First time in the trump presidency, a democratic congressman circling articles of impeachment accusing President Trump of obstruction of justice. Check your clock. It is ticking. Will President Trump before 2 30 p. M. Tomorrow invoke executive privilege thereby blocking attorney general sessions about telling the Intel Committee about conversations he may have had with the president about russia and former director comey and more. From the perspective of President Trump what role did attorney general Jeff Sessions play in the firing of james comey . Im not going to discuss private conversations between the president and the attorney general. To that end, when Jeff Sessions testifies tomorrow, do you believe he should invoke executive privilege on conversations between him and the president as it relates to james comey . It depends on the scope of the questions and to get into a hypothetical at this point would be premature. In any way, did Jeff Sessions folks at the doj ask for the whi
Well speak to karen mcdougles attorney. Puerto rico, all of it, the entire island was without power yesterday. Nearly seven months after hurricane maria. What caused the latest blackout and why it may not be the last. Lets begin with President Trump hosting abe and resolving the crisis was front and center on their agenda. The north korean crisis. In addition to trumps possible upcoming summit with kim jongun. And i hope to have a very successful meeting. If we dont think its going to be successful, mark, we wont have it. We wont have it. If i think that its a meeting that is not going to be fruitful, were not going to go. If the meeting, when im there, is not fruitful, i will respectfully leave the meeting. And well continue what were doing. President trump said on tuesday, five locations currently under consideration for his possible summit with kim and multiple u. S. Officials tell nbc news sweden, singapore are among the frontrunners. A senior u. S. Officials tells nbc news several
this guy right here. chris mattis, who explicitly made valadao vote on impeachment. the basis of his campaign. , so the hope for democrats tonight is so that they can rally their own party behind salas and divide republicans enough that they can knock valadao out of that second spot. knock him out completely. kick him out of the general election. getting much more, in their view, beatable candidate in the general election. so, let s see what happens as the result started coming here. again, valadao, a republican incumbent who voted to impeach trump. and the other incumbent, or keeping an eye on. he s in the 40th district of california. young kim, also is a similar dynamic here. young came, a freshman congresswoman, one of the first korean woman elected to congress. democrats have spent trying to boost a poll trump challenger and knock her out of that top two spot. you can see though she is leading by ten boys with those mail ballots counted up now. steve, stay close. we are also cove
what we re waiting on is that election day vote. that election day vote in republican primaries around the country has tended to favor the more trump-friendly candidates. about nine points ahead of chris mattis, we want to see what that same-day vote looks like. does mattes threaten to pass valadao for second place. valadao would be out of a job tonight. he wouldn t make the general election. couple other congressional races we can tell you about, one here is in the 40th district here. now you re getting down orange county. this is young kim, freshman republican congresswoman, one of the first korean american women elected to congress, national republicans badly want to keep her there. her challenge here again you ve got a democrat mahmood will
like here. does it change this margin before the meeting lead anyway? is at a narrower kosik up nearly 50%, highly highly unlikely. but we do want to see with the same day but looks like. we want to see if one of these two candidates emerges with a clear advantage, heading into that runoff, again, talk to here, barring anybody getting 15% tonight. the top two who will decide, be the next marilyn. we told you in california, the biggest story of the night that is not complete, that recall of chess a boutique also on the congressional side we ve been keeping an eye on, valadao and the central valley to impeach donald trump, the top to advance the general election. democrat a state legislator rudy salas is going to the general election, valadao it s kind of holding his breath right now. trying to hold on to this lead over chris mattis, close republican challenger. the good thing for david valadao is that we are