Plus, the special counsel gets a new look at what might have been in the president s head before he fired james comey. Welcome to the lead. Im Brianna Keilar in for jake tapper. Desperate times in the wake of hurricane harvey. Amid the devastation, piles of debris, pulverized homes and pieces of peoples lives gone. This all piled up on the curb, this including waste and chemical concerns in the wake of the storm. Plus, beaumont, texas is a city that was driven out by the flood. There is no Drinking Water there. It is slowly coming back on. Brian todd made his way to beaumont. Brian, most of the problem is this water system. Are crews close to restoring it . Reporter were not sure, brianna, and we got some bad news from the government. Well show you as we take a look at this facility here. The nachos river right here alongside beaumont is continuing to rise. Its 7 feet above its record stage and the government says it may stay at that level for the next week. That has triggered an Emerg
Rain. Lets check in right now with Polo Sandoval, whos in victoria, texas, where the elements are certainly picking up. Polo . Reporter this is what it still looks like in parts of texas, particularly closer to the coast. Here up main street in victoria, texas, you can see this wind is still enough to move debris around. The only thing thats not flying around are things that are grounded like these garbage tins that are actually bolted to the sidewalk. Were able to were right next to a parking garage so were able to seek shelter. But at least im able to step out just so you can see for yourself the intensity of these winds. And believe it or not, they were even more intense a little while ago. What im able to see now on authorities like the Victoria Police department, which youll see, are finally able to leave this parking garage and make their way onto streets. An officer just turned off the road here. That gives you an idea that authorities are now being able to go out into the commu
Joe biden says in public, the current president of the United States may be compromised by, quote, information from a foreign power. Why do you think this president is so reluck tactant take on Vladimir Putin . Look, you know, i want to give every american, including the president the benefit of the doubt. But i cant fathom any reason other than he is concerned what putin might say or do or what information he may or may not have. What information he may or may not have. If a president s compromised, that could affect how he handles attacks from a foreign power of any kind, including on the democratic system, theyre strolling along tonight about the Trump Administrations inactions, theyre calling for hearings to address the meddling. It appears the republicans are going to take little if any action to secure or election systems. We ask in the news, is this another partisan fight, is it dems against trump, republicans for trump and is that what this story is . The answer is not really.
Washington. Secretary of state mike pompeo telling fox news just minutes ago when it comes to irans suspected secret efforts to continue developing Nuclear Weapons we are still scratching the surface. Pompeo says the israelis are getting ready to brief our european allies in the unfolding crisis. We have Team Coverage for you tonight. Chief National Correspondent ed henry following the latebreaking reaction from the white house. We begin with conor powell from jerusalem or the israeli province reports the world on notice today. Connor. Good evening. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have had an audience of one in mind when he made his argument tonight for the Iran Nuclear Deal should be scrapped. Its part of his effort to convince President Trump to withdraw from the agreement. Which the Prime Minister has long opposed. Netanyahu said that iran lies big time, as he laid out his case with 55,000 pages of documents based on what he calls an extra ordinary intelligence achieve
Day of news which began with the president of the United States calling into Live National television and explicitly threatening to obstruct justice by interfering with the investigation into his campaign, his aides, family members and himself. You look at the corruption at the top of the fbi. Its a disgrace. And our Justice Department which i try and stay away from but at some point i wont. At some point i wont. And that was just one part of a genuinely unnerving performance by the president first thing this morning. An unhinged 30minute rant that according to reports is not all that different from how he spends much of his day on the phone was confidantes outside the white house. According to the New York Times, Maggie Haberman trump aides putt for months to keep him from doing what he did this morning, the thing that makes him happiest. Calling fox friends as if it was one of his private conversations. Its not hard to see why his staff did not want him to do this. While the presiden