room. if the president did absolutely nothing wrong, a phone conversation perfect, couldn t have been better. why not let the acting white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney or national security advisor, john bolton, come before the american people and tell us what happened. i was governor and i know the political games back and forth. i think if the president thought there was a genuine investigation he would have no problem with them testifying. i think he feels like this truly is a witch hunt. he has his back up, and he thinks this is a way for y all to trick everybody into saying something. i know how he thinks. from that standpoint he s going to hatch his guard up, he s going to have his back up and think you re trying to pull his people in so you can interrogate them or humiliate them or do something else. why would they have to be tricked if they just had to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? i know. but you have to look at the fact
incriminating when he does not have his guard up, when he has not taken five hours and consulted with the president. when he s talking about we need a pretext at one point. at another point in the text he talks about the deliverable. and then of course the famous call me. that is pretty damning. he understands the deal what we want, the deliverable, and he very much understands the cover-up, and let s not be too conspicuous on text if we can avoid it. it seems to me all this is happening in a new environment today. this environment of republican criticism of the president. you have rob portman, very careful senator from ohio who all of a sudden came out and said what the president did with ukraine is wrong, and then you have the issue of syria and the withdrawal of the troops from the border where there s been this flood gate opening of republican criticism, including mitch mcconnell saying it would benefit russia, and lindsey graham saying it s unnerving to the core, ted cruz, disgr
beach. we could see the beach literally being swept away piece by piece as the waves were pounding on it yesterday and that will continue for another day. i want to bring in anthony young, who is the vice mayor of vero beach where miguel was just speaking with us. mr. vice may or, thank you for being with us. miguel was talking about what has almost become a hurricane fatigue for some of the people in florida who have been preparing for dorian for days now. what is the message you want to send? this is kind of like a protracted boxing match. you ve got to keep your guard up, because actually in the next 24 hours with the forecast to have the storm move along our coast, it will be offshore probably early evening into this evening. so this is when you re going to have the most impact in our community and it s not only the beach side. if you think about the impact of the wind on the interior of vero
we don t know if that is the cause. but it would be one of our leading suspicions. we know one of the women had a heart condition, also had a heart attack, according to the coroner in this case. that s right. we also know the pennsylvania couple had medications in their room, as well. so these are pieces of the investigation. but if i m a tourist, thinking about going to the dominican republic, right now, this is obviously something i m thinking about, i m concerned about, and this is the most popular tourist destination in the caribbean, 6.5 million tourists visited just last year. if people are watching there, about to head there on vacation, what are the types of questions they should be asking of their resort? well, when you are traveling on any vacation, you should have your usual guard up, just like you do at home, just like when you re traveling in the evening, in manhattan, or los angeles, and chicago. when we go on vacation, we tend to put all our worries behind,
we are protecting the health and welfare of all of our people. including by the way, close to 300,000 tourists who were in the state right now. reporter: a lot of the tourists are here in honolulu. you can see this is a live look. the beaters technically closed, less than two hours ago people started showing up to serve and enjoy the view. there are about 50 surfers out there right now. with lane and the rain slowly creeping toward oahu, officials are hoping that residents and tourists will take these warnings seriously. we saw what happened earlier this year with flooding out on the east side of oahu. with just a limited amount of rain we are seeing total rainfall that could get up to 20 inches or more.we don t want people after the fact saying why did you alert us and why didn t you tell us? reporter: although officials still have their guard up, they are hoping for things to stay better here in honolulu.