On the tillerson selection at secretary of state. His potential ties to russia and, of course, what weve learned about the cia assessment of russian hacking and interference in the United States election. New overnight, a Washington Post report confirmed by nbc that the cia believes that the russians deliberately interfered to help donald trump win the election. Trump, of course, responding within minutes with that statement basically slamming the intelligence community. A community thats there to serve the president saying these people, meaning the intelligence community, are the same ones who said that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction in iraq. So, really, something of an unprecedented statement in this kind of a scenario. So were still waiting to hear from donald trump himself. The focus has been on other stories. Trump himself tweeting about his role on the prehe apprentice news of tillersons selection as secretary of state from our own Andrea Mitchell. Unclear if well
But in the end what we ended up with was china run ruthlessly by the communists under chairman mao. And here at home for 30 years after that, we refuse to recognize that communist government as the government of china. For decades we had no diplomatic relations with china. We basically acted like the other side won the war. They are known as taiwan. O diplo relations with china. We basically acted like the other side won the war. They are known as taiwan. We decided that is what we would call china. The whole giant land mass of china over there, the big part in the center, we decided for diplomatic purposes, the whole major main part of china, we decided they had no government. Because we would not recognize the communist party as the government of china. In some ways im over simplifying this, i know. In some ways im not. We wouldnt recognize that the capital of china was in beijing. For 30 years after the communists won that civil war and were running china, we said looking at that ma
Road rage incident. Good morning, everyone, im tamron hall live from our msnbc headquarters in new york. Just within the hour, the president elect finished his meeting with House Speaker paul ryan at trump tower. This, by the way, paul ryans first visit to trump tower since the election where he refused to campaign alongside with trump but now said the two talk every day. The two reportedly were to discuss policies and legislative priorities for the first 100 days in office for the president elect. Some major fallout continues over his cabinet picks. The latest controversy surrounding president elect trumps pick for labor secretary. Andy puzder, ceo of Fast Food Restaurant carls jr. And hardees. Puzder is accused of minimum wage increases against the plan to raise the federal minimum wage to 10. 10. When you get to 15, the math just doesnt work. You take a lot of jobs and you make the cost of hiring employees exceed the productivity of that position and when the amount you have to pay
School bus crash in tennessee. Within the last hour, authorities in chattanooga removed the school bus from the scene of the accident claiming lives of five School Children and the community grieving. More than 20 injured and the School Bus Driver Johnthony Walker and Reckless Endangerment and driving. Parents turned to woodmoor elementary and how shes comforting her child. I can just tell him i love him and that it would be okay. You know, the child, he received the wing. The ntsb launched a team to the crash site and updating the public a few hours ago. We certainly send our condolences. My daughter rides the school bus every day. I understand that. Well do everything we can to try to prevent this from happening again. Mariana atencio is live in chattanooga, tennessee. I heard a report that now theyre looking for the black box on the bus which is something we hear, of course, with plane accidents, train crashes as well. Reporter thats right. A warrant has been issued for the black bo
Himself a little bit of a way out. He was a little bit at the end of his rope. Demoralized, suffering defeat and disaster on multiple fronts, both his kingdom and personal life were really freaking chaotic at the time. I should mention at the time he was busy producing 12 different offspring by 7 different mistresses. So at least we know what he liked to do for fun. But things in general were a mess. Even though he was the king of england, he was kind of broke. Seven mistresses . Hm. So 1670, he came up with a rescue plan for himself. In 1670, he made a secret deal with his first cousin, who conveniently was also a king. His first cousin was the king of france. And in this deal in 1670, the king of france agreed to secretly pay the king of england a ton of money for the rest of his life. In return, the king of england said that he would before he died convert to catholicism. That was the deal. And apparently both kings, the king of england and the king of france thought this was a grea