No matter what the president and first lady do, they are constantly under attack. Even during devastation. Will check into night with the Texas Governor greg abbott, he is here, hell join us in a few minutes. The liberal Mainstream Media their hatred resorted to petty attacks while millions of americans are suffering tonight. A very important opening monologue. President donald trump in the first lady visited texas today, to assess the damage and offer their support to the victims of Hurricane Harvey. Heres the president from earlier today, take a look. President trump my folks are telling me how great your representatives have been in working together, its a real team. It happened to texas and texas can handle anything, thank you. Thank you. Its showing tremendous love and coordination and the country in the whole world is seeing and gaining respect for everybody, the job you have done is incredible. Sean the president was on the ground doing what leaders do, thats leaving the Recover
Missiles. President trump has been reacting on twitter call north korea a rogue state highlights chinas unsuccessful efforts to rein them in. And talk of appeasement saying the north only understands one thing. The white house said the president will meet with the National Security team later. Lets go to garrett at the white house. Lets talk about the president s response, all of it, according to the tweets as well as what he just heard him say on camera. Reporter afternoon. An ominous two word response from the press of the United States can when asked if the north korea, spontsdsing to the reporters following him to church this morning simply well see. He was much more verbose on twitter. A threetweet from the president. He says, quote. North korea has conducted a Major Nuclear test, their words and actions continue tong hostile and dangerous to the United States. North korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to china which is trying to help with lit
Israel, and calling them weak and insecure. And his administrations foot soldiers parroted that same line on the sunday talk shows insisting that the president s racist attacks are response to the squads, in many cases, debunked criticisms of his version of america, which they should understand is strictly a president ial privilege. Well have more on that fight with figures in the 2020 race and the internal struggle in the Trump White House to contain the damage. All this as we gear up for special counsel Robert Muellers congressional testimony on wednesday, which the president who famously takes policy cues from cable news, says he wont be tuning in for. Well see about that. Joining me is dean ogudala, sirius xm radio host and columnist for the daily beast. And noah rothman, associate editor of commentary magazine and an msnbc contributor. Lets start with you, noah. The president s week, he started with making a lot of headlines going after the squad and making statements that many fe
Dozens more. In his apparent manifesto, the killer made it clear that he carried out the attack in the name of White Supremacy and praised donald trump as a, quote, symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose. Trump did condemn the violence which youre supposed do as president , but he refused to admit what everyone else can see, the explosion of far right White Nationalist extremism at home and abroad. Do you thinkhi nationalism as arising threat around the world . I dont really. I think it is a small group of people that have very, very serious problems. I guess if you look at what happened in new zealand perhaps that is a case. I dont know enough about it yet. They are just learning about the person. And the people involved. But it is certainly a terrible thing, terrible thing. Trumps bland response to the slaughter of muslim men, women and children in new zealand was eerily reminiscent of his remarks after an outbreak of White National violence here in the u. S. You had som
And a 2020 democratic hopeful is among the witnesses. I believe right now today we have a historic opportunity to break the silence, to speak to the ugly past and talk constructively about how we will move this nation forward. Back to that story in a bit. We begin with a star witness on capitol hill. A new detail about her changing relationship with the president she once called boss man. Hope hicks was as close to candidate and President Trump as one can be and shes behind closed doors right now as House Democrats press for details about trump hush money payments to two women, and she was central to many in the Mueller Report most notably a conversation between President Trump and donald trump jr. As how to spin that meeting with the russians promising dirt on Hillary Clinton. She knows a lot. More than most. Word today she isnt sharing much. Manu raja is tracking the latest. What do we know . Reporter the beginning of the hearing did not go particularly well at least in the eyes of d