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Its a privilege to work with this extraordinary team. I thank them for their constant work and love of craft. I thank you for the privilege of your time. That wraps up the hour. Andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. Right now on Andrea Mitchell reports, Robert Menendez and his wife appeared for their arraign money and pleaded not guilty in manhattan on federal Bribery Charges. The senators grip on his seat slips with a growing majority of his democratic colleagues calling for his resignation. Its debate night at the Reagan Library. Seven republican primary candidates try to break away from the pack. The heavy favorite, former president trump, skipping the debate but heading to an event for striking auto workers in michigan. The house and senate remain far apart on a way to avert a Government Shutdown three days from now. Breaking news overseas. Travis king, the american soldier who crossed into north korea in july, is back in u. S. Custody. Officials say happy to be back.
fighting since the start of israel s ground operation in gaza, just as families of hostages demand urgent action to save them. also ahead, six people killed in a shooting spree in texas, a suspect now in custody. investigators trying to piece together a potential motive. and the atmospheric river that is totally drenching the west prompting some dramatic rescues. is there any end in sight to the torrent of water? thanks for joining us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we are just hours out now from the next republican debate, and donald trump, who won t even be on the stage is dominating the headlines for stunning comments about a potential second term. the former president refusing to say that he will not abuse his power should he return to the white house telling fox s sean hannity he won t be a dictator, except for day one. under no circumstances you are promising america tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody
turn them away, the sort of scandals with adult film stars, the revoling door of people getting fired, that was okay, but once they started losing lech s elections, that s what did him in. let s talk about the decision by the attorney general late friday to name special counsel jack smith to oversee the trump probes, both of the probes. and trump immediately damned him. so if he thought he was going to get some kind of political distancing that would satisfy the trump base, certainly, that doesn t happen. what did he accomplish by laying it off, since he has to end up making the decision himself. is this going to be a recommendation from the special counsel to the attorney general. he s still going to have to make the, shall we prosecute or not? this strikes me as one of those decisions that janet reno used to say, i ll be damned if i do and damned if i don t, so i might as well just do what i think is the right thing. so that may have been merrick garland s calculus here.
you know it s hard to know what happens next. it s difficult to see though and even for someone as talented as brown and someone who obviously needs help. give him another chance here. and even a team that will needs wide receiver this offseason. i don t know how you can go to antonio brown. his focus is not football right now. it s clear. and reverend al was talking about how the guy needs help. nfl teams that are greedy for wins and greedy for more r fans watching the show and bigger highlights. this guy needs help before he goes back on a football team because again just as you said one problem after another and one accusation another. he needs help and there needs to stop being this revoling door. there is a lot of enabling around him. we are talking about brady being