Susan collins said she leans no. Theres also additional i a lot of bee searching and wondering about the vote of Lisa Murkowski. But this mccain is out it looks like this thing may be dead or almost dead. Republicans have a few more days. They have another week ultimately to cook Something Else up but it does not look good for them. Well have more ahead tonight including what i think led to this latest failure by the republicans. Heres another piece of news that arose unexpectedly today. Starting this afternoon individual states started putting out out of the blue statements about whether or not theyre election infrastructure had been hacked during the election by the russians. All these different states started one by one making declarations as to whether or not that happened to them this past year. We really didnt know what to make of it. We started to see the statements coming in. We didnt know why it was happening today until god bless wisconsin. The wisconsin statement finally explained what else was going on with these other statements. It said in part, quote, wisconsin is one of 21 states who is chief Election Officials were notified today by the department of Homeland Security that their systems were targeted by russians. The Homeland Security department did not disclose which other states were notified but said the states were free to disclose the information. And then some of them did. Not all of them did, but some of them. We didnt know what was happening when it started to happen. Basically what weve figured out is Homeland Security knew at least by june that 21 states had been targeted by Russian Hackers during the election. They announced that they knew that in june. They didnt actually tell those 21 states that it was them until today. Why did it take this long . And now that the states know, not all of the states are telling us the public about what happened. Npr and Associated Press both caught on to what was going on this afternoon. They both tried to round up what we now know, according to their monitoring of the various statements coming from the various states. It looks of the states that finally got told, it looks like these are the states that have made that information public today. We posted this kind of in clip and save form. So when more states say publicly whether the russians hit them too well add to the list. So far we have fees. Alabama, arizona, colorado, wyoming, wisconsin, pennsylvania, chicago, virginia, we have no idea why the Security Department didnt notify these states before today since theyve known since at least june which states were attacked. Sure why not wait until mid september. What the heck. How about a friday afternoon. Probably a excellent time to submarine the news by letting it drib and drab out from individual states rather than make a actual government announcement about this thing. Its been a weird news day. President trump is in alabama where hes exchange for a candidate in a republican primary. Not in a general election hes exchange in the republican primary which is not what president s typically do for their own party. Weve learned interesting new information about whats become of the giant slush fund of tens of millions of dollars thats floating around inside the Trump Administration unaccounted for since the inauguration. We had stunning reporting on that Inauguration Fund last night on the show and we will share with you tonight what else we learned. Which will probably make you laugh out loud. But the biggest news in america right now is something unfolding 1,000 miles south east of miami florida. You know levittown, right . It was on long island outside new york. They started selling homes in levittown in 1947 after world war ii, then there was levittown pennsylvania, one in new jersey which dropped the name levittown and picked up a new name in the 1960s these whites only suburb and towns were made by leaf it and branded with his name. Whether you see it from the street level or aerial few its iconic, sprawling, highly planned, cookie cutter, american suburbia, the north east suburb and version of the American Dream. The last town built as a levittown it wasnt a place built in the northeast, it was built in 1963 in puerto rico, the last levittown was built about a dozen miles west of the capital of puerto rico, san juan, they mod ld different styles of the house, they cost between 10 and 15,000, the arc the te it was built as a American Dream fulfilling middle class as the stateside levittown. It remains one of the largest planned communities in puerto rico and remains a suburb and middle classon clave. Its built on marshland. When they built it in 1963, they drained the marsh, used the drained water to create a artificial lake right next to all the housing. On wednesday night, in the wake of Hurricane Maria coming assure, when rivers started to swell, that artificial lake overflowed massively. And even though the worst of the storm had passed by then, the flooding trapping thousands of residents in levittown rose up after the storm had passed. The Washington Post reported residents had never been flooded out by a hurricane, they also thought the danger was over before the flooding started because the worst of the storm had passed. Even once water receded, the question is now, as it is in so many places in puerto rico, the question is how to get help, supplies, while streets remain unpassable with power and phone service out every where. Nbc David Gutierrez was west of leaf it tawn. Its devastating, you lose everything. Reporter 30 miles west of san juan, hes desperate. The water flooded her entire first floor and the local shelter has run out of food. We need gas, food, i dont know, someone to help us. Reporter the towns mayor tells us at least eight people drowned here and authorities have rescued 4,000 to 5,000 trapped by flood water. Hes coordinating with rescue crews from florida and virginia. New video shows a woman and two children being hoisted to safety after they were stranded on a cap sized boat off the coast. While a building in this historic neighborhood crumbled next to here, she rode out the storm. For many in puerto rico, more help cant come soon enough. Gabe gutierrez reporting there tonight. That was the mayor of san juan puerto rico that he showed going house to house by boat calling out to see if people are there and if they need help. Thats san juan today. But on the northwestern part of the island in this area you see circled there, 70,000 people are currently being evacuated as fast as possible tonight because of a danger that a dam there is about to collapse. This is the wthey said at 2 00 this afternoon it was failing. 70,000 people live downstream of the dam. The National Weather service sent out these messages in kick succession, flash flood emergency for a dam failure, followed by dam operators report the dam is failing causing flash flooding downstream on the river. This is a extremely dangerous situation buses are evacuating people from the area as quickly as they can, all areas surrounding the river should evacuate now, lives are in danger. These all caps warnings from the National Weather service couldnt have been more clear. But it raised the question of how are people supposed to get the message with power done, almost no phone or internet service. Even with a urgent evacuation message its hard to reach people. The worry that the man made lake held back by this dam is going to come all down this dam all at once, officials went back to basics to try to get people out of the way of that failing dam. Today they just started using sirens and bull horns, they flew over endangered areas down the river, flew over the river area and surrounding neighborhoods with loud speakers urging people to get out. But all over puerto rico people are facing unprecedented and terrifying conditions right as i speak, when people get a little Internet Connection theyre sharing video like this. You can see the water is under water. Even where the flood water has receded the power is out and may be for months, power is out 100 . The truth is we dont know the condition about much of the island particularly interior puerto rico because its a Communications Black hole. We know hundreds of people have been rescued from roof tops. We expect death tolls to climb. Authorities say they worry were going to learn about many more deaths in puerto rico as reports come in. There is a all night occcurfew effect. Unless they have a generators and were able to get gas, everybodys in the dark. This storm came on shore wednesday, it is now friday night, 3. 5 million americans in a increasingly dangerous situation. Joining us by phone from puerto rico. I realize its not easy to get communication. Reporter thanks for having me. Can you tell us what youve seen, what you were able to get out to, and what your assessment of the damages and the danger. Reporter we were in san juan today in some of the inland and also ocean side beach towns that got a lot of the earlier flooding. This has been a slow moving event where we are seeing the flooding first in the east then the west of the island. The water has been unrelenting. Not everyone gets water high enough to have to be rescued from the roof. So theyre not paying attention to them. They havent had any help. That doesnt mean their lives are any less destroyed. We went to a beach town which is essentially under water its a couple blocks from the ocean. They said they thought the storm was over after the winds this peeled off their roofs, then came the water. Now many of them are living without roofs and in muddy water, and they are going to run out of food and water in a few days unless they get help. And every person, three people in a span of 30 minutes asked me in town if i was from fema because they thought maybe i was coming to help. I have to say no. And they were disappointed but not surprised and they covered me their cold Water Bottles which i thought was stunning considering the conditions theyre living in. What are they able to get in the way of help organized by civilians or the government. Reporter right now we only see in these towns neighbors helping neighbors. San juan, there are crews of people moving trees and picking up debris and soldiers directing traffic as of today. But inland, the residents told us they have seen no help. They have a little hopeful because they have seen helicopters fly over their towns. Those might have been reporters taking photographs and video. They hope that help will arrive soon. But one Grocery Store was open today. And the owner said he ordered water two weeks ago before hurrican irma. He has bred every day and people stand in line for bread and thats all he has thats new. Everything else is old stuff and nonperishable. Its all a cash economy, theres no banks open. Its a risk for his business to keep all that cash. Its one compounding problem after another. Youre seeing dire circumstances. It seems like youre talking about the brink of despair. Reporter for some of these folks it really is. They are trying to put a brave face to it. But you know just because theyre not the ones who are getting evacuated in urgent circumstances doesnt mean theyre not going to be in trouble for a long time. They have no communication. They think some of the water will take a month to recede based on flooding theyve seen previously. Even folks who have cars dont have usable cars anymore. They dont have to worry about the gas storage because they dont have a way to get around. Thank you for helping us understand what youve seen. Please keep us apprised and thanks for helping us understand. Reporter we will. My. Joining you the the puerto rico secretary of state. He joined us as the storm was coming assure. I asked you to keep us apprised. Thank you for your time. Welcome. Its important that we keep all u. S. Sittance abreast of whats happening in puerto rico and the flooding waters seem to be our most important challenge. Can i ask you about niece dramatic reports see heard and the dramatic warnings we got from the National Weather service about the dam and the urgent need to evacuate about 70,000 people downextrestream f the dam. Whats the latest. We did a fly over, the governor right now in the area together with Structural Engineers and what happens to be a imminent danger as to a structural damage to one of the largest dams in the island. We currently trying to, with the lack of communication, with the darkens, were trying all the communities downstream to make them aware and get them to safer ground. Its around 80,000 citizens that could be affected if the dam goes because of the water pressure because of the rain. In terms of 80,000 people how successful from the evacuation efforts been so far. We dont have a exact prediction if there is going to be a catastrophic failure of the dam, what is the scale of the evacuation thusfar . Its were using from our rudimentary sirens to tsunami sirens in place. We are using helicopters. And social media. And probably this program being watched. Its a way to advise people. Previous to the storm it was emphatic as to the predictions of natural Weather Service as to the amount of water and they had ferocious winds but it was followed by moment alrains in excess of 25 inches. And with roof tops, close to 200, 300 people already, and search and rescue continues. The issue with the dam is a very delicate one. As we speak, we are working with the communities to make sure we dont lose any more lives. Its been six casualties up to date and we dont want the number to increase any more casualties because of maria. Mr. Secretary we spoke with a reporter from the miami herald a moment ago and heard from other reporters today that it seems like interior puerto rico, there people have not had any help. There have been rescue efforts off roof tops but no supplies, people havent been getting water, offers of evacuation, people in the interior of the island feel likes its just neighbors helping neighbors thusfar. Is that true and do you expect that to improve and soon . Well, we get 78 the mayors of each municipality, and we are in touch with all mayors. Tomorrow morning at 11 00 a. M. Ill be in a meeting with all mayors making sure that fema supplies, satellite telephones, any additional aid as to bottled water, first aid, any equipment that might be needed. So we are all in one making sure that in the shores, the coast and the hills, even puerto rico. Power is a issue, because of irma, complaints about the power returning to all house holds, we were 90 on recovery, but now we are back to ground zero in terms of getting up again in terms of energy, water is coming back, and well make sure. Its going to be a tough recovery but we are resilient and were ready to get up and make sure every puerto rico and gets taken care of. The secretary of state of puerto rico. I know these are trying times. Thank you sir. Please keep us apprised in the days ahead. Any donations, the first lady set up a account for united for puerto rico. Com with your prayers. Thank you. Keeping a eye on one of the largest dams in puerto rico that officials are saying are failing. 80,000 people live downstream from the dam, it holds back a man made lake. If it gives way, all of the water from the lake will be added to the downstream. Those evacuations are under way, tens of thousands of people. This is a veserious situation. O, to ridiculous plot twists. gasping son . Dad we also know you can avoid drama by getting an annual checkup. So were partnering with cigna to remind you to go see a real doctor. Go, know, and take control of your health. It could save your life. Doctor poses dad cigna. Together, all the way. Dbut he hasoke up wwork to do. In. So he took aleve. If hed taken tylenol, hed be stopping for more pills right now. Only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. Aleve. All day strong. Did you hear directvs latest deal . Its cheap and gets you all the big games. 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Despite the rainbow fee he , th Republican Controlled Senate took one look and chucked it in the garbage. Next in june the Republican Senate wrote their own bill to kill obamacare then that one promptly went bust. That didnt have enough support to entertain the idea to bring it to the floor. They scrapped it and came up with another one in july. This time what they called a straight repeal of the Affordable Care act. They got it to the floor of the senate. But dramatic late night death. Mccain gave his big thumbs down. Okay. That was very exciting. For seven years republicans have been saying they need to be in control of washington so they can kill obamacare. Its the one thing they have all insisted they would instantly do as soon as they got the reins of power. But they have failed over and over again at trying to do it. Since the inauguration the republicans have held the white house and senate and a large majority in the house but they have passed zero significant legislation of any kind. They have not passed a single major bill not one. And i think thats in part because they assumed theyd just pass this health care thing first. They assumed killing obamacare would be the low hanging fruit and Everything Else theyd figure out there after. But this low hanging fruit isnt getting picked. Thats because, well, this was front range colorado today. Hundreds of people pouring into the streets of denver. You hear them chant its a human right, fight, fight. In texas, these guys stood on a busy highway overpass with a sign if you can repeal and replace senator ted cruz. Giving his support for repealing and replacing obamacare, that sign was met by a healthy dose of support from honking cars. In roanoak virginia, eligible for medicare, his constituents through him a party and asked him not to cut americans off Health Insurance. They brought a clown, paraded cupcakes and balloons, donating the rest to a local hospital in the congressmans name. In new york city, they talked about how they could lose their Health Insurance while the board looking staffer took notes on what they said. The best and sharpest reason why they havent been able to do what they said they could do, why obamacare hasnt been killed yet because people like this mom decided they would change their own lives around to try to save it. Ive been here before to talk about his health care and his needs and im not sure why in this country were asking mothers to justify why its important to keep their children alive. Why do i have to keep coming here to ask senator more and to protect my sons health and life . Its, you know, having a child with a disability is stressful enough, its hard enough. But we push on and live our lives like anybody else. He goes to school, were out and about, were every where in our community. Were proud of him. And we have i have i have no regrets about his life and who he is. But what makes that possible is health care. What makes that possible is medicaid. And the cuts in this bill will devestate us and families around this country. That kind of personal local being there, showing up is a big part of why republicans have failed over and over again to erase obamacare because thats what their staffers have been listening to at every event they do, what their contituents are telling them, and the beltway doesnt report on it that way but you can see it around the country over and over again. What is different about this new republican effort to kill obamacare is that this one comes with a deadline under senate rules the republicans have to pass this thing by next saturday if theyre going to. 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The pleerch marines touched down at dawn and they were to create facilities, doing good will stuff like building play grounds and working on sports facilities for the local population, to get stuff ready and to build stuff for the locals. They did not expect the welcome that they got. Heres now lieutenant kofrl described what they we had rocks thrown at us, buses were rocked back and forth. We were just trying to get to our base. The u. S. Marines were attacked by thousands of angry protestors in what everybody thought was this sleepy resort city in crimea in you kreeukraine. They were unable to move, they hunkered down but couldnt get to their supplies, the base, their supply ship at the towns port, they were dealing with gigantic protests. One of the commanding covers said they brand dished ukrainian cocktails, plastic bottles filled with diesel fuel. The marines laid low for two weeks and basically snuck out in the dead of night, boarded a jet and flew home. They ened up cancelling the entire military exercise, this joint ukraine nato exercise they called it off. George q. Bush cancelled his planned trip to ukraine later that month. That happened in 2006. We now know those protests that were meant to threaten u. S. Marines, antinato, antiamerican protests orchestrated by the pro Russia Political Party with ukraine called the party of regions. If that sounds familiar its because the part of regions we know was reportedly paying former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort millions of dollars to provide them ukrainian officials and some former u. S. Diplomats are convinced Paul Manafort knew about and possibly helped plan the antiamerican protests that resulted in the attacks on those u. S. Marines. That was 2006. Paul manafort being paid millions of dollars by antiAmerican Interests to work against American Interests. Doing so very effectively. New disturbing reports he is at it again. Thats next. Stay with me, mr. Parker. 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The fbi conducted the no knock predawn raid Paul Manafort took on a new gig getting paid to help the referendum opposed by the United States which must have been particularly fun when the secretary of state recollecti met with the prime minister. Please lets not talk about the Trump Campaign chairman. Working against u. S. Interests for money is a new and increasingly present idea in terms of how we understand our world in the trump era. Heres a small weird thing. This from the New York Times story. Mr. Manafort himself may return to the region in the coming days for the vote. So Paul Manaforts working with the kurds to break from iraq. Hes going to go there for the vote . Hes flying there now . Does he have a return ticket . Given all the heat Paul Manafort is under from the special counsel and the Trump Administration going out of its way to distance from him and blame it on him saying it was him and no one else, it looks like hes leaving the country or maybe already has for the kurd referendum. We reached out to mr. Manaforts speaksman today who said hes not going to answer our questions but insisted it is perfectly legal to Work Overseas if his activities require a foreign registration, he will comply. If he is leaving the country are we sure hes coming back . Is anybody checking on that . Joining us now a Senior Editor at task and purpose. Hes reported extensively on Paul Manaforts activities working against u. S. Foreign policy in crimea, ukraine and now more. Thank you for being with us tonight. Thanks for having me. You reported provocatively and interestingly with a lot of good documentation on Paul Manaforts connections to those u. S. Marines coming ununder attack in crimea in 2006 frmt do you have any idea why the officials who spoke to you and the ukrainian officials that spoke to others why manafort may have been part of the effort to led to those attacks on those marines . It should be said at this point beyond what those officials and sources have said to us and have reported to other folks in the media, this is a pretty circumstantial case, all be it a damming one. We know manafort was working at that time for the party of regions. We know he was advising them to stoke the flames of russian nationalism in crimea and the ukraine where there is a Large Russian population. We know those officials particularly u. S. State Department Officials you can see it in the wikileaks of state department, were highly confident the they were behind the protests. It happened to dof tail with manaforts counsel. I guess the accountability of that sort of thing. We know about the logan act, that prohibits american regular civilians, private citizens from acting to undermine u. S. Foreign policy abroad. Is there anything else that prohibits regular americans to work against American Interest or the safety of u. S. Military service abroad. Its subjective and a judgment call. When it comes to direct threats against u. S. Military theres a lot of regulations that cover that and possibly rules of engagement depending where it happens and what the circumstance is. Beyond that, there is sort of this wilderness territory and there has been for a very long time thats been plumd by republicans and drots of counseling foreign governments or would be foreign governments on political strategies. The fine line where that is just merely problematic for money reasons and where that becomes a real problem for u. S. Policy, thats a line thats kind of subjective in a lot of places, and i think were going to be asking a lot of those questions about a lot of the things that manaforts done, not just ukraine. Add many i know at task and purpose your mission and your personal background gives you some insight into the next thing im going to ask you. Is there anger consternation, worry in military circles about the National Security implications of this and the personal dimensions of what he did in terms of whether he was involved in endangering americans. Yeah, those Service Members ive spoken to, certainly people on our staff, we have our concerns. And i think there has been a general kind of consternation or general sort of were not sure exactly what to make of trump or the people that he surrounds himself with in the rank and file military. They dont need to be concerned with those things daytoday just yet. These sorts of stories raise that issue of for gods sakes, Paul Manaforts mentor was james baker, he worked for ronald reagan. This is a man that believes with a red meat strong Foreign Policy and support the troops. If he can be working dash we dont know whether hes involved in these riot or got. For him to be in the same room with some of these same people, collecting a check from them, you got to ask yourself like where does that guys loyalties lie . Really good reporter. Thank you for being here. Appreciate your time tonight. We have much more ahead tonight. Stay with us. 700 off select mud spa packages for two. And up to 1,300 off family packs of venison. save on a world of possibilities with deals on select 2017 canam vehicles. Only until october 31st at your local canam dealer. when you drop a 603horsepower at v8 biturbo engine dealer. Into one of mercedesbenzs finest luxury sedans, what do you get . [ engine stalls ] you get the bleep out of the way. 0to60 in 3. 3 seconds. 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Like, maybe stuff they didnt want to talk about paying for like legal defenses for the russia scandal. I put that question last night to craig holeman. Could they pay the legal bills for Campaign Officials for more Administration Officials . Legally, do you think thats possible that they could do that . Yes. They can do that. The only rule coming to inaugural funds is that the source of funds has to be disclosed after the inauguration. But how that money gets spent is anyones guess. No rules, no regulations. It can, quite frankly, it can go into the pocket of donald trump if he chose to do so. Wow. Yes. Its a wild west area. Wild west area. That was what we heard from craig holman last night. Who knows as much about American Campaign finance as any one on earth and even though i was surprised enough to respond with just, wow which youre not supposed to do on tv, it really does appear, no surprise, hes hes right. What he said last night is right. It shocked me hearing it but we talked to two different experts on this stuff today who told us, yeah, he is right. Told us the same thing. There really is very little law about how an Inauguration Committee to spend any money left over after the shindigs. I wonder if thats why they raised triple and quadruple the amount of money they did. They have to disclose who gave more than 200, how much they gave and they have to report how much they raised overall. We have seen that. Thats it. Thats the end of the required reporting ever. Thats how we know they raised 107 million. What they do with it is the question. After they file that one thing, anything that can be considered to fit with the mission of celebrating the president s victory, anything they want to spend it on, go for it. No disclosure. Thats pretty much the wild west. Saddle up. Write checks to lawyers if you want for president or family or anybody else. Go ahead. The sheriff is drunk and passed out under a shade tree. Do whatever you need to do. Spend it i do have one update to report on this tonight, though. For the record, we still got an overall no comment from the inaugural fund. As to whether or not they the inauguration money will be used to pay russia legal fees or has been used to pay russia legal fees and they told us no comment but i can report that Vice President mike pence for one is not using Inauguration Funds to pay for his legal defense. Mike pence does have high legal reputation on russia know how hes paying for the legal representation. His very nice lawyer tells us that the Vice President is not using Inauguration Funds. He also says the Vice President is not using Trump Reelection Campaign money and the Vice President is not using money from the rnc and the Vice President is not using money from his own pac. But he is somehow paying his lawyer. Right . Were checking now to see if anybody mike pence is selling his plasma. Or, cleaning out the garage on craigslist . I dont know. 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