Said the u. S. Faces an economic war with china and he contradicted the president s threat of possible military action against north korea saying there is no military option on north korea. When asked if he still had confidence in steve bannon, President Trump said this. I like him, hes a good man, hes not a racist, i can tell you that. He is a good person. He actually gets very unfair press in that regard, but well see what happens with mr. Bannon, but he is a good person and i think the press treats and frankly very unfairly. Heather and his interview, he also attacked the far right, adding ethanol nationalism and its losers is a strange element. I think the media plays it up too much and we have to cope crush it more. Bryans life for us in bridgewater new jersey. What is the latest . The latest right now is the balance of the president s tweets. He is now saying affirmatively for the first time that he is for confederate statues and a series of tweets this morning. He called taking
Good morning. Its wednesday, october 17th. We begin with the latest in the disappearance of Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi who walked into the saudi arabias consulate in turkey. And has not been seen since. That parts had been just repainted. They plan to search the home of the consulate attorney general. That person suddenly left in several vehicles. This shows the vehicles planning to the residence shortly after khashoggi entered the consulate. This as they provided nbc news with photos and bio pages of members belong thing to 15person Saudi Hit Team they believe is responsible. They identified one of the suspects, claiming hes been a frequent companion of the crown prince seen with him in madrid and around the United States. And link three others to the crown princes security it tail and others said to hold senior officials at least nine of the 15 worked for the saudi government. And the president of the United States appears to be defending the office side. President tr
Now. Good evening once again from our nbc news Head Quarters here in new york. Im Steve Kornacki in for brian williams. Day 8 40 of the Trump Administration and the legal and political challenges facing this white house are multiplying. It has been six weeks now since the special Counsel Robert Mueller ended his investigation which had loomed as a potential giant threat to the trump presidency. Now the drum beat from democrats is getting louder for mueller to appear before congress and to testify about his report. The question . Whether trump and the white house will try to stop him from doing so. Heres what the president had to say about that today. Will you allow Robert Mueller to testify . Well, im going to leave that up to our very great attorney general, and hell make a decision on that. Bob muellers no friend of mine. I had conflicts with him. We had somebody that is in love with james comey. He liked james comey. They were good friends. This is a potential reversal from one he w
North korea and saber rattling from kim jongun, the 11th hour on a thursday night starts right now. Good evening once again from our nbc news Head Quarters here in new york. Im Steve Kornacki in for brian williams. Day 8 40 of the Trump Administration and the legal and political challenges facing this white house are multiplying. It has been six weeks now since the special Counsel Robert Mueller ended his investigation which had loomed as a potential giant threat to the trump presidency. Now the drum beat from democrats is getting louder for mueller to appear before congress and to testify about his report. The question . Whether trump and the white house will try to stop him from doing so. Heres what the president had to say about that today. Will you allow Robert Mueller to testify . Well, im going to leave that up to our very great attorney general, and hell make a decision on that. Bob muellers no friend of mine. I had conflicts with him. We had somebody that is in love with james
From kim jongun, the 11th hour on a thursday night starts right now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im Steve Kornacki in for brian williams. Day 840 of the Trump Administration and the legal and political challenges facing this white house are multiplying. It has been six weeks now since the special Counsel Robert Mueller ended his investigation which had loomed as a potential giant threat to the trump presidency. Now the drum beat from democrats is getting louder for mueller to appear before congress and to testify about his report. The question . Whether trump and the white house will try to stop him from doing so. Heres what the president had to say about that today. Will you allow Robert Mueller to testify . Well, im going to leave that up to our very great attorney general, and hell make a decision on that. Bob muellers no friend of mine. I had conflicts with him. We had somebody that is in love with james comey. He liked james comey. They