Quote, you will not survive the dark and dire warnings aimed at millions in the path of hurricane milton. Now strengthening again to an extremely dangerous category five plus the kremlin calling legendary journalist bob woodward with new reporting tonight, that trump and putin have shared as many as seven secret calls after trump left the white house and that trump gave putin peculiar gifts. Kamala harris tonight, seizing on this new reporting, and k file, striking again, on earth thing and interviewed jd vance did not want trump to see, but he'll see it tonight. Let's go outfront i'm erin erin burnett outfront tonight. We are following several breaking stories, including bombshell, new details about donald trump's secret calls after he left office it is peculiar gifts to vladimir putin, details on that in just a moment, i want to begin though first with what is shaping up to be the worst hurricane to hit florida in 100 years. This hour, hurricane milton gaining strength now back to category five which simply is the highest rating that exists. Dire warnings from officials tonight as i'm saying, this is not survivable and we've got new video of the category five monster from space right now, heading straight towards tampa for a possible direct hit anticipated 20 million people in the path of that storm, debris already piled on the ground from helene just two weeks ago all kinds of small pieces concrete would things that become missiles with 165 mile an hour winds are already dislodged and in piles, it's horrifying to contemplate what might be about to happen. And right now, one of the largest evacuations in florida history is underway, right now. It's just bumper to bumper. There's questions about gas people obviously worried about running out of it all of these deeply serious concerns in these final hours ahead of what meteorologists are calling an historic strike. Chad myers begins our coverage outfront live from the weather center here in chad. Tell us exactly what happens here, how soon does this start? well, for the people of south start tonight. Some of these storms that are kind of south and west of key west, those could rotate enough to make a small tornado and it's a small tornado until it hits your house. And then it's not a small tornado anymore because it did hit the one thing that you cared about. But i think probably 2:00 tomorrow afternoon is when we will see the first tropical storm winds on the west coast of florida and by this time tomorrow night, the entire state is going to have tropical storm force winds, except possibly there in the panhandle. Hurricane hunters are flying through the storm right now is a little break during the day that's why we didn't get to category five earlier. But it's 165 mile per hour storm that is higher than it was supposed to be an 11:00 forecast by 15 miles per hour. So this is not slowing down. This is not getting don't that oh, we're going to suck in a bunch of dry air and it's going to get some shear this is concerning. This is concerning that this storm is continuing to be this strong for this long. Now we talk about the cone. The cone is still north of tampa, new port richey all the way down to almost naples because it can still wobble. It actually wobbled earlier today. It wobbles a little bit farther to the south which means that now anna maria island toward sarasota, you're going to get worse whether than you might get an up indonesian when the storm could have been closer to you. The big story here, yes, there's going to be wind and there's going to be wind damaged and trees are down and roofs are gonna be gone but why they say, to please get out is because of the water. The water will be and it's moving talking about storm surge, it's not just some lake that kind of fills up your yard. This is moving water that could knock down your home and it's going to be ten to 15 feet above the normal sea level. All of a sudden that's going over barrier islands. That's knocking away homes that aren't elevated, that aren't on stilts, not on pillars. And yes, we're going to have this larger i people ask me all day, where's it going to hit it's going to hit everywhere. This whole purple area will see category three winds or higher so millions will be without power, millions. And of course, sitting near a high tide, you've got ten to 15 feet on top of that. They say devastating and not survivable alright. Thank you very much, chad myers, we'll get back to chad and a lot more storm coverage coming up here. A special report in just a few moments. But right now, breaking explosive new reporting about a secret relationship trump has been carrying on with vladimir putin, one that we now know tonight includes as many as seven private phone calls since trump left office. Another revelation tonight is a bit bizarre and that is that trump sent putin individual covid, tests at the height of covid. Now according to legendary journalist bob woodward's new book, those tests were sent to putin during the height of the pandemic in 2020, right? when, when nobody could get a hold of tests during a call, but time hooten tells trump quote, please don't tell anybody you sent these to me and trump replies, and woodward is the one putting quotes around this. I don't care fine. Putin says, no, no, i don't want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me. They don't care about me now, trump sending putin personal covid test is at the least fascinating. I mean, how did they get to putin, who knew about them to trump, send them to other world leaders are was this just special for putin? and then did putin really use covid tests sent from america putting his dna on them? mean what, was this about well, today, vice president kamala harris had this to say about it and remember and your listeners will remember people were dying by the hundreds yeah, we, everybody was scrambling to get these kits. The tests that the covid test kits couldn't denim, couldn't get him and get him anywhere, right. And this guy who was president of the united states is sending them to russia to a murderous dictator for his personal use. You getting played and some would say, look, i grew up in the neighborhood some would say you're getting pumped. Yeah. If you stand in favor of somebody who was an adversary over your friends on principles that we all agree on. The trump campaign responding to these campaign, these claims read part of the statement. None of these made up stories by bob woodward are true under the work of a truly demented and deranged man who suffers from a debilitating case of trump derangement syndrome woodward is an angry little man and he's clearly upset because president trump has successfully suing him because of the unauthorized publishing of recordings he made previously. There's just a little taste of the statement. Now, sam presented historian tim naftali, who of course excerpt has been the head of the nixon library, tells outfront that former presidents talking to adversaries, actually, you know, that may not be un concept. But there is no record from woodward's reported that a really crucial thing happened, which is that a single person in the intelligence or national security communities knew about trump and putin's calls. In fact, the new york times reporting tonight of the 19 officials that they spoke to, not one was told about these calls. So that's crucial context always matters here. Trump's desire to be close to putin is important. His admiration for him is important and his clear support of putin's view on ukraine as just one example opens the door to something deeply serious. A former president talking with a sitting world leader in secret, contradicting us government policy so let's just take ukraine and what trump has said publicly tells us a lot do you want ukraine to win this war? i want the war to stop. I want to save lives that are being uselessly. People being killed by the millions. It's the millions. Just to clarify in the question do you believe it's in the u. S. Best interest for ukraine to win this war? yes. And i think it's a us best interest to get this war finished and just get it done. All right, negotiate a deal. Negotiated deal. That's exactly what putin says. He wants that we did not refuse to talk we're willing to policy of putin echoed by trump. A deal where he gets ukrainian land then eventually of course much, if not all of the largest country in europe. But trump's support of putin in on this existential issue for the russian dictator is noticed in russia. Where state media portrays donald trump is vladimir putin acolyte but i'm trump is planning to end the war in 24 hours. This scheme suits as well this scheme suits as well. She says it. It sure does. And it also does not come out of the blue for years. Trump, of course, has had glowing things to say about putin i also have a very good relationship, as you know, with president potent. I knew putin very well got along with him. Actually great potent is a nicer person than i am. So now i like putin. Now putin called me a genius by the way. Of course, the genius in this relationship, maybe putin who has maintained a direct relationship with a former president against us protocol. Alright, everyone's with me here at let me start with jeremy herb. You have read this book, so you know, all the detail in it, all the new reporting from the legendary bob woodward here. What more? does he say about trump's relationship with putin? you know, what's fascinating when you pour through the book and read it as just how much bob we're really brings you inside the room of these conversations? the conversations that donald trump's had with putin also, president biden has had, you know, he says that this is based on interviews with firsthand participants, people who were in there listening and documents. So that's what he is basing it on when you have this this transcript, effectively votes surrounded. Surrounded. I mean, he doesn't look what's on everything, but he put quotes around this where putin tell us trump, please don't tell me when you sent these to me. And then when you get to the calls, he he says that then aide told him there may be as many as seven calls, but he also has a scene there you're where the aid is sent out of the room. He says trump's sent this aid out of the rooms and told the aid i'm having a private call with putin. And so it gets you just a little bit more of a glimpse. Obviously as you just laid out, there's a ton of context around trump's relationship with putin, but it just, it gives us just that much more of a sense of really what he is thinking as he has these conversations, right? a private conversations, it having everyone leave the room again, we don't know what was said, but, you know, it's highly unusual. I'll just put it that way to say the very least. And then you put the context around it and lulu so that the trump campaign statement i shared part of it they say now the stories are true. Then they say president trump gave him, referring to woodward. Absolutely no access for this trash book that either belongs in the bargain bin of the fiction section of a discount bookstore or used as toilet tissue. Okay. Sometimes when you get a response that aggressive, it's because you know, you hit something, you hit something that was fragile so what's your reaction when you hear about all this i think it's really interesting that that's the way the trump campaign responded. It says to me that they know how damaging this is at the end of the day, donald trump has had this variant longstanding relationship with putin. The way that this is described, i have to tell you, not only is it highly unusual, it sounds almost romantic in nature. Don't tell them that i gave you this gift, please. I want to protect you. It's a bizarre kind of relationship that they seem to have. It's very it's very odd, it's not the relationship if that you typically hear about between two world leaders the other thing that really struck me is this is not donald trump talking to one of his golfing buddies this is donald trump talking to the head of an adversarial power, a nuclear power that has invaded a sovereign country that the sitting us president has been absolutely pinpointing as one of the main threats to this country. This is about the policy of the united states. It might be fine for, donald trump to have a relationship with world leaders, but not a world leader who actually presents a threat to the interests of the united states does not talking about a boris johnson or something like that. Bill kristol, i mean, how odd is this to you? i mean, would you say there's something wrong with a former president having as many as seven calls with an adversary, right? who's, who's been talking about and threatening lobbying nukes at us allies or the u. S. In the course of the ukraine war how do you even get your head around this i mean, that really is the other stuff is bizarre sending as president sending putin the covid kid, but it doesn't seem to threaten us interests. This is really appalling. I mean, this is something he presumably some of these conversations maybe all of them happened after putin invaded ukraine. After we had sanctions against russia. Trump is sitting there having private conversations with putin, who we are doing our best to defeat in ukraine who knows what they're saying? he kicks his aid out of the room. Is he giving putin advice on how to deal with the republican party and how to make a good case for himself here in america. Is putin giving him trump advice is prudent giving trump instructions is putin promising trump's certain things if trump rallies the republicans to be not pro ukraine, and instead proputin, trump's sitting at maralago. There's no there's no national security official on the phone there where there would be presumably most of the time, at least, if you're actually seeing in the white house and if you're president, there is no record of it at all trump's sitting with all these classified documents. He took to maralago we really i mean, i just the degree of not just the irresponsibility that possible really terrible behavior in damage to the interest of the united states here, it's really extraordinary you point out sitting there with all that, the classified information that he had with him at maralago that we now know i mean, jeremy, you know, what would also just the context here to remind everybody of the seriousness of the situation with putin. But when i mentioned the nukes that he is reporting that the u. S. Government had assessed that there was a 50% chance that putin could actually use a nuclear weapon regarding the ukraine war what more did you learn about that? yeah know, obviously the quotes in this book are fascinating, but some of the really most interesting details i think whatever it has is just how much the white house was concerned that putin actually might use nukes woodward reports on a call that happened before the war where he calls it a hot 50 minute call that biden had with putin, where at one point, putin mentioned using nuclear weapons in a threatening way and biden had to remind him, no one wins a nuclear war. And you fast forward about six months into the war in september of 2022. That's when this 50% intelligence assessment comes in and the biden white house went into overdrive to try to cut it off. They were concerned that they were going to make up a story about a dirty bomb and we knew that publicly. But what the book shows us is what they did. He had austin go to his counterpart general milley when to his counterpart and biden win to his, his other world leaders and try to get them to walk putin back off that list and now trump, trump may have, we don't know the dates. May have had a conversation. We don't know what he said. I mean, just puts the exclamation point on how crucial this is. Also bill, the context in terms of the broader context of the relationship between trump and putin. And maybe why putin said, well, i don't tell me what about the covid test because you would look back whatever that conversation was about bill, part of the context here is the molar report and the conclusion that russia wanted trump to win that election. Here's the crucial exchange that molar had when he testified about that report to congress did your investigation find that the russian government perceived it would benefit from one of the candidates winning yes and which candidate would that be? well, it would be trimmed a trump bill. What you said the other word, other moment because you used the word, well, what were they talking about? was it instructions wasn't what i mean that context says a lot when you think about the phone calls here trump as vice president harris sort of sadly, i just loves dictators. He likes second up to them. He's flattered when they call him, i suppose or maralago or take a call from him? and he's just got very bad character and that says something itself, something we kind of knew that he likes dictators. But i think it's much worse, much worse worrisome than that. I mean, he's the ex president, he's also the leader of the republican party. He's having secret private, no aid, no one taking notes the way you do when you're president 95% of the time of trump occasionally tried to stop that too, but the reason we know about the biden conversations is there were other people in the office, other people on the line. There were notes that were taken. Some of these people debriefed woodward had cetera. Right? we have no idea what putin told trump, what trump told putin, what putin promise trump financial incentives, other things things i'll help you get the nominal help you in the campaign if necessary, i might do things to hurt biden if you become the nominee. I mean, anything could have been said and that's why i'm so really obsessed, appalled by this really lulu, i want to give you the final word, this regarding a conversation that you had today, it's 75 minute conversation with jd vance came and spoke to you, you interviewed him for the new york times and i know you're gonna be putting this into a full story, 75 minutes with jd vance what stands out to you 75 minutes with jd vance. So first of all, kudos and jd vance for sitting down for 75 minutes with the new york times with me. It was an interesting conversation. It ranged vary widely. It was about his past, but mostly what we focused on is this idea of who is jd vance. We see different jd vance's at different times saying different things. There's a big paper trail. A lot of things at jd vance has said in the past why has he changed his opinions on them? he accuses kamala harris of changing her opinions. Why does he change his opinions? and he had a lot to say. All right. Well, i can't wait to see all that. I know we're gonna have you on to talk about that more. But thanks very much to all of you. And you know, when lulu talks about jd vance and changing what he's had to say, it is quite remarkable. And there is new reporting next our kfile, brand new reporting on jd vance. This is an interview from 2020, which puts vance a direct odds with trump on an issue that is core to this campaign right now, you'll hear that for yourself next. Plot this is, i promised more on the deadly hurricane about to pummel florida. I'm going to speak to an air force pilot who literally just flew through the storm will tell you what an unprecedented storm looks like. 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