Im stephanie ruhle. Like it or not, the state of the union today is dominated by controversies over russian interference and republicans taking aim at our own intelligence community. But if also true that americas economy is humming with trump at the helm, something that the president highlighted in his state of the union address, thats why we start. President trump stood up before a joint session of congress and marked the economys good fortune since he arrived at the white house. He touted the number of jobs added during his first year in office. He praised the tax cuts recently passed by congress and the increases in takehome pay that he promises americans will see as a result of those cuts. His speech was littered with factual errors, misleading statements, and embellishments. For no reason. For no good reason. Here are a few things he said about the economy that caught our attention. After years and years of wage stagnation, we are finally seeing rising wages. Africanamerican unem
Her white house that way. I mean, we would be hearing it about it, well, nonstop from republicans who are going back three or four years still attacking Hillary Clinton because they dont want to look at whats happening right now in front of them. Welcome to morning joe. It is monday morning, february 12th. With us we have Political Writer for the New York Times, Nick Confessore, morning joe economic analyst, steve ratner, weve got president of the council on Foreign Relations and author of the run away best selling book a world in disarray coming to a food channel near you soon richard haase, and katy kay and heidi prisbella. Mika will be back with us tomorrow. Lets talk about john kelly and reports of the friction around the house that surround the chief of staff, john kelly, and his actions as they related to the resignation of white house staff secretary rob porter. Of course, over those allegations of Domestic Abuse. Tuesday night, kelly said he, quote, is proud to serve alongside
Daca negotiation because there were too many white people involved and most people here didnt even notice. Left wing attacks on the basis of race are now common. Very common. Would it be they found it shocking the president would criticize an entire nation . Maybe. But then the left has no problem bashing huge parts of this country. You can put half of trumps supporters into what i call the basket of deplorables. [laughter] right . The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic. They cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people that arent like them. Five white guys i call them. [laughter] i said you going to open a hamburger stand next or what . Tucker they dont have a problem dismissing entire populations. So what is the real reason for the panic you are watching right now on Cable Television . Maybe its because trumps remarks are forcing precisely the kind of conversation our leaders dont want to have. He didnt do it on purpose. It was accidental but he still raised
Night but the 60th annual Grammy Awards wasted no time getting political. He had a longtime fear of being poisoned. One reason why he liked to eat at mcdonalds. Wake me up when its all over and im wiser and im older all this time i was. Brian wake you up before its all over. Wake you up before its started. Steve is that message supposed to be its 6 01 white house. This is your wakeup call . Ainsley maybe. So. Brian i hope not. Ainsley lots of news going on in washington. We are heading down there today because the state of the union is tomorrow night. Brian we told everyone were coming. Steve they know now. Ainsley get ready, were on our way. Steve thats right. Meanwhile, you will be able to see it tomorrow night right here on the fox news channel. The president of the United States apparently stuck close to home. He was at 1600 pennsylvania avenue working on the state of the union. We have talked in the past a little bit about some of the ideas Going Forward and the white house has be
Night begins now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york, day 393 of the trump administration. This day was different because this is what we learned today. We learned that russia interfered with our election, we learned how it helped the Trump Campaign and how it hurt the clinton campaign. Russia took advantage of our society, our First Amendment and our social media and our deep divisions. This was an asymmetrical act of information and psychological warfare and it never stopped. They came into our country physically and they reached in electronically, they changed what we read, what we saw, and what we heard, and in some cases they changed our minds. And with a few hundred people and a few Million Dollars they proved it was a successful attack by a hostile nation on our own soil. And while we are used to our president s protecting us, today the president talked about how this affected him. It should be stressed tonight, no one was vindicated today, n