As soon as winds get to sustained strength of 39 miles per hour, this bridge and every other bridge around here is going to close. if you re going to get out, you ve got it get out quickly. for the people who want to stay here, wolf, authorities here are telling us to get the word out not to call first responders during the height of the storm, because they cannot get to you. wolf? brian, we ll get back to you soon. brian todd reporting. the president has approved a federal emergency declaration ahead of hurricane michael s arrival. a few minutes ago, he addressed speculation he actually may name his daughter ivanka to replace united nations ambassador nikki haley, who unexpectedly announced her resignation today. let s go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. jim, this caught almost everyone off guard. reporter: it certainly did, wolf. the white house is already worse on a replacement for nikki haley. president trump is talking up the prospects of one contender, his daughter, ivanka. the president said he couldn t think of anyone more competent for the position. that s what he said to reporters earlier this afternoon. and as for haylee s departure,
Last few weeks and try to be objective about it, i think the republicans probably won the messaging game. and it s precisely because of what you re doing right there. the angry mob, the angry mob, the angry mob. even though these were just peaceful protesters. they were. and people can be mad. okay, i m sorry. five seconds left. thanks so much for watching. stay with cnn programming. you ve been watching the lead with jake tapper. happening now, breaking news. fast and furious. hurricane michael. growing stronger and barreling toward the florida coast. 20 million people are under storm warnings and watches. and millions more could be impacted. we have a new forecast breaking this hour. haylee s comment. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley resigns. dismissing speculation she might run for the white house in 2020. why is the president giving her special treatment? gender gap. just weeks before the vote, new
She did not want to leave the administration after the midterm election, should the gop lose the house, i m told. she did not want to look like she was abandoning the president if the democrats rout the republicans in the mid terms. at a time when the white house is struggling with female voters, a major loss for president trump. as united nations ambassador nikki haley, one of the highest-ranking women in the trump administration, is stepping down. we hate to lose hopefully, you ll be coming back at some point. but you are just maybe a different capacity. you can have your pick. but i just want to let you know. so at the end of the year, nikki will be leaving. and it will be in constant touch. reporter: haylee wanted to make one thing clear. she is not leaving to pursue her own political ambitions. and i will say this. for all of you that are going to ask about 2020, no, i am not running for 2020. i can promise you what i ll be doing is campaigning for this one. so i look forward to supporting the president in the next election.
Ambassador to nato for the president. if i was in the president s shoes, that s somebody i would seriously consider. the president also just said no one in the world would be more competent in the role as u.s. ambassador to the u.n. than his own daughter, ivanka trump. what do you think of that possibility? well, i know that obviously, as a father, he thinks very highly of his daughter. and, you know, with all respect to ivanka trump, i think that because of the demanding challenges for the united states in the world and specifically at the united nations, he really ought to go with somebody who has diplomatic experience and can hit the ground running when they go to the u.n. and i wouldn t pick somebody right now who is going to train up into the job. ask that includes his daughter, ivanka trump. nikki haley was a relatively outspoken at the united nations on human rights issues. is that something you would like to see from the next u.s. ambassador? absolutely. i think what you see going on in the world right now is a lot of
And knows exactly that he is the only one he and mike pence in this building, the only two people elected to anything. he makes the ultimate decision here. that s what leadership does. leadership doesn t shut the door and just sit there, toss a coin in the air or say this is what i promised on the campaign trail. i must do it absolutely exactly. this is somebody who takes the counsel who feels free and comfortable enough in his job to do that and then makes a decision on his own. brian: so you were okay with that the white house is okay with the editorial? i m telling that you there are parts of the editorial i read it once, parts that ring true to me, which is that he also has a cabinet and ambassador haylee in the cabinet of people able to come to him and say, mr. president, have you asked us to execute on this. here is the progress report. this is what we have been able to do and can t do yet here is the vision of the future. by the way often in these cabinet meetings, the press is in the room when many of those reports are happening. they don t want to cover it but the american people can find it online. i m sure we have it in the
one of my best friends was with me in the entire time from the staircase to the classroom to leaving the school, and we have been checking up on each other, and both of us just can t wrap our heads around what exactly happened. it does not feel real. and she does not feel safe. tucker: i bet she does not. a lot of people can identify with your parents in that way. thank you, haylee for that. of course. tucker: kelly mccann is a former marine officer, john irani only as a special agent executive, and they both join us tonight. kelly to you, for what we know about the response of the school and law enforcement, do you think it was adequate? these policies all change as a result of columbine, so they are moving directly to the crisis point. you have to remember that these things most historically most of the killings done within the
With me the whole time from the staircase to the classroom to leaving the school, andim we have been checking up on each other, and both of us just can t wrap our heads around what exactly happened. it does not feel real. and she does not feel safe. tucker: i bet she doesn t. a lot of people can identify with your parents in that way. thank you, haylee for that. of course. tucker: kelly mccann is a former marine officer, john iannarelli is a special agent executive, and they both join us tonight. kelly, to you, from what we know about the response of the school and law enforcement, do you think it was adequate? these policies all changed as a result of columbine, so they are moving directly to the crisis point. you have to remember that these things most historically most of the killings done within the first 5 minutes. so when you look at these
Identification. and not a lot the governor could do. she could push the election date but that creates political problems. so really they re stuck between a rock and a hard place. for a lot of republicans, this is reminiscent of the 2016 presidential election. a lot of people who didn t want to vote for donald trump, who had to figure out what they were going to do. you re in a very similar situation now for the voters of alabama. and haylee, you saw mo brooks a member of congress you ve reported on. we should say, the new alabama poll has brooks up six points even after the monday allegation of sexual assault. and there s a you know, to lanhee s point, there has to be some calculation on capitol hill like this guy might pull out and bowl through the way the president did. the people i talked to still seem convinced that roy moore is either going to drop out, you know, maybe reconsider. or republicans on capitol hill could pressure him enough to drop out.
We have to accept in terms of where we are right now. we lost a lot of opportunity the last administration with respect to assad and i think that arwa s statement that u.n. ambassador haylee gave yesterday and secretary of state tillerson reflects the reality. to arwa s point, she s been in syria and has talked to the activists who believes that the world has turned its back on syria. one last question and then we ll move on. what could the trump administration use this as an opportunity to help? well, as i said, i would support military action and send that signal that we will not tolerate the use of mem cal weapons. it should have bb done before and can be done. i d be careful now about assad himself in that as we learned in iraq, you better have a plan in place if you take down the leader of the country, would that create more instability in the middle east. i think there are things that
The south is very different. the guys who took the flag off the south carolina capitol new which way the winds were blowing. that s why they put a two-thirds majority requirement in to get the flag down. haylee can t take it down. they have to have a two-thirds majority vote. these guys knew they were sort of running out of steam on this stuff. the problem is it took this horrible tragedy for the gop to have this internal discussion they have been trying to avoid i think for a long time. it just became too uncomfortable to stand next to guys at the confederate flag. there s this incredible irony, it s the party of lincoln, politicians in the south, the party of lincoln, having a debate over the confederate flag coming coming down. i mean n terms of how the parties have flipped over the decades. this was the you know the democratic symbol. i mean the democratic party symbol in the civil war. well a lot of southern democrats