Series of storms, political and literal intensified over the weekend. President trump addressed the rising water in texas moments ago. Weve pledged our full support as texas and louisiana battle and recover from this very devastating and historic storm. Theres probably never been anything like this. President trump is scheduled to go to texas tomorrow. He also said he might return to texas again on saturday. And possibly to louisiana as well. And promised funding wouldnt be delayed by congress. Youre going to see very rapid action from congress, certainly from the president. And youre going to get your funding. Its a terrible tragedy. And i think youll be up and running very, very quickly. Well bring you the latest on harveys devastating flood a little later this hour when we go live to the disaster zone. But thats not all that happened at the press conference. President trump was asked by a reporter from dpin land about the growing threat from russia in the balance ticks and whether o
Meteorologist live in the extreme Weather Center. One thing thats interesting is the pressure has come down a little bit. The winds are still at 185, the pressure has come down by 80 millibars. Its a strengthening storm, not a weakening storm. Thats the bad news. Strong winds in puerto rico. Weve had Hurricane Force gusts but the worst is at the center, thats where those 185mileanhour winds are. Hopefully they stay just offshore to puerto rico as well as the dominican republic. That will not be the case as it moves through the bahamas towards turks and caicos. There isnt really anything we are seeing that will break the storm apart other than its hard to really forecast that its going to stay attic category 5. The longest that has happened is for three days. If you look at the forecasting, it looks like maybe we are going to see that. One of the thing, we are, if you flip the cone, we dont like to do that. Anybody inside this cone could see the center of this goal. Hurricanes arent poi
Trumps china trade war. Theyre not just worried about trumps reelection, theyre worried about themselves. Senate republicans fearing any slow down would make harder for them to keep the senate in their hands. Growing signs that they should be worried. In fact a new poll finding more people disaprovering trump. Trump takes shots on fox news. Well have more of that later on in the show. With new scrutiny on the lengths trump is going through in order to fulfill his promise of building the wall. One House Democrat saying it is appalling and worthy of further investigation. As the Judicial Committee Ongoing Investigation into whether or not to recommend impeachment. With me on all of this. Reverend al sharpton here on msnbc. Our Brittany Cooper and caddy kay from bbc news. Great to have everyone with us. Al, let me begin with you if i may. The economy has been one thing that a lot of people will turn a blind eye to President Trump. Theyll ignore a lot of the racism and rhetoric if the econ
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