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kenneth, maggie?s staying on top of it for us this morning, thank you. >>> let's turn to president trump. right now, he's on the way home after wrapping up a state visit to japan where he got the royal treatment at every turn. >> the president boarded air force one following a four-day stay that included talks with the japanese prime minister and highlighted their opposing views on north korea. before flying out he landed aboard the battleship "uss wasp" to deliver a memorial day message to american troops. >> and earlier the president bid farewell to the japanese emperor. trump also drew attention for slamming former vice president joe biden on foreign soil and brushing aside kim jong-un's recent missile test in north korea. abc's tara palmeri reports from japan. >> reporter: president trump breaking with his own advisers and his host, the japanese prime minister, by downplaying north korea's recent missile tests. >> you're not bothered at all by the small missiles? >> no, i'm not. i personally am no

maggie, kenneth?all right, a heat wave paul, thank you. >>> police in utah say they believe they have found the body of a missing 5-year-old girl. elizabeth shelley, known as lizzy, disappeared saturday. investigators say they feel strongly that her remains were found yesterday in a heavily wooded area less than a block from her home. lizzy's 21-year-old uncle, alex whipple, is charged with her murder. authorities say he revealed the location of the girl's body after prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty. >>> louisiana has passed a strict new abortion ban that has bipartisan support. lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the bill which bars abortion once a fetal heartbeat could be detected. there are no exceptions for pregnancies that result from rape or incest. louisiana's democratic governor intends to sign the bill into law. it would only take effect if a similar new abortion law in mississippi is upheld by a federal appeals court. >>> uber is set to tell misbehaving riders to take a walk. >>

joining us now is maggie haberman, cnn political analyst. maggie, thanks for being with us. do you get the sense that the administration cares about being held in contempt if that's a stick being held up by congress, is it one that the administration is afraid of? >> not particularly. i mean, i think you have to remember that unless you use the most exotic form of trying to hold someone in criminal contempt through congress, that this would then end up as a referral back to the department of justice and where do you think bill barr is going to end up on this? i don't think that they care particularly, i think we have seen the president use the strategy of stonewalling over a very long period of time and i think politically it has more often than not been successful for him. i think you are going to see both the president's folks within the white house and his private company as well as congress increase i cannily turning to the third branch of government, the courts, to try to adjudicate this going forward. >> let's talk about the president's taxes because so many inquiring

baltimore senate delegate maggie mcintosh and delegate david were to be one of the first speakers of the house of delegates. after five hours of closed door meetings they decided it was not their time. >>> the democratic caucus unanimously nominated adrienne

the battle had been bween baltimore city representative maggie mcintosh and derek davis. in an effort to unite the democraticoparty, b candidates stepped aside to makr way jones. there had been bitter infighting between the two. mcintosh formally nominated jones and davis seconded the motion. >> wow, i didn't think about i would be herh this time w i left out my house this morning. >> adrienne jones is filling the void of michael bush, who died earli m lastonth. jones will hold the position at least until january. ahead at 5:00, prince's george county chief will break down the abrupt turn of events and plans to unite democrats in maryland.t >>> anr round of severe

derek davis from prince george'y counnd maggie mcintosh are running for that position. news 4's tracie wilkins will be there to cover the vote. >>> attorney geral william barr will testify before a senate judiciary mmcotee. washington post reports mueller complained about barr's 4 page summary mischaracterizing the investigation. stay with the "today" show for the latest on that. >>> more protests are expected today in vepz as opposition leader juan guido will take to the streets again.'s nberry sanders will have m ah moread on "today." >>> five-day forecast. 70s and 1078 clouds around today. little bit more sunshine later on this afternoon. mid to upper 80s both days. unfortunately higher chance for in and rain chances both days this weekend. >>> slowdowns here taking a look at northbound 395. southbound 395 befor the14th

derek davis from prince george's and maggie mcintosh. if davis wins he'lle history becoming the first african-american and mcintosh will be the first women and openly gay person to be speaker. we'll be in annapolis covering the vote. >>> the fda issued a new and very serious warning for americans taking sleeping pills. the fda said it has seen aum j in the unusual side effects and deaths caused by the pills. tom costello has more. >> reporter: they are commonly re trredo as z drugs, taken by 6 million americans. and among the most widely prescribed sleep medications on the market, includinglunesta, sonata and ambien and zolpi mist but they also carry serious risks including sleep walking and sleep driving and even sleep cooking. now the fda saidui it will reqre the most serious boxed warning on the drug label. neurologist golan runs the sleep

maggie, you are also a contributor to this fascinating investigative report over the president's taxes over a ten-year period in the late '80s and early '90s. the president lost according to the "new york times" more than a billion dollars, lost more money than almost anyone else in america. look at that. you can see the sea of red right there. the president has reacted on twitter to this this morning saying, hey, it was just real estate. your colleague basically told us, no, it's more than that, he really lost a lot of money. how do you think this is landing inside the white house this morning? >> to be clear i contributed very minimally on this story, this really was someone else's and i don't want to take anything away from their incredible reporting. people who work in the white house actually like to try to pretend this doesn't exist and follow the president's cues, his tweeting, i suspect they will feel as if maybe that handled it. i don't think most want to deal with this topic. when it comes to issues related to the president's finances or things related to, you know, trump org

baltimore delegate maggie mcintosh you see right there and prince george's county dallas derek davis were batting for t -- battling for the position. in an effort to unite the party, both dropped out. jones takes over the position that was held for 16 years by mike bush who died last month. >> a surprising turn of events. something you don't see every day in politics. to see the change in the folks who were originally vying for it seemed to have enough votes. then completely different. >>> residents from texas to michigan are dealing with a powerful storm. >> that system has already produced tornadoes, heavy rain and hail, leaving behin a lot of damage. news4 cory smith has the latest. >> reporter: good morning. yeah, that time o year again. severe weather season. talking with b a violent system that continues its march across the nation's midsection. millions of people are in its paths. and this is what's goingleft over. the national weather service says more than two dozen tornadoes have touched down across five states and the threat is not over. residents in the storm's path not o

kenneth, maggie. >> more back and forth. mona, thank you so much. >>> now to the other breaking news, more than a dozen injured in a stabbing spree near tokyo just as president trump was wrapping up his visit, a 12-year-old and a man were dead after the knife attack. most of the injured are elementary schoolgirls. the attacker then stabbed himself and later died of his wounds. >>> seeing new video of that incredible rescue of a hiker who was missing for weeks in hawaii. this is the moment that yoga instructor amanda eller was taken from her rescue helicopter after 17 grueling days in the woods. she even offers to walk on her fractured leg. last night eller was greeted by hundreds of family and friends celebrating her survival. she entered the bash in a wheelchair but is supposed to be okay. even one of the rescue dogs joined the party. >> i was guided throughout my journey. i was guided every moment to go left, to go right, to go up, to go down, to go over, under. i just kept getting the message of you're getting closer, you

maggie, thank you. let's get to abc's senior meteorologist rob marciano with the forecast. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, tom. the entire system is going to be moving east. at least one more wave of rain coming for houston. the radar, four states in flood watches. rain across north texas. and dry across south texas. that's not going to last long. another wave coming through tomorrow, tapping the gulf of mexico with more moisture, heavy rain there, and then sunday, a severe weather across georgia and the carolinas and here in the northeast a very wet mother's day. tom? >> rob, we will stay tracking that weather through the weekend. thank you. >>> breaking developments out of washington. a top democrat issuing subpoenas for did the domestic's tax returns dating back six years. steve mnuchin and the irs commissioner told to deliver the document disnes by next friday. this as president trump raising tariffs on china. pulling the ig from tore raise tariffs. americans now caught in the middle. terry moran is at the white house. >> reporter: the president calls today's t

maggie, kenneth. >> mona, thank you. already some nasty back and forth. >>> a college freshman is apologizing for a security breach at mar-a-lago while president trump was in town. mark lindblom told the judge he just wanted to see how far he could get. he went through a metal director and wandered around the grounds for 20 minutes before he was arrested last year during the thanksgiving weekend. land bomb received one year probation after prosecutors agreed he meant no harm. a chinese national is awaiting trial for a similar incident in february. >>> a heartbroken husband speaking out after his wife was killed in a church van crash. the van rolled over after being rear ended by a pickup truck last night outside richmond, virginia. 11 people were in the van, four were killed. one victim's husband says he's depending on his faith to get him through the tragedy. >> in disbelief right now. you know, in disbelief, but i know the lord and she knew the lord, and we know that god knows best, and we can all do things through chr

>> all right, maggie, thank you. let's get right to rob marciano, tracking it all for us. hey, rob. >> reporter: hi, david. powerful storms now moving through east texas, northern louisiana and southern arkansas. here you see it on the radar. a tornado watch out for much of this area until 11:00 tonight. one active tornado warning. the storms rocket to the east at 45 miles per hour. snow tonight in denver. that cold is going to drag the southern part of this system and slow it down. northern one kind of takes off. atlanta tomorrow afternoon, you'll get a line of storms. and the southern part of this front, shreveport, alexandria, baton rouge, houston, maggie mentioned more rainfall coming tomorrow night. five to eight inches not needed. david? >> all right, rob, thank you. >>> next, to that breaking headline tonight involving donald trump jr. late today, we learned he has now been subpoenaed by the senate intelligence committee. that committee led by republicans. what they want to ask him about. abc's mary bruce on the hill tonight. >> reporter: tonight in a surprising mov

>> maggie rulli tonight. maggie, thank you. >>> and next this evening, new questions after that deadly emergency landing at the airport in moscow. you'll remember those pictures. the plane slamming into the runway and erupting into flames after turning back to the airport, just 28 minutes into the flight. tonight, the questions now for the pilots. here's abc's senior foreign correspondent ian pannell. >> reporter: tonight, investigators probing that deadly runway inferno, reportedly zeroing in on the actions of the pilot. >> what we saw was a botched landing. a landing that went awry and it hit so hard that it broke the airplane up and caused that horrific fire. >> reporter: the haunting screams of passengers captured on video from inside the cabin. 41 people died in the horrific blaze, including american jeremy brooks. a russian newspaper now reporting investigators believe the pilot rushed that emergency landing, instead of dumping the plane's fuel in the air. >> under normal circumstances, the pilots would

maggie, kenneth?, thank you. >>> we're now learning about another security breach at mar-a-lago. this time a college student making it past secret service in plain sight. >> the intruder spent about 20 minutes on the president's property before he was caught. it happened during the thanksgiving break months before another incident involving a woman from china. abc's pierre thomas has the details. >> reporter: the college freshman admits to illegally getting into mar-a-lago resort while the president was there last thanksgiving. telling the judge, according to "the palm beach post," "i wanted to see how far i could get." apparently pretty far. the "post" reporting that 18-year-old mark lindblom was arrested 20 minutes later after walking the grounds. prosecutors say he came through a beach access tunnel and simply walked in even though he's not a member. although he went through a secret service metal detector, the breach is again raising questions about security when the president is at the resort. in

>> maggie's exactly right. remember at that press conference he said the president was sincere in his upset about being thought guilty. i mean, how does he know? i mean, that wasn't part of the report. that just -- it was entirely distorted. now at least the press conference was followed immediately by the release of the actual report, you know, by a matter of hours so we could see how misleading it was but the problem with the letter was it was only a mag of whatever we could see. >> i want to push back on david's point a little bit. it's not just a question of deciding or not deciding on the obstruction question. it was literally misrepresenting the findings of the report. again, you cannot reduce -- you can't reduce a legal finding to one sentence or a sound bite. that's why the whole thing is 400 pages long. it's not 400 pages of fluff. it's legal analysis that lays out the arguments and defenses. the arguments of here's where we could reach the elements but our views of indicting a sitting president, this

. >> reporter: senators maggie hasen and bill kennedy, a physician himself sarks they have a fix and bipartisan support to get it passed. >> what maggie and i have is okay, let's hold the patient harmless and let other entities work it out. >> it's called baseball-style arbitration. it been piloted and used well in new york. >> reporter: the senate proposal forces health care providers to negotiate out of network bills with insurance companies if they don't reach an agreement, an independent arbiter would step in, choosing a price for the health care services based on market rate, state by state in some cases years wrangling with insurance companies, hospitals and doctors. >> right. >> reporter: will this really get them out of that process >> that is the whole point of this bill. >> reporter: the senators say health care providers and insurance companies have concerns. >> but as long as we stay focused on the patients, those concerns will work themselves out. >> reporter: the goal is to get it passed quickly. until then, the surprise medical bills keep coming. stephanie gosk, nbc ne

he saw what was going on and was powerless to do anything about it. >> maggie, it's obvious the attorney general of the united states was trying to make things look better for the president of the united states. >> it's hard to come to any other conclusion than he was putting the best possible face on this for the president. the argument is, well, he was frustrated mueller did not come to a conclusion and he had to handle this himself. the argument that mueller makes is that the letter from barr cherry-picked from the report and it basically, you know, plucked certain clauses out here, certain sentences there, all of which painted this medley of donald trump being more or less exonerated, even though the letter acknowledged that there was a sentence in the report saying it didn't exonerate him. mueller seems to have learned a lesson of a lot of people who have been around donald trump, mueller learned because they were witnesses from him, you have to put everything down on paper. this was not enough just to voice his concerns privately to barr. there had to be a letter documenting it. it

here's maggie rulli. ♪ >> reporter: tonight yvonne's going on a first date.or this new york native, it's not just about finding a man with the right looks or the right job. >> i think like-minded individuals obviously get along better. >> reporter: it's about whether he votes for the right. meet alex. >> i work in finance. my biggest hobby is collecting cars, racing cars and flipping cars. >> reporter: and has strong conservative values. >> i'm looking for another republican-leaning person who shares similar views. >> having a nice, normal conversation where politics does come up, it's not going to create tension or abrasiveness. >> reporter: that's why they turned to a new app called righter. >> you are conservative, and you know why you are conservative. >> reporter: the founder is an avid trump supporter and banker turned matchmaker. her goal is to make conservative america date again. you mentioned you don't think conservatives and liberals should date. >> absolutely not, for a happy, intimate, romantic relationship, absolutely not. >> reporter: why not?

here's maggie rulli. >> how awesome to get a call with good news. >> right. >> how awesome would it bed be really, roo elea good news. >> reporter: when it comes to advice, bobby bones is the guy to go to. the famed radio deejay is the show's in-house mentor, helping guide these young hopefuls on their journey to become the next "american idol." >> welcome to "american idol"! >> reporter: even filling in for ryan as host. >> i look most like him, so they asked me to fill his shoes tonight. >> reporter: do people ever get you and ryan confused? >> i think we're just two white dudes. sometimes he wears glasses, too. two white guys with glasses, you don't know the difference, but ryan's a lot richer than i am. i don't know that they get us that confused. there's so many different kinds of wonderful artists here. >> reporter: you're an integral part of the show. is it intimidating? >> to walk out on the stage with those big "american idol" letters are on, i go if i could tell the kid in me watching this show that this was going to happen i don't think i would have believed me. it's a legac

maggie rulli to lead us off. >> reporter: tonight, the powerful thunderstorms drenching the nation's fourth largest city. in houston, wind-driven hail, up g the siding off of homes. shattering windows and knocking holes into windshields. >> like i'm old and i've never seen hail like that before. >> reporter: more than six inches of rain inundating streets and stranding scores of drivers. first responders racing to save a person trapped inside that overturned vehicle submerged in a flooded ditch. manholes turning into geysers. more than 800 lightning strikes in 24 hours. authorities are investigating whether lighting is to blame for this massive fe houston, the home now a total loss. winds gusting above 60 miles per hour across the region, the trash cans blowing away at this gas station. and this video from baton rouge showing the danger of driving into standing water. in a matter of moments, this prius starting to float bobbing up and down, nearby workers rescuing the woman inside. >> maggie rult li joining us. i want to get the crash between a barge and another vessel that shut down

maggie, kenneth? >> mexico's president called trump's america first policy a fallacy. we'll see what happens next. mona, thank you. amid all the president's talk of a border wall, there's another border wall being built using private money in new mexico. construction has been allowed to proceed after the right permits were granted. organizers raised money through an online campaign. they already built part of the wall on private property. >>> now to the abortion battle brewing across the country. this morning louisiana is the latest state where an abortion ban has been signed into law. meanwhile the final abortion clinic in missouri is set to close today. >> reporter: this morning the last abortion clinic in missouri is on the brink of shutting down. state health officials are refusing to renew the st. louis clinic's license which expires at midnight until doctors agree on interviews about what the governor calls deficiencies. planned parenthood accuses the state of unlawfully holding up the renewal process. >> we don't want to be the first state in the nation to lose

also, we can put this up, some reporting here from maggie haberman of the "new york times" adding context here. she says quoting a person close to trump junior when he originally agreed to testify in front of the senate intel committee in 2017, there was an agreement between don and the committee he would only have to come in and testify a single time as long as he was willing to stay for as long as they'd like, which don did. don continues to cooperate by producing documents and willing to answer written questions no lawyer would ever agree to allow their client to participate in what is an obvious stunt from a so-called republican. senator and his boss mark warner. again, maggie haberman saying that's coming from a person close to donald trump junior taking clear shots there at senator burr. jeremy, let me start with you, reading that from maggie haberman and other reporting, the odds are donald trump junior actually appearing before this committee, what would you say they are? >> pretty low. i think he'll resist or take the fifth. this is a moment of truth for mitch mcconnell. a moment

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i agree with maggie, the last caller. speechvered his little with the highest integrity and by the book. he didn't beat around the bush. what the american people need to do is listen. we need to read the report. to know and understand our constitution. robert mueller has given this service,o much including the last 2.5 years. he has every right to go and enjoy his private life as he chooses. host: sandra is next in the york. -- in new york. caller: good morning. i would say that robert mueller has sterling credentials above reproach. really wanted to call and say is i plead with every american citizen to read the book. it is stunning, the crimes that were committed. testimony.ull is available on amazon for nine dollars. many of the people who are calling in support of this president and barr blocking everything, any hearings, anything, it is so upsetting. i've lived a long life. i'm over 70. but i worry about how dangerous this president is for the future, for my grandchildren, for my children. please, people, read the bo

. >> let's bring in maggie haberman. great to have you here. >> thank you for having me. >> is it your understanding national security adviser john bolton is too hawkish for the president's tastes and may be on thin ice? >> this has been a point of tension between john bolton and the president. both are people who ran for president on pretty different platforms. this was never going to be a surprise. john bolton wasn't part of the first round of presidential draft picks who president trump appointed for his cabinet for his top advisers. they have always not been allied on this point. president trump is very aware of what got him elected in the republican primary. it was his nonhawkish stance, the bring 'em home approach to american conflicts overseas. i would not read much into it. josh was warning you on that. the president grumbles about people. he was frustrated with officials seeing things not play out well. not like this is happening in isolation. john bolton suggested that maduro would be able to be toppled. it obv

>> all right, maggie, we're thinking about everyone there in houston. thanks to you. let's get to rob marciano, tr k tracking it for us tonight. hey, rob. >> reporter: hey, david. snow in denver and minnesota, now more severe thunderstorms to south texas. here it is on the radar. you see the watch out for san antonio and laredo. baton rouge, new orleans, mobile, you're getting it right now. the northern part of this system does accelerate, the mid-atlantic, the carolinas, the northeast tomorrow. you'll get showers and storms. over houston, that wave. more pulses of rain coming tonight and saturday during the day. flash flood watches for southeast texas, much of louisiana. six to ten inches of additional rain. . flooding a concern right through the weekend. david? >> rob, thank you again tonight. >>> president trump is firing back tonight after saying he was, quote, very surprised that his son, donald trump jr., was subpoenaed by the republican-led senate intelligence committee. our jon karl today asking the president, should his son fight that subpoena, and will the p

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>> maggie, thank you. >>> next to the out of control joyride captured on police dashcam. the man who police just stopped, stealing a patrol car leading authorities on a long, wild and dangerous chase. abc's diane macedo with how it all ended. >> reporter: it's a scene, worthy of a double take. florida troopers pointed at their own cruiser, but the man inside is no cop. police say the incident started thursday afternoon when highway patrol tried to help 22-year-old jame jensen, found walking along the florida turnpike shirtless and barefoot. after about 20 minutes, the suspect jumps into the patrol car. >> what are you doing? hey. where are you going? hey. >> reporter: then as traffic forces him to stop, the officers approach, guns drawn, but as they try to open the car door, he takes off again, speeding down the shoulder until he's blocked by police cruisers. still, he refuses to stop, instead turning around, crossing the divider and driving off in the opposite direction. he speeds past car after car, allegedly hitting 140 miles per hour before swerving to avoid police st

>> maggie, we're thinking about everyone there in houston tonight. thanks to you. let's get right to meteorologist rob marciano tracking it again for us tonight. hey, rob. >> reporter: hi, david. the back half of this system being reinforced by cold air, cold air that brought snow to denver and minnesota. now, more severe thunderstorms to south texas. here it ist for san antonio and laredo. that congeals over houston tonight, but baton rouge, new orleans, mobile, you're getting it right now. the northern part of this system does accelerate, the mid-atlantic, the carolinas, the northeast tomorrow. you'll get some showers and storms. but over houston, that wave. several more pulses of rain coming tonight and saturday during the day. flash flood watches for southeast texas, much of louisiana. six to ten inches of additional rainfall over some of the same areas. flooding a concern right through the weekend. david? >> rob marciano. our thanks to you again tonight, rob. >>> president trump is firing back tonight after saying he was, quote, very surprised that his son, do

. >> reporter: valerie's best friend, maggie, said valerie was scarred by her recent divorce. >> it leftto a predator like leon to come along and sink his teeth in. >> reporter: after the arrest, maggie confronted valerie. >> and i just kind of said, listen, you are under some sort of spell right now. this monster has gotten you into some trouble and you need to fight like hell. >> reporter: what did she say? >> she did not understand what was happening. she just seemed off. terribly, terribly sad. >> reporter: at home alone, valerie recorded an audio diary on her ipad. >> hey, it's valerie. >> reporter: she recounted how, back when her marriage to mack was crumbling, she ran into her neighbor's son, leon. >> i was completely turned off immediately by his attitude, because you could tell he knew how beautiful he was. >> reporter: but over time, valerie, like meghan before her, thought she saw something in him. and as with meghan, leon captured their budding romance in selfies. >> i got through that exterior and realized he was a -- a nice person. and i was lonely. and uh, he kept me comp

i want to break in maggie haberman, white house correspondent for "the new york times" and cnn political analyst. maggie, we're going to get to william barr and the tariffs in just a moment, but i want to get your reaction and maybe your insight into what we saw on this show yesterday, which was, the president on his way to colorado in this 17-minute free wheeling news conference that was full of lies and untruths including new attacks on robert mueller. what do you think is behind that? where is the president following robert mueller's first public statements? >> i do want to just asterisk that this was not a news conference. thch this was him walking out of the white house and calling this a news conference, it's not like everybody gets to come and ask their own questions. i want to make that clear in terms of process. but where i think his head is that he saw mueller on tv. remember, the president interprets the world through television, and mueller had not appeared on tv talking until now. so it caught the white house's attention in a big way. it was a big neon sign and mueller stood

. >> joining us now is maggie haberman, a cnn political analyst. that makes me break up in hives. i also once worked for an extremely stable genius who reminds me of that moment. roger ailes has some things that are similar to donald trump. and that having to kiss the ring, publicly, is an interesting practice. >> i'm sure when larry kudlow was tapped to come and be the top economic adviser, this was not the scenario he imagined, telling donald trump how calm he seemed the day before in public. we know that donald trump has a big need for affirmation publicly. this is like these scenes with these cabinet meetings where he has them go around and how great he is. it's sort of reality tv like, so it's not a huge surprise. but it is a reminder that for all the idea that nancy pelosi is not getting under his skin, she is getting under his skin. i don't know why somebody would say something about that. because other aides acknowledge that her comment about him being involved in a cover-up is what caused him to go out and cancel this meeting in the first place. he is, as you know, is ver

maggie rulli, abc news, new york. >> as maggie reported the tornado warnings are in effect overnight.accuweather's paul williams has the latest. >> good morning, kenneth, janai. unfortunately, another round of severe storms will push its way through the midwest. the threat of large hail, flooding, tornadoes, damaging wind gusts with the possible maximum wind gusts, straight line wind gusts of 80 miles per hour. it's going to hit kansas city, little rock, arkansas and dallas. then there's the rain and too much of it. possibly 12 inches of rain that will cause aggravation of the river flooding that's already there. and from sioux falls, des moines, iowa, kansas city, all the way to oklahoma city. several rounds of this heavy shower activity. kenneth, janai. >> paul, thank you. >>> president trump was back in pennsylvania, rallying supporters in hopes of carrying the state in 2020. >> president talked up his economic accomplishments. claiming to have the best employment numbers in history. he took direct aim at former vice president joe biden, a pennsylvania native who may win over white

always of course maggie smith gets the best lines i think it might be in her contract.european union elections are almost upon us and we've been traveling around the talking to artists about what they think of the european union and their local politics today to ireland which initially profits a great me from being an e.u. member in dublin we met up with musicians from the traditional irish folk band lanka. joplin is building the future on the banks of the river liffey. for many years the docklands area was poor now it's a lively business hub where many i.t. giants have their european headquarters multinationals were drawn by low corporate tax rates and flexible labor laws now they declare their worldwide revenues here and say billions but they've also brought money to the country and jobs as a result however housing and general living costs have exploded. members of the folk band line come up very unhappy about the general economic situation but they scrape by somehow the group or house is in a ratty pizza kitchen in a working class district of the city this is where t

maggie, good morning. >> reporter: whit, good morning. this is the precinct where that nypd officer worked. it's where she was also once named officer of the year. now she's facing some serious jail time for allegedly plotting to murder her husband. this morning, a decorated nypd officer is behind bars accused in a shocking murder-for-hire plot. in a criminal complaint authorities say 34-year-old valerie cincinelli allegedly asked her boyfriend to hire a hit man with the intention of murdering her estranged husband. but it doesn't end there. cincinelli, a 12-year veteran of the force, allegedly wanted to have her boyfriend's daughter killed by a hit man as well. cincinelli's father is now speaking out in her defense. >> i guarantee you my daughter is innocent of this. >> reporter: saying there's more to this story. >> it will come out in court. this guy that she's involved with is a wacko psycho. this is the second time he's had her arrested. >> reporter: cincinelli's boyfriend allegedly told her he knew a hit man who would do the job for

maggie haberman, correspondent for "the new york times" and sun min kim, white house reporter for "thehouse speaker saying the president is trying to goad them into impeachment. that's exactly what you reported in "the new york times" this week. >> right, or at least trying to goad them into saying what's that they're doing. i think there's an effort by the people around the president to make democrats have to provide a stark choice, yes, this is what we are doing, this is how we are going about it and they think, the president's folks, this will be politically damaging for democrats. the house speaker feels the same way. i don't think it's going to end up going to that point but i do think you're going to see the white house essentially just draw a line in the sand. we're not cooperating because this is what you're trying to do. >> sun min, that's exactly what you reported on this morning in "the washington post," detailing now 20 different investigations the white house is stonewalling, basically what adam schiff said were across the board and that is propelling more democrats to say