Today theyre not announcing exactly when theyre setting these Nuclear Plants to go cold, but interestingly the Energy Department sort of let slip what the time line is going to be. The federal Energy Department let slip tonight that they think turkey point will be shut down tomorrow night and st. Lucie 12 hours later. Who knows when its going to happen but theyre planning a shutdown. For context, the Turkey Point Nuclear plant was supposed to with stand 235mileperhour winds according to its design. But one of the exhaust stacks at that Nuclear Plant actually cracked in half when hurricane andrew hit 25 years ago, even though andrews winds were way below that 235 miles an hour threshold that that plant was supposed to safely take. That explains why there are some of the worries that people have about that particular part of the coastal infrastructure. As of tonight, irma is still a cat 5 hurricane. National Hurricane Center says even though the max wind speeds may fluctuate up and down a little bit, you should expect irma to stay a category 4 or 5 storm for the next couple of days. The storm is now blamed for at least nine deaths across the caribbean. As well as the all but complete leveling of the island of barbuda, which the government says may no longer be habitable. As irma continues i mean the wind speed pictures of it are still just absolutely stunning. Its continuing its track toward densely populated south florida and starting to see over the course of today, local officials in florida basically searching for non four letter words that they can use to convey how strenuously they mean it when they say that people really need to get out now. The mayor of miami beach today told people that as far as hes concerned, he sees this as a nuclear hurricane. Like nothing florida has seen before. Hes telling people who are resisting mandatory Evacuation Orders that the storm is big enough that even if the track changes, even if irma veers offshore, in his words it will still quote envelope us even if the track changes substantially. Obviously officials are telling people in the path of the storm to get out, to get to higher ground. People are being told in no Uncertain Terms that they have to leave. But leaving right now is not necessarily easy depending on where youre starting from. Gas shortages already. Flights sold out. Some roadways jammed. The logistical feasibility of moving yourself and your family out of harms way is starting to become a real issue. There are worries a that that may become a serious factor in some increasingly large parts of florida. Were going to be covering this obviously throughout the course of the storm. Tonight were going to talk with the mayor of ft. Lauderdale. Have a lit hit with the mayor in a moment. Were going to be getting live reports throughout the hour on the storm as it continues its churn through the caribbean. Its passing over turks and caicos right now. Were watching that tonight. In washington today the the big news was that the president s eldest son had too testify to congress about the trumprussia investigation and specifically about his own russia contact during the president ial campaign. Don jr. s discussions with the Judiciary Committee today lasted over five hours. It was held behind closed doors. We dont have footage to show you of him giving that testimony but we did get a copy of his formal Opening Statement so we know what he and his lawyers prepared for him to tell the committee before they started questioning him. We also know a few details of how it went. He was not asked to swear an oath before he testified. But of course whether or not youre formally sworn in under oath you still have to tell the truth. We know a transcript was made of trumps testimony today but it will be up to the committee as to whether or not they ever release that transcript. Hypothetically the transcript could also be released to the special counsels office, to Robert Muellers office depending on if he wanted to see it and depending on what could be worked out between the committee and Robert Mueller and donald trump jr. s own lawyers. We also know that this might have been today the prelude to a second appearance by donald trump jr. At an open hearing, particularly if senators didnt like what they heard from him today. Today donald trump jr. Was questioned only by committee staff. Senators on the committee were allowed to sit in and watch and listen but the senators themselves were not allowed to interrupt or ask their own questions. According to nbc news reporting today, these are the senators who bothered to sit in on donald trump jr. s testimony today. Richard blumenthal from connecticut, chris coons, dick durbin Sheldon White house from rhode island. Were told that senator al franken of minnesota stepped in but only for three minutes. Were told that utah senator orrin hatch came by for about five minutes. If youre doing the partisan math, that means there was only one republican senator there today for a total of five minutes, while the president s son testified for over five hours. As for the senators who did show up, we dont know exactly what they heard but we do know how one of those Democratic Senators responded to donald trump jr. s testimony today. Very shortly, about an hour after trumps testimony wrapped up, the office of delaware senator chris coons sent out this memo. See two interested parties from the office of senator chris coons. Re, donald trump jr. Testimony today. Then it says summary. Below is a statute to keep in mind in regards to donald trump jr. s testimony today and then they posted the entire u. S. Federal statute that makes it a crime to lie to congress. And then this is a lot of things but subtle is not one of them. We dont know what senator coons was hinting donald trump may have lied about today. We called the ask the senator today and we havent yet heard back from his office. But heres the next big shoe that dropped on this story today. The ap and cnn both reported today that one of the things that donald trump jr. Told the senate is that he he doesnt recall anything about the white house or the president himself being involved in crafting the first statement that was written about why donald jr. Went to a meeting with a whole bunch of russians last june at trump tower along with Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort. Quote, donald trump jr. Told Senate Judiciary staffers today that he did not recall the details of white house involvement in the public response to the meeting. In 2016 with a russian lawyer. He told the committee he did not know much about the air force one meeting that allegedly led to the production of his statement. Now, that mysterious top level meeting between the top of the Trump Campaign and russians connected to russian intelligence, we first learned about that from press reports while the president and basically everybody who works at the white house was in europe for the g20 meeting. I remember reporting at the time of the g20 that there was nobody left to answer the phone at the white house because they took freakin everybody on that trip to europe. And then the Washington Post reported on air force one on the way home from that g20 trip thats when the president personally wrote the statement that was released in his sons name about what happened at that trump tower meeting with all of the russians. This is the statement that said it was a short introductory meeting. I asked jared and paul to stop by. We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children that was active and popular with American Families years ago and was since ended by the russian government. That was the statement that was reportedly drafted on air force one by the president on the way home from the g20 summit after the news broke about the trump tower meeting. Now that statement was seriously seriously misleading, even on its face. There is no program about the adoption of russian children. There isnt that. That doesnt exist. Quite the opposite. Putin cut off the ability of american to adopt russian kids as payback for us putting sanctions on russia. Thats as close as you can get to the program that was active and popular with American Families. Even just on its face its misleading. The other reason that statement was misleading is because donald jr. Soon released the emails that led up to that trump tower meeting where the subject line over and over again said nothing about adoptions. This was the subject line. Russia, clinton, private and confidential. And the purpose of that meeting was laid out in comically blunt terms. Good morning, the crown prosecutor of russia met with his father this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump Campaign with official documents and information that would incriminate hillary and dealings with russia and be useful to your father. This is high level Sensitive Information but it is part of russia and its governments support for mr. Trump. Help along by aris and emim. So that was the trump tower meeting. This statement saying that trump tower meeting was a meeting of, what was it, meeting about the program about the adoption of russian children, the statement was just bull. And that false statement was put out in the name of donald trump jr. But the Washington Post later reported that the statement was dictated by the president himself. And then the white house confirmed the president s involvement in that statement saying, the president weighed in as any father would. Well, now, heres the rub, before donald trump jr. Was even done testifying to the senate today, cnn broke the news that the special counsel Robert Mueller is now seeking interviews with white house staff. White house staff specifically who were aBoard Air Force one when the initial misleading statement about the trump tower meeting was crafted. Mueller reportedly wants to know how the statement on Board Air Force one was put together, whether information was intentionally left out and who was involved. Muellers questions could go to the issue of intent and possibly efforts to conceal information during an obstruction of justice investigation. Mueller considers some of the aides on Board Air Force one who helped craft the statement to be witnesses. So we know because of the emails that donald trump jr. Released about the trump tower meeting. We know that the meeting was intended to try to get dirt on Hillary Clinton from the russian government to use against her in the president ial campaign. Thats what we know from the emails that set up the meeting. That was actually corroborated in the Opening Statement that donald trump jr. Made to the senate today under pain of imprisonment if he lied. That was the purpose of the meeting, to get dirt on Hillary Clinton from the russian government. That is no longer a controversial assertion. That is a given. Thats attested to. Proven by the written documentation they put out and attested to by the statement that donald trump jr. Made today made under pain of imprisonment. It was to get dirt on clinton from the russians. Putting out a statement saying that the meeting was about Something Else entirely, well thats obviously mendacious, right, but is it criminal . Are you in trouble if you put out a statement saying that meeting was about something it totally wasnt about . I mean, it seems clear from the conceded facts that the president was personally involved in concocting a statement about that meeting that attempted to disguise the true nature and purpose of the trump tower meeting. To make it seem like something other than his campaign seeking russian government assistance for their efforts against Hillary Clinton in the president ial campaign. If that statement, that effort to cover up the purpose of that meeting is now the subject for the special counsels inquiry, and hes going to Interview White House staff who may have witnessed that act, a, thats really bad news for the president. And b, that means the special counsel has a verify itable papa platter if thats the stuff hes running to ground. If thats what hes investigating, efforts to mislead the public about contacts with russians . Theres a lot to choose from if thats what the special counsel is going to be running to ground. If theres potential criminality. For people who made these misstatements. There are a lot of misleading the public, creating a false pretex type statements that have been made about russia by members of the Trump Campaign and the Trump Administration. A lot of them. Just take the people in the Trump Campaign and the Trump Administration who insisted publicly that there had been no contacts between the Trump Campaign and russians during the president ial contest. And we now know there were. I mean, Paul Manafort said that publicly. Kellyanne conway said that publicly, hope hicks, donald trump junior said that publicly, attorney general Jeff Sessions said that publicly Vice President mike pence said that publicly. I mean, you know what, just take pence alone here. Mike pence did bluntly assert multiple times that there had been no contacts between the Trump Campaign and russians during the campaign. That was false. Mike pence blunt asserted that Trump National security adviser mike flynn had never talked to the russians about sanctions. That was false. Mike pence bluntly asserted that he had no idea mike flynn had foreign business ties, even though pence was running the transition when the transition was notified multiple times in writing and in person by flynns lawyers that yeah, flynn had foreign business ties. Mike pence bluntly asserted that the president fired fbi director james comey because the president got a recommendation to do so from the Justice Department. We now know that Vice President pence received a letter from the president outlining exactly why he wanted to fire james comey a day before the Justice Department even wrote that recommendation. And thats literally just the stuff we know about the Vice President in terms of the lies that we know he has told specifically about russia and thats just the ones i can come up with off of the top of my head. Give me a few days and i can give you quite a list. If the cnn report today is right i know theres a lot going on right now and the testimony of the president s son is itself just an incredible special it goes the speck call in the history of president ial scandal. And this is competing with a lot of other really Important National news in the country right now. But this is potentially a very big deal. If this cnn report today is right and the special counsel who has the ability to prosecute crimes, right . If the special counsel is now investigating Administration Officials for making misleading statements about tie to russia, well, yeah, that donald trump sr. And junior statement lying about the purpose of the trump tour meeting with all the tower. Russians thats a good place to start. But if the special counsel sees it fit to chase down people in the administration or come pain who created false pretext or who lied about contexts with russia or told tall tale to the public to disguise or distract from behavior toward russians. If thats what hes investigating, that investigatory road is going to be a long one. And a lot of people in the administration up to and including the white house communication staff, the sr. Adviser to the president and the Vice President himself and the president s family members, theyre all going to need good lawyers if Robert Mueller is going to start nailing people for that. And just to underscore the seriousness of this, let me close with one more point. To underscore of the seriousness of what theyre facing right now. Just keep this in mind. Donald trumps eldest son and namesake, donald trump jr. Still today was disclosing new contacts between the Trump Campaign and the russians that happened during the campaign. Still today we got new stuff. Today donald trump jr. , according to the statement that he made to the Judiciary Committee, today he revealed three new previously undisclosed comments that he had with emin. He is described in the emails setting up the meeting as one of two people who are helping along russia and its Government Support for mr. Trump in his president ial campaign against Hillary Clinton. You had three phone calls with him that you never disclosed before today . Even today this key figure from the the Trump Campaign, trumps eldest son is disclosing three n