On tuesday night and that we continue to see today. More of them today. And the victories are now moving up into where the exit polls were actually projecting them on tuesday for democrats. The exit polls were saying they were going to take at least 30 seats, maybe more. They have now taken 30, and they may be taking more. And so Michael Moore is one of those people whos not looking at it with any kind of disappointment at all on what happened tuesday. No. And the way this is we should have known this. I think in some ways we did know this on tuesday night when the democrats were targeting so many seats in california, and we know that it takes a month to count in california. Democrats are over 30 seats flipped right now. They may get up to 35, 36, 37 very quickly. At least i was focused on california in case those california seats were the difference in terms of who controlled the house. But thats not where theyre coming in. Theyre coming in terms of how big the democratic margin is going to be. It looks like its very close to what people were saying was going to be a very strong democratic wave. And these kinds of numbers used to be called a wave, but it seems that the anticipation about the democrats possibly pulling off some miraculous wins in places like georgia and texas adjusted the way people saw this. But we have never, ever been waiting for results in georgia or texas to decide whether its a democratic wave. And not to mention the fact that georgia that georgia fight is still on. And the florida fight is still on. Exactly. Both for the governors race and the senate race. Stuff is going nuts right now in florida. Were just talking about what portion of my staff were going to send to Broward County in the morning at this point because of how hot it is there right now. We do have breaking news tonight and that is that the election is not over. We have serious breaking news. Democrats are continuing to win. There are 11 seats in the house of representatives that do not yet have a winner. Thats after four races were decided today and three of those were won by democrats today including lucy mcbragt in georgia who first appeared in 2012 when she was tragically sharing the loss of her teenage son jordan who was murdered by a white man in florida who decided that the music coming from the car where jordan and his black friends were was just too loud. And thats why her son was killed. Lucy mcbeth won the georgia Congressional District that was held by Republican House speaker Newt Gingrich and has been solidly republican today. She owes her victory in part to the voters for democrats statewide excitement, about supporting Stacey Abrams in the georgia governors race, which is one of the elections in which we still do not have an official winner. Two other Democratic Women were declared winners of house seats today. Kim won the eight Congressional District in washington, a district which republicans have never lost until today. 30yearold katie hill will be one of the youngest members of the house now that she has won californias 20th Congressional District in northern los angeles county. And theres breaking news tonight in the Undecided Senate race in arizona, as rachel said, for the republican seat that is currently occupied by the retiring jeff flake. Democrat Kristen Sinema now has taken the lead. At this hour she has more than a 9,000 vote lead with 83 of precincts reporting and the undecided Florida Senate race continues to titan. Republican rick scott now leads Democrat Bill nelson by less than 16,000 votes. That margin is narrow enough to require a recount under florida law. Democrats currently have a net gain of 30 seats in the house of representatives. That number could continue to grow. 30 seats is exactly exactly what the democrats won in the house of representatives in 2006 in what was then reported as a wave election for democrats. 101 women have won house seats. The democrats picked up seven governorships. The republicans picked up one governorship. According to the New York Times 317 house districts swung to the left as compared to the 2016 election. The average district nation would moved 10 Percentage Points to the left this year. And districts where republicans won were caught in that movement to the left as well. 171 of the districts that republicans won moved to the left in the vote count this year. 18yearold david hawk who became politically active after a mass murderer killed 17 people at his high school in parkland, florida, this year voted for the first time in his life in this election. Not all of the candidates that he supported won, and yesterday david said this is the start, its going to be a long road. It is a call to action. Leading off our discussion now, Michael Moore, Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker. Michael, thank you very much for joining us tonight. And i want to get your reaction to what weve seen so far in this election. Because counting the votes is continuing. It is an amazing victory. And i am not one to come on this show with a lot of optimism, as you know from the past. Nobody should miss the point, all the points you just made were right on. Especially the point that this victory on tuesday was larger than the tea Party Victory in 2010. Larger than the huge wave where the democrats took over congress in 2006. It cant be stated enough or strongly enough just how over the top awesome this victory was on tuesday. And what you just pointed out i think is so important. Not just the victory in terms of number of seats, not just the fact that millions more americans voted for democrats as opposed to republicans. Millions more, okay, the socalled popular vote which we already know we are the majority because we won by 3 million two years ago, but this was huge. But also what you just said, how the 317 districts that moved further to the left, 117 districts that republicans actually won but the number of people who came out and voted for the democrat, especially the progressive democrat, that moved. It all moved. This is the new america that youve got on your screen right now. That is the america that we live in. And where it gets really i think confusing for some people when we put up the map and we show the big red swaths of red across the country, it has a weird and wrong impact on people because it makes it look like the countrys so red. But people dont live in those large desert and mountain and prairie areas. I mean people live there, but spall, small numbers of people live there. Each Congressional District is the same exact number of votes. Roughly 775,000 each. If there was a way to do the math where we actually built the map and showed by population how large this area of the country is or this area is by population you would see the bluest of blue youd need sunglasses, there would be so much blue on the screen on the map. If we actually showed the map by the size of its population, not the size of how many acres the state has. So this was an election this was and people are like oh, they have to set it, and thats because thats not a democratic election. True democracy doesnt mean that delaware gets the same number of votes in the senate as california with 40 Million People who live there. If we were a true democracy the senate would be proportional to the actual numbers of the country. So we have to fix that. Weave to get rid of the electoral college. We need to have Preferential Voting sm voting systems where you get your first choice, your second choice. Thats to come. This was a huge first step. Its one down, two to go. The next one to go before the senate is probably going to be the white house. And that may happen within these two years depending on what happens in congress. How far those votes in the senate remember five six, republicans would have to have what john kennedy called a profile in courage, a moment of conscience if it comes to a point where the Mueller Investigation or the investigation the house committees are going to do in terms of showing just how badly trump has violated the law, how much will republicans be able to tolerate their president being a lawbreaker, being a criminal . Well find out. But i think this is very exciting time for us. And everybody just the shots youve been showing all night on msnbc of these protests in the street, all in america, happened 5 00 p. M. Local time all over the place, im getting reports from people in the smallest of towns where theres 100 people there. And theres only 1,000 people in the town. So its this is going to have to continue, though. Were going to have to be in the streets a lot, im afraid, because trump believes hes going to get away with what he thinks hes getting away with now in the Justice Department with matt whitaker. So thats my take. Michael, to that point imagine a world today in which the democrats had not won the house of representatives. They came up one shy or whatever it was and they did not win the house of representatives, the current what some are calling the fake attorney general because this title of acting attorney general many legal scholars saying hes been illegally installed there, this is an unconstitutional appointment, so i am reluctant to even give him the title. He has the office, but i dont know what title he really has. Imagine that person is sitting in the Justice Department tonight in what was going to be a republican controlled house of representatives instead of what hes living with which is the knowledge that come january they can pull him into the Judiciary Committee at the house of representatives, put him under oath and make him answer every question about what he said to donald trump before he was appointed and what donald trump said to him. And those questions will be asked under oath, and that was not going to happen without that win tuesday night. Youre absolutely youre so right to say that. Imagine if we hadnt won on tuesday night, first of all i think there are so many people anticipating that possibility after what happened in 2016. I heard that pharmaceutical companies were actually developing an antidepressant just for democrats. A democratic antidepressant. But fortunately they dont need that now. They can go back to the lattes and cappuccinos. We already had a constitutional crisis with trumps behavior prior to the election. We now have a constitutional crisis within the constitutional crisis. We now have a state of emergency within the state of emergency. This has gotten very dangerous. And, you know, its you know, we havent even touched on what happened in Thousand Oaks today with the people that were kill we live in a country now where an american can go into a bar and kill 12 people, go into a synagogue and kill 11 people, go into a kroger and kill black people. All of us have to be up and active, we have to be on guard. And ruth bader ginsburg, if youre recovering tonight and watching this, seriously i would do anything for you, i would literally donate a rib for you. Although my ribs might take up your whole body, but im just saying weve got a lot of things in front of us here, a lot on our plate, lawrence. But the people are going to be heard and theyre not going away just because they won on tuesday night. Michael moore, thank you very much for joining us tonight, starting us off tonight, really appreciate it. Thank you, lawrence. Coming up, Steve Kornacki will join us because it is still Election Night in america. Were still counting votes and were going to have the latest on the Arizona Senate race where the democratic candidate Kirsten Sinema has taken the lead. And the governor races in florida which continue to tighten. But first there is a coupe at the Justice Department according to some legal scholars who believe Donald Trumps appointment of the socalled acting attorney general is illegal and unconstitutional. Illegal and unconstitutional while you dwell within it you are ever happy there daddy, its christmas childhoods, joyland never let go of your dreams. The mercedesbenz winter event is back. Lease the glc 300 for 459 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Mercedesbenz. The best or nothing. You want relief fast. 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At comcast, its my job to develop, apps and tools that simplify your experience. My name is mike, im in Product Development at comcast. Were working to make things simple, easy and awesome. Tonight we have a coup at the department of justice. President trump has dumped an attorney general who was confirm bide the United States senate and illegally replaced him. Thats according to several legal scholars analyzing the president s actions. In the New York Times former acting solicitorgeneral in the Obama Administration neil, coauthored an oped piece with attorney George Conway who happens to be Kellyanne Conways husband. They say mr. Trumps installation of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general of the United States after forcing the resignation of Jeff Sessions is unconstitutional. Its illegal, and it means that anything mr. Whitaker does or tries to do in that position is invalid. There are three points of law relevant to this situation. First and most important is the constitution of the United States that says principle officers of the government, cabinet members their meaning, must be confirm bide the United States senate. But the federal vacancies reform act says the president can fill a vacancy in the department with a senior official in that department who has served more than 90 days in that department. But that law does not take precedent over another law which specifically describes how a vacancy in the office of attorney general should be filled within the Justice Department. That law requires that Deputy Attorney general, in this case Rod Rosenstein become the acting attorney general, and that is one of the many reasons why we have never had an acting attorney general who has not been confirmed by the United States senate to a role such as Deputy Attorney general or solicitorgeneral or associate attorney general. All of whom are specified in the law that determines the order of succession to temporarily film a vacancy by a departing attorney general. It can immediately corrupt and jeopardize virtually all of the actions of the department of justice. Heres how neil explained that point earlier tonight to chris hayes. Every litigant in this country facing the Justice Department can make these arguments and say, hey, youre trying to put me in jail, Justice Department, you dont have the authority. You have a fake attorney general. Joining the discussion now the professor at law, and the former Deputy Assistant attorney general. Lisa graves, you have worked on the confirmation process for attorneys general. Your reaction tonight to someone being installed as an acting attorney general who is not coming from a position that was confirmed by the United States senate like a Deputy Attorney general or a solicitorgeneral. Well, this is rule e really a coup at the Justice Department orchestrated by trump. Its a premeditated assault on the law. To try to shutdown this lawful, legitimate and very Serious Investigation which has netted significant criminal prosecution, criminal convictions already. And i think when you look at someone like whitaker what you see is someone who has a cloud over him already. Hes someone whos expressed opinions, attacking the independent counsel, attacking special counsel and the investigation. Hes someone who worked for a Dark Money Group and someone who was a board member of a scam operation that was just blocked earlier this year for basically trying to bilk inventors out of their money in a major multimillion dollar fine from the government. And so hes someone whos unfit for this role. And it would be inappropriate for the Justice Department to be helmed by this person especially as you point out, lawrence, the vacancies act, it succession acts say the Deputy Attorney general should be in there until someone is confirmed. Even according to the vacancies act, which is not applicable here according to most interpretations, youre supposed to choose the top person in the department. And the chief of staff to the attorney general is nowhere near the top person in the department. Nowhere near and also not confirmed by the senate, so i agree with lisa. There is this constitutional argument, you said it before. But theres an additional argument that you dont have to turn to constitutional interpretation. The statute itself says that it doesnt apply to the situation. So the statute says that it doesnt apply when a statutory provision expressly authorizes the head of a department, here the attorney general, to designate an officer or employee. So what you have here is a statute that in another part of the statutes it designates and allows the attorney general to designate. So by its own words the vacancies reform act doesnt apply. It also has an absurdity because theres another part of the act which says if the attorney general and it Deputy Attorney general are unavailable, then it designates the associate attorney general. It would be absurd for a statute to say if were missing two people, were going to designate a third. Oh, but wait, if were missing one person then the president gets to nominate his spy, lackey matt whitaker. That doesnt make sense for the statute. And theres a third reason why the statute shouldnt be applied this way and thats because you dig into the purpose of why the statute was written. The vra, vacancies reform act, was passed in 1998 to limit the discretion to hand pick his crony. And the other statute was passed right after watergate to specifically prevent a president of doing whats happening right now. Thinking about the purpose of the statute, all of those rae readings would make sure whitaker is not an attorney general right now. When you consider the postwatergate supplement to this law, that was after we sought two republican generals in a row, in the nixon administration, convicted of federal crimes. And so this was specifically intended to clarify what happens in that order of succession. Thats exactly right, and that law was very important for those reasons because of that live example that happened right before congress made these changes. Trump has thumbed his nose at that. You know, this is really an outrage. The department of justice has operated under these independent rules for decades now, and i was proud to walk into that Justice Department on pennsylvania avenue where engraved it says the place of justice is a hallowed place. This defiles the Justice Department, and it calls into question every case and certainly any action to limit, to curtail, to take away funding for mueller in his lawful and legitimate and important crucial investigation surrounding this president. And theres a bipartisan agreement on this. We have former george w. Bush, Justice Department official john yu writing today whitaker cannot serve as a acting attorney general. I dont see any argument that can seriously counter this. There is a debate. When you mentioned john there, thats a very conservative scholar thats endorsed very president ial aspects of power. If you have them saying this is a very unconstitutional abuse of president ial power, i think you can take those views pretty far. There are differences of opinion here, but i think whether youre a texturalists, an originalists or a propostivist, that covers the basis of constitutional and stachatorial interpretation. All of those say whitaker is invalid and illegally appointed attorney general here. He should not be able to do anything with those powers. Let me also say that doesnt mean mueller cant do it. If whitaker is invalid, that means whitaker cant interfere with mueller. But mueller can still do his job because muellers office is valid. This argument needs to be asserted by mueller to prevent the interference of whitaker in his investigation. Thank you for joining our discussion tonight. Really appreciate it. Thank you so much. Coming up, the law Matthew Whitaker should be studying tonight. And that is of course the law on federal obstruction of justice. The statute of limitations is the part that he should really take a close look at. Thats next. D really take a close look at thats next. And here. See . Opportunity. Everywhere. About to be parents. Meeting the parents. And this driver, logging out to watch his kid hit one out of the. bat hits ball opportunity is everywhere. 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The question for Matthew Whitaker who now occupies the Attorney Generals Office of the Justice Department is does he think he can get away with interfering in Robert Muellers investigation of the president. We know thats what the president wants him to do. Donald trump is that peculiar kind of criminal minded person who publicly declares his criminal intent. He has said he wants an attorney general who will work for him personally, who will protect him personally, who will obstruct justice for him personally if necessary and not work for the American People and not protect justice. Is Matthew Whitaker smart enough to know that he is going to have to testify under oath to the house Judiciary Committee about any interference that he might try to engage in with the Mueller Investigation . Is Matthew Whitaker smart enough to know that there is a fiveyear statute of limitations on the federal crime of obstruction of justice and that the next democratic attorney general who will probably be chosen during the president ial transition two years from now will be empowered to immediately investigate every suspicious thing that Matthew Whitaker might be foolish enough to do as Donald Trumps fake attorney general . So how smart is Matthew Whitaker . How stupid is Matthew Whitaker . How reckless is Matthew Whitaker . Judging by his previous Public Comments as a rightwing pundit, he sounds like the kind of guy who could get himself in serious criminal trouble. On day one today in that office at the Justice Department. Joining us now is harry litman. Weve never seen anything like it. This is person occupying the attorney generals whos not been confirmed by the state department. If he in any way try tuesday obstruct justice for donald trump. I think thats right. Hes got one credential and one credential only besides a few failed political campaigns and that hes going to be loyal to donald trump and as hes already been his sort of eyes and ears. And does he have the potential for criminal liability, of course. Im sure hes thought about it. But this is probably too much to resist. All of a sudden he is running the department of justice. Hes a guy until recently who had no role. You know he was recommended for the chief of staff position by leonard leo, same guy who st stewarded the kavanaugh and gorsuch nominations. And im sure hes thinking at least in the shortterm when he gets hailed in front of the congressional committees that trump will assert executive privilege and keep him from the hot seat temporarily. But youre certainly right that down the line if he does anything untoward hell be held to pay. He has to be looking at that statute of limitations on obstruction of justice tonight and ask himself does he feel safe on the next five years on the statute of limitations on obstruction of justice . Thats right. He certainly envisions and it seems pretty clear to me coming in and being the sort of boot on the neck of the mueller probe, now when might that cross the line to obstruction . There is not much of an indication that hes got the subtle nuance to see the difference. This is guy after all as the marbury versus madison was wrong sided and has any number of views that are at extreme odds with the law of the land. Hes probably going to have to make it up as he goes. Hes a pretty heavy handed and confident guy, so maybe he thinks he can take it. He doesnt even know what mueller has if mueller presents some really strong evidence against the president , then hes in a fix, i think. Yeah, and then theres the question of if that evidence is presented to him, what might he do in terms of communicating that evidence to the white house. Right. If he does anything hes clearly broken the law, and ill just leave it at that. If its middle ground he might be able to give general heads up. If he really tries to play the conduit to the white house, thats not just inappropriate for an acting attorney general but it is unlawful. Harry litman, thank you very much for joining our discussion tonight. Thank you. And when we come back, it is still Election Night in america. Weave a democrat now leading in the Arizona Senate race. That means we need Steve Kornacki. He will be here. E need Steve Kornacki he will be here. music throughout so, to breathe better, i go with anoro. Go your own way copd tries to say, go this way. I say, ill go my own way, with anoro. 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The big reason is this maricopa county, this is where phoenix is. This is like two thirds of the state almost population wise. This is the current running count in maricopa. I say running count because there are still hundreds of thousands of votes still to be added to this. They added them in batches. They added about 125,000 tonight. And from that 125,000 they favored sinema by more than 20,000. That was the margin that cod add got added in here. This istusen, the part of the state sinema was from, also at added a big batch from there tonight. You add those two together and it was enough to have a 9,000 lead. Theyre going to keep counting tomorrow, into the weekend into next week. What is going on is this, arizona is a state with a lot of vote by mail. A lot of people dropping off, mailing in ballots early. What theyre counting right now seemed to be ballots that were delivered late last week, over the weekend, a couple of days before election day. Those types of ballots tend to favor Democratic Candidates and certainly seem to be favoring sinema. There are probably in maricopa county, theres probably 150,000 or so of those ballots left. So i expect tomorrow theyre going to report out again tomorrow night more votes from maricopa. I expect sinema to do probably about as well for that statewide lead to grow. The question and the suspense in this race is the second type of ballot, which is the one that folks delivered personally to polling places on election day. Theres going to be about 200,000 of those in maricopa county. Theyre expected to favor mcsally. We dont know by how much. So basically can sinema build up a lead here tomorrow, maybe into the weekend. And is that lead big enough to sustain any improvement mcsally gets on the same day the vote is cou counted . And take us to florida. Look at the senate race in particular. Look at this margin right here. Rick scott over bill nelson. It is now 15,000 and 73 votes between them. That is difference of 0. 19 . If youre under 0. 2 in the margin its not just an automatic recount ware now in the territory where its an automatic manual recount. Theyre going to take them out and hand inspect them. What we still have outstanding in florida, it looks tonight like big Broward County, democratic Broward County counted a batch of vote by mail thats sitting there. Thats why the margin shrunk a little bit. We have at least a 1,000 votes by mail here in palm beach that have yet to be counted. And statewide theres going to be provisional ballots. People who showed up at the polls, they didnt have the proper i. D. , whatever it is, and the onus is on them, follow up, prove it was a legitimate vote in the eyes of the law and theyll cast the ballot. In the past that number has been about 10,000 elections that are accepted statewide. Democrats are putting out an urgent alert to all their voters in florida who cast provisional ballots to make sure they follow up, democrats are telling them, because they think they could get more from the provisional as long as their voters do follow up. Again, typically its 10,000. To make up a gap like that democrats may need more. But basically were definitely in manual recount territory right now in that race. Steve kornacki, thank you very much. And as Election Night in america continues, you are now allowed to take a nap on that sleeping bag you have behind the big board. Thank you very much for joining us. Really appreciate it. And when we come back, Staten Island. Three days before the election i tweeted if Staten Island goes democratic the rest of the country will follow tuesday night. And that turned out to be what happened on tuesday night. Staten island is that special part of new york city that usually votes republican. 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As a campaigner, a veteran, but you knew it was a challenge trying to appeal to Republican Voters in Staten Island. How did you do it . Staten island isnt filled democratic voters or Republican Voters. Its filled with people who vote for the person and not the party, and thats what we a vision for how government and america as a whole can solve their problems. Whether its in regards to a Community Nightmare or the Opioid Epidemic or gun violence in this country. So this was never about flipping this seat. This was always about changing politics in this country, and thats what were set out to do. Were just getting started. But you were running against donald trump in that he endorsed your opponent, strongly supported your opponent. And Staten Island never really pays attention to trends. I mean, it lives within new york city, you know, a democratic bastian. It has floated out there in the water as a republican bastian, ignoring the trends in new york city. Well, last i checked, donald trump wasnt on the ballot. I was running against a gentleman who i didnt think was serving the community in the way that he should be, and so we ran against him and we beat him. And thats what matters, you know. And now we have to get to work. Weve got to have an interstate highway out to the 21st century where we can get a ferry in the south shore, double the number of buses on Staten Island and get funding for our trains in South Brooklyn because the r train is late more than its on time. Were losing hundreds of people to the Opioid Epidemic. I want to see us double the number of Treatment Options on Staten Island. These are things that democrats have also proposed in years past and theyve gone down to washington, d. C. And acted a correspondenting to the interests of their donors and special interests. So, we cant let that happen either. I intend on holding the Democratic Party accountable to its plans and making sure that we actually get to work in this country solving problems and putting the country first. Thats what matters to me. More importantly than that, though, thats what matters to the people who voted for me just a few short days ago. Max, what made you decide to take on what many would say was a hopeless run in this district that is concludes Staten Island and brooklyn on the other side of the water . Democrats look at that district in the past and they just give up. Well, you know, we never thought it was hopeless, but what i was constantly motivated by was this sense that people had that government used to work. It used to be able to solve problems. We used to be able to have Apollo Projects and think boldly in this country. And you know, about six years ago or so, i was in afghanistan and my vehicle hit a bomb. My soldiers came from all across the country and they put their differences aside and got me out of there. And as i was lying there in the hospital bed, a twostar general tells me, son, five years ago you would have been dead. The only reason why i lived is congress in a quiet manner, years earlier, had allocated a couple hundred Million Dollars to get my vehicle and vehicles like it the armor that it needed to push the explosion away from its core. For just a brief moment, they didnt care about party, they didnt care about their donors, they didnt care about msnbc or fox news or social media and im alive today because of that. Now, that should be the story of this country and much bigger ways. So thats the message that we ran on. But more importantly than that, thats the mantra that were going to govern with because we didnt get into this just to win one race. I want to stay in office long enough so i can make some real change. Max rose, democratic congressmanelect, thank you very much for joining us tonight. Really appreciate it. Thank you so much again for having me. A real honor. Thank you. Well be right back. Sergeant ron helus was planning to retire from the Ventura CountySheriffs Department sometime in the next year or so. Last night he was the first officer to respond to a report of a mass shooting in a bar in Thousand Oaks, california. He was on the phone with his wife when he got the call. He told her, hon, i got to go. I love you. I got to go on a call. Sergeant ron helus went through the front door of the bar, accompanied by a california Highway Patrol officer. Sheriff dean said they immediately exchanged gunfire, with the suspect, and thats when Sergeant Helus was shot several times. He was totally committed. He gave his all. And tonight, as i told his wife, he died a hero because he went he went in to save lives, to save other people. Americas latest mass murderer was a veteran of the United States marines who served in afghanistan. He murdered 12 people before taking his own life. One of the dead is 22yearold cody kaufman. This morning, codys father was officially notified that cody did not make it out of the bar alive. My firstborn son, only him and i know how much i love how much i miss oh, god, this is so oh, son, i love you so much. Oh, heavily father, just please. Some of the witnesses who survived the shooting say that they are sure that they there would have been more dead if Sergeant Ron Helus did not rush in and Exchange Fire with the killer. Sheriff Sergeant Eric buschow said, he loved spending time with his son. They would go fishing up in the sierras. I cant imagine what theyre going through right now. When a hearst carrying his body to the medical examiners office, every local television station in los angeles had a camera following the hearst. And californians occupied every overpass. Of the 101 freeway in a salute to a fallen hero. Sergeant ron helus was 54 years old. The 11th hour is Brian Williams is next. s tonight, the new acting attorney general whitaker with no plans to recuse himself from the Mueller Investigation, having already voiced his opinion of it, having already argued there was no collusion with russia, and thats not all. Meanwhile, some folks took to the streets tonight in support of robert mueller. The questions now are any members of the senate willing to protect mueller, and is anything about to emerge from the investigation following an election season of quiet time