Attack that killed, according to the administration, over 1400 people, mostly women and children inside syria. But the president now finds himself in a very difficult position. This is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, someone that ran for president in 2008 saying you have to go to the u. N. , you have to get congressional authorization before you act militarily. Now standing alone on the world stage, pushing basically for unilateral u. S. Military action, the president seeing his reset with russia, now in tatters at the united nations, his ally not delivering on building a coalition yesterday. So the president stepped up today, started making his case. Said he hadnt made a final decision, but started to make a case for u. S. Military action and basically cast himself as a reluctant warrior. Take a listen. This kind of attack is a challenge to the world. We cannot accept a world where women and children and innocent civilians are gassed on a terrible scale. This kind of attack threatens our
Attacks on 9 11, including the attack on the world trade center, President Trump drew an x today through the welcoming words of the nearby statue of liberty. He signed an executive order he says will keep out islamic terrorists. Mr. Trump also said today while he believes in torture, he would leave its authorization up to his defense secretary. Heres Margaret Brennan with what we know. We want to ensure that we are not admitting into our country the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas. Reporter the president s executive action will implement what he calls extreme vetting of immigrants. Im establishing new vetting, measures to keep radical islamic terrorists out of the United States of america. We dont want them here. A 90 day halt on entry of have iters from countries of concern like iraq and syria and blocks all Syrian Refugees indefinitely. President trump said in a Television Interview he will prioritize persecuted christians. Yes, theyve been horribly treated. Do you kn
From before the 1980s. But first, sanctuary cities have become a major Battle Ground in the immigration debate in the u. S. Why does President Trump want to get rid of them . And what does his new budget tell us about his plans to help inner cities with education, policing, and health care . Joining me now, the mayor of one of those sanctuary cities, newark, new jerseys mayor. Good morning. Good morning. Let me start with sanctuary cities. I want to get into the budget and how it affects inner cities, but the president has gone out of his way, the attorney general Jeff Sessions actually threatened mayors like you of sanctuary cities offi turning o certain funding. Why are they targeting you . I think them targeting sanctuary cities a way for them to tell mayors and folks around the country that theyre sticking to what i think is an unamerican and unconstitutional policy and trying to intimidate us into being what ive called fugitive slave catchers, to run around and do otheir bidding i
Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. Good evening. Im Kristen Welker in tonight for kate snow. We begin with the president poised to make key decisions about the nations security, spending the day at his florida resort interviewing candidates for National Security adviser after firing Michael Flynn last week. Those highlevel meetings come as were getting our first glimpse of draft memos which detail possible new guidelines for deporting undocumented immigrants while the white house says the memos are just suggestions, immigrant Rights Groups are already expressing concerns. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell takes a closer look. Reporter behind the scenes at the president s maralago home in palm beach where a highlevel help wanted sign is out, President Trump is interviewing four job candidates today to replace the fired National Security adviser, Michael Flynn. All with military and National Security backgrounds. The white house chief of staff insisted the president s c
Sir . Thank you. So youve got that. And then weve seen trump ignoring advice to leave mueller alone. Trump also added controversial Joseph Digenova to the team, a frequent fox news guest and an avid conspiracy theorist. Digenova publicly insisted the president is being framed by the fbi and doj. So that begs the big question, is the president , and only the president , now running his own defense . This is the first major shakeup right now and it comes at a critical moment as these very sensitive negotiations are ongoing between the president s legal team and with the special counsel. Dowd had sold the president on a strategy of cooperation. They said the sooner, the faster you cooperate, the more likely you are to get cleared. They said it would be over by the end of last year. Obviously its not, obviously its intenseifying and the president is deeply frustrated by that. Hes bringing in people that instead might appear to be more aggressive. Lets bring in our team of reporters and ana