weather. in the last four to five hours since we have been here, the winds have gbegun to pick up. we have a battering of rain in the last three hours. torrential rain too. and next to me, don t take my word for it, the sea has gone more stormy and agitated and tempestuous. and we are seeing the thunder to the right. that is the beginning of what is hurricane irma. also in terms of the mood here in miami, it has gone from one of preparedness to one of agita agitation. police have told people, this is not the time to be unsure. police have been going door-to-door here in miami telling people to evacuate. more than 5.6 million people
whole interview. he is pretty testimony pest use and but keeps it under control. jeff you re not a tempestuous you re a measured roert but keeping an eye on the politics which is although republicans and democrats have obviously hit different tones. it is the one issue, the only issue where we ve seen a measurable vote of alliance against the trump administration on the russia sanctions. what are the politics you see in the meeting and any vulnerabilities for the president. the sanctions bill you referenced is held up in the house. you re right. republicans writ large have decided that russia s interference in the 2016 election was a real problem and the sanctions bill what it does is it limits the white house s ability to uni laterally lifts sanctions on russia. speaking of the politics, the poll you mentioned .poll that finds the russia question is a partisan question. if you dig into the numbers you find that 73% of the republicans
whole interview. he is pretty testimony pest use and but keeps it under control. jeff you re not a tempestuous you re a measured roert but keeping an eye on the politics which is although republicans and democrats have obviously hit different tones. it is the one issue, the only issue where we ve seen a measurable vote of alliance against the trump administration on the russia sanctions. what are the politics you see in the meeting and any vulnerabilities for the president. the sanctions bill you referenced is held up in the house. you re right. republicans writ large have decided that russia s interference in the 2016 election was a real problem and the sanctions bill what it does is it limits the white house s ability to uni laterally lifts sanctions on russia. speaking of the politics, the poll you mentioned .poll that finds the russia question is a partisan question. if you dig into the numbers you find that 73% of the republicans say that donald trump did nothing wrong as it r
and he said, drink this poison. yeah. and they drank it? that s right. you drank it? yeah. that story was what kind of got a lot of the families of the members, that got them really alarmed. they were concerned about this kind of, well, borderline mad stuff that got people concerned back here. we wanted to see for ourselves because we had been receiving conflicting accounts of what life was like in jonestown. california congressman leo ryan was one of those following the story with an intense personal interest. a lot of constituents came to congressman ryan and were legitimately outraged and anguished and wanted something to be done. and frankly, that s what government is supposed to do. ryan had a reputation, very
tempestuous. i want to see it for myself. larger-than-life character. and he had spent some time in the state prison to sort of see conditions firsthand. what he had was this unquenchable desire to seek truth out. and if someone said everything s okay, it was reason for him to say everything isn t okay. so he he pulled a group together, he met with a bunch of people including reporters at various newspapers including myself and he sort of said, i m going to go down to jonestown and i m going to see firsthand what it s like in there. i was the nbc correspondent responsible for latin america. and about a week before they went down, ten days before they went down, i was called by the foreign editor in new york and said, we re going to send you to jonestown with congressman leo ryan. i had just come back from a lot of fighting in nicaragua and i said, well, i ll pass.