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Independently verifying them is contemporaneous accounts. there are many people who were -- who say they were victims of sexual assault who then told people in their lives, and i wonder if theres any of that present in this case as far as you know. >> you know, i think what -- at this point given how explosive this is that i think its important that people like myself be very careful and stick to what weve already reported and verified, which is whats been in print. so i dont feel like we should...

Some time. now, the eye of the storm expected around 8:00 this morning. thats about 2 1/2 hours from now. what were seeing right now, a couple hours from now, this will slow down just a bit, the wind will die down a bit and then it will pick up right after the eye of the storm passes. so the concern here in wilmington, rain right now, the wind right now. in a few hours, though -- >> all right. having trouble with craig melvins shot, understandably. lets see if we can get back to him. we lost you...

People talk about the blue wave and about people turning out. thats only going to happen if democrats get down, you know, on the doors and start knocking doors and talking to people, which we are doing. i think of the blue wave as a drop behind every door and each drop is liberated when the voter opens a door and you can talk to them. all together, those drops -- >> >> i think its empowering, everyones working together to take our country back. >> at the top of the white house, when they talk ab...

Special elections, the turnout, is that what youre seeing? >> i think a lot of it will depend on the work done between now and november. people talk about the blue wave and about people turning out. thats only going to happen if democrats get down, you know, on the doors and start knocking doors and talking to people, which we are doing. i think of the blue wave as a drop behind every door and each drop is liberated when the voter opens a door and you can talk to them. all together, those drops ...

One kind and some sort of high level one so this person certainly could be fired and will be fired and understandably would be fired if he or she is identified and theres no legal problem with that. political appointees serve at the pleasure of the president. they can be fired for political reasons because they are not doing the job the president wants. there would be no legal impediment to firing this person. beyond that i dont think there are any legal issues. theres no criminality here. its a...

Preference for autocrats and dictators, says a senior white house official. quote, from the white house to executive branch departments and agencies, senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chiefs comments and actions. most are working to insulate their operations from his whims. meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails. he engages in repetitive rants and his impulsiveness results in half-baked ill informed and occasionally reckless decisions tha...

Nothing more than members of a group, of protesting. it is white guilt that keeping feeding that, what is white guilt? do i make up in the morning and feel guilty about black americans? no. white guilt does not have anything to do with actual feelings of guilt. white guilt is ay the terror of being seen as a racist. as a bigot. now pervades american life. all our social policy, our culture, it is all touched by this anxiety in most of white america. understandably, given americas history. they a...

>> oh, yeah, very much. so he spent a lot of time with us, as you know. every recess, he and senator graham and senator lieberman, the three amigos were out there with. they experienced a lot of memorial ceremonies. they participated in a number of events. there was one, for example, in the fourth of july in 2007 where about six months into the surge. it had been tough. and we had a ceremony, a reenlistment ceremony that also featured a citizenships swearing in. about 600 soldiers, air, marine r...

Same thing. but the.is the that john mccain -- the point is that john mccain was able to buffer joy widen in his time of grief. its very clear from all that we have learned that joe biden was able comfort john mccain in the same way, making a trip to se donato talk to him. we heard such beautiful words in arizona, today its megan mccains turn. shes been emotional. understandably, really emotional. you know, shes going to have to try to get it together. everybody is going to give her a lot of lee...

The casket has now gone into the north phoenix baptist church where the ceremony will begin shortly. again, as this was happening, we saw the scene of meghan mccain, his daughter, so emotional yesterday. understandably so today. and shes clinging to one of her younger brothers, jimmy, who of course im sure is as emotional but ever stoic in uniform along with another one of her brothers, jack, walking in. maeve reston. >> we also saw there many of the honorary p ochallbearers that j mccain wanted...