Rematch, despite pleas by President Trump and other Republican Leaders to please go away. Once the mere mention of my name caused people just to get up in arms in washington, d. C. Because i believe in god, in marriage, in morality in our country. I believe in the right of a baby in the womb. Back to that story a bit later in the program. We begin the hour with a remarkable firsthand account from the commander in chief about a plan to bomb iran, and about his lastminute abort order. The targets were Iranian Missile batteries and raiders selected by the pentagon as a response to iranes shootdown of an air force drone. President trump revealing the playbyplay in a series of tweets saying, quote, we were cocked and loaded to retaliate last night on three different sites. When i asked how many would die, o 150 people, sir, was the response by a general. Ten minutes later before the strike i stopped it, not proportionate to shooting down a drone. What now is one big question. Fred pleitgen
Data sends conflicting signals. Trade tensions run high and political pressures mount. Much of that political pressure is, of course, coming from the president. He has been unrelenting in his criticism of the fed and more specifically of his own pick to lead it, chairman Jerome Powell. Here he was yesterday when asked if he had considered demoting powell. Well, lets see what he does. Theyre going to be making an announcement pretty soon, so well see what happens. But i want to be given a level playing field. And so far, i havent been. So back with me right now is my colleague, ali velshi. Ali, cnbc is reporting that the rates are going to remain unchanged. What do you read into that . So thats what we expected to happen, right . It would have been very unusual to see a rate cut right now. What we are waiting for is the statement from the Federal Reserve, which we now have, that says the Federal Reserve leaves rates unchanged and has signaled that they do not expect Interest Rate cuts i
We didnt agree much on anything. We got things done. 2020 democrats quickly seedsing on the former Vice President s comments, some calling on him to apologize. I think to be singing the praises of people who were vicious segregationists is not something that anybody should be doing. Its never okay to celebrate segregationists, never. To coddle the reputations of segregations, if they had their way, i would not be standing here. Its misinformed and wrong. Biden pushing back saying he was not praising eastland. Could not disagree with jim east land more. He was a segregationist. I ran for the United States senate because i disagreed with the views of the segregationists. The point i made is you dont have to agree. You dont have to like the people in terms of their views but you simply make the case and you beat them. Biden later lamenting the harsh start to the 2020 race saying at a fundraiser late last night, its going to be pretty ugly but heres the deal. Im not going to participate. R
Conduct Foreign Policy your time is up. Its very plausible youd be elected president with a republican senate. Do you have a plan to deal with Mitch Mcconnell . I do. And spin doctors. Some of the candidates rate their own performances as they try to break out from the oversized field. Are you an imitation of Bernie Sanders . Is there room for both of you . This work is the work ive been doing pretty much all my life. Im glad that several of the people on that debate stage tonight agree with me that if we want to end family separation, then we need to go back to the way things were before and make Border Crossing a civil violation. We are not even having a serious conversation about how and why we go to war. I wanted tod make it personal. Coming up, bill de blasio joins us fresh off the debate stage. Citizenship fight. A big defeat for the Trump Administration as chief Justice John Roberts joins the liberal ring. This is a big victory for those states, primarily democratic states led b
Pushed into military action against iran by your advisers . I have two groups of people. I have doves and hawks. Some serious hawks. Yeah. Who won the weekend . Which candidate scored standout moments in South Carolina as they cram for the first democratic president ial debate . Two weeks and big deportation begins. That threat coming directly from President Trump after he delayed nationwide i. C. E. Raids to deport thousands of undocumented immigrants in ten major u. S. Cities. Those raids were expected to take place today, but the president reversed his plan in a saturday tweet just hours before the wave of roundups were set to begin. The change of heart coming after House Speaker nancy pelosi personally called trump urging him to back off those raids. Trump agreed, but on one condition, that congress now has two weeks to work out an asylum deal and come up with a solution for the southern border. Otherwise, the mass deportations are back on. Joining me, nbcs ron allen who is outside