Office in the mid terms. And ivanka trump is now a federal employee. Shell have an office in the white house. A closer look at the ethics rules surrounding that fire. But first lets get caught up on everything that just happened. Kelly odonnell at the white house, kasie hunt on capitol hill, and an analyst in boston with us. I want to go to you first, ken. Youre with our Investigative Unit and youve been really digging into this. What do we at nbc news about this . The New York Times reporting that two white house officials helped give chairman nunes access to these documents last week. What have we been able to confirm . Nbc news has not confirmed that these two officials were the ones who handed nunes the information. Weve been hearing for days, one, cohen watnik was brought in by the former intelligence agency. And under be nunes before going to the white house. These men are perceived as likely to be perceived as being at the white house. The other thing is that nunes explicitly de
As much as we have came up with a really Incredible Health care plan, this has brought the Republican Party together. Paul joining the panel this week Deputy Editor dan henninger, kim strassel and joe rago. Joe, how did they pull this off . It was dead in the water for a while. I think there was a sense of political urgency. This was really a big win for the house to overcome the defeat in march of the original bill and they made some policy compromises. If you look at the people who voted for this bill, moderates to really hardline conservatives they came together on a great bill. Paul well, its not perfect. We have written critically of some parts of it. You think its a substantial down payment on the pledge to repeal and replace obamacare . Yeah, this is directional progress. Its moving away from the Central Planning and government control of obamacare to a more free market system. Look, we have seen that getting an ideal bill would be really hard with this congress. Paul with the 6
Sides. I dont have any doubt about it, and you dont have any doubt about it either. The Washington Post responded with a very, very tough tuesday was a great group for david duke and racists everywhere. The president of the United States all but declared he has their backs, close quote, two more ceos resigned from the president S Manufacturing council, that brings the total so far of resignations to eight. Lets bring in our senior white house correspondent. Jeff, a senior white house official says the president s impromptu News Conference yesterday was all him, those are direct quotes, all him. But others are encouraging surrogates to echo what the president actually said. What is the latest youre hearing from inside the Trump Administration . Reporter wolf, inside trump tower here and in fact back in washington at the white house, advisors there, they have been unusually silent. Theres been few defenders coming forward at least publicly to defend what the president said yesterday, and
Conservative news outlet paid for the purpose of conducting research into the lives of then candidate donald trump. All of the work at fusion gps provided to the free beacon was it appears in the steel dossier, none of it. The Christopher Steel dossier was compiled by this man, former british spy Christopher Steel, is reportedly included interviews. Its brand with highly salacious rumors about President Trump but its contents went unverified even if it landed in the hands of various news outlets. Buzzfeed published it in total. What apparently began as a republican funded effort to discredit mr. Trump on publicly available sources and a early in 2016 and was plucked up by the Clinton Campaign and became an effort to get private information from moscow. For more than a year, these democrats have alleged collusion between the trim campaign in the kremlin. The disclosures about the funding suggest it was the democrats seeking to benefit from russian intervention. Jesse thank you, james. T
Questions about the firm fusion gps in 2015 and 2016 for the purpose of conducting research into the life of then candidate donald trump. All of the work that they provided to the free beacon was based on public sources and none of the work appears in the steel dossier said free beacon founders. The free beacon had no knowledge of or connection to the steal dossier, did not pay for the dossier and never had contact with, knowledge of or provided payment for any work performed by Christopher Steele. Now the Christopher Steele dossier was compiled for fusion gps by this man, former british spy Christopher Steele Whos Research into mr. Trump in 2016 included interviews with top russian spies and diplomats. It brimmed with highly salacious rumors about mr. Trump but they went unverified. Buzz feed published the comments in total until january. The Washington Post published the steel dossier was bankrolled by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the dnc. It was formed to discredit mr. Trump and