Thank you very much at home for joining me this hour.

Really, really happy to have you here.

I was away last week.

I want to thank everybody on Team Jen Saki for filling in for me

while I had the night off.

Very kind of everybody.

I know it's lots of work, but it's good to be back.

We, of course, have eyes tonight on central Texas,

where rescue and recovery operations are now into their fourth night, and where Texas officials say,

the death toll has now topped more than 100 lives lost in this terrible, terrible flash flooding,

centering on Kerr County, Texas. This is now officially one of the deadliest floods in the United States

in decades. We're going to have eyes there throughout the night again as rescue and recovery

efforts head into the fourth night. We're also going to be talking tonight with a meteorologist

and journalist who just before these storms was trying to publicly sound the alarm about the Trump administration

dismantling important parts of the National Weather Service and the consequences of that

for any part of our country facing severe weather.

We've got that expert perspective from a very prescient person who was warning about these

things just ahead of this disaster.

We've got that coming up this hour tonight. We've also got a live report tonight this hour

from a lawyer who just made a bombshell discovery about President Donald Trump's ongoing efforts

to ship people off to random foreign countries for potentially lifetime imprisonment

without trial. The subject of this new revelation, this is something the Trump administration

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