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Welcome back. Youre watching cnn. Im brooke baldwin. Joe biden is staking his 2020 bid in the ability to beat donald trump and restore the soul and character of america. And now his Campaign Says President Trump jabs at bidens intelligence show exactly why trump needs to be defeated next year. As a reminder, this was the current u. S. President yesterday insulting the former Vice President on a world stage, citing the words of a dictator. Kim jongun made a statement that joe biden is a low iq individual. He probably is. Based on his record. I think i agree with him on that. Cnn chief political analyst Gloria Borger is with me. And moments ago, bidens Deputy Campaign manager said, quote, the president s comments are beneath the dignity of the office, to be on foreign soil on memorial day and to side repeatedly with the murderous dictator against a fellow american and former Vice President speaks for itself. She goes on, it is part of a pattern of embracing autocrats at expense of our institutions, whether taking putins word at face value in helsinki or exchanging love letters, how trump referred to them, love letters with kim jongun. And that is from kate bedding field. So your reaction is . Trump is playing into their hands. Of course it is inappropriate. And how many times do we say that about trump. A gas illan. And in this case it is clear that biden gets under his skin because biden is criticizing him about his character and about American Values and the soul of america. Which biden talks about quite frequently. And it just seems to me that the more that trump does this does it elevate him . Totally. Hes already elevated number one because hes so far ahead of his competitors. But we know those things could evaporate quickly. Think about Hillary Clinton being 41 points ahead of her nearest competitor last time around. A reminder. A reminder. But this way he he elevates biden and by having his Campaign Manager respond or Deputy Campaign manager respond to the president he is saying, this is beneath me to respond to this garbage. I am going to let somebody who works for me respond to the president of the united states. Which is kind of remarkable. Kind of remarkable. Also i want to ask you about another trump rival, republican michigan congressman justin amash. Last week the first republican to say that trump is engaged in impeachable conduct based on what he red in the Mueller Report and today taking aim at the attorney general bill barr saying barr has used his position to sell the president s false narrative to the american people. This will continue if those who have read the report do not pub back on the misrepresentations and share the truth. Not backing down. What do you think . I think he might be running for president. Do you think that is what that is . I think it really i think it might be. Hes been ex communicated from republicans in the congress who are by enlarge standing up with the president. Yep. And hes decided to go head on into this. So he would challenge him . Well, who knows. But hes clearly not giving up talking about the Mueller Report, talking about the attorney general whom he believes is acted as a shield effectively for the president of the united states. A lot of democrats share that view. If republicans share it, theyre keeping it secret. And so i think that continuing along this path, look, he might get out there and decide to give trump some trouble. And that is something that i dont think trump wants. But it might also get under his skin. Who knows. Trump expects fealty from republicans. Generally hes been getting it. And so amash is going a different route. Not backing down, said hes not worried about winning his congressional seat. He did win by i believe nine points or so last time. So who knows. But there could be another could be a republican who decides to sort of just give it to donald trump. Well see. So trump could get incoming from both sides . Yeah. Well see. Thank you very much. Breaking news. On capitol hill, House Republicans have blocked the passage of more than 19 billion in Disaster Relief for the second time in a week. One congressman objected to that bill, cnn White House Reporter Sarah Westwood is following this for us. And so sarah, President Trump said that he would sign this. So why the opposition . Reporter well, brooke, House Republicans, they are upset about the process by which House Democrats have tried to pass this. They say they dont want to pass it on unanimous consent. They want to have a lengthier debate about a bill of this size and also upset about what is not in the bill which is funding for Border Security that the Trump Administration has asked for several billion dollars to fund things like more detention beds at the border which is controversial and after a long debate, weeks in the making, of finally arriving at a deal that put together this 19 billion Disaster Relief package, Border Security funding was left out of it. It was a socalled clean Disaster Relief bill. It is already passed the Republican Controlled Senate and as you mentioned President Trump has already said he will sign it if it gets to his desk. So really, this is just occasions from a handful of house conservatives who are upset that the deal the bipartisan deal that was reached left out Border Security funding. The house will come back from recess on monday so theyll have another chance to pass it then. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer released a statement after it was blocked today, look no further than the action of the house conservatives to see ch party is standing in the way of Disaster Relief moving forward, brooke. Sarah westwood, thank you. Also right now, more than 100 Million People are under threat of deadly tornados in the midwest and the northeast. The highest risk level a four out of five in a place for parts is is in place for parts of kansas, missouri, iowa and illinois. Overnight in ohio one person was killed and several injured when a tornado ripped through this town called celina, leaving neighborhoods flattened and there the fire chief of a dayton suburb described a similar scene. Devastation. World war iii. Its tough. There were several houses that we had to go in and remove victims from. There was a couple of cars that were trapped because of Live Electric lines. That has been a real problem. And the natural gas leaks were incredible out here. There is also a threat of severe storms in oklahoma and arkansas today. But the bigger issue may be the flooding as many, many people find homes under water. The oklahoma governor is warning that the rivers are still rising. And in fort smith, arkansas, the flooding has forced schools to shut down for the rest of the year. Classes were supposed to end thursday. Cnn ed lavandera is in sand springs, oklahoma, just west of tulsa and, my goodness, that is some mighty high water. Reporter and that water, if you meander through there on a boat, will eventually get you to the Arkansas River. But that is nearly a mile away from where we are standing. So you could kind of get a sans from that just how how far out of the banks the Arkansas River has come to at this point. We are several miles downstream from the keystone dam where the floodwaters are getting through. It is north of that dam. That is all backed up and the army corp of engineers is releasing water from that dam at about 275,000 cubic feet per second. That is three olympicsize pools coming out of that of the flood gates every second. And that is why all of this water youre seeing move downstream. So it is controlled, but there is the threat of more rain here in the tonight and into tomorrow. And depending on where that rainfall comes, it could really aggregate the situation. And brooke, you mentioned fort smith arkansas, that is downstream where here. The river in the tulsa area is expected to crest at some point tomorrow so it shouldnt get much worse than what w than what we see here and it depends on the rainfall and that is the caveat but downstream in fort smith, arkansas, the floodwaters expected to rise another five to six feet which could cause more problems there. So emergency officials urging people to evacuate and be ready to move at a moments notice. But it is a stressful situation for many of the residents weve been talking over the last couple of days who say it is almost like a helpful feeling standing here on the waters edge and there is nothing you could do except hopefully watch the water go down quickly. Can you imagine . What a sense of helplessness. Three olympic swimming pools, that is massive. Ed lavandera in sand springs. Thank you. The storms in the midwest are just one of several extreme weather events weve seen so far this year. So just let me paint a picture. In the last 30 days, there have been more than 500 tornados reported across the u. S. It is the fourth wettest year on record in oklahoma. The latest heat wave has set or tied records in at least eight cities for the highest recorded temperatures in the month of may. And the first named storm of the Hurricane Season came two weeks before it starts this saturday. So cnn Climate Change correspondent bill weir is with me. Hello, sir. Good to see you. We have covered and lived through many example of severe weather. So how is this related to Climate Change . Well, weather is what determines what you wear today. Climate is what should be in your closet. And the folks, as you saw there on the missouri river, theyre wearing hip wader and the question is do they need them in their closet forever. It is harder to tie tornados to Climate Change. The scientists are dont have enough data on that but any sixth grade Science Teacher could teach you that a warmer climate means more moisture and it means altering the jet stream which changes patterns, so earlier in the spring when they had a quick thaw and all of the water had nowhere to go because the ground was so hard and then a bomb cyclone and it took out grain silos and all of that. So, yes, as we crank up the thermometer on the planet, all of us, with our choices every day the way we power our economies, were loading the dice for these kinds of events. And the dice are getting loaded, weve been reported on what the Trump Administration has done. How they systematically eliminated regulations in place to fight Climate Change. Let me rattle off a couple. This summer the epa will roll back obamaera rules for power plant emissions and the u. S. Is no longer in the paris climate accord, the Trump Administration recently blocked a declaration on Climate Change at the Arctic Council and the New York Times today is reporting that the u. S. Gs will only generate climate models through 2040 rather than the end of the century. The epa said this about the change. Quote, the previous use of inaccurate modeling that focuses on worst case admission scenarios does not reflect real world conditions needs to be thoroughly reexamined and tested if such information will serve as the Scientific Foundation of nationwide decisionmaking now and in the future. You could explain the significance for me on the last point . I can. The statement goes on and says the fundamental problem with worst Case Scenarios is they are based on the flawed assumption that the significant steps toward economic could slide backwards. That is exactly what the National Climate assessment said. 12 different government bodies from nasa and noaa to the smithsonian to the pentagon saying were in for a horrible planet when there is not enough food to feed everybody and you have climate refugees, when life as we know it changes. And that is not going to happen by 2040. That is going to happen by 2075 or 2100 if nothing changes now. So one catherine one climate scientist, shes the analogy, it is like going to the doctor and the zrr said if the said if you eat 12 cheeseburgers a day and here is what you look like when you are 40 and here is what you look like when you are 70. The length of your life is determined on that. And so cutting it off and and scott pruitt, the former epa commissioner proposed to President Trump, well lets have a debate. Lets set up a red and blue team debate. It is really hard to find somebody on the other side of the debate. But they found one. His name is william happener. Hes a former princeton atomic physicist who also worked for rightwing think tanks which are funded by petro chemical dollars and he had this analogy about too much carbon in the atmosphere. This is from a few years ago. Take a listen. You know, i get called a denier and anyone who objects to all of the hype gets called a denier. That is supposed to make me a holocaust denier. Im getting tired of that. And the comment i made was the demonization of Carbon Dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor jews under hit lear. Carbon dioxide is a benefit to the world and so were the jews. I mean, are you kidding . That is what they found. That is your point . And the only way because for years the commit politicalization denied this was happening and claims there was a 17year pause and now you cant deny it any more. People are seeing it in their backyard in the midwest. You can ask bass fisherman or lobster fisher men or scientist at exxon now that we have documents from the po80s in whh they trooe they predict the everything would happen now. And it is driven by a religious belief that they cant alter the planet or special interests and it is hard to convince a man of something when his salary depends on him not understanding it. From the sinclair quote. Bill weir, well done. Thank you very much. Just ahead here, a colorado man is now the 11th person to die on everest this year. Why over crowding, fewer weather windows and the socalled death zone could be to blame. And a sitting congressman admits to taking wartime photos with combatants he had killed. 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