Elizabeth warren. She will be her and i will be me, and people will make their judgments. Were hoping everything comes out okay, but im kind of freaking out. Inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters, now. Welcome to inside politics. Im manu raju in for john king. Hurricane dorian is closing in on the bahamas. It is slowing down, lurking off the florida and southeastern coastline for much of the week. We will go to the latest forecast in just a bit. We have to start with yet another mass shooting, this time the west texas cities of midland and odessa. Five people are dead, 21 injured. The suspect shot dead by police. Authorities say it started saturday afternoon with a traffic stop on interstate 20 near midland. The man used a rifle to shoot at state troopers, then sped away, taking random shots at passing cars and pedestrians, hijacking a postal vehicle and making his way to odessa, still spraying done fire. The chase ended with a gun battle in a Movie Theater
Office, an absolutely truthful tweet that set the record straight on Hurricane Dorian and alabama. Im going to talk to the former noaa official who predicted last night on this show that Something Like this would happen. Also just how bad will the final toll be in the bahamas . An official warning people to prepare for the unimaginable as the death toll rises to 43 with hundreds or thousands still missing. Were going to take you to one of the hardest hit communities. What is the true cost of the president s family separation policy . This is a story that we dont want to get lost. The government report on the heartbreaking trauma suffered by immigrant children separated from their mothers and fathers. And could a lawsuit in minnesota change the way schools handle racist bullying . Parents say their children were subject to blackface, the nword, and threats of violence. Were going to get to all of that in this hour, but right now i want to talk about the president. The president spending
Emergency preparedness officials are warning there are possible tornadoes as this storm passes. Mississippis governor has joined louisianas in declaring a state of emergency already. We have cnn meteorologist Allison Chinchar with us now who has just gotten an update. What are you learning this hour, allison . Right, the latest update still shows what weve been seeing the last 24 to 48 hours, that the storm is still continuing to intensify. Albeit slowly, but that in and of itself presents a concern because the slower this system moves, the more time it has to dump a tremendous amount of rain. Heres the latest statistics winds still about 65 Miles Per Hour. Keep in mind thats less than ten Miles Per Hour off from being a categoryone hurricane. Were close, were just not quite there. Forward movement is west northwest at about five Miles Per Hour. We need it to start taking that direct northward turn before we can really pinpoints the exact landfall point. We still expect it to be this m
Life. Per yes, maam webster, okay . An assertion of something known by the speaker or believer p writer to be untrue with the intent to deceive. Okay. So with the intent. Here is b. An untrue or inaccurate statement that may or may not be believed true by the speaker or writer. It doesnt matter. Theyre still saying the wrong thing. It is a lie or a misrepresentation of the truth. There are lots of words for it. A lies a lie all day long. Thats exactly right. For these folks to say the president doesnt lie or youre maybe misunderstanding how hes communicating. Come on. Thats rich, but there is a very simple test for it. Is it an excuse that they would offer to their political opponent . If they would say the same thing about their political opponent then theyre fine saying it about this president , but it never is because they do whataboutism on everything. Well, what about when president obama said you can keep your doctor . Being wrong isnt the same as lying. Two plus two is 4 1 2. Wr
We have the latest from our team in the hurricane zone, bahamas and at the white house. I want to get started with Msnbc Ali Velshi on assignment in charleston, South Carolina. Talk about the conditions on the ground. Whats changed . Windier. Gusts of i would guess 50 miles an hour coming in. Give you a sense of it. Im in charleston harbor. The surf is coming in. Were within a few feet of this surf topping the pier were on. Take a look that way. That is southeast. You cant see it now. This is all charleston harbor, which means theres nowhere to go except on land. You can see on a clear day fort sumter over there and then the atlantic ocean. This is 70 miles south southeast of here moving north. Its not going to come it will get very close to us over the course of the next few hours. What weve got, youve got that top left quadrant of the storm. The water is all coming in from the northeast. Were also a couple hours from high tide, so the combination of those two things, youll see it in