Good evening from naples, florida. Im chris hayes. Irma may have been downgraded to a tropical storm, but it continued to wreak havoc as it crawled up the gulf coast of florida today. Bringing flash floods to downtown jacksonville, florida, where storm surge and high tide pushed the st. Johns river to record levels. But most of florida bore the brunt of the storm yesterday as irma came ashore with tripledigit winds and torrential rainfall, knocking out power to 6. 5 million customers across the state, around a third of the states population. Here on the west coast of florida, where we are, the damage thankfully fell short of the worst forecasts, but its still expected to take months, if not years for the area to recover fully. Up in washington, white House Homeland Security adviser tom bossert lloyd out the relief efforts. What we have now is a large scale area of operations. What were trying to do is marshall the resources where they are needed. Its a prioritization effort. We are wor
[ laughter ] and steve bannon unleashed. You couldnt be more dead wrong. America was built on her citizens. What we learn from the man who was trumps chief strategist. Did steve bannon warn the president that firing james comey would be the biggest political mistake in modern history . When all in starts right now. Good evening from naples, florida. Im chris hayes. Irma may have been downgraded to a tropical storm, but it continued to wreak havoc as it crawled up the gulf coast of florida today. Bringing flash floods to downtown jacksonville, florida, where storm surge and high tide pushed the st. Johns river to record levels. But most of florida bore the brunt of the storm yesterday as irma came ashore with tripledigit winds and torrential rainfall, knocking out power to 6. 5 million customers across the state, around a third of the states population. Here on the west coast of florida, where we are, the damage thankfully fell short of the worst forecasts, but its still expected to tak
Lets say im debating pocahontas, right . I promise you ill do this. I will take, you know those little kits they sell on television for 2. Learn your heritage. We will take that little kit and say but we have to do it gently. Because were in the me too generation, so we have to be very gentle. We have to say i will give you a Million Dollars to your Favorite Charity paid for by trump if you take the test and it shows youre an indian. All right, joining us with the latest on this is nbc News White House correspondent kelly odonnell. Kelly, lots going on with the president right now. Hes got this trade war to contend with, hes leading up to his meeting with kim jongun. Mike pompeo is in north korea. And then there was this rally which was remarkable in its breadth and range of people the president decided to pick fights with last night. Reporter it really stood out among rallies which are often attentiongetting for similar things, going after adversaries, crossing lines. This one was rea
This was going. They are very upset because mike pompeo, first in his class in west point and top at his class at harvard, a brilliant and great guy and someone i get a long with very well. They thought they had him stopped. The democrats are obstructionists. Theyre not approving them and taking them out to the maximum 30 hours. Thats a lot of times. 30 hours to interview people that will be approved. 30 hours and people will vote. It is a disgrace. Sandra it is a big day for President Trumps cabinet on capitol hill. Jeff sessions and epa chief scott pruitt going before congress in what are expected to be a series of contentious hearings. We have Fox Team Coverage for you this morning. Peter doocy following those hearings on capitol hill. Charlie hurt standing by for reaction. We begin with chief White House Correspondent john roberts reporting live from the north lawn this morning. When was this decision made . Good morning to you. It was during an Oval Office Meeting with the preside
It down and its there for a terrible provocation. In either case, there is no disagreement that the thing was shot down. It is also worth being doubly, triply clear about the fact that this was a machine. A remotely piloted machine. No u. S. Personnel were physically involved or at risk in the shootdown. The pentagon said the drone was an rq4a global hawk. Im not sure thats what you should use to describe it. This is a large aircraft designed for surveillance. We think of drones as being if you think of commercially available drones, its the size of an Old Fashioned model airplane. This is more like the size of an airplane airplane. The Defense Department released video earlier today that they say shows the american drone being taken out by an iranian surface to air missile. You can sort of see what looks like a trail of smoke after the drone is hit and as it falls toward the earth. This incident happened last night in terms of u. S. East coast time, that means it was just before dawn