Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. With the new details of the storm barreling towards the atlantic coast, florence is a category 4 hurricane, and the latest update from the National Hurricane center says it is on a collision course with the carolinas. So far the governors in north and South Carolina and virginia and maryland all declaring states of emergency. A massive evacuation is under way. More than 1 million residents and tourists are expected to flee the coastal areas ahead of a powerful storm surge anticipated over the next few days. This is still a very dangerous storm. We must take it very seriously. The weatherman here and others are all predicting that this is a unpredictable storm. We must be vigilant. We are in a very deadly and important game of chess with hurricane florence. Joining me now is msnbcs Marianna Atencio along the North Carolina coast, and msnbc michelle grossman, and michelle, first to you, and looking at the storm track, and what are we preparing to, and th
Currents. The midterms. Youve got the midterms. Im not so sure this is all breaking in the direction that democrats and democratic active theists. Also, rodney good job. Good tease. You kept it short. Hes going to the make a speech. Oh, no. Were you in congress . It was the spring of 199 7. No, but that was good. It was good. Stop and then you move on. Bbcs caddy kay. This is international know your value day. Your book is being released. It is. This morning in australia already they have thank you, willie. They have gone in sydney to the opera house and stacked a pile up and started burning them. What . I mean burning torches and cheering for you. Can i take over and read the news. . But thank you, it is you have your outfit. Ive got my uniform. Im steve jobs. Im going to wear this every day on my book tour. Looks great. And his bank account. Do you remember when i wore my same sweater for three years . Even in the summer. Yeah, the first fthe food fr thanksgivings ago. Oh, thank you.
Convenience, and our leaders are part of the problem in an instance when we are looking for solutions. They have not hammered out their own standard for how to treat allegations like this on capitol hill. Theyre still using our money as far as we know. The president is all but disqualified from being a moral guide given what he has been alleged to have done and how he has spoken about people in situations like dr. Fords. Leaders from his party have surrendered high ground for Common Ground with the president on matters of political convenience. As a result, this is unlikely to be satisfying, but at least, at least the two sides will be heard. Its a low bar, but you know what . It wasnt certain that we would even get that until later on this afternoon. Theres Something Else that we need in these situations that has not been allowed to date, and i know this is not comfortable to talk about, and i know some people wont be comfortable with what i say. But we need to be able to struggle in
Tonight in the wake of a second on the record accusation of Sexual Misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanagh, the white house and the Republican Party have embarked on a coordinated counter offensive to save kavanaghs nomination. And theyve done it by casting the alleged victims as part of the Smear Campaign orchestrated by the left. This is starting to feel like a vast left wing conspiracy. This is shameful, shameful Smear Campaign has hit a new low. It is amazing to me that these allegations come out of nowhere at the last minute and that they werent brought up earlier in this process. And its not untypical for our friends on the other side to pull that kind of crap. For people to come out of the woodwork from 36 years ago and 30 years ago and never mentioned it, all of a sudden it happens. In my opinion, its totally political. It is totally political. In a letter this morning kavanagh complained of character assassination and wrote, these are smears, pure and simple. H
Previous president got in the game. The politics of division and resentment and paranoia has, unfortunately, found a home in the Republican Party. Much more on Barack Obamas reemergence a bit later on in this broadcast here tonight. First, the current president is escalating his effort to find and unmask the anonymous author of that explosive oped piece in the New York Times. And today, unbothered by what the president would do if that happened, donald trump suggested using his Justice Department to do just that. Do you think Jeff Sessions should be investigating who the author of the oped piece was . I think so, because i think its National Security. I would say jeff should be investigating who the author of that piece was. Because i really believe its National Security. Is there an action that should be taken against the New York Times for publishing it . Were going to see. Im looking at that right now. Im looking. You said last night that its treason, what happened. In this country,