Warning along with the delay in acting has given the syrians as well as the russian and iranian allies days to prepare. Welcome to morning joe, its thursday, april 12th. With us, Nbc News National Political reporter heidi przybilla. Republican Communications Strategist msnbc political contributor, rick tyler and in washington columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post, David Ignatius, along with nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kasie d. C. On msnbc, kasie hunt. Looking at paul ryans departure. Retirement. Among other stories were talking about this morning. We know the president loves watching tv, joe, right . He loves it. Hes always watching. He also likes to tell all the people what to watch. Sort of hype it up, and preview things. So he did that. If they followed his advice and tuned in to the program he promoted, the president promoted on twitter yesterday, they would have seen a fullthroated takedown of Robert Mueller. So he teed it up for his i guess ne
Theres a Major Development on that front tonight. And drama in the east wing. First Lady Melania Trump called for the firing of a Senior National security official after a series of runins with the first ladys office. We begin with President Trump, who has made a habit of trashing our democratic institutions, a selfish willingness to destroy the foundations of american civil life in his pursuit of absolute power. Quo quote, i have an absolute right to do what i want to do with the Justice Department, he told the New York Times. Absolute right. Hes made a support of denigrating the fbi. Here he goes. Youve got some real bad ones. Youve seen whats happened at the fbi. Theyre all gone. Theyre all gone theyre all gone. But theres a lingering stench and were going to get rid of that, too. Our Justice Department and our fbi have to start doing their job and doing it right and doing it now. Whats happening is a disgrace. How many fbi are gone . How many Justice Department people are gone, tha
Asians. Just over the president s shoulder was a Deputy National security adviser. Just a short time later, the first ladys Office Released this stunning statement of rebuke. Its a position of the office of the first lady that ricardel no longer deserves the honor of serving in this white house. Well, tonight aides to the president confirm that she will be fired. And it turns out that she feuded with the first lady, her staff, over mrs. Trumps recent trip to africa. One white house official accuses her of then leaking stories about it, during her first trip, the first lady said the following about her influence on her husband. And maybe she was telling us more about her role in this white house than we realize at the time. Here it is. Sources have told us sources in the white house, that you are the gatekeeper, that you tell him who he can trust and who he cant trust. Is that true . Yes, i give him my honest advice. Hes been in office now almost two years. Has he had people that you di
Asked to testify. You know, john wasnt in line with what we were doing. Plus new reporting on the origins of trumps quid pro quo with ukraine, and why even republicans are raising alarms at the trump scheme to install an antiimmigrant hard liner at dhs. You and mr. Trump dont want anyone who looks or talks differently than caucasian americans to be allowed into this country. Thats false. Im sorry, please dont interrupt me. When all in starts now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The impeachment of president donald j. Trump is taking another major step forward today. The House Rules Committee is preparing vote on a resolution laying out the procedures for the next big steps in the inquiry including public hearings. They are literally convening right now to do that as we speak. The full house is then expected to vote on the resolution tomorrow. Legislators have already heard dossens of hours of private testimony that continues to be more and more damning for the president. We
In October 1979, Fed Chairman Paul Volcker announced new measures by the Federal Open Market Committee aimed at reining in the inflation that had afflicted the US economy for several years.