Dana joins me from the event there in washington, dana bash, take it away. First i want to ask you about your event here. Theres new audiotape of you talking about the fact that you have relied on your popularity and the fact that people come to your events and that helps you with free advertising. Is that what this is about . Not at all. This was just under budget ahead of schedule. Thats what this is. My Hotel Officially opens today and we built it for less money than was anticipated and ahead of schedule by over a year. If a country would do that we would have a country that would be in much better shape you know, highways, they build highways for double and triple the cost. Reporter so to people who say youre taking time out of swing states to do this you say i say the following. You have been covering me for the last long time. I did yesterday eight stops and three major speeches and ive been doing this for weeks straight. Im going to North Carolina, then im going up to new hampsh
And is raising some new ethics concerns. And in less than 25 hours, we will know how big the next democratic debate stage will be. Well take a deep dive into what will be a do or die moment in the president ial race. The 11th hour on a tuesday night starts right now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im Steve Kornacki in for brian williams, who has the night off. Day 950 of the trump administration. And the president is furiously battling the perception of a white house with no strategy and no direction. Trump made no public appearances today, but we did hear from him quite a bit on social media as he jumped from one topic to another on his twitter feed, underscoring what the Los Angeles Times describes as quote the scattershot focus that defines his stream of consciousness presidency. Among the things on trumps mind, quote i have gotten to know president ball sin narrow well in our dealings with brazil, hes working very hard on the amazon fires i
Astros big win. I know we have a big texas morning. Ainsley mike pompeo and the president are on their way back. That takes us straight to this fox news alert. The u. S. Brokered a ceasefire and it appeared to go up in smoke. Steve new photos from syria showing shelling and smoke as you can see right there rising in the air just hours after turkish officials agreed to stop the attacks. But that sure looked like an attack. Brian griff is working the phones right now. Working his sources overnight and joins us from washington. Hey, griff, could this be the Syrian Free Army . Could this be the kurds . Or does this look like the tuckers. This is the Free Syrian Army. Forces alived with turkey its a little complicated stay bheevment the point is the fighting clearly has not stopped. Let me show you the images again where much of the shelling started two days after the president withdrew the u. S. Troops. You can see the smoke and clear signs of fighting. I have been on the phone with my sou
Impeach . Well, i think they want. To any democrat wants to because theyre not going to beat me in the election. So of course they want to impeach. Why wouldnt they want to impeach me . Its so illegitimate. It cannot be the way our founders, our great founders meant this to be. Theyve got nothing. Athey have is a phone call that was point of view. Of course the call wasnt perfect by any stretch of the imagination, and the Founding Fathers specifically said impeachment was a remedy if a president tried to get foreign election help. Now the truth is this. The pressure is on trump, and it is growing by the day. And his top aides are struggling to defend him. White house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney went on fox news to try and clean up his mess, or his admission, if you will, that he held up or the administration held up aid to ukraine to try and pressure them to investigate democrats. You were asked specifically by Jonathan Karl was investigating democrats one of the conditions for holdin
Addresses or a congressional subpoena indicates it has trumprelated tax returns. Could the president s tax returns end up in the hands of House Democrats. And sweet deal. Russias president visits a key u. S. Alley and nato member sharing ice cream and laughing as he sells missiles and tries to sell fighter jets to turkey. Is that friendship putting the alliance at risk . Im wolf blitzer and youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news. The new forecast is just in for Tropical Storm dorian. It could become a hurricane as it moves closer to puerto rico. Dorian is expected to batter the island late tomorrow and could threaten florida as a hurricane. Puerto rico is still recovering from Hurricane Maria which killed some 3,000 people back in 2017. President trump today tweeted will it ever end . As he cited the misleading amount of federal aid for puerto rico. Also breaking, in a court ruling, Deutsche Bank indicates it has trumprelated tax returns, it won