let's remember the history of wilbur ross. put aside the fact he was on the board of directors of the bank of cypress laundering machine. as commerce secretary he has a record of lying to congress about the census question which proved pretty critical and a source of deep embarrassment because of his imagination and untruths. now we find he is suppressing science. the american people count. we got a real problem in america and even trump supporters who rely on the national weather service are going to be concerned whether it's hurricanes or tornadoes or whether patterns or blizzards in the winter. we rely on their accuracy. to have a political figure like wilbur ross decide you will not talk about that, you will not contradict the president even though he makes a misstatement and your statement is based on science, that's a troubling development. i call for wilbur ross to resign over this. >> there was statement denying the new york times report but the new york times has pretty good sources on this story as well. let's move o

so wilbur ross threatened to fire scientists for issuing accurate weather forecasts that contradicted the president's stupid tweets. but, hey, it's not like wilbur ross has ever, himself, committed an actual friable offense, right >> a federal judge has taken the extraordinary step in ruling commerce secretary wilbur ross acted in bad faith and broke several laws when he answered a citizenship question to the 2020 census. >> commerce secretary wilbur ross held in contempt now this battle is all about ross hiding evidence that might show whether republicans changed the 2020 census to discriminate and help their own party, the gop. >> the president's commerce secretary, wilbur ross, stands accused of misappropriating or outright stealing as much as $120 million from former investors and business partners, that's according to a new investigation from "forbes." >> we all know wilbur ross had problems before this aides have been saying from the beginning he regularly falls asleep in meetings >> ross was famously caught sleeping during trump's speech to muslim leaders in saudi arabia back i

same thing. >> this is democratic congressman jim himes about wilbur ross. watch this. >> it's pretty clear if that story is true, and i don't know that it is. but if that story is true, the commerce secretary needs to resign now that would be the most blatant use of an official position in the service of the ego and the fortunes of the political president we have ever seen. >> is that what this administration has come to, soothing the president's ego? >> oh, no question, don. i think what you've seen is all the adults have left the room. you now have jim mattis doing a book promotion tour instead of serving in the cabinet. h.r. mcmaster is long gone. rex tillerson is long gone. anybody who would serve as a check or a balance on trump has been pushed out of the administration. and so he's surrounded by sycophants and lackeys. you people like attorney general bill barr. let's not forget he is spending $30,000 on a christmas party at the trump international hotel in washington. you have something like wilbur ross, who is allegedly telling people they'll be fir

also breaking this hour, the new york times is reporting that commerce secretary wilbur ross threatened to fire top officials at the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. that followed a tweet from the weather service office in alabama that contradicted president trump's claim about hurricane dorian threatening the state. we'll talk about that and all the breaking news with congressman jim heims of the intelligence committee and correspondent and analysts standing by. first, let's go to our white house correspondent kaitlan collins in north carolina. the president is getting ready to attend a pretty large rally there tonight. >> reporter: yeah, he is. before he left the white house, he spoke about that canceled summit, a summit he hoped would end america's longest running war. but was a meeting that was put together at the last minute after a push by the president even though as they were negotiating the details of inviting taliban leaders to camp david, some of his top national security advisers were pushing back. tonight, president trump declared u.s. peace talks with the t

it's hard to imagine that wilbur ross did this on his own based on the facts of the story we know. this is an ongoing question being raised about the cultural that has been created by this president in terms of what trickles down to government agencies, how that impacts objective fact. how that impacts science and that statement was as you noted widely mocked. so i don't understand what they think they're getting by doing this other than making the president feel good, which is ultimately what this government has increasingly become about. >> and it was anonymously written, too. >> there was no name attached to it. i agree with you wilbur ross making this call seems to be something that was likely driven from the white house and not something he came up with on his own. what are the ramifications. democrats obviously calling for wilbur ross to step down, john thune, the republican said if this is true is deeply concerning to him. how do you see this ending? >> i think it depends on whether there are additional republicans besides john thune who say that. i do think at minimum there

what do you think the ramifications should be for wilbur ross? >> well, if this story is true, wilbur ross needs to resign. there's no gray area here. if he is threatening professionals, if they contradict the lie of the president of the united states, he needs to resign flat out. look, noaa is made up of scientists who deal in fact. the commerce department, by the way, is the department charged with keeping and maintaining and promulgating all of the economic data, job growth and all the stuff that businesses rely on. there is no room in any agency, but certainly not in that agency for falsehood. and you know, there's a connection, john tor, to what w were just talking about, we are seeing everywhere at a dramatically accelerated pace, the president and the white house using people to advance the president's political goals. the department of justice going after the automakers who made a deal for better mileage with the state of california, the possible air force scandal in scotland where the air force may have been -- and now they are investiga

according to three people familiar with his actions, commerce secretary wilbur ross phones the acting exterior of noaa from greece where the secretary was traveling for meetings and instructed dr. neil jacobson jacobs to fix the credit cards of the president. according to "the new york times," dr. jacobs objected to the demand but then was told the political staff at noaa would be fired including him if the situation was not fixed. he then personally participated in drafting the statement wilbur ross demanded and did as he was told, put out this statement undercutting his own employees and agency, which was accurate and correct and properly reported. and the response was, in fact, blistering. the scientist who is the chief operating officer of noaa said, quote, perhaps the darkest day ever for leadership. don't know how they will ever look their workforce in the eye again. moral cowardice. he was the coo of noaa under president obama. the union that relates employees at the national weather service says, quote, i have never been so embarrassed by noaa. what they did is just disgusting

according to three people familiar with his actions, commerce secretary wilbur ross phoned the acting administrator of noaa from greece where the secretary was traveling for meetings. he instructed dr. neil jacobs to fix the agency's perceived contradiction of the president. according to "the new york times," dr. jacobs objected to the demand, but then was told the political staff at noaa would be fired include ing him if the situation was not fixed. he then personally participated in drafting the statement wilbur ross demanded and did as he was told, put out this statement undercutting his own employees and the scientific work of his own agency which was accurate and correct and properly reported. and the response was, in fact, blistering. the scientist who is the chief operating officer of noaa said, quote, perhaps the darkest day ever for leadership. don't know how they will ever look their workforce in the eye again. moral cowardice. he was the coo of noaa under president obama. the head of the union that represents employees at the national weather service says, quote, i have nev

. >> reporter: this morning there are new calls for commerce secretary wilbur ross to resign after "the new york times" reported ross threatened to fire employees at the national oceanic and atmospheric administration for contradicting the president by saying dorian was not threatening alabama. the commerce department calls "the new york times" report false adding secretary ross did not threaten to fire any noaa staff over forecasting and

wilbur ross is not upset with the people in birmingham. the people in birmingham have been made a scapegoat in this world in which trump trained at the knee of his con sillary roy cohn, you never back down, you fight back. makes this blunder. he doubles down on it. and where i think it's scary is not necessarily that life was, you know, in the balance, but the punching down. trump likes to punch down. he was hitting at the 1% during the primaries. here he's hitting -- or the administration is hitting gs-13 civil serve aantsservants. they're not the ones that can get fired. there are only three or four political appointees that serve at the will of the president and can be removed at will. the others are civil servants and there are protections for them. in is the most powerful man in the world pumpbing back at not a low level but a civil servant who should not be in his line of fire. that's disgraceful. >> that's scarier than -- >> i want to bring in peter beck. this is your reporting we're talking about here. correct me if i'm wrong, what

wilbur ross also overseas the bureau of economic analysis and the census. if we know that he is threatening to fire employees if they're not going along with a false narrative, what does it tell us about really important data that we rely on? >> i think it means you can't trust data coming out of the trump administration in the moments of crisis or in instances in which people need to rely on raw facts to come out of the administration. trump is someone who should be mature, methodical, and on top of the processes and making sure government is running effectively. you have the wheels of government getting corroded by his need to win petty arguments. the president took out a sharpie and annotated a map to make it look like he was right about whether or not dorian would hit alabama. all he said was i was wrong. >> and we're all wrong, it just happens. >> despite the president's denies on twitter, he made a deal in 2014 that air forecast would increase. you would see a boost in tourism. the same airport that we are now learning that they have increased layover

all about how wilbur ross can answer questions. at that point in the opinion, brother and out of the right. there is no constitutional enumeration clause with asking the question. there is no administrative procedure problem with asking it. the u-turn that they just gestured on, you just cannot live. the sole reason you want to do this is to collect decent voting rights data. the interesting thing about this , i would really like to know when the final decision was made. during the oral arguments in late april, the chief justice asked not a single question that would have suggested he thought this was contrived. only one justice to even used a variation. they seem to be buying the voting rights act lying. as i mentioned, the judge had really laid out all the evidence in both the administrative record and the trial record that would lead you to believe that wilbur ross is lying about the reason. you did not get a feeling of that from the majority during oral arguments. that opinion, obviously, went against the administration and the

noaa weirdly is part of the commerce department which is run by that gentleman, wilbur ross. and today we found out through some pretty remarkable reporting in "the new york times" that secretary ross reportedly threatened to fire top employees at noaa after that agency's office in birmingham contradicted the president's false tweet claiming that hurricane dorian would hit alabama. i should tell you the secretary denies this. the whole controversy has absolutely been an earthquake in the people that worked for noaa past or present and who viewed their scientific independence as absolutely sacrosanct. one meteorologist told the "washington post" quote this is the first time i felt pressure from above to not say what truly is the forecast. director of the national weather service spoke today at a major weather industry conference in huntsville, alabama. he made a point to single out the birmingham office for praise. [ applause ] >> someone who knows noaa from the inside, monica medina. principal undersecretary of noaa. the co-founder of environmental news site our daily planet.

another one on wilbur avenue. police say that on saturday night nearly a 100 cars and around 200 people gathered in the mall parking lot that is when a team of 20 officers from several police department has deployed to break up the crowds. shortly after the sideshow at the mall broken up and police then went to wilbur avenue none broke up the second side show and police in oakland are cracking down on illegal sideshows this long holiday weekend. the police department has 2 choppers flying across the bay area looking for sideshow activity and on the ground officers keep an eye on major intersections like the area 42th avenue and 8 80 in oakland. it's an area officers say is notorious for sideshows. >>this is the area that you often will see in videos where side show takes place in the city of oakland i love my job >>i'm able that's in stark county it's in their never ending. >>dangerous and wanted suspect. >>and this video you're looking at right now is of a sideshow was captured by a pilot over the weekend a white

a 29 page opinion by the chief, for 23 pages it's about how wilbur ross can ask this question and he deserves deference, the chief was in the opinion and his four brethren on the right are saying there is no constitutional enumeration clause problem with asking the citizenship question. there is no administered a procedure for masking it. but the u-turn that they gestured on, at the end is you just can't lie so blatantly and say the reason you want to do this is to collect decent voting rights data. the interesting thing about this , i would really like to know when the final decision was made because during oral arguments late april, the chief justice asked not a single question that would've suggested he thought this was contrived. there was only one justice who even used a variation of the word and that was justice kagan. the chief seemed to be buying the voting rights act line. now obviously he didn't and as i mentioned, judge furman had really laid out all the evidence in the administrative record and trial record that would lead you to believe that wilbur ross was lying about t

commerce secretary wilbur ross has reputation falling asleep in meetings. wide awake after last week's alabama hurrice wasn't in the eyes of the president. new york tim reported ross threatened to fire top employee open distance themselves. who would you trust, bureaucrats or scientists. ross, i he played that card got to be tossing and turning tonighna l 5 tonight. yeah. >> yeah, storm is coming. >> back at it again. tomo have a great night. go to bed go to bed the ross fall ent fashion >>> ♪ check this out! that's yes for less. get the brands you love and ve 20 to 60% off departmetore prices. at the ross ll fashion event. now.

and the other thing too, this blind loyalty is so bizarre because wilbur ross and all these folks that work for him, they stick their neck out for donald trump, but the loyalty is not a two way street. i mean, donald trump will turn on them in a heartbeat and that is what i don't understand as well in this scenario. >> just ask john bolton. we'll be right back. geico makes it easy to get help when i need it. with licensed agents available 24-7, it's not just easy. it's having-jerome-bettis- on-your-flag-football-team easy. go get 'em, bus! ohhhh! [laughing] c'mon bus, c'mon! hey, wait, wait, wait! hey man, i got your flag! i got your flag, man! i got your flag! it's geico easy. with licensed agents available 24/7. 49 - nothing! woo! >>> saved last word for frank. what does this picture of an erratic president look like around the world? >> it looks like america has problems with the truth. we can't -- today it was all about the truth. cia source being pulled out because he speaks the truth about putin, russia and our election. the air force not being able to be truthful with regard to

noaa weirdly is part of the commerce department which is run by that gentleman, wilbur ross. and today we found out through some pretty remarkable reporting in "the new york times" that secretary ross reportedly threatened to fire top employees at noaa after that agency's office in birmingham contradicted the president's false tweet claiming that hurricane dorian would hit alabama. i should tell you the secretary denies this. the whole controversy has absolutely been an earthquake in the people that worked for noaa past or present and who viewed their scientific independence as absolutely sacrosanct. this is the first time i felt pressure from above to not say what truly is the forecast. director of the national weather service spoke today at a major weather industry conference in huntsville, alabama. he made a point to single out the birmingham office for praise. >> lit up about 10 a.m. central time on september 1st, they did what any office would do with an emphasis they deemed essential to shut down what they thought were rumors. they quickly acted to ensure departments, t

we talk about julia wilbur working with harriet jacobs, they were together at the same time, julia wilbur the white woman abolitionist is sending letters back to her folks same i really do not like harriet jacobs. why did they send her here? she's competition. so even into the war it problems like this that exist. i would also like to really emphasize how important it is for us to remember that abolitionist , the most fervent abolitionist who had what we call the strongest anti-slavery ground , they were the ones who rose up , and engage in day-to- day resistance , they were the ones who became fugitives like ellen kraft who was a fair skinned enough to disguise herself as a slaveholding man, and her husband went with her and fled is her servant. she was the only black woman who disguised her's to make it into freedom as a man. the black women in the south who were enslaved had this huge role, they were the ones running away. and said that this war, they will have until this household is destroyed. you have somewhere in the neighborhood of 300,000 women who leave slavery there are 4 milli

congressman, thank you for being here. >> thank you, very much. >> off have called for wilbur ross to be fired over this. they flat out deny this happened. you are calling for him to resign. do you think that's premature at all? >> i don't think so at all. i think this is the final straw, kate. ross has been a disaster so far. i mean he lied or mislead on his ethics forms. he got all involved in what looks like philadelphiaer trading. he's been held in contempt by the house for denying their subpoenas. he, now this is sort of a final straw of threatening to fire senior noaa appointees if they didn't stick one trump's false claims about alabama. i just listened to acting director jacobs. he was pretty clear to avoid saying that the president didn't tell him that. i think i believe the "new york times" in their reporting. >> we have learned yesterday that the national weather service director is a kind of same conference you are talking about. this national service director. they prompted a standing ovation when he praised the birmingham office i talked about earlier at this conference.

if that's true, wilbur ross should resign. the commerce department is saying this is hogwash. this is false. you have john thunes the second ranking republican leader and new chairman saying quote we want the weather service to operate with integrity and without bias. i mean, where have we come that weather has become politicized? >> yeah, poppy. weather, typically, not a partisan issue. both republicans and democrats suffer from natural disasters. they both want to rely on the national weather service to put out accurate information. it's clear from this statement that came out last friday was this was done under duress. this was not a statement they wanted to put out. they were budget it out without a name attached to it several days after the original tweet from birmingham. it was clear that something triggered this and the "new york times" reporting shows that it was the threat of firing that this had become such a hot button issue. something so important to the administration, to the white house, not only do they put out multiple statements from the homeland security advi

and another on wilbur avenue police say on saturday night nearly 100 cars in some 200 people gathered in the mall parking lot. that's when a team of 20 officers from several police departments, the ploy to break up the crowd. shortly after the sideshow at the mall was broken up police then went to wilbur avenue and broke up the second side show and police in oakland are cracking down on illegal sideshows this long holiday weekend as well, the police department has 2 helicopters flying across the bay area looking for sideshow activity and on the ground officers, keeping an eye on major intersections such as the area 42th avenue and interstate 80 in oakland. it's an area which officers say is notorious for sideshows. >>this is the area that you often will see in videos where eagle side show takes place in the city of oakland i love my job >>i'm able that's in stark county it's in their ending dangerous a wanted suspect. >>the video of a sideshow was captured by a pilot over the weekend a white mustang was later towed away and the driver was cited. >>the alameda county sheriff's office i

some members of congress calling on wilbur ross to resign. you have known ross for 30 years, over 30 years. what does this say about this undieing loyalty? >>>> it's not about wilbur ross the ultimate toady, as it were. demonstrated that throughout his tenure at the secretary of commerce. >> what's it about? >> part of the same story. as bolton's firing. it is about incoherence, a lack of inability to function as president of the united states in a way that is o open to fact and the problem here is, of all things, the weather report. the weather report. >> putting lives in danger. >> not liable because the president of the united states decided in what should have been a one-day story to correct himself and it may be not accident that the bolton announcement comes today to get this off the front pages and to lean on cnn and the cable networks to get the weather story off the -- off the -- because it all goes to the same thing. the president of the united states who conducts the presidency as if it were a television show called "apprentice: yo

in the meantime, he's facing controversy in washington with calls for his commerce secretary wilbur ross to resign. with 2020 on his mind -- amer unaddemocrs noradical democrato dismantle, demolish and destroy everything that you've gained. visited the battleground state to support republican dan bishop who's running in today's special seat. >> dan bishop will fight with everything he has. >> reporter: this special election in the tarheel state is being seen as a proud the republican message is resonating in suburban areas ahead of the 2020 election. with the president's approval rating dipping below 40% some of his supporters say they're worried. >> this whole state seems to be turning democrat lately. i think elizabeth warren could be a threat. >> reporter: our latest poll shows senator elizabeth warren up six points since july. in north carolina abc's rachel scott asked the president's team about warren's surge. >> the president's campaign telling me tonight there is no denying senator warren has been on the rise but say at this point they have not identified any particular democratic

how inappropriate to sell wilbur ross to get the scientists at noaa to contradict what had been issued about alabama because the president had made a mistake? >> this is emblematic of this white house. it in some ways couldn't matter less but the same time the lies, the pettiness, the deceit, to pretend the president never makes a mistake leading to corrupting data of government scientists we rely on to keep people safe. >> and the inspector general is now investigating this, joe. >> i think it in all likelihood needs to be investigated. that is subject to be talked about around the water cooler. not in the halls of the presidency. and the oval office. as michael just said, i think the information is critically important to people's lives and should not be played in politics and scientists need to do their job. we hear that over and over again. this administration continues to question scientists at every level. and it's just reached now i think the absurd. >> whether it's the epa, the energy department, the interior department. you have lobbyists as acting secretaries representing the

the denial from wilbur ross. >>> good wednesday morning, thank you for joining us. we begin with several developments overnight from the impeachment drama that's unfolding in washington. >> one day after house speaker nancy pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry into president trump, here's what we can expect. the president has authorized the transcript of his phone call with the president of ukraine to be released. that call is the subject of a whistle-blower complaint that started this whole scandal. the president is accused of withholding military aid and asking ukraine's president to investigate former vice president joe biden. >> president trump will meet with the ukrainian president at the united nations today. he's expected to address the media after that meeting. >> and this could be the biggest headline today. sources say the white house is considering whether to release the whistle-blower's complaint to congress. >>> abc's ines de la cuetara is sorting through all of this and she joins us from washington. ines, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jan

the other on wilbur avenue. there were nearly a 100 cars in about 200 people gathered in the mall parking lot saturday to watch a team of 20 officers from several police departments were deployed to break it up. shortly after the sideshow the mall was a at the mall certain after that was broken up police then went into wilbur afternoon. that's when they broke up that second sideshow. are his quick live look outside san francisco international airport this morning. we have some low clouds overhead which probably means delays make sure you call ahead we'll be right back. >>welcome back for 54 on this tuesday morning heading back to work with some cloudy skies overhead and a little bit of fog to look across the bay alcatraz the showing you that fog now this afternoon you can expect some clearing there will be some cloud cover at times but really overall a similar one to yesterday tomorrow or remain steady before a cool down eventually takes us to a much more comfortable weekend around the corner. as you drop the ki

"the new york times" reports his chief of staff directed commerce secretary wilbur ross to have noaa issue a statement disputing the national weather service after it contradicted the president. which noaa did but with no name attached. as trump claims he was right about the weather, he's also insisting he fired john bolton. >> and he sat right in that chair and i told him, john, i wish you well but i'd like you to submit your resignation. >> reporter: the president still blames his hawkish former national security adviser for interfering in talks with north korea. >> when he talked about the libyan model for kim jong-un, that was not a good statement to make. you take a look at what happened with qadhafi. >> reporter: the leader was overthrown and killed shortly after agreeing to give up his nuclear ambitions and the north koreans were offended after bolton said this last year. >> i think we're looking at the libya model of 2003, 2004. >> the president was furious at the time. >> and i don't blame kim jong-un for what he said after that. >> reporter: but he kept bolton around for an

wilbur ross denies that and now there's new reporting that the pressure on noaa came straight from the white house. "the new york times" is reporting, quote, mick mulvaney the acting white house chief of staff told wilbur ross, the commerce secretary, to publicly cis avow the forecasters position that alabama was not at risk. and "the washington post" reporting, quote, president trump told his staff that noaa needed to deal with a tweet that seemed to contradict his statement that hurricane dorian posed a significant threat to alabama, senior administration officials said. when asked today if he had directed mulvaney to do that, the president denied it calling it a hoax by fake news. that has not stopped the inspector general of the commerce department of directing that unsigned statement saying this was a matter of, quote, scientific integrity. in an e-mail to craig mcclain he condemned the agency's response as quote political and a danger to public health and safety and he's investigate why noaa issued that statement. so this is far from over. as for president trump's treatment of ac

. >>> commerce secretary wilbur ross threatened to fire political staff at noaa if the agency did not fix the contradiction with president trump's claim that hurricane dorian might actually hit alabama. "the new york times" reporting according to three people familiar with the discussion, the times reports he called the acting administrator of noaa, from greece, last friday, to instruct him to quote fix the agency's perceived contradiction of the president. it ultimately led to noaai issuing a statement by the birmingham office, inconsistent, and a spokesperson for secretary ross denies the times reporting telling nbc news that ross did not threaten to fire any noaa staff over forecasting and public statements over hurricane dorian. noaa acting chief scientist craig mcqueen says he is investigating why the agency backed claims over dorian hitting alabama over its own forecasters. according to an eternal email obtained by nbc news, he said an unsigned friday statement issued by noaa which defended trump's claim quote inappropriately and incorrectly contradicted the national weather ser

i keep asking the same -- i said it to wilbur ross. i keep asking the same question. why is it that the united states is always paying these foreign countries and other foreign countries that frankly are much more affected, they're not? so i said, hold it up, let's get other people to pay, then everybody called me, oh, please, can we pay? and there was never any quid pro quo. the letter was beautiful. it was a perfect letter. it was unlike biden, who by the way, what he said was a horror. ask how his son made millions of dollars from ukraine, made millions of dollars from china even though he had no expertise whatsoever, okay. so what he did was a real problem. with us, there was no pressure applied, no nothing. okay, folks. thank you very much. thank you. >>> live now to an event in washington, d.c. with house speaker nancy pelosi with "the atlantic's" editor in chief jeffrey goldberg. she'll be talking about the legislative agenda and possible questions about renew called for impeaching president trump. >> madam speaker, i want to talk about a lot of things with you

wilbur ross did nothing wrong. john roberts who writes the majority opinion, he says, i don't believe him, he's lying. he doesn't use the word, "he's lying," but he essentially says i think their reasons given are pretextual. i have no problem in principle with what he was trying to do. but the way it went down makes me meal kind of queasy, so he sides with the liberals. >> soon after, trump announced he was dropping the citizenship question from the 2020 census. >> it's deeply regrettable, but it will not stop us from collecting the needed information, and i think even in greater detail and more accurately. >> while activists were successful in getting the question blocked from the 2020 census, lithwick warns it might not be a total victory. >> the sad part of the story is that if the point of this was to terrorize hispanic voters into not voting, the damage is done. whether or not that question appears on the census, what matters is you are in our sights and you should be afraid to participate in this democracy.

i mean, you just heard for example talking about julia wilbur working with harriet jacobs. so they worked together at the same time, julia wilbur, a white woman abolitionist is sending letters back to her folk saying, you know, like, i really did not like harriet jacobs. why did they send her here? she's competition. so even into the war this kind of problem persists. and i also would like to -- did you say talk less? i'd also like to really emphasize how important it is for us to remember that abolitionists were not all -- that not all abolitionists lived in the north. that the most fervent abolitionists, the abolitionists who had what we call, you know, like the strongest anti-slavery ground were the enslaved people themselves that they were the ones who rose up. that they were the ones who engaged in day-to-day resistance, that they were the ones who became fugitives like ellen craft who you just saw a picture of who was fair skinned enough to disguise herself as a slave holding man and her husband went with her, or fled with her as her servant. you know, people -- and s

or at least how seriously his commerce secretary, wilbur ross, took it. as you know, just minutes after the president's false alarm, the national weather service's regional office in birmingham issued a tweet reassuring people from alabama that they were not in danger. to "the new york times," secretary ross threatened to fire top employees at noaa if the agency didn't disavow that tweet. in other words, if it didn't disavow a statement of fact affecting hundreds of thousands of people. according to three people cited in "the new york times" report, secretary ross called the acting noaa administer, neil jacobs, and told him to fix the national weather service's contradiction of trump's claim. when jacobs opposed the demand, ross told him that noaa's political staff would be fired. in fact, noaa did disavow that tweet. the statement was unsigned. today, the commerce department's inspector general is now looking into all of this. so that's the backdrop to our conversation with richard painter, who is ethics czar in the george w. bush administration and moni

prediction about hurricane dorian hitting alabama, or at least how seriously his commerce secretary, wilbur ross, took it. as you know, just minutes after the president's false alarm, the national weather service's regional office in birmingham issued a tweet reassuring people in alabama they were not in danger. according to "the new york times," secretary ross threatened to fire top employees at noaa if the agency didn't disavow that tweet, in other words, if it didn't disavow a statement of fact affecting hundreds of thousands of people according to three people cited in "the new york times" report, secretary ross called the acting noaa administrator and told him to fix the national weather service's contradiction of the claim. when it was opposed, he was told noaa's political staff would be fired. in fact, noaa did disavow that tweet. the statement was unsigned, which is unusual. the "times" added to the story reporting that the commerce department's inspector general is now looking into all of this. so that's the backdrop to our conversation with richard painter, who was ethics czar in

wilbur ross denies that and now there's new reporting that the pressure on noaa came straight from the white house. "the new york times" is reporting, quote, mick mulvaney the acting white house chi of staff told wilbur ross, the commerce secretary, to publicly cis avow the forecasters position that alabama was not at risk. and "the washington post" reporting, quote, president trump told his staff that noaa needed to deal with a tweet that seemed to contradict his statement that hurricane dorian posed a significant threat to alabama, senior administration officials said. when asked today if he had directed mulvaney to do that, the president denied it calling it a hoax by fake news. that has not stopped the inspector general of the commerce department of directing that unsigned statement saying this was a matter of, quote, scientific integrity. in an e-mail to craig mcclain he condemned the agency's response as quote political and a danger to public health and safety and he's investigate why noaa issued that statement. so this is far from over. as for president trump's treatment of actu

correspondent doug mckelway tells us how that affects wilbur ross and his future. >> sharpie gate is proving hard to erase as more congressional democrats call for the resignation of commerce secretary wilbur ross. >> no appointees if they didn't stick up with the false claims about alabama. >> now it appears the inspector general is investigating sharpie gate. fox news has obtained an ig memo requesting they preserve all communications related to the episode. that following a "new york times" report that ross "threatened to fire top employees" after the agency posthumous birmingham office contradicted president trump's claim that hurricane dorian might hit alabama. the commerce department struck back at the report. "secretary ross did not threaten to fire any staff." the national weather service added the birmingham office was not even aware that they had weighed in on dorian. "alabama will not see any impacts from dorian." nws said that quote was in no way political or an attempt to correct and embarrass the president, as has been inaccurately reported. that defense is doing nothin

another one on wilbur avenue. police say on saturday night nearly 100 cars in about 200 people gathered in the mall parking lot that is when a team of 20 officers from several police departments deployed to break up the crowds. shortly after the sideshow at the mall was broken up police then went to wilbur avenue they broke up the second side show. >>investigators in vallejo are calling this fire suspicious the fire broke out at 6 30 this morning between the foster lumber yard and the 3 brothers furniture store also number boulevard. investigators are calling the fire suspicious because a number of homeless people live near the businesses and a co owner of the furniture store says this is not their first fire. >>within the last 4 months this is the second time that this has happened it's just so frustrating for trying to continue our legacy of a business here and it's very difficult when we constantly have this feat that our business may not be here tomorrow. >>the fire damaged about a 4th of the lumberyard fire c

believe like iran his country is full of tremendous untapped potential. >> jimmy: it got him worse when wilbur started spooning the guy in front of him. [ laughter ] later ross was like, oh please, i wasn't sleeping, i just briefly died [ laughter ] well there's a lot happening right now. the u.n. general assembly, the ukraine scandal, talks about impeachment. i wonder what's happening in other news ♪ >> a woman in louisiana was in serious danger after a camel sat on her she reportedly did the only thing she could, she bit the animal's testicles [ laughter ] >> jimmy: what sorry i asked. facebook just paid almost $1 billion for a company that makes wrist bands that can read your brain. which is crazy because i was sure facebook. knew everything about me a woman in france found out she had a 13th century painting worth over $6 million hanging in her kitchen above a hot plate. pretty excited about the discovery because now she can upgrade to a george foreman grill. [ laughter ] finally a woman in the uk fell in hoff with her wedding deejay and now they're dating even worse, the woman told her

about that in a moment but all the attention in impeachment inquiry, joining us commerce secretary wilbur ross, mr. secretary, thank you. >> thank you for having me on. >> you know what democrats and the critics and speaker pelosi says, she say that is her president engaged in a shakedown in the phone call with president zelenski, jeopardized the national security, integrity of elections and is seeking foreign interference in his election to help him in his campaign. how do you respond to that in. >> well, the best source is president zelenski himself and he denied all of that with the media at the un, the president and i were sitting there, so here you have the two people who were parties to the conversation saying this is rubbish, only this anonymous whistleblower who admits he was not even part of the conversation and at best giving out secondhand gossip, that's a heck of a basis for an impeachment. eric: the critics say that president zelenski is afraid, he doesn't want his aid cut off. >> his aid wasn't cut off to the best of my knowledge it's continuing. postponement is not cutting

shortly after that sideshow at the mall was broken up police then went to wilbur avenue and broke up the second a sideshow. >>friends and family of a missing san mateo county man gather to spread the word, 84 year-old paul farmer walked away from his belmont home. last monday and he hasn't been heard from since. now a week later people are stepping in to help in the search dan thorn live for us in belmont tonight. joins us now with more on the search for this man dan. >>vicki many of the people who have been stepping up to help out are virtually strangers to this man, but they say they felt compelled to help this man the 84 year-old apparently suffers from some dementia which makes it easy for him to become disoriented are or even lost in some cases. but in the meantime people have been handing out these flyers and they've also been going out on their own missions, searching and hoping to find him. >>while holding blue balloons people gather at the carl mundt village shopping center in belmont they're trying to spread the word about paul farmer, an 84 year-old man who has been missin

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the new york times reports wilbur ross who oversees noah called jacobs last friday and warned heads will roll. shortly thereafter the agency sent an unsigned statement saying dorian could impact alabama. a commerce department spokesman denied the new york times report saying secretary ross did not threaten to fire any noah staff over forecasting and public statements about hurricane dorian. noah's top scientists sent a letter to staffers revealing he has initiated an investigation of potential violation that may have compromised the agency's policies of scientific integrity. nick coal kill land. >>> behavior that will no longer get stots suspended. >>> researchers say female doctors to taking care of our children aren't inpaid fairly, new study. >>> and i'm tracking strong on shore flow, here is a live look with our gold be gate bridge camera, you can see the flag whipping in the wind this afternoon, i will show you futurecast and cooler temperatures today, the big changes ahead, details coming up. >>> a wild scene in britain's parliament chaos breaking out over brexit. british lawmakers

to cnn it was the acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney who spoke with commerce secretary wilbur ross about noaa's handling of a tweet that contradicted president trump on hurricane dorian. the official said mulvaney urged ross to, quote, fix the problem. we'll talk about the breaking news, much more with congress will hurd of the intelligence committee and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. but first to jim acosta. the administration is looking at having the flavored e-cigarettes completely removed from the market. >> reporter: that is right, wolf. president talked about that and president trump is still justifying his decision to fire john bolton. saying the former national security adviser made some, quote, big mistakes before he was kicked out of the administration. president trump trashed bolton in front of the cameras saying even kim jong-un wanted nothing to do with him. the president made these comments just as he was announcing his administration is considering a sweeping ban on flavored e-cigarettes. vowing to tackle the epidemic of teen vaping, president

i loved and, of course, wright brothers i loifd it when wilbur was asked what was the secret, what's had the secret of success as you understand it? he said pick out a good mother and father and grow up in ohio. [laughter] but i -- i hope this doesn't sound pretentious but i've never said it in front of an audience before. but i feel with every project i undertake trying to do something for my country. >> indeed you have. indeed you have. i think you have -- you have taught us about american ingenuity and you've taught us that perhaps even world was smaller back and much more controllable in a sense you see that you see in this -- many this book you see ohio grow from cutler who comes in the first, you know, people to actually go west and establish ohio by the end of the story, by his death there are millions of people in ohio . and that -- that enormous building he had did get off on foot and state and so did whole territory i don't know how many more minutes we have but i want to tell this audience something i'm reading book that's phenomenal it is called silver, silver the sword a

and with this evidence wilbur ross may have threatened these people with firing for having told the truth and having lied to the congress about who initiated the question on the demographics, you know, of citizenship for the census, that really calls into question what else he may be tampering with that we don't even know about. >> the recourse here is there's not many recourses. obviously they can try to bring them before the committee. you can impeach a cabinet secretary if you so choose, the i.g. has a report. how do you see the binding constraints on ross here? >> unfortunately what we've learned in the last 2 1/2 years here, the systems we had in place to protect against abuses are a lot more fragile than we ever thought. i don't have a lot of hope there is much that can be done except hopefully shine some light on what's really going on here. and we've seen in the past that can create enough pressure that somebody's out. but it can also serve to deter this kind of misconduct. people do seem to be responsive to public pressure in the administration on some issues, and so it's always

if approved the business and farm would set about nine acres along wilbur avenue near maritime way. city planners approved the application last month. antioch has three marijuana dispensaries but in this case, the group wants to open the farm also wants to be able to sell their products, that would be a first for the city. >> 6:46 for you right now. >>> the "new york times" has confirmed some of the blockbuster details first revealed by cnn, involving a spy in the kremlin. >> scott mcgrew, cnn says the u.s. had to pull that spy out because they were worried our president might say too much. >> that is cnn's reporting. good morning. "the times" and "the post" added details but nbc has not confirmed that reporting. the kremlin though this morning confirmed one of its russian officials is now in america. cnn was the first to report the u.s. had pulled him out of the kremlin saying the official was extremely close to russian president vladimir putin, in fact, may have been our top source to help us figure out the russians interfered with the 2016 presidential elections. now where the re

. >>> wilbur's bucci make it to to doesn't wins for his great career? whether the 49ers brought in extra security detail for the road. >>> he is going to have to sweat it out. the giants have been battling up strain. only four wins in september. shut up again today. pounds went to the top. look at their. look at that. 3-2, parents. jeff samardzija give it back. the solo shot in the pirates backup by 2. everybody was on their feet and the hot weather. the timing runners were on the base but buster posey drops a. they take three out of four. the raiders lost 18 and no way could they afford to lose the quarterback as well. amazingly some really good news to report. connolly was declared good to go for sunday's game against the kansas city chiefs. after he was structured off the field monday with a neck injury. it was a burn who hit him on the top of his head when they both were trying to make a tackle. that is good news. they will need all the help they get. the airshow coming to town. we will break it down after the game. >>> there is a chance the rookie