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weather, to understand fuels better. so there are things that can be done at the federal level. but you know what, when you look at what happened at redding, when you look at what happened at santa rosa, when you look at what happened in ventura, where fires have gone from the wild land/urban interface right into the suburbs, right into towns, that s at the state level. we have to look at our zoning. we have to look at our construction materials. we basically have to look at where we have people on the land and how we protect them. right now we just have to thank those 14,000 firefighters that are on the ground. incredible. glen, thank you. thank you for watching this hour of velshi & ruhle. i ll see you tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. i turn you over to andrea mitchell for andrea mitchell reports. former paul manafort deputy rick gates back on the witness stand. reporter: they re going to say he s damaged goods, he comes to court as a convicted felon. he was convicted o ....
A recap of the day s news. i don t know where the evidence is that would suggest that. the fact is that that s what they used against conor lamb in the special election in western pennsylvania which trump won by 20 points and conor lamb won. they used it over and over again with danny o connor in ohio 12 who, by the way, is still running in november against mr. balderson and danny managed to collapse the trump margin from 11 down to less than 1%. i m not sure where the evidence that that is the case, that that is an effective appeal. it s certainly their standard playbook move in eeach and ever instance. again, to be redundant and repeat myself, they want to hear about what they re going to do to lower prescription drug prices and protect people with pre-existing conditions. build infrastructure that will move this economy strongly throughout the rest of the 21st century. finally get americans a raise. these are the things they want us talking and proposing. they want us bei ....
Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. washington post also reports tonight the white house is preparing an executive order that authorizes the president to punish foreign interference in u.s. elections. the post writes, quote, the eight-page draft order appears to be an effort to stave off aggressive legislation, including a bill introduced in congress this month and to quell criticism that trump seems to give more credence to russian president vladimir putin s denials of interference than to u.s. intelligence agencies conclusion to the kremlin sought to undermine the 2016 election. that comes to us as florida democratic senator bill nelson, whose running in a tough reelection fight, tells the tampa bay times, quote, russian operatives have penetrated some of florida s election systems ahead of the 2018 mid terms. he said any further information is classified. today the white house actually did impose new sanctions on< ....
Interviews with political figures and news updates. Interviews with political figures and news updates. able to sell the shares. they have telephone logs, who called whom and when. it appears they have people helping the government out with the testimony. as mimi said, andrea, it s kind of overwhelming evidence that s difficult for federal prosecutors to ignore. and chuck todd, we ve not yet seen to my knowledge a tweet from the president or any suggestion that this is witch hunt, mueller related. but this is really separate, this is an investigation that started, there was an ethics investigation that we heard about some months back, last year sometime. and so this does not come from the mueller operation at all. right. and that s the thing, it has zero to do this is just bad timing, bad coincidence. and it looks bad, right? here is yet another person close to the president who seems to be taking advantage of access, special access, or a pay to play issue. the p ....
september, then we have a very, very serious violation of the justice department rules that you shouldn t be conducting one of these investigations in the 60-day period. there has been an informal tradition in the justice department. but in a recent report the justice department inspector general noted the 60-day rule is not written or described in any department day policy or regulation and does not call to an end for active investigations. giuliani also attacked the special counsel s motives. he knows the answers to every question he wants to ask. he is going to ask him did you do you think we are fools? you want to trap him into perjury. the reality is that he doesn t need to ask a single question on obstruction, he has all the answers. the president is not going to change his testimony. stop the nonsense. you don t have a case. president trump joining in on the attack tweeting today, this is an illegally brought rigged witch hunt run by people who are totally corru ....