for setting the agenda. bannon was conspicuously absent from yesterday s news conference, having attended all others during the trump administration a. source tells nbc news bannon only does the foreign leader things that are vital and that he can heck was vital yesterday. the new york times reports that bannon resisted the move and even threatened to quit. but bannon tells nbc this morning, the report is total nonsense, another anonymous administration official also says it s false. joe, what do you think? well, bannon is not telling the truth. by the way, so this nsc setup, i don t understand it. so bannon was going to be watch looking after flynn, who is going to be looking after bannon? don t you feed somebody to look after him? i d be just as concerned with bannon as flynn. glen thrush, he says the story is wrong, but, glen, i have been
that s going to be my responsibili responsibility. richard haass, a lot to talk about. the president taking the responsibility on his shoulders. he said what i think most of us would say about barack obama, i think even a lot of president obama s allies, about crossing the red line, so i wasn t as surprised about him answering a question with that as i was about putting it in the initial statement. he said it cannot be tolerated, assad crossed a lot of lines for me, my attitude toward syria and assad has changed. he talked about working with his allies. one of whom he was standing next to yesterday talking about becoming more of his influential allies. what did you hear yesterday in the president s remarks in the rose garden? i thought it was an important statement, joe. i think the president needs to stop talking about barack obama. he has a major opportunity to
propping up assad to do anything different. joe. richard, there is no reason for russia to cooperate with us. chances are likely that confrontation, we would have to confront putin rather than cooperate with him. and isn t that the same thing we can say about north korea and china. if china were going to step in and do something dramatic with north korea, wouldn t they have done that a long time ago? in terms of russia and syria, you are probably right in the long run, they do not want it to be a costly process. i m not ruling out in the long run, mr. putin is many things, but emotionally connected to people is not one of them. so i think the possibility that he could distance himself from assad or even iran down the road, i wouldn t rule it out over time. in terms of china and north korea, look, they don t like the north koreans much. they don t need a crisis, china
when other republicans tried to make that all about leaks, but do you agree american versus a right to know the truth about the possible trump-russia collusion as well as whether the names of trump administration officials were improperly unmasked and then leaked. can congress and the press do two things at once while keeping proper perspective on what the bigger story is? oh, absolutely. absolutely. we really need to there have been as you know, joe, you probably have raised this in the past, concerns among civil libertarians about a whole range of under surveillance practices and procedures, including whether minimization is being done correctly or whether there is, you know, back door under surveillance going on, where foreign parties have the real intent of figuring out who they are talking to back in the united states. those are things that we
add that premium channel, and watch the show everyone s talking about, tonight. and the bill you need to pay? do it in seconds. because we should fit into your life, not the other way around. go to xfinity.com/myaccount as you know, i ll be meeting with the president of china very soon in florida and that s another responsibility we have and that s called the country of north korea. we have a big problem. we have somebody that is not doing the right thing and that s going to be my responsibility. president trump previewing his first face-to-face meeting with china s leader today in florida. so here on set, the news and finance anchor, michael duffy, richard haase, joe and lee. first of all, we have