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skies. "early today" starts right now >> good friday morning i'm phillip mena >> and i'm frances rivera. two days after robert mueller broke his silence, his words continue across the hill president trump inadvertently admitted russia helped him get elected before walking back the comment. peter alexander has more >> president trump saluting cadets >> russia did not help me get elected. you know who got me elected? i got me elected russia didn't help me at all >> he attacked the hoax tweeting, i had nothint elected. by packing democratic email. the president again blasting mueller. >> i think he is a total

conflicted person. i think mueller is a true never trumper. >> reporter: according to the mueller report, his claims he was conflicted were ridiculous and petty. his claims that mueller did not charge him with any crime. >> so he said, essentially, you are innocent >> here is what mueller actually said >> if we had confidence the president clearly had not committed a crime, we would have said so. >> and he believes mueller could have offered a conclusion despite the long-standing policy that forbids inindicting a sitting president. >> the opinion says you can't indict but he could have reached a decision whether it was criminal activity. >> the drum beat of democrats calling for impeachment is growing. >> it is a dirty word.

impeach. a dirty, filthy, disgusting word it had nothing to do with me there was no high crime and no misdemeanor. how do you impeach based on that president trump is taking aim at mexican economy starting june 10, the u.s. will impose tariffs on all mexican imports. the white house said mexico must step up and help with this problem. tracie potts joins us from d.c these tariffs could climb as high as 25%. >> reporter: that's right. the plan is to start at 5% and add 5% up to october up to 25% if mexico doesn't do something to the trump administration's

satisfaction we are starting to get reaction starting with democrats. take a look. the committee tweeting that president of the united states has a severe lack of understanding when it comes to both immigration as well as basic economics. we are also getting a letter from tf mexico responding saying social problems are not involved with taxes. we are sending his foreign minister all of this happens as the u.s., mexico and canada are considering whether to improve that new trade deal that president trump has been promoting. vice president mike pence was in canada talking about that on thursday and democrats are saying here that it came capitol hill in a rush, the draft version of it for their

approval the white house says they don't believe these new tariffs will slow down approval of that deal. the legal battle over abortion rights is intensifying as the louisiana governor signs into law a fetal heartbeat ban more than two dozen states have or are considering correct anti abortion laws. these are fuelling protests and marches a around the country >> reporter: supporters of abortion rights taking to the streets of st. louis some arrested after a sit in waiting for a federal judges ruling on the license renewal of missouri's only abortion clinic. based on the new law banning abortions after eight weeks. >> we do not want to be the first state to lose access to legal and safe abortion. >> planned parent hood argues

the state department keeps moving the goal posts. the governor parsons says the state is just doing its job. >> this is not an issue of prolife. this is about the standard of care for the women in missouri >> reporter: more protests in louisiana as it became the latest state to outlaw abortion once a heartbeat is detected a similar law in georgia you may cost a film business netflix and disney weighing the impact and possibly pulling from the state. >> many people who work for us wouldn't want to work there. >> reporter: consequences of this divisive issue. democrats on the senate armed services committee are demanding answers from the navy about the order to move "uss

john mccain" out of sight as the president visited japan. the president claims he had nothing to do with that. >> what a group. what a group >> reporter: the commander and chief on memorial day in japan but the president said he was not behind the unusual move to keep the "uss mccain" hidden from view. >> i don't know what happened. i wasn't involved. >> a military officer told the navy, "uss john mccain" needs to be out of sight. it is not clear who gave the order. >> i would never give an order like that. somebody did it because they thought i didn't like him. they were well meaning >> rep nor vieted to the president's speech the ship not only honors senator mccain but his father and grandfather.

megan mccain fought back >> it creates a culture in the military where people are fearful to show my father's name and that is what started this chain of events in action. >> thank you for that report police in l.a. were taken on a wild chase by a tattooed and shirtless man who stole an suv he played cat and mouse by repeatedly stopping and starting the car. he made several moves like hitting other cars and speeding through the intersection they had to use a spike strip. the man climbed out of the damaged sug caught can you spell unprecedented? for thfi cochampions. >> absolutely incredible all night long

>> over the course of three and a half hours, the field was narrowed from 16 to 8. after the 17th round, it was announced the spelling bee had run out of words hard enough to challenge these kids they had to make it past the 20th round and they were champions. >> each of the eight winners will walk away with $50,000. in the 92-year history, there have been a few instances of cochampions but never this many. a growing disaster with flooding across 17 states. last night, the governor signed emergency state for arkansas mandatory evacuations ordered for missouri hours ago it is impacting many people who

do not have flood insurance. >> it has been a tough couple of weeks. we talked about this yesterday you said, if we can get to friday, it will finally go away. >> we have a slight severe weather risk to address today. you saw that flooding. even though we are not seeing that rain in the area, the flooding will last for the next few weeks. we are seeing some isolated showers who will make their way off shore into the northeast we have a slight risk of thunderstormsome presidential till record highs across the carolinas into the southeast. severe weather risk has

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