American news. Listen, im going to cut to the bottom line right now and tell you that i do not know why secretary of state Rex Tillerson was abruptly fired today and neither do you and anybody who says they do know, well, were going to get as close as we can to that tonight. Right now, it is still a mystery. Nevertheless, he is out and so im going to do that awkward camera turn right now. So we can add the name of the secretary of state to the list of departures of senior officials from the Trump White House and the senior ranks of the trump administration. Just in the past couple weeks we have had to move my Camera Position so that we can show you this bigger wall so we could make room to add a third column here on this wall. We were two columns before. We had to add hope hicks as she resigned and josh raphael as he resigned from deputies communications director, the one that worked for jared and ivanka and jared and ivankas other friend, the guy trump put in charge as the office of i
Briefed on what the u. S. Knows about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but not by the cia director who actually heard the tape of his murder. Coming up, the insooiders viewf the former cia chief john brennan. And unopposed, Nancy P Pelosi no competition as she seeks to take the speakers chair, but will she be able to control the e e vvolving caucus . I think that the caucus is coming together very well, and we all agreed on everything all of the time, then there would not be much growth. Hi, and good morning, everybody. And goodday, rather. Andrea mitchell here with a shocking fallout of a New York Times report that Paul Manaforts lawyer has been secretly briefing President Trumps team on the talks of the federal investigators and a possible reason that mr. Mueller canceled mr. Manaforts plea deal. And could the latest twitter tirade break the senators longstanding resistance to protect the Mueller Probe . Kristen welker is joining with us the very latest. Kristen, talk about
Bush family today as thousands of americans say farewell to the 41st president at the capital, including the Operation Desert Storm commanders and cia leaders past and present, and former bush of the cia director as well as an appearance of the service dog sully. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington where the president and the legal team are bracing for a court filing from the special counsel today. A memo detailing information to support the sentencing of former National Security adviser Michael Flynn who is accused of lie foing vest gatying to inves events in 2016. We expect a similar document from the mueller team from former Trump Campaign manager Paul Manafort and explaining why the plea agreement was withdrawn. Join g ing us now is white hous correspondent kristen welker, and our panel to discuss this. Welcome, all. Kristen, first to you. How much of the white house are they bracing for the series of disclosures and is this partly according to sources why the president has
And so he believed that it could have been and the president trying to change the line of attack, and the fake news democrats and the news media are working hard to determine whether the attack of soleimani was imminent or not and my team and i say that it is a strong yes, and it does not matter because of soleimanis past. It does really matter, because the white house claimed the imminent and specific threat justified killing soleimani without Consulting Congress and constantly changing the justifications and beliefs replacing evidence. The American People have been here before, and that was under president s with more allegiance to facts, as jim acosta reports for us now. Reporter facing the persistent questions about the decision to take out the iranian general soleimani, President Trump blasted away at the democrats with one of the most offensive social media posts yet. He showed a photo shopped photo of nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer wearing traditional islamic clothing. And his p
pentagon. this is a number that only the west wing would have or fellow officials at the pentagon. by the way, the people i spoke to were convinced it was mark meadows who gave out that phone number. who knows? but, she calls and she wants him to dispatch a special operation team to germany and capture the cia director gina haskell who was there trying to seize destroy evidence of a server form that was used to switch all the votes in the election. it s nuts that we read it on the internet and we would go by and laugh at how insane it was. this idea that powell that gina haspal had been hurt in germany and got out there so widely that the cia had to issue a statement saying no, gina haspal is in her