Senate decision to go nuclear. Plus backing bill. President trump throws his support behind bill oreilly. I dont think bill would do anything wrong. Hes a good person. As more advertisers pull their money and one congresswoman goes there. Bill oreilly needs to go to jail. We begin today with the global challenges facing President Trump. The attacks in syria and the Nuclear Threat from north korea pushing him to seek help from russia and china, two countries that have not exactly been americas closest allies. We got the best team in the business to break it down and i want to take you first to chris, i want to start with this visit by chinese president xi jinping. This is the most Important International meeting we have seen so far. What exactly are the stakes . Reporter i think theyre enormous. Lets start with the economy. You heard that sound byte from the president , family refrain from him has been that america has lost jobs because of the trade imbalance so he intends to put a lot
Antimuslim rhetoric from the campaign, but called on arab leaders to unite against terrorism. Drive them out of your places of worship. Drive them out of your communities. Drive them out of your holy land. And drive them out of this earth. And dance of diplomacy. The president tried but the secretary of state, he knew the steps. Saying this wasnt his first sword dance. And joining hands opening a center to combat terrorism with a glowing orb that quickly lit up social media. And good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in jerusalem today where President Trump is launching a middle east Peace Initiative trying to prove he can accomplish what none of his predecessors accomplished. Hes about to make his appearance with Benjamin Netanyahu. He may have made more of a problem for himself over the breach of intelligence with the russians. The Russian Foreign smin fer more than a week ago. The intelligence cooperation is terrific. Just so you understand, i never mentioned the word or the name is
Im very anxious to appear before the House Intelligence Committees. Plus under fire. Critics slamming President Trump for this moment with a female reporter which is now going viral. She has a nice smile on her face so i bet she treats you well. The legendary phil donahue is here to way in on all of it. Well begin this morning with resetting the repeal and the stunning decision by the Senate Republican leadership to postpone a vote on their highly Controversial Health care bill. There are a lot of questions this morning. So we are bringing in the best team of reporters and analysts in the business. Here to explain where we go from here taking you to capitol hill where casey hunt is standing by. You spoke to Senate Majority leader mcconnell about this surprising announcement, surprising because he couldnt get the votes. Lets listen. Mr. Leader, is your effort to repeal obamacare dead . No, no. Were continuing to talk about it. Its a complicated discussion. Weve got a lot of discussions
Out their Health Care Bill yesterday, and it took little time before they were met with internal resistance and jeopardizing what leaders hoped would be a speedy passage of the bill. The 142page bill maintains the structure of the house plan passed last month. It ends the tax penalties behind the mandate and offers tax credits to help people buy insurance. It allows insurers to raise the limit of what they charge older customers to five times what younger people pay. It allows children to stay on their parents plans until the able of 26. It offers states the ability to drop many of the benefits required by the aca, including maternity care, emergency services, and Mental Health treatment. It would insure 74 million americans phasing out the expansion provided by obama care between 2020 and 2024. With a longterm overhaul of the Entitlement Program by tying it to inflation, meaning deep cuts in medicaid funding. Now, despite past promises not to cut medicaid, President Trump tweeted that
Starts right now. Good evening im chuck todd in washington. And welcome to mtp daily. Thank you for watching while i was gone and thank you for being here when im back. Were following two major stories tone. One of them could unend the Justice Department the other could up end the entire healthcare system. Thats all. And what happens next on either of them, right now anyones guess. President trump has tovd the Political Landscape as we know it right now. Hes publicly nothing his attorney general Jeff Sessions likely as a way to force his resignation, possibly as a way to fire special counsel bob mueller. Today mr. Trump blasted sessions again, this time he hit him nor not firing the acting fbi chief Andrew Mccabe because of his wifes old financial ties to democrats. So if youre scoring at home, the president is now on the record saying he thinks sessions, quote, shouldnt have recused himself, is damaging the presidency, should be investigating Hillary Clintons, quote, crimes, should be