they have four shelters opening this morning at this hour here. they can hold about 4,000 people. but the evacuation order right now under way for zone a is about 40,000 people. so they re hoping that they will use those shelters as a last resort and go find family or friends on the east coast of florida or just get out of town. i spoke with the spokesperson for the emergency operations center here in punta gorda and he told me that their motto is hide from wind and run from water. he said a wall of water is not your friend. so you don t want to stick around here in punta gorda. certainly the north of here as you know, there is a lot of concern and the tampa area, the st. peterburg mayor certainly has been voicing his concern saying this could be the storm that they never hoped would come to their shores. and, of course, the director of the national hurricane center saying that this could be the storm of a lifetime and the near worst case scenario for tampa bay and that is be
predicated in large part on president trump invoking the insurrection act. and that speaks to the need to reform the insurrection act itself. restraining the potential for abuse of power by making it clear that it can t be used to impose martial law and must be congressional and judicial oversight. yes, it is darkly ironic to see cos playing super patriots, but it is also a reminder we can no longer take democracy s norms for granted. the guardrails around our democratic republic must be strengthened now, with legal accountability, and legislative reforms, to stop any future insurrections before they start. and that s your reality check . john avlon, thank you. new this morning, meta shutting down covert social media influence campaigns reportedly run from russia and china. plus
and ally of former president trump, a documentary film crew captured him talking about violence before election day itself, not that he seemed to care what the actual votes actually showed. excellent [ bleep ] the [ bleep ] the violence, [ bleep ] the voting, let s get right to the violence. shoot to kill. see an antifa, shoot to kill. [ bleep ] them. done with this [ bleep ]. let s hope we re celebrating. i suspect it will be i suspect it will still be up in the air. when that happens, the key thing to do is to claim victory. possession is 9/10 of the law. no, we won. you re wrong. [ bleep ] you. what they re assuming is the election will be normal. the election will not be normal. oh, these are the california results? sorry, we re not accepting them. we re challenging them in court. if the electors show up at the
comey backing off of the investigation into general plan. meghan: kellyanne conway not pulling out president trump invoking executive privilege to block his testimony producing that the president will make the final decision on that. i m going to go to your first, ambassador, bolton. what do you think we can expect from the testimony, everybody is looking forward to seeing what he has to say. john: one of the most pompous presentations and all of history. this will be about the greater glory of james comey. he has a memorandum of conversations that he wrote after several meetings with the president. mam calms they are called. it used to be a slogan that nobody ever lost the battle of the memcons. there is some trepidation by donald trump, standing form for american liberty. he will be wonderful, really, he could write the hollywood script right there. meghan: do you think we will have an inquiry clarity? finding out if he was pressured to lay off the investigation from president