You can take a look. I will be on the daily show with trevor noah, if all my travel goes okay including the many flights ive been taking just about every single day. Im looki ing forward to being back on trevors show. If youre in the area, it would be great if you could come by. I might see some of you in a little bit in seattle. That is all for this evening. The Rachel Maddow show does not start right now apparently. So she is there. There you are. I am here, sorry. It was actually me and a member of our ground crew both here about to start the show together. Perfect. Go to it, then. Thank you very much. Thanks to everybody who works here who has such patient with me arriving at the set usually four seconds before this camera turns on, tonight, arriving four seconds after the camera turned on. Very sorry about that. As you might imagine, as you might be able to tell from my composure right now we have a big show tonight. We have here tonight live the former Secretary General of nato.
Theyve already helped him make this pick and go through this process, but they are now going to get out there and work the roots for the votes, especially for the democratic votes he needs and the more conservative states out there. This is how you do a rollout. Whether you agree or disagree with something, and after the last few days, how can Something Like the travel ban be so rocky and so confusing where Government Agencies are not talking to each other, and they do this again. Whether you like the judge or not or a president from a marketing and branding standpoint. Thats perfect. This is the Dividing Line in the white house. The travel ban was ushered into being by Steven Miller and steve bannon who are disrupters by nature. They create this sort of environment of chaos as part of their governing philosophy, but the Supreme Court pick is a very conventional washington thing. This is a Reince Priebus operation. It was done by the book. It was contrary to what everybody thought it w
Plus literally dialing up the rhetoric. President trump and president putin set to talk as counterpart tomorrow. But whos calling who . Keir simmons in new york, Kristen Welker at the white house. Big meeting today, big phone call tomorrow but its the meeting thats not happening thats grabbing all the headlines, right . Thats right. That meeting that was supposed to happen with the president of mexico which was cancelled yesterday after President Trump insisted that mexico was going to pay for the wall, the president of mexico said not going to pay for the wall. That is something we have heard him say over and over again. Then we learned he cancelled the meeting. President trump tried to cast it as a mutual decision. Bottom line, this is a rift in a relation with one of the United States closest allies, its Third Largest Trading Partner. What happens next . The administration floating the idea of a possible 20 tax on imports from mexico and, hallie,
for a very busy day. Keir simmons is
Going on. But tonight i actually showed up with something planned to say. Oh, okay. And you ruined it. Because i just listened again. Rachel. Bless our hearts and other parts. All right. But [ laughter ] i didnt know i could get you to say that again. Im regretting it immediately. Okay. Im going to try to say the thing i planned to say. Okay. And what i planned to say is wouldnt it be nice if it was just completely totally absolutely impossible to suspect that Vladimir Putin orchestrated what happened in syria this week so that his friend in the white house could have a big night with missiles and all of the praise he has picked up over the last 24 hours . Wouldnt it be so nice if you couldnt even in your Wildest Dreams imagine a scenario like that . Wouldnt it be great if we could go back to wag the dog being a sitcom plot, you know. Exactly. And i dont know what it is. Is it a 2 chance . Is it a 50 chance . I dont know. But i dont think its a zero percent chance. And it used to be wi
All year round. So call today. Because nows the perfect time to learn more. Go long. Im jim accoosta for wolf blitzer. Maria on the move. Churning north and gaining steam. What the storm is leaving behind and who is next. The hunt for survivors after a deadly earthquake grows more frantic and we will take you there live. Turning to trump. The Special Counsel seeks new documents about the president s actions in office including a meeting with the russians. We begin with Hurricane Marias rampage with 3. 3 million u. S. Citizens. It has been devastated and President Trump approved a
system. In san juan, what is the situation there right now . Its strange because people are beginning to move around again. You see people stopping to pause and look around and take stock of the scope of whats changed in a little over 24 hours. We were here before the rains moved in to see a perfectly functional city, but there is a Puerto Rican Flag trying to go in the breeze. Part of today has been about tak