whelan, who has been held he s charged 16 years condemned to prison. also for spying, alleged spine and then another american mark vogel. so it s very complicated and very serious, and we should note i mean, we know russian authorities have made many baseless claims against foreign journalists before, but interesting to see that you know, the kremlin spokesperson dmitry peskov saying that you know this journalist was caught. red handed whatever that means. just looking at some of his recent reporting jill for the wall street journal focusing on you know russia s deteriorating economy because of the war, but also reporting from the front lines as in bad mood and elsewhere. nothing notably a critical i would say, but knowing that the wall street journal has been has had a presence in russia for many years decades, i mean, why might evan gersh devic. why may have he been targeted by the fsb? you
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jacqui: dixie wild fires barely a quarter pertained. christina coleman joins us from los angeles on what s being described as a monster fire here, christina. christina: that s right, jacqui. massive last night the dixie fire has scorched 1700 square miles, larger than the size of new york city. the sheriff s county office says 5 of the town s residents are still missing. search efforts are under way. the fire, though, raging on and forced mass evacuations and destroyed 370 structures and threatened 1400 more after burning for nearly a month straight it s only 21% contained. i m healthy, whatever. start over. so it ll be hard but i will manage. my prayers go out to
authorities from all over this area trying to help this community figure out how such a horrible thing could happen. employees minds were on the weekend. now their lives are changed forever. ron allen, thank you so much. joining us from virginia beach this morning. let s turn to politics and the debate over special counsel robert mueller s message. raging on. his unexpected appearance is leading washington to parse comments like this one. the opinion says that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. attorney general bill barr delivering a rebuttal of sorts yesterday. saying he thought mueller could have reached a conclusion. the new york times sums up a divide with this headline, mueller delivered a message, washington couldn t agree on what it means. joining us democratic strategist, former adviser to hillary clinton s campaign in south carolina and boston radio
it s not a matter of course. we have had sanctions against russia. this is at a time where it s after russia has invaded the ukraine and we ve had frosty relations. it s odd to meet with the russian ambassador and even more so to do it in a heated campaign where the issue of russia is in such heat and discussion. hillary had done an ad or had done a video about russian connections to the trump campaign. to do that strikes me as ridiculous. you showed this video of donald trump saying that he has total confidence in jeff sessions and that s what was worrying people. his confidence in jeff sessions was really worrying to me that we could have an independent investigation because, at the end of the day, this investigation is about donald trump and his campaign and his connections to the russians. and david, jeff sessions was trying to slow things down today by his recusal and now the story, of course, keeps raging on. we have reports tonight that jared kushner was also involved in meeti