manure. the way the right is playing it because he they can t stand anything that the president does, that the president is somehow purposely hurting little children who want to take the tours for the white house they he is. when this is clearly a security issue something you d like to be oblivious too. alisyn. you can say anything you want, that s the fact of the matter. alisyn: yes, lars? the president just spent a million dollars for a golf weekend. that was the extra cost of flying air force one down so the president could see his thousand dollars an hour golf pro and visit with tiger woods. take that million dollars and could you fund the tours of the white house for what, another five or six years? and alan, your math doesn t add up. i m glad you re not a bean counter. there s an always different yard stick for this president. all presidents take vacations and go on air force one. only when this president does it is it a problem for this president and it s a doub
tsa is cutting back. and ms. napolitano also warns that these things could get worse going forward. and we shall see. and in the middle of all of those warnings that some republicans are trying to remind people, that the administration does have choices when it comes to spending. according to alabama senator jeff sessions, the president s recent golf weekend with tiger woods cost taxpayers more than a million dollars, or enough money to save 341 federal workers from going on furlough. the golfing gathering happened last month during the president s long holiday weekend at a luxury, florida resort. the president and first lady also took some heat on spending taxpayer money when the first lady went out to aspen, colorado on a ski trip and all viewed by some as extravagant when the country was having the spending changes that the president is describing as potentially deeply problematic.
thanks, christina and ryan grimm, thank you also for the numbers you just gave us. you gave us some numbers from washington that we haven t been able to get so we appreciate you reporting from the ground there. thank you. it s big, really big. coming up, more on the news that president obama has quite the special golf partner today down in the sunshine state. the wife and the girls are out skiing in colorado, president obama having a golf weekend down in florida and a heck of a golf weekend it is. teeing off with tiger woods. also, senator marco rubio about to arrive in jordan for a trip to the middle east. what s the purpose of his mission? i ll speak with dennis ross coming up next. you re watching msnbc, the place for politics. copd makes it hard to breathe,
i m jim sciutto in for jake tapper. we begin with the president s golf weekend outside new york laying the groundwork for a very important week ahead, including his first face-to-face meeting with russian president vladimir putin. today he was working the phones, talking with world leaders from italy, france and germany while also taking the time to keep up attacks on the media. maki making backlash over a particular tweet where he slams the media in a professional wrestling match. ryan, white house officials backing off from defending the president s social media rant? no, they re not, jim. in fact, they re arguing it s the media focusing on the wrong things, and despite the president s controversial tweets, he s still getting the job done. president trump tonight is dialing up his no holds barred attacks on the media.