apart from the syria one. but yeah, you make a good point. well, and especially with the way they speak about the syria problem, they put it in almost apocalyptic terms. so it is hard to see how they square their rhetoric with some of these actions. anyway, kelly o donnell, jeff bennett. capitol hill and the white house. great way to kick off. thank you. joining me now is somebody who was in the room at this bizarre meeting. the chairman of the house arm services committee. washington democrat congressman adam smith. and, congressman, you didn t walk out of the room. you and the other committee chairs that have jurisdiction over national security issues stayed in the room. what happened? and what happened after your leader walked out? well, there was some important policy discussions that need to be had. i mean, we need to understand what the president s plan was. we had secretary esper there. chief of staff was there. sorry, chairman of the chief of
meltdown. sad to say. in just a moment, i m going to talk to a top democratic committee chair who stayed in the room after the three leaders walked out. so some democrats did stay in the room and we ll find out what happened after. but first, let me turn to our nbc colleagues on the hill and at the white house to try to unpack what is yet another bizarre day and what we might as well say is another day covering the president. kelly o donnell s at the white house. jeff bennett s on capitol hill. so, kelly, a lot to unpack here. the president was meeting with the leader of italy. that obviously was just a vehicle to express no regret now after, i guess, expressing some with his decision to pull troops from northern syria. the president was very much on message truck saying that he believes his decision to withdrawal u.s. troops is the right one and that it is up to
think you will see a war. let s go to bridgewater, new jersey, that s where kelly o donnell s been camped out there. hello. your reaction to the president s tweet about bannon and what more is he saying this morning? reporter: it was notable that the president did not make any comment on the day he was actually dismissed from the white house, waiting until this morning and the tone from the tweet from the president is very straightforward, thanking steve bannon for his work on the campaign and in the white house and signaling a bit of friendship in saying it was great. that is certainly a peace offering in some respects for bannon who is now a powerful figure outside the white house and as you ve just described there are questions about where bannon s energy will be. will he be lifting up some of the trump ideas? will he be warring with staffers? we ll have to see how that unfolds. what also stands out about the firing of bannon, who also submitted his resignation so it s one of th
trump should step aside and allow us to replace him. i cannot in good conscious vote for trump. i would never vote for hillary clinton. you will see a number of those statements. when you begin to see a real movement in the congressional party to protect the base and senate majority, try to, and write him off, that s when some movement will occur. i think the closest we have seen to that so far is what we have seen from the speaker of the house. for paul ryan who has been so carefully walking that tightrope and with the house majority not wanting him to disavow or not endorse or not being happy with him taking so long to endorse donald trump. for him to say what he said and to connect with scott walker and according to kelly o donnell s reporting because it is in
wanting him to disavow or not endorse, not even being happy with him taking so long to endorse donald trump, for him to say what he said and and connect with scott walker and according to kelly o donnell s reporting, not just because it s kelly and she s always right, it s absolutely in character with paul ryan. for them to disinvite donald trump from that saturday first campaign appearance with him, that tells you so much about the way the party is moving. i think there is an outside chance and i don t think it s the most likely outcome but an outside chance that as we were hearing earlier, that this could be a cut your loss moment. we re going to get a break in here and bring or david, the one who found the video and made it public today. i wanted to get your reaction to