Says, President Trumps vision of soldiers marching and tanks rolling down the boulevards of washington is moving closer to reality in the pentagon and white house, where Officials Say they have begun to plan a Grand Military Parade later this year showcasing the might of Americas Armed forces. Trump has long mused publicly and privately about wanting such a parade, but a January 18th Meeting between trump and top generals in the pentagons tank, a room reserved for topsecret discussions, marked a Tipping Point according to two officials briefed on the planning. So theres where we begin. Lets bring in our leadoff panel on a tuesday night. Phillip rucker. White house bureau chief for the Washington Post. Shannon pettypiece for bloomberg news. And the Pool Reporter on duty at the white house today. So, todd, id like to begin with you. Talk about the president s demeanor, the kind of Bluster Index compared to other days
youve spent on the beat and the mood around him in the west wing. It wa
didn t clap. this year it s a little bit different because you have six declared candidates who all want to have his job in 2021. probably 60 more who want to do it. you also have 100 new members. these people ran in an anti-trump environment and got themselves in the house of representatives. some are colorful. i think you will have a different sort of energy in the room. dana: in a tease we had the video of when congressman joe wilson yelled at president obama during the obamacare portion of the speech. you lie. president said, that s not true. it hasn t happened since. do you have thoughts on if that could happen tonight? i hope not. i think this is one chance where elected officials can all sit in the same room and not get into a personal attack or making a scene of themselves. i think the pain is left over
african-americans being the low that it had ever been and the democrats sat on their hands and didn t clap. that was quite a visual of the divide. yes, it was a good opportunity for umbridge taking. there were good opportunities for people to be offended. there were good opportunities for points scoring. let s be clear. as we re having a fight about talking, right? when will we talk? how will we talk? will we talk about talking? all of this stuff. friday hits the next pay period where billions of dollars in missed pay checks is gonna hit again. economists even for the administration say we are headed toward stagnation, toward zero growth as a consequence of all of this foolishness. and all of the real world consequences for real world living americans are racking up. at the same time, our political class in washington is fighting about fighting. dana: i saw something that was maybe a clue as to what
his back is to us right now. tom faber, a good friend of prince harry. we ve seen the spencer clan starting to arrive. so charles spencer. harry desperately clean that they were represented. charles spencer, and sort of an admonishing way spoke during diana s funeral. and the queen didn t clap. there was tension between the families, but this is all about lightly. i think that you will see sarah ferguson turning up as well. she wasn t invited to william s wedding but harry saying we re taking a new step forward. and james also served in the military. bonnie, it was exciting to see oprah winfrey. i kept yelling that somebody is wearing a proper church hat. i m from the south side of
security? what do you feel about our proposals to start a russian-american dialogue on cyber security which is rejected all the time by the american side? thank you. i m surprised that there are any i m surprised there are any russian cyber experts available based on how active most of them have been in undermining our democracies in the west. donald trump didn t clap for that. h.r. mcmaster unlike his boss sounds like someone who read the indictment of the 13 russians. i would just say that we would love to have a cyber dialogue when russia is sincere about curtailing its sophisticated form of espionage. what you might call this modern-day sort of moscow-rovka,