Well, now, signs of life. The white house pushing a new round of negotiations and the various factions within the Republican Party appear to be making some kind of progress. Is that what the president was hinting at when he said this tuesday . We are going to have a big win soon, because were going to have health care, and i believe thats going to happen. And you know, there was no, like, loss with health care. This is just a constant negotiation. And the plan is Getting Better and better all the time. Lets get to the state of play right now, though. Cnns National Politics reporter mj lee is here with much more. So, mj, lay it out for us. Where exactly is the compromise, if we can call it that, and who exactly is on board right now . So, there are signs of a possible breakthrough on health care, emphasis on possible. What we know is that leaders of this tuesday group as well as the House Freedom caucus have been in talks over the easter recess to try to revive the first failed Health C
Global security threat. While suggesting they may put north korea back on a path of terror. Nbc Kristin Welker at the white house right now. He is most likely going to be ask about this line against iran as secretary tillerson is saying that iran is complying with this nuclear deal. Theyre not cheating. Thats right the question for the president today, is he going to in fact move to rip up, as he put it, the iran nuclear deal. This is something that he vowed to do as a candidate. It is also somebody he talked about doing as a president. As you know, the United States is not the only country involved in this deal. Its not as simple as just pulling out, and it would raise serious questions about the United States level of commitment to these types of international agreements. Having said that, the talk, as you point out and you were there yesterday for seccer tear tillerson was skwas tough sayin theyre tough in their viewing of iran. The administration argues that b iran is not doing eno
How do you see this day playing out . Reporter in terms of the messaging to russia, a lot of tough talk over the weekend from secretary of state Rex Tillerson and u. N. Ambassador nikki haley effectively saying to russia, youre with us or against us and blaming them for not following through with trying to make sure that syria got rid of all of its check ca chemical weapons. Especially the secretary of state to press his russian counter part on this point. Hes tre in Moscow Holding talks and potentially a having a meeting with lawsuvladimir puti. You have nikki haycy saying its time for assad to go. But a very different message from the secretary of state who effect lively said the focus right now is trying to defeat isis. Well deal with assad later. Ultimately its going to have to happen through a political process. So the question for sean spicer today, for President Trump, what is the policy when it comes to aside. What are the next steps no syria. One more point thats important, th
The u. S. Drops its largest nonnuclear bomb ever in afghanistan of the. I authorized my military. We have the greatest military in the world of the. This is mtp dmtpdale and it s right now. Good evening. Welcome to mtp daily. The political world is still reeling from a braung of what some are calling flipflops from President Trump. Others might say it is evolution or people changing their positions to trump. We know this. He is changing his mindn china as currency manipulator. Janet yellens performance and the role of nato among other things. These policy changes are extraordinary and yet at the same time not that shocking. Many predicted some of these shifts throughout the campaign. Campaigned against him saying, he is going to flip on x or y or z. I think many didnt think he would flip on x, y and z. Well get into it. Tonight we have a special guest, roger stone. Long time adviser to President Trump who has been at the heart of allegations of ties between Trump Campaign and russia. H
Theres also, we should point out, chris, no money for the border wall in this bill. That of course is something that the democrats were very focused on. There is Border Security money but it is not explicitly for the wall. Theres also no language in this bill that says that sanctiuary cities wont receive funding and nothing has changed regard planned parenthood. We had been expecting a deal like this to come together. They had hoped to get it done last week but there was again, a flap over that border wall. So at this point we expect, barring unpredictable you know, something from the president. But we have heard the white house praise this as well. So leaders here are feeling good about getting this done this week. Kristen, what is the white house saying about this . Obviously the wall is message that the president wanted but he had already signaled it might not happen until later. What are they saying about that where you are . Reporter theyre trying to paint this as a victory for th