Good morning to you. It is tuesday, november 1st. Im betty nguyen alongside alex witt. All eyes on the fbi as the country waits for more developments in the investigation of Hillary Clintons private email server. In letters responding to complaints from democratic lawmakers yesterday, the Justice Department promised that it will work closely with the fbi and take appropriate steps as swiftly as possible. Investigators made a duplicate of the hard drive from a laptop computer belonging to Anthony Weiner and are now going through it. An automated process will narrow down the emails that are not clintons, then down to ones that were created while clinton was secretary of state, and then searching for emails that were not previously seen by investigators for classified information. That does not answer complaints about director comey revealing these developments on the second to last weekend before the election. White house spokesman john earnest said the president would neither criticize
Agreement amongst republicans. The president s second executive order on immigration is about to take effect. A new legal challenge could stop it. The northeast bracing for a monster storm that could bury some under 2 feet of snow. It gets loose. There is trouble on pit row. Kyle busch blood on the forehead there. Going to get it. Any blows landed between the two of you . None to me. Life in the fast lane slowly make you lose your mind life in the fast lane. Brian well, the one guy everyone in nascar is they have great personalities like hockey players. The one guy speak for you, steve, was joey logan thata he was like the nicest kid he. Ainsley i love going to hockey games for that drink beer and drink a fight. Now you can go to nascar. They love country music. They love america. They fight. They race. They go fast. Brian is this an episode of cheers . Whats going on. Like to drink beer and fight. Ainsley saw some blood. They will probably kiss and make up later. Right . He did someth
John heilemann, senior Political Editor for the huffington post, sam stein, National Political correspondent for the Washington Post karen tim mull tea along with willie geist and Mike Barnicle in new york. So much has happened even in the past 24 hours, former fbi director Robert Mueller immediately takes over the Justice Departments investigation of russian interference in the 2016 campaign. He is now in charge of prosecutors and fbi agents in multiple field offices. Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein made the appointment yesterday. Rosenstein is overseeing the doj Jeff Sessions recused himself. Nbc news was told the White House Office was informed about the appointment of the special counsel after the order was find. Stop right there. David ignatius, a lot of people have liked to say since january 20th, theres a new sheriff in town. When the white house is notified after the special counsel there really is a new sheriff in town. There really is a new sheriff in town. Lets just s
History, maria that s that is the strongest telephoner make land fall. Im more concerned about st. Croix right now. Its about 30 miles from there right now. We have winds over 72 miles per hour. Theyre in the heavy band of rainfall now, already lashing puerto rico. But what i want to talk about, what we saw in the last couple hours was around the eye youll see a bright, brighter secondary band. So it was undergoing this eyewall replacement cycle. What that means is sometimes they can lose a little strength. It didnt. But when it does go through the process, the hurricaneforce winds fan outward. That is happening. So were not seeing a drop in the winds. Were just seeing them push outward. The pressure is another indication of how strong these hurricanes are. And right now the pressure is lower in maria than it was on irma. We have storm surge threat for the Virgin Islands. Weve got 6 to 9 foot storm surges for puerto rico, more concern about the wind and rainfall there. The core moves i
Headquarters in new york, where its 6 00 a. M. In the west. 9 00 a. M. In the east. The white house refusing to comment on remarks reportedly made by an aide to President Trump decrying a cancerstricken john mccain. Does the president set the tone . Does he bear responsibility for the tone within this white house . Youre going to hear the official response to that question. And reaction on whos to blame for a couple of recent reported incidents around the white house. Ugly war of words, giuliani tangles with Stormy Daniels attorney and proclaims that the president will not sit down with Robert Mueller at least until Something Else happens. Were going to explain. And a new report that looks at whether special prosecutor Robert Mueller will be interviewing ivanka trunk and jared kushner. Another incident at a waffle house, this time in North Carolina. Sporking calls for a boycott. We begin with a live picture of the white house continuing to downplay the millions of dollars paid to Presi