United States Senate play far too many games with a piece of legislation critical to the National Security of the United States and Civil Liberties of the american people. We start the hour with nbcs luke russert on the hill. Luke, what is in these changes that the house really objects to here. Reporter well what they say is on may 13th they passed a bill usa freedom act with 338 votes that was overwhelmingly bipartisan. This came after months much painstaking negotiations and the senate has no right to do away with the legs lagz because they screwed up. Rand paul called his bluff and Mitch Mcconnell got left with nothing to show for it. The issue really at hand and hear this from republicans privately, mcconnell was working on trade legislation before the memorial day recess he knew where we stood and how the heck are we backing down from legislation that had 338 supporters. Now theres an interesting question the First Amendment mcconnell put forward it just went down. Now there are t
Is in baltimore. Jeff tell me first, what stood out to you in this speech . One of the things that stood out to me was really how governor omalley tried to build a bridge with between whats happening on main street and whats happening on wall street. He addressed headon the challenges of baltimore. He said there are economic chalt engs that have caused the violence caused the protest. So he dr. Drew a link a correlation between what is happening in this city and whats happening across the country. And then he drew a link and said that ceo of Goldman Sachs, the big Investment Firm would be happy with a president bush or a president clinton. Hes trying to present himself as a new, progressive leader that stuck out to me how hes trying to compare and draw a correlation between all of these economic problems. Did you, jeff did you get a sense of confidence from him . Its very loud at this raly. And things behind me. I didnt hear what you said but a few protesters interrupted the raly. But
States as the fbi struggles to keep tabs on positive terror suspects. Is it enough top prevent another attack . Inside the United States . North korea nukes. Satellite images reveal major nuke construction at north koreas main rocket launch site. Is kim jonguns regime building mobile missile launchers capable of a Nuclear Attack . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. There are shocking new details tonight about the anthrax scare sparked by u. S. Army researchers who sent live anthrax samples to labs around the country and north korea where 22 people were exposed, and now this disturbing revelation. The potentially deadly shipments were sent by fedex. Were covering that story. Much more this hour with our correspondents and guests including white house communication director jen sake standing by live at the white house. Begin with our pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr learning more about the little tear anthrax shipments. Barbara what are you finding out . Reporter i have to
Coming home. And the life of beau biden. New condolences coming in for the Vice President and his family. Im christine romans. Im john berman. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. Breaking overnight, counterterror programs run by the nsa expired overnight at midnight. After the u. S. Senate could not Reach Agreement sunday on extending Legal Authority to continue them for now. Senate leaders are dropping opposition to any changes in existing programs and setting up a vote on surveillance reforms already passed by the u. S. House. Cnns athena jones with the latest from capitol hill. Reporter good morning, john and christine. Several provisions expire a few hours ago at midnight because the senate failed to pass a bill to extend the law. Take a listen to some of the debate from the senate floor last night from the two republican senators from kentucky. Mitch mcconnell and rand paul. These are not theoretical threats, mr. President. They are with us every day. We have to face up to them. We shou
Amtrak has been out there doing repairs. He says he has to be in philadelphia today. He has no plans to travel to new york city but if he were traveling to new york city he would be taking this train along with everybody else. They pull into the station here in a few minutes. They say they can make other arrangements trying to roll with it either driving to computes in newark new jersey everyone is feeling relieved today. We know extensive work has been done to repair the track. Amtrak tells us 300 crews worked over the course of the weekend to make the repairs necessary, including activating those speed control measures that have been ordered. So commuters taking that first trip back to new york in just a few minutes. Chris. All right. We will be tracking the timeliness and integrity of the system. What kind of Safety Measures are put in place . Now, specific to train 180, fbi investigators just joined the ntsb and local authorities on the scene of the crash to examine this trains win