us from having our concert. rob: first one here today. jillian: get to thed good, the bad and the ugly. kindergartner students starting each other s day with a hug and handshake before class. jillian: a texas elementary teacher selecting a greeter every morning positivity between students. pretty cool. a driver lucky to be alive. an ax flies through his windshield. canadian man hit in the head. authorities have no idea where the ax came from. this is not the first time it s happened. he said 10 years ago a steel rod went through his driver s side window he survived that as well. jillian: the ugly. here is something you don t expect to run into gulf course. ran into a couple golf cart.
officials claim to have gathered evidence that the united arab emirates has illicit influence over trump s son-in-law, as well as others. but decided not to share this information with robert mueller. this after the new york times reported that mueller s team is looking into the uae s efforts to buy political influence to some very secret meetings. nbc national security and justice reporter julia ainsly joins us. you ve got the details. that s right, stephanie. what we knew about a week and a half ago is that the qatari officials believed that the trump administration had been influenced in order to go forward an eendorse the blockad against qatar and other gulf course neighbors. what is new is the information. we re learning now the qataris
and it s not just other countries or allies around the world that we have been working on relationships with for decades. not just countries are made. hundreds of people, protesters lined the route from the president s near by gulf course where and how the president chose to spend his martin luther king day of service today. saying what do we want? apology. it can be uncomfortable as a pairing, the president getting in a golf game and not doing any public service on a federal holiday about racial justice that the king family asked us to honor by doing public service. all the while people he tried to demean with racist remarks march along the road to his country club with signs calling into account lots of protesters demanding an apology from him. whatever the white house expected after those reports about the president s remarks last week, the reaction to what he said is growing, it s not
this isn t the first time nor the first president who s tried to use the gulf course to mend relationships. remember john boehner going out with barack obama as they tried to negotiate the band bargain on taxes and similarly on taxes that s what s coming up. president trump nights rand paul and he needs lindsey graham. these are two individuals with whom he s had a rocky relationship, tweeting back and forth. of course, lindy gram, the rival. the president is going out for a mulligan. rand paul was against president trump on health care. he was one f the holdouts along with john mccain and susan collins who sank that effort for the third time in the united states senate. rand paul did not want to make that mistake again. president trump playing the
are taking a knee and in protest of the national anthem because he has also decided to turn this into a personal issue for him where i was like that protest is as much about the president than the flag. you were around for 43. you know better than most. empathy counts, appearances and action really count in events like this. they absolutely do. president bush went back to the gulf course in new orleans. he spent a lot of money, tens of billions of dollars. he never caught up to the firs impression that was left and the first impression that was left was it wasn t being effectively managed and that hurt the presidency for the rest of his second term, the perception that the presidency was not on top of something as important as that. that s why this is important for president trump even beyond these next few days whether he can change that pefrpgs or at least done a pretty good job on texas and florida.