or so. we have heard from president trump a little bit today on twitter. what are we hearing? he sort of set the backdrop and the tone to today. well, kristen, the president s been relatively quiet on twitter the past few days. that ended this morning. a flurry of tweets from the president coinciding with the 7:00 a.m. hour when fox and friends had a segment, maybe even the whole hour, on the collusion issue. how do we know this? because the president said he was watching fox and friends quoting two of the people he was listening to there, saying that he agreed with them, that there was no collusion with russia, culminating in his final twitter, no verbs, just the words witch hunt. we do have some new polling out from usa today and it shows the public appears to be at least according to usa today, siding more with mueller on the trustworthy side of things. 58% trust robert mueller. and 57 have little or no trust
again, a meeting with the governor around 2:00 p.m. local. we think that could be a big moment. it may not. but the protests continue. kristen. well, ron, betsy certainly does sound determined, specki s for so many of the teachers there. thank you for bringing us her perspective. really appreciate it. overseas now to syria where a russian-ordered humanitarian pause has gone into effect to allow civilians to leave a rebel-held enclave near the capital damascus. despite the order, shelling and air strikes continue around eastern ghouta. more than 500 people have been killed and more than 2,000 hurt since the syrian government intensified its bombardment over last nine days. nbc s bill neely is monitoring the developments. what s the very latest there? yes, good afternoon, kristen. for the roughly 400,000 peel trapped in these suburbs on the edge of damascus, it s been a cruel day.
scientists concerned. here to break it down for us is today s al roker. al, it s great to see. usually i just see you bright and early in the morning. so i love having you in the afternoon. tell us what this is all about. well, kristen, it s great to see you, great to be with you. i hate for it to be a reason like this because this is really concerning as far as climate change is concerned. this past sunday, february 25th, the temperature in the arctic got up to 36 degrees. that is anywhere from about 50 degrees above normal for the average temperature. and, in fact, february now has averaged at about 36 degrees so far, 20 to 30 degrees fahrenheit above average. now, what this means is we re starting to see greatest expanses of no sea ice. usually in this area up to the nor north, you would see the greatest amount of sea ice. there are large swaths of open
in president donald trump s denial. so that s the freshest polling on this. again, as you mentioned, we have a briefing here starting in 50 minutes if it s on time and we ll be sure to be following that. kristen. undoubtedly. sarah sanders will get some questions about all of that. hans nichols, mike memoli, thank you. for more analysis, ned price, msnbc national security analyst, former spokesperson at the national security council. and natasha bertrand, who covers the russia investigation for the atlantic. and olivia newsy, washington correspondent for new york magazine. thanks to all of you for being here. natasha, let me start with you. we know, as you just heard mike memoli say, there is no doubt lawmakers are going to want to ask hope hicks about helping the president craft that response, once it was learned that donald trump jr. met with the crekrem n kremlin-linked attorney during the campaign.