Would begin here briefly with our meteorologist bill karins, who has the very latest from the National Hurricane center update. Hey, bill. Hey, brian. We are watching this storm closely as its bringing a tornado threat. Were getting high winds. Were hearing reports of water being overwashed onshore. Then were going to deal with this storm for the next 24 hours up the eastern seaboard. First off you can see the position of the category 1 hurricane right along the South Carolina georgia border where it meets the coast. Weve heard significant reports of damage near bald head island. The worst of the heavy winds right now is right over the top of wilmington, north carolina. Thats where weve had a couple of tornado warnings near that area too. Weve even had some damage with that. So as far as the forecast, 85mileperhour winds. I want to talk about how slowly this storm is going to lose its steam. Tipically these storms make landfall, and they quickly reduce. Not this one. Even tomorrow morning at 8 00 a. M. , still 70mileperhour winds in between richmond and norfolk. Then even by tuesday evening, 60mileperhour winds outside of new york city. So what does all of this mean . Well, the Power Outages will be the story tomorrow at this time. Will it be hundreds of thousands . Will it be millions . Thats what were going to find out in the next 24 hours. If you are anywhere east of i95, that is your greatest risk for Power Outages. So how windy will it get . As we go throughout noon tomorrow, look at ocean city, maryland. 73. Atlantic city, 60mileperhour winds right up through the del more ba. The jersey shore could gut to 70mileperhour winds. New york city looks to top out about 5 00 to 6 00 p. M. Long island also some winds could be in the 50 to 60mileperhour range. A lot of big trees. Then when we talk about the higher elevations, the catskills and the poconos, thats where we could deal with not just a wind threat but also flash flooding. 55 Million People included. On top of all of that, we even will see isolated tornadoes all the way from the new york city area southwards down the coast. This storm is only a Tropical Storm to a lowerend category 1 hurricane, but with people losing their power in this era of covid and people being stuck at home and working from home, theres going to be a lot of issues that werent foreseen before this storm hit. Yeah, this storm is poised to overdeliver indeed. Bill karins, thank you so much for starting us off with that. The president did hold his Coronavirus Briefing tonight, speaking of the pandemic. Here is how he described the state of our nation in the midst of this pandemic. Were beginning to see evidence of significant progress. I have to add that the virus is receding. We must focus on new flareups in the states where the case numbers have risen, including georgia, mississippi, tennessee, oklahoma, missouri, and i think youll find that theyre soon going to be very much under control. A permanent lockdown is not a viable path. Lockdowns do not prevent infection in the future. They just dont. In our current phase, we must focus on protecting those at highest risk while allowing younger and healthier americans to resume work and school. We want to open those schools. We want to open them. Were now well above 4. 7 million cases with over 156,000 americans dead. New york times reporting more than 1. 9 million new infections were reported in just the month of july alone. That number accounts for nearly 42 of the total u. S. Cases reported since the start of the pandemic. Tonight the Washington Post on the board with reporting that the virus is surging in several midwestern states that had not previously seen such high infection rates. And while theres been some leveling off in the sun belt, numbers remain too high there. The post also says there are new upticks as many of us know here in the east. Just yesterday, Trumps Coronavirus Task force coordinator was, lets say, uncharacteristically candid about what were facing. We are in a new phase. What were seeing today is different from march and april. It is extraordinarily widespread. Its into the rural as equal urban areas, and to everybody who lives in a rural area, you are not immune or protected from this virus. So that right there didnt win her any friends at the white house. This morning trump voiced his criticism on social media. Quote, so crazy nancy pelosi said horrible things about dr. Deborah birx, going after her because she was too positive on the very good job we are doing. In order to counter nancy, deborah took the bait and hit us. Pathetic. Trump was referring to speaker pelosis comments about having no confidence in the virus response. But his message to dr. Birx on his own team about her candid assessment of the crisis was nonetheless clear, and this afternoon he was asked to explain his wording. Mr. President , you said today in a tweet that dr. Birx was taking bait from speaker pelosi. What did you mean by that . I think were doing very well, and i think that we have done as well as any nation. I told dr. Birx i think were doing very well. She was in my office a little while ago. Shes a person i have a lot of respect for. A leading vaccine specialist said today the coronavirus has become a runaway train in our country, a tragic situation, as he put it, that means we cannot have a normal life. While the u. S. Is now seeing something of a leveling off in the pace of new outbreaks, theres no doubt that we surpassed the European Union in the number of cases. We lead the world in total cases. Late today dr. Anthony fauci, whos been the target of his own white house takedown attempt, defended dr. Birx. What dr. Birx was referring to was the prevalence now in the United States as a nation, particularly in some of the states that are having surging of infection, is whats called inherent community spread. Its much more difficult to get your arms around that and contain it. Its insidious. There are people who are spreading who have no symptoms at all. Thats what she meant by a different phase of where were going right now because it isnt easily identifiable who these spreaders are. As all of that unfolds, trump is now facing new legal troubles as he fights to keep his financial records out of the hands of the Manhattan District Attorney. The d. A. s office suggested in a new court filing today, it was investigating, quote, alleged insurance and bank fraud by the Trump Organization and its officers, the president being one of those officers. Also refers to public reports of possibly extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization. That signals a significantly broader inquiry than prosecutors have indicated, at least in the past. You may recall the investigation was originally focused on hush money payments ahead of the 2016 campaign. Well, today trump dismissed the latest revelations. This is just a continuation of the witch hunt. Its democrat stuff. They failed with mueller. They failed with everything. They failed with congress. They failed at every stage of the game. They send them around to all over the country, i guess, maybe. But its a terrible thing that they do. Its really a terrible thing. The witch hunt has gone on long enough. Here for our leadoff discussion on a busy monday night as we begin a new week, phil rucker, pulitzer prizewinning White House Bureau chief for the Washington Post. His coauthor, carol leonnig, the two of them out with the bestselling book a very stable genius. Anita kumar, White House Correspondent and associate editor for politico. And dr. Mercedes carnethon, vice chair of preventative medicine at the Feinberg School of medicine at northwestern university. Good evening and welcome to you all. Doc, id like to begin with you. When the president says the virus is receding, when he lists the states where its not and then says its soon going to be very much under control, where is he getting that, do you think . Thank you, brian, for that question. I like to remain positive to the extent that i can, but i dont see very many positive indicators when we consider the prevalence of the coronavirus and its continued rapid spread that at this stage is threatening our economy even more than it was before. There certainly are some positives. Theres been some movement in coming up with better treatments. Theres obviously the positive note that dr. Fauci placed on progress with regard to the vaccine in development. But right now what we have, i think, as dr. Birx said, is Widespread Community transmission thats threatening the opening of schools, which is really at the forefront of many families minds right now. And because we didnt control this nationally, now were in a position where were having to make decisions that none of us feels comfortable with, with regard to choosing how to return to work and how to return to schools. Anita, to the question thats been whispered about, is it possible there is no National Plan as we sit here three months prior to a president ial election because the president is unable to see a campaign upside in leadership, even leading our country out of something awful . Well, its actually a campaign his Campaign Advisers and aides are telling him that they should have a National Strategy. Anything to get us out of where we are today in america. So they want him to come out with a National Strategy. They think he should have already done that with masks, with lockdowns, with whatever needs to be done across the country. But instead what youre seeing is this patchwork. So some states and some localities are doing one thing, and some are doing another. Obviously we see thats not working. They are begging him to come up with this National Strategy for a political reason, for a reason to get this under control so he can say, look, i did manage this. And hes having a really difficult time with that as you just saw. He wants the country to open up, and there are Health Experts who are saying, we cant do that. So hes got a problem there. This is not a joke at all, but i was talking to one strategist of his, an ally of president trump, who was saying he should change his slogan from make America Great again to make america normal again, and i dont say that in jest. People want to get back to their normal life. And, phil rucker, now that ive figured out how to introduce you for the 500th time, while not quite from the podium in the White House Briefing room, in a letter to campaign followers today, the president almost seemed to be giving the red states permission to wear a mask and came as close as he has ever said to simply saying out loud, wear a mask. Yeah, brian. That was really striking to see written under his name in a blast email to Trump Campaign supporters, that its important to wear a mask. He acknowledged that he doesnt like to wear a mask but that he does it anyway because it might do some good. And you have to stop and realize that were now in august. The pandemic began back in march. The virus hit the United States back in january. And imagine if the president had urged his supporters in red states to wear masks from day one. He might have saved thousands of lives in florida, in texas, in all of these states that have been so hard hit this summer. Yet here he is the president , now calling for wearing a mask, although notably he does not often wear one in public, nor do his staffers. At the west wing, very few people wear masks day to day as theyre working in close confines. Anita, a note of sarcasm if im allowed. That electricity you feel in the air must be about our exciting new Health Care Plan that the president is going to unveil. The sarcasm is because of the following. Sample along with our audience just how long this has been in the making. We are going to do something thats going to be great health care. Were signing a Health Care Plan within two weeks. Ill be signing it sometime very soon. You said two weeks it might be sunday, but its its going to be very soon. Were going to be introducing a tremendous Health Care Plan sometime prior hopefully prior to the end of the month. Its just about completed now. So, anita, wouldnt people on capitol hill know if there was exciting new health care for all americans on the way . Well, lets be clear. President trump has been talking about a Health Care Plan for 3 1 2 years that hasnt really come he hasnt come out with. What he has been talking about lately is bypassing congress altogether. This is his new thing these last few weeks. He feels that one of the a Supreme Court case that had nothing to do with health care, actually had to do with immigration, gives him the opening he needs to do all sorts of other executive actions, executive orders. So hes talked about health care. Hes talking about taxes by executive order, and hes also talking about immigration. And he outlined again today that were going to see those in the next few weeks. Now, there are a lot of people who would say, why havent we seen those before . Why havent you worked through congress . But he is very much focused on his own actions in these coming months, his own executive actions. Doctor, lets talk about reopening schools because as we keep saying, its the most intensely personal conversation families can have right about now, especially families of one to two wage earners who are under profound economic pressure in this cataclysmic downturn in our economy. In your view, are there states and localities that may have done the diligence and may be about to do this right as opposed to those who are not . Thats a really excellent point about the variability that we see across states, about readiness for schools to reopen. I think all along, experts have agreed that being in school is preferable for children. Children learn better there, particularly at the younger ages, and theres the socioemotional element that cant be replicated at home. When we have to have these hybrid models, it puts a great deal of financial pressure on families who have to work and then who have to find child care. There are places in the country where the burden of disease is low enough and the schools have the resources and the space to be able to spread out the students, and the students and the Community Uses protective equipment so that they can be masked and can actually be in enclosed spaces together. And so whereas a National Strategy regarding prevention is needed, the decision about opening schools is a very local decision based on resources and what you can expect to see is that the rate of disease within a school is going to reflect that of the background rates of disease in the community. So it does not make sense to open up in states where diseases are surging and where resources are scarce to be able to provide Safe Learning environments. And, phil rucker, finally, the republicans in the u. S. Senate have largely been so pliant that it is also ne newsmaking when one of them comes close to stepping out of the line. I give you veteran republican senator charles grassley, who reacted on twitter to the dustup between brirks and trump. Just saw on tv that the president took exception to some interview dr. Birx said about status of pandemic. I hope the president knows she is a scientist, not a politician who needs punctuation the president said he likes to hear all sides, so you heard dr. Birx. You might disagree. Use love, not anger. Phil rucker, for chuck grassley, thats some extended haiku there. I will point out that your colleagues at the post, after there was quite a hit job in the New York Times, your colleagues at the post have done some continued reporting on dr. Birx. Thats right, brian. And this was an extraordinary row that the president had today with dr. Birx, who by the way was just acknowledging what all the data show us publicly, what the fact is, which is that the virus is out of control in a lot of these states and that the u. S. Is in a new phase here. But she is somebody who for months had sacrificed her own professional reputation to the defend the president , to defend his handling and management of the coronavirus. She has been ostracized by many in the scientific and medical communities because of her fierce defense of the president and loyalty to him. And yet the president is not showing that same loyalty back to her, which, you know, if it were not a pattern of his behavior would be startling to see, and yet weve seen this time and again where aides will put their necks out on the line and just get whacked by this president. A night where covering and a hurricane and politics is the television equivalent of walking and chewing gum. And as a result, our profound thanks to our big three for starting us off so well tonight. Phil rucker, anita kumar, dr. Mercedes carnethon, our great thanks. Coming up for us, just what so much of the country does not need right now. As we said, an approaching, an arriving hurricane on top of a pandemic. Its making its way up the east coast. Well talk to the mayor of one of the towns directly in the path. And later, the controversial is in the mail. The president attacking the u. S. Postal service as he openly tries to delegitimize voting by mail during the aforementioned pandemic. A member of congress trying to protect the Postal Service standing by to join us live. Its a lot. Its the 11th hour just getting under way on a monday night. Your mission stand up to moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. And take. It. On. With rinvoq. Rinvoq a oncedaily pill. Can dramatically improve symptoms. Rinvoq helps tame pain, stiffness, swelling. And for some. Rinvoq can even significantly reduce ra fatigue. Thats rinvoq relief. With ra, your overactive immune system attacks your joints. Rinvoq regulates it to help stop the attack. Rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. 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Sadly youve seen way worse hurricanes than this but not so much during a pandemic. How are you doing tonight . Were going to weather it out. Its coming ashore as we speak right now. Were seeing a lot of wind, a lot of Power Outages, a lot of tornado warnings. But its been a very challenging environment to say the least, brian, with the coronavirus that were dealing with and, you know, having to prepare for this since really march in preparation for hurricane season, that we were going to be working under a different kind of a protocol and limit the amount of staff in our Emergency Operation centers. What do we do with people who have to evacuate the area . The decision was made to for the storm that were seeing coming ashore today was to keep people at home. We felt that was a safer option for the community and for Public Health. You know, if were staring at a category 2, 3, or 4, its a different situation for us. But working with the Governors Office and the state Emergency Management folks in raleigh, we thought this was the best thing for us in our community and for our citizens, was to shelter in place. Indeed have you been told of anyone who got more of this storm than they were counting on . Are there any swift water rescues or anything like that under way . We do not know as of right now. I mean the winds have picked up pretty significantly, but i will tell you as soon as these winds die down, well get our assessment teams out there to see what kind of damages we do have. Our Emergency Personnel are ready to go once this storm passes. But earlier today we were looking at a Tropical Storm, strong Tropical Storm, but this evening its come ago shore as a category 1 storm, and this is what these storms do. Theyre very unpredictable and they can pick up speed right before they hit land, and obviously this one has. Were going to see probably some pretty good damage when we wake up in the morning. What was the health of your beaches like over this past offseason, and any reports of physical damage there as of yet . Not as of yet, but im sure that were looking at a storm surge between one to three feet. You know, we were anticipating that, but the beaches were in pretty good shape. We had done some renourishment projects. We felt pretty confident that we could weather this storm season, but this is the first one and its early in the season. So we hope were not going to see another one, but right now were dealing with this one, and we feel that the beaches will be okay. But here again, it came ashore as a category 1, and we were expecting a Tropical Storm earlier today. Mayor bill saffo is an example for all our viewers of how to remain calm when an 80mileanhour gust comes in right over where you are. Mayor, thank you. Realize its a busier than average night in wilmington, north carolina. 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Once they get there, testing them and even keeping them quarantined. Then again, youve got to be careful when you get people coming in from outside. Colleges, universities preparing to welcome back students and faculty this month to a school year perfectly in keeping with the 2020 weve witnessed thus far anyway. At the university of kentucky, which, remember, include 30,000 students, around 19,000 employees, inperson classes are set to start in exactly two weeks. And to that end, all students who are physically returning to campus for the fall will be required to be tested from for more, we welcome to the broadcast eli capaluto. He is the president of the university of kentucky. Thank you so much for joining us. Explain that at the end of the day, this came down to a judgment call. I imagine you and your board, whoever is on the governance of the university of kentucky, but at some point you had to say, lets go for it if we can do it safely. Yes. We had a group of experts, epidemiologists, Infectious Disease physicians. We decided the best thing to do as dr. Fauci said is get a baseline test. We welcome 30,000 students from 120 counties, 50 states and over 100 countries. We want to protect our community, the city of lexington and the surrounding counties. And the best thing to start with is a baseline to understand what were facing and of course we have in cases where there are positive results, were fully prepared to isolate and quarantine. So you can deal with them on a casebycase basis. Obviously you would do contact tracing, but youd prefer to deal with it piecemeal and continue the Educational Mission of the college. Yes. Were using blended approaches of inperson and making maximum use of technology. Its really not piecemeal. Everything here is integrated. We leveraged our technology. Every day, every employee, every student will fill out an attestation, do you have any of these symptoms, the ones associated with covid . But this is an old shoe leather epidemiology, pencil, pad, walk around. We created a modern Public Health system. So we have technology. If we see a hot spot of fevers in a particular residence hall, we can intervene early. If someone learns that, gee, you may have the symptoms of covid, we can send them that message that says, stay in your residence. Weve wired all of our classrooms for twoway communication. Youll be able to watch that on your laptop or ipad. And well get the food to you. Dont go out and expose anyone. And the same thing goes for our faculty and staff. Were trying to make it easy to be safe. God forbid, im sure, youve talked about the possibility, and im sure you have a strategy if you need to pull the rip cord and say admit that were in the middle of a spike and that this was a noble decision but perhaps its not the best for the students, faculty, and all the families they have to go home to. Very good question, brian. We started our planning for this literally the day we sent everybody home. We expected to return to some sort of reinvented normal. We knew it would be somewhere between traditional inclass instruction and fully online. So our continuum includes all of that. If we had to pivot to do Something Like you described, were fully prepared to do so. Well, youre going to be up to your neck in young wildcats prowling around campus before too long. It may just feel normal for some stretches of the day, of the college day. Eli capilouto, thank you very much at the end of your workday for making some time for us, and good luck to everyone on campus. Coming up for us, the president calls the u. S. Postal service a joke. Well ask the congressman leading the usps subcommittee what he thinks about that in an upcoming votebymail election. Just because of an accident. Cut is that good . No you were talking about allstate and. I just. When i. Accident forgiveness from allstate. 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The Postal Service is a joke. Every package it delivers, they lose a lot of money, and thats not fair. Theyre using covid to try to get the mailin ballots. I dont think the post office is prepared for a thing like this. The post office disputes that last assertion, and the New York Times says theres a different reason for delays in mail service, writing, quote, in recent weeks at the direction of a Trump Campaign mega donor who was recently named the postmaster general, the service has stopped paying mail carriers and clerks the overtime necessary to ensure, in a pandemic, that deliveries can be completed each day. Voting Rights Groups say its a recipe for disaster. That is why, ladies and gentlemen, were happy to welcome to the broadcast virginia democratic congressman geraldconnolly. Thank you, congressman, so much. I realize its light at night on a school night for you. Is the u. S. Postal Service Ready for this challenge . I think it is, but it wont be if theres deliberate sabotage. And i am very worried that the new postmaster general, who is a political donor and crony of the donald trump, is setting about to impose a political agenda that could damage or disrupt the ability of millions of americans to vote by mail. The Postal Service itself is absolutely ready and committed to get those ballots to the electoral boards and have them counted by election day. I dont know if you took an opinion poll, maybe you know data to get peoples feelings about the United States Postal Service going back to when we are little kids, its often said that a letter getting delivered from new york to honolulu for the price of a stamp and three days time is one of the great pa bargains in the world of 2020. Is this just part of the ongoing rolling destruction of norms and institutions to you, or is this, depending on who this trump guy is, is this very distinct and very targeted for november 3rd . I think its both. I think theres an ideological overhang on the right that hates the Postal Service because its three things they hate. Its big, its quasi governmental, and its unionized. But i think trump himself realizes that this is an election that cannot be won on the merits, and so you have to try to disrupt it. You have to suppress votes. You have to make it harder for people to vote by mail, and he understands that theres going to be an enormous surge of americans who in fact are going to vote by mail this year. And he also knows that in states that have adopted all mail voting, it works. Fraud is minimal, if nonexistent, and it works. Theyre able to get results, and its fair, and theyve expanded the fran schichise in the proce. You asked about public support, brian yeah, go ahead. If you do a poll today, 17 of americans, 17 approve of government generally. That number for the Postal Service is 74 . It is the highest Public Institution in america. Huge employers of veterans among other things. Yeah. Im going to read you a quote from one john dean of watergate fame. We quoted this on the air friday night. Time for ups, amazon, fedex and other National Delivery services to step up and design a supplemental system to the u. S. Postal service to deliver ballots for the 2020 election plus statewide drop backs everywhere. Cant let trump win by destroying the Postal Service, his plan. Congressman, he has a point here. Amazon can tell you where between hong kong and virginia the hairbrush that you ordered is currently. Why not, as a workaround, use some of the other assets we have even in private business . I think thats possible. But, look, nobody handles the kind of volume that the Postal Service does. Nobody has a mandate by law in terms of universal service. No one has a constitutional mandate like the United States Postal Service. So we cant get around the Postal Service. We cant really do a workaround. And the overwhelming majority of the 630,000 postal employees in the United States believe in their country, believe in their mission. And theyre going to do everything they can to make sure this works despite what donald trump and his new postmaster general are trying to do. 630,000 employees. We should repeat that number as often as we can. Congressman, wed like to keep talking to you on this topic. Sure. We hope you are able to raise a ruckus with some of your colleagues. Thank you very much for staying up late with us on a monday night. Gerald connolly from the commonwealth of virginia. Any time. Coming up for us, millions saw him every day during impeachment. He was the man who had the chairmans ear. And now special counsel norm eisen has a lesson for all of us tonight. Hell talk about his new book a case for the American People the United States versus donald trump. And here we have another burst pipe in denmark. If you look close. 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Rare, lifethreatening side effects include a buildup of lactic acid and liver problems. Do not take biktarvy if you take dofetilide or rifampin. Tell your doctor about all the medicines and supplements you take, if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, or if you have kidney or liver problems, including hepatitis. If you have hepatitis b, do not stop taking biktarvy without talking to your doctor. Common side effects were diarrhea, nausea, and headache. If youre living with hiv, keep loving who you are. And ask your doctor if biktarvy is right for you. Did the president ever provide inflated assets to an Insurance Company . Yes. Did the president ever provide inflated assets to a bank in order to help him obtain a loan . These documents and others were provided to Deutsche Bank on one occasion where i was with them in our attempt to obtain money so that we can put a bid on the buffalo bills. As one does. Revelations from Michael Cohens testimony in front of congress were included in a federal court filing that we mentioned earlier from the manhattan d. A. s office, suggesting a broader investigation into trump and his business for fraud. Our next guest was a lead drafter of the articles of impeachment against trump, who spoke extensively with one Michael Cohen. In his new book, he likened cohens recounter to a profiler at the fbi describing how a serial killer thinks. With us again this evening is norm eisen. Prior to serving as special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during impeachment, he was this nations ambassador to the czech republic. He was ethics lawyer inside the obama white house. As we mentioned, he happens to be the author of a new book, a case for the American People the United States versus donald j. Trump. Norm has never been ambiguous. Counselor, welcome back onto our broadcast. You spent extensive amounts of time with Michael Cohen. Is part of your book an attempt to hit reset to remind people where weve been . We were chugging along so fast during those hearings and during the impeachment process that one of the things you argue is Michael Cohen gave you a roadmap to the financial investigations of this president. Brian, thanks for having me back. The book is indeed an effort. Think of it this way, like your alarm clock, brian. I need three alarms to wake me up in the morning. The russia investigation was the first alongterm. The ukraine impeachment was the second alarm. And the book is intended to be part of the third alarm because we need to have the American People awake as we head for the november election. And Michael Cohen was a very important part of that story. Traveled to new york, met with him as he was getting ready to report to prison. Its only one i give the details of those meetings in the book. Startling new evidence of trumps pattern of criminality, and only one of the revelations. The book is packed with all the behindthescenes stories. And what michael told me about is youre seeing again with todays court filing by the manhattan d. A. , mr. Vance, a pattern of alleged insurance fraud, bank fraud, hush money payments, and other misconduct that has extended over a period of years. Im going to quote the author to the author, and here it is. Abuse, corruption, coverup. Abuse, corruption, coverup. Trump has been doing it for decades. He began the cycle anew from the moment he was sworn in and returned to it time and again while sailing through his presidency. But, counselor, heres my question. To what end . What law or electorate is about to lay a glove on him . Well, brian, i think that the American People have experienced a gradual wakening up, and the suffering that donald trump is exhibiting in the polls comes from their disgust. They see the pattern. Its the same pattern with russia. Russia, are you listening . Then its, ukraine, are you listening . Can you do us a favor, though . Now hes doing it with the governors, brian, where he says essentially the same thing. I dont call unless they say thank you. He wants the quid pro quo. Hes doing what weve seen before. He intentionally neglected covid in order to, the evidence is now clear, because he thought that was going to be in his electoral interests. So abuse of power to gain electoral advantage and then obstruction. Same thing with covid as hes done before the lies, the attacks on inspectors general, the retaliation against whistleblowers, and of course now were end ritering another chapter of this story with these allegations of alleged financial abuses and the coverup of those abuses that mr. Vance is looking at. How are you enjoying a book tour from home . Well, you know, im missing my friends on the road. I miss meeting the readers in person. Its different to work from your study. You can this is where im sitting at the desk where i wrote the book. I essentially have been nonstop in this study since i left the hill, finished the impeachment trial. But im enjoying it, and its always great to chat with you. Counselor, its a pleasure to have you, and we wish you sincere good luck with this. Again, the book is a case for the American People the United States versus donald j. Trump. The author, norm eisen, has been kind enough to join us from the room where it happened, where he actually sat down and wrote those words. Counselor, thank you very much as always. One more break for us. When we come back, an update on the swirling mess that is going to dominate the east coast as the west coast is fighting a different kind of disaster. Weve always put safety first. And we always will. For people. For the future. And there has never been a summer when its mattered more. Wherever you go, summer safely. Get 0 apr financing for up to five years on select models and exclusive lease offers. 1 in 5 people you meet wear yeah. 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Tell your doctor about your medicines, and if youre pregnant or planning to be. Otezla. Show more of you. Were back with a quick update on hurricane isaias, the category 1 hurricane made landfall 11 15 tonight eastern time, coming aboard near ocean isle beach, north carolina. Maximum sustained winds, 85 miles an hour. Remember, hurricane hanna was our first to hit land this year when it made landfall in texas. This is the First Atlantic hurricane to make landfall on the continental u. S. It will overdeliver now for its size as it starts the dayslong ride up the i95 corridor, which brings us to the last thing before we go tonight. Having started with this Natural Disaster on the east coast, lets turn our attention to the west. And in california, where they assign each wildfire a name, its the apple fire that has their attention tonight. So named because it started near a road called apple tree lane in the mountains east of l. A. That was friday night. It exploded from there. Thousands are being evacuated still. Thousands are on the run, again, during a pandemic. By the 9 00 p. M. Hour on the west coast, a minute or two from now, it will have burned, they say, close to 50 square miles. Interestingly, officials think they know what started it. Eyewitnesses report it was a vehicle spewing burning carbon from a diesel engine, and now of course the damage has been done. Firefighters hitting it from the ground and from the air say as of late today, it was only about 5 contained, and thats not good. It was allowed at one point to burn up the side of an 11,000foot peak because it was simply too steep for firefighters to get at it. Satellite imagery shows the smoke visible from space and blowing hundreds of miles to the east, enough spoke to add a red glow to a sunny day in phoenix, arizona. A busy night in southern california. A busy night along parts of the eastern seaboard as well as our broadcast comes to an end on this monday evening. Thank you for being here as we start a new week together. For all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. Rachel will be back tomorrow. Obviously she has tonight off. But i promise shell be back in this chair this time tomorrow. Theres so much to get to tonight. Were going to start with a bombshell that was dropped in a court filing today from the Manhattan District Attorney in his ongoing legal battle with donald trump. The manhattan d. A. , who is seeking to convince a judge to grant him access to years of Donald Trumps and his companys financial records, today revealed that his investigation into the president and into his company just might be much broader and more serious than previously known. It was a year ago that
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