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we re going to continue our breaking news live coverage of this. i wanted to amplify for you what andrea was just telling you about the wadirector comey former director comey found out about this, the new york times account of this is just stunning. he was addressing a group of fbi employees in los angeles when the television in the background flashed the news that he had been fired. in response, mr. comey laughed. he said he thought it was a fairly funny prank. and then his staff started securing around in the background, told mr. comey that he should step into a nearby office. mr. comey stopped addressing the group. he proceeded to shake hands with the employees he had been speaking to and he stepped into a side office where he confirmed that he had been fired. at that point, he had not heard from the white house. shortly after that, rachel, after all of that, it s been on television, a letter from the president was delivered to the fbi s headquarters just 7 blocks from ....
and economy r they right? hi, everybody, i m david asman, let s focus with mr. steve forbes, elizabeth, sabrina and bruce jackson, steve, spend more? dave, unfortunately we will have to spend more and a lot more under barack obama the budget declined, a couple of hundred billion dollars, trump is increasing it but not nearly enough, we need more ships, we need more equipment and we need to maintain what we have which we haven t done in recent years, we also need radical reform of procurement system which wastes $25 billion a year. a lot has to be done. john, look at the percent of gdp that we spend in military hardware, it has come way down. we had the peace dividend during the clinton years after the end of the soviet union, that s when the big dip happened and we built up after 9/11 and it s come down again. coming down from a very high level. even now we spend more on the military annually than the next seven largest spending countries combined. david: they re not spe ....
do, we have a customer service hot line that we turned into a nonemergency call center, and we ve asked the residents if they need to be rescued and it s not an emergency, or if they think they might need to be rescued, that they call that 311. most of the people unless they get hit later or are near the river. w we are prioritizing those, the residents that can get out of their homes, like i said, we re prioritizing them. and also we they do know that we will wait until daybreak. because of the standing water, so many of the streets and the typically shelter in beaumont. we have three shelters open, they will not at capacity until they started to get at capacity, we ll look at opening another shelter. a shelter, you don t just put up there and ask people to come. you have to have supplies, cots, blankets, and someone that knows how to run it. and the red cross, because of all the devastation in texas is very, very limited resources for them, too. so i think that would ....
democrat wins in ohio, michigan, or give me a name. i like tim ryan in ohio, and i like my mayor out of palm beach out of miami in florida. nick, katherine, harold, that will do it for hardball. chris matthews is back here on monday. all in with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on all in. he wanted to have dinner because he wanted to stay on. dinner with comey. he mentioned that he had been invited to the white house to have dinner with the president and that he was uneasy with that. new reporting contradicting the president s claims. and tonight, new questions about oval office recordings. did president trump record his conversations with former fbi director comey? as the president threatens his former fbi director with tapes. plus, as the deputy attorney general reportedly signals no special prosecutor should we do the pledge? raise your hand. who else was asked to take the donald trump pledge? then david cay johnston. and my ex ....
resigned tonight. the robust way he stood up to the trump administration and to trump himself on ethics issues and the president s unprecedented financial conflicts of interest. his name is walter shoeb. he said he was not forced out of the office of government ethics. he basically says he s leaving because the u.s. governmentestics rules are not strong enough to allow him to stand up to what this president and his family are doing so he is leaving his jb at the office of government ethics in order to try to strengthen the rules from the outside. very interesting resignation today. we ve got more on that story ahead. there s a lot going on. we ve got a big show tonight. i said at the very end of last night s show we ve got a scoop to share with you tonight. this is that scoop. in-house on your staff we ve been talking about this as and inside, kind of an inside-out story. not your typical news story, not your particular scoop. but i think it s important. one of the few times ....