Agenda, rebuild relations with congress, oh, and rangel the president s twitter feed. Thats just for starters. Lets go to nbcs kristen welker. Kristen, i would say the expectations bar for kelly is pretty high. But i guess the question is, can he meet it, and what does the white house want from him . Reporter the white house sees him as a stabilizing force, chris. For all of those reasons that you just laid out. Hes a 45year marine veteran, someone who has led with an iron fist. The president thinks that hes on a very good job as dhs secretary. The fact hes been tough on crime, tough on illegal immigration. So he wants him to bring some of those sensibilities to this new role. But it is going to be a steep climb. Theres no doubt about that. Part of what he is charged to do is to try to bring more stability to this administration, to cut down on the discord and the infighting. But, of course, the big question remains, will he be able to rein in the president . Some of the tweets, some o
Neighborhood just down the road here just down tidwell who are walking through the water. They have just been rescued by boat. Entire towns are under threat. The rush to beat the water. Its bad. Its really bad. And the president now on Board Air Force one. Its just started to move bound for texas. Hes promising swift action to help the state recover. The people are handling it amazingly well and the people of texas have persevered. We begin with Tropical Storm harvey gathering strength in the gulf poised to make a third landfall as floodwaters keep rising in houston and emergency teams work frantically to rescue rez tesidents still trapped in r homes. President and the first lady on Board Air Force one en route to texas where theyll make stops in Corpus Christi and austin. But take a look at this. The purple dots you see on the map from noaa and the usgs all though the major flood areas. Look at houston. You can see that concentration being particularly hard hit. Heres what we know at
This morning, killing obamacare. The Trump Administration escalating its legal battle against the Affordable Care act, backing a lawsuit that would fully repeal the law with major implications for millions of americans and a risky position for republicans come 2020. Were going to take care of preexisting conditions, folks. Remember that. Moving past mueller, major decisions for both republicans and democrats. Congressional democrats demanding the full report a week from now. The president feeling emboldened as republicans seize the moment. When it comes to the fisa warrant, the clinton campaign, the counterintelligence investigation, its pretty much been swept under the rug. Those days are over. And Michael Avenatti indicted. The highprofile attorney in serious legal trouble this morning, accused of trying to extort millions from nike, facing charges that could carry prison terms totaling decades. What a difference a day makes. 24 hours ago you could practically hear the champagne cork
Tariffs. Im worried that the harm to our economy will be greater than the tariff effect on mexico. Do you think the white house understands how upset Congressional Republicans are about these tariffs . I think they understand the concerns very well. But trump will likely feel hes got some new ammunition to make his immigration argument. New numbers just released by customs and Border Patrol show undocumented immigrants at the southwest border during the month of may reached a 13year high. More than 144,000 and more than 132,000 were apprehended crossing the border illegally including 11,000 plus children. Joining me now is nbcs White House Correspondent kristen welker. Some of the president s biggest supporters are against this, Mitch Mcconnell is against it, ron johnson, rob portman. Ted cruz said were holding a gun to our own heads, but you heard the president , hes dug in, so where is this going . Reporter the president has been defiant, chris, there is no doubt about that. Look, th
fashion, it s managed to not hurt him thus far. and also, it sucks upon the oxygen from anyone running against him, because whether it s swami, mike fence, chris kristen, tim scott, everyone else on the campaign trail is getting asked to comment on donald trump. and in the primary, at least, whenever somebody is talking about donald trump, that s a good thing for him. probably not so much after the conventions if he is the nominee. let me ask you one more question, though. in the hierarchy of the charges and the convictions that donald trump could possibly face, where is this one? because this is a little different than the manhattan d.a. case. one might, like or not like the manhattan d.a. case, but most people say probably didn t have anything to do with three. now, we re looking at classified documents that may have been about war, might have been about iran. that feels a little closer to home in terms of actual national security danger. once you get the january six stuff, with ja