And the Supreme Leader of iran says his country will stand firm in the face of american threats. Ayatollah kahmeini urges huge protests this friday, for the anniversary of the 1979 revolution. Hello and welcome to 100 days. From the moment she was first introduced in late november as President Trumps nominee for education secretary, betsy devos has been taking the heat. Shes a millionaire Christian Conservative philanthropist who critics said knew very little about the job she was up for. And she was widely ridiculed in her Confirmation Hearings when she was asked about having guns in schools. You cant say definitively today that guns shouldnt be in schools . Well, i. Iwill that guns shouldnt be in schools . Well, i. I will refer back to the senator and the school that he was talking about in wyoming. I think probably there i would imagine that theres probably a gun in the school to protect from potential grizzlies. Not her finest to protect from potential grizzlies. Not herfinest mome
Here is the clip in question with janine pirro of fox news for an interview to air saturday. Are you moving so quickly that your Communications Department cannot keep up with you. Yes. Thats true. What do we do about that . We dont have press
elliot necessary found it so hard the believe that he would have reassured the president that he is somehow not under investigation note once, and certainly not three times. Lets bring our Kickoff Panel on the, the veteran New York Times chief White House Correspondent peter baker is with us, who happens to be our newly minted msnbc political analyst. Vivian solana, and matthew nussbaum. Good evening to you all. Peter, i was watching you on Live Television slight after 4 00 p. M. Eastern time. Micolle wallace played the clip. That i cant talk about. I wont talk about that. All i want is for comey to be honest. Im sure he will be, i hope. You reacted in real time. Im not going to talk about that. You think this is a very serious moment right there.
While 30 say it has given them a less favorable one. 61 said it had no impact. And finally, this is the most troubling number 46 said they feel that President Trump fired comey to slow down the russia investigation. And 38 buy the original explanation from the white house, that it was done over legitimate concerns over how comey handled the Hillary Clinton email issue. And theres a report that a frustrated President Trump is considering firing many of his Top White House aides. It adds up to a week, at best, the administration has a communications problem. Or at worst, it is facing accusations of obstruction of justice. I was going to fire comey. Donald trump contradicted his white house aides and his Vice President , adding to questions as to why the president chose to fire fbi director james comey when he did. No one from the white house. That was a d. O. J. Decision. He took the recommendation
but the president needs to back off and let the investigation go forward. We need to call
When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Days after a senior republican senator referred to the white house as adult day care, the man that many believe is in charge of supervising the president , Chief Of Staff john kelly, was sent out before the press to shoot down reports that the president s tantrums are causing big problems. The day began as it often does with a president ial outburst on twitter. This one aimed at the struggling people of puerto rico. Who three weeks after Hurricane Maria are still suffering through an acute deadly crisis, many lacking access to safe water and food, and Urgent Medical care. Well have the latest from the island coming up later this hour. Today the president appeared to blame puerto rico for its current situation, threatening to cut off federal recovery efforts. I quote him here. Electric and all infrastructure were disaster before hurricanes. Congress to decide how much to spend. We cannot keep fema, the
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Program that cuts back on medicaid in order to have tax cut for wealthy people, but we do need to deal with the cost of the individual market and the premiums. One way to do that is to make sure that the cost sharing is a predictable payment to the Insurance Companies to cover the cost deductibles and copays. Another thing we can do is improve subsidies for lower income families. Democrats and reins cpublicans o that together. Democrats and republicans can bring down the cost of prescriptio prescriptions. We could follow a canadian mod e. We could organize the patient as Value Reimbursement rather than just volume. Do you accept the idea that repeal and replace of obamacare is a mandate for the republican majorities . There is an agreement here, im trying to think of this almost like middle east peace, first negotiate the the ceasefire and then agree, the democrat agree Obamacare Needs Major Reforms and heres what were willing to talk about. What are you willing on your end to talk abo