Tell them what the news is because it s gone out on twitter by the president and they haven t even it. all of that is to say, alex, i don t think you can distinguish, okay, some of the tweets are personal tweets. some are official. we as a press corporation o corps treat them as official. and that s how he uses the twitter account. yes. i ming egoing to ask you about something that has gone on abfwal, far too long in terms of our discussion here. you know where i m going with regard to alabama. because the president has dug in on in claim the state of alabama was in the path of hurricane dorian. it s been five days since he is letting up on this? why not. when you look at president trump you really have to take into account and always remember he is a reality tv president pch. one of main things he constantly is focused on and worry about is others perception of him and how he is being presented in the media. i think when we are looking at this alabama map, sharpie situation, it s
Recognition? two key points here, alex. one is looking at general elections for the primary can create a false sense of security and i don t want democrats to create any false sense of security around the numbers that we re seeing around biden and even bernie. historically we ve seen folks that have polled well this far out don t do well this close. we have so much time before the election over a year from now. on climate change though i think you re starting to see this is one of the issues we re seeing the democratic base shift. in 2013 pew did a survey of democrat leading independents in which hopefully 53% think that was a threat. today in 2019 84% of democrats and democrat leading independents think that is a threat to the united states a and to our country. and so i think for us and for the field those are the kind of things we need to take a note of. how has the democratic base shifted since 2012 and 2016?
And he is using the presidency to rake in minneapolis of dollars. and but this may be the worst part, though, alex, because i think we we would like to believe that our military, above and beyond anything else, is going to be an independent body that s going to first and foremost protect the people of the united states. and i hope that there is no cooperation between donald trump and the military, because if that is the case, then donald trump has achieved something that i don t think any president in our history has achieved or even attempted to achieve. and that is to corrupt the military. so i want to get to vice president pence in ireland. but are you more concerned about the military any other officials by the way who want to do business within a trump property, whether they are trying to yur favor with this president, or if the president has told them what he would like
Tracking dorian for us at this hour, nbc s david guerra joins us from naggs head and morgan chesky is joining us from the bahamas. morgan, we ll go to you first. the rescue efforts, daunting to say the least. reporter: yeah, alex, good afternoon. sorry. we are having some interference issues because of the active rescue efforts that are ongoing behind me. we have military helicopters that have been flying out as of first light going to abaco island which took the brunt of dorian s power when that hurricane 5 moved through here. the thing that we re starting to see today that we haven t seen in prior days is the relief effort starting to ramp up. we have tents 100 yards behind us that have basically opened up for everyone flying in from abaco island to give them food, water and a little bit of
Shall hash are where we visited hours after the airport reopened after being submerged from dorian. people there as you mentioned packing the ports, the airports, finding hoping to find a way off the island which they tell me they can t even call a home because simply nothing is left behind. at least half the buildings there are either damaged or destroyed on the island and on neighboring grand bahama but from the damage we witnessed first hand the number seem low because the damage it doesn t end. and in every direction you look. so right now relief really picking up in nassau as dozens upon dozens of people arrive on flights, getting a little food, water to hopefully reunite with family or at least begin the long process of recovery, alex. it s extraordinary because they have to pack so much patience together through this and really critical things they have to get through food, water, getting medicine trying to get off the island to a place to sleep, shower. it s just remarkable