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Weave been seeing cars coming and going all afternoon. were outside sams club. its a monday. schools are closed today so that people can take care of this. theyre calling it an emergency on the island. banks are only allowing people to take sought so much money. the concern is water. 66,000 people on this island are still without water. this has been a line all day here. this is burt, youre originally from new york. >> sure. >> reporter: you live here now. why dont you tell me a little about abo...

Theyre flooding the from the count country. >> reporter: thats right. president trump once famously said or accused the u.n. of being a place, a club where people get together and talk and have a good time. i can assure you this. regardless of whats happening behind the closed doors here, the people trying to get here on the streets of manhattan are defin nifly not having a good time, in a car or on foot. you know, this city as you know is a security challenge on any given day. you take on top o...

Ty cobb delivering accolades, many praise on mcgahn after the fact, saying hes helped me throughout the course. do you buy that? >> i think that was a little damage control, certainly. the concern among whout counsel and among the chief of staff is ty cobb was being incredibly indiscreet in having this conversation about such sensitive issues in such a public place. i would just add, peter, this was not only at this restaurant, blt steak, that is precisely 171 feet from "the new york times" d.c....

To churn its way through the atlantic. gaining strength and slowing its forward speed down within the next 24 hours or so. >> just punishing deja vu for so many in that region. dave price, thank you. fear setting in for residents of puerto rico. the island is now preparing for hurricane marias potential impact after it was largely spared from the most devastating impacts of hurricane irma. tammy leitner on the ground in puerto rico, outside aisams club where you can imagine people are buying u...

Although thats obviously going to come up in the discussion, as you heard the president say. its about the iranian nuclear deal. peter, you had a better ear for this than out here, but it sounded like he was going to be talking about it or announcing something very soon. theres a lot of people waiting to see what happens here, with iran and the view of the administration, perhaps adhering to the letter of the deal but not necessarily the spirit of it. that also plays into one of the other huge h...

Trump tower, the french president. its interesting, in light of what weave seen in the last 24 hours with climate change. this is a president that has had a stance on climate change, originally calling it a hoax, saying various things about it that his administration never clarified, even after that series of hurricanes walloped first texas and then florida and the caribbean up. were in those briefing rooms, peter up. know the white house largely dodged or deflected when pressed on those questio...

>> dana, can i ask you quickly about one of the presidents tweets over the course of this weekend, retweeting basically what was a doctored video that appeared to show the president firing off a golf ball from the tee and it would hit hillary clinton, the former secretary of state, his former foe, as she was boarding an aircraft. this is video from back in the day. i think about five years ago. just your take on that moment right now as we prepare for this big global audience and the significant...

Considering bringing the bill to a vote by the end of the month if and only if he can get 50 republican senators to back it. that was the threshold he couldnt cross on the past obamacare replace and repealment effort. last time it was collins, murkowski and mccain and might be a flip of one of them, specifically mccain. why is that? >> reporter: peter, i talked to john mccain earlier in the day today and he said, look. he was still upset about the process. remember, that was a big reason he vote...

Describing mcgahn spy and added mcgahn has a couple documents locked in a safe. so, for simplicity here, break down this competition. what do we have on each side. one cited supporting more cooperation and one with real reservations. how does this break? >> yeah, peter, theyre substantive issues and then stylistic and personal issues. the substantive issues have to do with the ability of the white house and the office of the president to assert prif, presidential privilege, when it comes to reve...

Reasons. one, because the operation is so big, but also, because it happens every year and theyre used to doing this and they have a plan and a backup plan and a backup plan to that. now, you see them in the sky in helicopters. see them definitely on the streets, some of those counter terrorism units that we have gotten used to seeing in this city. also see them on the water. for those who arent familiar with new york city, the u.n. is on the east river and high-speed patrol boats out there and ...