Now back to review where weve been. James carville with us tonight as the 11th hour begins. On a tuesday night good evening once again from nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 194 of the Trump Administration. And this day came with an important reminder. Important to remember the investigation of robert mueller. It continued today. He will be back at work tomorrow morning. Tonight reuters reports exclusively that mueller added another lawyer to the expanding team. The 16th attorney so far. His name is greg andresen, a veterans of the obama era Justice Department. As reuters tells it he was Deputy Assistant attorney general in the Criminal Division where he oversaw the fraud unit and managed the program that targeted illegal foreign bribery. And mueller came up today in relation to donald trump, politico has made public a transcript the wall street journal conducted an interview they conducted with the president a week ago. In it a Reporter Asks the president is bob muellers job
In for chuck todd. Welcome to mtp daily. The president seems to be reveling in a divisive culture war of his own making turning the nfl into a literal political football. This at a moment where you might normally expect a president to be more focused on, say, getting his Health Care Agenda through congress or figuring how to get more aid to puerto rico, officials warn of a humanitarian crisis and plead for additional federal resources. We will get to those major issues in a moment. Theres no escaping the fact that this country elected a pop culture president who rode a wave of cultural backlash to the white house. They didnt elect somebody with policy chops on health care or somebody with government experience handling disaster relief. They elected a president who seems to have a zest for the kind of culture war thats ignited when he calls for a boycott of the nfl, unless it fires the s. O. B. S, as he calls them, who kneeled during the National Anthem to protest Police Brutality again
This hyperpartisanship that were in now is unprecedented. I was embarrassed watching today sitting there saying this is who is running our country . Now we know why people want to vote the bums out. The hope is people will say we want better, no matter your stripe, right, left or reasonable but im a lawyer which means ive very, very good at eating chinese food. Or reading body language. What was that . Sounded like you and me after ten drinks on the weekend. Speak for yours. I have to say we have to figure out what were going to do and i dont think the people in washington, many of them, did themselves a service today. Thank you, chris, nice job. This is cnn tonight im don lemon. What we saw on capitol hill was nasty, a hearing that erupted into chaos from the first question, a partisan bare knuckled brawl. Peter strzok going head to head with House Republicans well into the night, defending himself against attacks over his antitrump texts. At no time in any of these texts did those pe
Get it from the president of the United States. John roberts live with more. What makes this special, the window to be recommended for a medal of honor is five years. In candleys case, his friends got together, people that were with him in vietnam and said look, what this guy did in six days of hell between january 31 and february 6 of 1968 is deserving not just of the navy cross, not just of two bronze stars, not just of the purple heart by the highest award that a Service Member can receive. That is a medal of honor. President trump agreed. In a few short moments, hes going to present that medal to him. It was 50 years ago that all of this happened. For sergeant candley to be rewarded for his valor, his heroism, gallantry, its going to be a special moment for him. Its rare that people who have contributed so much to this country so long ago receive the medal of honor at this point in their lives. Its happened before, happened with Henry Johnson back in 2015. That was a posthumous awa
Related to probe fbi action. Now we are proceeding to get additional documents from the fbi. We need to get all of this information out as part of oversight. Final preparations now underway as Hurricane Florence regains its strength in the atlantic. He is actually doing what he said he would do. Amazing thing in itself, isnt it . Ainsley we begin with extreme weather. Final preparations are underway on the east coast as Hurricane Florence is now a category 2. Steve feel are filling sand bags preparing for the worse ahead of what could be a fierce storm likely striking, perhaps, thursday. Brian this is coming out of nowhere. Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina all declaring states of emergency. This comes as u. S. Navy orders warships and submarines to leave the norfolk in virginia and do that today over in virginia beach. Steve right there you can see the cone of uncertainty. We dont know where its going to make landfall. Its all the way from mr. Chesapeake bay down toward por