Msnbc. Com now, the msnbc app and apple tv. And you can find me on social media, twitter, facebook, instagram, snapchat, linked in, all that stuff. Thank you for watching. Have a great weekend. Deadline white house with Nicolle Wallace begins right now. Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york. Donald trump today resorting to a familiar tactic spreading lies and smears on one of his favorite cable news programs in the wake of the House Democrats public hearings this week providing irrefutable evidence that donald trump conditioned refused military aid could tukt informations. The New York Times writes, quote, President Trump unleashed a series of falsehoods on friday on an effort to invalidate the Impeachment Inquiry and counter sworn testimony from officials in his own administration. After a week of damaging public
hearings. And while divisions in our politics endure, its beyond debate that the democrats fact witnesses, the majority of them, trump appointees and career diplomats, painted a
administrations. right. i think that, you know, again i think the most serious concern is when domestic politics start to infect that process, which has been set up to be nonpolitical. because it is intended to advance the interests of our country 300 million plus americans who depend on that part of our government to keep them safe and to advance our interests as a country in the world. so when that process gets impeded or infected and the national security process gets infected and impeded by that, by domestic politics, that is i think when many of us who have worked in this area would want to prevent. this is my last question. you ve been so generous with your time. she didn t testify to this, and i wonder if she had an answer if she d be asked. was anyone other than donald trump opposed to releasing the military aid for ukraine? well, you know, a lot of the key events with respect to
served our government in furtherance of their own security, american people security and the interests and values of our country. and so we have to be careful when we talk about conspiracy theories about those people and when we refer to the swamp in washington. there is a swamp in washington. but these fine experts are out to further our security against our adversaries. they are out to further america s position in the world and to advance our interest in values. and the american people have now had a chance to meet them. the american people have had a chance to meet them. i think it s fair to say by and large respect them. in her case a lot of them revere her. but donald trump essentially poured cow pop on her when he went on fox and friends this morning and repeated a conspiracy theory that literally 24 hours earlier she rebuked his allies in congress for doing. yes. as she said, she wants to have nothing to do with these conspiracy theories about
there is mum blippings that steve bannon does not reflect the administration s. and i don t think steve bannon s comments reflect the administration s position on this. america has a set of principles. american people security comes first. and treaty and relationships with other people are means to an end. and that is to further american security and make sure the world is a more stable place and that is where the obama under mined the american advantage. we have a big mess from middle east and north korea. and we watch it all unfold in spain and in finland there was a knifing attack. and looking to see if that is islamic terror. and shifting now to what they