Giving the president a 30 chance of making it to the end oefz first term. We have it all covered for you. Joe johns live at the white house. The president has been completely up front about the fact that he gets irritated by negative news coverage. He has taken issue with individual news story but never Gone Networks should be pup issuing for unflattering coverage. It is disgusting that the press can write whatever they want to write. We have great policies that the republicans tend not to be as unified. Reporter the president is growing increasingly frustrated with a stalled legislative agenda and a new article in vanity fair described the white house in crisis. With advisers struggle to go contain a president who is increasingly unfocused and consumed by dark moods. The reports cites two senior officials who say chief of staff john kelly is miserable but remaining in his post to keep mr. Trump from making a disastrous decision. His deputy chief of staff was nominated to replace the p
He may have picked a good week to be out of washington, though, because tomorrow his former long term lawyer Michael Cohen starts three days of congressional testimony. Michael cohen will testify publically on wednesday on matters ranging from his own secrets and lies to the president s business, campaign and foundation and much more. Lets go straight to the white house this morning. Sarah westwood is there. I know the president is about to leave. He says that he and kim jongun are eye to eye on this. It was also striking to hear the president say he is not in a rush for kim jongun to give up north Koreas Nuclear capability. So do we have a clear sense this morning of what the u. S. Objective is heading into this summit . Reporter the Trump Administration has really kept close to the vest what kind of steps theyre looking for north korea to make out of the summit although secretary of state mike pompeo did tell our colleague jake tapper yesterday that the administration wants to see a
instead a constellation of employees loyal above all to the democratic party and permanent class in washington ignored the united states constitution and then they invalidated the votes of tens of millions of american citizens. how did they do that? because they invalidated democracy. democracy doesn t mean anything if the people you would like to have no power, and mark millie did his best to make certain the elected president had no power. in early january, woodward and bob costa reported, millie called another meeting at the national military command center. he informed this group that they reported to him, not the elected president of the united states and that is not a small claim. the national military command center controls among other things the nuclear weapons inside our missile silos as well as the nuclear weapons on board submarines. mark millie was seeking personal control of the american nuclear arsenal. he ran around and demanded officers submit to his
trump has made a mew concessions. there has been a few movements, but it s all in the details. it s all in the negotiations. so gina haspel the regime is committed to a long range nuclear missile and the president yesterday says as long as there is no testing, we are happy. well, it s better than them testing, but it does not remove the threat. the united states, for example has not tested nuclear missiles. nobody would say that the american nuclear arsenal is not potent and not powerful and threatening to other people because of that. test sg o testing is one component of it. we discovered a new report that just 130 miles from the demilitarized zone there is a vast nuclear complex we didn t know about.
aggressive posture is mostly theater. but there is no underlying strategy to his loose talk. and whatever he means by it, congress has been sufficiently alarmed to consider legislation that would bar the president from launching first nuclear strike without a declaration of war by congress. it wouldn t take away the president s ability to defend the country. the atomic energy act in 1946 passed when there was more concern about trigger-happy generals. he could unleash the apocalyptic force of the american nuclear arsenal by his word alone, and within minutes. your take? well, first of all, the president already back in the campaign has made some statements about nuclear weapons that are certainly not in our interest. and would exacerbate traumatically nuclear risks. and i have to say our judgment would be that the risks of a miscalculation lead to go use of