Possibly be obtaining copies of his emails and other electronically stored communications or by having agents follow him or conduct physical searches of his property. Nbc news we should tell you has not verified this report. This news comes as an analysis piece in the Washington Post posed an interesting question and theory. Trump versus manafort . The white house sounds ready to go to war. That got our attention today. Teams for the two men appear to be engaged in a back and forth playing out in the papers. The piece cites last nights post report saying manafort offered to give a kremlin linked russian billionaire private briefings on the 16 campaign. Investigators think his emails showed he want to profit from his role with the Trump Campaign. Bloomberg politics reporter margaret tal spoke to trumps larry ty cobb who said, quote, it would be truly shocking if manafort tried to monetize his relationship with the president. And a manafort spokesman is quoted in tonights journal story saying, its unclear if Paul Manafort was the objective. Perhaps the real objective was donald trump. Tonight we also have a new bit of information from politico. It reports that mueller requested the phone records having to do with a flight on air force one. You may recall this, a flight to the u. S. Coming home from that european summit. It was on that flight that a statement was crafted explaining why done junior had allowed this meeting of russians at trump tower. The statement was more of a cover story as we learned the truth later. Politico also reports mueller is interested in more about the firing of fbi director comey, specifically a statement sean spicer made as the white house was reportedly gearing up to fire comey but before it happened. And here it is. Yesterday the president tweeted that fbi director james comey gave Hillary Clinton a, quote, free pass for many bad deeds. Is the president comfortable having a fbi director that gives out free passes serve during his administration. The president has confidence in the director. But i think he clearly his point was after some of the comments that were made yesterday regarding the reason for the outcome of the election, incompetent he just wanted to make it clear what exactly happened. And that man, sean spicer himself, was in the news today. According to axios, his former colleagues say he filed notebook after notebook away, filled them up with copious notes during meetings in his time with the Trump Campaign and white house. Axios indicated the notebooks could be a bonanza for Robert Mueller. A white house official quoted as saying people are going to wish theyd been nicer to sean. He was in a lot of meetings. Goot point to get into our leadoff panel here tonight. Were happy to have Elizabeth Miller back with us, robert costa is back with us. We also welcome back jill wine banks. Jill, you get to start tonight because youre the lawyer in the bunch. What stands out to you about these reports of the survey va lance if true especially when they are said to have engaged . Well, if the reports are true that a lot of this happened after he left the white house, then maybe hes in trouble for things that have nothing to do with donald trump or it could be because we also are reading that he stayed in constant touch with donald trump that it still relates to donald trump. And certainly the list of documents that have been requested by mueller all relate to actions by donald trump. So at least as to the documents, donald trump is the center of attention, and that would be very interesting. And for claritys sake, Paul Manafort never made it to the white house. He was Campaign Chairman. And jill, learning what we now know in these reports, again, if true, about surveillance, knowing that it also featured a kind of forced entry raid, search warrant of his home in virginia, does that not underscore some of this . It does. And, of course, using picking a lock to get in means that you suspect that the person whose documents youre trying to get to execute the search warrant may be someone you cant trust, someone who would flush the evidence down the toilet is usually the case. Its usually drug dealers that you want to break in and get. So they were cooperating supposedly. He was testifying. They must have had reason to suspect in order to get such a warrant, they would have had to prove to a court that there was reason to suspect that he might destroy the evidence if they knocked on the door. So that does look very bad and certainly is focusing on Paul Manafort. Elizabeth, lets honor a timehonored journal stick tradition and ask the question so what we learned . Let me limit the scope because a woke is a year in in story. What have we learned this week about manafort, about the Mueller Investigation and why this was a bad week for the white house . We have learned based on a lot of times reporting that Robert Mueller is being extremely aggressive in this investigation. As we reported this week, they did the predawn raid of muellers house, as jill is referring to. They broke in. They photographed expensive suits in his closet, as evidence to show he was seen to be making a lot of money. They told him that prosecutors told him that he was going to be indicted. Robert mueller is playing a very tough game here. In addition, we also learned this week that he his team requested a vast number of documents from the white house that you had mentioned earlier in the program in 13 different areas. But many of them are focused on the president s own actions. Mueller wants documents related to the president s firing of comey, the fbi director, firing of michael flynn, his First National security adviser. Mueller wants documents related to the meeting that the president had in the oval office in may with russian officials in which he said that comey was a nutjob. He wants documents related to a trump tower meeting in june 2016 with russian officials and Trump Campaign officials and also, as you reported earlier, he wants documents related to a drafting of a statement on air force one about that meeting that was very misleading. So all of this adds up to an extremely aggressive investigation, squeezing people like Paul Manafort and really, really, really pressuring the white house. Robert, the journalism this week by elizabeths paper and by your paper has cast in its sum total a heck of a chill over the white house, stretching down pennsylvania avenue to the capitol behind you. Take us wherever you wish. What has it done there . Also, this notion of teams for manafort versus the white house. Disturbing word that came out. Based on my conversations this week with my sources inside and outside the west wing, youre right, brian. Its a thick et around this white house, a growing thick et that they really cant control. Theyre not really sure whats out there in terms of what the special counsel is going after. But they see these stories by the New York Times and my colleagues at the Washington Post about manafort and his dealings with wealthy russian figures and theyre wondering what else is manafort saying. They wonder is mueller using manafort as a way to get more information, because manafort, of course, was in the meeting with donald trump jr. To go over possible information with russian figures about secretary clinton. Then that meeting on the oval office in the oval office and on air force one about how to respond to the news of that meeting, its also under the special counsels scrutiny. All these factors are just surrounding the white house as they try to plod fwafrd. And how high does the concern go . Im asking specifically about the president. Its fair to say, based on my reporting, that President Trump is paying very close attention to every russia story. He continues to insist privately, im told, by his confidantes that there was not collusion, but he is very aware of the burden that these stories and this investigation and the special counsel have on his presidency and his ability to govern. Jill, is it your view, watching him and watching these stories unfold, that he is perhaps getting and taking the advice of counsel and he has laid off this topic on twitter . He certainly seems to have been quieter and that seems to be good because even his supporters are not happy with his tweets. As to manafort, i think its also important to keep in mind when we look at how aggressive mueller is being is that he may be trying to flip manafort. So that depends on whether manafort actually has some interesting knowledge of some of these actions. We dont know that because he wasnt there during some of the key times. But he does have from everything that weve learned about him, some very potential legal liabilities in terms of Money Laundering and foreign representation that could get him in legal trouble so that theres a good way to pressure him. They have some leverage if he has knowledge. And that may be what all this is about. Hey, elizabeth, that quote in lots call it roberts paper about people are going to wish they had been nicer to sean is so washington. And it turns out here is a guy who has been taking copious notes. Usually when you work in the white house an adult takes you aside and says probably best not to write stuff down. It turns out hes done the opposite. Whats the level of exposure here . Because sean spicer has want been a man in this conversation until now. Well, obviously they want every single notebook, and it will be a very, very close record of meetings that they are very concerned and curious about. So, you know, listen, other press secretaries i know have taken these kind of notes. You take the notes because you have to remember what happens so you can go out and tell the press about it or tell the press at least some about it. So thats you know, he was taking sort of an official record and, you know, he will be a key figure now, i think. Robert it turns out the quote was neither. It was axios news service. At the same time the Mueller Investigation has taken up a lot of the oxygen this week. People tend to forget that behind you at either end of that building, senate and house, there are these other dual investigations. Anything you can update us on the status of those . The congressional investigation is more about broad questions regarding russia collusion. Were seeing the congressional investigators this week looking into the involvement of social Media Companies like facebook, russian entities buying advertising on those platforms to potentially influence the u. S. Election. And the congressional investigation believes it is now separate but somewhat intertwined with the special counsel. In some ways they will overlap, but theyre really looking at more who they can have come before them privately and publicly on capitol hill about the collusion aspect rather than potential obstruction of justice or the inside the white house details. Jill, do lawyers prefer you not to take copious notes in these jobs in the executive branch . Well, prosecutor lawyers are very happy when it happens. Sure. And in watergate we had hald man, who was the chief of staff, who took copious notes and id like to remind the audience that one of the missing tapes, there was an 18 and a half minute dpap in one tape and the evidence we had of what took place in that was hald mans notes that said at that exact moment in the tape that they were discussing watergate. Of course. So we know what it was about because of those notes. Where rose marry woods took the fall for that one. Elizabeth, a point of personal privilege here. Looking back in our archives, 16 years ago today New York Times, page one, elizabeth bu miller, washington, date line september 20th, president bush demanded tonight that afghanistans leaders immediately deliver oh sam ma bin laden and his network and close down every terrorist attack in the country. That was your lead written on deadline. Think about what kind of a place our country was september 11th had just transpired. We were still trying to figure out who and where the enemies were. What do you remember about that time and what do you make about the years since with this in mind . There are i have so many memories. September 10th, 2001 was my first day on the white house beat for the New York Times and it was the last normal day i had on the beat. The next day i walked into the office and i saw that a plane had hit the World Trade Center and my first thought was, oh, i wont have much to do today because thats obviously a big metro story for the times in new york. Its a big accident of the by the time i dpot up to the bureau to the 7th floor, a second plane had hit so i knew it was terrorism. So i went over to the white house, but of course by the time i got there people were running out of the white house. It was being evacuated. So i have lots and lots of memories of those days. I do remember that theres a line i hadnt read that story for a long time until you sent it to me tonight and theres a line in that i still remember, though. Michael ger season was pushs speech writer. Wonderful speech writer and theres a line where the president says all of this happened to us and it came upon us in a single day and night fell on a different world. And thats exactly what happened. I remember jill abe ram son who was the Washington Bureau chief of the times. We assembled in the Conference Room in the bureau on september 11th and later in the afternoon and she said to all of us assembled there, this is what we will do now. And 16 years later shes right. And thats what we did. And thats what we are doing right now. To her point and to yours, i would argue september 10th, 2001 was the last normal day period. Elizabeth bu mueller, robert costa, joan wine banks, great thanks for starting us off tonight. Thank you so much for being with us, the three of you. Well take our first break here. Coming up, whats the chance jimmy kimmel is going to be the man who kills the new healthcare bill . Plus, the threat of a Nuclear North Korea was heavy on todays agenda at the United Nations here in new york. Much more when the hour continues. Jimmy kimmel is going to be t the United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission for himself and for his regime. Welcome back. President trump followed up that threat to north korea with an executive order today imposing stricter sanctions against the country, essentially banning anyone who does business with north korea from doing business with the United States. More on that in just a moment. Trump made this announcement during a meeting with leaders of the countrys most threatened by north korea, that would be south korea and japan, two of our strongest allies. The conversation today shifted slightly away from military options where its been for weeks, with trump leaving the door open at least to a diplomatic resolution. Is dialogue still possible with north korea . Is dialogue still possible. Also today, north korean president kim jongun issued a direct response to trumps fiery address at the u. N. This week. Get comfortable for this one. In a statement to the Korean State News Agency he said all this, quote, i am now thinking hard about what response he could have expected when he allowed such eccentric words to trip off his tongue. Whatever trump might have expected, he will face results beyond his expectation. I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged u. S. Dotard with fire. What beyond his expectation means, we cannot be sure, but the north Korean Foreign minister who is here in new york for the general assembly, warned the south Korean Press Corps tonight this, quote, it could be the most powerful debt nation of an h bomb in the pacific. Could be, he said. With us here tonight, andrea mitchell, our chief Foreign Affairs correspondent who has been covering this topic in this region for a long time. And joe certificate sin i dont even i never. This is tough. Its always i know. Its late. Joe certificate certificate, author of three relevant books for our conversation. Nuclear nightmare, securing the world before its too late, bomb scare, the history and future of Nuclear Weapons, and deadly arsenals, nuclear, biological and chemical threats. Hes also a veteran of the House Armed ServicesCommittee Staff and teaches at Georgetown University where they have to get his name right at the completion of the term. For the record, dotard was the most searched for term of the night on websters and it means old or senile or in my case unable to get certificate certificate right. So, andrea, well start with you. A day of bell kosty, a day of real sanctions. Where does this thing stand as of tonight . Yeah. Well, sort of good news and bad news and im not even going to attempt joes last name. Just his book covers are enough to scare the heck out of you. And weve known him for years. Yes. So lets talk first about perhaps the positive side. The president acknowledging that there is still room for dialogue or diplomacy. And this in answer to a reporters question and also successful sanction announcements. I mean, whether they are carried out, whether there is cheating remains to be seen, but someone as smart as john mclack lynn the former deputy caine director was saying to me earlier today that this is real. This will bite because this is Chinas Central Bank agreeing to basically go along with the system that the obama treasury used to get iran to the table. It. So it does work. Basically means if i could paraphrase Steve Mnuchin at a briefing today, you can either decide if youre a nation or a bank whether you want to tradein dollars ordeal with the u. S. Ordeal with pyongyangs currency. You cant do both. If you want to deal in the World Economy which china does which russia presumably does, you cant also deal with pyongyang. This would if effectively monitored actually cut off the flow of resources to north korea and krim eventually its very expensive military system. That said, theres been a lot of cheating before. Joe, all this military talk back and forth reaches . Kind of fever dream increase then dough and its hard to walk back from that. So did you welcome the talk of diplomacy . Did you welcome these new sanctions . Its a thin ray of hope. The president s two word statement when asked if it was still possible to talk to north korea, he said why not. Remember, their strategy is maximum pressure and engagement. Okay. Youve got the maximum pressure, a very bellicose im going to say reckless speech at the u. N. Now some serious new sanctions. Great. But if your strategy is sanctions, you dont have a strategy. These are a stick. This is a pressure point. Where are the talks in where is the engagement . If you were going to Start Talking with north korea, now would be a good time because the rhetoric is ratcheting up. Kims Statement Today was probably the most serious, coldly sober statement that hes given. Its personal. He never does that. It was written with a to the president of the United States. If donald trump thought that he had solved this problem with a tough speech and some tough sanctions, you see them slapping high fives and speaking footballs. This game aint over. Its just beginning and it could get ugly very quickly. Andrea, i truly hate to say, but in four months and change from tonight, the Olympic Games, the winter Olympic Games are supposed to take place in upon chang south korea within artillery range of the north. Did anyone think kim jongun was not going to threaten the games . A rhetoric cal question. I ask that because france was the fist of the big nations today to say in effect well, here it is. France to stay home from Winter Olympics if no cory security guarantee says sports minister. Andrea, this is a big problem. Youre going to have representatives from the entire free world just south of that dmz. Absolutely. Thats a lot of leverage. And it does remind me of 1980 when of course jimmy carter canceled american participation in moscow. Look, one thing about this is that north korea loves sports, and they have combined marchs and combined teams for the first time in recent olympics with south korea. Its the only area in which they engage other than that Economic Zone that no longer is very vibrant because of the current troubles. So there was hope that north korea would not use the Olympic Games as part of this escalation. But then as joe certificate enscene, i think i gout it right, this speech to the United Nations, i believe, is the wrong Counter Point to the stick of the sanctions. The fact of deriding him as rocket man and talking about destroying another country from the podium of a Multilateral Organization created and devoted to world peace and to collective action for peace is so wrong foot and so the fact that he was taunting and deriding kim jongun almost begging for this dotard slur in response. And who knows whether these are just empty words . Joe, how did Something Like rocket man as a taunt, as intended to be a diminishing nickname . How does that translate . Well, it translates into an insult to kim jongun. So hes threatened with a serious loss of face of the he has to stand up. And fortunately, the president actually gave him what kim jongun wants. He gave him the visible demonstration of the United States threat. Remember, kims whole dynasty is built on the fact that hes the defender of the country because the United States wants to destroy them. Well now hes got the sound bite of the ken industry. He has the president of the United States saying we will totally destroy north korea. He just has to play that over and over again. So what does kim do . Well, the foreign minister today is threatening that there could be an atmospheric test, a live test of a Nuclear Weapon in the pal sisk. In other words, they might lob a longrange missile over japan with a Nuclear Warhead on it to explode in the pacific. This would be a major escalation, a major threat. But this is what the foreign minister said today. If they do that, what does trump do . And here you go. Youve got two inexperienced, impulsive, some would say unstable president s playing a game of Nuclear Chicken in the most heavily mill tar iced area on et. This could go very wrong. And the world may be forced at some point to live with this notion that some say is a deal breaker, a Nuclear North Korea. Well, jim clapper said that they will not did he nuclear eyes that after his first visit in pyongyang he came back absolutely persuaded that north korea will be a nuclear power. The containment and verification is the only solution. A diplomatic solution which accepts them as a nuclear power, tries to bring them back into the world. There are other nuclear powers. Of course we are one of them and not all of them are declared, as you know. One other thing. There was a broefg last night by the secretary of state Rex Tillerson trying to explain both the iran policy and he was asked about north korea and whether breaking out of the iran agreement, which they are kind of vacillating about, to say the least, theyre trying to find an artful way to stay in while touching it up by persuading the alloys to toughen it up and persuading iran to accept that which it says it wont, but that said what is the message of north korea by all this talk that theyre going to break out of the iran agreement . What is the incentive for north korea to do anything at the negotiating table . Yeah. When he believes that the Nuclear Deterrence is his survival. To joes chilling point, if we get imagery like the old by key knee atoll tests that we saw and scared the hell out of us as young kids in this country, i wonder what that will do to the free world. Andrea mitchell, joe certificate enscene. Thank you both very much. Sobering conversation. Well have you both on and do it again. Coming up, the fight over health care as we say, this time around, and why alaska is getting so much of the attention these days when the 11th hour continues. Wahhhh. Right. In. Your. Stomach watch this . Yikes, that ice cream was messing with you, wasnt it . Try lactaid, its real ice cream, without that annoying lactose. Lactaid. Its the milk that doesnt mess with you. I am a First Responder tor and iemergencies 24 hours a day, everyday of the year. My children and my family are on my mind when im working all the time. My neighbors are here, my friends and family live here, so its important for me to respond as quickly as possible and get the power back on. Its an amazing feeling turning those lights back on. Be informed about outages in your area. Sign up for outage alerts at pge. Com outagealerts. Together, were building a better california. As the president did it protects people with preexisting conditions, but it doesnt guarantee them protection. All you need to know is this. This is how the Vice President himself dodged that question this morning on fox and friends. But with that can you guarantee that these governors will make sure preexisting conditions are covered sm. Thomas jefferson said government that governs least gofrps best. The question that people ought to ask is who do you think will be more responsive to the Health Care Needs in your community . Your governor in your state legislature or a congressman and a president in a far off nations capitol . Is neither an option because i would pick that. Im pretty sure, by the way, i think he just told is we cant trust the president. Hiss argue um, their argument is that its better to put these decisions in the handle of the states. And i mean, have you seen some of our states . If florida could make their own decisions, it would be legal to bring in alligator into a strip club. Okay . Welcome back to the 11th. Comedian jimmy kimmel continued his late night battle against the Cassidy Graham healthcare bill. That was from tonight. The Washington Post reports, quote, an analysis released thursday morning but tresses a growing proceed of evidence that the senates Cassidy Graham healthcare bill would slash federal spending on Health Coverage and cause most states to lose billions of dollars in such aid. The bills other primary sponsor, senator Lindsey Graham defended his plan to redistribute funds from blue tats to red states earlier today. I take them down over a tenyear period. We have a soft landing for those states. And in 2026 here is what i call chris kuns, every patient in every state will get the same contribution from the federal government as the deal with health care as every other state. Lets talk about all of it. Rick steng yell and Public Affairs at the u. S. State Department Also the former managing editor of time magazine. And jonathan la mere is back with us. Both gentlemen msnbc contributors. John anthony, we should say about jimmy kimmel he would probably give anything not to be a part of the health care debate. His infant son was born with a heart defect. He went on the air after that and talked about how he had every advantage. He had top flight physicians, medical staffs at hospitals making way, doing whatever they could. And he wondered aloud what about the people who dont. Thats what put him into this debate. You happen to think that there is, to quote you, some life in this bill on the hill. First of all, youre right about jimmy kimmel that he has become frankly one of the more effective and widely known opponents of this legislation. But there is a possibility this thing has some legs to it. We dont know, of course, things can change. But were at the moment now where it does seem to have some momentum in the senate where they know they have 47, 48 sort of firm votes, even though the contents of the bill remain rather mysterious. The opposition against it is mounting. Even the Insurance Companies are starting to come out and say this is problematic. Theres going to be a cut in spending. People are going to lose their insurance. But the republicans want to forge forward. At the very least they want to try to bring this to a vote next week to try to put some names on this. On morning joe this morning senator flake from arizona talked about how john mccain who was the decisive vote last time very well could be the key vote again. Certainly mccain is not committing one way or another but Lindsey Graham is his best friend in the senate. And we are learning the last day or so some of the sweeteners they are starting to dish out for some of the senators, particularly alaska where they could be offered almost offering them, hey, you can keep obamacare in some fashion, some of the grants and protections of obamacare if you sign on to this plan. Of course, rick, at that point what are you really passing . We should point out the lumber lining up against this just tonight, all 50 state medicaid directors have come out against it. A lot of organizations and companies and lawmakers and governors. So theres that pressure against the republicans. Theres also the question would this give the democrats at least something to run on . I guess so. I mean. Pretty cynical way of looking athe it. Yes, brian. Its very cynical of you. You know, its not repeal and replace. Its repeal and you guys figure it out. And i find the whole idea, which the republicans have had for decades of taking medicaid and using it as block grants in the states, its just like federalism is a fine thing, but federalism when it coming to medical care, i dont know why doctors in North Carolina are better at heart surgery than doctors in new jersey or florida or why an aspirin costs more in new jersey than it does in pennsylvania. Part of the problem with the cost of our medical care system is that it hasnt been centralized. It has been did he involved to the states. And i think one of the vir tuz of obamacare is that it regulated all of that. And what this does is it sends it back to the states. The states have to figure it out. I mean, mississippi is the sickest state in the country and you want the state officials in mist to figure out your health care . I dont think so. You heard the Vice President , though. Well, i think that was a misquote. Government that governs least governs best support wasnt that thomas jefferson. I think that was abraham lincoln. So i wouldnt trust with him with quotes. I wouldnt trust him to do my health care either. More on government when we come back. Were going to fit in a break here. Both guests staying with us. And coming up, the president promising he would unite the country. The latest poll numbers show hes got a lot of work to do on that front specifically. More when the 11th hour continues. Its most American Homeowners would be shocked if they knew just how rich they were. The average American Home value has increased 40,000 over the last 5 years. But many dont know you can access that money without refinancing or selling your home. With a home equity loan, you can pull cash out of your house for anything you need home improvement, college tuition, even finally getting out of credit card debt. Come to lendingtree. Com to shop and compare home equity loans right now. Because at lendingtree, when banks compete, you win. New polling from nbc news and the wault jurm Shows Americans liked President Trump reaching across the aisle to make a spending deal with democrats, but that was about all they liked this past month. 71 , what a notable number, 71 of americans approved of the president s agreement, his reach out to his new friends chuck and nancy. And the president saw his overall Approval Rating slide up by 3 points. However, only 36 of americans approved of the president s handling of north korea. Only 20 of americans approved of President Trumps handling of the violence in charlottesville, virginia. Rick sentencing el, jonathan la mere continue with us. We researched the quotas many of you probably did as well. Its not jefferson. We believe its thorough, who might it turns out have been quoting someone else. Always happens. Yeah. About these numbers, john anthony la mere, how will the president see these numbers . First we can see the president will see these numbers. He is keenel aware of public opinion. Lets remember he started nearly every rally quoted which he hasnt been doing for obvious reasons i dont think so. Largely this still is not great. I think the idea of the approval behind the bipartisan outreach is striking. And i think he will see that. We know he enjoyed the favorable press konchs of reaching out to chuck and fancy. He told them himself that he thought it was a really good thing he did this. He loved all the headlines. When he did do that there was some voices on the right, the rush limb because who said the base is going to leave him. Like hes reaching out across the aisle. Theyre going to leave him. And what were seeing here is that theres a lot of Republican Voters who are not leaving him, which is the idea this. His base is the trump base. Lets remember. The famous quote. Ic go on to fifth avenue. I can shoot someone. My supporters would stay with me. Its not a reach across the aisle is not the equivalent of shooting one on fifth avenue in the minds of most, but this is the moment where its not the Republican Base that follows donald trump. Its the donald trump base that follows donald trump. A testament to people who vote for him for his personality, for his personal appeal and strength. Rick sentencing el, youve heard it said before. Maybe it was thorough who said that the worst thing that happened to modern politics was mcconnell and read because during their time in the senate it became about them, about the game, about obstruction. The one thing people have told us through pollsters for years is we want to see some compromise. We want to see both sides getting along of the people have been consistent about that. Thats why the president popped a number when he had the democrats over for dinner. Yes. And so that number is pretty astonishing. Theres another number that jumped out at me in the fine print of the poll. He only went up by 3 points among republicans. He went up a tiny bit among dems. He went up 10 points by independence. If i were a democrat that would worry me. If he starts moving into independence who are saying a playing at both of your houses and at least this guy seems to be trying to come across the aisle, that would be worrisome for democrats and that number will leap out to them too. Terrific conversation. Thank you, gentlemen. Both of you for coming in. Coming up, officials in puerto rico warning tonight it will still be weeks, maybe months before power is restored to that island. Plus the search continuing for survivors in central mexico after tuesdays deadly earthquake. All of it to come as we continue. Can you imagine your child being found after two days or worse . Your child not being found in that wreck age. Those were images captured by a volunteer in mexico city working to rescue small children trapped inside that collapsed School Building thats been the subject of so much of our attention. Latest update on that school, according to the assistant navy secretary, all of the children have been accounted for. Many, of course, were killed. Survivors among them were hospitalized. And a lot of the rescue work goes on delicately by happened. A lot of size molgsz have been surprised and a little weary that there havent been as many aftershocks as would normally be expected. In all the death toll from this 7. 1 magnitude earthquake stands at 273 people tonight. Most of the fatalities have been in mexico city. Untold numbers still missing. Mexican president said today that once the immediate needs of the community are met, the basics of food, water, shelter, a census will be conducted in mexico city. And in puerto rico the entire island remains without power after Hurricane Maria tore across it as a category 4. It will remain that way sadly for months, most likely the grafty of the situation cannot be overstated as of yet. 3. 5 million u. S. Sit sfwlens are living in total darkness. Many without a home for shelter. Some lacking food and running water. Heavy rain also continued throughout today. Tonight the entire island is under some version of a understood watch. Maria meanwhile continues to church through the caribbean, hitting the Dominican Republic today as a category 3. National Weather Service expects it to urn toward the bahamas and the already hardhit turks and Caicos Island chain by friday. Another break for us here. Still ahead, a member of the trump cabinet in trouble for luxury travel, paid for by all of us, and no one knows how this one is going to end. Were back with more right after this. Oh, look. Another antiwrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happen. 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He is now secretary of health and human services, and hes in trouble for a politico investigation showing he has taken at least 24 flights on private charter aircraft since early may. Price has always positioned himself as a budget cutter. Here he is in 2009 calling for an end to private jets available to congress. I think weve made it halfway where we ought to and that is cut it from eight to four jets. Now we need to cut it from four jets to zero jets. This is just another example of fiscal irresponsibility run amok in congress right now and i hope that he agrees with me that we ought to move if from four to zero. And finally to another man in the trump government, scott pruitt the head of the epa he has a security detail for round the clock protections totaling 18 people. This is according to the Washington Post. Thats three times, roughly, that of his predecessors in the job. It has required bringing epa agents in from the field and it comes as the white house wants to cut the epa budget by nearly onethird. That is our broadcast tore tonight. Thank you for being here with us and good night for all of us from nbc news headquarters here in new york. Tonight on all in. All these percolations are breathtaking to me. As mueller closes in on manna port. Hes a respected man. Trump world finds a fall guy. I dont think hell last. Tonight the white house fallout over Paul Manafort. Then, as sean spicer reemerges have you ever lied to the American People . I dont think so. New intrigue over his copious white house notes. Period he either doesnt understand his own bill or he lied to me, its as simple as that. The untold reason republicans are pushing a wildly Unpopular Health care bill. And as rescue missions start in puerto rico, a look at the disaster that hit the island before the hurricane. We were desperate. I have lived here 35 years and this is too much. All in starts right now. Good evening from austin, im chris hayes. As special counsel Robert Mueller closes in on Paul Manafort, the president s allies appear ready to throw his onetime Campaign Chairman under the bus. Responding to the latest revelations about manna ports russia connections, one of the president s lawyers ty cobb told bloomberg, it would be truly shocking if its true that paul