people in the intel community. they couldn t find a good precedent for it. does the department of national intelligence have any recourse here. any way for them to protect classified information or do they have to carry out the president s order. they have to carry out the president s order. ultimately, though, the remedy they have is initially push back and say these parts we simply can t release, we made commitments to our sources that will protect them in addition to any sources that are available here. we have to worry about our sources not cooperating in the future. do they have the power to do that? we hear time and time again the president can declassify anything he wants to declassify. do the intel agencies have the authority to say to the president, no, mr. president, this can t be declassified because we made these commitments to our source this would compromise our m thoethod.
you have the hollywood access tape where he s referring to women s body parts in the a derofwaer to way. a and then now you have brett kavanaugh maybe he s innocent, maybe he s guilty. at some point maybe the fbi will figure it out. the point is that the republicans have a messaging problem, an image problem. as we look at the future of the party more and more women will be voting, more and more women are gal vannized to take it to the polls and republicans need to get it together wondering whether or not they can hold on to younger women and suburban women. claire mccaskill voting no is not a big surprise. she also voted no on neil
peop people. then they hired george washington. this wasn t done with previous hurricanes because other jurisdictions know how many other people killed. 50 times last original number. no way twries president. he blamed democrats for the death toll. let me just specific a little bit and let you answer directly the president s tweet. but the term excess deaths. 2975 excess deaths. what does that term mean exactly what that really means is that compared to a normal year when there was no hurricane we would have expected that 2975 people would lost their lives between september of 2017 and february of 2018 would not have died. and so that we can, therefore, attribute those deaths to hurricane maria either directly or indirectly. what do you say to the president questioning that methodology and calling it magic? there s no real magic to it at all. we re able to look at the
to what the reality is than donald trump suggesting it was a dozen people or so. dr. goldman works in public health. she does statistics. you have to ask the president, what interest would she have to inflate her numbers. the governor from san juan joins us. governor, it s always good to see you. let me ask you. we just had dr. goldman on from george washington university, walking through the numbers, how she ariefbled. do you accept the george washington number as the number of people who died in hurricane maria in puerto rico? well, good morning, thank you for the opportunity. yes, i accept the whole process as one that is scientifically robust, independent and accurate. it is important to state that this is an excess death estimate. but the way it was done, you know the process that it was taken, the information that it
discipline from the white house. started with continue on on monday saying this woman should not be ignored, this woman must be heard. you heard the president in his own way echo that and not going over a line attacking mother-in-lawly saying she should have the time to say what she wants to say. the question is if she doesn t show up monday to testify despite the fact that republicans have given her conditions to do it privately where they will send people not the senators themselves if she s worried about being grilled by senators, senators from the judiciary committee will go to california. she, again, has said i m not going walk in what she believes is a kangaroo court, why not take the time for the fbi investigation. let s talk about this with mike barnacle. sees still with us. former aid to george w. bush. elise jordan. heidi przybyla and white house correspondent for pbs news hour. heidi, your thoughts here about