That red flag is a warning to the beachgoers here, going into the water today is not a good idea. There are rip currents. Theres building surf. So in that sense there is a growing indication of what is, indeed, coming. Hurricane nate will be a category 1 possibly a category 2. That can cause people a false sense of security. Not only here in alabama, but in new orleans, as we look in new orleans in and around the area, can you see folks have been getting sands bagging operationsnd way. Thats because the city lies low. Also there is an additional problem. The pumps of the 120 pumps there, more than a begin pumps if recent weeks have failed. When they fail the water can then cause flooding in certain areas. Thats why in new orleans, there are now some mandatory evacuations in certain parts of the city t. Power Company Spending the day yesterday as well as today making sure that the power lines are attended to. Ideally, those power lines will stay in place, especially for the pumps. The p
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. A source says Michael Cohen is prepared to tell Robert Mueller that donald trump knew about that meeting before it happened. He did not participate in any meeting about the russia transaction. The president . The president did not. Im happy to tell him, he wasnt there. He wasnt at the meeting. The meeting with the russians. How can you be sure that the president didnt know beforehand . Youre saying its just a he said, he said. Nobody can be sure of anything. Earlier this evening, a long time former Trump Organization employee said this about the possibility of such a meeting occurring without trumps knowledge. Based on my experience working with trump and everybody that worked for trump, something major, something newsworthy, something press worthy, would always go before trump. Always. I think that he would have told donald about the meeting and then if it didnt amount to anything, it would have
The 11th moThe 11th Hour gets on a monday night. Good evening from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 557 of the Trump Administration, 99 days now until the mid term elections. And this might go down as the day we witnessed a change resulting in the new defense strategy. On the part of the trump team. Its about something Rudolph Giuliani has started to say, and tonight, mark at the New York Times has put it this way. In the days after the 2016 president ial election, Donald Trumps advisers had an unequivocal message about contacts between russians and members of the campaign team. There were none. In the ensuing months as numerous such communications were revealed the message changed. There was no collusion with russias effort to disrupt the election. On monday President Trumps
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Which was four of the six. That meeting never ever took place. It didnt happen. Its a figment of his imagin
just for the summations now, you can t bring the president there for the whole trial because people say, well, doesn t he have better things to do than sit here for a week, but for summations for a few hours, it would not have been inappropriate to do that s interesting. so you think a president biden being in there would have been helpful? i m sure that discussion was had between the biden family and abbe lowell and they decided against it. and i can understand there are reasons to decide against it, but if you do bring the president there, it does show respect for the system that he s there sitting as a father interested in the fate of his son, but he s not there. and you would have to acknowledge it. he s not there as the president of the united states he s there as the father of hunter biden? yeah. i mean, it is remarkable. abbe lowell going 90 minutes today with the jury was closing their eyes and some points. is that a bad sign look, it s it s not great, but you
are engaged in. in liberal, democratic enterprise. thinking about our own coverage on msnbc and the people that we have talked to. the legal experts and the pundits pick you can go through with a fine tooth comb. there was not a moment in our coverage. when all of us were covering the daily trial and covering the transcripts and getting reporters updated. i do not think there was a moment when we said something went wrong there. there was something in this trial for something that has been decided that seems very suspect. or that is going to get up yield. it was never a moment like that. that was true when we were to not know what the result was going to be. to have a non-results driven and honest and fair take on