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Transcripts For MSNBCW Weekends With Alex Witt 20190831

And moving slowly. What it means for the entire east coast. We have the latest on that. An alarmed public still buying gas and groceries. We have the latest in a live report. Secret snapshot. Why this tweet by the president is stirring controversy. What it is and why it may have been classified. She said she was drinking a little bit and she was with reporters, and everything she said was off the record. And thats not all. A new tweet from the president today about his ousted assistant, the soap operalike episode unfolds in the case. Of course, were beginning with the very latest on Hurricane Dorian. It is still a powerful category 4 storm with updated wind gusts of 150 miles an hour. It is now moving slowly at 8 miles an hour, possibly moving toward the carolinas. Georgia has declared a state of emergency, North Carolina and South Carolina as well. Hurricane force winds are expected over the bahamas tonight and could reach the florida coast sometime by monday. Floridians, however, have been feverishly boarding up, stocking up as well on supplies, water, food and gas. And although that storm is slightly changing course, officials warn that heavy rains and high storm surge are still on the way. Dont make any assumptions. Remain vigilant and be prepared. Even if it doesnt directly strike florida, this is a big, powerful storm. Youre still looking at really significant storm surge on the east coast to florida. Youre looking at major flooding events. And at the Kennedy Space center in cape canavaral, officials said this morning they are taking no chances with Hurricane Force winds. Events have been moved indoors until after dorian passes. Were tracking the very latest on this hurricane with forecasters for you. First up lets go to meteorologist Michelle Grossman and get the very latest on the tracking. Slight tracking, a little bit different direction now, but pretty significant, sara . Pretty significant. It has exceeded expectations from day one. Still category 4 storm winds at 150 miles an hour. It doesnt take an image to see this is a strong storm. Its only getting stronger over very warm waters. Thats like fuel for a car and well see that increase over the next several days. Lets take a look at the track because we did have some pretty big changes. We are still seeing a category 4 storm as we go throughout time here. By sunday, over the northwestern bahamas, if you live in that area, you want to heed any warnings from your local officials. Well look at devastating winds, also lightning surge rz and r very heavy pitfall. We saw a shift to the east and in our latest advisory of 11 00. That is better news for our friends in eastern florida. Were definitely going to be talking about additional changes. But the latest track showing us that were a little further to the east. Ples dont put your guard down, though. Youre still going to be. Look what happens. This is the biggest change. It makes that steering to the north and to the east. By wednesday this is very slow. Were looking at wind speeds movement at about 3 to 4 miles an hour, a walking pace. Well be talking about this for days and days, but just off the coast of South Carolina, near charleston by wednesday. As we go throughout time here, thursday. Were still talking about dorian on thursday with 1 110mileperhour winds. Its right between North Carolina and South Carolina. Well be watching this closely for the next several days. Well even. Take that righthand turn. It goes off to the west and takes that turn around that High Pressure and it moves off to the north and east. Its going to be very interesting at 11 00. Well follow it at 50k 0 and 8 00 another advisory. But again, it takes it to the east as well. We talked about the winds starting to pick up. Freeport, nassau, youre under a hurricane warning. You want to gerlt and we have a hurricane watch as well in the pink. Lets talk about the wind field. Thats about 30 miles where you see the yellow that extends out to 115. Yep, were looking at catastrophic winds in the bahamas and were looking at the possibility of some strong winds all along the east coast. Well be watching this very closely over the next couple days. Keeping you busy, and certain. Millions in florida, they are still in the cross hair. We are. All about the preparations right now. Hows it going . Ly. Alex, this has been such an unpredictable storm. Ive been covering it on the ground since puerto rico. Here on delray beach, 60 miles south of west palm beach, it is still an all hands on deck situation. T they were offering free tarps and sandbags yesterday. It all ran out pretty quickly. You can see the line of cars waiting for these sandbags, because right now dellray sits in the cone of uncertainty, and as michelle explained, any bump to the south and the east son exist. Mayor, tell me, rgs, and one of the things i can tell you is i think that our town is are as prepared as theyve ever been for people to protect themselves. I canning up md, so we dont have any problems with projectiles if this storm hits us. Its been such an unpredictable storm. Now some people are breathe ag sigh of relief. Whats the message to the community . The message is we dont want to let down our guard even though there are. Just as previous storms have done, they change their path just and we have to make sure nobody rests on their guard at this point. Wharps if many. Weve had so much rain in the past couple weeks, our grounds are already saturated and were also dealing with extra high tides recently. Thank you so much for joining us. Palm beach county under. Brevard county is the one under warning right now. Adding insult to injury. Lets go to julia bagg who is in miami for us. Julia, whats the latest from there . Reporter alex, a hot commodity for people all over south florida. Bottled water here. Some new shipments came in just this morning, two trucks, to the costco where we are, delivering 5,000 cases of what could happen. We saw people carrying this. In grocery stores, though, we d did see all around. Sir, how are you doing today . Youre still collecting supplie supplies . S other people down there, its become complicated. So certainly a sense of relief, but at the same time there is still that sense of vigilance. We remember two years ago the track that irma took that was a surprise at the last minute. But good news for those here in south florida. Alex . Lets go to the heigwhite h now. Hans nichols standing by. Whats the president saying about this hurricane and whats the plan for dealing with it. The plan is to Constant Contact with officials getting realtime on the golf course. Heres what the president put out on twitter, looking like the great South Carolina could get hit much harder than first thought. Georgia and North Carolina also. Its moving around and very hard to predict. It was more than weve seen in decades. Be safe. The president hinted. Hely. If he comes to his office tomorrow around midday, the first stop hell make is to fema headquarters to get another briefin briefing. Ly when we talk about king tides, those are the tides that are especially high due to the sun and the moon. Mayor juarez, thank you for being here. Such a busy time. Do you have a sense of relief there, all the miami residents, that dorian may have shifted and does not appear to be taking a direct aim at your city . The changing direction obviously gives us some sense of relief. Weve seen so many times where these storms take a turn and avoid us entirely. Like you said, we are experiencing greater than normal king tied ooemplt. We already know and as part of our infrastructure plans, we know that miami has an inadequate stormwater system, so we have just beginning to update that infrastructure. Weve taken additional precautions, we have not only the pumps that we put in since irma, but we have portable pumps, we have trucks cleaning our drains to make sure it has. Even though youre trying to clean out these king tides. Are all the things very effective . Theyre still effective. We have a 200 million bond miami forever. And even though we do have the money to do it, its going to tay tay. We saw brickell under water in 30 minutes. We have a variety of things to look out for. Its only now at 8 miles an hour, and we see tracks shift all the time. Is there a message out there that says, dont give in just yet, its a category 4 storm. A radius where the hurricane winds are going to be felt, an incredibly large radius of where Tropical Storm winds are going to be felt. We cannot let our guard down. We know the hurricane is still a day or two away from affecting us, so we have to be extremely vigilant. It can change at any given moment. Weve seen it happen so many times in 15 years we can never let our guard down. Best of luck, mayor juarez. Well be watching with you. The president tweeting all morning about Hurricane Dorian. How destructive Hurricane Dorian could still be. Goals. All while helping you to and through retirement. Can you help with these . Were more of the plan, invest and protect kind of help. Voya. Helping you to and through retirement. But how do i know if im im getting a good deal . I tell truecar my zip and which car i want and truecar shows the range of prices people in my area actually paid for the same car so i know if im getting a great price. This is how car buying was always meant to be. This is truecar. So, every day, we put our latest technology and unrivaled network to work. 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Donald trump tweeted, while Madeleine Westerhout has a fully enforceable confidentiality agreement, she is a very good person and i dont think there would ever be reason to use it. She called me yesterday to apologize, had a bad night. I fully understood and forgave her. I love tiffany, doing great. I think she really had a bad night. I think it was unfortunate. She said she was drinking, and i think the whole thing was unfortunate, and it was supposed to be off the record, but you dont say things that are hurtful to people. John harwood, cnbc editor at large. John, that tweet offering praise but caution as well. What do you make of that and do you expect a tellall book . No, i wouldnt. I think that as the president said, the whole thing was unfortunate. You had an assistant that wasnt being discreet with reporters and somehow that got back to white house officialofficials. I dont know if it was Tiffany Westerhout herself or reporters blabbing a little bit. The sad thing is what the content of those communications supposedly were, and the fact the president seems motivated to affirm his love for his daughter. Thats pretty sad. Yeah, thats pretty sad. Would it not be cool if a reporter were the one that leaked it at an offtherecord dinner, john . Well, the staffer at the offtherecord dinner is the one who disseminated the information. Reporters should not take information they receive off the record and report it. They should not share it with other people. But we dont know that thats what happened. Ms. Westerhout could have recounted what happened at the dinner and others decided thats not appropriate. You had Mick Mulvaney saying an ambivalent mr. Trump had to be persuaded throughout the day thursday that ms. Westerhout, who was on vacation in california, needed to resign, which she did that night. Staffers need to have a reputation of not leaking the madeleine has had access to the goingson more than thibanybody else. The fact that thus far she didnt have a history leaking would have gone a long way to help earn her trust by the president. The irony here, though, its unlikely that anyone would have written a story based on statements she made to the press if they hadnt fired her. If the white house had kept madeleine on, its likely what she told those reporters in an offtherecord context and that was shared in the gossip chain would have stayed in the d. C. Gossip chain and it wouldnt have been reported in a story. In this case the overreaction, or what appears to be an overreaction, resulted in more negative publicity for the trump family than might have happened otherwise. In terms of the overreaction, what about the reports that she wasnt really endearing herself to fellow west wingers. What do you hear about that . There is always fighting among senior white house staff. I had a conversation with one of the press that even though theres been more infighting with senior staff in the last year or so that seems to challenge the competency of them is just as much as the early days of trumps presidency. The situation that westerhout was in of being able to block access to the president is going to have enemies and rivals and people who dislike her. Thats unfortunate, but its part of the job. I want to get your reaction to tweeting out what experts say most certainly is an image of a satellite or drone showing the aftermath of that accident. Betsy, is this something the president can share without the association of his aides . The president has the ultimate classification authority. Anything the press has access to the president has the Legal Authority to share with the public. The problem is theres too much classification when it comes to National Security issues. In this case what the president tweeted was certainly interesting and newsworthy. Im not certain that its resulting in unanimous concerns within the intelligence community. Its not a secret, of course, that we have satellites that try to zoom in on activity going on in iran. There are some in the National Security space that is looking at this image the president has tweeted and say, what rigorous declassification process did it go through to make sure the iranians didnt get new information about our Space Capabilities because the president released that. John, over to you. Any specific information about this tweet . I suspect he was tweeting the iranians and saying, look what we have access to. As betsy said, he has the authority to declassify anything he wants, but i found that shocking and i have to think intelligence officials briefing the president are going to be a little more evident about sharing information with him. If he thinks its truly sensitive, and thats what reporters need to be prepared for. Betsy, john, good to see you both. Thanks so much. New legal questions after the president suggests holding next years g7 summit at his own golf course. Changing course. A new. The storm moving to georgia, inco North Carolina and even South Carolina. This is anne marie peebles. Her saturdays are a never ending montage of comfort. [tv sfx] where have you been all my life . But then anne laid on a serta perfect sleeper. And realized her life was only just sorta comfortable. Not just sorta comfortable. Serta comfortable. Hurricane dorian changing course while it churns in the atlantic. Take a look right now at miami beach. It could be spared by the brunt of the storm on this apparently very sunny day. Heres dunlawton beach. It shows this category 4 storm moving up the coast. Certainly not out of the woods yet. Meteorologists warning that florida could still see Hurricane Force winds and lifethreatening storm surge. Some new accusations, the president is using his office to benefit financially and a new allegation today in the New York Post about how he once pledged not to use his office to help his business but has used it about 70 times in speeches and statements, including last week when he made the case for hosting next years g7 summit at his golf course. With doral we have a series of magnificent buildings. We call them bungalows. They each hold 50 to 70 very luxurious rooms with magnificent views. We have very nice restaurants. The ballrooms are among the biggest in florida and the best. Its brand new. And they want my people wanted it. From my standpoint, im not going to make any money. In my opinion, im not going to make any money. I dont want to make money. I dont care about making money. Well, the House Judiciary Committee is vowing to investigate those comments as part of its impeachment inquiry. The chairman argues, quote, the personal financial interests are clearly shaping decisions about official u. S. Government activities. We have with us, head of appropriations and entertainment festivities, which makes you a very busy man. What do you think of the president s very magnanimous description of the property, following it up saying hes not interested in making money. Really . This is the president of the United States. No one should be surprised. Lets remember what Michael Cohen told congress, that the whole campaign for president would be the Worlds Largest infomercial to protect the president and his corporate interest. Nothing has changed since that time. The special counsels report, manafort and cohen. This was all about making a buck and the president was a leading example of that. From trump tower moscow where he was going to profit extraordinarily and he was using his campaign as president , the possibility that he w

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