commentator, richard fits williams. i want to start with prison andrew there. he s kept a low profile. he did attend a private christmas service with other members of the family. what do you know about his standing within the royal family right now? i think it couldn t be worse, quite frankly. i mean, we ve had max s pointed this out, an interview so ghastly that i don t even know the age ektives in the english language with which to adequately describe it. his step back showed me and i think that that will be permanent. remember also that 230 charities and personages some of which are distancing themselves from him. there s also the problem of a lot of scrutiny, these allegations in the british press, about the lifestyle that he and his ex, who wouldn t know
is expected to be cut by 28% by may 2020. this comes as mass protests have erupted nationwide and iranian influence in iraq has grown. u.s. military bases in iraq have been targeted. and iranian-backed paramilitari paramilitary s accused of being behind those attacks. earlier, my colleague michael holmes spoke with the former u.s. ambassador to the united arab emirates about the timing of this decision. the timing couldn t be stranger. couldn t be worse, actually. and, you know, actually, i don t think there s anything deliberate about it. i think this has been a sort of a slow-moving process to get to these results. and to seek this reduction for, you know, it may be for financial terms, whatever. but that s not really going to be the result. the result is, right at this key inflexion point, in iraq s
process. that s why i m doing this fundraiser. the implication to the people on twitter and facebook, the implication is, well you don t have a quarter million dollars to come sit at my mansion for lunch, so you re on the outside and i m on the that is like the quiet part you don t say out loud and that was literally in his statement. i think that was a huge mistake. why would you say that? and the other implication is just that, you know, you can be okay with all of the stuff trump does on race, on immigration, on attacking people on social media. that s fine. you know, i ll deal with that because i love my tax cuts. that doesn t sell very well. but that s it. can you divorce those two things right now? there was this same criticism when the president was running and the access hollywood tape came out. people said can you vote for somebody who has these beliefs? fast forward two years later. we re coming off, look at the data, a massive spike in hate crimes. the rhetoric could
president s visit. take us there. how was he received? reporter: good morning, stephanie. there are still a lot of people in el paso extremely angry that the president came. we are now learning that there may have been some patients that actually refused to meet with the president during his visit. we were along the route of the motorcade. we did see trump supporters come out and greet the president with signs. but they were overwhelmed by a larger groups of people that were chanting for the president to leave town and that he was not welcome. in fact, just a few blocks away at a park there were hundreds of people that were holding signs calling the president a racist, saying that his rhetoric was to blame for this shooting. at one point chanting, send him back. send him back. now, inside of the hospital a few blocks away we now know according to the washington post that the eight patients being treated there did not meet with the president. there were two families that had been re
which had be previously devoted to combatting domestic terrorism attacks, they include reassigning, domestic terrorism analysts, a new office, and cutting grants to obama era terror prevention programs. right now, the overall feeling inside the department is quote, we have a problem. according to a dhs official who spoke to nbc news. the timing of this couldn t be worse. this would be like cutting funding for isis anti-isis measures in 2014, 2015. the problem with white supremacy has exploded under donald trump. you look at the numbers from 2016 on and they have just gone straight up and that has become the huge crisis. it was isis, now it s white nationalism. and during that time, over that