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the national hurricane center, they literally came in five seconds ago, the forecast did have the center making landfall at the 5:00 p.m. advisory right into the hamptons, around south hampton, it shifted westward again. now we re making it toward eye islip. all of a sudden, 24, 48 hours ago this was in the buzzard s bay and new port and rhode island area and everyone in cape cod who pulled their boats out of the water saying they may catch a break. people from long island, now all of a sudden heading toward new york city and the long island sound, everyone is going we have one day to prepare. that s it. you have saturday. because this storm is coming in in a hurry early sunday morning. the landfall time is up. so let me go to the graphics and giving you a new update and we re still dealing with it as a tropical storm. did not reach hurricane intensity quite yet. and heading to the north finally at 9 miles an hour. and now it s going to accelerate northwards on its jo ....
towards new york city, and all over the long island sound, people are saying we have one day to prepare. we have saturday. this storm is coming in a hurry. the landfall time has been up, saturday morning. we are still dealing with it as a tropical storm. it did not reach hurricane intensity quite yet. it s getting sheared and now heading towards the north finally. nine miles per hour. anna cherney to new england, it will parallel the coastline of the carolinas. how about that band at the end to the left? very unusual, doesn t happen that often. it s kind of similar to that band as to what sandy did. sandy is a different beast. it was much, much larger. sandy was a huge immense storm. this may be the same intensity but size wise no comparison. this storm will have its own problems. you notice that the winds will quickly die off, by the time we get to monday morning, wind damage is done. the wind damage of the storm is as three go throughout sunday. it s already getting c ....
counterparts throughout the world and our allies, as has the general or, excuse me, i keep calling him a general but my secretary of defense. the fact of the matter is, i have not seen that. as a matter of fact, the exact opposite, i ve gotten. the exact opposite thing. we re acting with dispatch. we re committing to what we said we would do. look, let s put this thing in perspective here. what interest do we have in afghanistan at this point with al qaeda gone? we went to afghanistan for the express purpose of getting rid of al qaeda in afghanistan as well as getting osama bin laden, and we did. imagine just imagine if that attack if bin laden had decided, with al qaeda, to launch an attack from yemen. would we have gone to afghanistan? would there ever be any reason we would be in afghanistan? controlled by the taliban? what is the national interest of the united states in that circumstance? we went and did the mission. you ve known my position for a long, long ti ....
not because there was no evidence. and so he resigned without explanation in lieu of being fired. we also know that the replacement that donald trump put in the job, somebody shifted over from the u.s. attorney position in savannah, also found there was no evidence. the picture that s emerging from some of these interviews, including those of jeffrey rosen, former acting u.s. attorney, is that donald trump was pushing across the body politic, looking for soft places where he could work his will. and it is fortunate for american democracy that where he tried and where it was most sensitive, he encountered resistance, from rosen, from people like brad raffensperger in georgia. the challenge of course is what happens next time and are republican officials facing similar pressure willing to do the same thing again that was done with donald trump. we don t know the answer to that, and the senate judiciary committee led by dick durbin, the chairman, is trying to get some answ ....
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