Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kelly O'Donnell in Washington. At this hour, we are

closely following breaking news out of Jamaica, where Hurricane Melissa made landfall just a few hours ago,

at that time at a category five, making it the most powerful storm to hit the island in its

recorded history with winds of up to 185 miles an hour. Now, the storm was just downgraded a moment

ago to a category four and is right now still packing winds of up to

150 miles per hour. It's projected to Passover Montego Bay, a popular tourist destination.

And officials are warning of catastrophic flooding, landslides, and severe damage caused by the

high wind gusts. We'll have a live report coming from Jamaica

in just a moment and the very latest on the path of this historic and deadly storm. But first,

we turn to President Trump's overseas trip, where he is touting his robust and at times questionable

use of executive power, and particularly with the U.S. military, whether

that is legal to advance his agenda at home and abroad. The president is in Japan right now as part

of his five-day visit to the region, where he met today with Japan's newly elected prime

minister, the first woman to ever hold that office. But it was the president's address to a

gathering of U.S. troops that is drawing scrutiny, as the commander-in-chief delivered a campaign-style

speech that veered at times into partisan politics. Unlike past administrations, we will not be

politically correct. You don't mind that, J. Yeah. When it comes to defending the United States, we will not be politically correct.

You don't mind that to you?

When it comes to defending the United States, we're no longer politically correct.

We're going to defend our country any way we have to, and that's usually not the politically correct way.

During his remarks, the president laid out how he views the military's role in achieving

some of his top priorities, starting with a crackdown on drugs flowing into the U.S., saying the U.S.

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