. >> thank you. how did a tiny company in montana receive the contract to receive puerto rico's 3 million power grid. that's next. they're affordable and fast... maybe "too affordable and fast." what if... "people" aren't buying these books online, but "they" are buying them to protect their secrets?!?! hi bill. if that is your real name. it's william actually. hmph! affordable, fast fedex ground. . >> questions are swirling about how a tiny montana company got the largest contract to rebuild puerto rico's power grid. multiple congressional committees are under way as a member of president trump's cabinet denies he had anything to do with the deal. gabe gutierrez has been following this in san juan, gabe, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, fema is saying it has significant concerns about this contract and overnight puerto rico's governor says the results of an initial audit suggest that there's not enough evidence to conclude whether our proper hiring requirements had been met. this as the controversy rose not just in puerto rico but on capitol hill. this morning, mou

west. major new questions about puerto rico and your money. the small montana company that landed the $300 million contract with two employees at the time. we asked the white house can you definitively say the company did not land the contract because of connections or donations to the trump campaign. >>> the snowstorm turning deadly and the other system moving up the east coast. a possible nor'easter. >>> our team on the ground tonight in niger. new reporting on what happened to the special ops soldiers. >>> inside the jfk files tonight and the memo from j. edgar hoover saying at the time the u.s. must believe oswald acted alone. >>> the interview, the women lost at sea for five months. surrounded at times with sharks. >>> the 10-year-old who led police on a high speed chase charged with a felony tonight. >>> the iphone x. how to save hundreds on that hefty price. good evening. it is great to have you with us on a very busy friday night and we have new questions about your money tonight. the $300 million contract given to a small company in montana to get the power back on in pue

cancelling that contract to fix the power grid. raising new questions about how a tiny montana company landed the $300 million job. >>> and, easy getaway. an inmate busting out. walking right past cameras and guards. the simple disguise he used. >>> and good evening. thanks for joining us on this sunday. i'm tom llamas. we begin with the breaking news. the clashing storms taking aim at the east coast. drenching rains and winds gusting up to 60 miles per hour expected. 45 million americans facing a flash flood watch. this, after tropical storm philippe rolls northward, adding more fury to a developing nor'easter. hundreds of flights cancelled. rush hour expected to be a real mess tomorrow from washington, d.c., to boston. rob marciano starts us off. >> reporter: the rain, the wind steadily increasing. this area under a high wind warning. a dynamic and explosive system already doing damage across the u.s. and really, we're just getting started. tonight, two storms converging, millions bracing. as dangerous wind and rain hits. in florida, tropical storm philippe pummeling the sunshine sta

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montana company given the contract to get the power back on with just two workers when it landed that contract. one lawmaker tonight saying this doesn't pass the smell test. and here's abc's senior justice correspondent pierre thomas. >> reporter: more than a month after hurricane maria hit puerto rico, 75% of the island is still in the dark. and tonight, new questions about the company that landed a key contract, hired to restore power. whitefish energy, a private montana company with just two full-time employees, awarded a $300 million contract by the puerto rico electric power authority. >> we're doing what we can with what we have and we plan to be here until everyone has power. >> reporter: the company showcasing its work on twitter. saying its newly hired team of 300 now working to rebuild those towers in puerto rico. but tonight, some democrats are already calling for an investigation into that contract. whitefish energy is from whitefish, montana, population just over 7,000. hometown of interior secretary ryan zinke. >> look, i've been at this for 25 years, and this does

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million contract between the island's electrical utility, known as prepa, and a montana company called whitefish, be cancelled. later, prepa said that it would, once current work is finished. at a news conference in san juan, rossello called on prepa's board to terminate the deal and said he'll ask the governors of new york and florida to identify other vendors. whitefish is a tiny, two-year- old energy company based in whitefish, montana, where president trump's interior secretary, ryan zinke, is from. until recently, whitefish had only two employees, though it's hired more than 300 workers for the puerto rico job. zinke has said he had nothing to do with awarding the contract. so did the federal emergency management agency. the department of homeland security, which oversees fema, and congress are reviewing the deal. 39 days after maria made landfall on the island where 3.5 million american citizens live, 70% of homes and businesses don't have power. 20% don't have drinkable running water. just days after the u.s. house of representatives voted to impose new sanctions on iran over it

. so all right the headlines. pa lot of questions about whitefish this company out of montana which happens to be the very same town in which the interior secretary is from. a lot of questions doesn't this look funny this is the company that has been chosen to work with puerto rico to get power back on. and you heard sarah huckabee sanders saying over and over this decision to use whitefish was determined by puerto rico. federal government had nothing to do with it and the president had nothing. hand ryan sin key said he had nothing to do with t holocaust sayi. . and we'll get into the back drop of that. and finally on sexual harassment in this movement happening with women speaking up and she was asked about this today, rose, what a moment she could have had, right, to give the white house stance on just women feeling emboldened and saying this isn't okay and didn't. so with that, i have caitlyn burns with me. mr. ambassador eisen is with me. i think michael sezelden is wit me. but how about michael zelden to you on the questions on whitefish and this montana company that apparentl

maria. and the governor of puerto rico trying to pull the plug on a contract with a small montana company. >>> fallout today in puerto rico. the governor there is demanding that the contract with whitefish energy be terminated. this new contract, the ceo of white house defending it saying this is all a conspiracy against this small montana company. >> people are just out there looking for a witchhunt that does not exist. >> gabe? >> thomas, good amp, plaintiff's governor saying he now wants that controversial whitefish energy contract, the $300 million that became so controversial, he is saying he wants that contract canceled and he is asking the board of prepa to channel it. we're expecting a news conference in the next few hours. and we're expecting to hear if it will be canceled. when we spoke with the ceo yesterday, he seemed to not being expecting this at all. he hoped that they would be in puerto rico for as long as it takes. they were already paid $8 to $10 million for the work they have done. the widely reported figure that whitefish had just two employees at the time of h

because she doubted the small company from montana could do what needs to be done on the island. on twitter, white fish called comments misplaced and threatened to pull it's linemen out of the city. today cnn's martin savage spoke to the mayor and joins me on the ground in san juan. white fish apologized for it's tweets. what does mayor cruz have to say? >> reporter: she is still fuming over all of this because she sees this as a direct threat. it was made by the company, the controversial company in her mind, against not just the people of san juan, but definitely all the people of puerto rico. as if they were going to pull out their power workers and somehow keep this whole island in the dark as a result. here's some of our conversation. >> threats are like bullies. once they come out, they never come right back. >> reporter: why do you think they did it? why did they feel so empowered they could talk to you in such a way? >> well, we can -- >> reporter: you must have an idea. >> they must have some political connections. >> reporter: that is something you hear over and over. and

right. here's some new questions that are surrounding the $300 million contract awarded to montana power company called whitefish. interior secretary ryan zinke said he had nothing to do with that is correct though the small energy company is based in the small hometown of his in whitefish. ...you might be missing to stasomething... ♪ ...your eyes. that's why there's ocuvite. it helps replenish nutrients your eyes can lose as you age. nourish your eyes to help keep them healthy. ocuvite. be good to your eyes. >>> thank you for staying with us. i'm at msnbc headquarters in new york. here's what we are watching this hour, today sources confirming to nbc news that special counsel is expected to serve up first indictment on monday. now details of the indictment not released since the news broke last night. interior secretary ryan zinke denied he had any involvement with the $300 million deal between a small montana company and puerto rico. whitefish energy a business with two employees and little experience in utility work sparked controversy when it landed the biggest contract to re

montana, where the cost of living is cheaper. >> my life isn't going to be the way that i'd hoped that it would be. it just simply isn't going to be. >> reporter: there's also this catch with federal loans, and older borrowers who can't pay them off-- the u.s. treasury can garnish their social security benefits. in fact, between 2002 and 2015, the number of americans having social security disability and retirements garnished because of unpaid loans increased almost 500%, to 173,000. >> who do i go and get this money back from? >> reporter: it happened to 55-year-old manuel roberts of brooklyn, new york. he paid off most all of the $13,000 he borrowed to attend the university of southern california in the 1980s. but after losing a job, he defaulted on the last $3,000, and then sustained a severe head injury in 2002. >> then i was injured. street violence. i was a victim of a violent crime. i was in a coma for two weeks or so. >> reporter: roberts received social security disability checks for $1,300 every month. but the government began deducting $200 from every check for the defa

break it is. you got to north dakota, montana, missouri, indiana. all democratic seats. west virginia. you're talking about a $4,000 increase per middle-class family? i think it's going to be pretty tough for the democrats to go home and vote no. >> sean: i saw your comments about steve bannon. yeah, i don't want to see the democrats take over the house or senate. but i am with steve bannon in this sense, if mitch mcconnell cannot get the job done, mitch mcconnell needs to go. he is not getting the job done. for him saying oh, we have excessive expectations, our expectations were raised -- i see you laughing -- raised because people like him were promising to repeal and replace obamacare for seven years and they cannot get their act together. go ahead, straighten me out. >> i'm not going to straighten you out. what i responded to with bannon was he said he was going to run against every republican except ted cruz. up for reelection this year. we go down the list, everyone he's talking about voted to repeal obamacare. voting to cut taxes. everyone he's talking about voted for every sin

complaints about his travel, $12,000 from vegas to his hometown in montana. scott pruitt was already under investigation for his frequent travel to his home down to night expanding the probe to include all of pruitt's travel after recent disclosures that he's taken four trips. and then there's treasury secretary steve mnuchin, remember this photo? we've know he's run up an $800,000 tab on government planes and that is thing 2 in 60 seconds. >>> so we found out last month that treasury secretary steve mnuchin requested a government plane for his honeymoon to europe this summer, a request that was with drown. but he's run up an $800,000 tab for seven flights on military jets. the inquiry found that he broke no laws in the use of the arab craft but lemted the loose justification provided for such costly flight presidents. the infamous kentucky flight cost $20,000. they said they needed a military plane in the event that the secretary's participation on a call during travel arises. also this tidbit, while a $434,000 military jet to miami in june was approved, the treasury department's tr

pop country out of montana and given them a sole source as to stand up to the power grid t. army core of engineers and fema are disavowing any involvement in this plan. today the army core of engineers announced they would stand up to the power grid. maybe they'll do it? who is running this operation? ethe beginning of last week, we highlighted the "new york times" reported, the state of the art hospitalship that's docked in puerto rico has the capacity to be seeing hundreds of patients simultaneously, with 800 staff on board eager and willing to help. at the time we reported that, at the beginning of last week that hospitalship was seeing seven patients. then it inched up to eight patients. now more than a week later, there is still less than 40 people, even though they've got hundreds of beds. so a slight improvement, but even all this time later, still, hundreds of beds. hundreds of state of the art hospital beds, with state of the art highly trained medical person fell ready to take care of people, not being utilized. who ill that ship is docked if puerto rico and while condi

ahead. >> there was a story in "the washington post" about a small montana company until up until now got a contract on puerto rico, now they were calling into an investigation for the spending. >> you know more about puerto rico than the president does. >> you know what, if the senate race becomes competitive then it becomes possible for the democrats to take the majority. however, that means they need to hold all of their own seats. that is not impossible. last time the party did that was in 2014. >> okay, thank you, we'll have jennifer back again to tell us who is going to win next year in all of the races. when we return tonight, let's finish with the trump watch. he will definitely not like tonight. you're watching "hardball." how do you chase what you love with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis? do what i did. ask your doctor about humira. it's proven to help relieve pain and protect joints from further irreversible damage in many adults. humira works by targeting and helping to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. humira has been cl

his republican members of congress on board the idea of tax reform. he will go to montana where john tester is and have a -- and is having a tough race in 2018 for re-election. a lot of farmers there that could benefit from the elimination of the estate tax. he is likely to go to other high tax states like new york and connecticut as well. the president getting the messaging on board here in terms of making sure he puts as much pressure on congress to pass tax reform. should mention, shep, that kirsten nielson the deputy chief of staff at the department of homeland security will be president trump's nominee to replace john kelly as the homeland security secretary. there you can see the two of them together. kelly liked her so much at dhs that he brought her here to the white house. now she's headed back to dhs. >> shepard: sounds good. thanks, john. >> thank you. >> shepard: christina peterson covers congress for the "wall street journal." great to see you. >> thanks for having me on. >> shepard: this attack on those that report on the halls of power, as i mentioned, is not new. >> r

tomorrow we'll go with a power company from montana to see how fast they can get that juice flowing again. >> bill weir, thanks very much for what you're doing. the reporting, you and your crew, very, very significant. appreciate it very much. we look forward to your report tomorrow. that's it for me. erin burnt out front starts right now. >>> breaking news, major questions about the ambush in niger that killed four american soldiers. senator john mccain accusing the trump administration of not being up front. is the white house hiding something? >>> a family expecting a check for a fallen soldier. >>> spies pitting against each other. >>> the breaking news tonight, a major charge against president trump's white house tonight. senator john mccain accusing the trurpg "u" trump administration about not being up front about the attack of in niger that killed four american soldiers. when the compete was asked directly, quote, is the trump administration being up front about what happened, mccain answered in one word, no. there's a lot that we don't know tonight. why didn't anyone know t

montana and given them a no bid contact to stand up the power grid. fema disenvowing all knowledge of the contract or involvement in the plan. today, the army corp. of engineers announced another company would have contracts stand up the power grid. okay, maybe they'll do it? work together? who is running the operation? at the beginning of last week, we highlighted that state of the art hospital, that docked in puerto rico, capacity to see hundreds of patients simultaneously with 800 highly trained medical staff on board eager and willing to help. at the time we reported that, at the beginning of last weir, that hospital ship was seeing seven patients. it inched up to eight, and now less than 40 people with hundreds of beds. slight improvement, but all this time later, still, hundreds of beds, state of the art hospital beds with state of the art highly trained medical personnel prepared to take care of people not being utilized. while that ship is docked in puerto rico and conditions in hospitals in puerto rico are described by doctors as post-apocalyptic. what happened in puerto rico

well. >> i want to take the conversation back to whitefish to montana company that got something like $300 million, right, to help put the lights back on and everything else in puerto rico. so ambassador eisen, you are the ethics guy. what questions do you have? again, the white house saying this was puerto rico call. federal government had nothing to do with this despite some of the questions. what are your questions, sir? >> well, question number one is what's the qualifications of this company that's two years old, just two employees when hurricane maria hit. question number two, zeinke or other trump administration involvement. whitefish is it a very small town. the ceo of the company admits he knows him. is that really a cohenincidence? and the final set is political contributions that whitefish investors and those close to the company massive political contributions to mr. trump and those around him. does that have anything to do with this contract? it is ahead scratcher. >> and, again, secretary is saying to the president he had nothing to do with the fact that this company bas

campaign. president trump early montana campaign did name him as part of the campaign although later said he was not as close to the center as he described him. he did make many trips to moscow. he spoke in moskow during the campaign, very critical of u.s. policy, praising russian policy there. certainly questions to ask him during the campaign about any communications he may have been aware of particularly between the trump team and russian officials, which we know is the subject of mueller's investigation as well. >> yeah, besides comments he made in russia to russian media about being in meetings with the president or the president-elect, there's no evidence he actually met president trump. in fact on this show he actually admitted he's never met -- stay with us. you broke the story for politico. you have some reporting on what spicer was asked. >> yes, he was asked about the firing of former fbi director james comey. and he was also asked about meetings he had with russian officials like lavrov in the oval office. and the significance is it's a sign that mueller's investigation i

schedule allowed him to travel to his house in montana at least three times. and interior officials said any suggestion there's anything wrong with that is ridiculous, noting the state has many department of interior lands, offices and assets. officials in the interior department say its ethics office signed off on all of this, but that's not convincing some lawmakers on capitol hill or ethics watch dogs. >> and renee marsh joins us now. so, renee, i understand lawmakers sent a letter about the travelment what are they hoping to find out. >> reporter: right. so anderson this is the letter, three pages here, that lawmakers sent. the house democrats sent this letter. they sit on the committee that essentially oversees the interior department. and they are writing the letter to the inspector general also raising concerns about zinke's mix of political activities in official business. they do say that they want investigators to answer if all the laws and rules were followed on these trims. but again, we do want to point out we do not know at this point if any laws were broken. that is the ve

documentary. when i was in montana, there was a tribal community and a grassroots effort to deliver water coolers and free testing kids. these were all place where is they're on all own well water, economically disadvantaged so they didn't have all the resources, so people stepping up and taking their initiative to bring clean water to kids because it can hurt children if they're drinking contaminated water and they live with that the rest of their lives. >> woodruff: dr. petchel, do you think this documentary will make a difference when people see this? do you think they will take matters into their own hands? >> i certainly hope so. i think it helps people -- not only are you seeing the importance of water nationally but you're seeing the faces of people in other communities, some who are like you and some who are not, so you see that it's somewhat -- it's not particular to a certain kind of person or place. it can affect yip one. >> woodruff: jasmine, how much uh trouble did you have getting people to talk? >> we in beaumont and the north carolina people are very willing to tell

the defensive day over questions over a small montana company rebuilding the electrical grid in puerto rico puerto rico. whitefish energy had only two employees before winning a $300 million contract for hurricane recovery. whitefish is from the same town interior secretary ryan zinke grew up entering the white house insist officials in puerto rico awarded the contract. but in an oval office meeting today, president trump asked zinke about it. >> he did ask secretary zinke, just for clarification purposes. and he reiterated once again that we have no role, the federal government, specifically he had no role. >> zinke has not responded in a statement late this afternoon saying, "i had absolutely nothing to do with whitefish energy receiving a contract in puerto rico. neither myself or anyone in my office has advocated for this company and get away." after the initial contract was awarded, i received a single email from the company in which i took no action. all records, which are being made available, will prove no involvement." strong pushback, brad, from the interior secretary.

rico's power authority and whitefish, the small montana company it chose to rebuild its ruined grid. >> there's no lawyer inside fema who would have ever agreed to the language that was in that contract to begin with, so let me be clear about that. and we raised the red flag. there were many things wrong. there was also language in there that would suggest the federal government would never audit whitefish. there's not a lawyer inside fema that would ever agree to that type of language. >> woodruff: 67% of puerto ricans are still without power more than a month after hurricane maria struck. 800,000 customers across new england also woke up without electricity today. crews worked through the night to restore downed power lines and to clear debris left behind from a powerful storm the night before. with the work just beginning, halloween festivities were postponed in communities from maine to connecticut. >> it's hard to take a shower when it's all cold water, and it's hard to eat every cold meal without being cooked, because we don't have gas, we only have an electric stove. it's get

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montana, but his office says he had nothing to do with the deal. president trump will approve plans to shrink the size of two national monuments-- federally protected areas-- in utah. that word today from orrin hatch, one of the state's u.s. senators. he says the president called him today with the news. the white house would not confirm or deny it. the monuments are bears ears and grand staircase-escalante. the latest trove of documents on president kennedy's assassination is out. the national archives made 2,800 documents public last night, but president trump held back others for further review, at the behest of the f.b.i. and c.i.a. he tweeted today that he hopes to make nearly all of it public eventually. on wall street today, upbeat earnings and sales reports from microsoft and amazon fueled a tech rally. the nasdaq rose 144 points, more than 2%, to top 6,700. the dow jones industrial average gained 33 points, and the s&p 500 added 20. still to come on the newshour: a top h.b.o. executive shares her experience with sexual harassment. at risk-- concerns about the upcoming census t

electric grid in montana. they have a total of just two full-time employees. puerto rico's governor says an initial audit that he requested from the territory's office of management and budget will be released today and that there will be, in his words, hell to pay if any wrongdoing is found. joining me now, msnbc's kristen welker, and gabe gutierrez, my friend in puerto rico. kristen, we'll start with you. the administration navigating a lot this week. we have the gop infighting, the opioid crisis headlines the president made yesterday. how are white house officials explaining how this deal came together? >> reporter: well, look, they make the point that it was the governor of puerto rico who signed off on this deal. let me tell you where things stand at this hour, peter. two house committees as well as a federal watchdog group have opened up an investigation into this deal. here is the issue. the issue is it prohibits any review of labor costs or profits, and that has raised a number of alarm bells. fema issuing a statement demanding answers, saying based on initial review and inf

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are journeymen linemen contracted by white fish, a small company out of montana. raised a lot of eyebrows when they were given a contract without any input from the army core of engineers. how the hell did you get this contract? you're a brand new company. >> we've been around for a few years. we specialize in difficult and mountainous terrain projects. all's i can say is we took the call and we're here. >> they called you? >> we called each other. >> he struck a deal with prepa, the publicly owned utility notorious for high prices, rolling blackouts and a $9 billion debt. >> is it a risk for you to take this gig? >> it's a risk. when you come down here and you see what i've seen and you have that skill set that can have an immediate impact on the people here it becomes a mission. >> not just a job? >> it's not a job, no. it became a mission. >> how long before juice is flowing through these? >> good question. we hope to have this line back up in the next three to four days. >> the governor is promising 95% power back by christmas? >> yeah. >> is that reasonable? is that a fantas

about foreign national tried to buy montana. and just how precious she's wild places are. >> amazing show. thanks so much. con grats, starts tomorrow. my guest will be senator chris murphy and ron johnson, and you know two of the panel ess. that's it for the leed. i'm jake tapper. turning you over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." have a great weekend. >>> happening now, breaking news, rigged to explode. cnn has learned that investigators now believe the las vegas gunman rigged his car to explode. the vehicle contained 90 pounds of explosives. almost twice the amount earlier revealed. along with suitcases packed with ammunition. >>> decision killing plan. source says the killer tried to buy tracer bullets weeks before the massacre but failed to obtain those rounds that would have helped him zero in on his targets. and what's behind the numbers scribbled on a note pad in his hotel sniper's nest. wait and see, president trump won't say what he meant when he warned of a calm before the storm during a

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