Denis mcdonough grew up one of 11 kids in a small town. He worked in the house for congressman lee hamilton and in the senate for majority leader tom daschle and later for barack obama. When the freshman senator decided to make a run for the white house in 2008 he tapped mcdonough to be his Foreign Policy adviser for the campaign and once president , obama appointed him. The president noted when he announced him as his pick, mcdonough has been involved in every major Foreign Policy decision including the call to get osama bin laden. I thought denis decided to like pull allnighters. The truth is nobody outworks denis mcdonough. Here he is. Mr. Mcdonough, welcome to meet the press. Thanks for having me. What is your key part of your goal for this job . How do you approach it . My approach is focus on something that jim baker told me the other day. Reach out to several of the other chiefs of staff. He said as long as youre focused and not on chief, youre going to be okay. I got to tell yo
Scene for you first here, stephanie, up in this direction here gop members have just broken up from their Conference Meeting where they heard a presentation from leaders. You see them, a mob of reporters all around them and back down the hall behind me you also see them coming out of the room. Obviously a lot of interest here, the Republican Leaders made their presentation about an hour from 9 00 a. M. To 10 00 a. M. Here in washington, telling the rank and file that they are going to go forward. The bill will start to be debated on the house floor very shortly. It is a very touch and go situation. We have heard confidence expressed publicly by the Republican Leadership, last night, Kevin Mccarthy the majority leader emerging from a meeting in the Speakers Office telling us they had the votes, stating it very forth rightly. Any independent observer, anybody who watches the house of representatives though will say that this is a very iffy proposition going forward. One of the main point
Manipulators. Do shes shifts represent a change in mood or a change in strategy . Ill talk to two leaders in the Senate Armed Services committee, republican john mccain and democrat jack reed. Plus, how the Trump Administration plans to get tougher on illegal immigration. It is fair to say that the definition of criminal is not changed, but where on the spectrum of criminality we operate has changed. Hoemeland security secretary john is with us. On this Easter Sunday, we bring together three religious leaders and ask, can we really separate religion and politics . Joining me for inside an analysis are Andrea Mitchell, nbc news, mark leeb vich of the New York Times, former republican senator john sununu and heather jackson. Welcome to sunday. Its meethepress. Kour announcer the longest running show in history, its meet the press. This is chuck todd. Good morning and happy easter to those of you celebrating. We have a lot of politics, but first the tension in north korea. North korea lau
The latest from rome. And germany is getting ready to defend its soccer world cup title coach walking live has still have to decide who will make the trip to russia competition is intense and one of loves biggest dilemma is whether or not to keep manuel neuer as goalkeeper. Hello im terry martin welcome to the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel says both china and germany are committed to standing by the arend nuclear deal which was recently abandoned by washington michael whos on a two day visit to china told premier league king that close cooperation between the two sides was essential to solving the worlds crisis the german chancellor is also seeking greater market and. As for German Companies in china shell meet president xi jinping later today. Or for more on the chancellors visit to china lets bring in our correspondent who is standing by for us in beijing and joining me here in the studio is christine she shes a researcher at the market or institute for china studies here i
The others . Nope get internet on our gigspeed network and add voice and tv for 34. 90 more per month. Call or go on line today. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. It is a little past 11 00 p. M. Here on the east coast. We are live with new developments. Shock waves still be felt in the white house tonight over Rudy Giulianis bombshell admission that President Trump repaid his fixer Michael Cohen for that 130,000 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Sources tell cnn the whole thing was a story cooked up by Rudy Giuliani and the president leaving the rest of the team in the dark. Yul giuliani telling cnn, quote, the strategy is to get everything wrapped up and done with this so that it doesnt take on a life of itself own. I want to bring in now Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti. Its already a life of its own. Thank you for joining us. Were not going away anytime soon. You were on the show last night following that interview with Rudy Giuliani, where he admitted that th