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At the top of hour, i am alice right here at msnbc, the hurricane is closing in on the southeast united states. As many as one and a half Million People have been ordered to evacuate throughout the sunshine state. Half a million more in georgia, thats where president obama signed a declaration of emergency as well. Another 3,000 are ready to stand standing by. Destructive flooding in florida. Thats another hour plus to go. States governor is warning president , do take this storm seriously our n...

That was real. Then he started talking about aluminum in cars. Oh, it doesnt cost that much. Exactly. Somebody commented it would take paul ryans secretary that he was talking about something 30 years for the tax cuts to pay for the difference. Yeah. It was wild. But that was just one of the wild things that happened around this tariffs thing. From all the reporting, it seems that the president was frustrated and kind of unhinged at the time and he just said, you know, im going to do this thing ...

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Richard haass, and joining the conversation, political correspondent and columnist for the "washington post" karen tim tumulty and mark mazzetti, well get to his new reporting on the mueller investigation in just a moment. >> karen, how do you like your column? >> its interesting. the "post" came to me with this idea and they wanted a reported column about politics. its great, ive traveled to tennessee and texas -- >> so you report and do a column? >> so if theres a north star to all of this, it...

Emergency personnel here, police and fire. were going to do an assessment once the winds die down. we dont want anyone out on the roads walking around. its very dangerous. they need to wait to hear an all clear from us. basically were xwgoing to do a assessment. we have a contractor company that comes in and does this work, as well. power companies need to come in before we can let anyone in. fact of the mart is, though, we already have a couple thousand people that stay. and those people need t...

>> and, you know, it is a way you see it at this point. there is nothing anyone here could do except waiting it out and way. mayor tim tumulty is waiting things out. it sounds like there are those who have not evacuated. best of luck and assess damage there later. >> lets bring in mory goodman right now. welcome. you talked about the enormous efforts that fema had to under take and it is mind blowing. you are talking about meals for a million and where do you begin to prepare for that, how long ...