To sit down and make that deal, i think we would be happy to get that done. The media is going nuclear, why . Because your president dared to stand up to the north korean dictator kim jong un who is threatening us. Its just classic trump. It is at another level because we are talking about nuclear war. Sitting in the hall of fame yeah and the worlds going to know your name yeah. Steve live in new york where its not the best day of the year so far, january 4th, 2018. Its a thursday. Welcome aboard. Brian weatherwise its not going to be the best day of the year it might be a day we always remember. We could always have a good day indoors. Ainsley lets make the best of it. Although its always sad when people live without their heat. Have you had deaths because people dont know how to deal with extreme weather in the south. Kids get out of school and they love the sledding. These are states that rarely see snow. Every now and then its nice when you have places like tallahassee florida or c
Thats complete fantasy and just full of tabloid gossip, because its sad, pathetic and our administration and our focus is going to be on moving the country forward. So lets get right to nbc news chief White House Correspondent Hallie Jackson following the latest from the white house this afternoon. Hallie, as is usual, a lively set of exchanges with the press secretary. What else did we hear from Sarah Huckabee sanders today . Whats your headline . Reporter a lot there, chris. The headline, the news coming out of the Briefing Regarding the fire and fury book, continued pushback on this and frankly, the second day in a row about the president s Mental Fitness after wolff in his Hollywood Reporter excerpt seemed to imply some inside the administration has concerns about that given the president s, for example, repetitiveness. Sarah Huckabee Sanders could not have pushed back more fiercely saying it was disgraceful, laughable that anybody would raise questions about that, but there is Som
Strategy so far that the president s legal team is taking when it comes to this book, fire and fury. Hallie, it is a battle and war that is escalating by the minute. Just moments ago, as you said, we have confirmed that President Trumps legal team sent a cease and desist order to that book and the publisher. I have it right here in my hands. Let me read you a little bit of it, hallie. In your upcoming book, fire and fury we are identifying false and baseless statements that youre making about mr. Trump. Theyre essentially trying to get the publisher and author to hold off on publishing this. This follows a cease and desist order that was sent to steve bannon overnight. You have breached the agreement by communicating with author Michael Wolff disclosing confidential information and making disparaging and, in some cases, outright defamatory statements to mr. Wolff about mr. Trump, his family members and the company. Of course, some of the most inflammatory statements cited in that book
It makes him look like everyone around him thinks hes a bumbling idiot and doesnt tell him. They think he doesnt know anything. I think bannon feels he has knock left to lose. Fifteen states under a current weather advisory. The temperatures will be extremely cold, in fact, colder than we have seen the last 11 days. If you dont have a reason to be out, dont be out. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is new day. It is thursday, january 4th, 6 00 here in new york. Heres our starting line. Cease and desist. President trumps lawyer delivering that message to former white house chief strategist steve bannon. The president firing back saying after bannon lost his white house job, he lost his mind. In the book bannon blasts donald trump jr. , Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort for a meeting with the russian lawyer at trump tower. He calls it trees onnist and unpatriotic. And thats not all that has t
Analyst for msnbc John Heilemann. Yes, hes here. John heilemann of the circus. President of the counsel on Foreign Relations and author of the book a world in disarray Richard Haass and David Ignatius and Heidi Przybyla is with us as well. We have the circus with us here. Are they going to take pictures of you drinking your coffee . No, of you drinking your coffee. Thats the reason theyre here. So the real Michael Cohen will be in court today in the wake of the fbi raid last week. It comes as the legal bills continue to mount for the president. Nearly 4 million since he was sworn in. On that, i heard that is it true that he spent like 20 of all the money theyve raised politically on legal bills . Did you hear that John Heilemann . Is that true . Thats a lot. Big chunk. What a waste. I wouldnt be surprised by it. A big chunk going to legal bills. I spent much of sunday on twitter railing against jim comeys media blitz and the president calls it, quote, Mission Accomplished in syria. Wel