Saw a flare being fired into or being thrown into a police suv. The police also took that out. That fire we saw was just a few minutes ago. These are live pictures of kptv in oregon, the official protest cancelled, we have seen now just dozens and dozens of these people, basically just moving freely through the streets, kicking in windows at several stores, sara sidner has been in seattle, and she joins us now at the protest that is going on in portland. Sarah, this protest in portland, the official protest was cancelled, but theres clearly a number of people that the police are describing as anarchists who seem to be moving down a block in an uncontrolled way at this point. Reporter yeah, i think
been destroyed. And so there is a lot of consternation there, where there are folks here who are concerned about that same group, the antifa, or antifascists. They sometimes call themselves far left. Youre actually seeing a Police Vehicle with tactical units, basically hanging on either side
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Does not change even as this Story Changes dramatically. We know there could be legal consequences. That aside, are there political . Well, thats one of the interesting things because weve weve seen these tweets over the past couple of days. This tweet about Jeff Sessions which a lot of legal analysts and experts have said, boy, that could really do you damage in a court of law, that could be obstruction, that could contradict the other statements. But in the court of Public Opinion and what President Trump believes and what his advisers believe is that attacking this investigation is really the best way to succeed in that court of Public Opinion. And there was definitely a shift after the Michael Cohen raid and weve seen in recent months about the president racheting up his attacks on this Mueller Investigation and im told that is because he very much believes and his lawyers advised him that this as a sitt
not. joining me now david urban, former trump campaign strategist. thanks for being with me, david. thanks for having me, poppy. how are you? i m good. kasich is right, look at the polling numbers, balderson at 44% and danny o connor at 43% in a district that the president won by 11 points and district the republicans have held on almost as long as i ve been alive, three decades. is kasich right, this isn t a slam dunk because of the president? not surprisingly governor kasich is taking a jab at the president and given their rocky past, i don t think that s any surprise. and poppy, look, in all of these races, all of these special elections especially candidates matter. candidates matter to a great deal. if you go back and think about where the democrats have been successful this these tight races and ralph north rum and conner lam in pennsylvania and danny o brien and these folks
the legislation is going to to pass the house in its current form? thank you for having me. let me say this, the bill in its current form is problematic for a few reasons, one, the medicaid provisions are changing, it does not pro governor s kasich, sandoval have also i would tell you too that the states aren t given enough flexibility for resources to deal with medicaid. second the tax credits are not sufficient for many people who will transition from medicaid on to the exchanges. they will not be able to afford insurance, meaning that they will go naked or bare. and the amendment that has been proposed i believe makes it more
absolutely not go into the administration and it would be a black eye they would have to defend for their rest of their career and there s others who are eager to be in the white house. is kasich coming in? they say this is the only game in town and they re going to hold their nose and do it. it could be eight years. it definitely will be four. i ll tell you something you haven t thought of perhaps and that is if vladimir putin has donald trump coming and going. he arguably helped donald trump get elected president, now he may hold the fate of donald trump in his administration in his hands because the people who know what really has gone down with donald trump and his people are the russians. everything was recorded, probably. the russians are masters. if you think the russian ambassador is just an ambassador you haven t been watching the americans. thank you. thank you. all diplomats are at some level intelligence. anyway, thank you, that s a strong statement there.