concerned about keeping the 60-vote rule we have to filibuster because maybe they ll give us something totally outrageous the second or third time. meanwhile house minority leader nancy pelosi in whether she has any confidence in house committee chair devin nunes and his efforts to continue leading the russia probe. here is what she told my colleague joy read in an interview that will air later. i think he no, sir only has lost all credibility. i think he s tarnished the fi he holds, bought discredit to sometng that is a very, very seriousosition in the congress. however, the house intel committee chair devin nunes is standing by his decision to share information we learned with president trump. here is what he told our local affiliate in his home district of fresno, california. and they re saying he s just too close to give a fair investigation when that investigation might involve the white house. do you understand those criticisms? i do, but it always goes back t
good morning. it s friday, august 25th. it is now a category two hurricane. the storm is expected to become a category three by the time it makes landfall, making it the strongest storm to hit texas since 2008. now, the national hurricane center is warning of life-threatening and devastating flooding and has issued storm surge warnings for are parts of the texas coast. of the 35 inches of rain, they are also possible in parts of southeast texas through next week. mandatory evacuation orders are in effect for multiple cities and counties in texas and louisiana where harvey is threatening to be the biggest storm to hit new orleans since katrina 12 years ago. nbc meteorologist bill karins joins us now with the latest. obviously, a very scary situation. people heeding those evacuation orders, but this is really a race against time. today s story will be the storm surge and the winds and how much damage they can do. then over the weekend it will be about the rain and how this
louis bergdorf. russia s ambassador to the united states says that moscow that they re ready to discuss a new meeting a this fall at the white house. press secretary sarah huckabee sanders tweeted out, in helsinki, president trump agreed to ongoing working level dialogue between the two security council staffs. and that president trump asked national security advisor john bolton to invite president vladimir putin to washington this fall, concluding those discussions are already underway. well, senior administration official said that the invite from bolton went out to putin yesterday and that the news blindsided the president s intelligence director dan coates, who coincidentally was in the middle of an interview with our very own andrea mitchell. watch this. we have some breaking news. the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. say that again. vladimir putin coming to did i hear you? yeah, yeah. okay