Underway on a thursday night. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,001 of the trump administration. It was a bad day for the trump administration. And in plain english heres why. The president s chief of staff speaking out loud in front of the press corps in the White House Briefing room reversed everything the president has been saying about the call with ukraine. He said military aid was held up over politics, said they do it all the time, said we should get over it. He confirmed Rudy Giuliani has been all over u. S. Foreign policy. He said the president s own golf resort has been selected as the host location for the next g7 while at the same time the Vice President was overseas in essence giving turkey what they want and cementing the end of the kurdish homeland. But lets start at the beginning. Here is Mick Mulvaney who enjoys the title acting chief of staff confirming what we have seen happen, the president holding back aid to press
Underway on a thursday night. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,001 of the trump administration. It was a bad day for the trump administration. And in plain english heres why. The president s chief of staff speaking out loud in front of the press corps in the White House Briefing room reversed everything the president has been saying about the call with ukraine. He said military aid was held up over politics, said they do it all the time, said we should get over it. He confirmed Rudy Giuliani has been all over u. S. Foreign policy. He said the president s own golf resort has been selected as the host location for the next g7 while at the same time the Vice President was overseas in essence giving turkey what they want and cementing the end of the kurdish homeland. But lets start at the beginning. Here is Mick Mulvaney who enjoys the title acting chief of staff confirming what we have seen happen, the president holding back aid to press
deal about how we should deal with turkey now and in the future. was there no chance for diplomacy? are we so weak and so inept diplomatically that turkey forced the hand of the united states of america? turkey? here for our lead-off discussion on this consequential thursday night, anna kumar, white house correspondent and associate editor over at politico. jeremy bash, former chief of staff of the cia and the pentagon, former chief counsel to house intel and greg miller, national security correspondent for the washington post. also happens to be the author of the apprentice: trump, russia and the subversion of american democracy. greg, i d like to begin with you. what did mick mulvaney just admit to today? so, you know, between his two statements, i mean, at the outset, he basically admitted
deal about how we should deal with turkey now and in the future. was there no chance for diplomacy? are we so weak and so inept diplomatically that turkey forced the hand of the united states of america? turkey? here for our lead-off discussion on this consequential thursday night, anna kumar, white house correspondent and associate editor over at politico. jeremy bash, former chief of staff of the cia and the pentagon, former chief counsel to house intel and greg miller, national security correspondent for the washington post. also happens to be the author of the apprentice: trump, russia and the subversion of american democracy. greg, i d like to begin with you. what did mick mulvaney just agree to today? so, you know, between his two statements, i mean, at the outset, he basically admitted from the white house podium what the white house has been insisting was not the case for