And the meeting two years ago this week with a guy whod just been elected president in a highrise bearing his name, which we now know might have set the High Water Mark for awkwardness. As the 11th hour gets under way on a monday night. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 718 of the Trump Administration, and weve added a second tally these days. This was day 17 of the partial Government Shutdown, which by the end of this broadcast will become the second longest in our history as a nation. The president is now turning his attention to television, specifically going on television, as he put it today, to address the nation on the humanitarian and National Security crisis on our southern border, tuesday night at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. And just tonight, House Speaker pelosi, Senate Minority leader schumer are asking, indeed, for equal time so the democrats can respond. In addition to his televised address, trump plans now a trip to the southern bo
Again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 718 of the Trump Administration, and weve added a second tally these days. This was day 17 of the partial Government Shutdown, which by the end of this broadcast will become the second longest in our history as a nation. The president is now turning his attention to television, specifically going on television as he put it today to, address the nation on the humanitarian and National Security crisis on our southern border, tuesday night at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. And just tonight, House Speaker pelosi, Senate Minority leader schumer, are asking, indeed, for equal time so the democrats can respond. In addition to his televised address, trump plans now a trip to the southern border on thursday. The big question is whether the president will use tomorrow evenings speech to declare some sort of National Emergency, and there is great disagreement over what powers that may grant him to try to build his own wall or steel fence along the s
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fact, it s what it you know, somebody telling history. what the former vice president is trying to do though, mike, is set the stage for history. not so much whether or not there s a spat on the sunday shows or this week or next with colin powell. you know, this book is not a it is to advise history, one other thing is, not only a record that he s laying down in his book. these interviews themselves. what he did with nbc. what he ll do tomorrow on fox, on his book tour, these parallel history. all of these interview are part of the record. if indeed he s telling the truth, the interesting thing about this discrepancy, so happens, coincidentally, i m sure, in cheney s account, he s the central figure in the decision. not the president. but the president asks him, what should happen. and the president s account, it s more of a group endeavor. but the central truth is that
it s more of a group endeavor. but the central truth is that they both agreed on the fact that they ought to grease they re way to war with hyperbolic statements about iraq s wmds. whoever said, yeah, let s go. let s roll. that is large lly inconsequenti to the big roos told in kicking off the war. i was intrigued by the national geographic interview with w i watched. weren t of the interesting footnotes to the september 11th chronology, between them, who was it that gave the order to take down a civilian airliner that would remain in airspace and be unresponsive, bush said he was the one that had given that order. flight 93, he learned of the crash, he thought perhaps it had been shots oust sky based on his order. i ve read to read the cheney book but an anxious to see if