Three shots fired from a 9millimeter glock. Each bullet leaving the barrel at 1,230 feet per second. With Rayshard Brooks 18 feet away. When two of those bullets ripped into his back and killed him. The other bullet hit one of the cars in the wendys parking lot that had three people in it. And the bullet that hit that car added to the charges against Garrett Rolfe for firing in the direction of bystanders. District attorney howard used the violations of the Atlanta Police rules as the basis for a charge you almost never see in cases like this, violation of oath by a public officer. Because Atlanta Police officers take an oath to serve and protect the public and abide by the rules of the Police Department, this prosecutor added the charge of violation of oath by pues. Those charges are, one, felony murder for causing the death of Rayshard Brooks by shooting him. Two, aggravated assault for shooting brooks with a Deadly Weapon. Three, aggravated assault for kicking brooks after he was shot. Four, aggravated assault with a Deadly Weapon for firing in the direction of a bystander in wendys parking lot. That charge appears three consecutive times because there were three people in the car that was hit by the stray bullet. Seven, criminal damage to property in the first degree for striking a bystanders suv with a bullet. So thats four charges for that one stray bullet. Eight, violation of oath by public officer for deploying his taser as brooks was running away. And its against Police Department rules to fire a taser at Anyone Running away. Nine, violation of oath by public officer for failing to render aid in a timely manner. Police officers ignored Rayshard Brooks wounds for more than two minutes after he was shot. Ten, violation of oath by public officer for shooting brooks twice in the back. Its a violation of Police Department rules to shoot someone who is running away and poses no threat to the officers. 11, violation of oath by public officer for failing to advise brooks he was under arrest for dui. The other officer on the scene who did not fire his weapon faces four charges based on what happened after the shooting. One, aggravated assault for standing on brooks while wearing a boot. Two, violation of oath by public officer for failing to render aid to brooks. Three, violation of oath by public officer for using his foot as a control technique. Four, violation of oath by public officer for standing on brooks after he was shot. In announcing the charges today, the District Attorney made this announcement about officer devin brosnan. We have had something quite horrible happen. It involves the testimony of the other officer, devin brosnan, because officer brosnan has now become a states witness. He has decided to testify on behalf of the state in this case. What he has said to us that is within a matter of days, he plans to make a statement regarding the culpability of officer rolfe. But he indicated that he is not psychologically willing to give that statement today. Officer brosnan, however, has admitted that he was, in fact, standing on mr. Brooks body immediately after the shooting. Attorneys for the family of Rayshard Brooks were present at the District Attorneys announcement of the charges today. District attorney howard invited family attorney Chris Stewart to speak. The biggest question is how do we feel about the charges. And there is a lot of them, a lot of charges. This isnt like a celebration or a victory lap of watching these officers get charged. Nobody is happy. Nobody is celebrating because this never should have happened. We shouldnt have to celebrate as africanamericans when we get a piece of justice like today. We shouldnt have to celebrate and parade when an officer is held accountable for actions that we saw and actions that we didnt know about until today. Some people thought that wed be happy and wed be celebrating and have a fist in the air, but its more of disappointment that this is the state of policing and this is where were at. Just to clarify, Chris Stewart spoke at the District Attorneys announcement of the charges but he also spoke later at an event with the family. That was the later event with the family. Leading off our discussion tonight are andrea young, the executive director of the aclu of georgia, and Gerald Griggs, the first Vice President of atlanta chapter of the naacp. And Gerald Griggs, i want to just consider what you saw d. A. Howard do today. You have a lot more experience watching him at work. I have never seen a District Attorney charge so thoroughly in a case like this, going after every single piece of the conduct, no violation too small. Yes. D. A. Howard went after all of the charges that are possible and turned over quite momentous pieces of evidence in this case that we did not know about before. And i think its a pivotal step in the prosecution of Police Officers who run afoul of the law and violate the publics trust. So i applaud d. A. Howard taking these momentous steps toward Police Accountability, and i hope this is a message to all Law Enforcement who run afoul of the law, that you will be held accountable. Again, we learned a lot about this case. We didnt know before that the officer had kicked mr. Brooks while he was down and dying. That goes a long way to show the state of mind of that officer at the time and the fact that this was not accidental and was not justifiable. And so i applaud the d. A. For taking this step. There was another piece of evidence that he revealed today, and that is what the law calls a spontaneous utterance. Different states have different terms for it. And the law takes it very seriously because it is something you say on the spot unguarded in the excitement of the moment, and in this case, the d. A. Explained to us what it was that they picked up in the evidence that officer rolfe said, that they are taking very seriously. Lets listen to that. At the time that the shot was fired, the utterance made by officer rolfe was, i got him. That was the statement that was made at that time. We also noted that officer rolfe was firing a taser at mr. Brooks. The city of atlanta s. O. P. S, in fact, prohibit officers from firing tasers at someone who is running away. So the city of atlanta says you cannot even fire a taser at someone who is running away, so you certainly cant fire a gun, a handgun, at someone who is running away. Paul howard went into detail about this utterance and why he thinks its of evidential value. He said thats the closest we got to understanding what the officer is feeling. And he said it didnt sound like he was feeling fear. It sounded like this was something he was doing possibly with vengeance in mind. Yes. And thank you, lawrence, for your passion on this topic. I know this is something you care deeply about and your coverage of it has been really important. I think the excited utterance really goes to the state of mind that the question is, would a reasonable officer be in fear under these circumstances, and it really shows that this person was not afraid and he was not concerned certainly for the lives of the other people in that parking lot, as the other aggravated Assault Charges show because he endangered the other people in the parking lot by his actions. So i think that District Attorney howard went into great detail. Ill tell you, you know, hes looking not only at the communitys reaction to this but also making sure that this prosecution can stick for the long haul because, as we know, there is a great deal of difficulty in getting these even convictions to stick on these officers and the accountability has just not been there when people act in such an unlawful manner. Yeah. I have to say i have never seen a District Attorney make such a thorough presentation both on the evidence and the law. He really left me at the end of it with no questions for him. I want to turn to what he said about the law and some of the cases that he is basing his charging on. One of them is a case that Gerald Griggs and i discussed here the other night. Lets listen to the way he described those cases. So as we are drawing our legal conclusion in this case, we were led by the true foundational cases in this matter. One being tennessee versus garner and what that case points out is when an officer is pursuing a fleeing suspect, that the officer may not use deadly force to prevent escape unless the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses an immediate threat of death or of serious physical injury to that officer. The next foundational case that we use in our analysis is grant versus connor, which says that this test is based upon that of a reasonable officer on the scene and not the individual officer, but a reasonable officer on the scene. Attorney griggs, you and i discussed the garner case here the other night. As soon as i saw the video, i thought, well, thats a clear violation of the garner case. And there is the District Attorney using it in his charges. So hes using this is not new. This is a 1980s case that hes basing this on. He seems to be on very solid legal reasoning grounds and the evidentiary grounds seem to be very thorough. Yes. Hes done a thorough analysis of the status of the law constitutionally, and i think that his team is building a case for a conviction and then it to be upheld. So with the connor case as well as the gardner case, i think hes building a case to show this is unreasonable under the test, that there was absolutely no legal justification for what happened and then factually by showing the kicking, hes showing that the state of mind was clearly there with the kicking and the excited utterance. So i think hes building a case that will withstand constitutional muster if its appealed. So i just think that mr. Howard and his team are putting all their ducks in a row, and i think that this particular case will send a message to the entire country about how you prosecute officers that run afoul of the law. And were starting to see Police Accountability at the highest level. Andrea young, how were these charges received in atlanta today . What does this mean for atlanta today . Well, i think its an important step for Holding People accountable, but, you know, lawrence, like Chris Stewart was saying in the earlier segment, i worked with ted kennedy to make Martin Luther kings birthday a holiday and we asked yolanda king about it and said, are you happy about this . She said id really rather have him home for dinner. So i think in atlanta wed rather have Rayshard Brooks home for dinner with his family, but this is the best we can get under these circumstances, that the District Attorney is putting out the strongest possible case to make sure that these officers are held accountable and hopefully that this sends a message. But people are still demonstrating. You know, people are still protesting. We are not this is not something where people are going to pick up and go home. This is an important first step. But people want major transformation of how policing is done because, lets be clear, they were in violation of atlanta policy. And so something more has to happen so that what happened to Rayshard Brooks never happens to another father, another husband in our country again. Attorney andrea young, thank you very much for joining us tonight and sharing your expertise in this case. And Gerald Griggs, thank you for joining us once again with your your expertise on georgia law. We really appreciate your insight on this. Thank you both. Thank you for having me. And when we come back, why donald trump and john bolton deserve each other. That becomes abundantly clear in john boltons new book, which i told you he was writing the day he left the trump white house. Thats next. burke at farmers, we know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. Like how nice it is to save on your auto policy. But its even nicer knowing that if this happens. Or this happens. Or this. Or this. Or even this. Weve seen and covered it. So, switch to farmers and you could save an average of three hundred ninetyfive dollars. 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And a team of experts here for you 24 7. Weve always believed in the power of working together. Thats why, when every connection counts. You can count on us. Donald trump and john bolton deserve each other. They are both dishonorable men. They both care about money more than their constitutional duty. One of them has bad Foreign Policy ideas and the other has illegal and insane Foreign Policy ideas. One is a rank imbecile and the other is john bolton. Donald trump says he fired john bolton. John bolton says he quit. On the day john bolton was fired or quit last year, i said that john bolton would immediately cash in his chips for a big book deal, which is what he has done. And after selling out his constitutional duty for 2 million, the book is now scheduled to be published next week while Donald TrumpsJustice Department makes a desperate and unprecedented attempt to block the books publication in court. According to the New York Times and Washington Post reporters who have read the book, it is simply a confirmation of what we already know, donald trump is hopelessly ignorant. He did not know that the United Kingdom has Nuclear Weapons. He did not know that finland is a real country and is not part of russia. Like other books reporting from inside the trump white house, it contains a vast catalog of trumps stupidities. The first secretary of state calling the president an fing moron. And john boltons book quotes the current secretary of state saying donald trump is, quote, full of crap, is the word ill say on tv. The book confirms beyond a reasonable doubt that donald trump was guilty of what he was charged with in his impeachment trial in the United States senate. John bolton provides firsthand testimony of Donald Trumps dealings with ukraine. Quote, he said he wasnt in favor of sending them anything until all russia investigation material related to Hillary Clinton and biden had been turned over, bolton writes. That is precisely the testimony that many republicans said was missing from the impeachment case against donald trump, that specific linkage from an eyewitness hearing donald trump saying that, and republicans said they would have had to have voted for impeachment if john bolton or someone else testified to that. But he refused to testify. But he hired a lawyer. He went to court. He started litigation to avoid testifying. He spent that money to avoid testifying so that he could make money, so that he could save his stories about donald trump, including the criminal stories, the impeachable stories for his own 2 million payday. Every bit of Donald Trumps disgrace in office is now also john boltons disgrace, because by refusing to testify to the impeachment inquiry, john bolton violated his oath of office to support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. In trump world, its always all about the money. Joining us now is ben rhodes, former Deputy National security adviser to president obama. He is an msnbc political analyst. Ben, i want to get your reaction to what you have read so far and what has been excerpted from this bolton book. Well, lawrence, as you say, it is a confirmation of what we have seen. Its a pattern, donald trump putting his own personal and political interests above anything else, rife with corruption. What stands out to me is he sought foreign interference in the election obviously from ukraine but the book also suggests from china. Something that stood out to me, lawrence, is not all viewers may know, there are a million uyghurs in china in concentration camps. America is a country that used to liberate people from concentration camps and would stand up to regimes that put people in concentration camps. And the book relates an anecdote where Donald Trump Tells president xi that he feels it was a good idea to put these people in concentration camps. Thats where we have fallen. The president of the United States seeking chinese interference in our election on his behalf and he was okay with china putting a Million People in concentration camps. Sometimes you are not surprised to learn these things, but i think we cant normalize them because the extremity of how far the presidency has fallen is on display in this book and frankly as you point out on display in boltons conduct himself. Yeah. Lets listen to what congressman adam schiff said about this tonight. Adam schiff sought john boltons testimony and john bolton refused to testify even though other people working in john boltons office did testify. Lets listen to what congressman schiff said. Its the harshest indictment ive seen reported about boltons book and it was consistent with what we presented during the impeachment trial, is that the president insistently puts his own personal interests, his political interests above that of the interests of the nation. We said he would do it again. Clearly he did do it again repeatedly as part of a pattern, and thats the most serious indictment and thats what jeopardizes our country when you have a president that has so little regard for the best interests of the country and who constantly puts himself first. And, ben, of course donald trump is saying that john bolton is a liar. Thats his response to all of this so far. But john bolton is someone known to have taken notes in the room all the time, which was, needless to say, unsettling for a lot of the trump players. Yeah. I mean, john bolton clearly was going to write a book, clearly was going to cash in. But you made the Central Point here. John bolton in explaining why he didnt testify before that impeachment inquiry blamed the House Democrats for limiting the impeachment inquiry to ukraine. And making the point, bolton did, that apparently everything donald trump did was about his reelection. He interfered in corruption investigations in places like turkey in ways that potentially served his own personal interest. What is so absurd about what bolton says is that if he had evidence that there were other instances like ukraine of trump seeking interference from Foreign Countries like china, the place to put that forward was in the impeachment inquiry itself. I do think whats particularly relevant here, lawrence, is clearly donald trump is gearing up to run an antichina president ial campaign. Hes saying joe biden is weak on china. Hes the guy thats standing up to china. We now know that the chinese want trump to win. We now know that trump has asked china for assistance to help him win, the exact same thing he was impeached for by the house of representatives with ukraine. I mean, i dont know how much more evidence that we need that this president is corrupt, engages in criminal conduct, and makes the Foreign Policy of the United States an extension of his own personal political interests and is willing to go as far as to sacrifice the most basic American Values that people should not be thrown into concentration camps to seek that foreign interference from china. I think that the spotlight any time donald trump says anything about china, what we can do is take from this book the very clear account that the opposite was true. He was not tough on china. In fact, he was soliciting chinas interference on our politics in his own behalf. This is assuming it will be one of many books from Trump Administration officials all claims its lucky i was there so i could help prevent him from doing horrible and disastrous things, and that is one of the essential messages of the bolton book. But of course bolton was only there for 17 months and according to him he quit. So the heroism he tries to ascribe to himself cant be taken seriously if he was prepared to leave the country at Donald Trumps will for all after leaving office the way he did. No. And heres the thing. All of these people like bolton, they were there. They were going to work while this corruption was taking place. They were going to work when donald trump was making the National Interest totally secondary to his own personal interests. They went along with it. Frankly, the only thing that seemed to trigger john bolton is if he didnt get the war with iran that he was so intent on leading us into. So i dont think anybody should, you know, give a blue ribbon to people like john bolton for coming out after the fact and saying, actually, i was really disgusted by this at the time. A lot of people will have a lot to answer for. But i will tell you who has the most to answer for. It is the republicans in the senate who have enabled this at every turn. If there was a majority to say this is not permissible by the constitution of the United States, donald trump could not engage in this conduct because either he would be impeached or removed from office or he would know he would run up against a brick wall. The silence of the Republican Party in congress is why we have this corruption. And thats why this is a bigger problem than just donald trump. Its the fact that of the large majority of a Political Party with some exceptions like mitt romney have decided to go along with something that is a complete corruption of the american constitutional democracy and its hurting our interests. It is not like it is yielding positive results. Theyre leading to a collapse of american standing around the world. Left us completely incapable of dealing with things like a pandemic. And in the situation where north korea is building new Nuclear Weapons and donald trump has nothing to say. So to me, there is a lot to answer for, not just for trump but for bolton and the congressional enablers. Ben, thank you very much for joining our discussion tonight. Really appreciate it. Thanks, lawrence. And when we come back, joe biden showed what responsible leadership on the coronavirus pandemic looks like today while Top Health Officials in tulsa are publically hoping that donald trump cancels his rally there. [narrator] the shark vacmop. 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And as of tonight, this country has suffered 118,206 deaths from coronavirus. Today joe biden said this. Donald trumps failure to fight the coronavirus with the same energy and focus he used to troll his enemies on twitter has cost us lives and is putting hope for an economic recovery at risk. But now Donald Trumps desire to declare victory and be done with it is only going to imperil the continued progress we have to make. Because of the depths of Donald Trumps failures, this pandemic will continue to be worse for all americans and much worse for black and brown americans. Joining our discussion is the clinical professor with the school of Public Health at columbia university. Hes also the director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at columbia university. And, doctor, donald trump is still planning that big rally in tulsa on saturday afternoon. I just want to read to you what dr. Bruce dart of the Tulsa Health Department is saying about this. He said today, i recommend it be postponed until its safer, until the data tells us that its not as large a concern to have people indoors and in close spaces. Anyone planning to attend a large gathering will face an increased rusk of becoming infected by covid 19d. So many people are over covid, but covid is not over. Covid is here and it is transmitting very efficiently in our community. What do you anticipate on saturday in tulsa . What are these people getting into if 19,000 of them crowd into an arena. Hi, lawrence. So people are taking a very significant risk. The thing about this, too, is it is not just a risk to themselves. It is a risk to their neighbors, their seat mates. The rest of the community. It is a risk of continuing and accelerating the spread of covid19. Its not just a personal choice. It is a Community Choice and a dangerous one and it is no shock, of course, that trump and pence are ignoring what the Health Officials in the state of oklahoma are saying. It is just really shocking, frankly. Tell us how we should look at these numbers where we see increases in places like oklahoma and florida. But their rank, the states rank in the 50 states per 100,000 is still relatively low. Should they take encouragement from the fact that their rank in the standings is relatively low or what should they Pay Attention to . Sure. The rank may be low today. It wont be low next week. They had a Record Number of new cases just a couple of days ago. Almost 600 new cases in oklahoma and more cases in tulsa. So this is the nature of a pandemic. Its high in the epicenter in new york for a number of weeks and then jumps to somewhere else. We have big increases all over the country, arkansas, arizona, north carolina, and oklahoma, while the overall case load in relationship to the rest of the states is low, there is no telling where its going to be in a few days from now. It is an all over the place up and down situation, and it is absolutely inappropriate, inappropriate. I just want to underscore that, to hold a big political rally in tulsa, oklahoma, anywhere any time soon. So it is just really concerning that the president and the Vice President are acting as if they were over this and were clearly not, lawrence. Yeah. And joe biden is doing the opposite. In the speech he gave in pennsylvania today, he made sure that there was social distancing in the room. Everyone in that room was social distanced, as opposed to the white house yesterday when the president was there with an executive order announcement and people were shaking hands at the it is the worst possible example. It is as if hes oblivious to what the meaning of his actions represents to people. You know, people are thinking that because the president behaves like this and because there has been this reopening that were back to normal and of course were not. Doctor, thank you very much for joining us tonight. And we will never be able to thank you enough for your guidance throughout this pandemic, throughout this crisis in this country. We really appreciate it. Thanks, lawrence. Thank you. And after this break, we have another poll showing joe biden with a massive lead over donald trump. And michigan is showing a very, very strong lead for donald trump, but there are some democrats who are worried that the democrats could get too confident. Thats next. [narrator] did you just reward yourself for spending a perfectly reasonable amount of time on the couch with tacos from grubhub . Grubhubs gonna reward you for that with a 5 off perk. doorbell rings [crowd] grubhub fireworks exploding i have moderate to severe pnow, theres skyrizi. Things are getting clearer, yeah i feel free to bare my skin yeah thats all me. Nothing and me go hand in hand nothing on my skin thats my new plan. Nothing is everything. 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And in a michigan poll released earlier this month from epic mra, that has joe biden with a 16point lead over donald trump. 5539. Joining our discussion now is representative Debbie Dingle, a senior democratic whip from michigan. Shes a member of the House Democratic leadership. Thank you very much for joining us tonight. And i have heard you talk about this campaign and this election, and i think it might be a paraphrase of fdr to say that your message is, the only thing to fear is confidence itself. Well, i did agree with fdr. On the only thing you have to fear. But i will tell you right now im very worried about complacency setting in. One of my friends who is an editor of a newspaper said he read the paper and he said he knew Debbie Dingle was going to suffer from posttraumatic stress. I called him, and i said thats exactly why im on this phone. That same pollster on october 6th, 2016, showed Hillary Clinton 11 points up and said there is no way that Hillary Clinton can lose michigan. On october 26th he said that Hillary Clinton has this election in the bag, and the rest is history. We cannot afford to suppress votes. We cannot afford to not let people know their vote matters. And five months ago none of this could predict what is happening today. We cannot take this election for granted. Meanwhile, four years ago when those polls were telling that happy story to the Clinton Campaign, you were just on the phone constantly trying to get the Clinton Campaign to take michigan more seriously, to worry about michigan more. Do you have a similar struggle going on with the Biden Campaign this year . No. I will say that, you know, i have known President Biden for a long time and i have known many of his campaign people. So i think everybody is struggling to figure out, how do you campaign this year . And i have to tell you, you know, i have been locked in my house like many other people for almost 90 days, but i have gone to 15 protests, participated in Community Gatherings in the last 10 days, and in the last 4 im seeing my trump voters again that live in my district, and that but feeling that even in these times some people are having i try to listen to people. But i am hearing things i heard four years ago and im not hearing things today that make me think everything is as okay as some people want to think that it is. Well, thats one of the advantages that you have in this, is that you do have trump voters in your district. There are members in both parties really who dont have very many or they dont encounter really voters from the other party in their district. And its very hard for them to get the kind of reading that you get. And so as you go forward through this campaign and this campaign season, what will you be looking for . What will be the indicators where debbie gets confident . If i dont see the numbers i saw four years ago. I was at a Community Gathering or a protest, thats really the better word for it, in michigan last night. We had an unfortunate incident where someone actually tried to drive a car through it. But i was standing at the back, uaw workers, retired uaw workers who even in this climate wanted me to know exactly what they thought and why they had voted for president obama but they were going to vote for President Trump again and he cared about trade and he was delivering for them and they wanted to know that there was somebody who cared about them, and i said joe biden does. You know, we talked. We respected each other. I want to see where the conversation goes the next few months as people are coming out of their homes and we see more i want to hear people. Im going to listen. And we want to hear Debbie Dingle. 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What was the point . What was the turning point where the idea of running for senate in minnesota changed from crazy to something you had to do . You know what . It became a reality when i realized it was something i had to do. Watching the video of george calling for his mother in that desperate hour really triggered something in me and when i was asked to consider running for state senate, i thought of the fact that i had always expressed that i wanted to run for office, and i was thinking more from a city level, but, you know, running for state senate was possible and ive always been a part of our community and shown up for the community and i really, really know that Perspective Matters and i really wanted to be heard. What is it like to be campaigning in minnesota right there where this happened . You know, its a whole new world that were living in right now. The whole idea of stepping into, you know, running a campaign in the midst of covid and in the midst of a pandemic and in the midst of what happened in the past week with the murder of george floyd has caused me to really realize that its going to be about, you know, time management, really trying to do everything that needs to be done in this short period of time given that, you know, the decision was made and i knew i had to step up, so it is going to be a challenge but im stepping up and ready to, you know, answer that call and ready to take the challenge on. Some of the Police Reforms that protesters are calling for in minnesota are at the local level. They are in minneapolis. They are in the Police Department rule books themselves but some of them need to be changes in state law. What are you proposing in terms of changing state law in Police Reform . Well, you know, i think that the concern on all of our hearts, black, brown, and white is that we really need to have more accountability from the police. We need to transform. We need to change some of the policies that theyre mandated under and i would hope that i could come in and express some lived experience that police really do need to be held to an accountability standard that will keep us all safe and keep us all protected, and that it shouldnt be any different for black and brown men, women, and children than it is for white folk. We really do need to have the same standards apply for all of us and we really need to look at the police to be serving and protecting us and not seeking to do us harm and treating us as if we are inhuman. Laverne mccartney knighton, who is the candidate for Minnesota State senate, thank you very much for joining us tonight. We really appreciate it. Thank you for having me. She gets tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Good evening once again. Day 1,245 of the Trump Administration, 139 days to go now until our president ial election. We have a great deal to talk about here tonight. Tensions are high this evening in the Atlanta Police department now that an officer is facing murder and other charges in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks. More on that story coming up. President trump moving full steam ahead with his Tulsa Campaign rally this weekend even as coronavirus cases are spiking in oklahoma and locally in the city of tulsa. But we begin tonight with trumps former National Security advisers stunning allegations it all in a tell all book about his time in the trump white house. Nbc news among the news organizations that has and has seen the book. John bolton spent nearly a year and a half inside the trump west wing. Excerpts of his book the room where it happened are now public despite on going Justice Department efforts to block its publication somehow. The book will be officially released on tuesday but today, excerpts were published in the wall street journal, Washington Post, New York Times. The times describes it as a withering portrait of a president eager about the facts