the country and parkland, florida endured an unspeakable tragedy, but this white house is more hunkered down than usual this week. any indications they would come back and fill you in on either more context about today s indictments? i know the chief of staff has some updates to the security clearances process, but any sense that they re about to throw open the windows, throw open the doors and bring you guys in and fill you in on their thinking? i don t get that sense that that will happen today, at least publicly, nicolle. certainly the conversations that we have will continue sort of behind the scenes and in their offices. i don t get the sense that they re going to call an impromptu press briefing. for example, and obviously, we have a lot of questions not only because of the indictments, but because of the whole controversy over security clearances. and as you point out, chief of staff john kelly. i just released five pages of changes, improvements that he is going to enact, try
nothing in this indictment today that should anyway give any signal that we won t see those actions coming from bob mueller down the road. kristen welker, let me give you the last word and then i know several of you are on the deadline and have to go. any sense from this white house that they re going to circle back with the press that they largely shut out for the vast majority of the weekend? the country and parkland florida endured unspeakable tragedy, but this white house is more hunkered down than usual this week. any indications they would come back and fill you in on either more context about today s indictments? i know the chief of staff has some updates to the security clearances process, but any sense that they re about to throw open the windows, throw open the doors and bring you guys in and fill you in on their thinking? i don t get that sense that that will happen today, at least publicly, nicolle. certainly the conversations that we have will continue sort of behind t
investigation. reporter: john, out here, outside of senator al franken s office on capitol hill. certainly all eyes on the senator as he returns to washington today. he has largely for the last ten days been out of the public eye, hunkered out as these allegations have risen around him. but we did see him, as the you referenced, speak out moat extensively in this round of affiliate interviews last night where he ay apologizes for the allegations. he notably does not deny the allegations, but he says he s embarrassed and ashamed, and offering specifics about specifically that uso tour, that photo emerging from his tour there. here s what he had to say yesterday. what matters is that i am ashamed of that photo. i she is you know, she didn t have any ability to consent. she had every right to feel
alabama, it hardens your commitment to your cause or your tribe. people are going to become more hunkered down the more they hear or there s a possibility the more they hear, t just like another story. another 12 days to go of this. and during the campaign, mika and i would always when we went to groups, would ask who is voting for donald trump. nobody would raise their hands because they were embarrassed in front of their fans. as we were leaving, they would come up and whisper, we re voting for him. you saw the same thing in state polls. wisconsin, michigan, ohio sometimes. some of the polls in upper midwest. people didn t want to admit they were voting for donald trump. boy, what s the number for roy moore? a guy an alleged pedophile. probably more. the polls are probably underrepresenting that. how much more do we have to learn? every subsequent story is more of the same and more proof.
i hope that we re prepared to continue to address this thing as it moves on. we re looking at some of the discussions that nbc news here had alabama power. our last discussion our last da ta point is that almost 3,000 customers without power. and that was fewer outages. they were noting. at least that s what they were telling us. at the 8:30 p.m. local time on saturday. and so those numbers at least at that point by comparison of earlier storms hurricanes, not so bad. what are you hearing in terms of utilities? i m not have had any outages here. i have been in the same spot downtown since earlier today. we have been sort of hunkered