Thats going to wrap up this hour of msnbc live. Ill see you tonight on nbc nightly news and nbc today. My colleague katy tur picking it up. Reporter our word of the day today, its actually a name hillary. You are graduating at a time when there is a fullfledged assault on truth and reason. People denying science, con cobbingcob ing concocting rings out of pizza parlors. Some things we see with our own eyes, like the size of crowds. Hillary clinton unplugged. The wellplaced jab she took at President Trump while delivering a commencement speech at her alma mater. Also this hour, under scrutiny. Senior adviser Jared Kushner is now coming under the fbis scrutiny. Maybe the closest adviser to the president making him one of the most powerful people in this country. It does seem that they have significant information. That should make a whole bunch of people in the white house nervous. Reporter the president s soninlaw and adviser is now a focus in the fbis russia probe. Could it affect his
He was reportedly shot in the hip. Luckily, one of the other republican members on site at the time is a doctor. Congressman Brad Winstrop of ohio was playing with republicans was at the practice. He is an army surgeon who served in iraq. He was one of the members of congress who was able to personally able to render immediate firstaid to congressman scalise as soon as the gunman was down, as soon as he was shot by police and therefore safe for these other members of congress to get to congressman scalise as he lay grievously wounded in the infield of that baseball diamond. Congressman scalise has had surgery today after his gunshot wound. He remains in Critical Condition tonight. A former congressional staffer, a man named matt mika was also apparently playing with the republicans on their congressional Baseball Team. He was also very seriously hurt today. According to mr. Mikas family, they say he suffered multiple gunshot wounds in todays attack. Mr. Mika has undergone surgery and a
From Rex Tillerson. He was planning to lay out an economic pressure tactic against north korea. Laying out what the stakes are, how high the stakes are given north Koreas Nuclear weapons and Missile Technology and try to put pressure on the rest of the world toin crease the squeeze play against north korea. The sanctions are not nearly enough. China have been praising for what china has done and what the president s relationship with president xi has produced. But most experts do nont believe its produced enough. There is still fuel flowing to north korea. China is its only source. This is the only stage for Rex Tillerson to say they have to do more. A lot of this is contradicted in the president s interviews in the last 24 hours. The president speaking about military action and the fact there could be a military confrontation with north korea. This is not the language of diploma diplomacy. Not what the secretary of state and not what all 100 senators heard from the Top National Securi
Repeal impact their premiums and how many people could lose coverage as a result . Critical numbers could come out any moment. Lets go straight to capitol hill. A lot of people watching for that number to come as early as today. We saw preemptive moves from the president. President trump reaching out to the republican leadership. Also saw senator jon cornyn, majority whip, number two republican, trying to get a Temperature Check from senators, especially how the cbo score could impact what they end up voting for. One of the things theyll be looking at is how it compares to the house cbo score, which was devastating in terms of headlines. 23 Million People estimated to lose their Health Care Coverage over the next ten years. So, theyre going to be looking for either political cover or potentially an opening to actually support this. The same time, the super secret process that Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell went through was aimed at giving pieces of legislation to the cbo to see
Meeting held just off the coast of kenya. It was two days of meetings for a representative from Vladimir Putin and envoy from the Trump Administration. According to the post eric prince maintained that he was authorized to act as an unofficial surrogate for the president elect. His host at that meeting believed that to be true about him. He got that meeting and he spent two days in january in an island paradise meeting with a representative for Vladimir Putin. What did they meet about . What did they talk about . What took two days to get through . Why did they have to meet in this far away place . They had many matters of mutual concern to discuss. Here is the detail that Carry Forward to today. The person who set up that mysterious meeting in january, the person who set up what is basically reported as a back channel meeting between the trump folks and the putin folks, the guy who set it up and hosted the meeting was this man. M. B. Z. They call him m. B. Z. He is the crown prince of