Is traveling with the president in new jersey and msnbcs Garrett Haake at the white house. The president gearing up for the summit this week. Any indication hes going to be letting up on those tweet storms, attacks on the media, as he heads into this Foreign Policy week . Well, no. I think thats just something were all going to have to live with. This is something President Trump feels strongly about. After a weekend of bashing the media and speech in washington, thats going to continue. His base loves that stuff. The media doesnt. Thats just a fact of life. Hes also tweeted this morning about Foreign Affairs saying hell make phone calls or will make phone calls to leaders of germany, saudi arabia. Last night a readout on calls to china and japan. All nations are participating in the g20 summit that begins friday in germany. Were not hearing about the substance of what these are about. Clearly this a challenging summit for President Trump. Its in germany. The leader is Angela Merkel op
Hawaii. An Emergency Alert that read Ballistic Missile threat inbound hawaii, seek immediate shelter, this is not a drill. State Officials Say it was a false alarm. A mistake. The change of shift is about three people, 24 7, eighthour shifts. That should have been caught. It should not have happened. That coming into us within the last hour. While it may have been a false alarm, you can guess the fear was real. When we got the alarm, we were actually terrified. We were on the 36th floor of our hotel. And we didnt know what to do. We were kinda frantic. Just started running. We went to a concrete building. People were running on the street, all desperate. A short time ago, new york republican congressman dan donovan tweeted, im following the issues with the hawaii Emergency Alert and as chairman of the committee on emergency preparedness, ill be looking into what happened. Im holding a hearing on february 6th, and this among other important Emergency Alert issues will be addressed. Cong
The white house is paying a lot of attention to it after that explosion that measured 6. 3 on the richter scale. Sarah sanders saying the National Security team is monitoring this closely. The president currently is across Lafayette Park at church praying for victims of harvey. The white house statement on north korea. China is trying to help but with little success. The president is saying south korea is finding that appeasement wont work with north korea. Only one thing they understand. We dont know what that one thing is. Buttress are you secretary Steve Mnuchin said he will deliver a package of measures to put the screws to people doing business with north korea. Its clear this behavior is completely unacceptable. We already started with sanctions against north korea. I would draft a sanctions package to send to the president for his consideration that anybody doing trade or businessth them will not do trade or business with us. People need to cut off north korea economically. This
Im alex witt here at msnbc. We have new word from the Trump Officials today saying north korea is stepping up its Nuclear Production. There is a good reason why leaking intelligence is a criminal offense in this kun. It harms the United States when it happens, it gives away a lot of information to our adversaries. Ill just say this, not answering the specific reports weve seen over the weekend, but i will say this. Were using the full range of our capabilities to understand what north korea is doing. And on this topic, joining me right now, nbcs courtney kooby. You broke this story for two of your colleagues. What is north korea up to . Right now u. S. Intelligence is confident of two things. Number one, north korea, rather than decreasing their enrichment of uranium, they are actually enriching it in one location. And the United States is ready to receive the scope of their Nuclear Program and a lot of the specifics of it. One of the u. S. Intelligence officials that my colleagues ken
Beyond words. Where do we even begin . Its literal ail complely a com. Smiling and denying. Carter page with the release of historic documents that show why he was under surveillance. Why President Trumps personal attorney may have more recordings for the special counsel and why his nemesis could help him reveal all. Ultimately George Michael cohen is going to assist us in our search of the truth and our disclosure of whats happening here. I think hes ready to tell the truth and ultimately i think hes going to cooperate with us. Plus, new contact. Reporting of the russian agent and how she met some highlevel u. S. Officials. Great day to all of you. Im alex witt with headquarters in new york. We begin with how americans feel about the president S Performance in helsinki nearly a week ago. The New Washington post news poll shows 33 approve, 50 disapprove and 18 have no opinion. Meanwhile, nearly 66 disapprove about the president expressing doubts about Russian Election meddling. Now the