He has the inside scoop coming up. First, chief National Correspondent ed henry kicks off the coverage with breaking news. Good evening. Great to see you. The District Attorneys Office here in manhattan is thinking about bringing criminal charges against President Trumps business, the trump organization, in connection with how officials they are reimbursed Attorney Cohen for his payments to that adult film performer. According to the New York Times tonight. The president said months ago of the special counsel started probing his business dealings, that would be what he called a redline that could spark Robert Muellers firing. This is more complicated because it would be State Charges against the trump organization, not federal charges brought by mueller. It would be harder to justify a meal or firing perhaps. Plus the president has the power to pardon Paul Manafort or anyone else for federal charges but he does not have Clear Authority to pardon people or corporations for criminal char
Senator john mccain. It will head for a funeral home tomorrow and the senator will lie in state at the u. S. Capitol, just the 31st person to do that. Joining me now, president ial historian, Douglas Brinkley and retired general mark herling, doug, this is a week long week for senator john mccain the likes we havent seen. You dont see this for anyone other than a u. S. President , perhaps Robert Kennedy, the one exception to that. Maybe not sense Robert Kennedy have we seen this outpouring of emotion for u. S. Senator. I think thats exactly right. The fact Senator Mccain will be lying in state in the rotunda of the u. S. Capitol building one of only 31 others to have had that honor. We do it for president s or Supreme Court justices. The country has fallen in love
with john mccain this week. We always loved him and admired him. The more were learning about his lifelong career in politics and Military Service the more were kind of nostalgic and longing for the virtues that he had. They
Its really an exponential effect of damage between the amount of rain we are seeing, the amount of storm surge we are seeing and the duration of it that we are seeing. It is easy in the first few hours after they pass where you say we dont see that much destruction. But it will take days to survey what happened. And there are areas we cant get to. We drove around a little bit today and we saw marinas decimated. That means peoples livelihoods taken away in addition to the homes most likely taken away. The Boat Captains are out here and they wont be able to make a dive living for a long time. Tucker it takes a long time to know what happened. Leland vittert, thank you. Move now to Rick Leventhal who is live for us tonight in wilmington, North Carolina. Rick . Rick we moved from
wrightsville beach. Two of the four fatalities reported so far was a mother and her infant who were killed by a falling tree on their house. Well, there are trees all over this town. And this state that are coming
A recap of the days headlines and a look at whats in store for tomorrow. Lawyer would have done what Jeff Sessions did. He was part of the campaign, you cant oversee an investigation of a campaign you were part of so he had to recuse himself. Shannon why does the president get that . I dont know. Is that a lawyer, he is frustrated, he thinks this is a witchhunt, jeff did the right thing legally but mueller is now very deep into his investigation. This conflict is far beyond mueller and recusal. This is not a good working relationship from what i can tell. For the good of the nation we need an Attorney General that has the confidence of the president and im not blaming Jeff Sessions. There is no finer man but at the end of the day there are plenty of conservative judges and lawyers that i think could do this job, the we can get somebody confirmed but if he does replace Jeff Sessions the burden will be on the president to pick somebody highly qualified, give mueller the space he needs to
Shannon bream and katie pavitt for the bell. Brett kavanaugh who committed some kind of Sexual Assault in high school has set aside into something different, something ugly, something threatening to all of us. Weve learned remarkably little from Brett Kavanaugh from Christian Ford in the past week, despite lots of words on their behalf. The facts of the case are still sparse and murky. But weve learned a disturbing amount of the left and what its willing to do in order to maintain control of this country. Watch a clip from today in which new york senator Kristen Gillibrand explained why she knows Brett Kavanaugh is guilty. Watch. I believe her because shes telling the truth. She is asking the fbi to investigate her claims. She is asking for that kind of review, that investigative work, that accountability, because shes telling the truth. Somebody lying does not ask the fbi to investigate their claims. Who is not asking the fbi to investigate these claims . The white house. Dr. Kavanaug