From special Counsel Robert Mueller referring the issue to essential l essentially authorities in new york having determined it didnt relate to the russia probe. Thats part of whats getting under the president s swin. The president up and tweeting about all of this this morning, again calling this a witch hunt and saying that attorneyclient privilege is dead. Now hallie the terms of a fact check over attorneyclient privilege its worth know thing that noting that to get a warrant for an Attorneys Office its a high bar and you have a lot of people looking at this saying it doesnt relate to attorneyclient privileges at all. But the big question looming over all of this, does this mean that well see firings of top Law Enforcement officials from the attorney general to the special council. Sara and is easy said overnight the president s words stand on their own. Its significant because hallie as you know and i know, the white house is usually quick to dismiss any talk of the president firin
Take control of the house. Then theres syria. The timing of that troop withdrawal, starting almost all of washington. The president , he says this morning, its no surprise at all. He has been campaigning on this for years. Garrett haake is on the hill for us. Kristen welker is joining us from the white house. Garrett, let me begin with you. Fill us in on what the latest is with the shutdown discussion in the house as paul ryan, really, gets ready to take questions on this. After the Senate Passed the cr with senators on the floor singing christmas carols, it looked like smooth sailing to keep the government open. As i stand here this morning, thats not quite so clear. Republican house members have been leaving their thursday morning meeting amongst themselves. Republican leadership is trying to say this is not us giving up on the wall. This stop gap funding bill february 8th is a good idea and rank and file republicans arent buying t i talked to some conservatives who say that passing
At least seven people died in the bahamas. That number only expected to climb. Bill, i want to start with you. Where is dorian right now. What should people be most concerned about . The first is the water. Molly is located in the savannah area. Thats the next benchmark where we will get our first significant damage along coastal sections of the u. S. High tide after 1 00. Were expecting water levels that will reach historic levels. Savannah it could be the third highest they have recorded, back in the 1940s. That is significant. That is what will be happening shortly. 105 Miles Per Hour winds. This was the path from 5 00 a. M. The new one as we go throughout this hour, at the end of this hour. The only question, will it shift closer to the coast north . It will remain where it is. Maybe closer to the coastal areas. That will mean all of a sudden we will start increasing the possibility of the high winds. And the flood risk has really gone up in the last 24 hours. This area of pink in
Up on the battlefield because of this. In turkey, at the pentagon, on capitol hill, and i want to start with keir simmons on the ground in Southern Turkey near the border with turkey. Keir, i understand that a little bit earlier this morning you were close to some of where this assault whas happening. What are you hearing and seeing . Thats right. This is a conflict that has kind of escalated through the day and actually we just heard a martor from the syrian side land in that direction. We heard in the last hour from the governor, you can hear the artillery fire there, we heard from the governor here where we are in turkey, that three people were killed when a mortar landed here, including a child. And you can see behind me, if i step away at syria itself, across the border, you can see there, that town of tall abad burning from south to east. That was the turkish response to the mortar fire that killed a number of turkish people earlier in the day. As ever with a battle like this, wh