Potentially abused by the white house, this system, makes it squarely within the intelligence community s jurisdiction. we were able to confirm that following the mexico and australia transcript leaks in 2017, the white house did begin to do this with more regularity. we don t know whether it was with everyone transcript, but it was certainly something that they started to do to prevent leaks and kind of lockdown more than was it more damaging information, do we know, or was it for just routine because they didn t trust anybody? well, given the president s propensity for off the cuff remarks and clearly his willingness to ask foreign leaders for potential favors, i imagine the ukrainian transcript is not the only one that contains, you know, embarrassing information, but concealing this document in this system because it s embarrassing, for example, is actually in direct violation of an executive order that president obama signed in 2009 that says classified information can t be
Reelection should have to answer for that. joy reed, thank you for starting us off tonight. cal perry, thank you for your input. we need that in this conversation and senator, great to have you on a night when there is big action in the united states senate. really appreciate you being here. when we come back, frer msh congresswoman ianna will join us and we ll be joined with reaction to new information about another possible obstruction of justice by president trump and today donald trump criticized beto o rourke s hand gestures and we will do and we ll also study donald trump s hand gestures and at the end of the hour, i ll discuss something i ve been very reluctant to discuss but become a larger worry from some people since michael cohen said this. there will never be a peaceful transition of power.
Right about now. and i m guessing there s a pretty solid base of recognition for this in the west wing. yeah, brian, this is not news to those who are helping guide the president s re-election campaign. they know that they have to do things to get those poll numbers back on in a more comfortable space and, you know, the instinct from president trump and from some of his closest political advisers has been to focus on the base. to energize, mobilize, galvanize, those core supporters, but there s a growing recognition that in order to win back, again, a second time those industrial midwestern states that he carried in 2016, wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, to be sure that he wins florida again, frer for example, to try to be competitive if some of these other swing states like north carolina, he s going to have to expand beyond the base and what we ve not seen yet from the president in these last few months since the midterm election defeat, is an expansion of his appeal. an attempt
We talk a lot around here about the pace of news these days. look away from this president, or this presidency, for an hour or god forbid, for a day, you re libel to miss a lot. other news continues. frer for example, if you last checked in with the life and career of bill cosby in the 80s you knew him as america s dad. tonight, bill cosby is a convicted felon. guilty of stexual assault. it three counts of aggravated indecent assault against the 80-year-old now former entertainer. we have a report on all of it tonight from nbc news correspondent stephanie gosk. reporter: bill cosby, comedian, actor, the man once dubbed america s dad. tonight the 80-year-old is convicted on thee couree countsg vait
The wind around 10 p.m. tonight. but clearly it may be slowing down a little bit before we get to the other side of the eye wall when the wind will change direction and all of that water that was washed out to sea will come back. think ear expecting a 5 to 8 foot storm surge here, that wall of water from the ocean. about 3 feet on land they re expecting. we re going to watch for that and may have to change positions before that happens. all right, miguel. stay safe. stay in touch. dave as we go to break, show them our giant size weather v n vane, the crane. it is pointing straight in the direction of the gulf. that s where this wind is coming from. so literally the wind has the best advantage it could to send the maximum amount of watt frer the gulf in storm surge right up into the heart of naples. we re going the take a break right now. we re going to keep an eye on the storm surge and we ll show