reports, sudden strategy. donald trump campaigns on the sly for roy moore. while careers are derailed for two political congress members. and al franken's resignation. >> i think it was the right thing to do and difficult. >> this does establish a new standard for this body, and the standard is behavior before you were elected is fair game for determining whether you should be here. global tension. america's u.n. ambassador getting an earful at this hour from world powers denouncing president trump's decision on israel's capital. while palestinian protestors crowded the streets of the holy city. msnbc's richard engel is right in the thick of it. >> reporter: the forces are trying to prevent them from gathering, trying to break up

the demonstration before they're able to congregate. for the palestinians, this is their way of showing they don't accept israel's claim to jerusalem. the white house fights back at john lewis for boycotting the opening of a civil rights museum to protest the president's presence. lecturing the civil icon for his sacrifice of leaders. >> we've come a distance. we made a lot of progress as a nation and as a people, but we're not there yet. racism is deeply embedded in american society. >> good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in

washington. donald trump tweeting, vote roy moore as he goes there to help the candidate. he is with the moore campaign, urging more people to show up. as the spotlight shows on the critical debate on tuesday, senator al franken, congressman john conyers, john francs all facing issues of sexual harrassment. joining me now, peter alexander at the white house, ann gearen, "new york times" reporter. in advance of the president's appearance tonight and loris romano. peter, let's kick it off. the president has within minutes seen signs of a continuing resolution, keeping the

government open until at least december 22nd, but all of this is right on his plate. the sexual harrassment charges, the roy moore endorsement, the politics of it. where does he go from here? >> reporter: andrea, you make a very good point right now, and in anticipation of this trip, wii been pressing the white house to get a sense of whether the president would be campaigning for roy moore. you remember sarah huckabee sanders has repeatedly said the president in this white house is troubled by the allegations against him, and the president says, of course, the allegations remain unfounded, they haven't been confirmed, and there haven't been new names in recent days. the white house suggested it was going to keep a little bit of distance from moore, 20 miles specifically or so from the border of alabama, but the president effectively erased that with his tweet today in all caps, vote rooy moore, going further on this topic. it is likely there will be a lot of roy moore supporters in attendance this evening.

this is a media market which overlaps with the mobile, alabama market as well. so even as white house officials say this is a campaign event for donald trump, it's clear by the president's own words that he's going to be doing a little campaigning to help somebody else as well. >> and vaughn hilliard down there in pensacola, we've lost you to alabama for at least a month. we're hoping you can come back after tuesday, vaughn. but there you are, you got at least as far south as florida. the president is going to be whooping it up at this rally for roy moore tonight. >> reporter: andrea, already in a tweet he slammed doug jones as a liberal. which really is the object, to paint doug jones as a candidate in this race. why doug jones could potentially win on tuesday, we just got some new numbers. i just got off the phone with the secretary of state of

alabama, john merrill. he's predicting a vote of at least 25%. absentee ballot requests are up six times more than what they were at the runoff. i just got off the phone as well with the county clerk in tuscaloosa. this is a place where back in 2012, mitt romney won tuscaloosa county by 20%. roy moore won it by just 5%. why is this significant? democrat doug jones is going to need high voter turnout among democrats. these are the first indications that we're seeing there is at least interest and these applications are going out there. when you're looking -- there's clearly some alabamans that have made their way here to pensacola, andrea. >> good job, john. just ignore it all, all that's going on around you. >> things made sense for a moment. >> i love the reporting, the detail. that's exactly what political

reporting is all about, as ann gearen knows. you've been on the road for months. will people turn out? will the african-american vote be encouraged by an appearance we are expecting from, in fact, john lewis and others from the congressional black caucus? and what is the effect on women? how will women react? ann? >> reporter: yeah, i mean, i think the question of both republican women and democratic women is a big one in this race. we haven't really seen indications in polling. now, i will say, as vaughn, i'm sure, knows, polling has been a little sketchy and not always reliable earlier on in this race. obviously there is a lot more resources being devoted to it now, but polling has been a little difficult to track over time. that said, we haven't seen a strong indication that the

allegations against roy moore will significantly depress women -- turnout among women republicans with the strong caveat there that we're really only talking about a turnout for sure of less than 30%, because it's a special election, an off-year election, and turnout is typically low. that said, that means the most motivated voters turn out, and that is likely to mean that motivated women democrats turn out as well. >> and let's also talk about the broader issue about how women are affected by what's been happening on capitol hill as well as the prospect that roy moore certainly could be elected and would be seated, and then mayor may not face an ethics investigation that could stretch on forever. amy cho is watching all of this.

we had the franks investigation. we know he's paid payments for secret settlements, $84,000, accusations of sexually charged statements with a former director. now the first former colleague, mia love, is saying he should step down. let me play that. >> i think he should voluntarily resign because i believe we have to hold ourselves to a higher standard. where he may not feel like his behavior was inappropriate, obviously somebody did. obviously people felt uncomfortable. >> so, amy, that was mia love on cnn, but there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of other political pressure on him yet to step down. sorry, amy chosik? >> reporter: i'm sorry, i couldn't hear. there is certainly a split among liberals who see this liberal

tighten in al franken resigning, and if roy moore is successful and makes it to the senate, that's going to be a lot harder to stomach. of course, democrats are banking that taking a moral high ground, taking these issues seriously will help them in 2018 to stand up to any republicans nominated who don't take a hard stance against sexual assault, sexual harrassment, and there are hopefuls that are still optimistic that this could lead to a path of examining the president who has been accused of sexual assault who has been on tape bragging about groping women. i think there is a lot to franken's departure, but there are some taking a hard stance on this. >> some say it is too hard a stance in that there are d disparate levels of bad behavior and that al franken is paying a price. he's not getting the

investigative behavior that he originally sought. he is being forced out by his democratic colleagues so they can have the issue against both the roy moore election on tuesday and the midterms to come. >> first, let me say, i think everyone is wrestling with the gradations of this. where is the bright line that someone has to lose their life, their career? clearly we know there are some real pigs out there, those guys that have been exposing themselves, they go down. in the case of al franken, i think there was a lot of pain among democrats wondering what to do, and the more we read about what happened here, it seems -- the politics of it, it seems like he might have taken one for the team. >> we also have the statement from congressman franks. he put out a statement saying, i have recently learned that the ethics committee is reviewing an inquiry regarding my discussion

of seizuurrogacy with two previ subordinates, making them uncomfortable. i deeply regret that my discussion of this option made them feel distressed. in the midst of this current cultural and media climate, i am deeply convinced i would be unable to complete a fair house ethics investigation before distorted and sensationalized. my family, my staff and my noticeable colleagues in the house of representatives through hyp hyperboliz hyperbolized issues. >> whatever prompted speaker ryan to immediately ask him to resign, yet speaker ryan has not immediately asked farenthold to resign who immediately fired his staffer who complained, which is

retaliation. there is something about franks' statement that is missing. >> he's either asking her to have a child or artificial insemination, both of which are horrifically unacceptable in the workplace. >> that would prompt a speaker to lose it and say, you have to resign yesterday. it's just a very odd story. >> anne gearan, where are we going politically as we wrestle with this, women of generations, men as well. this is a really emotional and difficult legal problem, ethical problem, you know, work labor law problem as more and more people in all kinds of industries, anne, are feeling the weight of this. women are speaking up more openly, which is the one great

thing about it. >> yeah, i was having a discussion with friends at dinner last night about which industry is likely to be next under the microscope, and there are a couple of options, right? but i think more broadly, the democrats certainly are banking on this being more than a moment in the culture and this actually being a turning point, and that is why you see the cleaning house. they put franken essentially against the wall and shot him yesterday, and he clearly, by that statement, didn't feel he deserved it. but from the leadership's point of view, they want a clean slate going into 2018, they want to be able to say that they've handled this issue differently than republicans have, and then they want to be able to turn that not only in support of their own candidates in 2018 but turn a lens then on the president. >> but, of course, if past is

prologue, this is not the end of it, peter. they have no guarantee they can hold onto that seat in 2018. it now will be in play. and they don't know who else is going to be outed in all of this and whether another major player in the senate is going to face this kind of problem, and now they've got the standard. in this case it was a little easier for them politically because mark dayton in minnesota is a democratic governor replacing al franken. that may not be the case the next time this comes up. >> reporter: that's the challenge with, as we sort of find the gradations of this, andrea. these are different circumstances. all of them are different cases as we look at them right now, and some are really questioning publicly and privately whether al franken did receive the due process -- he didn't receive the due process, quite frankly. there was no ethics process. you remember senator menendez where there was a mission trial that concluded this round of it, he was allowed to go through the

ethics process. he remains a sitting senator in the state of new jersey. al franken, on the other hand, heads back to his home state without that process having taken place. the bottom line is a lot of this has to do with not the democrats themselves but a man who works at 2016 pennsylvania avenue, and there is discussion about why president trump was not having to face a higher bar. >> menendez was awarded yesterday, awarded, with a seat on the conference on the tax bill, which is not his specialty. he doesn't have that kind of seniority on finance or anything else, but he was given that seat over clair mccaskill or some other contender by chuck schumer. that's a leadership decision just because he had a mistrial but he was under indictment. to be continued. thanks so much to everyone for the great conversation, and make sure to tune in to "mtp daily"

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a new protest today and a heavy israeli police presence in palestinian areas of east jerusalem, the west bank and gaza in response, of course, to president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. pushing and shoving broke out among palestinian and israeli forces. the palestinians were trying to

demonstrate the israeli security forces were on high alert, quickly trying to stop them. ayman is in engineer use lecjer is a lot calmer at the west gate. the u.s. is really isolated there defending this. i'm really struck by the fact that the white house is trying to say, well, we didn't wall anything off. but when i interviewed the israeli ambassador yesterday, he said, no, a unified jerusalem is israeli. we're never going to consider any change to the geography of jerusalem. so where is the nuance and where is the flexibility? >> reporter: i mean, andrea, i think that is the question that remains to be seen, because as you well know yesterday, the state department also dodged a question about the municipality of jerusalem and whether or not jerusalem is being recognized entirely in israel with its expanding borders. the borders and the geography of

the city is really what this comes down to, because you have about 40% of the population living in east jerusalem that are palestinians, obviously in the occupied eastern part of the city, but beyond that israel has expanded with jewish settlements that over the years have been included in the jerusalem municipality or what have you. that has certainly complicated the fact because there is now in international understanding that israel has with the united states based on the road map and what have you that those road blocks will be considered with land swaps. but the people living in the eastern part of the city constantly complain about being discriminated against. they don't get the resources, the same kind of money, health services. there are also all kinds of problems with the infrastructure. they cite that jerusalem is not interested in developing this part of the city for the palestinian people. that's why the palestinians are demanding that the eastern part of the city, which includes the old city behind me, all become

part of the featured state. it comes down to the holy city for both sides and contains religious implications for all three religions, and that's why it's a sensitive issue, that the israelis feel it's gone in their favor and jerusalem is trying to get another foothold here. but they have few cards to play diplomatically on the ground, andrea. >> ayman, thank you for all your reporting. to the russia probe, the mueller probe, msnbc has now confirmed that an e-mail was sent to donald trump and his son donald trump jr. during the campaign asking for access to hacked wikileaks documents. we know at least it was offered. joining me now is intelligence security reporter ken delanian. ken, what do we know about this? what is the significance to you?

>> reporter: the e-mail came in early september, september 4, right in the middle of the presidential campaign. we're not sure what the trump team did in response, whether they called the fbi, whether they responded in any way. we do know a couple weeks later, wikileaks began direct-messaging donald trump jr. on twitter. that's been reported. i think the context is important, too. at the time the e-mail was sent, it was known that wikileaks was essentially acting on behalf of the russian government, that they had received these hacked e-mails from russia. we were reporting and others were reporting that the u.s. intelligence community believed that russia had hacked the e-mails. the "new york times" did a front page expose in august just a few weeks before this e-mail showing the election tended to favor russia. so there was no doubt that wi i wikileaks was essentially acting as an agent of russia. so it remains to be seen what the trump team did with this apparent overture from wikileaks, andrea.

>> ken, thank you so much. senator ben cardin is with us. you've been looking at this. how troubling all these developments. >> first of all, i think the president's announcement in regards to jerusalem being the capital of israel, a 1995 sought did the sa -- statute did the same. how does he negotiate peace for a two-state solution? of course, donald trump doesn't have a great track record on the use of diplomacy, so i think that's been the concern, that there is a right way to do this, and whether the president will pursue it that way. >> one argument would be, as dennis ross, richard haas and other experts have been saying, you put the plan out there and don't put the arab leaders and palestinian leaders on the defensive, but to do this first without a plan, now when they do unveil the plan that jared kushner keeps saying that he

has, which no one has seen yet, they will be back on their back feet. they can't embrace a plan after this has happened enthusiastically. they need space. >> the trump administration has not shown a fin ee srfinesse fo diplomatic skills and engaging our partners. i don't think it's a surprise that we announced that jerusalem is the capital of israel. a country has the right to determine its own capital. i think, though, what could be done is use this as an opportunity, as you just suggested, to advance the peace process. it looks like at this stage that is just the opposite of what is occurring. >> let me ask you about this wikileaks issue, because the president, during the campaign, was repeatedly praising wikileaks to the -- really, the horror, i have to say, to the intelligence community which views wikileaks as treasonous, and illegal, and going into the nsa and breaking out american

secrets and embarrassing the state department, at the very least, as well as exposing sources and methods. how do you get your head around this? >> andrea, i've been learning more and more every day as we get more and more information. originally the trump campaign said there is absolutely no contact at all. now we know there have been contacts with surrogates from the trump administration with information related to russia's involvement in having information concerning hillary clinton. there are troubling signs that we see here. how do we connect the dots? that's what we hope the mueller investigation will help us understand as well as the senate investigations on the intelligence committee. >> let me ask you about the mueller investigation, because i know that you, senator warner and others involved have protected mueller from any firing or decapitation. now it's very clear -- the "wall street journal" has reported another story on this -- very clear that there is a coordinated campaign to attack

his impartiality based on the fact that he did fire one of his agents or removed one of the fbi agents who had acknowledged some bias against president trump some months back, and to also go after his personal credibility. does this indicate to you that there is a chance that the president will try to fire him? >> in the now almost 11 months since the trump administration, i've seen things happen that i never thought would happen in america. but i do believe if the trump administration tries to undermine the mueller investigation, that will cross the line. >> but what about passing something now? are there the votes, given the republican leadership to actually do a preventive piece of legislation, which has been discussed? >> i can't speak for the republicans who control the agenda in congress, and i doubt very seriously if they'll initiate legislation. but i do believe if there is a belief that the mueller investigation is being compromised, congress will act to maintain the independence of

that investigation. >> let me show you what happened on the house side at a hearing with chris wray testifying yesterday when louie gomer was questioning the fbi director about whether or not the fbi director and mueller were penetrating people who were biased. >> are you aware of any of the following people openly aligning themselves with the political bias expressed by mccabe or openly speaking against this administrati administration? first, carl gattis. >> i'm going to quarrel a little bit about your premise about director mccabe. but as far as assistant director gattis, as i said, he's been a complete professional, and i mean that to include anything political in his interaction with me. >> did he align himself with political bias against the trump administration? >> no.

>> jess schuel. >> no. >> marisa. >> i don't know who that is. >> brian parman. >> no. >> thank you. >> that had a certain smell about it. >> there are going to be members of congress that will do things that, i think, cross the line. but i think as an institution we will make sure that the mueller investigation has the independence, has the resources it needs to bring its investigation to a conclusion. the american people will demand that, and we have to make sure that that, in fact, takes place. i have confidence that we will protect the integrity of the mueller investigation. >> senator cardin, thank you so much. >> thank you. and coming up, civil wrongs. the white house tries to school john lewis on the importance of the civil rights movement. the head of the congressional black caucus cedric richman joins me next right here on "andrea mitchell reports."

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who inspires and pushes us to go further than we could ever go alone. sofi. get there sooner. welcome back. the trump administration is stirring controversy after sarah huckabee sanders made a statement on bob lewis. she wrote, we think it's unfortunate that these members of congress wouldn't join the

president in honoring the incredible sacrifice civil rights leaders made to right the injustices in our history. the president hopes others will join him in recognizing that the movement was about removing barriers and unifying americans of all backgrounds. what was your reaction to sarah huckabee sanders' tweet, which is in response, of course, to john lewis? >> this white house, time and time again, needs education. if you go back to black history month, they fought frederick douglas was still alive. they also thought that historically black colleges and universities were founded on the basis of school choice, not because of segregation. and for this white house to lecture john lewis and benny thompson about the sacrifice of the people that are in the museum when it's very well that john lewis and benny thompson show the civil rights movement that's unfounded.

also whenever the president finds himself engulfed in an opportunity on russia with new revelations, he always pivots towards race. he very well knows the sacrifice of the congressional black caucus and our members in terms of making this country a more perfect union. i, as chair of the black caucus, i as a younger member as someone who has benefited from the sacrifices of john lewis being beaten to a bloody pulp within inches of death will always stand with him and representative thompson from mississippi as they comment on what's appropriate and not appropriate. and if you look at president trump's policies, it's very clear that this administration has a lot more to do on the issue of civil rights discrimination injustice and uplifting the minority community. >> do you want to just tell sarah huckabee sanders and anyone in the white house who is

watching what happened at bloody sunday? >> well, if you look at that march across the bridge and when the state troopers beat john lewis who was marching for access to the ballot box so people like me would have the opportunity to get elected, but so that african-americans can participate in the most important component of democracy, and that's the right to vote. and we all know what happened on that sunday. but what i would really urge the white house to do is to explain how you nominate 59 federal judges and only one is an african-american. how you nominated over almost 40 u.s. attorneys and only one is african-american. so i don't worry about the ignorance of the civil rights movement as i do their perpetuation of discrimination in the white house now, whether it's equating white supremacists with peaceful protesters who

protest racial justice, or looking at the indiscrimination and nomination and hiring process within this white house. those are real things that we look at and that affect our community. >> i also wanted to ask you about something that roy moore said in september. this was quoted in the l.a. times. when people were suggesting that america first was being used in some communities as a dog whistle to a time before right america was challenged with multiculturalism as now some people may feel it is, that it was a racially motivated slogan in some communities. and this is what roy moore said on the record to the l.a. times. i think it was great at the time, when america was great, when families were united. even though we had slavery, they cared for one another. our families were strong, our country had a direction. which can only be interpreted as a defense of slavery. >> roy moore and the fact that the president and the republican

establishment are wrapping their arms around him and trying to get him elected to the united states senate, one of the most important positions in the country, is just appalling. whether it's his questionable record on women and all of these credible allegations or his questionable philosophy on race. that statement, i think, just cements that he doesn't get it. so it's a pivotal moment for alabama to show where they stand. are they in the 21st century? are they progressing and fighting for women's rights and minority rights and black rights and hispanic rights and all of those, or are they going back to the past? and that's whfor the people of alabama to decide. i know where i will be on the record. i think roy moore's comments show exactly who he is, and he is a guy that does not understand the value of diversity. he's a guy who perpetuates everything that's wrong, and to

justify or even make an excuse for slavery is absolutely poor judgment and it shows who you really are, and that's somebody who shouldn't be in the united states senate. >> congressman richmond, thank you so much for joining us from louisiana. thank you. >> thank you for having me. coming up next, former deputy national security adviser under president obama, ben rhodes, joining us next. stay with us.

over many years, the united nations has outrageously been of the world's foremost centers of hostility towards israel. the u.n. has done much more damage to the prospects for middle east peace than to advance them. we will not be a party to that. the united states no longer stands by when israel is unfairly attacked in the united nations, and the united states will not be lectured to by countries that lack any credibility when it comes to treating both israelis and palestinians fairly. >> nikki haley slamming the u.n. at a security council meeting in the emergency meeting called by a number of american allies like the brits, the french, egypt, russia as well. representatives from around the world lining up against president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. ben rhodes served as national security adviser to president

obama and joins me now. i am struck by what she just said that the united states will not be lectured to by countries. does she mean the united kingdom? does she mean france? tillerson was just in the palace today meaning with president macron. they are dead set against this. >> once again the trump administration has managed to completely isolate the united states of america, and frankly sacrifice our historic role as potential broker for peace in the middle east by taking the most difficult issue, jerusalem, and attached to, as near as i can tell, andrea, absolutely no plan. kind of arbitrarily selecting a date to come out and weigh in on the status of jerusalem to endorse israel's view of that is only going to radicalize the palestinians, alienate the united states against our closest allies and make peace that much more difficult to achieve. >> another statement by nikki haley also this week suggesting in an interview that there was some ambi gg uambigui t y as to

the u.s. would go to the olympics. then sarah sanders corrected it and said, there is no question we would be going. for jimmy carter boycotting the united nations after they invaded afghanistan, they are fa facing the most severe existential threat from north korea, and the north koreans and south koreans have marched together in joint parades at the olympics. they love sport. >> well, look, we see unforced error after unforced error. if you're in north korea, it is a morale boost at a time of tension. for your closest ally that has 35,000 troops in the country to suggest that somehow it's unsafe

to attend these olympics in a highly developed country, a country without terrorism, they're either suggesting there is a war plan that nobody knows about it and the olympics are not going to go forward because we're going to be at war with north korea, or they're insulting one of our closest allies in the world, an ally that is besieged because of the trump administration toward north korea. either way it's baffling, and i think if you're sitting in seoul you're wondering, how can we count on our closest ally if they're going to put this cloud over the olympics which our country is getting ready to host? >> we haven't withdrawn our american families from the region. that would be one step to take if you thought military action was imminent. >> it would also be a step that says we don't value the lives of the millions of south koreans who live in south korea. and that, frankly, we're not concerned about a war that could potentially take hundreds of thousands of lives in seoul in the first minutes of the war. we care about american

independence. we're going to get them out and go to war when we do need to do that. if you're looking at the jerusalem decision, the rhetoric toward north korea, the rhetoric on the olympics, if you're sitting in london or seoul or berlin, traditionally u.s. allies, not adversaries, you're wondering, what happened to the united states and how can we count on their leadership? >> i want to ask you about michael flynn because there's been reporting this week that michael flynn, who pleaded guilty last week, and we know has made a proffer and is cooperating with robert mueller, michael flynn, as you know, was not pleading guilty to anything beyond the perjury charge. we now know from reporting that 11 minutes into donald trump's inaugural dress, he was in the stands texting a former business partner saying that the sanctions would be ripped up, the russian sanctions would be ripped up and that it was a go for a nuclear deal, nuclear power plant deal, with russia in

the middle east. can you get your head around that? >> the question is why on earth would that be what you're thinking about during the president of the united states' inaugural address? why on earth would the first priority that you have be some cockamamie scheme to build nuclear plants around russia? just like it makes no sense for campaign advisers to talk to russia during a campaign. what does that do for you to get votes in ohio? andrea, i worked on a presidential campaign. i didn't speak to any russian officials. neither did anybody i knew on the obama campaign because it was completely irrelevant to the goal you're trying to achieve, to get elected. i think what we see in all these reports is through the campaign, through the transition, even after inauguration, there was this very odd prioritization of russia that frankly makes no sense. >> what about the legal implications of talking about

business deals and financial transactions involving russia once you are the national security adviser? >> look, there are very clear ethical standards that are set for national security officials when it comes to business deals, when it comes to dealing with foreign agents, when it comes to even contracts for u.s. businesses that you might have been a part of in your private sector life, there are ethical firewalls that are put out and put up to make sure that national security officials of the united states worked for the national interests of the united states, not their own personal interests, not the president's personal interests, not the president's families' personal interests, and i think what we've seen is a cascade of potential corruption in the dealings from not just mike flynn but other representatives of this administration who have not respected that clear bright line between personal interests and national interests. >> ben rhodes, good to see you. thanks so much for being here. >> good to see you, too.

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turning now to southern california and the worsening wildfire extending up and down the coast from san sta barbara to san diego. the fire fight is far from over.

six wildfires are burning out of control. more than 100,000 acres have been scorched. nearly 200,000 residents are evacuated. hundreds, hundreds of structures have been destroyed. fire officials say gusty winds and dry conditions could keep overworked crews on the ground for over a week. kristen dahlgren joins me in san diego county where at the fairgrounds the animals are being rescued and saved. tell me what you know now from at least the wildfires in that part of the state. >> reporter: hey, andrea. we moved down here because this fire has had a devastating, devastating effect for the animals. hopefully we can show you the video last night as the fire raged through thoroughbred training facility. 25 horses were killed in this fire. and then hundreds were brought here. that's why we moved down here,

just to show you how much this community has come together. take a look. just buckets of carrots, of apples, things like that, hundreds of volunteers have come out and this is where the animals in that area are moving. you can see just all of the stables here now full. 850 horses here. they also have cats, dog, turtles. they're taking in everything they can here. these animals that had to flee the fire. a devastating situation. 65 structures have been burned in this fire here. and they're looking now at the acreage. as of last night, 8:00 p.m., 4100 acres have burned. they haven't updated that yet. the winds overnight were devastating. the good news is you can see probably the trees and everything not moving right now. the winds have calmed down. we'll see a little shift. some winds coming now onshore and then those santa anas will

kick back in later today or tomorrow. so, there is a window today for firefighters. they really have to get a handle on it. right now zero percent containment. they have this 12-hour window maybe where they might be able to get a handle on this fire, get some type of containment because those winds, andrea, going to kick back in and this could be another devastating weekend. >> our hearts break for all of those people in the region. the great losses they've incurred. thank you so much. more ahead.

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that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports," follow us online on facebook and twitter. craig melvin up next. >> always good see you. craig melvin from msnbc headquarters in new york city. you've got mail, from russia. sources telling nbc news that then-candidate donald trump and his son were e-mailed and offered hacked wikileaks documents just weeks before the election. what does that mean for robert mueller investigation? trump on the stump. the president heading to florida today for a prime time campaign style rally. he will be in roy moore's backyard but a white house spokesman insists the rally is not to boost the alabama senate candat