Well, less than two days before the republican caucuses in nevada and less than a week before the democratic primary in South Carolina, the u. S. President ial hopefuls are stumping hard. But Hillary Clinton took time to speak with cnn. The democratic frontrunner says shes trying to ease voters concerns about her motivation. I understand that voters have questions. Im going to do my very best to answer those questions. I think theres an underlying question that maybe is really in the back of peoples minds, and that is, you know, is she in it for us, or is she in it for herself . Republican donald trump also spoke to cnn, and he made several bold predictions. As a candidate, i will bring over many, many demes. Were going to bring over a lot of democrats. Were going to bring over a lot of independents. Nobody else will. In all fairness to the other candidates, they will never bring over independents. Were talking about the reagan democrats. Were going to bring over tremendous numbers. We
Abroad, a political opponent at home or ally at home, you look at these numbers and this is a president who has been undercut by bad decisions, low poll numbers. Its a real crisis in the white house politically. So on this important day, welcome to morning joe. Its wednesday, april 5th. We have seen your political analyst for nbc news and msnbc Mark Halperin. Senior writer on National Security for the wall street journal shane harris along with joe, willie and me. Weve got three hours, were going to do all these stories right and lay them out in a big world. The leader of the free world is hovering under 40 Approval Ratings just months into his administration. Gallup daily tracking poll has the president at 38 . Ibd with 36 . The latest quinnipiac poll has trump at 35 . The quinnipiac pollsters note by comparison george w. Bushs lowest, 28 in their poll, came nearly eight years into office, two unpopular wars, a housing crisis that drove a deep recession. President trump is under water
Good morning, everybody. Msnbc live this hour in miami. This is how beautiful the city looks this morning just after 9 00. Day 30 of the Trump Administration. A big day ahead. Im thomas roberts. Good to have you with me. This afternoon, donald trump takes to the road in orlando holding another campaignstyle rally, and there he will once again be amongst folks that are out to support him. But look at this. Here are opposition rallies that are going to be taking place today in los angeles and dallas. Weve also been monitoring the schedule of the Vice President , mike pence, at the Munich Security Conference where he spoke earlier this morning fpg Vice President h mtings scheduled with leaderses from several allied nations this morning. Also keeping close watch on the latest governments on one of the worst storms to hit Southern California in years. It is deadly, and the worst may yet be to come. We begin with that breaking news from out west and that storm killing at least two people in
Little bit about how this actually works before we get started with our conversation. Every day around the world, intelligence agents monitor the communications of foreign agents and officials. Sometimes as a part of this, they pick up communications between those officials and americans. This is called incidental surveillance. And according to experts of all political stripes, it is completely routine. The identities of americans are masked or hidden in the intelligence reports. General michael hayden, a former director of the cia and the nsa described what happens next with those reports. One thing to importantly keep in mind, that report doesnt get to her desk unless someone at fort immediate at nsa already thinks it has significant foreign intelligence. So what general hayden is saying for a report of incidental Collection Featuring an american to make it to the desk of the National Security adviser, it would have been flagged as something of significance by intelligence agents at
Nsa describe what happens next with those reports. One thing to importantly keep in mind that report doesnt get to her desk unless someone at nsa already thinks it has significant foreign intelligence. What general haden is saying for a report to make it to the desk of the National Security advisor would have been flagged as something of significance by intelligence agents at the nsa. What happens then at the white house could susan rice unmask on her own for political purposes . What you do, you got in the report and say i need to now who u. S. Person number one is, you fill out the request in her case, a staff member would fill out the request, it would go to nsa and literally be adjudicated by the analyst, a lawyer and someone who is an expert in unmasking a judication and they make a decision and yes that identity is revealed only to the requester not to everyone on the original distribution. So this is very careful and very welldocumented. Should be easy to find out how often she