not only i think dangerous from an economic standpoint but from a human rights and american value standpoint. he is going against what this country has literally stood for in the post world war ii era and that is one of the reasons why you saw people from nancy pelosi yesterday all the way to kevin mccarthy issuing statements in support of the hong kong people. ben, president trump, i mean, he ll say it. he is the america first, i and i alone president. we re not just possibly facing recession. the washington post points it out. germany, great britain, italy, mexico, brazil, argentina, singapore, south korea, and russia all could potentially be facing a recession. the fact that we are not coordinated on a global level with our allies or that the president is not flanked by the likes of hank paulson, tim geithner, ben bernanke, what kind of position does that put us in, so insulated? not a good one. i think about back to the time magazine cover, the committee to
in aspen? because, again, he called it incredible on monday. you know, i think what my take is and other people we ve talked to in aspen, there s another example of this disconnect between you have the president s advisers trying to clean up a situation, issuing statements, you know, saying things publicly, walking things back, and then you have what the president actually meant in real time, which people believe is what he really meant. and then as kristen welker said at the top, you have him doubling down on his strategy by sending an invite to vladimir putin to come to washington to have a second meeting. so i think there s this there s these two tracks. there s the president s view and people believe that he expressed it in real time and that s what he really thinks and feels what we saw in helsinki. and then there s people around him who are trying to clean up the situation and are issuing, you know, statements and saying things afterwards to try to kind
instead, he was kept out of the white house. he was eventually brought into the government, but in sort of, you know, different areas. so we ll see. obviously, if you re reince priebus, you do have to be a lot more worried than two days ago. melissa: without question. speaking of worry, what do you think about the story about jeff sessionsesome. well, i thought president trump s tweet was a little strange. it seemed to the confirm be it, and then the state department concern excuse me, the justice department s statement, it didn t deny what the report said, it just denied that there was no conversation with russian officials about campaign interference which is different than there was no conversation about the campaign which is, i think, what the report says. so it s everybody, it s like they re a bunch of lawyers all issuing statements, they all sort of talk past each other. obviously, i think the investigators, bob mueller, are working to figure out what s going on. melissa: i t
nearly 90 deaths a day in this country by guns. is there any possibility this might be part of the policy conversation going forward? i think the president s own record of saying there s no policy avenue for this number to go down the congress says there s no appetite to bring this up. the congress has no the natural con constituency of the congress the republican majority, there s no pressure from their constituency to put this up. what you saw is the vast silence of the members of congress in terms of issuing statements and so forth after the gun violence and what you saw from presidential candidates the silence as well. everybody could denounce the racism but people were not prepared to denounce it s the pressure against. in this podcast early in the week he talked about this. in a visceral moment the comedian asked him what s going to happen and he says nothing because the nra has control over
new england, i should say, much of maine and eastern parts of massachusetts dealing with blizzard conditions tomorrow, but that s just across this eastern side. areas from philadelphia down towards d.c., the south is absolutely fine, but we ll see a little bit of snow towards d.c. this is one of of the model projections. not all that bad. new york, another couple inches, philadelphia another couple inches, boston a little more before very windy, and parts of eastern maine, that s the big bull s eye. but we re not talking about a repeat but some additional snow, nonetheless. heather: it s all relative, i suppose. reporter: yep, you said it. heather: thank you so much, rick, appreciate it. reporter: sure. jon: the weather may have been a factor in a massive pileup on the pennsylvania turnpike. take a look at this, traffic shut down this morning as emergency crews try to sort things out. harris faulkner has more live from our new york newsroom. harris? reporter: hospitals, jon, now