whether he has a beard or whether he s a combative personality on television. he was somewhat of a typical president s inside of this white house. didn t speak in the same way about rules-based international work that we see on both sides of the political aisle. he was always this outsider in washington regardless of his appearance. i think him being out thereof is, again, a reaffirmation of the general mcmaster, general kelly, the more hawkish traditional voice rs asserting themselves as the power center. no longer bannon or gorka. we ll take another break in our coverage. you could say that we are covering to major newsmakers that are taking place in a circular motion. one of them the trump administration, the other a category 4 hurricane that is battering the coastline of texas. we ll be back with our coverage of both right after this.
regularly for us to see. but those are waves that are not supposed to be coming through that stretch of road between the two hotels in port lavaca, texas. we can t emphasize enough, as most americans head off to bed on a friday night in august, heading into among the last weekends of summer, millions of people along this texas gulf coast are having such a rough time of it tonight. and their problems are just beginning. sadly, there s every possibility that when we re on television, next wednesday night for instance, this storm is still dumping water on a place that can t afford itment on top of that, we ve covered this boisterous night in political news. as busy a friday night as we can remember. these days, a week feels more like a year in the pace of news. our great thanks to all our panelists and journalists and
we watch everything. some things turn into storms and some things rapid intensification make landfall. it s just really a matter of luck and timing is where those things occur. sorry i asked about that rainstorm in florida. i hope the forecasts are wrong and it fizzles. dave nolans, thank you for being so patient with us tonight and for coming on our broadcast. correspondent jay gray is standing by in victoria, texas, where we re watching on the other side of the screen, jay, we re watching the action of the gas station on primrose street that s getting rocked in the wind. reporter: yeah. brian, just a couple of blocks from where we are right now. i can tell you that things have intensified dramatically. we re in a bit of a lull right now thankfully. we ve seen strong gusts. that s only going to intensify. the rain has been constant all
disrespect for the freedom of the press, the way he has threatened the press. not just calling us fake news and we don t love our country. but the way he s threatened to jail reporters. so it s not a surprise. these are two birds of the feather. we were talking about this earlier. hold that thought. we ve reached 11:00 p.m. eastern time. we want to welcome our normal viewers for our broadcast of the 11th hour. somewhat different tonight because we re covering as a matter of breaking news, a category 4 hurricane, hurricane harvey. having made landfall on the coast of texas tonight and a pile of political news on a friday in august from the trump white house. forgive me. i just no for giving needed. i just wanted to say as journalists, we operate on the basis of fact. i think it s important to remind your viewers and listeners what joe arpaio did as the maricopa
back in 1950 and this will rival that we think. ed, you heard bill just talked about your latest path. that s putting together all the data you have, you re pretty certain this won t scoot out over the gulf again. but almost worse, it will just stall or meander just on the land side? that s the worst part about this, is the slowing and perhaps stalling in the area of coastal texas. and because of that, as we ve been talking about, we have a large area of ex he cessive rai. we re expecting at least 20 independence of rain and there could be isolated amounts of 40 inches within that. for our friends in new orleans where they ve had a heck of a time with the system built by the corps of engineers, the city pumps where they don t need