Secretary of defense here tonight. We know last week he made a Surprise Announcement at his first thank you rally saying yes hes indeed choosing general james mattis for defense secretary. But the fact that two will be up on stage together, certainly notable, especially given that is the military friendly town. So donald trump hoping to cash in on the energy here almost to validate his pick for Secretary Of Defense. And we know trump has many thank you tours and rallies ahead. Just two this week alone and thursday hell be in iowa and friday in michigan. You heard him taking credit for what he said is a 50 billion investment by softbank. What are you learning about this . Reporter i have to say not a lot of detail coming from the Trump Transition Team or the company tonight. But certainly a little
showmanship on the part of the president elect today really trotting out on the ceo of the company and trump towers there before cameras gathered. Contours of the deal are 50 billion investmen
Emails. And then the letters comey sent to the hill, one saying we found more emails on Anthony Weiners laptop that could be pertinent to our investigation, we need to look at those, and then his followup letter a few days before the election in which he said, weve done that review and we havent had anything. Hillary clinton herself has said she thinks that first letter in late october changed the course of the election. So, the Inspector General is going to look at that and a couple of ancillary things. There have been allegations that an fbi Deputy Director should have taken himself off part of this case because of some connections to the campaign or his wifes connections to the political to politics in virginia. Some allegations that an Assistant Attorney General for legislative affairs passed information along to the Clinton Campaign, and other employees disclosed nonpublic information. The Foeklecal Point is the two actions by the fbi director, the letter to the hill in late
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Happy easter to those of you celebrating. We have a lot of politics to get to. But first, the growing tension between the United States and north korea. North korea last night launched a Ballistic Missile from the Submarine Base in sinpo, but the missile exploded minutes after launch. This happened as mike pence landed in south korea for talks on how to counter the growing Nuclear Ambitions and he spoke to american troops at a breakfast there this morning. Im joined by Senior National security analyst juan duarte, the failure, the New York Times this morning leans hard into the idea that the failure wasnt necessarily a north korean failure, but maybe sabotage and possibly sabotage from the United States. What can you say . This is a Missile Program thats been replete with failures. And the challenge is we dont know yet. It could be sabotage. It could be poor engineering or bad luck. Its the nature of the Missile Programs but its clear that
many trump voters though are forgiving. At lea
Casualties. There has, in fact, been a surge in reported civilian casualties in the u. S. Air campaign against the socalled islamic state. And under trump, a massive increase in u. S. Drone strikes, more broadly, almost one every two days according to the council on u. S. Foreign relations. Today, tragically, marked the third time this month a u. S. Led air strike may have killed civilians or even our allies, with 18 syrian fighters alied with the u. S. Killed in a Coalition Air strike in syria. The pentagon blamed partner forces. That news comes on the heels of last weeks air strike in syria and now today the decision to launch the mother of all bombs. And we are just 84 days into the Trump Administration. Im joined by Steve Schmidt larry corb. Larry, im going to go to you first because there is a very strange donald trump relationship to the military. He claimed during the came papa
that you knew more about the generals, that he was smarter about isis, now hes in office hes outsource
Have ultimately been a decision that two men came to at the same time. Whether or not there was some thought, and if there was not consider about making the administrations life and the president s life more difficult, he might have been left it. Kelly was said to have delivered the news. It is unclear and unknown, its a wild card. He goes outside independently. Steve bannon is now a household name. There is people that will be
upset that he left this white house. I talked to a bannon ally earlier this week. They said we had a sense this is coming and we look at this white house now and we see new york democrats and generals. That is not what we worked for in 2016. Steve bannon is the leader of a coalition and it remains to be seen. Let me bring in jennifer reuben. The author of the post, so your paper is quoting friends of Steve Bannons assayi saying lo he can help the president s agenda from the outside, that things were not working on the inside. Gabe sherman reports something very