kind of thing you would need and the inference we have gotten certainly from democrats thus far, what you have got is pretty much what we have got. what i would say is that evidence has taken a backseat to rhetoric. and the democrats really, in all their vitriol they despise this presidency. they don t want to be affected. instead of getting back to work and legislating and delivering for the american people, they have decided to engage in this protracted political battle and i don t see neil: obviously you are a lawyer here. i will leave the politics out. is it your sense, ken that they kind of know that but there is a value in their thinking to bring all this dirt up, if you want to call it that, and how unseemly it looks and even some republicans have said that but there is not much they know deep in their hearts this is going to advance. look, i m a lawyer. i m in court every single day. i assess evidence on cases. on a daily basis. sometimes an hourly basis. i don t see th
not a matter of politics, that how important ambassador sondland s testimony is going to be next week because, you know, i think the republicans made some legitimate points about the secondhand nature right, yeah. of the information i agree with that. that the two witnesses today had. but sondland was in direct contact with the president including this phone call we just learned about today. now, we ve all heard that taylor s aide was in the room, but sondland was on the phone. right. i mean, he s the one the question is which sondland shows up? well, that s the question. i mean, sondland is a peculiar witness but a very important we got to take a quick break b. a lot more to talk about including the man both witnesses today said was looking to dig dirt up on the election, rudy giuliani. more ahead. (burke) at farmers insurance, we know a thing or two because we ve seen a thing or two. even a- (ernie) lost rubber duckie? (burke) you mean this one? (ernie) ru
monster moves through. shepard: i have got your website up. i m looking at tyndall air force base which is where the storm came ashore. it looks like the vast majority of the area where the eye crossed all of that is out of power. there is. it s going to be one stretch of outages. we re talking with our customers now. it could be weeks before power is restored. and it will actually be a rebuilding process because of the devastating effects of this sto storm. shepard: when you say rebuilding, you got to put the poles up again. you got to put in power lines. build from the dirt up. exactly. new poles, new infrastructure, new lines. not everywhere. in the hardest hit areas specifically. and again, we re looking at weeks. this is not something that will be overnight. this is a devastating storm.
mississippi, and that s where we find steve harrigan. reporter: we re here watching a battle between one company, between man and the water here. it s pretty simple, they are stacking dirt up as high as they can. they re trying to raise this levee an additional four feet. that would bring the total height of the bottom of the mississippi river to 109 feet. this is a timber company, and they are working around the clock here. we re seeing dump trucks as well as bulldozers, they re trying to save what has been a company here nor 125 years for 125 years, one of the biggest hardwood companies in the nation. you can see though [audio difficulty] a few yards over here to the right, you see what happens when