Also tonight were learning that on a single day when more than 1,300 americans died of covid19, President Trump told Journalist Bob Woodward, and im quoting now, nothing more could have been done. And he went on to stress gains in the stock market. Also breaking this hour, the death toll from the historic wildfires ravaging the western United States is now at least 35 with millions of acres burned and hundreds of thousands of people forced to flee for their lives. And were also following Hurricane Sally right now. Its strengthening as it closes in on the u. S. Gulf coast and now threatening to become a strong category 2 storm before making landfall with winds as high as 105 miles an hour. Lets begin this hour with our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. The president is facing a lot of criticism for Holding Indoor events without social distancing. And hes about to hold another one in arizona. Thats right, wolf. Here he goes again. President trump is on his way to phoenix for a
Northern california and Southern California continuing to struggle with the worst wildfires. Whole town burned and dozens of life lost already. Today widespread suffocating smoke, blanketing from the west coast and even far away. Some of the worst air quality on earth is in the American West right now. Well be checking on that a little bit later on this hour. At the atlantic magazine reported Jeffery Goldberg who had the unnerving scoop a week ago about the president calling Service Members losers and suckers. Today Jeffery Goldberg had another scoop since the impeachment of the president this past december with alexander vindman. Lester holt had just done the first interview with vindman and it is a remarkable thing. What is your message to young military officers . I am concerned about how this played out. I had a lot of peers and younger officers reaching out and soldiers reached out and people i have been known to pass support. There was an under tone to kind of some of the respons
Mass evacuations, whole towns burned, dozens of lives lost already, and with today yet another day of almost unbelievably widespread, suffocating smoke blanketing huge swaths of the west coast, even far away from the fires themselves. Some of the worst air quality on earth is in the American West right now. We are going to be checking in on that a little bit later on this hour. Today at the atlantic magazine, reporter Jeffrey Goldberg, who had the deeply unnerving scoop about a week ago about the president calling American Service members losers and suckers and him being disgusted by the presence of wounded veterans, today Jeffrey Goldberg had another scoop, landing the first print interview since the impeachment of the president this past december with Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who of course was a firstperson witness to the conduct of the president toward ukraine, which led to the president s impeachment in december. Well, now tonight, lester holt from nbc news has just do
Another day of widespread suffocating smoke blanketing huge swaths of smoke, some of the worst air quality on earth is in the American West right now. Were going to be checking in on that a little bit later on this hour. Today Jeffrey Goldberg spoke about the president and losers and suckers and being disgusted by wounded veterans. Today he had another segment with Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman who, of course, was a firstperson witness to don duct of the president toward ukraine which led to the president s impeachment in december. Now tonight lester holt from nbc news has done the first interview with vindman for television, and it is a remarkable thing. What is your message about young people in power. I had a lot of peers reach out and soldiers reach out and people i know to pass support. Its that i did the right thing in their perspective and i was still hung out to dry, and what that could do thats what i fear most from a second Trump Administration, that you have people wh
Eight of these fires occur during cool decades. This data suggests that extremely large magnifiers or four times more common before 1940 back when Carbon Dioxide concentrations were back to about less than 310 parts per million. It looks to me like we cannot reasonably say that manmade Global Warming causes extremely large wild flowers. Seven years ago this Committee Conducted a hearing about Climate Change and wild fires were not even mention them and me. But hurricanes, drops were mentioned the number of times. I am pleased to provide you with my for street use because of like hurricanes, drought, and a polar for tax we can actually promote forestry practices that will reduce the risk a wild fires. Unfortunately, some of our National Forest management policies have, in my view, contributed to increasing the risk a wild fires. I think certain attempts to legislate a change in the concentration of Carbon Dioxide in the hemisphere will have no effect on reducing the size a while fires w