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Haze for nearby disneyland. president trump approved the state's request. >> well you've heard the story here. the serious fire, we've had big fires in the past. this is one of the biggest and most serious. it's not over. that's the way it is with a warming climate and dry weather and reducing moisture. these kinds of catastrophe wills happen and continue to happen and we can do everything we can do mitigate. >> joe freyr is in santa rosa. >> reporter: this home belonged to the clark family. we spent time with them today.

Already burned 170,000 acres. that's roughly 265 square miles. chris, that's larger than the size of the city of chicago. >> joe, what can they do? how are they fighting the fires? >> reporter: you know, the good thing is, you know, sunday night, monday morning, people got caught off guard. they didn't know the fires were coming, certainly not so quickly. now they have a lot of resources out here. more resources are coming in, more firefighters, more ways to attack from the hair. now they know the threat is coming. that doesn't make things any easier. if the wind gusts pick up tonight, they ma...

If i was against iraq i would be the last to use them. >> can you tell the middle east we're not using a nuclear weapon. >> i would never take my cards off of the table. >> how about europe? >> i'm not taking it off the table. >> you might use it in europe. >> no, i don't think so. >> i'm just sayin'. >> i am not taking cards off the table. >> i'm joined right now by carol lee, one of the authors, "wall street journal" white house reporter eli stoeckles and christopher hill. let me go to carol. this whole discussion about trump that he seems to not understand -- and i believe he doesn't unders...

Of the underlying story and the underlying campaign russia preoccupation out of nowhere. >> yeah, although he'd be dismissed for the opposite reason as eli pointed out. the thing is you said at the opening which i think is important to remind us again is that this information, this assertion comes from what the russian ambassador is telling his home office as intercepted by american intelligence agencies. we don't know. we don't have a transcript as far as we know publicly about the conversation. we don't know from anybody other than the russian ambassador about what was said. take that with a...

The recusal to the attorney general. >> that's exactly right. jeff sessions recused himself. rod rosen steen was in charge. when james comey was fired by the president as fbi director, it came out that he had had this conversation or says he had this conversation with the president about whether to stop the investigation into mike flynn, that's when rod rosenstein as the acting attorney general decided he had to appoint a special counsel, that would be robert mueller. from the session's recusal in the president's view comes the investigation that he now faces from a special counsel who is now ...