Or federal income tax. We take your calls and you can join the conversation. Ost good morning it is monday, january 8, 2018. The house and senate are both in session with the house meeting for its first session at 2 00 p. M. Senate is scheduled to convene at 3 00 p. M. We begin at the intersection of hollywood and politics. The 2018 hollywood awards season kicked off last night with a focus on standing up to sexual. Arassment and inequality celebrities took the opportunity to express support to the news a few a few sweats swipes taken at president trump. We are asking for your thoughts on hollywoods influence on politics and the debate in this country. Give us a call. You can also catch up with us on social media. A very good monday morning to you. You can start calling in now. We are asking on your thoughts on hollywoods influence on politics, especially a year after the beginning of the Trump Administration in the year after hollywood was rocked by allegations and cases involving Sex
Palo alto hasnt been getting a break from that rain this morning. Also South San Francisco seeing more intensity there, right along 280 and 101. This will be a problem for commuters. The Marina District seeing that pick up as well, and this has really picked up over the last hour. The lighter green there now yellow and orange. Berkeley also seeing that rain, as well as west oakland. Expect a couple inches from this storm. We have more coming down in martinez. They got a brief break and picking up in intensity along along 480 and to the north as well. This is several inches of rain coming down over the next 24 hours or so. Jessica flores is live in San Francisco and i can hear the rain pounding there. Reporter good morning. This is 17th street and fulsom, and this is a really big problem area. This place often has sewage backups because the storm water just overwhelms the drain here. Its often forcing closures here, but right now everything seems to be okay. They have put barricades up
Ludicrous. They say they launched a report after President Trump fired director, james comey. Bill another report saying the president concealed details from Senior Administration officials. Sandra trump has been firing off tweets all weekend and all morning with response. On the congressional side, lawmakers are reacting. I would like to know who leaked it, because they have an agenda not very friendly to President Trump. I dont trust what i read in the New York Times. Na was a concerning, eve en alarming report. It suggests the Mueller Investigation needs to continue. Sandra doug has the latest from the white house. Good morning. The president has been picking his travels very carefully as the Government Shutdown enters its 24th straight day, the longest on the record. Visits to troopers, a good thing, visits to puerto rico, not such a good thing. The president has tried to encourage their spirits. He tweeted at 7 20 this morning, getting ready to address the Farm Convention today in
Well, good evening once again from our nbc news hours here in new york. Day 725 of the trump administration. And day 24 of this Government Shutdown, which will become day 25 by the end of this broadcast. The stalemate over the budget that has cost 800,000 workers their paychecks entering week 4. New battle could erupt tomorrow in congress over william barr, trumps nominee for attorney general whos been critical in the past of the mueller inquiry. And this comes amid fallout from the new reporting about the president and russia. When last we spoke on friday night, the New York Times had just broken a story that donald trump had come under fbi scrutiny, for possibly working on behatch of russia. Then on sunday came the other story this one from the Washington Post, this one revealing, trump, quote, has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with russian president Vladimir Putin, including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own in
Parties. I really believe that this will probably go on for a while but i dont think it can go on without finding out what happened to the server. What happened to the servers of the pakistani gentleman that worked on the dnc . Where are those servers . Theyre missing. Where are they . What happened to Hillary Clintons emails . 33,000 emails gone, just gone. I think in russia they wouldnt be gone so easily. I think its a disgrace that we cant get Hillary Clintons 33,000 emails. I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. And what he did is an incredible offer. He offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators with the 12 people. I think thats an incredible offer. At the tail end of that incredible two minutes, President Trump echoed an offer from Vladimir Putin made in private to help with the russia investigation. There is no documentation of wh