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and we now understand it s burned 83,000 acres. something at play for firefighters, you can almost not get your head around what it s like to battle a blaze like this burning so hot here. you can see that firefighters, some of them working 24-hour shifts have been grabbing sleep any way they can. that s what they are up against. not only are they fighting it in terms of fatigue, but in these conditions, there is a problem with equipment as well. we are used to hot but, you know, 116, 117 degrees on the fire line, humidity is hovering around 10% or less during the day, which is critical fuel moisture for us, which means that we have 100% probability of ignition. so we are just battling those two things right there, just the fatigue on the firefighters putting out fires is horrendous, let alone the equipment fatigue because the fire is causing the
equipment to overheat and helicopters are put down to cool off and a dra
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whether a person is too close to the subject of the probe, whether jeff sessions would beak be more of a trump campaign surrogate who happened to be attorney general rather than acting as an independent law enforcement officer. if sessions didn t recuse after that statement, it would have made him look even more like he was doing trump s bidding. and trump apparently didn t know that making that statement would also as just a general matter of embarrassment, make him look weak and out of the loop about a decision that was already done. because there were reports that show the internal doj process had already resulted in sessions accepting that nonpartisan recusal recommendation from the career staff earlier that week and that jeff sessions was already working with doj officials op writing the very rationale they would soon release to the public. in fact, it was barely an hour after trump put that public pressure on
members of the trump cabinet watching i described how the 25th amendment can be used to remove the president and make the vice president what the 25th amendment call it is acting president. under the 25th amendment, the vice president and the majority of the cabinet can decide to invoke the 25th amendment. that is entirely up to the vice president and a majority of the cabinet. they don t need donald trump to become medically unable to do the job. they don t need a written opinion from a psychiatrist that donald trump is insane. if the president objects to such an action taken by the vice president and the majority of the cabinet, then the amendment provides that, quote, congress shall decide the issue. and that will be determined by a two-thirds vote of both houses of congress. when those votes are counted, mike pence could become acting president. using the 25th amendment is not, in fact, a complex process, as the op ed described it today. but that section could simply mean th
power of the office to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring and injuring the national interest. or acts in ways that are grossly inconsistent with and undermine the separation of powers that is the foundation of our democratic system. now, these this question of whether president engaged in abuse of power came up before when this congress considered the impeachment of president nixon. and after action was taken, president nixon famously said if the president does it, it is not illegal. and this body rejected that because that s not so. that goes directly contrary to what the founders said. but president trump has said the same thing in responding to the prior investigation by department of justice and defending his conduct. here is what he said then i have an article, too, where i have to write to do whatever i want as president. that he has the right to do
whatever he wants as president. that is as wrong as when president nixon said a similar thing. that is no
With the folks in the manhattan district attorney s office. they have security of their own and not just for the actual district attorney but the lawyers in his office, the career staff there. there s security with them here too. there s some irony in the fact that inro this heavily fortifie courthouse behind us that someone was able to so easily self-harm with all of this spectacle and security around them. to what extent the jurors are aware, we can t say and we don t know. obviously we want to, and after we come back from the break, if the proceedings are called, we ll come back out here and share that as soon as we can with our audience at msnbc. at the moment that the screen went dark, and you can t say for sure, but if presumably there was action taken, you might believe that if something happened outsideat where there this huge fire, right, that inside securityt, would move in
BELTSVILLE, Md. (DC News Now) — The Prince George’s County Fire and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Department said that career staff would be assigned to the Beltsville Volunteer Fire Department’s building in an update Thursday. The department gave the update as a news release posted on the platform X, saying that the career staff would […]
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Will introduce two amendments to eliminate federal funding for special counsel jack smith, as well as the fulton county and manhattan district attorneys. fani willis and alvin bragg. meanwhile, matt gaetz is pushing for legislation that would flat out cut off funding for smith s office. an effort that is supported by de facto house speaker marjorie taylor greene. and then you have congressman jim jordan, chairman of the house judiciary committee who just last week opened an investigation into fani willis. he s also calling for provisions in the spending bill that would change how the justice department can use money. that includes barring the doj from conducting a politically sensitive investigation which includes political candidates and family until the department of justice establishes a policy requiring non-partisan career staff to oversee such investigations. no mention of whether or not that standard would apply to his party s investigation into another presidential candidate,
Needed to have access to mail-in ballots, drop boxes, extended voting hours, et cetera. was that novel and unusual? you bet it was. now, let s be clear. this may be the last indictment of trump. but it won t be the last indictment of its type. expect to see this scenario repeat itself any time a conservative who rattles the establishment cage gets too close to winning this should be a wake-up call to all serious republicans. you are will be in the crosshairs next. we are going to ask governor desantis about this later in the hour. i know some of you might be saying the following: well, okay, laura, if they get away with this witch-hunt, we will just do the same thing to them next time to get power. we get power. well, again, sorry, the truth is even if a republican attorney general wanted to play these corrosive games against a powerful opposition candidate, the fbi and the career staff of the doj would resist them and would make it impossible