experts on foreign policy as the united nations general assembly waits and watches for president trump. jeff ben it is on the hill and kristen welker is over at the u.n. jeff, let me start with you because this is a day that in the eyes of many democrats feels different than the days that came before. that s right. in just the last 24 hours, 12 hours, in fact, we ve learned that house speaker nancy pelosi has been surveying members of her caucus, talking to house judiciary chairman jerry nadler and adam schiff to get a sense of whether the president s phone call with his ukrainian counterpart represents a tipping point and the sense seems to be among democrats that yes, it is, in in fact president trump tried to press a foreign power into the service of his reelection campaign. so as you mentioned, house democrats are set to meet her at 4:00 later this afternoon. this is a members only meeting, which suggests that this is significant and the matter is urgent. so as i stand here and t
middle of the third government shutdown this year on president trump s watch. any idea why secretary pompeo made the call, the secretary of state? president trump so often likes to outsource the delivery of bad news to have someone else do the dirty work. he has in the past leaned on john kelly to do that kind of thing, but john kelly, as we know, is leaving the administration at the end of the year as well. i think it s worth noting, though, that within mattis s absence you have folks like pompeo and john bolton, the national security adviser who will be elevated in this administration. when we found out pompeo made the call, that was certainly noteworthy. all right. jeff ben it for us at the white house. thank you. for more on all of this, i m joined by bill crystal, philip
attribution on suspects such that when the money is gone when you are thinking about your family and your children and you are looking at very harsh federal sentence under the sentencing guidelines that same pesche who may have said i ll never cooperate is now calling up.neys and asking for a proffer meeting so he can tell them all the goodie things that h knows about someone else they may be interested in, which in this case should or could be trump. very interesting conversation. we will cont to follow this very closely. thanks to the three you for your analysis. ari melber, elizabeth holtzman, and sanny is a val owes. catch the beat tonight. want t house, geoff bennett is moneyer toing for reaction there. jeff has anyone commented on this thing? this is a white house that has ied very hard to keep the message on north korea and the successes argued there. but the bottom line is they had a message to put out there and
a lot of americans think tough talk is good talk. that s right. even as the administration talks about the potential for peace in that part of the world it s undeniable that domestic polics are a primary motivation here. jeff ben it for us at the white house. coming up, much more on the outcome of that singapore summit laid they are hour, including what it would actually take to confirm that north korea is no longer a nuclear thr let give you a hint. it s not tet. next, as president trump was heading back to the.s. primaries were underway in five states. what those results tell bus the republican party, its allegiance to the president and what one senior gop senator is take about his own party. a live look right now at washington, d.c. where hundreds of people are marching to demand an ep to trump s family separation policy. we will continue to monitor this and bring you developments. you are watching msnbc. no. with claim rateguard your rates won t go up
april. this has gotten a bit muddier because rudy giuliani new to the trump legal team said the president became aware within the last couple of weeks. and so we re trying to find out when the president will acknowledge that he knew. he says that he did make the payments through a tweet he acknowledged that, but has not disclosed when he first learned and the white house address the president and his legal team all say they deny the underlying issue, the claim that she had a sexual encounter with the president back in 2006. lots of questions and hopefully truthful answers fort coming. thank you. let s go to jeff ben knegeoff b cleveland where the president is expected to speak. it is my understanding he has yet to arrive to that building behind you. have you seen him yet? reporter: no, i haven t seen him just yet. it is our understanding that he is still at a fundraising luncheon that that raised about $3 million for the president s re-election bid. and when he does arrive here at