Im richard lui live at msnbc headquarters. Two pictures were watching. Breaking news, a very busy saturday. On the left, youre protests going on, signs that are and chants that are against detainees. Two that were held there at jfk airport. Refugees from iraq. One released, one remains behind. 11 still detained across the country as we understand at this hour. And on the right hand side, we have the white house where President Trump whose executive order resulted in those being detained on the left, we expect him sometime this afternoon at the white house to be signing new more executive orders that we have not yet got any indication of what they may be about. However, there are possibly several options on that which well get to in a little bit. But first, lets go straight to jfk. Nbcs correspondent there, anne thompson. And the energy has not gone away at all. Have the numbers grown . Reporter in fact the energy keeps growing and so do the numbers. If you look behind me, you can see n
Fight. And global alert, investigator now calling for a worldwide hunt for the north korean suspects in the killing of kim jonguns half brother as new questions arise about his poisoning at an airport in malaysia. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. President trump praises the round ups of undocumented immigrants saying, and im quoting him now, were getting really bad dudes out of this country. He called the deportation raids a, quote, military operation. The white house says the president did not misspeak, but meant that phrase as an adjective. That came as secretary of state Rex Tillerson and Homeland Security secretary john kelly met with counterparts in mexico, a trip which President Trump described as tough. Mexico has slammed his immigration directives and kelly today was forced to emphasize that there will be in his words, no use of military force in immigration operations. The president s chief strategist steve bannon made a rare public appearance today alongside whit
One story, spies keep intelligence from donald trump on leak concerns. President trump the wall street journal did a story today that was almost as disgraceful as the feeling New York Timess story yesterday. Any suggestion that the United States Intelligence Community, this was just given to us, is withholding information and not providing the best possible intelligence to the president and his National Security team is not true. Martha while the president awaits the confirmation for senator dan coats, who is going to be as director of National Intelligence and a big important coordinator and all of the scum of the New York Times is winning this headline. White house plans to have trump ally review intelligence agencies, an outsider. We are joined for the white house reaction and tony schaefer. We begin tonight with catherine herridge. Catherine. Thank you, martha. Based on the reporting tonight, there is deep unease at the fbi over new Law Enforcement lakes amid the bureaus probe of f
There are two huge stories announced within minutes of 6 00 p. M. Sleep well that does it for us tonight. Well see you den tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, my friend lawrence. Lets start at the end of tonights news cycle which actually was minutes ago. You delivered that report that the New York Times has from unnamed sources, so this is a major leak, saying that Michael Flynn actually told the Incoming White House council don mcgahn, a month early before january 4th, before inauguration that he was under investigation. Flynn said to the Incoming White House counsel, i am under investigation by the fbi. And the president of the United States went ahead and appointed him National Security adviser with access to everything the government knows about everything. Yeah. And youre exactly right to zoom right in on the sourcing there. Because who would have known than . Obviously if that went down as the New York Times says it happened, don mcgahn
Tonights news cycle which actually was minutes ago. You delivered that report that the New York Times has from unnamed sources, so this is a major leak, saying that Michael Flynn actually told the Incoming White House council don mcgahn, a month early before january 4th, before inauguration that he was under investigation. Flynn said to the Incoming White House counsel, i am under investigation by the fbi. And the president of the United States went ahead and appointed him National Security adviser with access to everything the government knows about everything. Yeah. And youre exactly right to zoom right in on the sourcing there. Because who would have known than . Obviously if that went down as the New York Times says it happened, don mcgahn, the white House Counsel would know about this, because he was the one that was notified. Does he have any reason to be leaking to the New York Times than happening while he is still serving as white House Counsel . Well, the other people who wou