i can feel the temperature has always taken a dip as well. but the wind seems to be the big headline out where we are. kind of want to show you what we re seeing on the waters right now. the waves are still pretty intense. they re choppy and very high and kind of washing ashore, but nothing like what we saw in the 12:00 hour when some of that water, the waves were crashing over the wall. this is ocean road that you re looking at right below us. this is closed to traffic but you can see a lot of folks are out now. most of these folks are locals. residents here. we had a chance to talk to a couple of them. i asked them have they surveyed the damage? what s it like where they are? they said it s not too bad. some people have lost power. at last check at 1:00 hour, about 80,000 people in rhode island do not have power right now and the concern moving forward is that that number is going to only go up. and we re actually one of those folks who are in the dark right
what happened with richard nixon, essentially nixon didn t get to impeachment. the difference between me and nixon is i don t leave, he repeated it, i don t leave. another lesson he learned from richard nixon he s going to stay and fight. and not going to resign. he may be spending time thinking about impeachment. in the meantime, rick, the big headline out of this interview was the president saying that he would listen to foreign intelligence on political opponents, he tried to walk it back, mike pompeo tried to, you know, walk the whole thing back yesterday. but look, his white house is used to this. they re used to him making these kinds of statements. but just a couple of days before he launches his 2020 campaign tomorrow he goes out for what two days with a serious journalist, not a sin cofant, not on fox news, is this part of the reelect strategy? donald trump thinks he s his
date is unconscionable. we should all demand equal justice. because, hillary, remember, no one is above the law. we ll have more on my opening monologue in a moment. but first, joining us with reaction to the breaking news, we have tom h fitton, also fox news investigative reporter, sara carter. we begin with you. big headline out of this. eat the least of which, tom, we have four specific witnesses in the clinton e-mail case. the fbi failed to document anything, nothing. don t forget the time they finally interviewed here, july 2nd, 3 days before james comey had a 15 minute press conference, pretty much letting out the case about how law.iolated the if you remember that, she had two people allowed in the room with her, which is totally unprecedented. including a witness, cheryl mills, who acted as her lawyer. that was unusual too. you have the unusual circumstances of her interview, then you have lisa page figuring
that s, of course, the big headline out of that tweet was the very last line. so when you look at that, it looks like at this point that this administration understands it can t happen in terms of a firing. but let s build on what kevin was saying there. how bad of a situation this might be. this is the biggest fluctuation in the markets. nasdaq now in bear bear tterrit. based on some of the volatility coming out of the white house, the markets would have gone down gone negative. they did not. this is the biggest, if you will, downturn we ve faced so far. i would say it has a lot to do with political volatility out of the white house. the president has a very good story to tell in terms of the performance of the economy and he could cite chairman powell when he s doing it. chairman powell when he raised these rates to pretty good rates. they re not low but not high enough to really affect economic growth. he said this is a vote of
mueller s investigation. i want to alert you to one other thing that happened today that we learned from a court filing. late last night after joy reid finished sit income for me in the middle of the night we got a new court filing from mueller s prosecutors that related to the paul manafort case and you probably heard something about this today, big headline out of that filing today was that in addition to the publicly available document that set up the special counsel s office and hired robert mueller and laid out the scope of mueller s investigation, we learned from this new court filing there was also, subsequent to that public statement establishing the mueller investigation, there was also another bit of instruction. august 2nd last year, another basically sheet of instructions from deputy attorney general rod rosenstein to bob mueller s office explaining to him, confirming in writing a list of specific stuff that mueller was cleared to look into as part of his investigation. t