and white house denying that the president brought up genocide during the call on thursday. and the latest developing story from the white house. hey, david. good afternoon to you, aishah and everyone watching right now. the speaker is en route to asia. she has some pre scheduled trips to singapore, japan, south korea, but the big question, the suspense, will she go to taiwan? she wants to go. some republicans who are her political enemies in congress are agreeing with her, they want her to go. some democrats are saying don t go. the white house is being mum on it, but the communist party in china is saying absolutely do not go. listen. well, i don t remember talk about my travel because as some of you know it s a security issue, it s a security issue for every member of congress travelling, especially abroad, but for the speaker, it is additional security issue and for those travelling with me, not just members, but staff, et cetera. it s an interesting issue because
and don t build real leverage up with the chinese who can smell your power from 100 paces, they know exactly how much power you have. they will play you. and they will play him. thomas, the book, thank you for being late now in paperback. a terrific read. thank you for being here. pleasure. thank you, michael. still ahead, the president en route to asia. so how exactly do you structure a trip abroad and avoid pitfalls for a commander in chief? two men with me. one who did it for bush 41 and 43 and another who served bill clinton. and is trump running the government like he ran his company? is that a good thing? michael lewis, author of moneyball investigated the department of energy and agriculture. his findings are next. for my me? i m open to that. lower premiums? extra benefits? it s open enrollment. time to open the laptop. .and compare medicare health plans. why? because plans change, so can your health needs.
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president trump making light of the temporary shutdown of his twitter account after a twitter employee briefly deactivated the president s page last night. the president, you may have seen, responded this morning. he said, my twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. i guess the word must finally be getting out and having an impact. i thought about that one for a little bit. joining us now, nbc contributor sam sty. sam, first of all, the president right now en route to asia. in the past we would have policy stories for days on end. instead we re talking about the president s tweets as he flies
back though no distress signal was received. it went missing on its flight from kuala lumpur to beijing almost two days ago now. the airline is saying this morning that the window on expecting good news seems to be closing. we have communication to the family members. after more than 30 hours without any contact with the aircraft, we believe the family members should prepare themselves for the worst. now one u.s. navy ship and one u.s. aircraft are assisting in the efforts. the three americans are among the 239 people who were onboard that aircraft. the team of federal u.s. safety experts is also en route to asia to be ready to assist in the investigation. that team includes accident investigators from the ntsb, the national transportation safety board, and technical experts from the faa and boeing. we ll have more uptats from msnbc on this developing story throughout the morning. but let s turn now to a