Ambassador philip reeker is set to testify. If he testifies, reeker would be the latest career diplomat whos complied with a house subpoena to appear specifically going against the express wishes of the white house. And on the west coast, pg e may shut off power to nearly two million customers in california. Thats to prevent a, quote, california wildfire. This could last for several days were hearing. D. C. Was buzzing as they watched their beloved nationals at the world series. It didnt quite go as planned. Andy . Yeah, martin. First World Series Game here in washington, d. C. , in 86 years, but the astros ruining all the fun. Well show you how game three unfolded coming up. All right. Back to the political arena here. The federal judge has ruled the impeachment inquiry being held. It cuts into the argument that its invalid. The same judge ordered they give the grand jury information that had been redacted from the Mueller Report. She ruled that that information is in the publics interest and should be released. Kristen holmes is at the white house. The president is pushing the message that hes being treated unfairly. Is there any indication thats resonating . Good morning, christi and martin. It depends who you ask. Earlier this week i was in pittsburgh with some of his most ardent supporters and they agree with him, that hes being treated unfairly. They attacked democrats. If you look ahead to 2020, those moderates that are not necessarily part of the base, those on the fence, as you say, this ruling really undermines the idea that hes being treated unfairly and the process is a sham. But does that mean President Trump will stop painting himself as a victim . Likely not. Hes been doing this since before august of 2015. Thats something he does to connect himself with the base with people who feel less behind. He says hes part of this system thats being attacked. In fact, yesterday he was at an event touting his criminal Justice Reform and he seemingly linked himself and impeachment to the Justice System. Take a listen. In america youre innocent until proven guilty. We dont have investigations in search of that crime. Its a terrible thing. It hurts people very badly and divides the country. Innocent people are those surrounding innocent people. Theyre being destroyed and humiliated. We have so many people that have been hurt, destroyed, and humiliated in ways that weve never seen before in the history of our country. So its a little unclear here. He seems to be conflating his two things. One thing is very clear. He is going to stay on that path of saying that hes completely innocent. Kristen, i was talking to republicans earlier in the week in North Carolina and theyre concerned that they believe the white house is kind of losing the messaging war here. Is that feeling reflecting in the white house itself . Certainly. Its at the white house and on capitol hill among republicans. Weve got to keep this in minds. Those on the hill who support republican have been in office for a very long time and theyve seen situations like that. President trump has really not wanted that. He believes that he himself is his own war room. You can see that last night when he went on another twitter rant. This is how he talks to his base. He basically said my lawyers should sue the democrats. The entire impeachment scam was based on my perfect ukrainian call, the democrats must end this scam now, witch hunt. But republicans all across the board here really saying this is not enough, that they want some sort of strategic messaging here. Theyre looking for someone to help with the process. Kristen holmes at the white house. Thanks very much. We turn to a cnn political analyst. Thanks so much. Good to see you here. Lets talk about the federal bridge who says the impeachment probe is valid. There are documents from the Mueller Report that have to be released now. Connect those two things for us because there are people who argue, listen, the Mueller Report does not connect to tim pettus for the impeachment inquiry because thats about the ukraine call. Yes. This is before the president s crew crane call came to light, but its very much connected to the democrats ongoing impeachment inquiry, the white house says its illegitimate, not valid. They say the democrats have not held a vote. A judge struck down all of those talking points in this ruling says the house does not have to hold a vote in order for an impeachment process to be valid. He says the Justice Department is wrong to try to block the house from getting information that was part of the Mueller Report, so the judge stood up for this impeachment process. It seems like the judge is giving the democrats a major victory by saying this impeachment process can go forward and the various information, some of it does relate to ukraine, so its possible that some of that redacted information could end up in the final impeachment process, articles that come out of this process. They are link and the democrats took a win out of this ruling and well have to see what they do with it going forward. President trump and his closest advisers now recognize that the snow balling probe poses a serious threat to the president and they have little power to block it. Thats according to powerful aides and advisers. Kristen talked a little about it. What do you know about whats happening behind closed doors right now. My colleagues reported theyre trying to catch up to speed, catch up to this long run progress says. See how difficult it is to build a case against the president. They tried to shut this whole thing down a couple of weeks ago saying they would not koomt, but that hasnt worked. Weve seen several career diplomats, several members go up to capitol hill, tefl under subpoena and provide information thats damaging to the president. Now theyre trying to put together some messaging apparatus as well as bring on additional lawyers who can help fight back on this issue because so far its been the president s twitter account thats been running the messaging and right now it hasnt been very coherent or consistent, and it hasnt given the republicans on capitol hill a set of talking points, so now the president is trying to catch up. Well have to wait and see. So far theyve been ahead of the game in terms of being able to put together a message that shows that they show the president abused his power and the white house has not been able to respond to anything consistent yet. The president has been consistent with the argument that this is a witch hunt. I want you to listen to something he said yesterday in south carolina. Well never let up on our efforts to ensure that the Justice System is fair for every single american, and i have my own experience, you know that. You see whats going on with the witch hunt. Its an investigation in search of a crime. Its been going on for longer than im in office. Its true. And were working to put an end for everybody to horrible injustice and horrible practices that weve seen. Its not only here, but its in other places. Its in some pretty high places. Some say it seems he was comparing a witch hunt to africanamerican places. What you do make of that. That seem as what the president was doing. He does seem to put himself in the middle of any policy or discussion or any type of statement hes making. He relates himself to it. In this case, hes trying to relate himself to the criminal justice situation that face as lot of low income people and a lot of people who are caught up in the system. The president has said this system goes to the conspiracy, that he was the victim of this long running plot by the Justice Department to take him down even before he got elected. Since he was elected, even people he has appointed have tried to plot against his administration. It is definitely a conspiracy that now he has the Justice Department chasing down with this bar investigation, but its hard to draw a link between that and the criminal justice issue that faced people on an everyday basis who get caught up in the system. But the president was trying to make that link there. Im not sure how well it landed. It was clear from that room he had a lot of supporters in the room. It was at a historically black college but now weve learned only a handful of students were from that college, instead it was a room packed with the president s own hand picked supporters. Thats part of the reason he felt comfortable making that appearance there. Always good to have you here. Thank you. Thank you. Breaking overnight, a convicted russian operative just returned home to her country. It was really just a short time ago. Maria butina arrived in moscow. The russian agent pled guilty last year. She tried to promote russian trs. After serving more than 15 months behind bars, she was released from a florida price on yaend lo and behold she appears in moscow this morning. This weekend firefighters in california are going up against weather conditions that could make their jobs so much tougher, leading to new evacuations as fires threaten homes across the state. I dont know if anybodys up there. I dont know. I dont know if theyre helping or putting out the fire. I dont know. Plus, Actress Felicity Huffman, shes out of jail. She was sentenced to 14 days for her part in the College Admissions scandal. Coming up, how she was able to cut three days of jail time. And game three of the world series. Crazy over some baby sharks. 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Suzanne, good to see you. What can you tell us we are expecting today . Good morning, christi. Hopefully this is not going to be a regular event, saturday morning marings, but they may be, because theyre trying to move this as quickly as possible. Were going to here later this morning at 11 00 from philip reeker. Hes a top deputy to secretary pompeo. Hes described as an independent, problem solver, worked closely be pompeo but not in his inner circle. Were told not to expect some bombshells. Hell go over u. S. And ukrainian connections and discussions we heard before, but they have two areas that i want to probe. First, we know he was aware ta the former ambassador to ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch was part of a smear campaign. Hell try to defend her, what he knows behind the details. The other thing we do know is he did tell his subordinate george kent to let go, dont push his concerns about the president s personal attorney rudy giuliani. Why did he do that . What kind of signals was he get behind that . Those are the two two areas theyre going to explore. All of this comes at a time when the democrats are emboldened. Good news yesterday. A federal judge ruling that this is in fact a legal exercise. They do not necessarily have to vote before the full house for the emit fimpeachment enquerrey exercise. Its something the house you dinner cy committee has wanted to get their hands on. Christy . It is. Suzanne malveaux, appreciate the update. Good to see you. Thanks. You too. Evacuations are under way and Power Outages are possible for more than 2 Million People. Now the weather is making situation even more serious. Plus, the astros spoil a historic night on the nations capitol. How houston fought back to make this a world series. You dont let a cold ruin your day. You take dayquil severe liquicaps and crush it. Dayquil severe. The daytime, coughing, aching, stuffyhead, fever, sore throat, power through your day, medicine. 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Ignition for this one, tick canyon road and the socalled tick fire hit 200 acres in minutes or so. Homes were lost here in Canyon Country north of los angeles. We dont know if anybodys up there, i dont know, helping or putting out the fire, i dont know. I can see the whole structures on fire. Dry brush, high temperatures and the whipping santa ana winds gusting at over 50 miles an hour. The flames jumping a major freeway overnight. 10,000 structures endangered, 40,000 people under mandatory evacuation orders. We ask that people Pay Attention to the evacuations. They are mandatory. Reporter theyre not sure. What we suggest you do is open gates and let them out. I never got to get up there. Two fire trucks were going up the road. Its hard to sit and watch your community burn, but at the same time, we need to listen to our First Responders and allow them to do their jobs. This just one of nine wildfires burning across the golden state. Up north in sonoma county, 49 structures destroyed by the kincade fire. Nearly 22,000 acres and still burning. Still no cause, but the local utility pg e has now reported an outage with a high voltage transmission line and the fire broke out near this origin. At this point, we dont know what happened. Reporter hundreds of thousands had their power shut off in the hopes of preventing breakouts. Right now across california, thousands of firefighters still fighting flames, still waiting for the next conflagration. Our thanks to nick watt for that update on the situation there. Ivan cabrera is looking at it now. As i understand it, monday is how lock this wind event could last. Its going to be a long 48 hours, no question. The inferno every year is ongoing in california. As a matter of fact, im surprised theyre at 5 containment just from the conditions weve seen and the situation on the ground. 5 . By tomorrow this time, probably 5 . You cant contain a fire when youre talking 50 to 70mileanhour winds. The tick fire is going to be an issue heading into tomorrow. What is happening is we have a front moving through. As we move through Northern California, the winds pick up. We have a fire warning for Northern California. The strong nearly winds wiorthe will be heading south. Nevertheless, when it comes down the mountainside, they could be picking up speed. Youre looking at 50 to 60even 70mileperhour winds. Look at that plume. That is the wind thats going to be moving north to south over the next 24 to 48 hours. This is going to continue for southern california, by the way, as we head into the early part of next week. Im afraid for firefighting efforts here. Conditions are going to be just horrible. Terrain, humidity, singledigit over the next few days. It cant possibly get worse. These are the worst fire conditions you can possibly have. Dry fuels, high winds, hi wind humidity. How about some brighter news. The Houston Astros are back in the world series. They picked up a huge win in game three. Thats not brighter news for everybody. You know, good for the city. It keeps the series going, exactly. Andy scholes is in washington. Im sure he would like to see the series keep going. Yeah. Guys, most people dont know im an astros fan in washington, d. C. Im trying to keep that under wraps. Its the first time. In 86 years this is the first time the nationals have hosted a World Series Game. Anywhere you walk around the city, all you see is go nats. The fans that lined the stadium, they were so ready to explode and go crazy. But every time the nationals have a chance to do something special, they came up a little bit shofrmt 0 for 10 with runners in scoring position. They left 12 runners on base. The crowd did have a chance to have them. Her rar rowe parra pinchhit. He walked up to baby shark. The astros