Then the president s red sox to the kurdish debalker. How the most powerful woman in congress is standing up to the president. I think the president knows the argument that can be made against him and hes scared. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. One by one sometimes hour by hour the president s defenses just keep collapsing. Heres how things have gone as the president and his allies have tried to defend the indefensible. First they stake out a position and that position falls out from under their feet and they retreat a step. And then that position falls out from under their feet and so it goes over and over and over again. It started with that infamous phone call between trump and the ukrainian president where he asks for military assistance and trump responds, quote, i would like you to do us a favor, though. At first trump and company argued it was perfectly appropriate for a president to coerce a besieged foreign entity into investigating his riv
The death toll has risen to at least 20 now as rescue workers are making their way to the most devastated areas of that island chain. Weather watches, weather warnings now extending as far north as massachusetts. Were checking the Current Conditions from our correspondents along the path of dorian. Al roker standing by for that 11 00 update. Well go to him in a moment. But we start in the low country of charleston, South Carolina. We start there. Dorian expected to get dangerously close today to the peninsula on which that city sits. Msnbcs ali velshi has made his way there. What are you seeing right now, buddy . Reporter well, were probably within the band of the worst of it for charleston right now. High tide is at 2 00, but weve got that northwestern part of the storm coming in pushing this surf in. As you can see, its a little choppy over here. You can see over there by the pier were within a few feet of the bottom of the pier. We probably have a little bit more water to come in he
Hello and welcome to ow our viewers in the United States and around the world. 3 00 a. M. In washington, 10 00 a. M. In Northern Syria. Im Natalie Allen and this is cnn newsroom. Lets get started. Under arrest, two Business Associates of Rudy Giuliani are in custody. Well well have the latest on the ukrainian contraverse a. Hundreds try to flee after turkeys military offensive in the region. Nine democrat president ial candidates faces questions regarding the Lgbtq Community. This is cnn breaking news. Our breaking news. Irans media reporting an Iranian Oil Tanker has erupted in flames after being hit bu two missiles. They report the tanker is in the red sea 60 miles or 100 kilometers from the saudi port of jetta. And live with more about what youre hearing about this. Fred. Reporter were still very early stages since this explosion took place. Its irans official news agency. And they were saying it was 100 kill omitter its off the coast of saudi arabia when it was hit by one or two ex
Underway on a thursday night. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,001 of the trump administration. It was a bad day for the trump administration. And in plain english heres why. The president s chief of staff speaking out loud in front of the press corps in the White House Briefing room reversed everything the president has been saying about the call with ukraine. He said military aid was held up over politics, said they do it all the time, said we should get over it. He confirmed Rudy Giuliani has been all over u. S. Foreign policy. He said the president s own golf resort has been selected as the host location for the next g7 while at the same time the Vice President was overseas in essence giving turkey what they want and cementing the end of the kurdish homeland. But lets start at the beginning. Here is Mick Mulvaney who enjoys the title acting chief of staff confirming what we have seen happen, the president holding back aid to press
Travel to poland this weekend but cancelled the trip to monitor the hurricane. We have complete coverage of hurricane doctor yan beginning with nbc news metrologist Michelle Grossman who joins us. Walk us through where the storm is and whats likely to happen once it gets to land. Hi, there, ali. We have a powerful storm even at this moment. Winds around 110mileperhour, and we are only going to get stronger from there. Still anticipated to be a category 4 storm. Lets look at the stats here. Its 660 miles east of West Palm Beach looking at winds of 110mileperhour. Its moving northwest at 10mileperhour. So ali that was a take away from the last advisory. Moving quicker yesterday. Its slowing, drastically slowing down throughout the next couple of days, even down to 4. 5mileperhour. A walking pace. Thats not good news because its going to pick up steam and be able to linger over florida a lot longer. Lets take you through the track. The track is the most uncertainty right now. Were were co