Recount by thursdays dead lyld. And french president Emmanuel Macron with the stinging rebuke of nationalism. Live report from paris on the president s visit. If he stays there, he will create a consequentitutional cr democrats vowing to protect special Counsel Robert Mueller from acting attorney general wha matthew whitaker. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. 1 00 a. M. In california. We start with california with the wildfire and 200 people still missing and 29 killed in the camp fire in Northern California and two killed by the woolsey fire. Two found in their car trying to flee the flames. Six firefighters injured statewi statewide. Ive never been so scared in my life. In Northern California, terrifying drive through flames and heavy smoke as the entire town of paradise of 30,000 people was forced to evacuate at a moments notice. That fire is the most destru destructive in california history destroying 6,700 buildings since it started on thursday.
Escalated to the president. The timing of kellys departure comes as more struggles engulf the white house. Cnn is suing, saying they violated the Constitutional Rights of the network and correspondent jim acosta and trumps pick to temporarily leave the Justice Department is facing a lawsuit. Maryland suing saying the president is bypassing the constitutional and statutory requirements for appointing someone to fill that office. All of that would be enough to mount for a tough day for the white house but theres more. Special counsel mueller is indicting his investigation. Lets start with kristen welker, who is here with me in studio. What a great. Great to be here in person. Whats bubbling to the top in the west wing . We spoke to seven officials, team of reporters, myself, carrie lee, ali jackson, and they all said theres an increasing sense in the administration chief of staff kelly may be on his way out. The reason why is hes clashed with a number of top officials, including the firs
It is freaking everyone out. Also my angle on what the midterm results mean for you, and for this president. Plus, trump takes it to the media. This was unbelievable. I was screaming laughing. And why a ruckus White House Press conference revealed the media has basically learned zipo during these past, two years. And Raymond Arroyo is here. He tacks the big losers of last night, especially the celebrity stars, who started to fall. But, we begin tonight with the news that pushed the mid terms off of the front page. The resignation of Jeff Sessions. All right, sessions departure comes less than two years after he angered trump by reducing himself from the russia probe. The president has repeatedly expressed his frustration over that initial decision to recuse. Stepping in as acting attorney general. Matt wit ker a former attorney general from iowa serving as sessions chief of staff. Trump is said to have a strong personalal rapore with wit ker. At least v for now will oversee the Mueller
There. Hi, doug. We have some new numbers for you. These are tabulated by chad pergram, who is a better counter than i am. Chad has the total for pelosi at 219. The next for Kevin Mccarthy at 192. 18 ballots were cast for other candidates. So nancy pelosi has it. Now, the fact that she has secured the speakership, we enter a new phase of the government shut down. Some say theres a bit more hope here now that nancy pelosi has secured her left flank. Fended off the left flank of the far left wing of the Democratic Party who was threatening to vote against her if she included any border wall funding in any of the bills. So that is taken care of. That said, now that shes won the prize, theres been no change in pelosis position. Shes agreed to take up the two spending bills, which you just mentioned later this afternoon. Broken down in two parts. One of the spending bills would fund six government agencies. The other would fund the department of Homeland Security but would include any fundi
We lost children, mothers, fathers and neighbors and friends. To know alabama is to know that we are tightknit community of people. Today each of us mourns the loss of life of our fella alabamiana. Our hearts go out to all those impacted by the storm. We have a job to do. We must build back lee county. All of alabama is focused on lee county. As your governor, i want you to know that i have got your backseabacks. Well do everything to help the citizens of lee county recover and recover and come back stronger. Staff havs have been working wi emergency officials. This morning, President Trump, called my cell phone and wanted to know about the devastation. I certainly told him we have had tragic loss of lives and property damage. He asked what he could do. I said mr. President , we are working with fema to craft a request for disaster recovery, declarati declaration, we sure appreciate your support. He responded immediately, of course you got my support to the state i love. You folks in a