strait every day and it s going to the europeans and the scrap knees, among other. and the chinese. and the chinese. if you consider oil a tangible commodity, all of them have a stake. so do we. a choke point such as the strait of hormuz, for the president to say it doesn t affect us because we only take 10% of our oil from the gulf, we re self sufficient, is frankly not accurate, because we re affected by the way the price of oil is set. we ll hear from the president himself. we ll stand by and talk on the other side. the president in the oval offic office. okay. thank you very much. in a matter of moments i ll be signing sanctions on the supreme leader of iran, the office of the supreme leader of iran and many others. it follows a series of aggressive behaviors by the
co compare to what you have been through in the past? well sh, this storm crept up on quick hi in the last 2 1/2 days. we were watching it and i had direct contact with governor scott and the team inle tallahassee, and katrina to the west of us, and we were watching it, and it was coming on as as a cat 4 and we had to be prepared and you want to be proactive and not reactive and as you have been reporting many times, we are very prepared for these storm storms, and you know, our residents know what to do in a time like this. and well, we wish you all of the best, mr. mayor, and thank you for joining us. batten down and stay safe and thank you for being with us today. and best of luck. thank you, andrea. joining us is craig fugate, the former fema edadministrator and we understand that brock long is in the president s oval offic office, and talking to the president about it, and saying that the entire gulf area could be hit with the storm. yeah, i think that if you are
me up nights. i made the decision to run for office because i was trying to help people, instead it turned into something that was used to attack our family, my husband s career and the entire fbi. joining us in washington, columnist at the washington post, ruth marcus. here on set, former adviser to president george w. bush, mark mckinnon, he s co-creator and executive producer of showtime s the circus along with the man to my left john heilemann out with season three a week from sunday and it will be a big one. you have big stuff up your sleeve we can t talk about but trust me, tune in. ruth, i want to start with you and ms. mccain s op-ed. did you approach her and what was your pitch to get her to write in the washington post ? well, it started the weekend before last with an op-ed from her husband who had been fired, famously, the previous friday night and we approached his folks and asked him to write and
market approach. tom, it s john heilemann. i want to take you back to six weeks ago when you in a fit of passion knocked out a column that lit up the world where you wrote that america was facing a code red moment and that the biggest threat to democracy in this country sat in the oval offic office. you weren t supposed to file a column, you put it online and people went nuts and responded to it. i wonder where you think six weeks later given the jam packed nature of our news cycle, a lot has happened, are we still in code red? something beyond code red? what s the read on the threat you see posed to american democracy by the president of the united states? john, i feel more strongly than ever in everything that s happened. that the biggest threat to our democracy is sitting in the oval office. we have a president who s a disturbed person.
having to remain silent that she was able to tell it to the public. and it s such a moving story of an emergency room physician encouraged to run for public office to protect people that need medicaid to be able to go into the emergency room, bring their children in, bring their mothers in and their fathers in. it really is a moving story about how somebody wanted to get involved in public service and how terribly it went. and we didn t even read in this op-ed when the president of the united states told andrew mccabe to tell his wife that she was a loser. the hatefulness of this president, the inhumanity of this president knows no end but i have to say of all the many terrible things he d about many people, including those that i love, that was perhaps the low