Pretending to be his own pr guy, heard a former butler spew forth on both the villainy of barack obama and Hillary Clinton, heard trumps unsavory chatter with howard stern, and just today that he wont release his past or present tax returns. Did he, donald trump, when he decided on running for president think none of this would explode in his face, or did he not imagine he would get this far, this close to actually being president . This week, there were multiple reminders of how much bag nlg that nominee, donald trump, brings with him. There was the 1991 audio on obtained by the Washington Post of a guy sounding like trump claiming to be trumps pr guy, a focus on his conversations with howard stern over the years, his insistence he wont release his tax returns until after the election. Aez he said today, its none of your business. And his former longterm butler casually called for the killing of the president of the United States. We begin with that newly uncovered audio from 1991. Th
Nominee that the vicepresident ial candidate will not be from wall street, will be some who has a history of standing up and working for fighting families. And breaking news in orlando, florida. The Libertarian Party is naming the nominee. This just a short while ago. What we know about the man who just became your third option on novembers ballot. But first, we start in the Nations Capital where donald trump just spoke at the Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally. An annual event held as a tribute to pows and missing americans in action. Trum top day addressing the controversy surrounding the money he says hes raised for Veterans Organizations. Our veterans have been treating so badly in this country. You have a secretary that last week said, no the wait time doesnt matter. Forget about wait time. I know people and i got to know so many vets and we just raised almost 6 million for the vets because i didnt do a television show. I said lets do. This and were announcing on tuesday all the gro
Kelly cobiella has more on the nuclear rhetoric. President trump was asked about this over the weekend or on new years eve and didnt we respond to shouted questions about the latest comments from kim jongun. Reporter yeah, some pretty ominous warnings from kim jongun to the United States. This idea that north korea, according to kim jongun, has completed its work on its nuclear program. He said that all of the mainland United States is now in firing range. And that is north koreas deterrence to what he called the Nuclear Threat from the United States. He said he has a Nuclear Button on his desk, said its not a threat, its a reality. He also said that North Koreans wouldnt use this weapon unless they were threatened themselves. In other words, no first strike, but they would retaliate if attacked. And the North Koreans pushed very hard last year toward this goal, if you want to call it that, to have a Nuclear Weapons program. 15 Ballistic Missile launches. Six Nuclear Tests in september
House director of legislative affai affairs, just as the president gets ready to make good on a campaign promise, slapping china with steep, new tariffs but beijing this morning is promising to hit back and guess who is going to pay . You. In fact you kind of already are. The dow down nearly 300 points, just on the anticipation of this announcement. Were getting into that, and were getting into what happens here in washington in less than 48 hours, when thousands of students from around the country will descend on d. C. For the march for our lives. Weve got a team of reporters traveling with them including with kids from parkland, joining their journeys live later on in the show. Our team is ready to go. Lots to discuss. Kasie hunt on capital hill, the vote on this socalled omnibus is set to start pretty soon, which means the votes are probably there to pass this thing, right . Whats happening . Reporter typically, yes, thats considered to be a good sign, hallie. Eight unlikely they wo
We were just talking about . Hey there, david. Long time koreawatchers say this is not at all a surprise. They point to the all too familiar cycle of hope and then inevitable disappointment when it comes to dealing with north korea on this issue of its Nuclear Weapons program. But the secretary of state went to north korea with a mission. He was there to flesh out the details of that vaguelyworded joint declaration that the president and kim jongun signed in june at the singapore summit. At the time, youll remember, kim agreed to work toward the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula, offering little in the way of specifics. Even so, President Trump tweeted that north korea no longer posed a nuclear threat. He said that americans should feel good sleeping well at night. But as it stands, north korea still has nuclear and ballistic weapons. They have not agreed to a disclosure of its weapons program, which would really provide a baseline for future verification, david. So at