A recap of the days headlines and a look at whats in store for tomorrow. By those carr fire, the home behind us leveled and reduced to only ask. One of the only few items that remains recognizable as this picture dominic pickup truck in the driveway that was burned right down to the metal. Six people have died as a result of the fire. It is now 23 contained. Firefighters say it is still growing. Needed more than double in size from over the weekend. It stands at more than 100,000 acres. It is also destroyed more than 700 structures, many of which are family homes. It is unfortunate, if our house is burned, which it sounds like there is only two places standing. So the chances are that it probably will. People just want to know what is going on with her house. It is kind of like nobody wants to give a lot of news. If it is there or not or if it is burned down. That is a reality that many residents who were evacuated will soon have to face. Cal fire tonight deciding to allow the first ro
Dropping. When you realize how big and how much of an effort now that the fbi is taking on in trying to sort of disrupt some of this. The American Public has to have confidence in the Voting Process in this country, josh campbell, and you say seeing all of those intel chiefs was a great step. Absolutely. We heard a lot of specifics here today. But theres also there symbolic effort which is so important for the American People to see. This united front. Seeing the intelligence chiefs standing there and telling the American People we take this threat seriously. Those of us who cover the Intelligence Community know they take it seriously but the public has to hear it. There are too many challenges they are focusing on. Physical infrastructure security, the voting systems, ensuring confidence in those systems. But then also countering these foreign influence Operation Sway her can y herculean task. Even if no vote is changed, if
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Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. 17 angry democrats. They take value in the number 17. A potential sign. I hope he didnt use that number for them. He doesnt always use the number 17. I dont see that as being intentional. But who knows these days . But he has their interest. So what are they doing now . Well, they join in support of him and attacks of others. You saw what happened with jim acosta. If we go back to this video, when it gets to where jim was, youll see there were a lot of those q people who were in front of him. Theyre even stalking Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti. Why . Why go after Michael Avenatti . Because hes identified as one of trumps opponents. And they are now out to defend the president ial from their imagined array of opposition. And not a word from the white house about this. Actually, thats not true. Sarah sanders did say this today. Unfortunately, its now standard to abandon common sense ethical p
Running. Thats tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts right now. Tonight donald trump and his new Jersey Golf Club after a wild ride of a week moving the goal posts on collusion calling for an end to the Mueller Investigation and a full on assault on the media all while his own team beats the drum warning of the russia threat. Plus new developments in the Paul Manafort case. The testimony today that compelled his wife to leave the courtroom. And after another stunning week in this presidency well ask a celebrated historian if theres anything to celebrate in the history we are witnessing. The 11th hour on a friday night begins now. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 561 this was of the trump
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Right now. Its not an order, the president s opinion. Are President Trumps tweets considered official white house statements . The president is the president of the United States, theyre considered official statements by the president of the United States. Wow. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. Im confused. So confused. What is that line from the office . Universe, you win. Its thursday, august 2nd. And what a way to start the day. What a way. So, is it the official policy of the president or not . I think the most telling thing of the whole story is how much his lawyers freaked out immediately and started calling around immediately. He was just venting. Just like a baseball game. When hes actually doing what talking about what would start a constitutional crisis. Or Obstruction Of Justice. As brian clause pointed out yesterday is exactly what he did in turkey back 2013, 2014. Talk about fake news. You talk about deep state conspiracies. You fire prosecutors and you have a were