The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. 18 times this month, 64 times in the last three months. I lay those numbers out because this is at the same time that the American Public sort of approval of the Mueller Probe is declining. It was 48 approval in on how mueller is handling it in march. Now its 41 , the lowest it has been. Is the president s strategy working . Well, if his strategy is to undermine confidence in the Justice Department and the institution of the legal process, then, yes, its working in some ways because he keeps calling this a witch hunt. He has the biggest bully pulpit on the planet. He is misinforming the public by saying mueller is employing 13 angry democrats. We dont necessarily know that any of these people are actually angry. The president is using his pulpit to punch down at the investigation. We are seeing the public react
to that. Mueller, because he cant respond, thats why you see the numbers go down. The president is ratcheting it up, going from a witch hunt to a bob muellerrigged witch hunt. He is being more direct in his attacks. You couldnt see my friend john, but when he said, a bob muellerrigged witch hunt, went like this. It was a few months ago the president started naming bob mueller and now directly attacking mueller and doing it more and more. The president focuses on branding and creating earworm insults. By bringing to the the Robert Mueller witch hunt, he is trying to create a new phase. Poll numbers suggest these attacks, Rudy Giuliani really playing to the court of public opinion, may be having an impact on undermining public confidence. Having a president consciously try to undermine confidence in the Justice Department, not good for democracy. This is something about thats bigger than the court of public opinion. The Mueller Report will show
democrats to focus too much on this . I think democrats that are out on the Campaign Trail are mostly not campaigning on impeachment. They are focusing on the economy, the tax cuts, health care, peoples pocketbook issues. Theyre looking at the same polling that shows even though the base of the party wants to impeach the president , there are so many other messages that can be used. Just to jump in, isnt it hard to run on the economy right now if you are a democrat . Given the strong economic numbers we saw on friday. Yeah. What they are mostly doing is focusing on who are the winners in this economy. You look at the tax cuts and look at the fact that a lot of the benefits did flow to corporations and the wealthy and there are still people that are struggling to make ends meet. People struggling with Healthcare Costs rising because of how this administration is handling obamacare. They didnt replace it but theyre trying to sort of basically allow it to die on the vine and allow peoples costs to go up without having a
replacement in place. There are pocketbook issues that people are looking at. Even though the tax cuts did pass six months ago, if you look at real wages, even though gdp is going up, real wages are going down. There are everyday people that have not benefitted yet. Thats the message that a lot of democrats are trying to make. Its a fair point. I wonder how you think they effectively do it when every time the president goes to a steel mill, all the news cameras follow him and he is front and Center Making the message that he is saying, this is helping main street america. Its helping some not all. Democrats say, it needs to help a wider swath of them. Are they going to have a tough time making the case . They cant run against the trump economy. Its done very well to date. I think the key point here is that does it trickle down to main street . Are there unexpected victims of a trade war with tariffs that may be in trumps base . Trumps Approval Numbers are down. 36 in wisconsin and michigan. Trump has the bully pulpit. He will get credits. I think their hope is to say, is it wall street or main street . Thats where were going to focus. What Mitch Landrieu is doing, on one side of the democratic debate, is saying dont get over your skis, dont do something dumb like root for a bad economy. Follow the law. Someone needs to be the party of adults. Government shutdown, the president threatened it. Bluster . Unbelievable. Take people at their word, especially this president. That said, this is a republican president threatening a Government Shutdown with a republican congress. While trying to blame democrats. For his immigration fix. Its stunning. You can see republicans panicked on capitol hill. Were 99 days out. Republican president threatening a shutdown with unified control, thats bad news. Good news monday. Thank you very much. I appreciate you both being here. Ahead for us, the next time
you fly, someone may be watching you. Newly released documents reveal a secret tsa program that is keeping an eye on unsuspecting passengers. We have the details. We are 99 days away from the midterms. New polli ining suggests the bl wave may be on the rise. Wildfires continue to rage, little relief, especially when it comes to the weather. Were live with the story of one family devastated by the blaze. Ooh, heaven is a place on earth
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passengers who have no obvious ties to terrorism, this is essentially distracting them from their core mission of protecting the cockpit. I know that they do push back and say, this is subject to intense congressional oversight. Do you know if any Terrorist Plots have been thwarted because of the program . This is a key question. Tsa will not answer. They will not say if as a result of this they were able to foil any plots. At this point, we do not know the success of this program. Okay. Thank you for the reporting. Keep us posted. What is the number one thing that could influence voters this november . Ahead, we will tell you. Tech at safelite autoglass,
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democrats are poised for quite a blue wave come november. What are the main ones . You hit on the number one which is the president s Approval Rating. I went over time since the 1946 midterm elections and looked at each president s Approval Rating. A president s Approval Rating at 42 is not very good for his party, would point toward a democratic wave. Second, i would look at the generic congressional ballot. Democrats are ahiead on that. We can look at how cnn is rating each race, the vulnerable seats. There are more vulnerable republican than democrat seats. Thats been a sign. There are different factors i looked at. All five pointed towards democrats do well come november. Chris, how could democrats blow this . Could they lean too far to the left, for example . You note in your column about a week ago the five major questions everyone should ask democrats and one of them is, is
anyone too liberal. I think that that question, that fight is probably a post2018 pre2020 fight in the president ial race. As harry has noted, the most important thing here as it relates to midterms is the president s Approval Rating. Its been true for basically as long as we have had politics. There have been only three midterm elections since the 20th century where the president s party picked up house seats. 1934 in the midst of the great depression, 1998, bill clinton impeachment, 2002 with the after affects of September 11th. Outside of a huge, Catastrophic Society event, we know the president s party is going to lose seats. Its a way that these elections work. The question is, can donald trump i dont know that democrats can do much. Can donald trump get his Approval Rating from 41, 42 to
46, 47 . Would it potentially drop to 39, 38 . Thats a big difference in terms of the number of seats that could be lost or saved. Its a good question. Harry, how could he do that . He has got this Strong Economy in his pocket. So many people vote on the economy. If he could have a major boon for the economy, that would tick up his you would think that would tick up his Approval Numbers. Although, it hasnt, despite the Strong Economy. What else could he do . I would think my number one piece of advice would be to shut up. Let the economy do the talking. Every day he goes on twitter and theres distraction thats going on. If this election were about the economy, the republicans would be doing better than they are doing right now. Im not sure theres very much he can do. I think if mueller came back and said, trump didnt collude, everything is fine, maybe that would help. Beyond that, i mean, look, the president s Approval Rating, even though it has risen a little since the beginning of the year, has been stuck in the low 40s. Historically speaking, when that happens, goodbye to your majority. The two examples that were recent that chris cited where the president s party didnt lose seats, the president s Approval Rating was north of 60 . You dont have to be a mathematical expert to know 60 is not close to 40 . That you dont. Lets listen to something you pointed out about a week ago, dark horse, possible 2020 contender, mix landrieu on with jake yesterday morning. This was an interesting question jake asked him. Are you concerned at buall about your Party Lurching to the left . I have talked about goff He Wering Governing from the middle. There arent many of us left. It is important for us to make sure that if we are given the responsibility to govern, we govern in a big tent way. Is there room for 2020
dreamers to be to be radical centrists . I dont want to say no definitively. I will say no at least at the moment. What you see is for the most part, you have got candidates all moving as far left as they can. The embrace of ocasiocortez by a number of them. You cant be too far left in a democratic primary. Thats generally true. You want to be on the more liberal or if you are a republican more conservative end of things. I dont know how much talk of Radical Centrism will help Mitch Landrieu. He is not that wellknown. The way to shoot up in a democratic primary is sort of the howard dean method of 04. Run to the left. That was more than a decade ago. But i think if you are going to see a dark horse emerge, given
what we know of whats happened in the 2018 cycle, its much more likely that that candidate is im throwing a name out there. Chris murphy from connecticut who is very liberal on guns, very outspoken on the need for more Gun Legislation in the wake of new town, has a liberal record generally speaking. Thats where i think the dark horse race is. I tried to get an answer on this from denny heck last hour. Who is it . Are you the party of pelosi or ocasiocortez. He said, its neither. Were all. You cant be all, right . You cant be all. At the end of the day, any Political Party when you have two of them has to have a relatively big tent. You can be sure that in the upcoming Fall Campaign and leading into 2020, the republicans will make democrats, force democrats to say who
exactly they are. They will try to either pelosi or ocasiocortez, i dont think the republicans have a problem saying thats who the democrats are. Democrats would be wiser to go towards the middle. Im not sure the base will allow them to. Thank you both. What did i call you, my mighty duo. We will take it. Thats good for us. Its a monday morning. Im a little tired. Appreciate it. Two young kids and their greatgrandmother are among the six people that were killed over the weekend in the largest of the 17 wildfires in northern california. You will hear from their grieving greatgrandfather. A live report ahead. Hydrating oilinlipstick. Color so saturated. Shine so irresistible. Feel the compulsion. Maybellines new shine compulsion. Only from maybelline new york. Youll make my morning, buty the price ruin my day. Ou . Complicated relationship with milk . Pour on the lactaid, 100 real milk, just without that annoying lactose. Mmm, thats good. But behr premium stain y can weather any weather. Overall 1 rated, weathers it all. Find our most advanced formula exclusively at the home depot. A book that youre ready to share with the world . Get published now, call for your free publisher kit today dead from the biggest of the 17 wildfires cutting a Path Of Destruction across california. The search is continuing for seven others who are missing. Fed by dry weather and triple digit weather, the carr fire has burned through 95,000 acres. 3,000 firefighters are on the front line. The fire is 17 contained. Its threatening thousands of homes and businesses. Dan simon joins me live this morning. Dan, i know not only are you seeing what the firefighters are doing firsthand, you are speaking to these families who have suffered devastating loss. Reporter good morning, poppy. I spoke to a 76yearold man who
has lost the most important people in his life. Ed and his wife, they were raising their greatgrandchildren, 5yearold james, who they called junior, and 4yearold emily. On thursday night, ed left his house just for a short period of time. He wanted to run errands in town. He received a phone call that the flames were encroaching his house. Inside were his wife and his greatgrandchildren. I will let ed pick up the story from here. I talked to junior on the phone until he died. He just kept saying, grandpa, come get me. The fire is coming in the back door. Come on, grandpa. I said im right down the road. He said, come and get us. Emily said, i love you grandpa. Grandma says, i love you. Junior says, i love you. Come and get us. Come and get us. I said, im on my way. My wife was the greatest woman
in the world. My grandkids was excellent. She wrapped them in wet blankets and put them at the side of the bed and pull aid wet blanket over here. Thats where they found them. Reporter as you can imagine, ed is feeling a tremendous sense of guilt over what happened. He never received any kind of warning that he should evacuate. That goes to show you how fast this fire has consumed the community. Let me just point out where i am now. We are in redding. You can see this is one home that has been levelled. Much of the neighborhood looks just like this. Overall, we are talking about 874 structures that have gone up in flames. We should point out that fire crews are making progress, containment is up to 18 . That may not sound like a lot, but 24 hours ago, they were at 5 . Hopefully, they will make progre progress. Dan simon, its heartbreaking. Thank you for letting us know Whats Happening and bringing us
the latest. Lets go to jonathan cox with cal fire. Jonathan, thank you to you and your team that is battling this. Thank you. What can you tell us about the progress being made . The Weather Forecast is dim. We heard last hour, rain is not expected until next tuesday. Yes. Were looking at Triple Digit Temperatures to continue. They have come down by at least ten degrees, which is substantial for us. Its a tale of two fires right now. We have the main body of the fire moving into more remote inacceptable parts of the northe northe northe northern shasta county. Then we have the cooling down where your reporter was of the impacted homes. Its a multipronged fire. Its almost 100,000 acres. Our containment has gone up to 20 this morning. Its thousands of hours of work goes into every percentage increase. Right now we hope to keep this momentum going of the number going up. We just heard from the family, you heard the grieving grandfather. He lost his 4 and 5yearold greatgrandchildren and his wife because he just left to go to town for a few minutes and the fire turned and consumed their home. What are residents supposed to do if they really have no warning about which way the fire is going to turn . Yeah. Were seeing in california right now is more destructive, burnin never seen. Our message is simply, if you feel like you could be in danger to leave the area when these fires are burning. This fire occurred and it was
that Weather Afnomaly that came through at a rate of spread we have not seen before. The best indicator of whether you should leave is whether that kind of feeling in your stomach or hair on the back of your neck stands up as to possibly being in danger. Sometimes these fires are moving at such speed that they are hot and Hop Scotching through neighbors. How stretched thin are your teams . We have over 12,000 firefighter on the line in california. Obviously, bulldozers, crews, hand crews and fire engines are our top priority for resources. Luckily, we have 150 additional engines coming from throughout the united states. The furtherest being from even florida. Resources are coming in. Were prioritizing where they go based on the risks to lives and property. Were early on in the season. This is the beginning of the typical fire season in california. We have a lot of runway ahead of us. Jonathan, good luck to you
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build off of three days of ceasefires. A sign this is successful or the same thing in the bush and Obama Administration . A little bit of both. We tried to do this in 2015. This was really not negotiations. It was sitting down with taliban officials to talk about talks. Right. The Afghan Government publically rebuked it and did not support it. We had to drop the effort. There was no support from the government. We couldnt go forward. Now you see the Afghan Government saying, we think this is a good idea. Keep the talks going. Let us know how it goes. We want to be a player going forward. Its a positive sign. The devil is in the details. The devil is in what comes next and to what degree the Afghan Government is going to be brought into the process, when you really start getting down to the nittygritty of negotiating. The New York Times reporting is that the talks happened without representatives from afghans government. Is it a signal a shift of strategy, if you will . I dont think it is. This is kind of what we played around with in 2015, sitting down with the taliban without the Afghan Government there, just to get a framework going to try to think about what the talks would look like going forward. We said back then and the Trump Administration is saying now, there will be no Afghan Reconciliation Process That Isnt afghan led and managed. Thats important. Their policy is pretty of the same. Thank you. Ahead the board of cbs is meeting as the companys ceo is accused of Sexual Misconduct. We will have all the details ahead. buzzer sound holiday inn express. Be the readiest. This morning, the board of cbs will meet and consider the fate of the ceo after allegations of Sexual Misconduct by six different women. These allegations come in an explosive report by the new yorker. Walk me through what the women are saying and what the board of cbs has to weigh in minutes. The accusations all follow a very similar pattern. They say he invited them to their office at a time when they were young and ambitious and effectively used his power, his physical power to force himself on them and then used also his power and influence in hollywood to seek retribution when they rebuffed his advances. The board will get together on a Conference Call in just over an hour to come up with a committee to oversee the investigation into these accusations. One of the key things they will look for here, of course, do these accusations check out . Are there more accusations that we need to be aware of . Are there grounds for Firing Moonves or forcing him to resign . When it comes to the journalist who exposed the he will gaalleg there doesnt seem to be ambiguity for him. We are talking about encounters in which women allege they were pinned down and struggled to escape. Its serious stuff. I want to point out that in some of the cases, more than the initial incident, these are women who said what was scarring was the threats of retaliation. There appeared to be a pattern of saying, this is going to harm your career. Moonves has responded to the accusations. I want to read you a portion of what he said. I recognize that there were times decades ago when i made have made some women uncomfortable by making advances. Those were mistakes and i regret them immensely. I always understood and
respected and abided by the principal that no means no and i have never misused my position to harm or hinder anyones career. Before you go, its a question of the culture and what may have been happening at cbs over a matter of decades. You have 19 current and former employees also accusing the Executive Produce of 60 minutes of not only enabling and allowing harassment to happen but making unwanted advances himself. What is he saying . Thats right. It does go beyond moonves. It goes to the culture. Let me read you what jeff is saying. Its wrong that our culture can be falsely defined by a few people with an ax to grind who are using an Important Movement as a weapon to get even. Theres a reason these awful allegations have not been published before. Despite the efforts of a few former employees who did not succeed. It is because they are false, anonymous and do not hold up to