the candidates like roy moore, salena? i think identity politics, period, is awful. i think most americans would agree that they re really tired of it. moore is a little bit different of a character in this way. not that he s not guilty of doing inciting the kind of sort of politics but his election is very specific in h that the voters in alabama were really, really angry at the governor that left. he resigned. there s a great big scandal. he used campaign money illegally and they never sort of had a way to punish him. and this was their way to punish him because the guy that he appointed to the u.s. senate was strange. part of the not he was strange was yeah. senator strange. and sort of that was their way to i m glad you cleared that up. yeah, i know. because that would go viral or something like that, right? so moore was that was very
bill? i m not going to spoil that. i d like to talk about that but unfortunately we re talking data analytics. hillary clinton, the dnc funding research that led to this dossier of unconfirmed allegations. do voters care about any of this? that s probably the biggest question, dave, for many of the politicians that are dealing with this. we know voters care about things that hit home for them, and things that we call it kitchen table conversation. and that s issues like the economy, national security. some in h the democratic party who expressed concern that focusing too much on the russian investigation could jeopardize tjeopardize could be much more winning
in what you thought about the last thing that sarah sanders said where she basically said, you know, if you get into a debate with this idea that you can t get into a debate with a general. yeah. look, i certainly think you can get into a debate with a general. i think her point is do you want to get into a debate over something this sensitive. i think that s the context i at least heard it from her. she s saying look, do you really want to go there on this and bring him back out here after he talked about this in h such a personal way not only with his own family but also the conversation on the phone with the president. i think this whole thing at this point has got to be the point where it s just not upsetting, it s sad that we re focusing this much time on something when threw s people affected and had loved one the killed. i think that s the point they were leaning to. he came out and talked. you ve got to look at today.
people really have chosen not to build on the water here for just that reason. they know what katrina did, they no what camille did. they ve learned lessons. that doesn t mean that everyone s safe if they re living in biloxi. if you have the opportunity to get out, i recommend it because the storm has strengthened and will continue to do so before making landfall tonight. all right. thank you so much. so as the gulf braces for hurricane nate, puerto rico struggles in the aftermath of hurricane maria, more than 7400 people still living in shetters. electricity has been restored to less than 12% of the people on the island. but more than half, 56% have had their water and sewer services restored. 66 hospitals are now up and running. 25 of them have electricity through the power grid as opposed to a generator. straight ahead, in h the cnn news room, a stockpile of weapons, but still no motive. police try to piece together
deck careds. he says the government should have been prepared to are russia using the internet to meddle in the election. i think that in some ways, we were surprised by in h other ways we should not have been. we sort of should have seen this coming. the fact is the russians have been targeting us with everything they have over the last 50 years, and in unremitting way. on the russian investigate, senate intelligence richard burn say ver sis his panel sill has more work to do and has not reached conclusions. burr and ranking democrat mark warner says that the committee has conducted more than 100 interviews and reviewed more than 100,000 pages of documents. burr says he wants the committee to make the findings public before the 2018 election. let s hope that is the case. on the business front,