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the confirmation hearings go on in washington. today, the senate will vote jeff sessions, who is donald trump s nominee to be attorney general. and the president isn t happy about the pace of this. it is a disgrace that my full cabinet is still not in place, the longest such delay in the history of our country. obstruction by democrats! that s not true, by the way it s not the longest such delay. anyhow, it is very likely mr trump will get the cabinet he wants. but he will still face significant challenges if he wants his main policies through. and this next report, by the mark urban from the bbc‘s newsnight programme, looks at just that. you can come here, promising to drain the swamp or dethrone the establishment, but this city has a way of protecting its interests, slowing down those who challenge its ways. so the trump administration s they don t have the numbers to wreck trump s agenda. rather, it s doubts among republicans that could pose the most serious th ....
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 ....
there in the final last few seconds. in kelly, kentucky, something else emerges in the sky. we can see venus here at this point in kelly, kentucky. i love the fact that you can see venus. even the president stepping out of the white house to watch. finally, the last major stop for the great american eclipse charleston, south carolina. the clouds cooperating. you know, it really puts us in our place as far as our role in the cosmos, doesn t it, the fact that we here on earth are part of something much bigger. and then sky gazers starting to make the long journey home. in remote rigby, idaho, bumper to bumper traffic for miles. the traffic coming out of idaho goes as far as the eye can see. reporter: this traffic jam started precisely as the eclipse ended. people already had packed, gotten into their cars. one family heading back to california. how long do you expect that to take you with this traffic? about 20 hours. reporter: 20 hours. was it worth it? 20 hours. way. ....
be sure to tune in this sunday for the state of the union. it all starts at 9:00 a.m. it all starts at 9:00 a.m. eastern. captions by vitac www.vitac.com breaking news. not backing down. forced out over domestic abuse allegations. kelly said he has nothing to even consider resigning over, even over a growing controversy over white house security clearances. strayed wars. a day after sending world markets into a tail spin, president trump said trade wars are good. will merge products be targeted for retaliation? angering his allies. the president s position on trade, guns, and even his own attorney general are angering his allies. does he risk losing key advisers? and powerful supporters in zmong and russian sedructress. she can provide the missing pieces. you re in the situation room. breaking news, president trump has arrived at his florida retreat. he can t he is came the chaos he s been creating in washington. chief of staff john kelly is caught up in the controve ....
it took place. did you know at the time about that meet something. no, i didn t know anything about it. it must have been a very important meeting, because i never even heard that. no one told you a word, nothing? i know we talked about this on the plane a bit. no, nobody told me. sounded like a very unimportant meeting. deep cuts there from haberman and schmidt. that s not what michael cohen claims, alleging that he and several others were present when then-candidate donald trump gave his nod of approval for the meeting to move forward. that contradicts repeated denials from donald trump jr. and others in donald trump s orbit. did you tell your father anything about this? no. it was such a nothing, there was nothing to tell. i wouldn t have even remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. the president said he became aware of it very recently, right before this came out, and that s when he was notified. joining me now is jeff bennett, msnbc s w ....