just before 10:00 p.m. here on the east coast. the home page of the headline of the new york post website reads, bail to the chief. this is not a light moment. it s no laughing matter. it s a first for donald john trump. t t tonight s booking was a first jail visit for a former president. one thing that s not a first was the booking. it was his fourth. he is on his way back to b bedminister. back with the panel. we have seen the mug shot. i was looking up the official photo portraits of all the presidents. that s how most people view the presidents in history books. this is the picture that will probably stand the test of time
threatening. but you have secretary of defense jim mattis who looks to be trying to turn down the temperature overnight. he is talking about diplomacy. not about war. trying to pull back from the brink of that. i want to play for you what secretary mattis had to say and then we ll talk about it. my mission. my responsibility is to have military options, should they be needed. however, right now secretary tillerson, ambassador hallie, you can see the american effort is diplomatically led. it has diplomatic traction. it is gaining diplomatic results. margaret, you have secretary mattis talking about diplomacy. something we are not seeing from president trump himself. you have secretary tillerson on mattis side, it seems. nikki haley going to bedminister today to meet with the president. do we know what she might say? nikki haley s role is interesting because she was able to hold this coalition over the weekend where china and russia
u.s. launched a couple of them off to show their capabilities and it is quite dramatic. the ability to penetrate through rock. they are a very strong, offensive capability. so, the u.s. military and conjunction with its allies in the area is really always ready. locked and loaded for any kind of a north korean threat, hallie. courtney live for us at the pentagon. thank you very much. with me, chad sweep and chief of staff from the department of ohomeland security under george w. bush and my panel for the next hour, senior white house correspondent for bloomberg news margaret and nick johnston. guys, thank you for being here. chad, i ll start with you. giving us sort of the broad picture before you drill down and what s happening at b bedminister with nikki haley. we have been talking about this for four or five days now. what is different today that we didn t see earlier this week? a couple things. number one, if you look at the kore
rose garden house only passage of the health care celebration, and the president, through his weekly address, the video that goes out, will turn to the senate and say that he wants them to pick up the action on health care and get moving forward. so the president will use his weekly address to further sell the at least as it stands now, the plan republicans have to reshape and reform the health care insurance system in the country, so he s moving forward on that. we ll have to see how quickly the senate takes that up. kelly o., going back to this idea that he s saving the country a bunch of money by spending the weekend there in b bedminister, what can we tell folks about what this means for the town? will they take the same type of sues there, costs that we saw in pal beach? reporter: well, the local community is an affluent place with not a large police force. not necessarily the kind of
college. have you spoken since he made the decision to go to b bedminister, new jersey? no. we know that politics makes strange bedfellows but is this meeting to your estimation, mitt romney opening his mind and heart to donald trump who he has said very negative things about over the last year or more if the president-elect has taken the meeting? it could be both and i think it s important to understand that there are very difficult conversations going on across the country this week and this will be one of them and this could be one of the more difficult conversations. but at the same time and extremely hopeful and important move to have openness and reconciliation and tirs withfir the parties and need to happen within the democratic party.