Them out completely. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is Bbc World News its newsday. Good morning. It is 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington were President Trump has made a Surprise Announcement that he is banning transgender people from serving in the us military in any capacity. He tweeted their risk burdening the military with large medical bills and disruption. Campaigners have called his decision shocking and ignorant. The fate of current transgender military ignorant. The fate of current tra nsgender Military Personnel ignorant. The fate of current transgender Military Personnel has not been made clear. There are thought to be thousands of members of the us military who identify as transgender. Many have spent time in iraq or afghanistan. Today they woke up to a shock from the very president they serve. After consultation with my generals and military experts, he tweeted, please be advised that the United States government will not accept
Two individuals . What makes this so striking is sean hannity has really ascended within the american right as the Republican Party has gone through convulsions during the trump era. It is hannity, his platform, and others at fox news who have often had the president s ear, who are, in their own way, shaping the way Different Things play out with the Trump Administration, urging the president to stick to its hardline positions on immigration, to move forward in a conservative way on health care. And as the president really just turns to his family and more and more, hannity is seen as a trusted friend. And i cant emphasize enough in my reporting how that trust for hannity, that confidence in him as an associate really underscores everything thats happening. And one more before we change topics, and that is your reporting that it was hannity who knew sekulow first and may have handed off jay sekulow, the idea, the lawyer, to President Trump who was in need of counsel. Because of that tr
I am going to make the great teas deals. I do deals. I deal. I negotiate by creating leverage. So i can extract a good deal for the United States. For the people. Everybody wants me to negotiate. I am so anxious to negotiate. Nobody can outnegotiate these deals. I am a great deal maker. We dont make great deals anymore. But i will. We are going to win, and win and win. Well, well see. More now on all of this from pamela brown joining us now from the white house. Do we know what changed . Now 24 hours later optimism from
t train from the test site. The insult hurled. The north koreans now, it seems they could work with the United States. And that is why you saw that statement. They said President Trump was brave for taking steps. And willing to talk with the United States at any time. North korean diplomats have reopened. And trying to see if they can work out and make something happen. To make this summit occur on june 12th. So what happens now . What are the next steps . They can agre
Profiting off his ties to people in power. And companies that hired him like at t and novartis pony up for access, something that his boss railed against his candidate. I know the game. I understand it. So many people have come up, lobbyists. I said i dont want money from lobbyi lobbyists. The system we have is broken. A guy like bush, all these people are controlled by peemt who give them the money. It is time to drain the swamp in washington, d. C. Thats the best Case Scenario of what cohen has been up to. Here is the thing. There are numerous reasons to believe that scenario may not be the truth. For starters, lets start with this. Prior to taking money from corporate clients, cohens llc of central consultants was being used to pay hush money to the president s mistress and unexplainably to a former
government. Specifically focus on u. S. Tax reform, major Trump Campaign issue and the time warner merger. This had been announced by at t in october just before the election, and donald
Right about that. Earlier this morning the president of the United States publicly hounded natos secretarygeneral, repeatedly disparaged germany and wondered aloud why america should be responsible for protecting europe against russia. Vladimir putin wants donald trump to break from American Allies. A few hours ago, that is exactly what he got. Wow. Welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, july 11th. With us, msnbc contributor mike ba ba ba barniccal. And David Ignatius, nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kasie d. C. On msnbc, kasie hunt and former u. S. Ambassador to nato and former state Department Spokesman nicholas burns, professor of diplomacy and International Relations at the Harvard Kennedy school of government. Great group to start with this morning, and, wow, what a start to the trip. What a start to the trip. And lets just play the clip. Heres donald trump actually doing exactly what Vladimir Putin would want him to do. Good morning. In many countries, they owe