Could go home and say listen, ill meet with the president , his door is open to me, i have met with him, i have talked to him. For me when i need to get things done for my state, it sends a very powerful message to democrats. Jon you had an interesting item in the playbook this morning that say democrats may be too giddy about the prospects and the 2018 elections and 2020, that despite the president s unpopularity ratings, it doesnt seem particularly good for democrats as well. Democrats have not been able to knock trump down a notch with a thought they would be able to do. His disapproval ratings are low, but he has democrats have not been able to knock him off his perch with the voters that matter. More immediately if you look at 2018, democrats are getting what they want and thats important here on capitol hill and ive talked to a lot of republicans have said to me in the last week, why are we handing the keys over to democrats . We waited a decade to get majorities in the white hou
Tonight with a late live update of the damage from Hurricane Irma and remember, entire islands in the caribbean, entire islands in the florida keys, have been cut off. Even though this was a weekend event, we are still uncovering, discovering and unearthing the damage and human suffering going on there. Nbc news correspondent Gadi Schwartz was out in it from the start of the storm. He has made his way to key west, florida, tonight. Gadi, i know its quite literally true, everywhere you look, you discover something new. Bring us up to date tonight on the extent of the damage and the recovery effort. Reporter good evening, brian. Some mixed news out here in key west. Actually, some surprising news, really. Were out here, were looking around, we can see lights starting to flicker on and off. In fact, the place where were staying right now, we just saw the lights come on, so for a while people were being told it could be days, possibly weeks before the power was going to be restored. Were d
Destruction still being unearthed from the sweeping fach r fach r natural disaster, all of it as kt the 11th hour gets under y way. Good evening once again from nbc headquarters in new york. Before we turn to the coverage of this day in president ial politics we want to begin tonight with a late live update of the damage from Hurricane Irma and remember, entire islands in the caribbean, entire islands in the florida keys, have been cut off. Even though this was a weekend event, we are still uncovering, discovering and unearthing the damage and human suffering going on there. Nbc news correspondent Gadi Schwartz was out in it from the start of the storm. He has made his way to key west, florida, tonight. Gadi, i know its quite literally true, everywhere you look, you discover something new. Bring us up to date tonight on the extent of the damage and the recovery effort. Reporter good evening, brian. Some mixed news out here in key west. Actually, some surprising news, really. Were out h
Tonight across the southeast. And officials are going house to house now in the florida keys, which took the brunt of the hit as the storm first made landfall. Here is what it looked like here on msnbc when the big storm moved through. This is the rain thats wow. Hitting me. Wow. Why dont you get under the overhang there. This came off one of the palm trees to the east of me. And im not going let go of it because it actually could just fly around. It probably weighs about 25, 30 pounds. The angle of approach can make all the difference. And a storm that is more parallel agh that hurt. That hurts. Well get the latest on irma, now a Tropical Storm, ahead on hardball. But now to the russia investigation into what steve bannon is now saying. Just weeks after he was ousted, bannon is reigniting the debate over President Trumps firing of former fbi director james comey, a subject the white house has tried to avoid amid the obstruction of Justice Administration into the president. Bannon said
The 11th hour gets under way. Good evening once again from nbc headquarters in new york. Before we turn to the coverage of this day in president ial politics, we want to begin tonight with a late live update of the damage from Hurricane Irma and remember, entire islands in the caribbean, entire islands in the florida keys, have been cut off. Even though this was a weekend event, we are still uncovering, discovering and unearthing the damage and human suffering going on there. Nbc news correspondent Gadi Schwartz was out in it from the start of the storm. He has made his way to key west, florida, tonight. Gadi, i know its quite literally true, everywhere you look, you discover something new. Bring us up to date tonight on the extent of the damage and the recovery effort. Reporter good evening, brian. Some mixed news out here in key west. Actually, some surprising news, really. Were out here, were looking around, we can see lights starting to flicker on and off. In fact, the place where