healthcare and russia this morning. i know we are talking about that. i don t know about other people. i can t speak for other networks. the fact is if alex, people feel like this administration is closing off, not giving information, not being available, that s a legitimate concern but is that what s happening here? that s not the case at all. every reporter in the white house will tell you they have amazing access to this white house. let s face it, this west wing leaks like aive. and s sieve. over reporter over there has a source. what s going on often hour-by-hour basis. it s not fair to say this administration is not transparent. what this administration could do is a better job of focusing on the issues at hand. why are they at war with the press this week? because their base loves it guess what, they really need to be pushing healthcare reform this week. the polls over the last 48 hours for the senate healthcare bill are apizza aabysmal. president trump needs to be speaking ev
who believe who support those principle positions aren t actually staffing this president, right? because it was all of the signers of the never trump letters. so that s what makes so surprising, what looks like a migration towards those same policies by the president himself. so it s not just that that sensible members of the cabinet that help all of us sleep better at night, despite the president s erratic behavior, but it s the president himself made a surprisingly speech about the strikes in syria, right? yeah. closing off, not just saying god bless america. everyone. but everyone. yeah. and there were he casted that very widely in that speech, i thought. thanks for your time. thanks. after the break senator cory booker joins me to assess the law and order policies and policing approaches like this new video out of florida.
because it was all of the signers of the never trump letters. so that s what makes so surprising, what looks like a migration towards those same policies by the president himself. so it s not just that that sensible members of the cabinet that help all of us sleep better at night, despite the president s erratic behavior, but it s the president himself made a surprisingly speech about the strikes in syria, right? yeah. closing off, not just saying god bless america. everyone. but everyone. yeah. and there were he casted that very widely in that speech, i thought. thanks for your time. thanks. after the break senator cory booker joins me to assess the law and order policies and
are we more likely to deter the future use of chemical weapons by acting or not acting? the syrian government vows to defend itself by using all means. the regime has hundreds of tons of mustard gas and large stock piles of sarin plus 100,000 missiles and rockets. john, diana, it s not clear what assad will do if attacked. syria has missiles capable of reaching israel. the israeli prime minister says his country is ready. john, diana. tahman bradley in washington, thank you. it appears syria may already be responding to the threat of a u.s. strike. syrian electronic army, group of pro-assad hackers says it has taken control over several major media web sites including twitter and the new york times. the new york times spokeswoman tells abc news their outage was affecting some users but the attack did appear to be malicious. worries over syria are taking the toll on wall street. the dow lost 170 points. the nasdaq closing off 70.
not months away. meantime the closing off of the fishing, commercial fishing east of the mississippi river here is really causing a hardship on many of the fishermen andctñ shrimpers. they now don t have a way to make a living. they re trying to lobby and get jobs with bp who s responsible for this oil spill and the cleanup as well. they re trying to get positions, paid positions so that they can go out and use their fishing and slumping bo in shrimping boats to earn a living. they don t have the means to make a living at this point. thank you very much. now to the latest in nashville. that is where power is still out in almost all of downtown. officials say it could take days, days for the city to get back up and running. at least in that power perspecti perspective. as they continue to cope with the devastating flooding, at least 29 people are confirmed dead after this weekend s storms. and more than 300 inmates have just been evacuated from a correctional facility in nashville.