Why the white house special counsel just asked a report fer, a reporter if she was on drugs. Good evening from new york. Today the president made good on a Campaign Promise to the most fervently antiimmigrant core of his base before the 20 of the country, according to the polls, by ending an Obama Era Program known as deferred action for childhood arrivals, or dakota la, that protects the deportation undocumented immigrants who are brought to this country as children. He launched his campaign by calling mexican immigrants rapists. A week and a half ago pardoned joe arpaio after he was convicted of contempt of court for persisting in the violation of latinos Fourth Amendment rights. But an executive who knows nothing more than to perform the role of president and draw attention. The president himself was nowhere to be founds during the announcement of one the most consequential decisions of his entire administration. Instead, that job was left to the attorney general Jeff Sessions who i
Wasnt good policy. According to three people familiar with the call. Trump argued the legislation was unconstitutional, and said it would damage his presidency. Trump also complained about the russian sanction measures in that call with mcconnell earlier this month that devolved into shouting. And then trump dialed up senator thom tillis on the 7th two days before a joint call. Tillis is working with chris coons on a bill designed to protect Robert Mueller, the independent counsel investigating the president s russia connections. A senior political aide also told politico, the president , it seems he is just always focused on russia. One of the reporter who is broke this story from politico, josh s do joins me now. Whats the context . It seems like the president , when he sees folks on television or hears about a controversial policy or sympathetic that will affect him, he will just immediately dial them up. He will say, get me and so on the phone and hell express when hes frustrated o
And i. R. Mess. Were seeing confusion and anger from people who are paying next years tax bill, property tax bill now. Many are trying to take strange of a tax break thats about to change because of a republican tax plan. Well get to those stories in just a moment. We start with a new legal strategy from President Trumps team. This is according to the Washington Post. They report that trumps legal team will attack the credibility of former National Security adviser mike flynn. And perhaps the Biggest Development to date in the special counsels russia investigation. Flynn pled guilty to lying to the fbi exactly four weeks ago tomorrow. This is what one unnamed person who is said to have crafted this new strategy told the post about flynn. Quote, he said it himself, hes a liar. Two reports now. Msnbcs Garrett Haake following the president in West Palm Beach florida. And karen tamalte, National Political reporter for the Washington Post. Before we get to the post story, the white house ha
Send five women to Donald Trumps hotel room in moscow. The president s former bodyguard testified he viewed the offer as a joke and responded at the time, quote, we dont do that type of stuff. Joining me now to detail his reporting is nbc news investigative and National Security reporter ken deadliila. In talking to some sources on the hill, its clear that the significance of this is not just the fact of it but they are clearly pursuing and trying to either corroborate or knock down the very salacious allegations in the dossier. I couldnt agree with you more. And thats exactly the significance of this. In fairness, keith schiller, Donald Trumps longtime bodyguard has essentially refuted under oath this salacious allegation that donald trump was cavorting with prostitutes in his hotel room that night at the ritzcarlton moscow. What he said was at a business meeting in the morning with around 15 people, and this is according to three sources in the room, some russian who was there made t
Majority of americans. He lost the overall popular vote by nearly 3 million people. Last night, after stunning victories from democrats across the nation in nearly every contest, there came a reminder that this is not Donald Trumps network. Including the marquise governors race in virginia, where democrats had been quite worried that Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam could lose to republican lobbyist, ed gillespie, who cynically embraced the president s grievance playbook with ads about kneeling nfl players and protecting confederate monuments. Instead, northam absolutely crushed gillespie, winning by nine points, and nearly doubling Hillary Clintons margin over trump in virginia last year. Something that i am so proud of and i remind you all the time, we live in a very Diverse Society. It is getting more diverse every day. It is that Diverse Society that makes this country great that vision of a pluralistic, multicultural america was a direct repudiation of trumps White Nationalist po