a major heat wave in store for the pacific northwest and growing fire concerns for the drought-stricken southwest. let s get to meteorologist chad myers. chad? john, a remarkable heat wave about to occur in the northwest. also, british columbia as well. hundreds of record highs will be broken without a doubt. to the east there will be some severe weather. but this remarkable heat wave across the west is going to happen thursday, friday, saturday, and into sunday and then at the same time we re going to get almost 10 inches of rain in parts of missouri. one side across the country to the other. seattle has only been over 100 degrees three times in history. the forecast is for three times again by monday. new day continues right now. i m brianna keilar alongside john berman on this new day. combatting crime, president biden taking action to address a surge in big city violence. democrats strategizing their next move after senate republicans knocked down, even debating,
fictional president. and he is now an adviser to joe biden. the fictional president, by the way you know me. yes, go on. big hands. the fictional president was of course jet bartlett on and receives the west wing and our first guest was a consultant advisor to that fictional president and three real ones clinton, obama, and now biden. take your time. we have all night. no, not gonna do it. this is in jeopardy. you have all night. lawrence, would it profoundly affects our friendship even retroactively if i told you that i ve never seen the west wing? no because that s true of most people and a giant giant tv audience back then was 20 million people which we used to get on the west wing and now a giant tv audience is maybe 6 million people. and bc is lucky if they can get 6 million people to watch something. so what that tells you is, back when 20 million people were watching, say, the west wing, that meant a few hundred million warrants so that s kind of an i
previous 500 perhaps, it s been the word of the day so often, but rachel, our first guest tonight is really unique in american presidential history because our first guest and i m opening this to you and the audience to guess who this is has been an adviser now to three real president s and one fictional president. and he is now an adviser to joe biden. the fictional president, by the way you know me, i don t yes, come on. big hint, the fictional president was, of course, jed bartlett on nbc the west wing and our first guest was a consultant, adviser to that fictional presidency, and three real ones. clinton, obama, and now biden. take your time. we have all night. no. no, not going to do it. this isn t jeopardy!. you have all night. lawrence, would it profoundly affect our friendship, like even retroactively if i told you that i ve never seen the west wing ? no, because that s true of most people, and this is something that people in television don t
you re because you don t have your brother bill texting you the score like i do right here. telling me exactly when the grand slams come in. i ll do my part. i know how this works. it s all right. rachael, i was fascinated by your interview with congresswoman because especially because she actually did say the words, in her first response, well, i can t say what was actually said in the meeting. whereupon in the audience you kind of go, all right, do we go to the commercial now? like what s left to talk about? but it was very revealing and very, very helpful. for me, studying every little wrinkle of this. the for me the most single important fact that we know about the meeting is that it was two hours long. that is not a meeting about nothing. that is not a, so, tell me about life in west virginia. that s not what two hours is in those rooms. they got into a very serious discussion. it s hugely important. joe manchin talking to the woman who is leading the largest group
response, well i can t say what was actually said in the meeting. where upon, in the audience to kind of go, all right do we go to the commercial now? what is left to talk about. but it was very revealing, and very helpful. for me, studying every little wrinkle of this, the single most important fact that we know about the meeting is that it was two hours long. that is not a meeting about nothing. that is not a so tell me about life in west virginia. that is not what two hours is in that room. they got into a very serious discussion about it. that s what two hours is about. and it is a hugely important discussion that joe manchin, representing the small group of moderate democrats who haven t gotten on board with this yet. talking to the woman who is leading the largest group of support for this legislation. that is a very important meeting. i thought it was also, i m not going to tell you what s going to happen in the meeting, but does joe manchin want there to be a bill