that s what vegas is. vegas is unique. but i ll tell you one thing. you go to the airport here, everybody s smiling. when they come in they re smiling and they can t wait to lose their money. and then when they leave they re smiling after they lost their money. so, i think it s very, very special. it s a special kind of place where peoplean take their basest instincts, and just l it, let it fly. i think that s good! i have no problem with that at all. anthony: when you come to vegas, you see this. the lights and smoke and mirrors, the casino floors. but who manages the machine? where do they come from? beneath the floors, behind the walls, above the winking surveillance camera lenses a whole other world. manned by thousands and thousands of waiters, maintenance people, repairmen, chefs, engineers, plumbers, and croupiers. three shifts a day they slip in and out of the casinos almost unseen through their own entrances.
we watch bus after bus after bus come in to reunion arena and come into the church answers other civic buildings during katrina. my expectation, though i don t know for sure, would be that buses are lining up and on stand by and ready to go to parts of houston and the affected areas, where they can get to, and literally load people up and bring them up safe 45. 45 just under water in some parts we just saw. a lot of work to do in early hours here. i guess the take away here is listen to local authorities. they have a plan. mark on the phone for us this morning. thank you, sir. okay, coming up, storm posing a big test for president trum. . set it fly to texas tomorrow. no word on exactly what part of texas. what s to make of the federal response thus far? that s next on a special early start.
as a result the criminal defense bills will mount too. toipt thank our guesting for helping us in this life coverage of this presidential speech. . i m not sure we ve done it the right way by interrupting the president and pointing out when he is lying. but it is a unique situation to have a president go out to the american public like this on live television and lie this way. james fallows david k. johnston. mayor ellen, jennifer thank you for joining us thank you for helping us through the hour. stay with us live and msnbc because the live coverage of this presidential speech continues now into the 11th hour with brian williams. the breaking news we covering donald trump let s it fly in arizona. he reargues his response to charlottesville. he launch as huge knew attack on the media some by name and in the next sentence insists he loves all the people of our country. he also said there weren t as many protestors outside as promised. and about the business of the presidency when
and that vehicle is performing like a champ, like all of us had worked so long knew that she would. i think we ve got something that s really going to mean something to the country and the world. the astronauts have about 14 more hours in space before they touch down tomorrow in california s mojave desert. we were in l.a. and we heard the sonic boom. that was it, that was it. it s coming down. there it is. putting that all together and the technology to make it fly, and then landing is remarkable. nothing like it. had ever been done. i said it worked. the damn thing worked. the day will come, according to nasa, that a launch will be so routine that the press and television won t even bother to cover it. 30 weeks later, after columbia had been returned to the kennedy space center, astronauts joe engel and dick truly flew into space again.
camaraderie and trust and dialogue and communications, you can move forward. i would hope that maybe the administration, the white house, would learn that by building up these relationships an awful lot would get accomplished and an awful lot would maybe not get leaked out. i really can t say. bill: let me pose it this way. pete hoekstra a former congressman was michigan was on the program. he is convinced the leaks are coming from the white house. you spent time with the president. do you believe that to be the case? i m not going the say that. i don t have any indication or knowledge of that whatsoever. i think the president is straight forward. he tweets or says what he thinks and sometimes he will go ahead and let it fly without giving it a whole lot of repercussion politically what s going to happen. bill: if it is coming from the white house, what does that mean? what does that tell you? well, if that s the case, i would hope they would declassify it in a different way. i