Ruhle this morning. Joint investigation. And so it starts, the Senate Intelligence committee holding its first hearing on russian meddling shortly, unlike the confusion and distrust in the house, both sides in the Upper Chamber vow to work together. I have confidence that we, together, are going to get to the bottom of this. Vladimir putin speaking out this morning, calling all of the allegations lies. Making it official, ivanka trumps new role in the white house has a lot of folks crying conflict. New questions this morning about mixing family and government business. Is it ethical . Is it smart . And going it alone, on health care, House Speaker paul ryan in a brands new interview says hes worried President Trump may work with democrats. But we start today with the Russian Investigation, a Senate Intelligence committee set to kick off a new hearing, roughly an hour from now. This while just moments ago, russian president Vladimir Putin telling cnbc he had nothing to do with the u. S.
Myself. And new details from those close to james comey. The phone call he received from trump and how he tried desperately to avoid this moment with the president. The hug is entirely onesided and comey was just completely disgusted. Plus, go for joe, the president could announce a new fbi director this morning. Former democratic senator Joe Lieberman, now leading the pack. I think he would be a good choice. I think its a mistake to nominate anyone who has ever run for office. We begin today with the president just hours away from embarking on his first foreign trip. It is the president s major opportunity to put some distance between himself and the relentless wave of rough headlines here at home. We got a great team this morning to break all of this news down and i want to take you first to nbcs Peter Alexander live at the white house. Peter, we know that the president met with his lawyers about this new special counsel and hes also talking about it. What can you tell us . Yeah, ste
Right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd here in new york city. And welcome to mtp daily. Folks the Republican Health care plan already has an identity crisis because the Republican Party still has an identity crisis, at least when it comes to ideology. The health care fight is exposed the growing divide between the partys Old Fashioned Movement Conservative base and its new nationalist president. Right now the white house and gop leaders are aggressively trying to unite those two warring factions and in fact in just a few minutes at the white house, President Trump is scheduled to meet with conservative groups who are bashing the current plan to repeal and replace obamacare. Some on the right are slamming as trumpcare, others are slamming it as ryancare. No matter what theyre calling it, others call it obamacarelite. They dont like it. It seems as if the Republican Party isnt quite sure what the bill is supposed to do. Why . Because the party isnt quite sure what its supposed to be in t
On capitol hill. Walk us through these fastmoving developments, if you can. Doesnt sound like a lot of support for an immunity deal for general flynn on capitol hill, safe to say. Right now is important, because we have been told by those lawmakers in the middle of these investigations on both sides of the capitol, the senate and the house, that it is fairly early in their investigations. Part of what they want to do is by reviewing a lot of documents, including raw intelligence, doing a series of different interviews where they gain information and details that would help them formulate a series of questions for someone as central as Michael Flynn pears to be. As the former National Security advise tore the president , someone who lost that job very quickly over issues of his own credibility and ties to at least meeting with the russian ambassador, if not more. So timing is important. Could they ever get to a point where immunity could be considered . They also want to be mindful of w
Another, what seems to be socalled low tech attack in france where they have lost at least 230 people and if this adds to that total 230 people in terror attacks since the nice attack with the truck attack two years ago. Steve six injured, two critically. One report says that the unit that was targeted was a specialized unit that was formed after the charlie ebb dough massacre. Dough hebdo massacre. City of lights, paris, says it is no doubt it was deliberate. Ainsley can you believe that in the suspect allegedly was waiting on them to come out to get into their vehicles or come towards their vehicle and thats when he steve floored it. Unbelievable. Brian people have said when they went to paris and i have been there twice, doesnt feel the same. Ainsley have you been there recently. Brian its been three, four years. They say now there is a sense now that the traffic is lower and people dont know whats going to happen next. Because these arent the sophisticated attacks. Man jumped up ou