Lets hope its healthy. It must be. After hearing the news this morning. A revealing admission from the government. Health and Human Services had warned the Trump Administration that separating kids from their families would be dangerous to the children. The president did it any way. So he did it knowing exactly what would happen. He also continues to tell supporters that the free press is the enemy of the people. And as you can hear, the results are chilling. Its getting bad out there. Paul manafort also back in court this morning. After prosecutors kicked off their case against him. Well have the latest on that. Boy, i just andrea, ill talk to you and mike, who have been around a little bit. Through difficult times. In covering difficult stories. Watching whether donald trump goes to the vfw and the press,
he points at the press, and whips the crowd into a frenzy to boo at the press there. Whether he whips the crowd into a frenzy to boo and take the free press in tampa. This is part o
clint, you referenced this earlier, and i want to come back to it. this is reporting from my colleague, ken delanie. after a 100-day review, the white house didn t make a decision about what might be the biggest policy decision with regard to what it s it says is the most urgent security threat to the united states, whether to seek a law with specific criminal penalties. white house officials said they didn t have enough information and asked the justice department to further review the issue. with the current posture of the republican party and its media echo chamber, i imagine that we can sit here today and examine what that review might look like. from the security standpoint, just talk about why it s needed. nicole, if i can, i ll give you a scenario and a comparison. if it s international terrorism, and al qaeda ideologue says to an american, hey, i think you
question in the segment, seth rich s parents say fox has never apologized to them. fox pushed that story for a week across its network, they had the story up, the conspiracy theory story on their website, they did retract it after six days but rich s parents said they never received an apology and they are now suing fox news over the story. let s move to the trial of the president s former campaign chair. it got off to a swift start with jury selection, cross-examination of the first witness in day one. joining outside alexandria, virginia, nbc news intelligence and national security reporter ken delanie. you were inside the courtroom yesterday. what did you learn? good morning, willie. i learned that the prosecution painted an astonishing portrait of greed and deceit. they allege that paul manafort committed this massive fraud. we ve seen this in documents, but it s another thing all together to see a member of robert mueller s team articulate this before the jury.
clinton investigation from two years ago. what would they about doing if they weren t doing that. you have a reasonable conversation about surveillance. but think you ve been debating it for 20 years. that is not what this is. they say how can you use this dossier full of allegations for an investigation. if the fbi was only going to investigate things that were already proven, it would not investigate anything. second of all, as a source, michael steele is like a real guy. he s respected. think of all of the people who are on the fbi list, payroll as confidential sources or drug dealers or criminals of one kind or another, law enforcement gets information from various sources and pursues it. that is what is happening here. all right. ken delanie and joyce vance. thank you. a senator breaks ranks with chuck schumer. that is up next.
american companies and americans buy chinese products all of the time but there is a fear when it comes to the communications network and a phone made by a chinese company and the fear that it could be use the to spy on american governments and companies. thank you very much for your reporting on this. ken delanie. listen, there are new signs of cooperation between north and south korea and those signs may be on display at next month s winter olympics. the countries have agreed these are two countries at war, have agreed to form their first unified olympic team with athletes marching together for the fir time in 11 years. those olympics will take place in pyeongchang, south korea. this may be more symbolic than anything. the international olympic committee has to approve the agreement and we don t know how many north koreans will come. this is the last time that athletes from the north and south marched together, the 2007 asian winter games in china. interesting to watch. up