Interviews either. Its whether the substance was there or not and theres three important issues clear out of that hearing and why hell go through the nomination process successfully. First, he said he will defend israel. Second, iran cannot have a Nuclear Weapon. And third, he is leader to transform our military, both for moving from southwest asia to the western pacific where 60 of the naichl forces are moved for a reason and second to transform our military to the new type of warfare where often based upon knowledge and the agility and speed to touch someone quickly. This also is necessary in the western pacific where china, for example, has 80 sub marines just to our 50. Even john mccain who was quite critical in the hearing said this nomination should go through. Right. Well, yeah. On that point, it looks like the nomination will be confirmed. The problem is it loonlgs like theres a filibuster or attempt at a filibuster and that means democrats and the white house have to come up w
Romnesia. But the strategy last night, stay strong, sharp and relentless. The commander in chief brought a bayonet to a Foreign Policy knife fight. Your strategy previously has been one thats been all over the map. I know you havent been in a position to actually execute Foreign Policy. You mentioned the navy for example and we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Governor, we have fewer horses and bayonets. The question is not a game of battleship where were counting ships. It is what are our capables . Those were cheap shots that he took at mitt romney last night. I think you should treat your opponent with some respect, especially if youre the president of the United States and he didnt. Governor romneys strategy shows the softer side, appearing cool, careful and measured and tended to attack center left. We cant kill our way out of this mess. We dont want another iraq. We dont want another afghanistan. Thats not the right course for us. Attacking me is not an agenda. Attacking me
[ theme ] stephanie oh, good morning. Heres the problem Jacki Schechner. Chris lavoie tends to blurt out personal information before we go on air. [ laughter ] stephanie what does everyone know about . Jacki schechner is here. [ jeopardy theme ] who is not at my house drinking at the Super Bowl Party because she was at another one. Jim ward was at my house drinking. When i went to bed last night jim ward was still drinking at my house at my Super Bowl Party. Jim not here. Interesting. What did do you to jim . Stephanie well, listen, i dont know. Our other truffle member, Melissa Fitzgerald was there. Maybe she has some information. [ dramatic ] well have to dive into this when jim arrives. To grace us with his presence. I think jim and i are on opposite sides of the beyonce issue. Not since Michelle Obamas bangs has there been stephanie what is it . I think he liked it. I had some problems with it. Well have to talk about it. Stephanie youll join us after the do the news. Call us call
Up to donald trump against torture. We have a very clear position on torture. We do not sanction torture. We do not get involved with that and will continue to be our position. And moments ago the Mexican President announcing that his meeting planned for next week with President Trump has been canceled. We are on the same page with the white house. How surprised are you every time there is a new tweet from the president . This is going to be an unconventional presidency, i think you know this by now casy. And i think we are going to see unconventional activities like tweets and thats just something we are all going to have to get used to. Good derek everyone. A busy day. Im Andrea Mitchell In Washington. President trump just arriving in philadelphia. You see Air Force One there. We are expecting his remarks to house and Senate Republicans later in this houn. He will go its about a 20 minute ride from that airport in South Philadelphia back into center city, where he is going to be meet
Fbi before he fired him last february. Setting off a new round of questions about whether the president s actions amount to Obstruction Of Justice. Well, if you take the president s own statement, his tweet that he knew Michael Flynn was lying to the fbi when he fired him, which means that he knew Michael Flynn had committed a felony when he asked comey to stop the investigation. And when he fired comey when he refused to do so and when he fired sally yates and when he called Michael Flynn in april to tell him to stay strong. All of these acts are to impede and obstruct justice. A source close to the white house acknowledging the severity of the misstep to the Washington Post which writes a person close to the white house involved in the case turned the saturday tweet a screw up of historic proportions that has caused enormous consternation in
to in legal circles about whether or not a lawyer would have sent a tweet or even dictated a tweet like the one that came from the president s f