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we saw some of that flooding all over the roadways. now we re talking about major highways, i-10 south of here. 69 is closed. beaumont becoming its own mini island, and in very many places across jefferson county, you have islands just trying to get help to them, because there are so many rivers that are passing through. rivers that used to be streamtr like this street behind me. you see the water coming off the street there. that s traveling into a drainage ditch, and this is the problem. we just saw a man try to cross the drainage ditch. he thought it was a street. he was almost washed away before our eyes. he was able to swim right back up before the current took him away. that is why police are saying here in southeast, texas, this is not over by any means. the brunt of the storm may be head thing way right now. drew griffin in beaumont. emergency services and possible rescues to go into eastern parts of texas into western louisiana. we thought new orleans was going to h ....
green writes candidate trump seemed indifferent but changed his mind when he tried it out in a speech in january of 2015 and the place went nuts. the u.s. economy may hinge now on a throwaway catch phrase that just happened to catch on. more from cnn s sarah mur rich. has the white house offered any more information following the president s threat about shutting down the government? aside from what you saw from sarah huckabee sanders today, they haven t really given us an indication of why the president decided this is something he would be willing to shut down the government over. they also didn t offer any real explanation as to how he squares and acts like this with what you showed was a regular campaign promise. a notion that this wall was going to be built and american taxpayers wouldn t be on the hook for. since he became president, the president of mexico has made one thing very clear to president trump. they re not paying for that wall. the last time the governmen ....
what he says in private conversations. he thinks this is an unfair attack against his presidency. but that these probes have expanded, mushroomed to different veins, different associates of him. there hasn t been any wrongdoing proven, of course, so far, but it s kind of gotten hotter and hotter over the past few months and that frustrated the president. he also gets frustrated when these senators are trying to take some of his autonomy away. he wanted to determine the bill on russian sanctions and exactly what would happen. he wants to be able to fire mueller if he chooses to do so. he says he doesn t want to, but he says if i have that option, i might want to take it. and he says he doesn t like being backed in a corner. so you see him really getting frustrated by these different measures. the latter point about mueller, there s a sanctions argument, we ll get to sanctions in a moment. the latter point about mueller, the president said he s not going to fire mueller and there ....
country? i hope he did write those letters. i hope he does call those family members in the coming days. he was wrong to try to make up this just awful lie that president obama didn t do that. but my concern is more about what it says about future decisions he ll make about putting soldiers in harm s way. or point of fact, current kinetic military taifd by this nation in places like niger were frankly, senator, i bet if he polled a thousand americans, 999 couldn t have told you that the u.s. had members of the armed service there s in harm s way in niger. what is going on there? what is striking to me, four americans were killed there, and what do we know about why we re there, what the strategy is, what the u.s. government is doing? well, listen, to be fair to president trump, this counterterrorism strategy of pushing special forces out wherever al qaeda was gaining president talked about at length today, and i want to ask you, because i have you here and you ve been very ....
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 ....