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most cases, it would be a grand jury, but here in minneapolis, the county prosecutor has decided he alone will review evidence and determine whether to pursue charges. david? alex perez leading us off tonight. alex, thank you. there is also a state of emergency playing out tonight. 43 major fires burning. one in particular forcing nearly 5,000 from their homes as the fire now gets closer. and tonight, it is moving in on yosemite national park. smoke so thick in the park, you cannot see what makes it most famous. abc s kenneth moton on the fire lines from california. reporter: tonight, the detwiler fire, exploding in size to more than 70 square miles. firefighters calling it the most powerful of their careers. talking to firefighters, it s been over ten years since we ve seen fire and fire growth like this. reporter: 2,200 firefighters trying to keep up in grueling conditions on the ground. these firefighters are the first line and pretty much the only defense watch over ....
own new program which will air 6:00 p.m. weekdays. we ll announce the start date eventually. but you can mark your calendar in a rough way if you want. a big breaking news night. so i m happy to hear what rachel maddow has in store for us. you re giving us a calendar alert that could exist in the age of digital calendars. you re telling us to pencil this in in general but i can t give you a start date. write a macro so at some point that stakicks in and it starts. that s all i was allowed to say. a very laurie approawyerly a tonight i had an a block all set and ready to go. we worked on it this weekend. all this breaking news stuff this evening and then this happened this evening and we had all of this crazy stuff happening with the legal teams that are trying to defend or senator rand paul from kentucky said he wouldn t vote for it because repealing obamacare was still too much like obamacare. whatever. for whatever reasons the two of them said they wouldn t vote it. ....
protect trump from a special prosecutor. that s right. he blames him for two things number one, the president is a combatant. he likes people who fight. so he doesn t like that instead of fighting, sessions recused himself. but he believes initial step what set in motion the process that led to special counsel robert mueller who is causing tremendous headaches for the president and his family. his understanding of the role of the attorney generalship. can you square that what most people think an attorney general should be today? man or woman since at least janet reno, they re seen as the country s attorney general, not the president s personal lawyer. that s right. there have been people very close to them as the attorney general, like kennedy. or bobby kennedy. he would be the prime example but that s not what we think of. we don t think of the attorney general being the president s lawyer. we think of him being the lawyer for the country. in a way that s very impo ....
likely the influence of the new chief of staff here, retired general john kelly who has been clear, trying to send a signal there is a new sheriff in town. that he s not going to tolerate discord and some of these tweets that are off message. but will we see this over the course of time? that remains to be seen. we ve had sort of the pockets of the president being very restrained when it comes to his messaging. i think when it comes to the relationship on capitol hill and this next battle that you talk about, the challenges, not only do you have republicans, conservatives like jeff flake speaking out, obviously he s been critical of candidate trump all the way back to the campaign trail, but republicans just don t seem that afraid of him. that s why you have lisa murkowski saying i m going to vote against you in the health care fight. how does he get republicans on board to get tax reform done? the reality may be that they re looking at tax cuts, because they don t have that big, ....
of the trump campaign. just to state the obvious that we all know, the president shoots from the hip. i m not sure there was a ton of fore thought into what he said about sessions. i think he was honest and blunt about his feelings at that moment in time. they are feelings that he has had on and off for some time now. the russian investigation as we all know kind of won t go away as a story line partly because there s an open investigation but also because the president is preoccupied with it and he brings it up all the time, in private conversations and apparently in public ones. i think there s a real concern in terms of the comments he s made obviously because they also seem to indicate that, you know, first he wants loyalty from comey, now he wants loyalty or allegiance from attorney general, like he s wanting to run this the way he runs his business, which is not the way the government works and certainly not the way the justice department works, which is an independent i ....