phone call between trump and the ukrainian president. i think this is beyond just a phone call. this is going to be a common thread line that we re going to be talking about. it doesn t matter what i discussed. i can say that it was a totally appropriate conversation. it was actually a beautiful conversation. inside the complaint. how could the whistle-blower have gotten access to a president s phone call. insight this hour from a former intelligence officer. also among the 2020 contenders, who s the next one out? well, new nbc reporting on a memo to senator cory booker s campaign staff. plus, back to the beach, a cleanup mission bringing attention to a worldwide problem. but new today, the president lashing out after explosive reporting that he pressured the president of ukraine to investigate the son of former vice president joe biden. the president this morning tweeting a highly edited video of biden. the style is similar to a video he previously tweeted to attack bide
of people across the state of florida that are out of power. they are doing everything they can to connect power. it s body in certain places, certain sections don t, they are doing everything to restore power as fast as possible and we hope that happens. a lot of the commercial businesses now have power and some of the hotels. little by little miami beach will be right back on its feet. jon: i imagine you will be filling up some of your hotels with local residents who might be from the mainland and might not have power at home, want to come and get some air conditioning. that s a very good point. we will be promoting staycations around south florida. if that s going to be one of the big promotions. a whole marketing campaign called the beach his back. it s going to be a strong campaign to come on back to the beach. i have to tell you, it won t take that much because people really do love coming to
matter of fact we are opening miami beach tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. and folks can come back to the beach. we spent the entire day, the last 24 hours, with so many different crews, it was a military operation. clearing the roads, so many trees across the road, power lines down, gas leaks around the city. we were able to go out there because we were prepared for the recovery to clean up the city and tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. people are allowed to come back in the city. we had a curfew tonight of 8:00 p.m. on miami beach. after that we are gung ho ready to go. our hotels are getting organized. i know by tomorrow night there will be restaurants open. you can t stop all the great things about miami beach. it s a fun place, it s exciting in the world wants to come. jon: one about the power situation? to have 100% of the power back on? we don t. that s the unfortunate thing. our power provider around the state of florida is desperately trying to reconnect everybody but as you know
a lot of fire alarms. but the other thing that they are responding to, transformers being blown. they had to go into an apartment building and rescue somebody who was stuck in an elevator. they are continuing to respond. they are continuing to act. but they are warning people that if you had not heeded the mandatory evacuation order here at miami beach, at some pointed when the brunt of the storm arrives tomorrow morning, they will not be able to make those runs that you are essentially on your own. what we are seeing in place tonight, anderson, is a curfew. police and fire say if you are on the streets here in miami beach, you are at risk of being arrested. the reason why they have put this into place is they do not want anyone on the streets they are concerned still about flooding. and the other thing, anderson, is that they don t want people to get back into their cars if they are in miami and come back to the beach. that, they say s an extraordinarily bad idea even
his beach trip was appropriate. and criticism from his second in command. take a listen. whenever i get done tonight, i ll go back to the beach. that s where my family is, and that s where i ll go back to. now, you know, it s been really clear, that s our residence. and we have a right to be there whenever we want throbe there. i don t count going out on the beach after i ve been working all morning to sit and talk with my wife and our guests for 40 minutes before i had to leave to come back to work. as getting sun. that wasn t what i was out there to get. the way i took the question was, hey, were you out laying out getting a tan today? that wasn t what i was doing, that s not what the pictures show, sitting there in a baseball hat in shorts and t-shirt talking to my wife and talking to our guests. i don t apologize for it. i don t back away from it. and i think my poll numbers show