Certainly might have done so. This is a point where an apology would do wonders. Im sorry. The Trump Administration opinions this afternoon once again with more controversy. In part, refusing to issue a public apology on kelly sadlers comments on john mccain and backtracking on penalizing a chinese company. The white house has been forced to answer for a lot. But it is a controversy over the move of the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem that has the attention of the world. Protests reached a climax today as President Trump appeared on a large video screen expressing hope for peace at todays Embassy Opening. Dozens of palestinians were killed at the border. The death toll marking the Bloodiest Day in gaza since the 2014 war. Today the white house made clear on who it says is at fault. Rest squarely with hamas. Hamas is intentionally provoking this response. As the secretary of state said, israel has the right to defend itself. We start at the white house. Joining me is nbc hughes news geoff be
Brought home from north korea by the secretary of state mike pompeo and mr. Trump announces new details of his summit with kim jongun. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news tonight, the New York Times is reporting that the Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told colleagues she was close to resigning wednesday after President Trump berated her during a cab nate meeting. Also, Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti joins me live this hour and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. First, lets go to Kaitlan Collins with more on the breaking news. What are you finding out . To set the scene, there was a Cabinet Meeting focused explicitly on immigration at the white house yesterday. Of course at the beginning of the meeting they let the reporters come in with the cameras, the president speaks, we heard from the president yesterday some comments on north korea and what not. Not
Trump and russia is a madeup story. How the president has spent a year inside the trump tv bubble. And joining me now by phone, the president of the united states. When all in starts right now. I will say fox ratings are phenomenal. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Every single day we learn more about what the members of trump world were up to after winning the election as they moved to take power in washington. And everybody day we learn that Robert Mueller is way ahead of us. Abc news reporting today that mueller has been questioning witnesses about millions of dollars given to the president s inauguration from donors with ties to russia, saudi arabia, United Arab Emirates and qatar. Those donations, lets be clear, are not illegal. Inaugurations arent regulated the same way campaigns are, so we dont know exactly why mueller is interested in those. What we do know is that his team is already interviewing tom barrack, realest state investor who chaired the president s inaugu
Saved an average of 412. Thats auto and Home Insurance for the modern world. Esurance, an allstate company. Click or call. Coming up next, explosive new reporting on the fallout from that trumps aide remark and why it reportedly put the White House Press team in disarray. What we are witnessing, alex, is a kind of a death of the heart. A corrosion of the soul that were experiencing around the white house and around the country. Bring reaction to the mccain comment and dismay over the absence of a white house apology. If folks want to hide this stuff and cover it up, i think its fantastic because im going to out them. It is a threat and a promise. Stormy daniels attorney launches new attacks and longer list of payments to Michael Cohen. And the sitdowns. Why the president s upcoming summit with kim jongun may affect any possible interview with robert mueller. Were going to get to what is happening right now for you. Going to go to the inside into the white houses handling of an offensiv
Again . It keeps happening. In this case its kim jong un moving that football. And President Trump, not Charlie Brown, left swinging in the air. So many times before. As it has happened, sometimes before. North korea has done a 180. Pulling the plug on meetings with the south and threatening to scuttle a planned sitdown with President Trump. Welcome to morning joe, its wednesday, may 16, we have National Affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc and executive producer and cohost of showtimes the circus jon heilemann. It seems a little unfair to compare kim jong un to lucy. I didnt really like lucy. And Heidi Przybilla and Nbc News National Security analyst jeremy bash. I think its not like they had history to look at, right . How would they know . Let us hope that something good comes out of this. But yesterday for anybody that has spent any time how north korea plays the United States and the west yesterday wasnt a surprise at all. Weve always been concerned here. That theres been a beli