Scare with a new fight over who pays for security there. And remembering carrie. Hollywood and the world on the extraordinary legacy of Carrie Fisher. Why, you stuck up, half witted scruffy looking nurf herder. Her dog even posting a goodbye on twitter. One of her star wars costars joins us live. We begin with fierce new reaction from president elect donald trump. He is escalating the war of words with president obama taking a new dig at the commander in chief after president obama took this deadly veiled swipe at trump while commemorating the attack on pearl harbor. When hatred burns hottest, even when the tug of tribalism is at its most primal, we must resist the urge to turn inward. We must resist the urge to demonize those who are different. Lets get right to it with the best team of reporters and analysts in the business. Standing by with brandnew details nbcs Hallie Jackson is in west palm beach, florida, covering donald trump as he spends the holidays at his maralago estate. So
So well and sean about that. We know based on my conversations over the weekend, hallie, that the president is eyeing potentially expanding some parts of his team, scaling back other parts. He is eyeing some of his former campaign officials, for example, Corey Lewandowski. Dave bossy, who were spotted at the white house yesterday. I am told probably more likely you would see him bring dave bossy back into the fold. He is, of course, the former Deputy Campaign manager. Corey lewandowski has a lot of tensions with his family, as you know, hallie, from your time covering the campaign. This could be the start of a big shakeup. It is certainly significant, hallie, this is the Communications Director issuing his letter of resignation after three months on the job. Kristen, you talked about dave bossy, somebody who may rejoin the team here at the white house. I am going to throw the control room for a loop because id like to bring up what bossy said on fox talking about this. Take a listen. T
Russia and the rest of the u. N. Security council to unanimously agree on a billiondollar bite out of north koreas export revenue. Following two icbm tests at the beginning and end of july. North korea not taking that punishment well. Threatening the u. S. The countrys official news Agency Issued this statement. There is no bigger mistake than the United States believing that its land is safe across the ocean. Nbcs Kristen Welker joins us from bridge water, new jersey, where she is with President Trump, who is on his working vacation. Or as he would say, hes not on vacation at all. But well talk about that later. Kristen, i understand that President Trump spoke with secretary Rex Tillerson today, what, an hourlong conversation . Reporter an hourlong conversation, which included the newly installed chief of staff, john kelly. Sort of underscores the new role of the chief of staff. He said hes going to be engaged in every phone call and every piece of information that lands on the presid
Escalating threat of a nuclear north korea. And the leader that trump labeled in a tweet rocket man. As pyongyang nears the final stage of developing an intercontinental ballistic missile, the u. S. , south korea and japan flexing military muscle with joint drills across the Korean Peninsula as the Trump Administration signaled time could be running out for a diplomatic solution. If the United States has to defend itself or allies in any way, north korea will be destroyed. We have to prepare all options, make sure all options are under development to ensure that this regime cannot threaten the world. As we have watched each missile test and military test, the program is advancing. With the world watching, what will be the president s strategy for solving the crisis . How will trumps America First agenda play on the world stage . Theres so much to cover today with our reporters and analysts so lets get right to it. We have a great team here today. Nbcs chief White House Correspondent Ha
This happened around dusk. It was on tuesday, october 4th. You had several groups, but basically around a dozen u. S. Soldiers. Some of them were in their vehicles, others had been separated. They went to go to the village. When they are at the village coming back out of that village, thats when they were ambushed and came under heavy fire, rpgs, machine guns, you had this from this group that is likely linked with isis. A much larger group. 30 minutes into it, you have french fighters that appear overhead. They did not drop ammunitions. Then you have two separate medivacs. The first medivac for american casualties done by french super pumas and then the evacuation of the american dead actually happened by an american contractor. Now, we have sort of been talking to a lot of folks at the pentagon, was somebody left behind . They are disputing that and saying he was separated. This is david johnson, the fourth found 48 hours later. Listen to what general mackenzie said yesterday disputi