the harris reboot is for obvious reasons. she s in single digits in national and most early state polls and she s not alone in looking at the polls and the calendar and deciding it s time to shake things up. the bernie sanders campaign just this week juggling its teams in both iowa and new hampshire. so 137 days until iowa votes, but i keep saying, gee, that s a long time, that s 19.5 weeks, that s forever. except it s not if you re a campaign. what do we make of this? harris entered the race. a lot of people were thinking the potential rising star in the party. female senator out of california, california moved up its primary, and now all in iowa which, no offense to kamala harris, we ve heard from people before, always when they re struggling. i mean, 137 days until the first votes. what has happened over the last 137 days? we ve seen the poll numbers for senator harris fall sort of precipitously and not very many people moving in these polls but
starting to come now, will continue throughout the day. the flood walls along the mississippi river could hold 20 feet of water. because of flooding over the past weeks and months, the mississippi river current she at 16.5 feet, a very high level. the thought was just as recently as yesterday that it could go to 19.5, for close to 20 feet. right now, the past couple of hours, we ve gotten the latest report that the feeling is the levels won t go as high as they thought not because there s going to be a lot of rain, it is, but that it will be spread out over a long period of time. the thought is the levels may not go over 17.5 feet which is good news. talking about the floodgates, i m on top of a flood wall. i will walk gingerly to one of the floodgates to give you a look at what the gates look like. this here is a floodgate. it was shut last night. this area of jackson square, you can no longer go on. they want everybody to be
the pressure of sanctions. this may be the lashout on their part as a consequence. i think secretary pompeo suggested the same. they are definitely feeling the pressure. that s good. it is good for them to be under pressure. they are doing all kind of good stuff, supporting proxies, engaged in terrorism, firing missiles off or doing this stuff and threatening this stuff in the straits of hormuz, which affects world energy prices, not american oil. you know that we are not where we used to be in terms of total dependence upon middle east oil. we are dependant upon oil prices and they will spike if this kind of stuff keeps going. you referenced it earlier. i covered the pentagon for 6 1/2 years. i knew my way around the 19.5 miles of corridor there. your book does take people beyond the scenes. tell me about it. first of all, it s not a
brief statement to the court in virginia? so that s something we all will be listening for and judge amy berman jackson will pass sentence and we can expect i think whatever else we can expect, it will go much differently than it did in virginia last week. don t go inside just yet. i want to discuss this with a former attorney and senior fbi official. ari melber is in the house, msnbc legal correspondent and the host of msnbc the beat. and also outside the courthouse, legal analyst glen kirchner. glen, i go to you first, do you think judge amy berman jackson, is she going to be tougher than we saw last week? it feels like there is a lot of pressure on her? yeah, you know, judge ellis handed downed i down what many saw as an unjust and unjustifiable sentence. you realize the sentencing guidelines in virginia were 19.5
to 24 years. that means 19.5 should have been the lowest compliance sentence, instead, he went dramatically below that. he went to 47 months, which i think does a disservice to the criminal justice system. judge jackson has a chance to back cleanup and make this right in part. i suspect she is going to take manafort s criminal conduct and other transgressions, lying to the special counsel, for example, after agreeing to cooperate truthfully. she will take those very seriously. not only do i think she will give a fairly lengthy and consecutive sentence to the virginia sentence, but i want to see if she says something that maybe contradicts what judge ellis said. mr. ellis says you have otherwise led a blameless life, i will be looking to judge jackson to clean that up and say something perhaps along the lines, you know what, sir, in my