i'm george howell. the u.s.ident arrived to tokyo, japan, just about an hour and a half ago in air force one. we have images, just as air force one landed and arrived there there. you see where the president was headed there toward japan and just landed, again, about an hour and a half ago. he's set to meet with the japanese prime minister and meet with that nation's newly crowned emperor. mr. trump will be the first leader to do so. mr. trump meeting with business leaders from the united states and japan, talking about the strengthened alliance between the two nations. again, focusing on theic of trade. the u.s. and japan currently in the middle of negotiating a new trade deal. president trump expressed some optimism. president trump touting the u.s. economy, jobs, numbers, investment in the united states. also throwing a little shade, we heard him, on the federal reserve, the fed, rather, for raising interest rates. again, president trump in tokyo, japan. and he'll will be for the next four days. let's get per

i'm george howell. the c"cnn newsroom" starts righ now. we start with the breaking news out of north korea, the nation firing off several short range projectiles, all of this happening saturday morning on the east coast of north korea. according to south korea's defense ministry, whatever was fired flew hundred kilometers and crashed into the sea. japan however says that the projectiles did not enter its waters. the u.s., south korea and japan are working together to figure out exactly what was fired. and paula hancocks also following this story. do we know anything more about these projectiles? >> reporter: well, george, we're still waiting for some kind of confirmation from the joints chiefs of staff here in seoul. they are saying that the u.s. and south korean intelligence are working closely to try to an l anxio an lialyze the data. we have had a response in the past few minutes from the blue house, the presidential office here, saying that the government is very concerned that north korea's actions go against a military agreement sign

i'm george howell. >> and i'm rosemary church. headlines for you this hour. u.s. president donald trump is warning iran against picking a fight with the united states. in a tweet he says "if iran wants conflict, it would mark the official end of the country." the aggressive tweet comes after iran's foreign minister reiterated that his nation does not seek war. >>> the white house says investment is at the core of its israeli-palestinian peace plan. presidential son-in-law and adviser jared kushner is directing that effort. it will bring together finance ministers and business leaders at a workshop in bahrain in june. a spokesperson for the palestinian authority president calls the plan futile. >>> in egypt at least 14 people have been wounded in an explosion that apparently targeted a tour bus. it happened sunday near the pyramids of giza. state media report that a device exploded close to the bus, which was carrying 25 south african visitors. no word yet on who's responsible. >>> tens of millions of dollars. that's how much the 2

i'm george howell at the cnn center in atlanta. "early start" is next.rs around the world, more news from my colleague in london. hi. >>> the president picks another fight, this time it's over border security with mexico. is the putting his own trade del in jeopardy? >>> o-d-y-l-i-c. >> not just him, this entire group winners of the historic national spelling bee. >>> you don't think they committed treason? >> they don't realize what they are doing is antithetical to the democratic system they have. >> is it antithetic to democracy to investigate

i'm george howell. >> and i'm rosemary church. from cnn headquarters in atlanta, "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >>> u.s. president donald trump may feel confident about how the trade war with china is going, but investors are nervous. >> that's right. asian markets closed in negative territory over the latest hike in u.s. tariffs and beijing is expected to retaliate. you see here the neikke, the shanghai kpoz et and seoul all showing negative -- in negative territory. u.s. futures market also. a down day on wall street as well. you see the same playing out there. >> but president trump tweeted "the u.s. is right where we want to be with china." he claimed the u.s. would collect tens of billions of dollars from the tariffs, but his top economic adviser admitted that isn't how it works. >> it's not china that pays tariffs, it's the american importers, the american companies that pay what in effect is a tax increase, and often times passes it on to u.s. consumers. >> fair enough. in fact, both sides will pay. both sides will pay in

you are watching "cnn newsroom," i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen.dent trump warning to make a trade deal now while terms are favorable. china will get a worse deal if they wait until after the 2020 election. but, china is digging in, vowing to retaliate for the latest hike in u.s. tariffs. >> the u.s. secretary of state, mike pompeo is set to meet with russian president, vladimir putin in sochi. the meeting will happen on tuesday. pompeo is set to leave over the coming hours. iran, ukraine, north korea and venezuela are expected to be on the agenda. >>> at least one security guard is dead after a gunman tried to storm a luxury hotel in pakistan. they say the attack is over. guests at the hotel, the pearl continental were evacuated. all that happened in gwadar. it's in balochistan. separatist groups are known to operate there. >>> with with all the ballots counted, the african national congress won nearly 58% of the vote. the party has governed since the fall of the apartheid. support has eroded in recent years. >>> we have new poll numbers in the 20

live here, cnn, welcome it our viewers here and around the world, i'm george howell. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >>> 5:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast and we follow the breaking news out of north korea where several short-range projectiles have been fired. all of this happening saturday morning on north korea's north coast near wonsan. anywhere from 70 to 200 kilometers, then crashed at sea. japan says the projectiles did not enter its waters. the u.s., south korea and japan are working together to get to the bottom of what happened here. and also trying to understand is our paula hancocks, live in seoul, south korea, what more do we know about the projectiles, if anything, paula? >> well, george, we're being told by the joint -- the jcs here and the intelligence services that south korea and u.s. intelligence and military are working together, trying to figure out exactly what was launched this saturday morning. they say that they're looking into what exactly it is. and, of course, that is significant, because that would potentially determine what kind of respons

i'm george howell. >> and i'm natalie allen. newsroom starts right now. >>> thanks again for joining us. 5:01 a.m. here in atlanta. our top stories, republicans have been quick to defend u.s. president trump from the chorus of criticism since he came into office. but now there's a republican voice in that chorus. >> that voice is congressman justin amash, he calling for mr. trump to lose his job saying the president in fact has obstructed justice. >> writing this, attorney general barr has deliberately misrespected mueller's report. president trump has engaged in impeachable conduct. and few members of congress have read the report. >> that's just the beginning. . from there he goes on to add that attorney general barr's misrepresentations are significant but often subtle, frequently taking the form of slight of hand qualifications or logical fallacies which he hopes people will not notice. amash also wris, that the mueller report identifies multiple examples of conduct satisfying all the elements of obstruction of justice, and

i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen. here are the top stories.te counting under way in some parts of australia right now as voters choose a new prime minister. if labor party leader bill shorten wins, the country will see its sixth leadin many as ye. >>> brexit talks between the british prime minister theresa may's government and the opposition party have broken down. labor leader jeremy corbyn blamed may's government calling it weak and unstable. may said they looked the common position. >>> the u.s. plans to lift tariffs on canadian and mexican steel and aluminum imports within two days. controversial measures, swell retaliation by mexico and canada, threatened an adoption of nafta. the north american free trade agreement. the u.s. enacted the measures last year on, quote, national security grounds. a charge canada rejected. >>> in the meantime, a trade war between the united states and china. president trump insists it will be a good thing for people in the united states. >> in the meantime, farmers are bearing the brunt of will trump's trade

. >> i'm george howell from cnn world headquarters.newsroom" starts right now. >>> and we begin this hour in russia where a fiery plane crash has killed 41 people on board. >> an aeroflot passenger jet caught fire as it made a hard emergency landing at an airport near moscow. social media video shows what the scene looked like from inside the plane. we do want to warn you the footage you see here, it's very difficult to watch. [ screaming ] >> that video from the moment the landing was also captured on camera. you can see the plane first bounced off the runway before coming back down and bursting into flames. >> the russian news agency interfacts reports a lightning strike caused a communications failure, forcing the plane to make the landing. >> our fred pleitgen has been following the story and joins now with more from neighboring finland. >> reporter: some horrifying images coming out of moscow as video seems to show that plane, the superjet from aeroflot airlines, as it is screeching down the runway after making an extremely hard e

i'm george howell. >> and i'm rosemary church. this is "cnn newsroom." do stay with us. >>> our top story this day, 41 people have died in russia. this after a plane made a disastrously hard emergency landing. >> the aeroflot passenger jet caught fire adds it tried to land at an airport near moscow. social media video captured the fiery scene from inside the plane and a warning this footage is very hard to watch. [ screaming ] >> and then there is also this footage of the moment the plane attempted to land. you see it here. the plane first bounced off the runway before coming back down and then bursting into flames. interfax reports that a loss of communication caused by a lightning strike forced the landing. cnn's moscow bureau chief nathan hodge is following this story live in the capital. the investigation under way. so many people watched this plane as it landed, bounced and then burst into flames. what more are you learning? >> george, i think what we're all trying to find out at this point is what actually forced the plane t

i'm george howell. >> and i'm rosemary church. from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >>> we begin with two very different messages from the white house aimed at the middle east. one message speaks of peace. the other speaks of war. >> for the palestinians talk of economic opportunity if there's peace with israel. but for iran there's this threat from u.s. president donald trump via twitter. "if iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of iran. never threaten the united states again." well, cnn is on the ground covering these stories from across the region. our hadas gold is live in jerusalem and senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is in iran's capital tehran. fred, let's start with you. what is being made of this threat coming from the u.s. president, a man who just days ago said well, i hope there won't be war with iran? now we're seeing this threat via twitter. what's going on here? >> reporter: yeah. and the interesting part of, it rosemary, is it comes as president trum

i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >>> our top story, u.s. president donald trump dealing with trouble in at least three points around the world with no indication of what is coming next. >> first in china, which now faces tariffs of 25% of imports to the united states. this after trade talks break down, and no word when those talks will resume. >>> the middle east, the u.s. has deployed additional fire power, the u.s. calling it a deterrent to iran. >>> and also on the issue of north korea, mr. trump, downplaying recent short-range missile launches. and diplomatic efforts are add a standstill. but the president says he is still open to talks. cnn has reporters covering all angles of this story. >> our matt rivers in china. ben wedeman in beirut, following the u.s. system deployment. and anna coren in hong kong for the latest on north korea. >> let's go to matt rivers. it comes down to exactly when china will retaliate and when, at this point. >> reporter: yeah, the when, it's not an if question, you're right, george. it's when. china says th

. >> i'm george howell. "newsroom" starts right now. >> we start with the breaking news this is hour in the state of oklahoma, a community devastate the there after a possible tornado that hit overnight. emergency officials say at least two people wrep killed there and multiple premium injured. this after a severe storm ripped through a mobile home park in the town of el rin know. >> near oklahoma city. as you can see in this video, the storm was violent and destructive. rescue crews are searching for injured people in the debris. you see there. a nearby hotel also was heavily damaged, but the owner says all guests are accounted for. one survivor from the mobile home park described account terror as the storm approached. >> i heard it coming. i felt the trailer 80 hit our trailer. i know trailer 80 flipped over on top of 81 which we were in. and after everything was over with and all the shaking and jarring and everybody landing on the floor, the sirens went off. >> sirens went off a little too late. >> afte

i'm george howell. >> and i'm rosemary church.eck the headlines for you this hour. >>> the gulf cooperation council has condemned the targets of four commercial ships near the united arab emirates. the saenld sabotage happened off the port city. two saudi tankers were reportedly among them. the u.s. has warned that iran could be targeting vessels in the area. >>> at least six people were attacked sunday, this when gunmen attacked a catholic church. state media report that a priest is among the dead and the church and other buildings were set on fire. the west african country has seen a spike in violence. >>> dow futures suggest that wall street is headed for a down day over trade war uneasiness. beijing is expected to retaliate against the latest hike in u.s. tariffs but president donald trump says the u.s. is right where we want to be with china. so for more perspective on this, simon baptist joins us now from singapore. he is the chief economist for the economist intelligence unit. great to have you with us. >> good to be here.

. >> i'm george howell. i'm not one. maybe i'll start now. >>> 4:01 on the u.s. east coast. talk of removing the u.s. president has typically been discussed by democrats as most republicans have stood together for donald trump but now one republican is breaking ranks. >> it is congressman justin amash. he's calling for mr. trump to lose his job saying the president has, in fact, obstructed justice. amash writes this, attorney general william barr deliberately misrepresented mueller's report. the president engaged in impeachable conduct. partisanship has eroded the system of checks and balances and few members of congress have read the report. >> that's just the beginning. from there he goes on to add attorney general barr's misrepresentations are significant but often subtle frequently taking the hand of sleight of hand or logical fallacies he hopes people won't notice. he writes mueller's report identifies multiple examples of obstruction of justice and undoubtedly any person who is not the president of the united states will be indicted based on such evidence. >> congressm

i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen. "newsroom" starts right now. >>> on the u.s. east coast, tensions are playing out on two fronts on this day on the korean peninsula and also in the middle east. first, the situation that's playing out in north korea. new weapons testing has put improved ties with the u.s. in jeopardy. south korea is urging its neighbor to stand down this as the u.s. president donald trump seeks to affirm the relationship saying that he is with kim jong-un. >>> on another front, there's also been a massive flairup of violence between israel and gaza militants. they've been trading fire with deaths reported on both sides. the white house says the president's son-in-law is working on a peace plan but many fire that jared kushner's approach won't be enough. >>> let's begin with egypt. benjamin netanyahu is holding his weekly summit. >> israel's military says more than 400 rockets have been fired from gaza in the most recent hostilities. >> in retaliation israeli airstrikes hit hundreds of targets in gaza. palestinian authorities say at least four pe

. >> and i'm george howell. news room oig starts now. >>> hk we start with china, the looming threat of an all-out trade war now greater than ever less than 24 hours after hiking tariffs from 10% to 25%, on $200 billion of chinese imports. the trump administration now says that it is moving ahead to levy duties on just about everything that comes into the united states with the label made in china. >> the move is after two days of trade talks in washington failed to break the impasse. if the proposed new tariffs take effect, it almost certainly means higher prices for american consumers on thousands of ordinary goods like shoe, toysi clothing. beijing has promised countermeasures but has not said what, how or when. matt rivers joins us from the chinese port city and the question is, matt, how might china retaliate. >> reporter: it is going that china hasn't officially come out with how they will retaliate yet. usually they will come out with how they are planning to follow up when the united states does somethin

i'm natalie allen. >> i'm george howell with the headlines. north korea says its leader kim jong-un oversaw a new round of weapons drills that took place on saturday. state media reports long range multiple rocket launchers were tested. south korean officials say the north fired several short range projectiles from the eastern coast. >>> a hospital in israel reports an israeli man has been killed by a rocket attack. israel's military says more than 400 rockets have been fired from gaza in the most recent hostility. in retaliation israeli airstrikes hit hundreds of targets in gaza. palestinian authorities say at least four people died. >>> remember that plane that slid off the runway in jacksonville, florida? well, investigators have recovered the flight data recorder as it crash landed on friday night. the plane slid into a river and as it arrived from the u. 16789 military base in guantanamo bay, cuba, luckily all passengers were able to get off the plane. they survived. >>> trying to convince the military to defect from president nicolas mad

. >> i'm george howell from cnn world headquarters. "newsroom" starts right now. >>> at 4:00 a.m. in the u.s. east coast in the span of about an hour's time on saturday, the u.s. president unleashed a torrent of praise, of conspiracies and accusations on his favorite medium, twitter. >> he left no tweet unturned. among his targets, the mueller report. saying he was not going to fire the special counsel despite what was said in the report. he defended his son don jr. and retweeted posts about some of his favorite talking points, china, border protection and jobs. >> mr. trump is also focusing on the democratic front-runner in next year's presidential race. >> yeah, a new interview with politico, the president says it would be appropriate for him to talk with his attorney general about launching an investigation into former vice president joe biden. >> this comes a day after mr. trump's lawyer canceled the trip to ukraine. rudy giuliani wanted that country to investigate biden. sara west wood has that part of the story from the white house. >> reporter: the president's personal atto

i'm george howell. >> and i'm natalie allen. thank you for joining us. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >>> we begin with breaking news, the devastation in oklahoma after a possible tornado slammed into a mobile home park overnight. emergency officials say at least two people were killed and multiple people are injured in the town of el reno, that is t outside oklahoma city. >> and you see how destructive the storm was. rescue crews there searching for injured people in that field of debris. a nearby hotel was also hit hard because the owner says all the guests are accounted for. one survivor from the mobile home park stwribdescribed the t as the storm approached. listen. >> i heard it coming. i felt the trailer 80 hit our trailer. i know trailer 80 flipped over on top of 81, which we were in. and after everything was over with, and all shaking and jarring and everybody landing on the floor, the sirens went off. >> went off a little too late. >> after that all happened. >> so you all were in one trailer and did you hear it coming? what did you see? >> i

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the news continues next with george howell right after the break.y. >>> multiple projectiles launched by north korea, a move sure to raise tensions while talks of denuclearization with the u.s. remain stalled. >>> plus this -- >> you couldn't tell where we were, whether it was a river or an ocean. >> a boeing 737 plane skids off the runway and into a river upon landing in florida, everyone makes it off safely. >>> also made this hoahead, he'g for more t

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. >> and i'm george howell with the headlines we're following for you. the u.s. to liftnadian an and aluminum. the u.s. enacted the measures last year on national security grounds. the charge canada rejected. >>> without providing any evidence, president trump is now stating as a fact that his campaign was the victim of a spy operation. it is not clear what illegal activity he is alluding to, but he called it treason. high school through the fbi had a former trump campaign adviser carter page under surveillance as a possible foreign agent, but that was legally sanctioned by the courts. >>> missouri's governor says that he will sign a sweeping new law that makes it much more difficult for women to get abortions in that state. missouri lawmakers voted overwhelmingly friday to ban most abortions after eight weeks of pregnancy. legal challenges are expected and could put the matter back before the u.s. supreme court. >>> we're following severe weather in the u.s. midwest, tornadoes have been reported in several states. derriek here to tell us about i. >> the month of

. >> and i'm george howell. "newsroom" starts right now. ♪ >>> and we begin this hour in tokyo, as we look at these live pictures where u.s. president donald trump and japanese president shinzo abe have been holding an emotional meeting with families of japanese citizens who have been abducted by north korea. president trump promised to work with mr. abe to try to bring those people home. >> emotional indeed, rosemary. in the meantime, we're mating for the u.s. president and the prime minister to hold a news conference there at the -- melania trump, we're just told entering the room. we're looking at these live images. the u.s. president soon to enter the room along with the prime minister shinzo abe. we see john bolton there, who is in the room now. so this news conference set to happen at any moment. the two leaders met earlier for several hours. they talked about trade and military ties. of course, spoke about north korea. during the remarks a short time ago, president trump said the relations between the uni

. >> and i'm george howell. "newsroom" starts right now. >>> 4:00 a.m. here on the u.s. east coast and 5:00 p.m. in tokyo where air force one has just touched down. beginning a four day state visit for u.s. president donald trump. the trip offers a brief respite as you can imagine from mr. trump's deepening political problems back home, including growing calls for his impeachment. >> and just hours ago, a federal judge put the brakes on president trump's plan to use pentagon funds to build sections of a southern border wall in mexico. the judge granted the preliminary injunction on the grounds the president trump was attempting to by pass congress. >> and there is a political firestorm over the president granting extraordinary powers to his attorney general to declassify sensitive u.s. intelligence about the russia investigation. for more about it, here is cnn's pamela brown. >> reporter: facing mounting pressure after a week of multiple court losses and a public brawl with nancy pelosi, president trump unloading before his long flight to japan. >> i declassified everyth

if he had done that and made an a reason acome dais and done this with george howell, we might not be in this situation, but there has been nothing reasonable from this attorney general. we don't know who those people are, but he decided wo what testimony would be redacted. this is the same person that gave a 3.5 page summary for the mueller report, he knew it better than anyone else, reflect the character of the spirit of the report, and he knew that mr. mueller thought it was a inaccurate representation of his work. when he was asked about it he had no idea that anyone in the special council mueller investigation would have objected, and that is not true, that is beyond contempt, it was a lie. so we are talking about the opportunity for congress to do it's proper oversight as described in article one. the trump administration is not responding to any subpoenas. we had a question i think it was a ranking member that said we should do legislation, ask mitch mcconnell who declared the it is a brave yard. it has gone to the graveyard where mitch mcconnell of the last president of the un