The olympic golden boy versus a great white. Michael phelps coming up short trying to outswim a shark. Why some are frustrated how he did it. Massive reaction pouring in overnight and what phelps is now saying about a rematch. We do say good morning, america. Hope everybody had a wonderful weekend. Michael phelps is not used to taking a silver. It was a Computer Generated shark, not a real one. A lot of people felt had on that one. They did and well talk about that in a bit. First, it was a very busy day, a lot of anticipation for Jared Kushners interview with Senate IntelligenceCommittee Investigators. A live look at capitol hill right now. Kushner will speak with the Senate Intelligence committee behind closed doors and just released a statement hes going to give them and denied any collusion with the russians, detailed his contacts. First that dangerous flash flooding across the southwest trapping at least 17 hikers including a 4yearold boy. In arizona overnight rescuers on the scene there trying to pull them to safety and floods also causing problems in the midwest. Abcs alex perez is in hard hit illinois with the details. Good morning, alex. Reporter hey, good morning, robin. Take a look around me. Residents have been desperately trying to keep water out of this neighborhood but as you can see its a battle and its just not here. More than 400 reports of Severe Weather across the country. Heroic rescue near tucson, arizona, 17 hikers stranded. The sheriffs chopper racing against time to save them. Watch as they lower a line to rescue a person trapped in the rising tide hoisting them to safety then immediately go back. Two men remain trapped on a ledge. The conditions too unsafe for the chopper to retrieve them. Severe storms wreaking havoc across the country this morning. Delaware receiving more than 8 inches of rain overnight. Three people rescued when this car nearly buried under quickly rising water. The damage devastating in northern kentucky. Looks like it got pushed right into the building. Look at that. A look from above shows this home dangling over a river, the living room now visible from outside. The house nearly two football fields away from its foundation. Looked and our house is down the creek. The storms submerging cars sending this pickup truck 20 yards from where it was parked. For this area this is pretty devastating. Reporter this morning a desperate search for a man whose home was swept away. Crews digging through two miles of debris. Go through everything. Reporter here in algonquin, illinois, the river remaining above flood stage through monday morning. Right to ginger tracking the system and where its heading next. Good morning. I want to show you what happened early this morning. So just hours ago this is kent island, maryland, that same storm system moving through and looks like apparent tornado damage. Well find out what it was, but horrible to wake up to and tough for them to be cleaning up after. That same rain causing flash flooding. More than 7 inches falling in parts of delaware. Ill get in a little closer. You can see connecticut feeling it now and really as we go through the rest of the Morning Hours its going to be the cape and rhode island and parts of upstate new york that will end up seeing 2 to even 3 inches of rainfall very fast. Robin and george. All right. Now to the story of a busy week in washington. Jared kushner, President Trumps soninlaw and senior vistaprint speaking in a closed door session on capitol hill. Overnight he released a statement detailing contacts with russian officials but denying any collusion as Congress Prepares to vote on sanctions punishing russia for meddling in the election and Sarah Sanders told me President Trump will sign the bill. The president set to speak out on health care one day ahead of the senates last effort to revive the repeal of obamacare. No indication they have the votes or even know which measure they will vote on. The latest on Jared Kushner from jonathan karl. Good morning, jon. Reporter good morning. In that just released 11page statement, kushner is emphatic in his denial saying, quote, i did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded with any foreign government. I had no improper contacts. I have not relied on any russian funds to finance my business activities. Hopefully he concludes this puts matters to rest. This morning, Jared Kushner answers questions for the first time from investigators leading the probe into russian meddling in the election. With an office just steps from the oval office, the lowkey kushner is one of the president s top advisers. Softspoken and rarely heard in public. I wanted to welcome everyone to the white house today. Reporter now hes a key figure in the russia investigation. He was at that meeting in trump tower that don junior set up with a russian lawyer who was said to have dirt on Hillary Clinton from the russian government. The committee will also want to talk to him about his own meetings during the transition with the Russian Ambassador and a russian banker, meetings he did not immediately disclose. We have a lot of ground to cover so we expect this is just going to be the first interview. Reporter now White House Communications director Anthony Scaramucci says kushner simply doesnt have much to say about the russia issue. I predict that will be the last time Jared Kushner talks about the russians. Theres nothing to the story and well be moving on. Reporter President Trump appears increasingly fixated on the story tweeting sunday about the phony russian witchhunt and complaining that republicans are doing very little to protect their president. And the president alarmed some in congress over the weekend by declaring his complete power to pardon. Family, aides and maybe even himself. That prompted the top democrat in the senate to issue a stern warning to the president. If he fired mueller or pardoned himself or someone close to him under investigation, i think it would cause a cataclysm in washington. Reporter in his statement, Jared Kushner also says he had hardly any contact whatsoever with russians during the campaign, in fact, regarding the Russian Ambassador he says the day after the election, he actually sent somebody an email asking what is the ambassadors name because, robin, he could not recall it. All right, jon, thank you very much. Well have more on this because more on those new sanctions that are punishing russia, the rare bipartisan effort is expected to Pass Congress with an overwhelming majority. Its also challenged as you know. Mary bruce has more details from capitol hill. Good morning. Reporter yeah, congress is sending the president a harsh message about russia. Republicans and democrats together have now reached a deal to slap moscow with tough sanctions. This is punishment for its election meddling and its aggression towards its neighbors, but this bill would also sharply limit the president s ability to lift or ease any sanctions. Its a pretty remarkable move by this Republicanled Congress to handcuff the president and a move that the white house opposes but this morning theyre signaling that the president will support this bill despite his previous objections. His hands seem tied. Reporter the president is likely to sign this bill and impose new zappings because he doesnt have much of a choice. If he were to veto this bill it would certainly only add more fuel to this russia fire and it seems congress will have the votes to overturn any veto anyways. Now, robin, the house is expected to pass this bill tomorrow and could be on the president s desk before the august recess. Robin. Well see what happens. More on this from matthew dowd. Our chief legal analyst dan abrams, matt, let me begin with you. The president may not want to sign this bill but he as robin said has no choice tweeting about it sad republicans even some carried over the line on my back do very little to protect their president as the phony witchhunt continues two groups are laughing, democrats and russians. The president feeling the heat. Well, hes definitely feeling the heat. This is the first probably bipartisan bill of this congress and its aimed directly at donald trump and his supposed inability to sort of hold russia accountable in this. The funny thing about that tweet, george, as you and i have talked about is in the four key state, iowa, ohio, pennsylvania and wisconsin all of the gop senators that ran and won one with bigger margins than donald trump in that. I think Donald Trumps in a situation right now where republicans who have been steadfast in defending him now are beginning to peel away. Okay, dan abrams, lets talk about Jared Kushners testimony. Pretty detailed testimony right there detailing four contacts, denying any collusion. The big question now is will the story hold up when others testify, as well thats the most important question because even if its not under oath, even if this is effectively a kind of off the record conversation, he could still later be charged for making misrepresentations to congress, for example. Thats a big if. That would mean he had to be saying something that was later disproven. Or proven to be misleading, et cetera. But there are a number of different issues and they actually section them off in his statement that hes trying to cover. Everything from the reason that he made omissions in his security clearance to all of his contact with russian and other foreign officials, the statement in and of itself is not going to create any bombshells. The question is going to be what are the questions asked back and forth. What does mueller do with them. A lot of talk over whether the president has the power to pardon himself and whether hes been discussing it and pardon people like Jared Kushner if they got into trouble. Lets focus on this question. Does the president have the power to pardon himself . Probably. Really . On the criminal side does the president have the power to pardon himself . Probably. But what does that mean . That means that if he were to pardon himself, he could just protect himself against potentially a criminal charge. He could do it both preemptively but you cant just say im pardoning myself against anything that anyone may say about me. There has to be a specific charge that you are pardoning yourself from. Its never happened. Never has been done and potential impeachment. If the president did do Something Like that and had the power as Chuck Schuller said yesterday a cataclysm. It would be a huge cataclysm. He would be further off the fairway than Jordan Spieth was on number 13 before he won the british open. This would be a huge political problem. Legally its a debate. Politically it would be awful. The president would probably directly lead to impeachment if he were to pardon himself. Thanks very much. We move on to the fight against isis and the battle to take back a key city in syria under its control. Raqqah became the effective isis capital in 2014. Now, Syrian Forces are moving in and Abcs Ian Pannell has gone deeper into raqqah and the battle against isis than any other u. S. Broadcaster and he joins us from that region. Good morning, ian. Reporter robin, with mosul pretty much done raqqah and syria is where isis is making its last stand. Dont underestimate how important this is. Were talking the capital of isis and the outcome matters to america, europe and the people who live here. Raqqah, syria, ground zero in the war against isis, with u. S. Backed forces locked in a fight to the death. Isis snipers who killed many here are moving quickly, the only option. We moved up to the front line with local fighters. The going is as slow as it is dangerous. You can hear the battle for raqqah is ongoing. Youve got local forces backed by the United States taking the battle to them. Sounds of gunfire and drones overhead and Coalition Air strikes every few minutes and here we met an american sniper on the front line. A Young Volunteer from california. If a member of isis was in this room right now with all of us, what chance would he give you or you or me . None. No part of you thats scared, nervous, anxious at this point . No, not really. I came here for this, you know. Ive been waiting for years for this. This is the final standup fight between us and them. After them, you know, thats it. Reporter for many this is a calling. A chance to reclaim the streets from isis for good. Thats enough for today. Reporter privately coalition commanders admit this battle could drag on for months. No doubt local forces are committed but underequipped to fight isis and as we saw last week americas allies are suffering heavy casualties. You can see more of ians front line reporting on abcnews. Com and world news tonight with david muir. New details about that human smuggling tragedy in texas where a tractor trailer with more than 100 people inside was discovered in a walmart parking lot. At least nine people died inside the truck and Kenneth Moton has the latest from san antonio. Reporter this morning, one of the worst cases of human smuggling in texas. Dozens of undocumented immigrants suffering from intense tripledigit heat. Nine people dead. The way they experienced the last few moments of their lives is shocking to the heart of our entire city. Reporter immigration agents say as many as 100 people were packed inside the big rig with no airconditioning parked outside a walmart. A concerned employee alerting people. They were in the trailer without any signs of any type of water so looking at a lot of heatstroke, a lot of dehydration. Reporter First Responders rushing 30 victims including two children to the hospital. 17 in critical condition. Some suffering from traumatic brain injuries. The suspected driver James Matthew bradley of florida arrested. Expected in court this morning. All were victims of ruthless human smugglers indifferent to the wellbeing of their fragile cargo. Reporter overnight vigils and a growing memorial. The immigrants reportedly from mexico and central america. With the u. S. mexico border 150 miles Homeland Security vowing to root out smugglers and dismantle their networks. Investigators say surveillance cameras in this walmart parking lot captured dozens of people jumping out of that truck into waiting cars. Some even ran into nearby woods, also i. C. E. Agents are searching for those immigrants. Were told later this morning that driver expected to be in court. George. Okay, kenneth, just a horrible story. Amy with the other top headlines. Deadly violence in afghanistan. Thats right and the taliban claiming responsibility for a horrific suicide blast that ripped through kabul this morning killing at least 24 people. A car packed with explosives rammed a bus filled with Afghan Government employees, all heading to work. The bus was destroyed. Dozens of people were also wounded including children on that bus. Well, new images are now revealing how john mccain is handling his brain cancer diagnosis. He tweeted this photo of he and a friend relaxing in a creek at his arizona ramp and his daughter sharing a photo of the pair after a hike over the weekend. 23yearold texan Jordan Spieth winning the british open over the weekend. This was his third major tournament win. The next pga championship. You see him taking a very large swig, wow, hes still going from the official claret jug behind justin thomas. Congratulations to him. New video just in. The uss constitution left dry dock this boston after more than two years of restoration, oldest commissioned warship in the yea reopens to the public this september. Finally we know marines are tough but that doesnt mean their children dont have a softer side. Check out 4yearold gauge neuville. Hes giving a tearsoaked hug to Senior Airman emily neuville. She and her husband. He heard vows. I may not have given you the gift of life but life has given me the it was so sweet. If you can watch it itll brighten up your monday. We need that. 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