the bernstein symposium was created to honor the memory of the bernstein. whose work in the area of regulation and personal andstrae administrative reform continues to influence scholars today. he served as a founding dean of the woodrow wilson school of public and international affairs at princeton, as president of brandeis, and for the last seven years of his life as a professor of politics and philosophy here at our school of foreign service. we are deeply grateful to michael and susan gelman, and all those have generously supported this symposium and enabled us to bring such esteemed guests to campus, including vice president al gore, journalist tim russert, senator patrick leahy, and justices sonia sotomayor and stephen breyer, to take part in this forum which honors doctor burndr.bernstein many contributo our university community and to our understanding of the u.s. political system. s today we have the privilege of welcoming ruth bader ginsburg, associate justice of the supreme court of the united states. since her confirmation to the court nearly 25

my heroes were woodward and bernstein. i know the story well. i didn't have to look up the date october 20, 1973, the day of the saturday night massacre. as i write in the new yorker this week, june 23, 1972, the famous smoking gun tape of richard nixon in the oval office talking to h.r. haldeman. what they are talking about is getting the fbi to stop investigating watergate. it's the same thing that trump was doing by firing comey as he more or less admitted to lester holt. i stand by everything i say. it's not usually the way i express myself but i think i was right. >> you said this is not what happens in democracies. we see it in other forms of government. is it that serious still five days later? >> i do think -- what occurred to me is what's going on in turkey. you have the government purging thousands of people who at least according to the government are unreliable from the police, the press, the teaching professions. obviously things aren't that bad here. but that's the kind of thing that resonates for me. and, you know, i'm not going t

i remember vividly the story when carl bernstein and i were working on watergate, the fall of 1972 when nixon had a landslide re-election and tracing money and activity to the nexton white house to the re-election campaign and wrote his campaign manager, the same way, some of the way these people get close to presidents. he was number one, the way david axelrod was to owe bam bah bauma. nd he financed watergate and other activities and before your time at the "the post" with a little campaign where you can get candy bars and a couple of coffee -- >> you have told me what the price of coffee was? >> 10 cents and it wasn't even worth 10 cents, but carl puts a dime in and carl is probably somebody's best instimpings of any journalists that i have ever known and he jumps and turns around and says to me, you know nixon is going to be impeached. and i thought, here's the guy closest to him, a money trail. we now know it was much more than we had at the time, but we had the beginning of the story and i said to carl, you're right, he is going to be impeached, but never use that word in this new

also, carl bernstein of the fame woodward and bernstein who broke open the watergate story for "the washington post." carl, let me begin with you. it sounds like senator joe lieberman could be the pick for the fbi director. your thoughts? >> well, i think it's possible to be a bit cynical about the choice for the following reasons. lieberman is someone that trump likes. jeff sessions likes joe lieberman. they know each other. he comes from a law firm that has done work for the president of the united states in his private life. it's clear that this president wants to hold on to as much influence and control and affect the investigation to whatever degree that he can. there has been a coverup that's been going on. doesn't mean he's obstructed justice but there's no question that there's been a coverup going on in which the president of the united states has tried to impede, obstruct, demean a legitimate investigation. and now i cannot imagine he doesn't want to continue to have whatever influence and contact with the investigation he possibly can. and perhaps he is thinking and sessions is thin

bernsteins many contributions to our community and understanding of the system. one buses the confirmation to the accord nearly 25 years ago with the distinguished service on the bench heavy are deeply honored to share insights with the georgetown community and appointed to the federal bench in began his service 14 years lady later by his namesake but dead katzman is engaged member of the georgetown community having taught at the professor of government and currently serves with a loss center and also one of the founders with the brookings institution of the institute from the american political science association and then to have the chesterfield smith award and the recognition of the else standing dedication to their pro bono work including programs and the creation. justice ginsberg guide him as special counsel from patrick moynihan and for the supreme court. it is wonderful to welcome you back to campus and with the sustained commitment please join me to welcome the honorable robert katzman. [applause] one eyed and for the efforts to promote understanding an

.>> the white house correspondents dinner this year he made an appearance, wildwood road, bob bernstein your co-author and you got huge applause for one line and you said mister president, but media is not fake news. >> that's right, it's not fake news and the point i was making is sometimes we make mistakes but it's not in good faith. last left right, center and you may not agree and not like us but it's not people sitting around tables saying make something up. >> he had a tough message for the press, he said it's no time for self-satisfaction or smugness. >> i think that's a giant problem, on television particularly you will see white house correspondents deliver a report and then the trump white house said and then there's a kind of smug smile. which is the correspondent undermining what the white house says and there may be grounds for that but it shouldn't be, should be reported, it should be strain. i remember vividly this story when carl bernstein and i were working on watergate at the fall of 72 before nixon had this massive landslide reelection and we were tracing money and ac

joining me carl bernstein and david axelrod and michael haden.you wrote an op-ed for the hill. you say, it's beginning to feel a little like nicaragua around here. how do you -- what do you mean? >> in 110 days, the president has fired a national security adviser, an acting attorney general and the director of the fbi. i was trying to capture what that must feel like for people on the outside looking in at america and by the way, my international network has checked in with, you are going to be okay, right? i was trying to describe that this kind of behavior is not normally associated with a mature western democracy. it's associated with autocratic populist states. >> do you feel that could be the -- that's where we're heading? >> look, i have lived enough in the world. america sent me to places that weren't happy at the moment. i have seen how thin the veneer of civilization is. you walk through -- >> we think it's solid. but you walk through say-- what smieks you h strikes you how different -- >> there are snipers. >> you just have that concern

. >> we need woodward and bernstein. >> right. >> reporter: would bob woodward and carl bernstein have had the same impact in the era of twitter? and so-called fake news? >> we know there's no such thing as fake news. we live in a time when people don't believe facts. and if we can't convince that facts are facts, that's a very difficult situation. >> reporter: tonight the senate intel committee issued a subpoena for documents from general mike flynn, a sign their investigation of him is pressing on. senators are also asking questions about trump's business dealings. >> during your investigation of all things russia, did you ever find a situation where a trump business interest i you concern? >> senator graham, i can't comment on that because that impacts an investigation. >> reporter: officials tell abc news that the fbi is increasingly focused on several trump associates, including carter page. brian ross caught up with page who, along with all the others, denies ever colluding with russia. >> it's ridiculous. >> what's ridiculous about it? >> everything. >> reporter: a sentiment sha

i'm looking forward to hearing howard bernstein's report. but for now, i'm matt yurus for wusa9. >> thank you very much matt. and turning to the weather, cool, damp, and breezy. >>> all atrend, but, are we going to catch a break for mother's day? let's get to meteorologist howard bernstein. >> yeah, if you are beginning out tonight, other than a stray sprinkle east of town, don't worry about it. the rains are long gone. look at the first alert doppler. really hitting hard now across areas of new york state, massachusetts, connecticut, some lighter rains down pennsylvania and new jersey. and, locally, the very light sprinkles are moving in from north to south, you see them here. generally off to the north and east. maybe just a couple of spots under prince george's. and parts of charles county. isolated very light sprinkles. we are only in the 50s in most spots. manassas, 60. 69 national airport. mid 50s in rockville, germantown. waldorf. looking at the evening planner, even a few breaks out west, we are seeing sunshine popping through. tempe

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let's get straight over to first alert meteorologist howard bernstein. >> it looks better. it doesn't look completely dry but better. fewer showers, temperatures that will be in the 50s during the day. should make the lower 60s. should need a jacket and maybe an umbrella. upper level system spinning through the northeast to the midatlantic. snow down in the mountains from tennessee to north carolina. a few flakes in our mountains. the only thing going on tonight, couple light showers coming out of west virginia which have been crossing i-81 around woodstock. this is moving off toward the southeast at about 40 miles per hour. it will be over toward warrenton at 11:37. jefferson at 11:35 just before sun and clouds mixed. still going to be breezy and cold. the 50s in the low maybe mid 50s. gusts over 20 again. certainly jacket, sweatshirt weather. that futurecast does also show the threat for a couple showers well north and west toward sunday morning. we'll see the clouds here, more sun south and east. by lunchtime we're going to be trying to make a run toward 60 degrees with

no white house source would dare put his name on that quote for woodward and bernstein. it was a very hot quote, controversial quote. the white house isn't supposed to sound like that at all. the white house is supposed to speak with a calm, reassuring voice. witch-hunt. that's not white house language. the white house is not supposed to accuse the senate of conducting a political witch hunt. the white house has to do business with the senate every day. you can't talk like that. so no one in the nixon white house would allow themselves to actually be caught by name using that phrase then, witch hunt. at 7:52 a.m. today, the president of the united states was awake and tweeting. this is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in american history. last night, the white house issued a statement written for the president in language that he would clearly never personally use saying, "as i have stated many times, a thorough investigation will confirm what we already know there was no collusion between my campaign and any foreign entity. i look forward to this matter co

. >> ladies and gentlemen, tom bernstein, chairman of the united states holocaust memorial council. survivors of the holocaust, friends, distinguished guests, welcome to the ceremony of this magnificent rotunda. some may ask why we remember the holocaust in this hall of democracy in the capital of the free world, or for that matter, why is there a holocaust museum on the national mall? the answer lies in the fact that this great country was founded on an idea, one of the most consequential ideas in human history. that idea's represented in this majestic space, and engraved at one entrance of the museum, where visitors encounter the most important words ever written about our national values. they begin, "we hold these truths to be self-evident." the declaration of independence was perhaps the very first human rights proclamation, and universal freedom is at the heart of our democracy. this house of the democracy is situated at one end of the long, and at the other end is the lincoln memorial. midway between is our museum, whose lessons stand as a cautionary tale in stark contrast to

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let's talk about that with the head of european corporate credit of alliance bernstein. off the start you say the credit market is ignoring the political risk. why do you think that is? >> looking at the market now, we're looking at a rate height investment market. we are look at a market has leaves little room for anything else other than a macron victory. after the first election round, credits tightened and the french names are trading at levels that we saw at the beginning of the year. from an investor holding french risk there is a less compelling market to look at bonds and credit bonds. that has been driven to some extent by ecb buying 2, 2.5 billion every week of corporate bonds. >> do you still think -- i know the ecb is a much bigger factor, do you still believe macron is the winner, do you not believe we could see a rally in european credit markets? >> yes, we will see a small rally. we'll see it in the french credits and broadly. i'm saying the symmetry in that trade, it is certainly calling for high conviction in macron to win. you can find value elsewhere i

i remember vividly this story when carl bernstein and i were working on watergate. it was the fall of 1972 before nixon had this massive landslide reelection, and we were tracing money and activity to the nixon white house, the reelection campaign, and we wrote about nixon's closest aide, john mitchell, who had been the attorney general, his campaign manager, you know, the same way some of these people get close presidents. i mean, he was never one, may be -- he was number one, maybe sort of the way david axelrod was to obama. and we said mitchell controlled the secret fund that had financed watergate and other activities. before your time at the post on , the fifth floor, there was a little canteen where you can get candy bars and a couple coffee and carl and -- mike: you told me what the price of a couple coffee was. bob: yes, 10 cents. [laughter] bob: it wasn't even worth 10 cents, but carl goes over and puts a dime in and gets a cup of coffee and carl is probably somebody with the best instincts of any journalists i've ever known, and he kind of jumps and turns

carl bernstein says venomous he means it has long-term repercussions of words. >> there were signalsm justices gorsuch's hearings around his confirmation that signaled he's not on the same page as the president when it comes to this. >> exactly right. we're talking about that actual malice standard, where you have to know it was false and disregarded the likelihood it was false when you published it. when judge gorsuch then was asked about the question he cited an appellate decision he had made himself where he essentially said the same thing, that that standard still remains true and it's not about whether it is specifically false. it's about whether it was substantially true. good signal we have a justice in the supreme court remains close to the new york constitutional sullivan standard a bad sign for opening up any libel law. >> thank you very much, brian and laura. we appreciate it. >>> ahead for us, are they or aren't they covered affordable in the gop health care bill? we're talking about preexisting conditions. right now it depends on who you ask in the white house. 's about,

howard bernstein joins us with the first alert forecast. good news? >>> good news on mother's day and tomorrow, it won't be that bad but a nasty afternoon on the first half of saturday, lots of commencement's. >> we have a concert and a lot going on. plan b for those contingencies. >>> on first alert doppler, this activity is moving northwest to southwest with heavy rain, thankfully, pushing through much of the region and we are watching the south and east of town with heavy showers after the northern at six mary's college to the eastern shores. it comes in from the northwest with some brakes and perhaps we will get into a low here or there but showers will be more on then off and you can see the green with occasionally moderate showers coming through leesburg and toward aldie and fairfax and going toward la plata right now. southern maryland, heavy showers around solomon and lexington park and out to southern parts of st. mary and frederick and shenandoah valley. all the way to strasburg and toward warrenton and part of the problem is we have 50s on

change at money manager alliance bernstein firing the ceo.eslie has more on the drama unfolding here out of france. good morning. >> drama indeed. alliance bernstein said in a filing this morning that it fired the ceo and nine members of the board. the firm moved by written consent to restructure the board and add six new directors including a former jpmorgan chase executive who will take over as ceo. also named the former president of the world bank as its chairman. it's unclear at this time from either the press release or a call held earlier this morning exactly why they terminated kraus and the rest of the board. analysts on the board pressed the chairman of axa on why exactly they decided to make such a subtle change and his response was "you should have no concern in terms of anything that was not apparent in the figures. the direction we want to take is fully in line with what's been achieved in the past in terms of diversification of the expertise toward new asset classes." the firm reported first quarter earnings last week that showe

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here is howard bernstein with our forecast. >>> friday morning is the key timeframe when we look at potentially heavy rain and thunderstorms. the friday morning commute -- there may be less people working friday -- will be slow and painful. temps in the 60s in town and many of the areas are 50. cumberland is 50. the warm stuff, richman, norfolk and ocean city in the low 70s. the clouds are a sign of the cool weather that is around. we have daytime clouds but nothing is falling out of them. kerry is well north and west are overcast near harpers ferry and fredericks has mostly cloudy skies south and east with more sunshine. futurecast, find through the evening and late afternoon, temps in the 60s with no real problems. the problems come tomorrow night as the clouds pick up and by friday night, thursday night and friday morning, the rain will be around. friday at 5:00 a.m., you can imagine what that will do to the commute. the forecast can be had anytime or anywhere on our wusa9 app. andrea? >>> thank you, howard. for every 1000 euros in the u.s. between 15 and 19 years old, about 24 of them are t

meteorologist howard bernstein joins me. i tweeted a picture that maybe one day i can wear my sunglasses. >> you can wear them a little bit before the afternoon showers. >>> some on and off showers, may be a break. on the afternoon, i will show you big picture, the rain last night -- and i passed this on river road coming in -- soggy ground and rain from this morning has lifted all the way up for lake ontario. the problem is this one spinning here through charleston, that will throw energy toward the east with daytime heating that will pop up showers and storms and we have some well south of the area, south of lynchburg with sprinkles west of charlotte and into virginia. we have some time but midafternoon, 2:30, upper 60s and low 70s and into the later part of the afternoon, showers and storms scatter for the ride home, and we have showers and storms threatening the commute home. this evening, showers and storms at 8:00, 9:00 or 10:00 that will settle down overnight and tomorrow, i'm happy to tell you, it looks okay. we can'

. >> the trump card corps woodward and bernstein, journalists whose dogged reporting of the watergate scandal led richard nixon to resign. >> mr. president, the media is not fake news. >> follow the money, but follow also the lies. >> going back now to the proposal to change the libel laws. the current law states that in order to bring a lawsuit you have to prove actual mall as. that is, that a reporter knew that a story was false, and published it anyway. changing that would likely require a constitutional amendment. and that would be a tall order. david wright, abc news,ment white house. >>> another member of the trump white house set to leave his post. senior member of the administration confirmed, dr. sebastian gorka stepping down. gorka is national security aide. used mainly as radio and television commentator. neither the white house or commenting. >> chartered fishing boat came to the rescue of three men stranded in the water off the florida coast after their boat sank. it happened 15 miles off coast of jacksonville. the three men were left clinging to a cooler as well as the a

first alert meteorologist howard bernstein. is it july or may? >> we're back to may. >> yesterday was july. >> it was tough. we hit the 90s. we'll be calmer through the weekend. maybe an unsettled start for the coming week. we have temps from us north and east only in the 60s. a few 50s along the coast with a strong on shore flow. down in the carolinas. charleston, lexington. mid to upper 80s. we're seeing showers and storms that pop around charlotteville. some hail down there. looking at it on first alert doppler. seeing the activity well south of town. maybe if you get to la ray here. up here. you might see it. not worried about showers this evening. if you're going out, grab the jackets. temperatures are going to be generally hanging in this evening. we'll see a partly to mostly cloudy sky. tomorrow will be a cloudy day with a few breaks in the morning. i think it'll be okay. 50s to start. we get late in the day. notice the showers to the west. they're going to move in tomorrow night into monday morning. monday morning should be a slow commute

i'm debra alfarone alongside howard bernstein. let's get right to it, the weather. it was damp today. >> it was damp. >> some of us got drenched. >> some of us did not. some of us did pay attention when we said there was a yellow weather alert and the threat of showers. >> okay. stop yelling me at, but it was on and off, though. >> tonight will still be on and off probably the first half of the night. we continue the yellow weather alert through the evening hours. the bigger storm is up in pennsylvania and ohio, but around here cool showers. what you see over toward del mar is what we had earlier today, even delayed the start of the nats game about an hour and a half. we still have all these showers out to the west that we're watching. right now it's fairly quiet out there, 60s and maybe just an isolated sprinkle, but out to the west here from cumberland down toward romney, these showers moving easton about 20 miles an hour, light to moderate. we'll track them moving east over toward woodstock 7:20, winchester close to 8:00. then off to the south and west notice wes

i'm debra alfarone here with howard bernstein. so, a little bit of clouds, a little bit of rain, are we going to get a break? >> by monday afternoon, we will get a break. cookouts, memorial day will be all right. we have to get through the midday monday before a front comes through. >> and we have sunday too. >> let's talk about this evening. we will have a look at first alert doppler. showers south of town, richmond, severe thunderstorm watch. south of a on toward missouri. the spotty showers, more than a nuisance more than anything else. you will see the batch affecting the nats game has headed south so dunkirk. there was a severe thunderstorm coming through lake anna south of fredericksburg. the worst of that coming through ladysmith. 70 in washington. richmond, 82. a couple of showers will be possible mainly west during the first half of the night. things will settle down overnight with lows in the upper 50s to low to mid 60s and sundays, shower ins the morning west and south of us try to get up here for the afternoon. may hol

carl bernstein and david gergen. john dean says the firing of comey is a very nixonian move.ke better than anybody. do you agree? >> i suppose you could say that. i think we need to look at a central fact here. that is that the president of the united states, for four months since his inauguration, has done everything in his power to impede, obstruct a legitimate investigation. nixon did not try to impede a legitimate national security investigation. what you do in the process if you are the president of the united states -- i'm not saying this means he is literally and legally obstructing justice. but he has impeded this investigation, especially through the firing of comey. and in the process, he has undermined the national security of the united states by making it harder for us to know what occurred with russia destabilizing the united states. we have never had a situation in modern times in which there has been an accusation such as this that associates of the president of the united states colluded with a hostile foreign power to undermine and destabilize our country. t

we look at the potential impacts, and the reasoning behind it, with jared bernstein. he is an economist who served in the obama administration. he's now a fellow at the center on budget and policy priorities. and, chris edwards is a budget expert at the cato institute, a libertarian research organization here in washington. jared, let me tart with you. in your opinion, what's wrong with this budget? >> this is a budget that solves the problem that seems to be vexing republicans is poor people have too much in this country and rich people don't have enough. if you look at the landscape of american inequality, of the kinds of wage and income stagnation that the poorer face and the very effective anti-poverty programs that have helped to kind of push back against those market inequalities, this is a budget that goes just in the wrong direction at 100 miles an hour. >> sreenivasan: chris edwards? yeah, there is a lot i like about the budget. for one thing it takes the deficit problem seriously. we have a $600 billion deficit. rising to a trillion in a number of years if w

joe: jonathan bernstein, bloomberg view columnist, thank you very much.oming up, president trump' firing of james comey may raise eyebrows, but it is not clear if anyone in the markets care. for more on the markets and what is going on in a d.c., stay tuned next. this is bloomberg. ♪ joe: what'd you miss? firing of fbip's director james comey adds to political uncertainty in washington, along with health care, tax reform, infrastructure, north korea. but there is little evidence that the market is concerned with any of it. why not?for more on how political risks interact with the market, george, welcome back to the show. it has been too long. why doesn't the market care about any of this? we get extraordinary headlines, everyone would have to admit, since election, and people think it is going to matter. it never seems to matter. answer that question is to ask in response, why should the market care? andets like stability strong institutions, but those are the things you could frame the comey firing through 10 to matter in the long run as opposed to the s

it had already shocked so much of the nation as woodward and bernstein were following the money.things about watergate were coming out or about to come to a head, but president nixon was not home. >> getting your picture taken in front of the pyramids is as old as photography. and today mr. and mrs. nixon had their picture taken here at giza, not far from cairo. with them were their hosts, president and mrs. sadat, and with the great pyramids in the background, it made as nice a family album shot as anyone could want. >> a family alm shot watergate? what watergate? let'just get these picres done. looking back, we do know nixon was actually less than two months from the end of his presidency during that photo op. a man who did pride himself on foreign policy was out of town for the beginning of the end of the scandal that would end his career. currently, president trump is on his first foreign trip, getting out of town and overseas, even as the investigations into his campaign ties with russia unfold. in the week that he has been away, he has lawyered up, retaining personal counse

not have unfolded as it did had it not been for the leaks that mark felt provided to woodward and bernstein. and the concern that i had when i was writing that column in "the post" last week was that in the absence of some demonstration by the deputy attorney general, that he was going to oversee it, there was reason to be concerned that there might be a repressed investigation and the last resort to assure the public's awareness of what was going on. >> can i ask, then, because of the leaks that now it seems like the white house and republicans are really concerned about leaks right now. they want this story to be about leaks, they are saying. how do you respond to that having lived through watergate? >> oh, i think you kind of get your priorities straight. it's not so much about whether leaks are bad. they often are bad, depending on what the circumstances are. but what's more important is what's the underlying abuse or criminality about which the leaks are taking place. and i would say, despite my role in watergate, this situation on the face of it is far more serious than the watergate

who years later to the day, two people who were major figures in watergate, carl bernstein and former white house counsel john dean. as someone who worked in a white house who was under siege and being investigated by a special counsel. what is the mood in the west wing? >> i can't imagine it's a happy white house now.nixon watergate need to know white house. so it probably in the trump white house isn't quite that smooth. they're still working out their staffing and it's -- this has happened very early in their presidency, so i'm sure it's a real ripple going through the operation. >> people in the white house, do they now see the special counsel as the enemy? i mean is that how he was viewed back in watergate? >> he wasn't to me. he probably was to some. because while nixon didn't want a special counsel, he actually threw some names out and tried to influence it. i left before the special counsel was appointed and so i wasn't really there, casual actually covered that parol of the final days pretty well in his book. >> so carl, a, what about that, and also you heard the response fro

investigation, the momentum came largely as a result of the stories in "the washington post," that carl bernstein and his colleagues pursued. but part of the information about where to look and leads to pursue came from a leak of no less a person than the assistant to the fbi, mark felt. and i think it's fair to at least argue that the watergate investigation would not have proceeded or unfolded as it does had it not about for the leaks that mark felt provided to woodward and bernstein. and the concern i had when i was writing that column in "the post" last week, was in the absence of some demonstration by the deputy attorney general that he was going to oversee a vigorous investigation, there was a reason to be concerned that there may be a repressed investigation. and the last resort to assure the public's awareness of what was going on my have to be leaks. >> so can i ask you, because of the leaks now it seems that the white house and republicans are really concerned about leaks right now. they want this story to be about leaks, they're saying the leaker should be prosecuted. the journalists s

this man right here knows first alert meteorologist howard bernstein. >> put the rain away for the most part but the breeze is going to continue tonight through monday courtesy of the same storm that gave us the rain friday afternoon night into saturday morning giving us the wind still gusting to 35 miles per hour at b wi here at 6:00 p.m. a lot of gusts in the 20 to 25 range but we warmed up signic lower 80s in many areas starting in the 40s, 79 in town, mid 70s from rockville to columbia and hay market one of our cool spots with centreville at 74 and fairfax at 76. if you are headed out this evening it's going to be breezy. not bad maybe a light jacket. 72 at 8 falling into the 60s towards 9 or 10:00. overnight a look at the future cast quiet clearing out still breezy on monday but not as warm. still not bad in the 50s by 9:00. lunch time temperatures mid to upper 60s with highs in the low to mid 70s. tuesday looks great. deborah i'm going to be back in a few minutes to talk about the heat and humidity and the summer like feel that will be here by midweek. >> thanks so much howard. an

here's first alert meteorologist howard bernstein. >> we'll get a break for a few days. today wasn't dad, though we've had some -- bad, though we've had some showers pop in the last two, three hours. big upper storm still spins in the northeast, everything moving northwest to the east, southeast this afternoon. we're noticing a couple showers that have come through montgomery and howard county now crossing through the b-w parkway, headed towards bowie around 6:42, pasadena 6:50 and arnold at 7:03. to the south tracking other showers across southern approaching leonardtown and back along i-95 along fredericksburg toward port royal. you folks in the northern neck will see a few showers. coming out of the shenandoah valley, these showers are moving off front royal 6:41 and warrenton at about 7:24. we managed to get up to 65 degrees today, but if you're going out tonight, grab the jackets. i do think most of the shower activity will diminish towards sunset or shortly after with evening temps in the 50s. cold tonight, 30s and 40s tomorrow morning. we'll let you know how long

woodward and bernstein kept the focus of the politicians investigating. the courts upholding our rights and the president agreeing to give us the tape that's led to the downfall. it is where they're talking about using the cia to stop the fbi from following the chain of money which would have led to the investigators finding that the burglars had been acting at the behest of the committee to reelect the president. it was clear evidence that could not be avoided. and i'm just wondering where now we are in terms of what things will be, where is that smoking gun? >> is there a smoking gun? there may be more than one theory. as you say, it will go so far, it looks faster. the former watergate special prosecutor. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> that does it for our show tonight. rachel will be back next week. if you're interested, you can catch my show, the point, which airs sunday evening from 5:00 to 7:00 eastern. >>> good morning. welcome to a.m. joy. donald trump's last day continues to be shadowed at hole. the latest bombshell comes from

so howard bernstein now has a first look at your forecast for tomorrow. please, will we catch a break? >> maybe not until monday debra. we are going to see a little bit of a break tomorrow. more showers in the forecast. it will break today in hail makers. two-and-a-half inch hailstorm falling not far from richmond. a couple of showers that popped up, they are falling apart. you can see how quickly. are they are and there they go. isolated showers from warrenton now, on 29. everything is moving southeast at 30 miles an hour. so, yeah, manassas, you may get a quick shower. one little sprinkle. this was much heavier in charleston county. in southern maryland now, there is just not much left for the showers in saint mary. temperatures are in the 60s . low 60s like columbia. 62 in the cool spots. 62 in dc and manassas. futurecast, a lot of clouds, we might get a sunny ea looks like a generally cloudy day but morning showers west of town. a look in the afternoon. showers, maybe a couple of thunderstorms. we will keep the yellow weather alert up. we warm up memo

i'm debra alfarone alongside howard bernstein. let's get right to it, the weather.was damp today. >> it was damp. >> some of us got drenched. >> some of us did not. some of us did pay attention when we said there was a yellow weather alert and the threat of showers. >> okay. stop yelling me at, but it was on and off, though. >> tonight will still be on and off probably the first half of the night. we continue the yellow weather alert through the evening hours. the bigger storm is up in pennsylvania and ohio, but around here cool showers. what you see over toward del mar is what we had earlier today, even delayed the start of the nats game about an hour and a half. we still have all these showers out to the west that we're watching. right now it's fairly quiet out there, 60s

howard bernstein is here with the answer. >> it will be dry, warm. but it will be windy too in the afternoon. we could have gusts over 30 miles an hour. all thank to this guy. this is the storm that brought us this rain last night and this morning. we ended up with a nice bit of sunshine across much of the region to finish out this saturday. kind of cool out there for sure. we have temperatures down in a few few spots in the mid you will need the furnace tonight. you will need the ac by midweek. let's look at the futurecast, pretty quiet. passing clouds, partly cloudy. by tomorrow morning, 9:00, we are back in the 50s after the early chill will be gone, by lunchtime, low to mid 70s on our way into the mid to upper 70s but these winds tomorrow could gust 30 to 35 miles an hour. coming back in a few minutes, we are talking about not quite a heat wave, but a real summer feel around here by midweek. see you in a few. >>> despite the rainy weather this morning, howard university's graduation ceremony honored all of the students of the class of 2017 includ

howard bernstein says we are at risk for tomorrow afternoon. how bad are they going to be? >> we'll have to see. tomorrow's concerns are damaging winds and large hail, slim tornado threat, but this evening one little storm did all the damage here, maybe not so little. this was west of winchester mostly in west virginia. it did cut across here and the pictures you were seeing were from actually this part every west virginia. out west lanesville had 1 1/2 inch hail today. there were some trees down there. also in augusta. so a lot of severe weather from that. this is what it looked like from 4:30 to 6:30. there wasn't much on the map except right there and it was done. it really was an oppressive looking storm, lots of lightning also with this and some of the winds gusted 50 to 60 miles an hour. tonight radar is quiet. it's not going to stay that way. we'll be all right tomorrow morning, 60s to low 70s at 8:30. midday looks fine, may see a spotty shower along and west of the blue ridge. in the afternoon we'll start to pick up here. even by 5:00 west of the blue ridge, but wat