this storm heading straight for rhode island, parts of the eyewall already on shore and we re seeing the storm move to shore as we speak. more than 1500 people under tropical weather alerts right now concerned about storm surge in the harbors and the bays of rhode island, new york and massachusetts. concerns about flooding in the coming hours and widespread power outages because we re talking about a part of the united states not used to seeing tropical weather barrelling into shore. storm surge as well. we re going live in a moment to derek van dam who is in newport, rhode island who can give us a sense of what s happening on the coast. but first let s go to allison chinchar for the latest on the track. allison, any updates from the national hurricane center? we ve got several, in fact. we re learning it is moving very, very close to shore. landfall is expected imminently here. what we re also seeing is that little bit of downpush in wind. the winds are at 60 miles an hour
the right s intensifying anti-media rhetoric. amanda car pender, philip bump, and matt gertz are standing by. and the disputed cbs story targeting florida governor ron desantis, we ll get into that and the controversy over clarissa ward s trip to myanmar. she s going to answer the critics, coming up. but first an interview with the ceo of the anti-defamation league. the beginning of the bider years is not the end of trump s war on truth. the factures and fault lines are still with us. i m talking about the mainstreaming of conspiracy thinking, the demonizing of others, the gaslighting that is going on. trump himself can t tweet any more so he s not quite as visible and lots of folks don t want to hear about him at all any more and everyone said move on and forget about his years of misconduct. but it is not over. it is not in the past. he s lying about the last election right now. this weekend. at mar-a-lago. besides, it is not really about him any more. it is about his aco
it could bolster the argument that rioters were acting on donald trump s behalf, his direction. here are the words said by the man who has become known as the qanon shaman. what is your message? donald trump asked everybody to go home. he just said he just put out a tweet. it is a minute long. he asked everybody to go home. all right. so i want to get the latest from our team covering the impeachment. with that, let s start with ally vitale who is on capitol hill where the impeachment trial will be getting under way in two days time. amanda golden in milwaukee, wisconsin which was a critical battleground state as we remember in the election. ali, i want to talk here about the democratic strategy going forward. we now know much of the evidence that will be used in that we have seen so much of the evidence. it is some of the video we have shown on this very program and some of the testimony we have heard from members of congress. but talk us through the strategy from t
ex-president it all but ensures that special counsel jack smith will hear from the key witness who none of the other investigations into the trump cou plot not the fulton county d.a. has ever heard from under oath we re, of course, talking about mike pence a ruling handed down wednesday night by a federal appeals court rejects an emergency request by trump to block mike pence s testimony. new york times reports this, quote, the 11th hour ruling by the u.s. court of appeals for the district of colombia paves the way for mr. pence to appear before the federal grand jury as early as this week the ex-president has a few legal options left including an appeal to the supreme court but as nbc news reports, quote, in previous instances, where appeals sent senior aides must testify, his legal team has opted no the to fight the decision further and those witnesses have quickly appeared before the grand jury and trump s argument that executive privilege prevents pence or any of his ai
of rape in court today. what e. jean carroll says happened in that department store dressing room in 1996. she plans to testify tomorrow. why is donald trump not expected to? plus, tucker carlson s former producer reveals that she has many audio recordings of her time at fox. i still have, i have several recordings that i m still going through that we ve recovered from all the phones. there are 90 that we have. so, we will discuss the vile behavior that grossberg says is part of daily life at fox. and why fox management allows their hosts to create that toxic workplace. all right, the panel is here with me, they re raring to go. we have former senate candidate joe pinion, paula reid, cnn senior legal affairs correspondent, natasha alford, host of the brio weekly, and motion new, most of the moe news podcast. let s begin with the e. jean carroll case. the trial started today in new york, where attorneys laid out their case that donald trump raped carol in a department stor