A Rose Beggarden event tomorrow are told. Then later in the week the president will be going to ohio. And it is notable they are putting him on the road for this. Because he is someone that does well pitching things to crowds and feeds off that energy. Sometimes makes him go off script, but if he can deliver a solid pitch and a good message, i think it is a necessary piece of momentum for this administration thats been largely bogged down in controversy. Now a little bit about what we have heard with his Infrastructure Plan is it involves a trillion dollars in public and in private investigation. And it is something that capitol hill should be able to get behind. But it is something we have heard about a lot from him. And it is important in the aftermath of the foreign trip. A lot of people said what worked is the administration gave people Something Else to talk about that was not russia or controversy. And this is a way that a lot of republican strategists said to me, you need to giv
Across, not roads, but more like rivers with a few bags in their hands. Th they just grabbed a few snacks, pillows. In many cases they were carrying pets. As we talked about last night, still one of the big issues is power. 100 of the island not having power right now, only those that can get to generators, also, the first thing people still ask me is, do you have signal. People desperate to find out the condition of loved ones who they cant get to because of flooding many because of debris . And loved ones who cant get out, because of that same reason. The government has announced that fema has critical supplies right now enroute to puerto rico, and that is via ship. Anderson. What are some of the main priorities now that the storm has passed . Power for the government. I mean, they have already before maria even came here, the government said that they believed that it would take not days, not weeks, but rather months to restore power. Remember, this is a power system that lacks main
Trust the president. New reporting on the president s humiliation of Jeff Sessions in the wake of the mueller appointment. And the Treasury Secretarys new excuse for asking the government to subsidize his honeymoon. They had to give up a lot to take these jobs. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The most prominent voices of the trump base discovered today what many of his Business Associates and customers learned long ago. If youre in business with donald trump, eventually youre going to end up on the wrong side of the deal. This afternoon in an offcamera session with reporters on Board Air Force one, the president defended his decision to work with democrats on a deal to protect undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children. In exchange for increased Border Security. Im a republican through and through, but im also finding that sometimes to get things through, its not working that way. And, you know, we got very poorly treated on the hea
American taxpayers more than a Million Dollars. Earlier white house tried to downplay its role. To be clear, white house doesnt have role on the front end of approving private Charter Flights. Thats agencies and something were looking into from this point forward and asked a halt to be put particularly at ahs on any Charter Flights moving forward. White house may not approve but played a role in travel costs overall. Approved the use of Military Aircraft for prices trips to africa, europe and asia to tune of half a Million Dollars. Adding to the cost. Price reimbursing government about 52,000. Inspector general is investigating whole mess but in case of private jets, anyone can figure out how outrageous the
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Coverage. Adam is then fox extreme Weather Center. We begin with Steve Harrigan who is in san juan, puerto rico, right now. We speak of the rain is heavier than it has been all morning and thats creating Flash Flooding with some River Gates Being opened up. The winds have gusted here on the back end of this storm to over 100 Miles Per Hour. The worst of the wins came at about 9 00 in the morning with sustained gusts of more than 104 to 5 Miles Per Hour. Those were winds enough to tear the sides of some buildings. We just saw bits and pieces of buildings fly through the air and tops of trees have also snapped off. This island now according to the governor is almost 90 without electric power. It may be 100 soon, that means people in this storm for writing it out around their own. No electric power, no Emergency Rescue services, if they have a portable radio, thats what theyre hearing. Otherwise theyre hearing the
balconies torn off. Its still too hard for the First Responders to go out a