Being on the planet having fun at the expense . Reporter when President Trump said, james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversation he waited over 59,000 minutes, 341 days, nearl six weeks to declare, quote, i did not make and do not have any such recordings. The president was asked early on about his claims. I wont talk about that. All i want is for comey to be honest and i hope he will be and im sure he will, i hope. Reporter no elaboration from the president about why he wouldnt or couldnt talk about it. And then weeks later in the rose garden do tapes exist of your conversation . Yeah. Well, ill talk about that sometime in the very near future. Youre going to be disappointed, dont worry. Reporter not clear what the president meant about his disappointment comment. His staff did nothing to clear up the matter. This from White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on the day of the original tweet. I assume youre referring to the tweet. And ive talked to the president
Our conversations, he waited over 59,000 minutes, 41 days, nearly 6 weeks to declare, quote, i did not make and do not have any such recordings. The president was asked early on about his claims. I wont talk about that. All i want is for comey to be honest and i hope he will be and im sure he will, i hope. Reporter no elaboration from the president about why he wouldnt or couldnt talk about it. And then weeks later in the rose garden do tapes exist of your conversation . Yeah. Well, ill talk about that sometime in the very near future. Youre going to be disappointed when you hear the answer, dont worry. Reporter not clear what the president meant about his disappointment comment. His staff did nothing to clear up the matter. This from White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on the day of the original tweet. I assume youre referring to the tweet. And ive talked to the president and the president has nothing further to add on that. Reporter this from three days later. The president has n
The end of the week. A more immediate threat, though, is to the caribbean islands, including the Virgin Islands, and puerto rico. High winds are tearing through the eastern half of puerto rico right now. Well get to our team of nbc correspondents who are in irmas path, in puerto rico, in florida, in just a moment. But lets start with al roker, who is standing by. Al, how dangerous is this storm this size . Well, craig, right now, as you mentioned, and you heard, this is the most powerful atlantic hurricane ever. And so we cant stress enough the danger, the potential danger there is with this system. This is the latest from the National Hurricane center. It is a category 5 storm. That is the top of the chart. You cant get any higher than that. Right now about 35 miles east of st. Thomas. 185 mile an hour winds. Only 5 Miles Per Hour below the strongest winds weve ever had in an atlantic hurricane, moving we westnorthwest at 16 Miles Per Hour. So heres what were looking for as far as eff
Is we have to get rid of President Trump. A lot of my colleagues are hearing about health care and so forth, im really not. Theres such incredible concern about the future of our democracy right now that they are really pushing hard to get rid of the president. But democrats are not getting the same support from the senate, according to the hill. The Senate Democrats want the house to tamp town the impeachment talk, seeing it hurting more than helping their efforts to win back the senate majority. Meanwhile, facebook now responding to manipulated videos of House Speaker nancy pelosi that made it seem like she was slurring her words. The social media giant accounting the video which had been viewed millions of times was faked but is refusing to delete it. Everybody who is seeing this video in newsfeed, anybody who is going to share it to anybody else or shared it in the past, theyre being alerted this video is false. This is part of the way we deal with misinformation. We think its impo
Jeanette Huerta graduated from Elk Grove High School in 2015. Several years later, after a disappointing freshman year at college, two separate yearlong stints with the Army National Guard — including a deployment to Kuwait — and finishing her bachelor’s degree at a second college, Huerta says she started to “self-reflect.” What did she really want to do with her life?