Now on the last word with lawrence o'donnell. Good evening, we will get to andrew weissmann and other news, but we will begin with the hurricane. As you just heard from alex wagner, there are 600,000 people are ready without power. We will go straight to nbc news meteorologist bill karins at this hour for the latest on exactly what the track of the storm is. What do you see coming? we are in the impact his own. We are now watching the northern eye move onshore and it is like the equivalent of a tornado that is 40 miles wide that is now moving into florida and it will knock down everything in its path if it is not made of concrete or brick. You can see where the storm is. It has intensified all afternoon and all evening long. It is a solid category 4, almost to the higher end of category 4. The hurricane hunters said it is still intensifying right up until landfall. This is the coast and where the really destructive winds are and now they are starting to close in on populated areas. This blue box is what we call an extreme wind warning. They are only issued when we have hurricanes with powerful eyes making landfall. They are telling everyone from tallahassee up to madison along i10, get your storm shelters or interior rooms, closets, bathrooms. Use blankets, pillows. Try to get as many walls between yourself and the storm because that is how it will feel. This will be a devastating wind event over the next couple of hours and on top of everything the storm surge is really coming up. We have historic flooding even in tampa. This is the highest we have seen the storm surge in tampa. There will be a lot of destruction when we wake up in the morning. Bill karins, we will check in with you during the hour for any new developments on the hurricane coverage. Thank you very much for starting us off. Today, ukraine's president zelenskyy had two meetings at the white house. The first with the president and then the second with the vice president. In the first meeting president biden said this. I see two key pieces. First i now we have to strengthen ukraine's position on the battlefield and that is why today i am proud to announce a new, $2. 4 billion package of security assistance. I have also directed the pentagon to allocate all remaining security assistance funding that has been appropriated to ukraine, period, by the end of my term, which is january 20. This will strengthen ukraine's position in future negotiations. Second, we look ahead to help ukraine succeed in the long term. As you know better than anyone, we said that the washington summit, we have to support ukraine and its path to membership for both the eu and nato and continue to make reforms to counter corruption case which you are working on right now. We have to ensure ukraine has sufficient capabilities. I mean sufficient capabilities to defend against future russian aggression. So i am proud of the steps you have taken on these fronts. Russia will not prevail in war. Ukraine will prevail and we will continue to stand by you every step of the way. Thank you for being here and the floor is yours. Before her meeting with president zelenskyy, vice president harris said this. I've been proud to work alongside president biden and the 50 nation coalition we have built up to allow ukraine to defend itself. Thanks to this coalition and the skill and the bravery of the ukrainian people, along with your courageous leadership, president zelenskyy, ukraine has stood up to russia's aggression and today kyiv stands free and strong. President zelenskyy, i am clear. Putin started this war and he could end it tomorrow. If he simply withdrew his troops from ukraine's sovereign territory. I share with you, mister president, there are some in my country who would instead force ukraine to give up large parts of its sovereign territory. Who would demand that ukraine accept neutrality. And would require ukraine to forgo security relationships with other nations. These proposals are the same of those of putin and let us be clear. They are not proposals for peace. Instead they are proposals for surrender. Which is dangerous and unacceptable. President zelenskyy has also been meeting with some republicans in washington who remain supportive of ukraine. It is crucial for us to be fully understandable and work in full coordination with the united states and this morning i talked also to the congressman, both chambers, both parties, and i am thankful for their bipartisan support. We believe this war could be won and just peace can be only with the united states. Madame vice president, this is you said seventh seventh. We have to keep pressure on russia to stop the war and make truly lasting and just peace. It is a top priority for us and for other freedom loving nations to achieve real, real peace for us. So we need to keep sanctions against russia strong and policies for immobilized russian assets to protect ukraine. Our people, our cities, our front line from russian evil and of course we must work hard to bring all russian war criminals to justice. President zelenskyy scheduled to meet with donald trump tomorrow. Today, donald trump said this. I believe i will be able to make a deal between president putin and president zelenskyy. Quite quickly. Reporter: what does that look like? i don't want to tell you what that looks like. Okay, two things. Imagine the news media reaction in america if kamala harris ever said i don't want to tell you what it looks like in response to any question about any of her plans. Think about that. And second, of course, what it looks like is exactly what the vice president just described as donald trump's position, which is a proposal for surrender. That is the trump plan for ukraine if he makes it back in the white house. Everything donald trump has said about ukraine indicates that he believes the solution is for ukraine to simply surrender to vladimir putin. Today the white house office of gun violence prevention, which is led by vice president harris, proposed executive orders signed by the president today that combat emerging firearms threats like 3d printed guns and machine gun conversion devices and improved schoolbased active shooter drills. Last year after another school shooting, my predecessor said like so many members of congress, just get over it. I'm going to be very blunt. Senator vance of ohio has called these shootings facts of life. Who do these people think they are? i mean it. Over the years i have held the hands of far too many mothers and fathers to try to comfort them after their child was killed by gun violence and let us all agree, it does not have to be this way. We know. We have in our possession, we know how to stop these tragedies and it is a false choice to suggest you are either in favor of the second amendment or you want to take everyone's guns away. I am in favor of the second amendment and i believe we need to reinstate the assault weapons ban. And pass universal background checks, safe storage laws and red flag laws. If vice president harris becomes the first woman president, history will be made in more ways than one, including by her husband, doug emhoff, who will become the white house's first first gentleman. Our next guest, jen psaki, just interview the current second gentleman, doug emhoff. You have also been front and center in the fight against antisemitism and i imagine, your faith has long been important to you. You have talked about it quite publicly and if the vice president was elected you would be the first jewishamerican to be a first partner, first gentleman, whatever you may call yourself. How does the history of that way on you in the moment? well i took and i take being the first jewish white house principal ever, i take it very seriously. I am accountable for it and if you recall even before october 7, really at kamala's urging, we really leaned into this fight on behalf of the biden harris administration and we put forward the firstever national strategy released in may, 2023. So we had that out there and then when the horrific day of october 7 happened, the administration was ready to take action. It is something i have been working on, speaking about, meeting with released hostages, hostage families. It is intense and a lot of times i don't want to do it. It is too raw, it is too emotional for me and she is the one that keeps pushing me out there because of the responsibility that i have in this role and because she cares about these issues. She is out there fighting these issues just like i am. So when we win and the first jewish first gentleman, i will continue to speak out very loudly and also what really bothered me a week or so ago was when trump got up at an event, an event purporting to fight antisemitism and he said vile antisemitic things. Long tropes that are just terrible. We have to speak out every single time when something like that happens. So i'm going to continue not to be afraid, not to be intimidated. Not to live in fear, but to live openly and proudly as a jewish person. When you hear him say things like that, and he said that if he doesn't win it will be essentially the fault of jewish americans. One of the oldest tropes. An old trope. I know you put a statement out on x at the time. Do you worry he is putting a target on the backs of jewish americans? he is. Take him at his word. He lies about a lot of things, but you have two take him at his word on things like this. This is a disgusting trope. The socalled dual loyalties. It is an outrage and it is not just jewish people who should be outraged. I spoke recently at the groundbreaking for the memorial at the tree of life in pittsburgh and there i said essentially that antisemitism and hate, it is a poison running through the veins of our democracy. So all of us, whether you are jewish or not, need to fight back on this. This hate affects all of us, so we all need to come together as a community coalition, to come together and fight this together. Do you think he's anti semitic when he says things like that? you look at him and see the repetition of this type of words and language as anti semitic? of course it is and i said that publicly. Definitely. I want to also ask about mark robinson because we are sitting in north carolina. You spoke about him at this event. He also reportedly recommended hitler as a good read. He is still the nominee for the gubernatorial race. Josh stein is obviously a good candidate. What you make of that is you look at the state of the republican party? it is pure cowardice. It is shameful. We need a strong republican party. We need people like liz cheney and adam kinzinger who come out and endorse kamala harris. You may not agree on every single idea and policy, but you agree on who we are as americans. You agree on our constitution and who leaders should be. When you have someone who made comments like mark robinson, he is clearly unfit, unhinged, and should not be running. The fact that donald trump was right here in wilmington, right where i am sitting, where he could not disavow mark robinson. He was trying to ignore it, but he did not disavow what robinson said. It is shameful. It is just shameful. Donald trump is the guy who said this guy is a start. He said that he is martin luther king jr. On steroids. He has not disavowed any of that, so donald trump is supporting mark robinson. Those are the types of candidates he is supporting. It shows you yet another of the many, many examples of why donald trump is unfit for any job, let alone president of the united states. Joining us now, jen psaki, former white house press secretary and host of inside with jen psaki on this network. I just want to show you the latest from donald trump about mark robinson after what we were just listening to. He was asked are you going to pull your endorsement of mark robinson. Let's look at this. Reporter: are you going to pull your endorsement for mark robinson? i don't know the situation. So that is what donald trump looks like when he is lying and walking away from a reporter. I don't know the situation. Of course he knows the situation. He knows it involves a book donald trump himself is reported to be an admirer of. What you make of where this is in north carolina for mark robinson and donald trump? well, as doug emhoff said in the interview i did with him yesterday, it is cowardice and as you said, of course donald trump knows what mark robinson has set online. What he has said publicly. We all know what his views are and instead of speaking to that, it is not only him by the way, as you know. It is also so many leaders in the republican party who claim to be people who speak out against antisemitism. Who claim to be people who are defenders of a quality in the country and when they are asked, they are silent on this. That is complacency. It is worse than complacency, it is cowardice. It tells you quite a bit and i think what is behind all of that in my view is that donald trump handpicked this guy. Still supports him. Has supported him. They are afraid. There is cowardice of trump, too. They are afraid of standing up and calling out this guy who is clearly an antisemitic candidate and a candidate who is making outrageous statements about martin luther king. About being a black nazi. That should be easy to condemn and some reason it is hard and we know why, they are scared of donald trump. I'm fascinated of what i've seen with your interview with doug emhoff. I will eagerly watch the rest of it on sunday when you present it because i have never seen him speak this way. I had personal chats with him when we find ourselves at the same coffee joint in l. A. , which happens from time to time. I know, you've talked about that. And i have at different times been passing through rooms and halls where he is and it is just kind of a hello, very brief thing. I never asked in those social settings anything serious about government, his life and government or anything about it. Here he is talking to you in a way that i have not heard. What did you learn about him in this conversation? one of the things that struck me and you talked about this, too. Before doug emhoff fell in love with this fierce attorney general who loves to kick, to cook, he was a successful entertainment lawyer. He was somebody who's jewish faith was deeply important to him. Someone who had his own life before her and i think what i learned about him is how deeply he feels. Obviously he can talk about the economy. He was successful in the business community, that is a nice thing to hear him talk about, but he speaks authentically and emotionally about his jewish faith. He speaks about it in a way that i think a lot of people feel across the country who are members of the jewish community. Where you can believe both what is happening, that netanyahu is a terrible leader. You can believe that. You can also feel an enormous pain for the suffering of people in gaza and how outrageous that is and you can also feel anguish at the rise in antisemitism and what is being felt by so many jewish americans right now. He got emotional a little bit during that interview and you could see it in that clip i shared. I know you talked about this, too. A lot of people don't feel deterred by that and he can speak to people from his own experience and that was one of the pieces that really stuck with me. Also i will say he is a proud wife guy, meaning somebody who loves to be a strong backer of his incredible wife and he is proud of that and he does not shy away from that and he gave up a lot as a successful person in the private sector to do that. But that was my big take away and that part of the interview really stuck with me because it felt raw and in the moment. I want to go to the last point you made about what he gave up because of what his wife achieved and i really wish this would become in washington and elsewhere, the doug emhoff rule. It should be the rule of life that if your spouse publicly seeks power and is elected to power or is appointed to power, say the supreme court were elected to congress, and you support that, the best way to support that is to make sure that you remove any hand of conflict of interest from your occupation, which he did. He was in a giant law firm with offices around the world. He wasn't doing anything in that firm that had anything to do with government, but some other partners in the london office or elsewhere might find themselves doing something like that and he never wanted his name and the law firm to ever be in any story that could have anything to do with government, so he quit. His highpowered, highpaying partnership. Became a law professor in washington, d. C. That is the emhoff model of ethics that is supreme. The highest level of ethics you could ask for in a situation like this. I completely agree and he did it because he believes in his wife and he is proud to support her and he doesn't want there to be conflicts of interest. He is not out on the campaign trail because he is trying to have a seat in power where he can use his connections in that way. He is out on the campaign trail because he believes that his wife who he supports is the best person to be sitting in that job and he does not want to create conflict and that should be how it is. I will say, the other thing we talked about during the interview, he has currently teaching at georgetown law school and he wants to continue doing that. Something dr. Biden has done as the first lady. That is interesting, too, but that is not a conflict. That is having a role influencing the next generation of lawyers, something he enjoyed. There are models to do that, to have life outside being the first president were first lady and he can do that. I only wish some of the republican supreme court spouses would live by the emhoff rule. They should. Maybe it can be, i was going to say, lawrence, maybe it could be. You know very well how the senate works. Maybe it could be actual ethics rules that have teeth in them. Imagine that. That would be a pretty big advance. Jen psaki, looking forward to the interview on sunday. Thank you for joining us. You can watch the full exclusive interview with doug emhoff sunday at noon eastern, right here on msnbc. I will be watching and recording. Coming up, andrew weissmann will be joining us on the federal charges launched against new york mayor eric adams and will give us the latest on jack smith's filing in the charges against donald trump for crimes related to overthrowing the election results in washington, d. C. That is a 180 page brief filed today. 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Giuliani is also a criminal codefendant with donald trump in georgia for their attempt to overturn the election in the state of georgia and in other new york city mirror news, at noon tomorrow eric adams, the 110th mayor of new york, will become the first mayor of new york to be arraigned on criminal charges. The mayor is expected to plead not guilty at the proceeding in federal court tomorrow, within walking distance of the mayor's office at city hall in lower manhattan. In the indictment made public today, mayor adams is accused of accepting luxury travel on turkish airlines, which is owned by the turkish government. In 2015 when he was brooklyn bureau president and continuing through his years as mayor. The indictment alleges the gifts of free and updated airline flights as well as hotel accommodations became a bribe in 2021, when eric adams used his influence during his successful campaign for mayor to convince the fire department to certify the fire safety of a new building in manhattan built by the turkish government as the headquarters of the turkish consulate and the turkish delegation to the united nations. The indictment also alleges that eric adams knowingly accepted foreign contributions to his campaign from turkey. Those contributions significantly raised the total that the adams campaign could obtain and campaign matching funds from the city of new york. The indictment said that eric adams defrauded the matching funds program of more than $10 million of taxpayer money. In announcing the charges today, the u. S. Attorney said this. The conduct alleged in the indictment, the foreign money, the money, the bribery, is a grave breach of the public trust. Public office is a privilege. We allege that mayor adams abused that privilege and broke the law. Laws designed to ensure officials like him serve the people, not the highest bidder, not a foreign bidder and not a foreign power. These are bright red lines and we allege that the mare crossed them again and again for years. That is the only reason we are here today. New york congresswoman alexandria will cause you to test has called for adams' resignation and did that before he was indicted. As allegations have been swirling around him. The most politically important constituents the mare serves our senate majority leader chuck schumer and democratic leader of the house of representatives, hakeem jeffries. Shortly after the indictment was described today, leader jeffries issued this statement. The indictment is a serious and sober moment for new york city. Like every other new yorker and american, eric adams is entitled to the presumption of innocence. That is central to justice in the united states of america. A jury of the mare's peers will now evaluate the charges and ultimately render a determination. In the meantime i pray for the wellbeing of our great city. Senator schumer issued a statement saying no one is above the law, including the mayor of new york city. The charges are serious and the legal process should play out speedily and fairly. The new york times has historically had strong influence on members of the new york congressional delegation and tonight the new york times editorial board published an editorial titled eric adams should resign. Adams insisted he will not resign and has done nothing wrong and will fight the charges in court. The governor's power to remove the mayor of new york city and today governor kathy hochul said this. I think it is rather obvious to state that i have not had a chance to read this myself. I am an attorney. I am going to want to read this and absorb the material embedded within it. This is a very serious matter unfolding. I have a unique responsibility to make sure i do right by all people in this great state and they also represent 8. 3 million new yorkers. When they elected me to be there governor, i became the governor of the entire state including residents of new york city and i want them to know this. I will be deliberative. I will be thoughtful that we will come to the right resolution in this moment. That was in the early afternoon before the governor had a chance to read the indictment. The governor's office released a new statement from the governor saying i have carefully reviewed the indictment released by the united states department of justice. This indictment is the latest in a disturbing pattern of events that has understandably contributed to a sense of unease among new yorkers. My focus is on protecting the people of new york and ensuring stability in the city. While i review my options and obligations as governor, i expect the mare to take the next few days to review the situation and find an appropriate path forward to ensure the people of new york city are being well served by their leaders. We must give new yorkers confidence that there is steady, responsible leadership at every level of government. Joining our discussion i was andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and chief of the criminal division of the eastern district of new york. He is a msnbc legal analyst. Andrew, having read the indictment today i think i now know why it was released this week, with leaders from around the world at the united nations this week, very much including the delegation from turkey. It seems to me that one of the messages of this indictment was aimed at the united nations to say to every country there, if you are ever thinking of getting involved in things like this and trying to use influence and the methods described here, we will stop it. I had the same view and i think it is useful to think about the charges. Remember they are just charges. Eric adams will have the opportunity to go to trial and have the case proved beyond a reasonable doubt, but i agree that the message is in really many ways directed the politicians and also foreign countries, saying handsoff. It is useful to think of this in conjunction with the department of justice having brought a series of steps through the national security division aimed at what russia is doing in a much more sophisticated way than they did in 2016. They now have a whole series of indictments attacking the same phenomenon, saying we have eyes on you and we are willing to go public. We are willing to call it out and not do what happened in 2016. We are willing to say we are on to you and here are all of the details. Proving bribery has become more difficult with the current united states supreme court. What you make of the way this indictment is written, given how really there is no other word for it, lenient about bribery the united states supreme court has become. The supreme court basically says as long as it is afterwords it is not a bride. It is like a gratuity. So it is harder, but it is not impossible. You do have to show the quid pro quo. I give you the money and because of that money you took that action. You did not take that action independently. It is a tricky charge. I thought what was smart is there are five charges. That was the last of the charges. The other four are much more straightforward. Do not take foreign money in an american campaign and as long as you can show it is knowing and intentional, it is hard to see how eric adams has a defense. The other thing is williams at the press conference today said something that was unusual to my ears. He said there will be more activity. There will be more charges. Now it is unclear whether there will be more charges against eric adams or people who are cooperating who will plead guilty, but you usually don't hear something that definitive. Usually it is like the investigation is ongoing. It is absolutely clear there are more shoes to drop. Jack smith, 180 page filing that we don't get to read or eventually get to read it. We should eventually get to read it. We did the same thing in the mueller investigation where you would first file with the court under seal, the whole brief. You would give to the court the proposed redactions so the court can review them. The defense has an opportunity to be heard and the judge rules. Donald trump will be, this is sort of the last standing argument he has. He will be arguing it should never see the light of day because he doesn't want anyone to do a fax. There will be a lot of prime it of private skirmishes that we won't see about whether it will be released. 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Sherrod brown is facing a reelection challenge almost as difficult and this year the maryland senate seat is suddenly at risk because ben cardin decided not to run for reelection, which helped republicans convinced the former republican governor of maryland, larry hogan, to run for the senate seat and try to flip control of the senate to republicans. Democrat angela alsobrooks, the current executive of prince george's county maryland is the democratic nominee for senate in maryland. Whoever is in the majority controls the agenda. So in this race i want to level set. Mitch mcconnell can't pick larry hogan for a reason. He said he can't believe it. His top recruit. Because larry hogan, mitch mcconnell and donald trump share something in common. That they desire to have republicans in control of the senate. The question is not it is not even whether or not it is a good idea to vote for him for governor. The question we are answering is who we should have joining us now is the democratic candidate for senate in maryland, angela alsobrooks. You have, for me, what is the most unusual of these difficult races that the democrats have to win to control, because the republican candidate you are running against is not crazy. Has never said, that i am aware of, any outright loony things like the rest of these republican senate candidates so often do. He is the kind of republican in the past democrats have been able to vote for, have been willing to vote for and did vote for in maryland as governor. You have this lesson that you have to teach, which is you are not just voting for this one person when you cast your senate vote. You are voting for a party to control the senate. He is on the team. That's the reality of it. Mitch mcconnell recruited my opponent to run for the seat. Donald trump promptly endorsed him, because the three of them share something in common. They do want to hand over the senate to the republican extremists who will control the agenda for our country. So he is on their team. It is the reason why we have seen even this week 18 million additional dollars from his billionaire friends who likewise recognize he is on their team and that electing him hands over control of the senate to the republican party, to lindsey graham and rick scott and ted cruz. That is what will happen if elected. A vote for one republican senator is a vote for all of them to become more powerful. You have this challenge that every democrat has running this year, which is trying to hold onto this majority. Every one of the seats has never been more important. The stakes of this race are so high. I think of my 19yearold daughter and her reproductive freedoms. Right now she might have fewer rights than her grandmother and her mother. We think about gun violence and the epidemic of gun violence and the number one killer of our children is gun violence in this country. Economic freedoms. We think about tax policies that favor big corporations who now pay fewer taxes than the average nurse or firefighter, but these are the stakes of this election and it is very serious. That is the reason maryland is at the center of this race and we cannot hand over the senate to republican extremists and also when we elect kamala harris as our next president, why would we elect a senator who would hand over power and provide gridlock and block everything she does? we want her to have the same. Maryland democratic senate candidate angela alsobrooks, so great to have you visit us in the studio. Great to be here. Go to angelaalsobrooks. Com and we have 40 days left in this race. Coming up, we will go back to nbc meteorologist bill karins and he will give us the latest update on the hurricane. ♪ with wegovy®, i lost 35 pounds. 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We have our eyes on tallahassee, we've been wondering if they were going to go through the eye, it'll take weeks to clean up say days, so here's tallahassee, this is what you want to stay out of, this is where the most intense winds are and the backside edge, the western edge it's close to tallahassee but it does look like it is barely going to miss. A small token piece of, if you have interest in the tallahassee area but if you're in here towards perry, florida, this is going right over the top of you, you are in the thick of the strongest portion of the storm and it looks like the clear part of the eye will go right on top of you. When the center here crosses land, that's when we get the landfall declaration. This area is under an extreme wind warning, this storm rapidly intensified all day long and we are seeing pictures now, we have water going into homes, even in st. Petersburg, florida, this surge is dropping. Even the tampa area, this water continues to pile up, now we are approaching high tide. 6. 5 feet in clearwater, this is water above where it should be. Anywhere around the bay, lawrence, there's a lot of damage being done. These totals are just as bad as was advertised and we were hoping the storm would underperform but if anything, it's over performing. Thank you for that report and joining us now is nbc news correspondent kathy park in tallahassee. What is the situation like now? reporter: conditions have worsened over the past hour. We have been anticipating the storm and people have heeded the warnings. A lot of people decided to leave the area altogether. A lot of the hotels in the area, completely booked. Here in tallahassee, what is unique is there are a lot of trees, roughly 55% of the city is under a tree canopy so the headline is wind damage, and officials are worried what could happen when you have 100 mileperhour winds, for an extended period of time, we're talking toppled trees, toppled power lines and power outages and earlier today, i had a chance to visit one of these emergency shelters that opened up. A lot of people are utilizing them, they moved in pretty quickly and they have weathered a lot of storms in tallahassee but nothing of this magnitude. This is a category 4 and when they heard that, they were going to take any chances and if you are in the shelter, you can't leave essentially until the coast is clear. Officials have been preparing for days ahead of the storm. And they said they are leaning on mutual aid across the country, things will be telling to see how much damage we get in the area. Thank you for that report, i appreciate it. We will be right back. 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