micah, you are a yankee. the center of this presidency is maybe what you said but also on the truth being so devalued that everything is in question. former president joe biden also weighed in on the president s claim of the death toll as a result of puerto rico. that was on the topic of labor in the economy. biden mocked trump for his comments. my dad had an expression for real, he used to say, joey, don t compare me to the all mighty but the alternative. i guess that s the only reason i am looking okay these days because of the alternatives.
top republicans on capitol hill offering mixed reactions to the president s tweet. i was in puerto rico, it was devastated. i have no reason to dispute those numbers. those are the facts of what happens when a horrible hurricane hits an isolated place like the islands. it was a tragedy and difficult problem for all of us here in the country. we should do everything we can to help people in those kinds of circumstances. i would hope he s not saying that democrats are blamed for the death toll. there has been a rush of trying to mistake a katrina moment for the president to say that was toxic for president bush how he handled the storm so let s see if we can do that to president trump as well. well, ei don t know the numbr of deaths but certainly it was
the yankees moment and through a dark metal down the strike. what did dear rrek jeter tol him? he says mr. president, don t bounce it, they ll boo you. how did he respond? all right, i will throw a strike. there was also the wonderful moment where he s driving with rudy giuliani up on the upper west side and everybody is out and rudy giuliani looks out the window and he says every one of these people, mr. president, they voted against you. the story i remember, bush looked out and said usually they re waving with one finger. that s then and this is now. donald trump thinks he s doing a terrific job as president. do his supporters agree with that? we gathered a group of voters here in mississippi yesterday. some backed trump and some
automatic polling shows there will be two of those three main candidates in that race who will run off on november 27th. conventional wisdom, of course, would say it will be espey versus either cindy hyde smith or christy mcdaniel. i know wisdom doesn t mean a we ll lot. but espey, certainly there is a path for secretary espey. but i think it s also important to know just how difficult it will be for a democrat to win if mi in mississippi. i will try to cannell by pest with steve kornacki here. if you look at the last three elections, state wide elections for federal races in mississippi. 17 counties of the 82 counties across the state make up 52 to 53% of the electorate. 16 ofs to 17 counties state wide went republican the closest a democrat came in any of those 16 counties was three points the next closest was 11. wow. it s tough.
judge kavanaugh, we don t know what the accusation is because it was made relatively anonymously. but they ve leaked what the accusation is, which is not even worth us repeating on this air because we don t know. it s just a leak. right. what they leaked, the true danger of it is what they leaked was a whisper. a whisper. that the fbi is not pursuing. it was referred to fbi and the fbi is not pursuing it. let s get to the latest on hurricane florence. we re going to go to bill karins right now. bill, what is the latest track on this storm? we re watching the landfall. we re watching for declaration from the hurricane center any minute now. the story overnight was in new bern, north carolina, 10-foot storm surge. at one point the city had 150 people requesting water rescues in the middle of the night with