Military stwrik, trike, the ques what comes next. After White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said this. If you gas a baby, if you put a bomb into innocent people, i think that you will see a response from this president. That is unacceptable. Spicer made a reference to barrel bombs repeatedly. If that were the new red line, if they were going to intervene anytime there was a barrel bomb attack, that would be a significant shift in u. S. Policy. But after that briefing, Administration Officials began to walk it back saying this is not a signal of a change in policy, an indication that Administration Officials are not necessarily on the same page when it comes to what is next in syria. The administration wants to be careful about not drawing a red line if theyre not willing to back it up and they want to stick to the president s previous comments that he wants to be unpredictable on military action. But the white house is not ruling out future intervention in syria. Back to you. Syria
Ambassador at the center of this kris . Is he a diplomat . Or as many people are saying in washington, d. C. Today, a spy . Are the Democrats Holding the Administration Accountable or are they, once again, overplaying their hand. . We have another big lineup this morning including the top House Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, congressman adam schiff. Also a member of the Senate Intelligence committee senator angus king and member of the Richard Blumenthal and ambassador mike mcfaul. Mika is down with the weather this morning. We have willie geist and John Heilemann and Nick Confessore and ai ari melber and kasie hun. Yesterday morning i got the sense we were going to be spending the next few days talking about an administration stonewalling and not getting it. Now, of course, Jeff Sessions moves out pretty quickly and follows the advice of a lot of us had around the set, which is get out there and recuse yourself and try to get that part of the story behind us. As we are saying
Association in atlanta. A live look at the stage there. The nra, of course, played quite a Pivotal Moment in trumps election, pouring roughly 30 million in his campaign in the beat Hillary Clinton program. Meanwhile, talking tough on north korea. The trump administrations top diplomat leading a special meeting of the u. N. Security council, racking up the pressure on pyongyang. North korea pushes northeast asia and the world closer to broader conflict. Its likely only a matter of time until Motor Vehicle reaches the capability to strike the u. S. Mainland. And former president obamas wall street paid speech. They criticize him for making about 400,000 on a speaking gig. More on that in a moment, but we return to President Trumps speech in atlanta. Reinfluencing the big group that became one of his big supporters, one of his early supporters as well in 2015. He reversed course on a number of Campaign Promises. Well get to those broken campaign pledges in just a moment, but jacob rascon
At the top of this hour of 360, the ax man cometh. More on this from gjim acosta. Reporter President Trumps message to washington, get ready for the budget ax. Were going to do more with less and make the government lean and accountable to the people. Reporter Officials Say the president plans to ask for a staggering 54 billion increase in defense spending, offset for cuts in nondefense programs, including foreign aid. It eclipses what the federal government spends at the state department and epa. We are taking his words and turning them into policies and dollars. Reporter the peak of the president s budget comes as the white house is still grappling with questions about the Trump Campaigns contacts with russians. Over the weekend, darrell issa supported a special prosecutor may be necessary to put the matter to rest. Youre right that you cannot have somebody, a friend of mine, jeff sessions, who was on the campaign and who was an appointee. Youre going to need to use the special prose
Time for small thinking is over. The time for trivial fights is behind us. I am asking all members of congress to join me in dreaming big and bold and daring things for our country. Many of the people who watched it last night liked it. In our cnn orc poll 57 said they had a very positive reaction to the president s address. 69 said they thought the president s policies would indeed move this country in the right direction. It was a republicanleaning audience, but still, those are still pretty solid numbers. So good the white house is planning to hold back a little bit the announcement of their revised travel ban, let the executive branch have this moment. The administration not wanting to step on its own solid review. Still, this was an address pretty lacking in details, in substance. Frankly, thats where the rubber meets the road. Lets begin with joe johns at the white house. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The president got high marks for tone, for rhetoric and even threw in a