Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and their friendship, boy, especially after this weekend, their friendship could teach us a lot about how washington, d. C. Should work. Good morning, its monday, february 15, president s day. With us on set, those of us that are in the president s day rotation, washington anchor for bbc world news america katty kay. We also have senior Political Editor i love it, senior Political Editor whats so wrong about that the . Senior Political Editor repeat it one more time. At some point it becomes aged. That means youre not a sophomore anymore. Youre a senior now. Ive graduated. Im almost there. Sam stein. We also have republican pollster and columnist in at the Washington Examiner kristen soltsol soltis anderson. In boston, not senior but legh d legendary Mike Barnicle. I want legendary. Jon meacham, before we get into the news, the sad news this weekend of Justice Scalia, i want to key in on this friendship between scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ruth Bader Gins
On behalf of the republicans and democrats, a man that donald trump talked about on the trail and in the capital. Well wait for comments, but its noon and weve got the coverage now, were well into day number two, the Trump Administration the torch has been passed to a new commanderinchief for what will be President Trumps first full day, with a reflection at the National Prayer cathedral. That was quite a ceremony that we watched here in our Nations Capital. Hello, im bill hemmer, a special edition of news. Good morning, shannon. Good to see you. Im Shannon Bream. A full day and evening of pomp and circumstance, mr. Trump sworn in as our 45th president , basing it on change. January 20th, 2017 will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. From this day forward a new vision will govern our land. From this day forward its going to be only America First. America first. We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but, rather, to let it shine as an
Honest with the American People. I think sometimes we can disagree with the facts. There are certain things that we may miss we may not fully understand when we come out, but our intention is never to lie to you, jonathan. Spicer felt the need to make that claim after he came under heavy criticism for his bizarre appearance on saturday where he berated the White House Press kofrps for its inauguration coverage before storming off without taking questions. He said nothing about the historic womens march taking place as he spoke, which might well have been the largest demonstration in history, estimating 3. 2 Million People took to the streets in the u. S. Alone. Instead spielser made false claims about fairly trivial matters including Inauguration Day ridership on the d. C. Melt row while suggesting without evidence that trumps was the most watched inauguration ever. The next day Kellyanne Conway defemd he using a novel argument in an interview with our own chuck todd. Youre saying it i
Packed. I get up this morning and i turn on one of the networks and they show an empty field. I said wait a minute. I made a speech. I looked out and the field was it looked like a million, a million and a half people. Spicer followed up later that evening. We know that 420,000 people used the d. C. Metro Public Transit yesterday which compares to 317,000 that used it for esident obamas last inaugural. This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period both in person and around the globe. There is a lot of talk about the responsibility to hold donald trump accountable. Im here to tell you that it goes two ways. We will hold the press accountable as well. The numbers used by trump and spicer were widely disputed on sunday. Spicer said the information about ridership on washingtons metro system was given to him by the inaugural committee. It came up in a press briefing and reporters were courteous and orderly and polite and professional in the asking and the answering o
World . Now we know that is what the president of mexico did today. So what did donald trump do . Did he say youre fired to the president of mexico today, no. Donald trump surrendered and instead of the president of mexico paying for that wall, donald trump turned around an said the american taxpayers are going to pay for that wall. Mexico won. The president of mexico cancelling his meeting with President Trump. The president of mexico said it was all his idea. Unless mexico is going to treat the United States fairly, such a meeting would be fruitless. You lost and you will keep losing, because mexicos right. They are we are going to build the wall, whose going to pay for it. We are going to pay for it. Donald trump is changing the republican party. Mitch, dont worry about it. Its almost like sort of the stockholm syndrome. They are caught. They dont know what to do. Tax at 50 , 50 billion at 20 of imports, 10 million a year and easily pay for the wall. It could easily start a trade wa