The first indications the winds are shifting at the state level in a way that could turn into a major storm nationally. Like early weather forecasting when you see the low pressure developing off the coast of africa. Anyway, mini canaries. Were claiming were coining this phrase. Thats all for the tonight. Well be back tomorrow. The beat starts right now. Is this butter fly theory like weather . Or baby canary . Were going mini canaries. Wait a minute. A canary is already small. But hey, theyre state legislative seats. We feel like congressional seats are the canaries. I wanted to go with finches personally but that annoyed some people. Getting darwinian. Chuck todd with the analogy and watching the races as a leading indicator. Thank you. President trumps approach to Law Enforcement is under scrutiny after he snubbed the swearing in ceremony for his own fbi director today. And we can tell you, thats
as Deputy Attorney general, of course, she was previously the boss of the fbi director
Here. And the real problem is donald trump is not the closer. He cant call these people up and say, hey, ive done so much for you, you need to vote for this for me. This is not going to sway senate republicans. Darlene, a lot of the opposition in the bill isnt something that the sweeteners will necessarily be able to fix. A lit more money here or there to alaska or maine. The critique is more fundamental from Susan Collins. So how does senator graham and cassidy get over the hurdle . Thats a good question. You mentioned Susan Collins and rand paul who is always for repeal and his opposition to this bill now is based on the fact that it does not entirely repeal obamacare. So i dont know how you flip him on that basis. And can President Trump close the deal . That remains to be seen. This is one of several headlines moving forward throughout the day here. What is happening on the health with health, happening on the
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While 30 say it has given them a less favorable one. 61 said it had no impact. And finally, this is the most troubling number 46 said they feel that President Trump fired comey to slow down the russia investigation. And 38 buy the original explanation from the white house, that it was done over legitimate concerns over how comey handled the Hillary Clinton email issue. And theres a report that a frustrated President Trump is considering firing many of his Top White House aides. It adds up to a week, at best, the administration has a communications problem. Or at worst, it is facing accusations of obstruction of justice. I was going to fire comey. Donald trump contradicted his white house aides and his Vice President , adding to questions as to why the president chose to fire fbi director james comey when he did. No one from the white house. That was a d. O. J. Decision. He took the recommendation
but the president needs to back off and let the investigation go forward. We need to call
to need to get assets into place very quickly. i say you, i talk about fema, but i know this is the coast guard, this is the national guard, this is everybody. how do you think about staging for a storm like this? well, ali, one of the first things we do is we get personnel into the emergency operation centers of the states and they have been there for several days already. so in coordination with the states based on what the impacts could be, based on what the needs are, that s where we really identify where those staging locations should be. we obviously can t have a lot of assets right in the middle of the path. so we work very strategically with the states and we re not just doing that now in the day or days before the impact. we have been doing that, you know, on a blue sky day. we are working on planning with our state and local partners around the clock. james, thanks for being with me. he is with femma. and just as james was referring to and kent gram was referring to and a
us again for this entire segment. put up this first full screen. labor, the feds, the chief of staff, cbp, i.c.e., femma, the u.n. ambassador, the fda. we don t even talk about that there s temporary at the federal aviation administration. oh, we just have this boeing issue. the fda where we decide our food and drugs and what we put in our mouths. if we had we ve dealt with acting e.p.s, it works for, what, about a month, right? i mean, my point is that if you in any workplace, if you know your manager s not really in charge, do you listen to them? it s also that these people cannot bring in credible chief of staffs these are large government agencies that have lots of people who are supposed to work there, and they cannot create their own teams. so, yes, acting might be better for the president very narrowly in that he thinks he now has power and can pull the strings and they re all loyal to him and him only, and he can fire and get rid of it at will.