Good morning, its wednesday, september 20th. We are following a number of stories. President trump was America First se u. N. And steps up his warnings to north korea meanwhile, republican as far as see daylight on Health Care Reform. Some gop governors arent so sure about that. The Russian Investigation rolls on with new details on whos paying the president s legal bills but first, two Natural Disasters unfolding in real time. Rescue efforts happening right now in mexico after a powerful earthquake ripped through that country yesterday and Hurricane Maria about to slam directly into puerto rico. Well go straight to meteorologist bill karins with a check on the storms latest track. Bill. Power knocked out. Roof damage done, structural damages beginning as the strongest weekends are moving on shore in puerto rico. Overnight, can you see the storm, 124mileperhour winds in st. Croix. Now the storm is about to make
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find new flexibility. find new roads. chevrolet. we are keeping a close eye on what is happening at the united nations. we saw president biden arrive just a few minutes ago. he s set to deliver remarks at the top of the hour. while we wait, i want to bring back nbc s jeff bennett. he s at the u.n. also with us, glenn johnson, former state department senior adviser and author of window seat on the world. now axios political editor and nbc senior international correspondent, keir simmons also joins us from london. jeff, why should people care about this speech? reporter: it s an interesting question, steph. i think after four years of an isolationist, nationalist president, who espoused an america first view, who made clear that he had no use for multi-national organizations like the u.n., in comes a president biden. a man who as i mentioned at the
trusts in value. laura: that was pompeo today. i have known john bolton for decades. he s appeared on the show many times. we obviously really like him and respect him very much. but his position at the white house, let s all be honest, it was always going to be a complicated fit. remember, bolton of coursework for george w. bush in one position as u.n. ambassador and in some areas, he is closer to the interventionist wing of the g.o.p. then he is to trump america first view. i still remember when the democrats used to agree with being a less interventionist power. but then trump derangement syndrome took hold and they became walking contradictions of themselves. here s what democrat sounded like when bolton was appointed. john bolton didn t even know what he was being hired for. let alone not knowing that he was being hired. john bolton is a dangerous man. john bolton i think is a
benefit him in delivering american foreign policy. laura: that was pompeo today. i have known john bolton for decades. he s appeared on the show many times.s. we obviously really like him and respect him very much. but, his position at the white house, m let s all be honest, it was always going to be a complicated fit. remember, bolton, of course, worked for george w. bush in one position as u.n. ambassador and in some areas, he is closer to the interventionist wing of the g.o.p. than he is to trump s america first view. i still remember when the democrats used to agree with being a less interventionist power. itbut then trump derangement syndrome took hold and they became walking contradictions of themselves. here s what democrats sounded like when bolton was appointed. john bolton didn t even know what he was being hired for. let alone not knowing that he was being hired. john bolton is a dangerous man.
his advice to chinese president xi has been to go and talk to the protesters, but he has not said anything big or meaningful himself about those protesters want and whether he supports it. so you write to your earlier point, trump positioned himself in similarly benign fashion against saudi arabia after the killing of columnist jamal khashoggi and detention of women s rights activists and against russia for continued detention of ukrainian ships and sailors. i guess the question is why are we seeing his america first tendencies, sympathy for strong men, something else, what do you see here? both of those for sure, and i think the third reason is his own reluctance to really do the things that other presidents have done reflexively as the leader of the free world. that facilities with the america first, his america first view