Malveaux, Matthew Chance and jim acosta. Suzanne, for President Trump, sort of a working, golfing weekend for the president . Reporter well, you could call it that, certainly, they say they are ready for anything, they are prepared, chief of staff Reince Priebus was there but did not accompany him here in florida. So he does not have his top level stop here in florida. Thats very intentional, this is supposed to be a light foot print, allowing the president to have time with his wife and children. It is a break in protocol, having covered president s obama and george w. Bush, theres usually the National Security advisor, even on vacation with the president , but trump is doing things differently, but he does have some members of his National Security staff, junior members, theyre keeping an eye on whats happening in north korea, whether theres any kind of provocation. We did see the president playing golf, jim got those exclusive pictures, that would make it his 7th time to be in maral
Because he did not hold a press conference and secretary of state Rex Tillerson only held an offcamera audio only meeting. Just a few hours ago trump tweeted i strongly pressed president putin twice about russian meddling in our election, he investmently denied it. Its time to move on here, maybe its even time to partner with russia on a Cyber Security unit. Is this a case of keeping your friends closing and your enemies closer . Perhaps. Trump also tweeted that sanctions were not discussed at my meeting with putin. Rex tillerson told reporters at that offcamera briefing that trump did bring up the congressional push for more sanctions. So as we look at all this confusion, is the word of the day, its hard to know who or what to believe about this meeting, and you have to wonder if anyone here has credibility on the matter. But just taking trump at his own words and his own tweets, hes been harder on thatmegan kelly putin. Thank you everyone for being here. John, first to you, who if an
This is the kind of scandal that would be two years of congressional hearings and front page news for any other president. For this one its did you see this thing in bloomburg . Youd be out so fast in any other administration. Just astonishing. I think part of the reality check on this, for us as a country may be whether or not this results in a significant political scandal in japan if it turns out that it looks to the japanese than the American Government is now any way. Well see. Thanks, lawrence. Thanks, rachel. And this morning not a word. Heres Donald Trumps last tweet about the congressional race in pennsylvania. The economy is raging at an alltime high and is set to get even better jobs and wages, vote for rick saccone and keep it going. That was yesterday morning. And in the middle of the night last night, well, at exactly 5 22 a. M. This happened. We have an apparent winner in the pennsylvania special election for the House District in the 18th, connor lamb, the democrat, nbc
House director of legislative affai affairs, just as the president gets ready to make good on a campaign promise, slapping china with steep, new tariffs but beijing this morning is promising to hit back and guess who is going to pay . You. In fact you kind of already are. The dow down nearly 300 points, just on the anticipation of this announcement. Were getting into that, and were getting into what happens here in washington in less than 48 hours, when thousands of students from around the country will descend on d. C. For the march for our lives. Weve got a team of reporters traveling with them including with kids from parkland, joining their journeys live later on in the show. Our team is ready to go. Lots to discuss. Kasie hunt on capital hill, the vote on this socalled omnibus is set to start pretty soon, which means the votes are probably there to pass this thing, right . Whats happening . Reporter typically, yes, thats considered to be a good sign, hallie. Eight unlikely they wo
The economy is raging at an alltime high and is set to get even better jobs and wages, vote for rick saccone and keep it going. That was yesterday morning. And in the middle of the night last night, well, at exactly 5 22 a. M. This happened. We have an apparent winner in the pennsylvania special election for the House District in the 18th, connor lamb, the democrat, nbc news is declaring the apparent winner over rick saccone, the republican. Finally, oh, my god we waited all night for these numbers. A heroic night of coverage by steve, and donald trump was crushed last night in pennsylvanias 18th Congressional District. So was donald trump jr. , who went to the district, wearing his vote republican hair net and that wasnt good enough. Ivanka trump was crushed in pennsylvanias 18th Congressional District. She campaigned for the republican candidate and it did absolutely no good. And mike pence was also personally crushed in pennsylvanias 18th last night, he campaigned there. The republi