Chambers. Tillerson actually is done for the day im told. At the studio here with us, we have katie ter and nicole wallace. General mattis is the singling most comforting decision that donald trump has made since the moment it was known that he would be our next commander in chief. And his appointment gives comfort to the Intelligence Community, very much in the spotlight and in the headlines this week especially. His appointment gives comfort to the men and women of the military. His appointment gives comfort to congress. And those are groups of people that as the countrys commander in chief, you must provide some reassurance that youre going to surround yourself with people who can walk in and say, hey, all tha stuff y said about water boarding, not so smart. Not such a good idea. Heerdz why. And listen. What general mattis is in a leafing his own in the simple fact that hes changed Donald Trumps mind already. Hes not even on the job. Hes already persuaded him to change his thinking
Youre looking a the live pictures. Moments ago he spoke about the road ahead to election day. And i dont know what kind of shape im in, but ill be happy and at least i will have known win, lose or draw, and im almost sure if the people come out were going to win. The candidates and their surrogates are fanning out across key battleground states. Besides North Carolina, trump holds rallying in two pennsylvania towns. His running mate mike pence an event in New Hampshire. Hillary Clintons Campaign is in ohio. Her running maehl and Vice President biden are on the campaign trail in pennsylvania. Bill clinton rallies supporters in florida. Bring in our political panel. Joining us, david chalian, cnn political director, jackie co kucinich and zeke miller, political reporter for time magazine. David, North Carolina clearly a critically important battleground state. Donald trump desperately needs to win North Carolina. The rally so far seems to be sticking mostly to the script, the teleprompte
Im alex witt alongside louisberg dorff. Pressed by reporters trump acknowledged for the first time that it was likely russia that was responsible for hacks during the election while noting it could have been others also. As far as hacking, i think it was russia, but i think we also get hacked by other countries and other people and i can say that when we lost 22 million names and Everything Else that was hacked recently, they didnt make a big deal out of that. That was something that was extraordinary. That was probably china, and i have to say this also. The Democratic National committee was totally open to be hacked. They did a very poor job. They could have had hacking defense, which we had. But trump was defiant over the reports compiled by former british spy Christopher Steele and published by buzz feed. The allegations are lured and thus far unverified. Including that russia was potentially collecting information to blackmail him. Wherever you go, there are probably cameras. In t
Russian hacking. Every american should be alarmed by russias attacks on our nation. Then the Vice President s harsh words for the president elect. Grow up. Time to be an adult. Youre president. A democratic congresswoman refusing to attend the inauguration and why the president elect spent today in a Democratic National convention. I mean, do you want me to read it . All in starts now. Good evening from new york, im joy reid in for chris hayes. In 15 days, donald trump will become the president of the United States and tomorrow hell come face to face with a group he seems to oppose more than anyone since Hillary Clinton, americas Intelligence Community. A senior u. S. Intelligence official tells nbc news that the director of National Intelligence and the heads of the nsa, the cia and the fbi are all scheduled to be at trump tower tomorrow to brief the president elect on their finding that russia was behind the Election Hacking of democratic emails. President obama received the same bri
At msnbc World Headquarters. It is high noon in the east, 9 00 a. M. In the west and day 45 of the Trump Administration. New word from the white house just a short time ago, for the first time adding to the flurry of tweets from the president earlier yesterday. Now a call to investigate the Obama Administration, but why . And if it is, this is the greatest overreach and the greatest abuse of power that i think weve ever seen. And just a short time ago we heard from the man who may have all of the answers to it, the claims of wiretapping and allegations of russiatrump team collusion. If Something Like that happened would this be something you would be aware of . Youll hear real answers from the former director of National Intelligence, some of what he says might surprise you, and is there anything to a new report that President Trump was fuming because Jeff Sessions recused himself from any of the 2016 election investigation . Ill talk to the man behind that report. All of that over the