north carolina. don, you re next to get hit according to the experts. what are the conditions like right now where you are? reporter: jake, this is as bad as it s been. we re getting really strong bands of wind that s coming through. i don t want to turn my back to you, but if you do, you ll know that s the only way to stand up here. it s start to go ging to get ba. you ve covered hurricanes and they don t usually last too terribly long. it s not like a tornado and it runs. they don t last terribly long, but this one has been unrelenting. it s sitting here and sitting here and it s dumping rain all across the carolinas. as you know, the big problem has been flooding. we ve been talking about the flooding on the coast, but i think the real big problem, jake, is going to be with the folks that are inland. i ve been showing the storm drains here on the beach where it runs right into the atlantic. without those, when you re inland, you don t have that and the water cannot run off as easi
guys, you know, cannot run they cannot perform the basic tasks that they re there to do. you add on top of that the fact that republicans have a long history of shutting down the government and i think that anybody who thinks this not going to fall on republicans is missing the forest through the trees. thank you for joining us. ron klain, thank you again. i always count on you on these late nights. thanks for being with us. jonathan allen, stay with us. let s take a look at the senate floor right now. they re doing a roll call and the senators are leaving. they ve been told to return tomorrow. the government shutdown comes on the anniversary of president trump s inauguration. we re going to talk about that next. but right now, the senate still voting on whether to adjourn. the decision has not been made but it will be by the time we come back.
just see is a shutdown. they see congress failing to do its most basic task, which is to keep the government open. and then they look at the party that s controlling congress and the white house, and they say these guys, you know, cannot run they cannot perform the basic tasks they re there to do. then you add on top of that the fact that republicans have a long history of shutting down the government, and i think that anybody who thinks this is not going to fall on republicans is missing the forest for the trees. adam jentleson, thank you for joining us. ron klain, thank you again. i always count on you on these late nights. thanks for being with us. jonathan allen, stay with us. let s take a look at the senate floor right now. they are doing a roll call, and the senators are leaving. they have been told to return tomorrow. the government shutdown comes on the anniversary of president trump s inauguration. we re going to talk about that next. but right now, senate still voting on
ohio. he ran for president twice and was until today a fox news contributor. he s one of several prospective entries in the race to succeed republican governor john kasich who cannot run again because of term limits. as we told you earlier, president trump is fighting back against allegations that he is working with a diminished mental capacity that he is somehow unfit, and a lot of it coming from this new book that had washington talking last week. the president says as a matter fact he s a genius. and a stable one at that. here s doug mckelway. it s called the goldwater rule, section of the american psychiatric association guidelines that says it s unethical for a psychiatrist to offer professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination. it was spurred by barry goldwater s run for president in 1964, and psychiatrists as a
i think it s terrific the press is doing so much hard reporting, but nonetheless there are people on the other side who are cooperating with them. the press just didn t just didn t get it because they really, really pursued it. somebody sat down and said this is what we re doing, this is what s happening. you want to talk about threats to democracy, the concept that a president and his top staff cannot run a white house and run a country without the thought that an unelected bureaucrat somewhere that has access to information might run out the door with it and put not just that presidency in jeopardy, but the institution of the presidency. our trust that we have with our allies. we should also point out i assume some of these leaks also come from the white house itself. from top officials. we don t know where they re coming from. some of us do know where they re coming from, from top officials in that inner circle. it s coming from the inner circle. that s a problem. wi