lending unusual intrigue to a high profile white house visit. 300 dinner invitations engraved with the former first lady s name had to be scrapped according to the new york times. and normally she would sit next to president obama. so what now? the updated seating arrangement is not yet public, but sources tell cnn the white house and french officials would have coordinated on a solution. you have o be flexible. you have to be prepared. and you just sort of change course. reporter: social secretary during the clinton administration and until last year chief of protocol at the state department. most spouses play a role in the social aspect of the visit. they may accompany our first lady to see an issue that she particularly cares about. reporter: but other than that the hard work is really happening between the two leaders. and to that point, wolf, the white house is really downplaying any adjustments that have been made, focussing instead on the substance rather
republican backers. don t worry. you run. we ll take care of the money. he has rather moderate views on social issues conservatives may not be hip to. we ll talk a lot about that this morning. something else we re talking a lot about. amanda knox s first hope for freedom. the american student is waiting to see if her murder conviction will be overturned. she made her case to the jury earlier this morning. now an agonizing waiting game for her. part of what a tearful knox told the court, the accusations are completely unjust and without any foundation. i am paying for my life with a crime i didn t commit. paula newton has covered this case for years and joins us live from perugia, italy. what else did knox have to say to the jurors this morning? you know, she got up and could barely speak,ally. choking back the tears. they asked, do you want to take a seat? she said, no. she said okay. and she made a tearful plea but maintained her composure each time underscoring i di
that bill and liz talked about are absolutely on target. people are just people are struggling to create jobs. but i would say, when we say, liz, change course, if the president refuses to change course, where are there any republican ideas for getting this economy back on track? all we get from republicans is, no, no, no. to everything from unemployment benefits to stimulus spending. so, if americans are looking out there and everybody is concerned about it and saying, yes, we have trouble and why doesn t the president do more, and maybe more as chris wallace suggested in terms of i didn t suggest. i asked a question. republicans are saying no to things that have not worked. we ve lost 3.3 million jobs since the stimulus passed last year and what is clear is the private sector will not hire when they are traumatized and i think they have been pretty well traumatized by the policies of the administration and don t know what is coming next, more taxes and regulation and the repu
good evening. i m chuck todd here in washington. welcome to mtp daily b. we begin tonight with yet another earthquake in the white house. steve bannon seen by some as an elm seas to many on the populist right or alt-right, whatever you want to call them, arguably the driving force behind mr. trump s nationalist identity and to some the driving force to his election victory is now out. the white house said that today was his last day, and they wish him the best. this dramatic shakeup comes amid a growing wave of criticism from republicans in congress demanding that the president change course. folks, to who desperately want this white house to return to normalcy or whatever that means these days are probably going to hope that bannon s exit has everything to do with charlottesville. an official familiar with bannon s thinking says he submitted his resignation back
cannot completely shut him down because of the fear of collapse inside north korea. he sees the south korea paranoid and shaky because of what he might do. he sees japan and the united states trying to sort of either intimidate or to create pressures to get him to sort of change course. so kim jong un looks at himself as sort of, you know, the center of attention. and this center of attention typically misbehaves and tries to extort resources from the rest of the world in order to get him to behave. so right now, i think tim kim jong un thinks he has power and that s a problem. he s not going to pull back the provocations and stand them down. i think if he had a missile test that failed we ll see another one he launches fairly soon. he wants to remind the world