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Right now. Here you can see police there with their riot gear on Campus Handling and confronting protesters there who have been in an encampment. These are the propalestinian protests weve seen breaking out across the country. Also with us retired Seattle Police chief and msnbc Law Enforcement analyst, carmen best. Tim, thank you for taking a moment to join us. Walk us through what youre seeing and whats happening there. Well, ana, its absolute chaos here on campus, if im honest with you here at...

Mandatory evacuations. lots of them where you are? >> its the entire area south of the gulf. i want to point out this bus here, because 5:00 p.m. is the cutoff point from evacuations from belgrade in this ar belle . that is the last bus out of town. it is on or near the path of the storm, and the second problem is lake okeechobee. theyre not entirely sure that that levee system, which was built in the 1930s, its been improved in recent years but there are very weak spots along it, and they are n...

Again. >> may i ask you, then, because weve been speaking so much and discussing in the headlines about the administration being mired in this whole rush of controversy and turmoil, that they owe policy initiatives and on and on. is this a wag of the dog? is some of this a diversion? >> i dont think so and i dont know. there is no question that any administration, any president knows when you use military force, you look presidential, and there will be people who criticize me for saying that wor...