech. i actually have spoken at aipac myself. so i'm quite familiar with the audiences that are there. and the benefits of speaking to such a large group of people that are focused on not just

israel but israel's situation with respect to other countries in the middle east, prime minister netanyahu coming to aipac shortly before an election and having president trump meet with him on the margins of that meeting, that's going to be a huge political boost. and as we just discussed he certainly needs that. he is facing diminishing support at home and we don't yet know exactly when the attorney general is planning to indict prime minister netanyahu. that was something that broke a few weeks ago. so at this point coming to the united states, having praise showered on him by president trump, and being able to tell israeli voters, well, we got the united states to move their embassy to jerusalem, we got the united states to cut off aid to palestinian refugees that they've said is being misused by terrorist groups. and finally, the united states just annex the golan heights without any negotiated settlement. those are all part of a pre-election gift bag that president trump is giving to

prime minister netanyahu. so to achb extent he is interfering in israeli politics trying to it looks like at least get support for prime minister netanyahu. >> sam vinograd, thank you between for your time. >> thank you. nato says two of its service members have been killed in afghanistan. the latest casualties in the 17-year war. the names of those killed in action are being withheld until loved ones have been notified. details remain sketchy at this point. the nato statement didn't say who the soldiers were following. a three-week lifeline. theresa may gets? breathing room to get her deal passed in parliament, but will an extension really help here? cnn is live in brussels and london following the story. plus this. >> new zealand mourns with you. we are one. >> new zealand pausing to remember the victims of the mosque attacks that happened just one week ago.

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following this story in eastern syria. ben? >> reporter: yes, good morning, george. well, there was intense overnight bombardment of that slim sliver of land just along the euphrates. what we heard was what sounded like ac-130 smepecter gunships, which are used for attacking personnel as opposed to vehicles or buildings. we understand from a spokesman from the syrian democratic force that's there are perhaps a few hundred jihadis left along the euphrates and that some of them have made it clear they have no intention to surrender, that they plan to fight to the death. but we know there are also civilians or family members of those isis jihadis still inside, being used by their own family members essentially as human shields.

over the last 48 hours several hundred of the people that were inside that enclave have surrendered to democratic forces. but as far as the timing on when this final battle could finally end is frankly very unclear. george? >> ben, that's an interesting point. for those family members who may be being used as human shields by their own family members, as they say, what happens to those civilians, those people who do try to leave that sliver of territory. >> well, what happens is normally somebody from the inside, from the isis-controlled territory, will communicate by hand signals or shouting to the positions of the syrian democratic forces to tlemt know there are people who want to leave. and then the syrian democratic

forces will have personnel there that will come out to frisk them. because there have been several instances of suicide bombers going out among those giving themselves up. these are people apparently opposed to any sort of surrender. it's a very delicate process. once they've reached safe ground, their fingerprints are checked. their names are recorded. pictures of their faces are taken. and they are loaded onto trailer trucks normally used for transporting livestock. and then they go on this live journey. that sometimes can take overnight because of the logistical complications and they end up in one of two major camps that have been set up for those who are leaving the isis-controlled areas. in those camps those who have a clean affiliation with ice rhys

kept in a separate part. and they are not free to move around. they cannot leave the camp because of the concerns that they might pose to security. and as far as how long they will be keeptd, it's not at all clear. the men are sent to different locations, essentially prisons where interrogations continue. there have been some cases where isis jihadis have been handed over to iraq, to other countries. but many, for instance the united kingdom, has made it clear it does not want jihadis back who were carrying uk citizenship. it's a burden and a dilemma for the authorities in this part of syria who would like these people to leave and go back to their home countries but they won't take them. george? >> ben wedeman following the story in eastern syria. ben, thank you. the pentagon has a message for moscow to tone down the language. it's been a little more than five years now since russia

annexed crimea, and now its defense officials say the u.s. is trying to stoke tensions by flying a warplane near the russian border. but america's top military officer has strong words for the kremlin. our barbara starr has this report from the pentagon. >> reporter: a u.s. b-52 bomber caught on a russian aircraft camera over the baltic sea. moscow claims a russian fighter jet forced the americans to back off, something adamantly denied by the u.s. air force, which said the russian aircraft did not chase the b-52 away. it's all part of the new front line between moscow and washington over superpower dominan dominance. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff says russia is working on new missiles, ships, and aircraft aimed at making it harder for the u.s. to defend europe. a plan he says that is so far

succeeding. >> it is absolutely no question it will be more difficult for us to project power in europe today. >> reporter: general joseph dunford says the u.s. can still defend europe and the pentagon is funding new u.s. weapons to push back. you he has an unusually blunt warning about russian president vladimir putin. >> we're talking about putin putting together information operations, cyber operations, political influence, unconventional methods to advance his insurance. >> reporter: dunford also pinning the 2016 election interference on putin, something president trump has not done even as the u.s. intelligence community believes it. >> putin's doing things. you know, he did things in the

united states in the context of the 2016 elections to try to undermine our democracy. i'd make an assumption that there's very little that russia does that putin is not aware of. >> reporter: and on the china front general dunford expressing growing concern about american high-tech companies doing business with beijing. his worry is their technology will go directly to the chinese military if they do business with the government there. he singled out google for a lot of his concern. and we are now learning that next week general dunford plans to meet with google executives here in washington at the company's request. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. still ahead here on "newsroom," brexit delayed. the eu gives theresa may two weeks, a two-week lifeline which could extend brexit if parliament can approve a brexit deal. will that happen? who knows? stay with us.

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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. you are watching "cnn newsroom" live from atlanta. i'm george howell with the headlines we're following for you this hour. the white house is bracing for the mueller report to be released, and behind the scenes aides have been preparing for a number of different scenarios. but they remain in the dark about what will be in that report. one white house official telling cnn, "we're tea leaf reading like everyone else is." bucking decades of u.s. policy, president donald trump says it's time to recognize israel's sovereignty over the disputed golan heights. israel seized the territory from syria in the 1967 war and annexed it in 1981. the move comes less than three weeks before the israeli election. indonesia's airline garuda has canceled its nearly $5 billion order for 49 boeing max 8 jets. it says passengers have lost all confidence to fly in that plane. two max 8s, as you'll remember,

crashed five months apart. "the new york times" reports they lacked two safety features that were sold as extras. it's all up to the uk parliament yet again. the european union has thrown theresa may one last lifeline and agreed to a xwrex-it extension. but it comes with strings attached this time. if british lawmakers approve the prime minister's divorce bill, the uk leaves the eu on may 22nd. but if it once again fails, parliament then and the uk has until april 12th to figure out what happens next. >> well, what this means in practice is until that date all options will remain open. and the cliff edge date will be delayed. the uk government will still have a choice of a deal, no deal, a long extension or revoking article 50.

>> and you will remember, article 50 is the clause to leave the eu, and revoking it would essentially prevent brexit. miss may says she has no intention of stopping brexit. >> i hope we can all agree we are now at the moment of decision, and i will make every effort to ensure that we are able to leave with a deal and move our country forward. >> our correspondents are covering all aspects of this story. cnn's diplomatic -- international diplomatic editor nic robertson is outside number 10. and our melissa bell is live in brussels. nic, first to you. who is under more pressure here? is the prime minister to see if the speaker will even allow her deal to be put to the floor for a vote, or is it the british parliament to either reject or embrace the only deal that's on the table? >> you know, the last time the british parliament got a vote on the deal it rejected it by 149 votes, and the speaker has said

that unless it substantially changes the withdrawal agreement theresa may would bring in front of parliament, then she can't bring it again without substantial changes. it's not clear what those changes would be. it is clear that theresa may would likely make the case that what she's been told by brussels now in some way reshapes or redefines it. even though the european union has made very, very clear last night that there will be no changing to that withdrawal agreement that was agreed back in november last year. so it does seem to leave theresa may in a very difficult position. she did say, you know, when talking about all the options being on the table, donald tusk talking about that, that she was not inclined to allow the british people to vote in another european election because she said just three years ago they voted to leave the european union. so that wouldn't be right. she's really indicating again her deadline will be april the 12th unless her vote passes, in

which case it will be june -- it would be may the 22nd. so the position that she's putting herself in feels very much like the position we were in last week. the conditions of what she's expecting parliament to vote on feel very much like last week. she is under a lot of pressure. wednesday she was criticized for essentially standing up in parliament and saying it's up to the mps now, i've done everything i can, it's the mps that need to vote. she seemed to dial that back a the bit and saying she understands that mps are under pressure as well. criticize potentially putting them in danger by overstressing they are yin a way to blame for not supporting her withdrawal agreement. and i think the other thing we can see what theresa may is saying here is she's leaving open that possibility of reaching out across the house in parliament. she gave an indication of that last night. and undoubtedly when meeting for 90 minutes with the european

union leaders, she will heard that message coming from them because it's what they've been telling her for many, many months now. >> nic, stand by. let's bring in our colleague melissa bell. and melissa, the message from brussels there, it is quite clear, accept the deal, get a little more time, reject it get a little less time, and it is decision time. >> it is decision time. and that ball, george, very much back in westminster's court. you really sense the frustration. and we heard a great deal about it. nic just referred to that 90-minute presentation she gave european leaders. and at the end of that what we were hearing from inside the room was that there was a sense that really the question of what if her deal does not get through westminster had not been adequately addressed. she simply didn't seem to have an answer to that, which is at which point european leaders sort of took things into their own hands. she had been coming to them to ask for a delay on her terms, a calendar date she came one. they came back and said that's not okay. of course the big problem for

europeans would have been the united kingdom still inside the eu when that european parliamentary campaign begins on the 23rd of may. the question then institutionally, politically for the eu would have become quite complicated. they redefined that kind of saying look, your cutoff date is the 22nd of may. after that really re need you out. in order that the eu can be preserved. this is something that i number of european leaders and i think the french president in particular has been very hard-line about. of course it is important to help the united kingdom organize as orderly a transition as possible. but there is an important need to protect the rest of the eu from the sort of contagion they see creeping, in the sort of chaos spreading further than it has already. and we've sensed that. emmanuel macron left the meeting yesterday expressing frustration -- we expect him to arrive in just a few minutes on the red carpet for those meetings to continue. he told the press as he left

that essentially the british had been incapable of organize, of delivering to their people what the people had volted f evoted . >> melissa bell, thank you so much. and nic robertson as well. we'll stay in touch with you both as we figure out where the brexit ball bounces next. now to new zealand. a very solemn day. ♪ the country taking a moment to pause, remembering the victims of the deadly mosque attacks, which happened one week ago. crowds of all faiths came together in a park near one of the mosques for the muslim call to prayer. and then this as well.

so many people. yet what you hear, nothing. the silence there. several moments of silence. the imam of one of the targeted mosques saying he saw hatred and rage in the eyes of one of the terrorists who killed and martyred 50 innocent people, adding instead of tearing the nation apart the attack proved the country is uning breakable. and he had a message for the people of new zealand. listen. >> thank you for your tears. thank you for your haqqa. thank you for your flowers. thank you for your love and compassion. to our prime minister, thank u

you. [ applause ] >> now let's bring in our ivan watson. ivan has been covering this story for us in christchurch and joins us now with the latest there. ivan. >> that's right, george. the people of new zealand united in this show of unity and grief after the deadliest terrorist attack in new zealand's modern history. and what we saw at this memorial and these prayers that were conducted here in christchurch in the park was pretty rema remarkable because the imam, the cler whoik we just sacleric who saw. his name is gamal fouda. he was giving a ceremony ann in the al noor mosque here in christchurch when the suspected terrorist walked in and began shooting worshippers one by one.

and here seven days later he was addressing a crowd of thousands of people, including the prime minister of the country, and thanking new zealandered for the support they've seen for the muslim minority in this country that was so savagely targeted. let's listen to another excerpt from his sermon. >> we have shown that new zealand is unbreakable. and that the world can see in us an example of love and unity. we are brokenhearted, but we are not broken. we are alive. we are together. we are determined to not let anyone divide us.

>> and in another remarkable show of the unity here, many, many women here in new zealand wore head scarves. one of the hashtags that was trending here was hashtag head scarf for harmony. i think i've even seen reports that the television news anchors, women, were wearing head scarves on the air. just another sign of how many new zealanders perceived this attack op tn two moss nkz christchurch as an attack on the entire country. now, after the memorial here at a cemetery in christchurch mourners brought out one coffin after another as dozens of victims were buried. the youngest today a 3-year-old boy named rajad ibrahim. the oldest today, 77-year-old musa awale. new zealand's prime minister, jacinda ar dedern, she says in wake of the attack last friday this country has been forever

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following this term bomb cyclone. you'll remember that from last week. it's when a storm rapidly intensifies. and you know what? you're going to hear it again as a new storm is taking aim at the northeastern united states and could be the next bomb cyclone. our meteorologist derek van dam is in the international weather center with more on that. derek. >> all right, george. there's a marked difference between last week's bomb cyclone and this week's bomb cyclone. name na namely, that last week's formed in the central part of the country and impacted a large area. today's storm that is deepening quickly is off the east coast, and that means the majority of the impacts will be felt oft coastli coastline. that doesn't mean we're not going to feel it today if you're in the major east coast cities

from boston to new york to fella to d.c. but this is going to be a rainmaker for the most part. you don't have to travel that far outside of that i-95 corridor northward. that's where we'll feel heavy winter impact. winter advisory and storm warning in place for that area. maybe 6 to 12 inches of snoechl possible across tleej. notice the shades of blue right along the atlantic coastline. that's where we're going to keep the precipitation in the liquid variety because temperatures are frankly too warm. the other part of the storm is the wind that's going to be associated with it. when we have a bomb cyclone taking place it drops a certain amount of pressure, millibars. 24 millibars in 24 hours. and that creates a lot of wind in the atmosphere and they could gust over 30 miles per hour through the course of the day. and that could cause travel delays along some of the east coast temperatures as well. 49 for chicago, 49 for the big apple. 69 for atlanta the nation's capital at 54.

and i've got to talk about this. another storm system developing east of the rockies. not a bomb cyclone but this one is going to exacerbate the flood problem that is ongoing across the mississippi river valley p it's going to bring more rainfall. compound it across the melting snowpack in place across the region and the deep frozen ground underneath, there's nowhere for this water to run. that's why we have an enormous flood threat into the mississippi river region. the flood threat extends into michigan as well. that is going to continue through the course of todayride right through the end of the week and unfortunately there's a lot of signs the flood potential could impact the nation's heartland right through the month of may. >> all right. derek, thank you. so when it comes to thank yous, they're nice to get, nice to have. but sometimes there's just no way. >> hallmark has a very limited offering of "thank you for the

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it's not hard to find a best-seller on thank yous because who doesn't like to be told thank you. you'll remember the former u.s. president barack obama would say "thanks obama." his successor donald trump also a big fan of gratitude but on some interesting topics like the senator john mccain's funeral and oil prices and even more. our jeanne moos has this. >> reporter: here's a sound bite with a little too much bite. that jaw dropper about john mccain. >> i gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted. i don't care about this. i didn't get thank you. that's okay. >> reporter: mccain's sense of humor was such that he'd probably appreciate the late night roasting president trump got. >> apparently, mccain is just one of many dead people who never thanked trump. i never heard from lincoln. >> hallmark has a very limited offering of "thank you for the funeral" cards. >> reporter: how about thank you for those oil prices?

the president once tweeted "so great that oil prices are falling. thank you, president t." or "thanks for approving that oil pipeline." >> can you imagine the boss of whatever the hell company it is, who never actually called me to say thank you? but that's okay. >> reporter: actually, he did say thanks in person. >> thank you, mr. president. >> reporter: and how about those college students the president helped extricate from china after they were caught shoplifting? >> do you think the three ucla basketball players will say thank you president trump? >> reporter: but you know who does say thanks? most cabinet members. >> thank you. >> i can't thank you enough. >> i want to thank you. >> reporter: and people in commercials for trump. >> thank you for fixing our economy. >> thank you, president trump. for letting us say merry christmas again. >> i need you to call the number on your screen and deliver a thank you to president trump. >> reporter: you'd think thanksgiving would be the president's favorite holiday. >> imagine thanksgiving at the trump white house. "let's go around the table and

all say what we're thankful to me for." i'll start. >> reporter: president trump was actually asked at thanksgiving what he's most thankful for. >> for having a great family and for having made a tremendous difference in this country. i've made a tremendous difference in the country. >> reporter: he's made gratitude great again. jeanne moos, cnn. >> i didn't get thank you. >> thank you very much. >> and press 1 to tell president trump thank you. >> reporter: new york. >> thank you for being with us for this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm george howell at the cnn center in atlanta. "early start" is next for viewers here in the united states. and for viewers around the world my colleague max foster is live in london with the continuation of "newsroom." have a great day.

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