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governor chris christie.remember during super storm sandy, i don't care about bush, i don't care about obama, i care about helping new jersey. i'll hug anybody who comes here to help us. that's what he did. he got criticism. he didn't care. he's been in the mix. now he's watching what's happening and he thinks it is too much. he's trying to bring civility back. we're going to talk problems and solutions. governor, great to have you here. i mean that. we have to remember that's what a leader does. the game stops when people start dying or are at risk. no more left, right. >> listen, 365,000 homes destroyed in new jersey in 24 hours. when that happens, what we're seeing with dorian right now, you can't be worried about politics. if you are, you're not being a leader. political fights can be kept until later. part of what i'm trying to do is to say, there has to be ways for us to begin to talk to each other again in order to solve problems. we're not talking to each other. i want to get a forum where people can

>> that's what i want to bring to chris christie. one of the things that mayor giuliani said, he was asked by the state department to do this. in some ways that would make this world wouldn't it, if the entire government was brought into this? >> it depends. everything is in context, george. have d private citizens used by presidents in the past to be special envoys outside the government with direction. >> but he clearly wasn't doing that. >> that's what you say, rahm. it depends what the president asks rudy giuliani to do. what direction he gave him. we don't know those answers. again, the speed of this, we're jumping to every conclusion. >> you can't divorce the fact that joe biden, who is the target of rudy giuliani's escapade is a candidate and a frontrunner candidate for the democratic nomination. setting him up as donald trump's direct rival. you can't look at this completely in isolation. you can say the optics of what hunter biden and joe biden may have been doing are bad. you can't divorce that from the fact that he's presi

. >> can we leave you with something chris christie said before the release of the notes yesterday?tie was on abc with some of our friends saying this isn't going to be bad unless -- watch this. >> if he's saying, listen, do me a favor, you know, go investigate joe biden. if he's saying, i'm concerned about corruption. you've just gotten elected. we send hundreds of millions of dollars over there, you need to look at this. for instance, one of the things that occurred was the hunter biden situation. that becomes totally different. >> so david, he literally said, do me a favor. right after that he said do me a favor and go look at this tinfoil hat conspiracy about ukraine having the server. but he also said go investigate joe biden. chris christie maybe laid the foundation there for something he'd like to take back right now. >> you know, this is what's going to be debated. it's already the subject of interpretation. is it an actual quid pro quo, we don't know if that's necessary. but what we've been talking about is you have a foreign leader so dependent on the united states and the

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so, trum trump is in the room ad he's acting as the moderator sitting next to them and chris christie is impersonating hillary clinton. there are some other advisers and family members in the room going through the debate rehearsal section and all of the staffers in the suddenly they look up and realize it is just the three of them and he knows in his gut something is wrong. they say this is the transcript of the audio that we have of the president, donald trump, rather than candid if trump taking these remarks about ten years prior, and we would like a comment for the story is running this afternoon. well, trump sees these comments and says that doesn't sound like me. i wouldn't say that. and he's beginning to pull his hair out. he's very worried and the one person in the room who is not beside himself at this point is jared kushner who says, i'm sorry, couldn't help it. >> i'm making no comment and let the record show my face has no expression. >> if you haven't seen the hbo interview it is a master class of journalism. he says to the room i don't think this is all that bad. and he

. >> we could put chris christie in between us. let's check on the markets this morning. you know what i didn't look at today, constitutional crisis concerns looking at the stock market, i can't see it there up 115 points on the dow jones the nasdaq up 41 treasury yields up 71. my mind is wandering the predicted volume and money is very small. i checked the odds of impeachment. they are up 60 cents odds that trump does not finish his first term or odds he does finish is 80%. at 4:00, there is a meeting. maybe it is one of those situations you do it and he's not removed. how do you read that >> i'm no expert but saying this is a political decision. impeachment is a political decision bringing charges is different than a case. >> they have an election in 2020, they may just want to wait for that >> i would think so. there is such fatigue over the fact that this guy may have won the election >> the stuff you were doing it for before was what? >> don't look at me. >> we were ready to do it before, what was that one for? >> questions about collusion >> but that was put to rest

we'll talk about that in a minute in our roundtable joined by chris christie, former governor of new now a contributor at abc and donna brazile now with fox news, our chief political analyst matthew dowd and progressive strategist arshad hasan, the former chairman of net roots. i want to get to john bolton but begin with the debate and, matthew, let me begin with you. you heard a lot of different takes on the debate this morning. the early take, no big change, nate silver says elizabeth warren helped herself the most. what do you think? >> well, i don't think there's any fundamental changes especially in the three people that lead it, but i do think it demonstrated there's about 40% of the democratic primary vote that's still very unformed. 60% is shared by elizabeth warren, bernie sanders and joe biden. 40% still ready to be formed and there's a number of candidates, amy klobuchar you talked to, pete buttigieg you talked to, kamala harris, beto o'rourke who have a chance to form that and so i think this race is still open, that the ability of somebody else, a fourth person to emerge

and canadians are upset about a government headed by justin trudeau and his number one minister chris christie freeland who who claim to be a progressive even feminist but in fact are imperialists to the core we're campaigning against them she's the 2nd most important person in the cabinet. so if justin trudeau were to step aside or to be removed for less than a stellar results in the elections that's coming up it's very likely that she well it's very possible that she could be the leader of the liberal party in the future prime minister she has to be held accountable for the current policies of the canadian government which are the policies of a warmonger government. that does it for me this hour we'll be back in 30 minutes exactly with another look at you news you are watching arch international but if you.

purpose and a lot of people ask is china going to war essentially and that is a term trumpeter chris christie and others have used so the way that i think about it is it didn't start off that way. to start off because china wanted to encourage its industries its exports wanted to grow the chinese economy through all these chemical exports. the problem is the tax breaks by the government incentives that were designed to go to legitimate chemical companies have also been going to these companies and at one point you've got to say who is in charge, who is steering the ship and one example is last year in the midst of the trade for it was ramping up between the u.s. and china and right in the middle of all of this, china raised its tax rebate for exporting from 9% to 10%. so it makes me wonder is it intentional. it's certainly something to consider. >> i appreciate the depth of your research. in a couple of minutes that we have left, is there any stories that stand out or any message you want to be sure to get across? >> one thing that was interesting to me is it's not just drug abusers are suffe

and that's a term that chris christie and trump have used. war. the way i think about it is it didn't start off that way because china wants to encourage the chemical industry exports and to grow the chinese economy through the chemical exports. the problem is that the tax breaks they have government incentives designed to go through legitimate chemical companies through these rogue companies exporting fentanyl and fentanyl like drugs. and at one point you have to say who is in charge and steering the ship? and one example is last year in the midst of the trade war it was ramping up between us and china. so china raised the tax rebate to some fentanyl from 9 percent at 10 percent right in the middle of this crisis so many people dying to raise the rebate it makes me wonder is it intentional or not? there is not a smoking gun but that's something to consider. >> i appreciate the depth of your research. is there any other stories that stand out or any other message you want to get across? >> thing that was interesting to me it's not just addicted us

i was just talking to comedian chuck nice about chris christie's new push for civility. tonight, if you go there right now @the beat with ari on instagram, you can see that new behind the scenes video. we just posted, i hope you join us again at 6:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow. that does it for "the beat." "hardball" is up next. ♪ >>> good evening. welcome to "hardball." i'm steve kornacki in for chris matthews. hurricane dorian remains a dangerous category 2 storm, and it is gaining speed as it moves closer to the atlantic coast. the storm has already resulted in five deaths in the bahamas where new images show scenes of near total destruction. tens of thousands of homes were also destroyed or damaged. and dorian is now moving dangerously close to the florida coast later tonight. this according to the national hurricane center. for the very latest, let's turn to nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> we finally have a storm on the move. after days of sitting over the alabaman island. 6 miles per hour. still slow by hurricane standards, but now it's heading for the carolina coastl

is it going to war that trump and chris christie have used this term, war, the way i think about it it didn't start out that way. meant to encourage the chemical industry exports and through the use chemical exports. and then going to the road companies with the fentanyl and fentanyl like drugs and you know who is in charge and steering the ship and that one example was last year in the midst of the trade war and to raise the tax rebates. with 9 percent and 10 percent and then china raised the rebate so makes me wonder and there isn't a smoking gun. >> i appreciate the depth of your research is extraordinary. in the couple minutes we have left is there any other stories that stands out that you want to be sure to get across to the listeners? >>. >> it isn't just drug abusers a long time addicted users. it could be in any powder or in any pill. the singer prints thought he was taking a legitimate narcotic pharmaceutical pain pill it even had percocet stamped on it and was legitimate but it was cut with fentanyl and that is how he died. people are taking what they think is cocaine and th

although he was eventually convinced not to pick chris christie who is sort of trump's instinct to pick another brawler, double down on the strongman image, he won the thing convinced to pick mike pence because pence offset trump in a way that even john kasich would not have. to your second question, which is a really easy one, thank you for asking it, he was asking what election in 2016 decide here. look, i don't think -- [inaudible] >> can it happen here? [inaudible] >> what is that it? i'm not sure i follow the question. [inaudible] >> are we in a hitler analogy culture? >> could it happen here? >> i am not in a position to sit up here and make any sort of comparisons like that. the only thing i will say is, the story of the past five or six days, in my view, is not what donald trump did and said. it is what republicans, people in his party did not do and say. and when this vote came to the floor a couple of days ago in the house to sort of essentially reprimand the president for his remarks about these women of color in the democratic caucus, the only four republicans who voted yes.

governor chris yistie and christie gets dragged for it because he's embracing -- my issues with chrisoffered support. after a storm. where all of us talked afterwards about how climate change and the need to improve our infrastructure and the need to improve our readiness for such disasters was front and center. and to me it just seems that there's a penalty for trying to get america in terms of our infrastructure, in terms of our readiness, to get us to not only embrace the science behind it, but also as andrew yang said, there's no penalty, there's no loss of business or prestige by embracing the changes that are going on in our world. and this president just does not want any, not only does he not want any part of it. it seems like he's actually directing businesses and directing his government to go in the completely other direction. and i think the rest of the world is laughing at him as a result of that. >> here we've got this fire going, right? and not only is trump fueling the fire. but he's telling people -- you can't do anything to stop, put the fire out. that's what's going

that's a term that trump and chris christie and others have used, war. and so the way i think about it is that it didn't start out that way. it started out because china wanted to encourage its chemical industries, it's exports, wanted to go the chinese economy through all these chemical exports. the problem is that these tax breaks, these government incentives that were designed to go to legitimate chemical companies have also been going to these rogue companies, these companies exporting fentanyl and fentanyl like drugs. and at one point though you have got to say who's in charge, whose steering the ship. and one example is, laster in the midst of the trade war, the trade war was really ramping up between the u.s. and china. and right in the middle of all this china raised its tax rebate for exporting fentanyl from 9% to 10%, right in the middle, in the middle of this huge opioid crisis, all these people dying. china raised this rebate. so it makes me wonder, is this intentional or not? there's not a smoking gun but it's certainly something to consider

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he had joined trump and governor chris christie in march of 2017 at a meeting on opioid abuse.lier this year, rivera became the first player ever to be unanimously elected to the baseball hall of fame. the 13 time all star saved 652 games during his 19-year career with the yankees the most ever, and is a five-time world series champion. >>> some sad news to report over the weekend, cofounder and lead singer of the band the cars rick ocasek has died. he was pronounced dead at the scene. the cause of death is not immediately clear, police say no criminality is suspected. ocasek cofounded the cars with bassist and singer benjamin orr in boston in 1976 merging classic guitar with synthesizer driven pop sounds of the late 1970s and early '80s. the bond recorded more than a dozen top singles including "my best friend's girl" and "just what i needed". >> so many of their songs will stand the test of time, that is for sure. >> very sad to see him go. >>> still ahead, the new report raising questions about one trump administration official's apparent connection to associates of jeffrey

. >> i thought he was crazy to pursue this but i think chris christie had his fingers on it.e inauguration. he made a huge fuss about that even though he was wrong. on the other hand, i wouldn't be surprised in the parts of the country where he's very popular this helps him because people see him as embattled by the media. >> bret: i talked to some people the other day that president trump is the rainman of trolling the press. other words, he backed into it and then he is there and he trolls to great success. >> we've known that for a while. we've learned nothing new here. we learned trump one back down from a fight and there's no controversy that's too petty or stupid for the press to harp on if it pains this president in a bad light. >> bret: we are going to take a walk down candidate casino. it's friday. the democratic primary, $100 in chips. where is your bat? >> i put $35 on elizabeth warren. i put $30 on kamala harris. i am bearish on biden, i put $25 on him. because we are supposed to make things interesting, i put $5 on michelle obama. the rest of the field, tells you

. >> after losing the fight to access cbd because of chris christie's medical marijuana laws. >> it willy watch ever. >> the family moved to colorado. >> come on in. >> to legally access the cbd oil the stanleys had used with charlotte now called charlottes web. we were there in their new house for vivian's first dose. 2014. >> we came out here for cbd and you want to believe that it's going to be the cure. >> is this her? >> yeah. >> excited to see her. >> 2019, when we arrive back in denver to see the wilsons again, we quickly learn that vivian tried many different kinds of cbd and none of them had been a cure. >> how are you? >> we moved two thirds of the way across the country for cbd, which is like something that you can buy in your butter now. >> is it all good? >> i don't think so. i think there's a lot of misinformation. >> what are you doing here? >> hi. >> turns out vivian's experience with what seemed to work miracles for some was no miraculous for her. >> we seen an initial improvement and things were good. the more we increased her cbd the more seizures she had and we couldn

that's not the moment that you saw with chris christie during the new hampshire debate.ber when he went after marco rubio took him out of the running? nor was it the kind of attack that we saw from kamala harris delivered in the first debate which was a well delivered attack. of course he has the right to attack joe biden and we've all seen joe biden stumble, having trouble with his thoughts, but that delivery wasn't there. >> ed: on a lot of people being hypocrites in the democratic party and many media pendants have been raising questions about biden's age. some privately have been whispering about his age for some time. all of a sudden julian castro verbalizes it and they jump all over him? >> that comes up with every presidential election. they did it with trump, they did it with his age, they did it with obama and hillary clinton, this is something we see that those sort of things are questions when you are running for president. >> also not mention the fact that julio castro was wrong in his point. >> ed: mentioned that briefly. >> i do not think it's the point tha

even governor chris christie, he's a supporter of the president. it's harder for a guy like this to get to that point. it's a more real point when it's him. he says the apology is key, don. when you make a mistake, when you go too far, you apologize. we have never seen this president do that once. >> yep. thank you, sir. see you soon. >>> this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. here's our breaking news. of course we're talking about hurricane dorian battering the carolinas right now. and expected to remain a powerful -- very powerful hurricane with the potential for dangerous storm surges, life-threatening flash floods, okay? this is not over yet. a rough night ahead, especially for north carolina. we're going to go there live for you in just minutes. we've got a whole lot to cover for you and you don't want to miss any of it. we are learning tonight that at least 30 people have lost their lives in the bahamas. officials say they fear that toll will soar. and as dorian continues on his path of druestruction, just loo the the havoc in the carolinas ea

chris christie said i think the democrats may be overplaying it. it would only be serious if the president said something like, i need you do me a favor. >> it didn't age well. >> whoops. and chris a former prosecutor knows that's the sort of -- >> he knows. >> this is not a close call. you actually see at some point which people -- who's so deeply in it for donald trump that they actually there's nothing trump will ever do that will make them worry about this country. i want to ask you really quickly, benjamin, about last night, the whistleblower complaint comes out. were you surprised not only by ben sasse's reaction but by reaction from other republicans on the hill and their staff quietly worried saying, this is worse than even the memo that they released earlier in the day? >> right. so before that happened, we released a piece on law fair that said remember that this memo/transcript is only one piece of the puzzle. and the broader window that it opens up is undoubtedly much worse than the text of the memo itself. because this is only one inte

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and then i'll do two blocks with chris christie. first one we'll lay out what you were talking about with shields and powers about the problem this president creates. then we'll talk about an initiative that governor christie, a lot of people will say he'll talk about civility? he started an initiative to make us more civil with his reputation? yes. we'll talk about why he's doing it and what he hopes for. >> appreciate that. that's six minutes from now. still ahead, a live report from charleston, south carolina. ve g. great coverage... that's because of all these cell towers. glorious, isn't it?! but guess what? straight talk wireless runs on the same 4g lte networks... ...for up to half the cost. the unlimited plan is just 45 bucks a month. no contract. why haven't we switched? you really should, it's a really good deal. plus $200 off the samsung galaxy s9. straight talk wireless. everything for less. woman 1: i had no symptoms of hepatitis c. man 1: mine... man 1: ...caused liver damage. vo: epclusa treats all main types of chron

chris christie, we all know he is. he was on gma this morning talking about when we see this, we'll see what's in there. if he says something like, do me a favor, then we've got a probl. and then that exact language was in there. now he's probably going to have to back away from that. you're going to have to look at the context. you don't need a quid pro quo. what the democrats are going to need is a justification to the country that this isn't just bad judgment. it's just not deviation from the norm. it's an abuse such that we find it intolerant to the point of nullifying the election. >> yeah. >> it's a high bar. >> well, when they say high crimes and misdemeanors, it's not that it has to be a high crime. it means a person who is committing the high crime or the misdemeanor or the bad pabehavi is in a high position. you know that. that's what the -- >> i think it's a nonexistent standard, but you've got to make the case, and it's got to be high because in the past when they've made the case, it's been the real deal.

>>prof chris christie that hatred joins us live from cupertino with more on that christine a. of those victims monday's deadly boat fire were no stranger to this area right behind me here in cupertino they were either brewing not lump lloyds more current apple employees that we reach out to the mega tech company who confirmed with us that 2 of their employees as well as onee of their former employees. we're of those who lost their lives. this past week we actually have a picture of one of them and we have their confirm ain't over just about to tell you right here. we have dan garcia, he was a current apple employee, steve seleka who you see here in this picture, a 30 year apple employee. now his wife diana to make it's a former employee who met steve while working at apple together. now apple senior vice president of retail and people shared with us the snow and it reads in part, steve seleka was a 30 year apple veteran whose energy and enthusiasm touch. so many people across our company throughout his career. dan garcia was up cash was passionate about his job just as much as

in 2010 new jersey governor chris christie scrapped a multibillion dollar deal to build a new tunnel. in response, a plan called the gateway program was announced in 2011. the project would not only repair the physical structure of the tunnel but also build two more tracks to increase capacity. as you can imagine, it's expensive. >> president obama promised to split the 20 billion price tag for the gateway project 50/50 with new york and new jersey. but then in 2017 president trump refused to fund the program. essentially killing it. the flip-flopping federal commitment has kept the tunnel stuck in the swamp. soy want to know what senate minority leader chuck schumer has to say about this. after all, he's represented new yorkers for more than 20 years. why do you think this project needs federal funding? this is a tristate project. >> federal government has always funded rail. it's amtrak. the northeast corridor from boston to new york to philadelphia to baltimore to washington d.c. is one of the most vital transportation rail lines in the united states. >> how do you convince a congr

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chris christie, we all know who he is. he was on "gma" this morning talking about when we see this, we'll see what's in there. if he says something like, "do me a favor," then we've got a problem. and then that exact language was in there. now he's probably going to have to back away from that. you're going to have to look at the context. you don't need a quid pro quo. what the democrats are going to need is a justification to the country that this isn't just bad judgment. it's just not deviation from the norm. it's an abuse such that we find it intolerant to the point of nullifying the election. >> yeah. >> it's a high bar. >> well, when they say high crimes and misdemeanors, it's not that it has to be a high crime. it means a person who is committing the high crime or the misdemeanor or the bad behavior is in a high position. you know that. that's what the -- >> i think it's a nonexistent standard, but you've got to make the case, and it's got to be high because in the past when they've made the case, it's been the real

it might be what chris christie did with marco rubio saying, the doubt you had i'm going to accentuate it in the debate and have you thinking about it for weeks. maybe i won't think about it, but now that you are look at the field again. >> when he called marco rubio a robot for repeating the same thing in debate after debate. let's talk about elizabeth warren, anna. through three rounds of debates where others have found momentary success in lobbing broadsides at their rivals on stage, warren has not. she has emerged as the most confident in her own agenda and the most capable of setting the agenda to which the rest of the field responds. i do think it is interesting, anna, and i have noticed this in the last three debates. i wonder why democrats are spending as much time, some of them, going after donald trump. the democratic party does not like donald trump. do they need to be reminded? is it not a better idea to focus on the ideas you have, and elizabeth warren and bernie sanders certainly, but elizabeth warren has been doing that it seems, anna, to great effect. >> absolutely. i t

i was just talking to comedian chuck nice about chris christie's new push for civility.go there right now @the beat with ari on instagram, you can see that new behind the scenes video. we just posted, i hope you join us again at 6:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow. that does it for "the beat." "hardball" is up next. ♪ >>> good evening. welcome to "hardball." i'm steve kornacki in for chris matthews. hurricane dorian remains a dangerous category 2 storm, and it is gaining speed as it moves closer to the atlantic coast. the storm has already resulted in five deaths in the bahamas where new images show scenes of near total destruction. tens of thousands of homes were also destroyed or damaged. and dorian is now moving dangerously close to the florida

none other than chris christie who was on the air saying trump's going to be fine.s long as he didn't do anything stupid like i need a favor. >> right when discussing aid. so this new ukrainian president is discussing the assistance that is a life line to him. his country is under invasion. >> why? from who? >> they have been invaded by vladimir putin, right? >> it's never yugoslavia. it's never -- it's literally always russia. >> it's always putin. they annexed crimea. they are killing ukrainians. and that's what the president of ukraine is discussing and trump saying, well, i need a favor, i need you to investigate my political opponents to benefit my campaign before i could take a step like meeting with you or providing you this assistance. keep in mind too what the whistle-blower shows us, it's not just one call. there was over many months rudy giuliani having meetings in europe. he's not even a u.s. official. and he's somehow empowered to be a part of this? he mentions bill barr, the attorney general of the united states like he's his personal attorney. work wi

there is a reason why chris christie never got charged with bridgegate, right?y've weakened our public corruption laws as they are. trump is violating every kind of norm and standard of decency, but he is not violating the letter of the law, because there is no letter of the law. and i do think that democrats should maybe, i don't know, think about that while they hold power in congress. and certainly if a democrat wins the presidency, to strengthen our public corruption laws to stop exactly this kind of stuff from happening. >> here's what i think is interesting happening with all this. the historical precedent. if we were to look back and say has the air force actually stayed at this trump resort before donald trump was president of the united states, that in fact would then say okay, maybe this has nothing to do with the fact that donald trump is now president of the united states, right? >> i don't think they -- >> but you don't think that's accura accurate? >> no, no. they use ramstein and other air force bases for stop overs. >> 2016145, and it went up fro

chris christie, former governor of new jersey and former mayor of chicago, rahm emanuel. s, let me begin with you. you were last here on tuesday before we saw the memo you said if he had said to the ukrainian president, do me a favor, look into biden, it would be a serious problem. turns out that's exactly what he said. >> listen, the bottom line, george, is that's the way he is. that's the way he talks. as i said to you -- we were off air, maybe i was channeling the way i hear him normally speak. i think in the end -- >> you were channelling your inner trump? >> no, i was channeling him. no inner trump here. he is convinced that there's absolutely nothing wrong with what he said. and that it was said in the context of the entire corruption problem in ukraine. that's his position. no one should expect he'll say anything differently over the course of time. >> you didn't hear republicans yesterday on capitol hill say -- agreeing with that. you didn't hear a defense. >> i'm saying the two things at the same time, george. i said what i said wednesday. i'm telling you what the

. >> this is worse than i think people expected, meaning, when we were on with chris christie earlier this morning, the s suggestion was it wasn't a big deal. >> or it might have been vague. >> maybe he asked him something about joe biden. this is unambiguous. >> let's bring that to mary bruce on capitol hill. any initial reaction on capitol hill? >> this is likely to add fuel to the impeachment fire. democrats are getting out of their weekly meeting, all the house democrats have been huddling with nancy pelosi. they're walking out to a sea of cameras and reporters asking for their reaction. democrats are likely going to pounce on not only we see that the president asked a foreign leader to investigate his political rival, but george, they're going to have a lot of questions about the attorney general and the fact you see the president offering up his attorney general to help investigate his 2020 rival here. democrats here on the hill have long questioned the attorney general and the independence of this justice department. democrats often refer to him as the president's personal atto

chris christie offered up analysis. >> if the president is encouraging a foreign leader to investigatee. >> if he's saying do me and favor, go investigate joe biden, that's one thing. >> can't make that up. the following day the readout of the call was released revealing that immediately after zelensky released the issue of aid to the ukraine the president responded by saying i would like you to do us a favor though and shifted the conversation to investigations that he wanted pursued. the whistleblower complaint released this week includes allegations of a cover up. the whistleblower writes in the days following the phone call, i learned from multiple officials that seen yn white house officials had intervened to lockdown all records of the phone call especially the official word for word transcript of that phone call. white house officials told me that they were directed by white house lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored. instead, the transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system that is otherwi

and so i think she is quite tough, and chris christie, who used to be the governor of newjersey, said can be a bit ofa you might say who on twitter can be a bit of a cyber bully? so, you know, that is another thing. and the other thing i picked up about trump in the residence is that he is actually incredibly gracious and nice to all the lowly staff. senior staff he can be appalling too. he fires them on twitter. at the foot soldiers, very, very charming too. so, you know, he is a very complicated character. thin—skinned, yes. narcissistic, but he is getting stuff done, and i did a thing with an audience of about 500 americans, isaid an audience of about 500 americans, i said how many voted for trump? there were about 300 who had, and i said hands of any who regret having voted for him, and not one hand went up. so we report on all of this and people think about his ratings are through the floor and he is underwater. no, you know, he still has a lot of support among his base. we will see what happens. what a fascinating time ahead. it is nice to be here. your book, i read it cover to

ok let's go back to chris in washington you know christie really irrespective of how you may feel about donald trump as a person his politics his presidency move you know all those things here but one of the things that's bothered me all through this process with the advent of the russia gate hoax all the way to the present is the roading institutions the media no longer is acting in the public interest they're just advocates for their own ideological ideological possession i would even call it it's outrageous and it's really shameful and then we have a deep state or whatever term you want to use that is constantly undermining and when elected president and once this is if this is not dealt with in a reasonable way quickly it's going to become the norm and and i think a lot of liberals are going to really regret what they have done because they destroyed institutions that people had a modicum of respect for and now it's no longer there and it's only getting worse as we get closer to the election here so a lot of damage is being done to institutions and ideas but i worry cannot be repair

interested, there will be a community training in his district held nfrancisco, chris smith, nbc bay area news. >> all right, christieyou very much. joining us now, the man of the hour, jeff ranieri with some good news for those of you who have about had it with the heat. >> i know you like the heat. >> i do. but whatever you say, it's fine. whatever you've got is good for me. >> okay, i like it. much cooler weather moving in as we head through the next couple days. if you don't have ac, you are definitely excited about this. we'll take you out to our live sky camera network in tiburon, looking towards san francisco. and no sign of any fog just yet. we still have a lot of hot, dry air over the bay area, and that's preventing any kind of fog from rolling in at the current moment. let's take you out to the north where it was the hottest in santa rosa. 105 degrees today. again, the hottest across the bay area was here. set a brand-new record. we're beginning to drop, albeit slowly, but some changes down to 94, and focusing on 11:00, we're going down to some cooler 60ss that ocean breeze does start to move in. so we're b

.>> one of the persons reportedly missing is chris defends father who is listed as a guide on the worldwide diverse website. christie is one man sister and said she was leading the diving tour. we will be giving an update on the search efforts at 10 am this morning. will be live, streaming that on our website at ktvu.com. ktvu, fox2 news. >>> one hiker is dead and others missing near canon doom yesterday afternoon. la county district said they received a stressed call stating that they had run out of water and more possibly experiencing dehydration. their friends anxiously watches their rescue is carried out. >> they look like they had been through a lot. they said they had lost their way, that the trail was really overgrown. they had ended up off of the trail, but they were able to persevere and move on and carry on. they had to leave others behind who could not go on any further.>> officials say they did not know the experience levels of the hikers and that the incident is currently under investigation. >>> coming up on mornings on 2 , returning from a long journey at sea. >>> we sit down with the vortex swimmer.>