Were right. X rated. A vulgar rant from the new White House Communications director. Sanctioned by the president , eviscerating Reince Priebus and steve bannon. We serve at the pleasure of the president. If it gets to a place where that isnt the case, hell let you know. For goodness sakes, to have this kind of open warfare going on between the president , his staff, and his cabinet members is an absolute disgrace. Tit for tat. M moscow shuts the doors after congress sanctioned the russia for hacking our election. Ive gotten no indications that theyre considering vetoing it. And, again, i mean they can count. They understand math. And i just cant imagine theyre considering doing so. And escalating threat, the pentagon confirms it has detected a launch of a Ballistic Missile from north korea, which landed in japanese sea lanes off the coast of japan after flying for about 45 minutes. Well have a lot more details coming up next. And good day, everyone, im Andrea Mitchell in washington. A
I think yesterday we talked about the president s unf unfortunate statement coming out of the white house talking about president obama. Yesterday he righted himself, said what he needed to say, saying its my problem now, its on my shoulders. I think he heard the criticism attacking obama and how tone deaf it wasality the time. There are a lot of people, not only across the world, but a lot of people in america who im sure were heartened by the fact that this president wasnt going to say what every politician has said for the last five years, theres been a genocide in syria. That is, oh, its just too hard and thats really were sad and its a shame, and we cant help them over there, we cant do anything. I think the president said that his mind was changed and he was going to seek action. It can only lead us to hope that he will work in other arab country ts and work with our european allies and figure out some way to bring relief to the Syrian People. We in the west have ignored them for
Played a role in picking the president. With us we have Mark Halperin, former treasury official and morning joe economic officialist Steve Rattner, professor at university of michigan, normer democratic congressman harold ford, junior, and cofounder and ceo of axios, jim vann da hiem is with us as well. Harold, you have your notes. Professor is all it says at the top. In his testimony, director comey cited the tarmac meeting between then attorney general Loretta Lynch and president bill clinton as a turning point in the investigation into Hillary Clintons emails. Take a look. Number of things had gone on, some of which i cant talk about yet, that made me worry that the Department Leadership could not credibly complete the investigation and decline prosecution without grievous damage to the American Peoples confidence in the justice system. The cap per was, not picking on attorney general Loretta Lynch who i like very much, but her meeting with president clinton on the airplane was the
Health care. Another vote looming if they have a vote. John roberts starts us off from the north lawn. The president prides himself on being the master negotiator and he is clearly incensed of charges from his own party that he got ruled by democrats on the spending bill. Thats some big people behind me. With the champion air force Falcons Football team behind him, President Trump dismissed complaints he caved to democrats on the spending bill. He got military spending and more. We brought lawmakers together from both sides of the aisle to deliver a budget that funds the rebuilding of the United States military, makes historic investments in Border Security, and provides health care for our miners and School Choice for our disadvantage children. Missing was money to build the border wall. It was left of the budget director to put the best face on that. Mick mulvaney saying they got millions to replace flimsy border fencing with a 20foot high steel wall. We are building this now. There
Answer to that by the end of this week. Check your watch, the House Intelligence Committee has set a deadline for this coming friday for the white house and President Trump to respond to a request for those tapes. Now the president has teased the nations dangling the idea that the tapes exist. Do they exist or not . Well have the president s lawyer also saying we could get answers soon. The president said last week he would release the tapes, if there were tapes, of his conversation this week. That hasnt 457d. Where is that . I think the president is going to address that in the week ahead. There were a lot of issues this past week. More of President Trumps lawyer insisting the president is not under investigation. Now thats despite the president tweeting that he is. While the president likes, maybe he loves to tweet, hes not wild about answering questions. Heres an example. I would like to thank President Trump for thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Washington corre