Being here. But first, this easter egg from saturday night live. By the way, the president s probably going to bomb north korea tonight. Okay, spicy has got to hip itty hop and deliver these eggs east as much candy as you want because this is probably our last easter on earth. Blug. And good day. Im andrea mitch in washington. Vice president pence putting the north korea regime on notice after visiting the Demilitarized Zone between north and south korea. The Vice President said today if north korea does not get rid of its Nuclear Weapons, the u. S. Will protect its interests by whatever means are necessary to bring stability to the region. Joining me Kristen Welker at the white house and Janice Mackey fryer in seoul, south korea. Janice, youre right there in sk which is within artillery range of the north. Millions and millions of people, 28,500 u. S. Troops in south korea. What does the Vice President real mean about them getting rid of their Nuclear Weapons . Theyve shown no sign of
Freedom caucus to get on board . And spy games, Nbcs Lester Holt with a behind the scenes look at americas attempts to Guard Nuclear and attacks from north korea. Moments ago, the former National Security adviser for president obama spoke oneonone with my colleague, ant ree ya mitchell. This is her first interview since a new controversy broke regarding rice and the unmasking of associates caught up in surveillance. Aiming the charges against her are absolutely false. Her defenders called it a distraction. When encouraged by a white house trying to defend its unfounded allegations of wiretapping and deflect from its russia problems. Here now is a portion of that terview. This is not anything that political has been alleged. The allegation is that somehow the Obama Administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes. Thats absolutely false. Let me explain how this works. I was the National Security adviser. My job is to protect the American People and the security of o
Pulling no punches about assad launching warplanes from the same airfield hours after the u. S. Strike. Heres what i think assads telling trump by flying from this base. Fu. Team of rivals. The west wing plot thickens as President Trump orders the warring factions, steve bannon and soninlaw Jared Kushner to work this out, digging in after his ouster from the National Security council a source telling nbc news, he aint going anywhere. The president can get advice from anybody he wants. He does that. He asks a broad range of people who he trusts and steve bannon is one of them. And the supremes. Its official. Neil gorsuch is sworn in as the next Supreme Court justice. Im humbled by the trust placed in me today. I will never forget that to whom much is given much will be expected. Ive always heard that the most important thing that a president of the United States does is appoint people hopefully great people like this appointment to the United States Supreme Court. And i can say this is
Thank you for the opportunity and blessing youve given us to serve your agenda and the American People and were copying to work very hard every day to accomplish those goals. Its an honor to serve as your cia director. Its a privilege to lead the men and women providing intelligence so we can do the National Security mission and in the finest tradition of the cia, im not going to say a damn thing in front of the media. Here here. Mr. President , thank you for your support and commitment to honoring our responsibility to americas veterans. I know that this is personally very important to you. I have the great honor of being able to represent the 21 million American Veterans that have done such great things for this country. Ive worked every day to make sure were honoring that responsibility. Thank you very much. Mr. President , its been a great honor to work with you. Thank you for the strong support of hud and for all others around this table that ive worked with. Were making tremendou
There on the tarmac in palm beach. The shot is breaking up. Theyll head from right there over to maralago where the president of china ultimately meet the president of the United States. Donald trump in right now on his waydl down t palm p wstill8ejn ky professional. Hes done this before and has an understanding that that was 1nderstanding that that was onj6e deal inb÷n was able to watchubyu syrian jet flew over and dropped a chemical bomb23 ndhyz onto th 3y]e÷ whichuauw4; aftermath of and weve been monitoring the past few days. We hadp] [n as someone that did disturb him, if you will. He started reporting when he was first briefed about that. He was very disturbed by what he was hearing. So i do expect that we will see more fallout from that. Mr. Obama drew his line in the sand. He urged him not to go in and take out assad. Another chemical weapon would drop on damascus which killed hundreds of children. This was the same sort of thing back in 2013 before donald trump was running fo