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we re going to continue our breaking news live coverage of this. i wanted to amplify for you what andrea was just telling you about the wadirector comey former director comey found out about this, the new york times account of this is just stunning. he was addressing a group of fbi employees in los angeles when the television in the background flashed the news that he had been fired. in response, mr. comey laughed. he said he thought it was a fairly funny prank. and then his staff started securing around in the background, told mr. comey that he should step into a nearby office. mr. comey stopped addressing the group. he proceeded to shake hands with the employees he had been speaking to and he stepped into a side office where he confirmed that he had been fired. at that point, he had not heard from the white house. shortly after that, rachel, after all of that, it s been on television, a letter from the president was delivered to the fbi s headquarters just 7 blocks from ....
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, ....
going to one particular shelter near ft. myers. many of them are still waiting to get in. we re going to check in with our drew griffin who s there in the hour ahead. but first, let s get the latest most porntdly on where this storm is headed. allison chinchar is in the weather center. bring us up to date. right, anderson. take a look at what we have right now, imagery where we can see the latest on irma. winds 125 miles per hour gusting up to 155 miles per hour. the movement it s been what we call wobbling where it s going back and forth between west and north and west and north. the question is when does it finally start to make that really sharp turn to the north. we focus on the maximum wind gusts. notice for the most part it s the western half of florida where we have our strongest winds. key west, this will be our peak maximum wind gusts around 138 miles per hour. but say up around ft. myers 136, even tampa going to be in the triple digits right around 116 miles per hour. ....
the storm. we re doing whatever we can to help. shepard: let s get to it. good friday afternoon from the fox news deck. we re tracking hurricane irma. florida s governor says the window to escape the path of the storm is closing. with each updated forecast, the chance of a direct hit on some part of south florida and then up the peninsula of florida are increasing. this as the head of fema says i don t know anybody in florida has experienced what we re about to get. the florida says we should expect life threatening conditions from coast-to-coast. he says this is a catastrophic storm like our state has never seen. over 500,000 people there from mandatory evacuation orders, including miami, miami beach, the keys. rick scott telling people to be patient when dealing with crowded highways. he says more troopers are on the road to help with the flow of the traffic. he says the state has sent school buses to get residents out of dangerous areas. some gas stations have long line ....
trust the president. new reporting on the president s humiliation of jeff sessions in the wake of the mueller appointment. and the treasury secretary s new excuse for asking the government to subsidize his honeymoon. they had to give up a lot to take these jobs. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the most prominent voices of the trump base discovered today what many of his business associates and customers learned long ago. if you re in business with donald trump, eventually you re going to end up on the wrong side of the deal. this afternoon in an off-camera session with reporters on board air force one, the president defended his decision to work with democrats on a deal to protect undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children. in exchange for increased border security. i m a republican through and through, but i m also finding that sometimes to get things through, it s not working that way. and, you know, we got ver ....