hey, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york. the question of when donald trump s rhetoric crosses the line was a subject of a bit of a lips as pivotal court hearing. prosecutors and attorneys met in front of a three-judge panel in the u.s. court of appeal for a d.c. circuit for oral arguments. the substance was the validity of a gag order imposed on the ex-president that limits what donald trump can say in public about prosecutors, witnesses, and court staff. the heart of arguments, how do you balance the first amendment rights of a defendant who was also a former president and front runner with the need to protect prosecutors, witnesses, and prevent the railing of the justice system? trump s attorney was grilled by the judges for more than an hour, judges pushed back, that they had no right to step in with a gag order. essentially what they are finding is we have a past pattern when the defendant speaks on this subject, threats follow. now he s making similar statements again
but the decision to select a location at which to position a team is made by where can the team be as close as possible and still the team itself be safe, assets be safe. and yet be able to get into the impacted areas. it is somewhat is art and science as to where to put the assets, but it is a selection that typically is made dependent on where the storm itself is. does the fact that there are so many officials in acting capacities at dhs, does that complicate the response effort? i don t believe that it particularly complicates the response effort as it has been planned now. i think that over time it could make for more possibilities of directions to be taken, strategic directions to be taken by the agency, that might not be
fema administrator, all in acting capacities and added scrutiny will be placed on the federal response to the storm, since it s the first one to hit since at announcement was made that fema funds were used for the border policies. covering it for awe with the latest on the storm, preparations and the president, we re joined by a special group of reporters and friends starting with nbc meteorologist michelle grossman. michelle, where is the big flow storm right now? you said it perfectly, we re looking at the storm in atlantic. it s a big, powerful storm with nothing in its way. it s collecting warm air from the ocean getting bigger and bigger. as for the latest advisory at 2:00, it blossomed into a category 3 storm. you can see on enhanced satellite, it doesn t take as much to see how big it is. well defined eyes showing how strong it is wrapping around there. let s talk about statistics, where we are in terms of the wind speeds and where we expect
everybody. and he is going to be there for a period of time. who knows. maybe he gets the job. but he ll be he ll be there for a period of time, maybe a longer period of time than we think we ll see. maguire will become one of numerous trump administration officials fulfilling their roles in acting capacities. i m joined now by evelyn farkas, former deputy secretary of defense and chuck rosenberg, a former senior fbi official and former u.s. attorney. thanks to both of you for being with us. evelyn, let me start with you. sort of an extraordinary series of events here. when you look at gordon, somebody who had such strong institutional support, somebody who had the support of the outgoing dni, being told you re not even going to get this on an interim basis, and then attaching this note. this is an act of respect and patriotism, not preference. she says this to the president in her note. what do you make of what happened here?
trump s botched attempt to install john ratcliffe into that job last week, but ratcliffe s name was dropped over his lack of experience. now the president is signaling he is in no rush to find a permanent replacement for maguire once he takes over. i m in no rush. admiral maguire is a very talented man. he is a great leader as an admiral. he is always a great leader. always a man respected by everybody. and he is going to be there for a period of time. who knows. maybe he gets the job. but he ll be he ll be there for a period of time, maybe a longer period of time than we think we ll see. maguire will become one of numerous trump administration officials fulfilling their roles in acting capacities. i m joined now by evelyn farkas, former deputy secretary of defense and a former u.s. attorney. thanks to both of you for being with us.