Coverage. Adam is then fox extreme Weather Center. We begin with Steve Harrigan who is in san juan, puerto rico, right now. We speak of the rain is heavier than it has been all morning and thats creating Flash Flooding with some River Gates Being opened up. The winds have gusted here on the back end of this storm to over 100 Miles Per Hour. The worst of the wins came at about 9 00 in the morning with sustained gusts of more than 104 to 5 Miles Per Hour. Those were winds enough to tear the sides of some buildings. We just saw bits and pieces of buildings fly through the air and tops of trees have also snapped off. This island now according to the governor is almost 90 without electric power. It may be 100 soon, that means people in this storm for writing it out around their own. No electric power, no Emergency Rescue services, if they have a portable radio, thats what theyre hearing. Otherwise theyre hearing the
balconies torn off. Its still too hard for the First Responders to go out a
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. In the russia probe. S your head is nodding. Do you adopt the same position . Absolutely. The question here as mentioned was the nature of his communications with the Russian Hackers. This indictment against the 12 officers mentioned. This was more about passing statement. There could be more behind it that these Russian Hackers were in contact with the person reported to be roger stone in terms of soliciting feedback and that roger stone boasted he had contact with wikileaks alleged in this indictment coordinated with the russian hacker. This is a big problem for roger stone if he helped them in any way he could be a part of that. One thing i do want to note
an agreement to the objective of the bigger enterprise. In this case to hack into these emails and use it and to do one overt act in furtherance of that. You dont have to know everything about the conspiracy or be a part of everything. You can b
Known. This election marks the Largest Senate gains for a president s party in a first Midterm Election since at least president kennedys in 1962. There have been only four Midterm Elections since 1934 in which a president s party has gained even a single senate seat. As of now, we picked up it looks like three, and could be four, and perhaps two, but we picked up a lot. Most like ly the number is thre, and you people probably know that better than i do at this point, because you looked at the more recent numbers. 55 is the largest number of republican senators in the last 100 years. In years a president s party has only
acquired eight cumulative seats averaging one per decade, and so if we picked up two, three, four, that is a big percentage of that number. So in the last 80 years, you think of that. Only eight seats. In President Obamas first Midterm Election, he lost six senate seats, include ing ing i deep blue state of massachusetts. Republicans captured at least four senate seats
Another hour but were out of time. My thanks to steve schmidt, most of all, thanks to you for watching. Mtp daily with chuck todd starts right now. Welcome to thursday. It is meet the press daily. Good evening. Im chuck todd here in a big curly w washington. Lchl exactly a year after the president ial election, todays been another hectic day in the Nations Capital from capitol hill to the courts to the white house. House backed an Impeachment Inquiry into the president and historic symbolic action that moves us one step closer to public hearings. And Behind Closed Doors, it was another bomb shell day as the National Security council top russia expert tim morrison
confirmed much of the substance of the damning testimony by the administrations top diplomat to ukraine, bill taylor, what he testified to is that military aid was contingent on investigations into the president s political rivals. This is according to a review of morrisons opening statement. Now, morrison also testified that
Number of significant procedural protections where the president even on the house side, as you know the role of the house is to act as the grand jury and the prosecutor and the actual trial takes place over in the senate, but still, we had significant procedural protections we invited the president and his counsel to attend, we provided the president s counsel the opportunity to cross examine witnesses and object to the admissibility of testimony, and we provided the president s counsel it make presentation of evidence before the full Judiciary Committee including the chance to call witnesses. The president chose not to avail himself of any of those opportunities. It reminds me the president Blockading Witnesses saying you dont have enough people with direct firsthand evidence. First of all, were those rights provided only in Judiciary Committee. Youre not the Principle Committee of impeachment. Youre sort of the final stop. Did the president get those
rights in the Intelligence Commi