The billionaire businessman continuing to blast results in colorado where his rival ted cruz swept all 34 delegates without any votes being cast in traditional primary process. Here is trump at a rally. Our republican system is absolutely rigged. It is a phony deal. Now what do i know . I started running like nine months ago. Who would have thought i would have been in first place . What do i know . Right . What do i know . [cheering] but im in first place by a lot. Millions and millions of votes. That doesnt count. The Republican National committee, they should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this kind of crap to happen because it has nothing to do with the democracy. Sandra trump repeated those remarks at a town hall later in the day, prompting rnc chairman Reince Priebus to fire back with this tweet. Quote, nomination process known for a year and beyond. It is the responsibility of the campaigns to understand it. Complaints now . Give us all a break. Ted cruz is also weighing
Toward danger. I worked to make our country safer and to rebuild new york and the pentagon. But i always, always was determined to do anything i could to bring bin laden to justice. [ cheers and applause ] and thanks to the very patient painstaking work of the american intelligence community, finally when i was secretary of state, we were given the opportunity to evaluate the best evidence we had seen in a long time. And i was honored to be part of that small group in the situation room advising president obama as we went over the evidence over and over and over again, trying to decide was it credible enough, Strong Enough to take action. And if we did, what kind of action. Would it be a missile strike . Would it be a bombing . Would it be an attack by special forces . And when it came time to go around the table, these were all extremely experienced, thoughtful experts. We all gave our opinions. I was one who said i thought it was worth the risk. You go girl [ cheers and applause ] an
Fielding questions in the Briefing Room for 28 minutes. He started with a personnel update. Although i read it all the time, pretty consistently, im not quitting today. I dont believe, and i just talked to the president , i dont think im being fired today. And i am not so frustrated in this job that im thinking of leaving. I will tell you, this is the hardest job ive ever had. This is in my view the most important job i ever had. I would offer, though, it is not the best job i ever had. The best job i ever had, as ive said many times, is when i was an enlisted marine, sergeant, infantryman, that was the best job ive ever had. Unless things change, im not quitting, im not getting fired, and i dont think ill fire anyone tomorrow. Tomorrow. But even as the adults around the president , as theyre often described, continue to play cleanup crew, a new report from the Associated Press tonight says, quote, trump has grown irritated with some of the restrictions placed on him by kelly and has v
Mayor of san juan today accused the president of condemning the citizens of puerto rico to a slow death. And donald trump swings a wrecking ball at more of president obamas legacy. Today it was obamacare. Tomorrow its expected to be the iran deal. The 11th hour starts now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im in this case alley wallace. Brian will be back tomorrow. Day 266 of the Trump Administration and were seeing a new side of white house chief of staff john kelly, the crisis manager. He surprised reporters today by fielding questions in the Briefing Room for 28 minutes. He started with a pepper nel update. Although i read it all the time and pretty consistently, im not quitting today. I dont believe and i just talked to the president , i dont think im being fired today. And im not so frustrated in this job that im thinking of leaving. I would tell you, this is the hardest job ive ever had. This is, in my view, the most important job i ever had
Of obstruction of justice by the president when mr. Trump asked him to let go of his investigation of Michael Flynn and he suggestions its possible that mr. Trump has been compromised by the russians. Needless to say, there is a lot to discuss following the interview with james comey on abc. Lets get to our correspondents, analysts and political commentators. Weve been waiting for this interview to happen. Finally james comey is speaking out. This is the man who used to be the head of the fbi, one of the highest offices in the government calling the president of the United States morally unfit. Your reaction . Look, i mean, this is something that in any other time would be seismic and i think even in this time where its easy to kind of lose sight of things that are enormously out of balance and enormously unusual for an fbi director, even though he was fired and he has, you know, he certainly feels a sense he says of higher loyalty but retribution, lets face it, to say the things he di