Day 960 of the Trump Administration. That means we are 40 days from the 1,000day mark, which is equal parts mythical and meaningless, and around here it means, by the way, that broadcast first came on the air three years ago tonight. But i digress. This nation and our bahamian neighbors spent this week tracking and dealing with and running from Hurricane Dorian. It also consumed our president s week, though, not in the usual way. He has spent days trying to prove he was right in warning that alabama was in the path for impact from the hurricane. Its very important to him. Hes returned to it about a dozen times on social media. Then there was this, of course, in the oval office, the map, the work of government storm forecasting professionals with an added handdrawn loop to extend the cone of uncertainty to, you guessed it, alabama. According to a white house official it was trump who used a sharpie to mark up the map, though nbc news hasnt matched that particular bit of reporting. Trump
The very first escalator in the entire state. What . Stairs that move . Except at that point alaska wasnt even a state yet. Wally hickle was a key part of alaska lobbying to become a state. He started lobbying for that years before it finally happened in 1959. And then wally hickle became the governor of the new state of alaska seven years later in 1966. So wally hickle was one of those sort of only in america, incredible man of action success stories. Culminating with him becoming very rich and becoming governor of his state. After serving as governor, he ascended still higher. He left alaska, came to washington, d. C. , because president Richard Nixon named wally hickle to become part of his cabinet. To become the new secretary of state the interior. He expected wally hickle to be a down the line probusiness prodevelopment, prodrilling kind of guy. But wally hickle did his own thinking and ended up being sort of way too much of a mixed bag for nixon even right from the start. By the
Now, reporting live from the fox news desk. Spew our reporting begins with the Israeli Government reporting you will are two americans from visiting the country. It happened after President Trump tweeted that it will show great weakness for israel to allow lawmakers into the country. Democratic congresswoman ilhan omar of minnesota and of michigan were said to visit the west bank. Aside from being the president s political opponents, the congresswomen support a boycott against israel due to its treatment of the Palestinian People and Prime Minister there says that gets in the legal right to ban them. The truth as he knew what their position two weeks ago, when the israeli ambassador to the United States said their entry would be allowed. In the end israel controls who visits its occupied territories and in this case the president tweets, Benjamin Netanyahu for bids. Trey yanks reporting live from jerusalem. Shep, the Israeli Government making lastminute decision from banning these cong
With children in their arms kicked off a ferry headed for the United States, the confusion prolonging their suffering and who it is that messed up. Thats coming up. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. The politics lead, President Trump saying that talks with the taliban are dead as he attempts to defend his now canceled plan to host the taliban leaders at camp david, days before the anniversary of the 9 11 attacks, attacks for which the taliban has even in recent weeks expressed support. Cnn is learning that Vice President pence and National Security adviser john bolton advised President Trump that would be a bad idea. But the president calls that report fake news and the Vice President weighing in with a slyly written tweet, quote, thats absolutely right, mr. President , more fake news, the Vice President tweeted. The Dishonest Media never contacted our office before running with this story, he continued, which is not accurate in cnns case. The Vice President s spokesman is quoted ri
The 1,000day mark, which is equal parts mythical and meaningless, and around here it means, by the way, that broadcast first came on the air three years ago tonight. But i digress. This nation and our bahamian neighbors spent this week tracking and dealing with and running from Hurricane Dorian. It also consumed our president s week, though, not in the usual way. He has spent days trying to prove he was right in warning that alabama was in the path for impact from the hurricane. Its very important to him. Hes returned to it about a dozen times on social media. Then there was this, of course, in the oval office, the map, the work of government storm forecasting professionals with an added handdrawn loop to extend the cone of uncertainty to, you guessed it, alabama. According to a white house official it was trump who used a sharpie to mark up the map, though nbc news hasnt matched that particular bit of reporting. Trump was asked about the alteration earlier this week. And that map look