Only intensifying. Stoked by the president s own mixed messages about his former aide. Several white house officials are confused over the president s conflicting take. Axios reports the president in private conversations called porter, quote, sick and that the president believes the exwives details of porter emotionally and physically abused them. But over the weekend, the president took to twitter Early Saturday Morning to tweet this. Peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true and some are false. Some are old and some are new. There is no recovery for someone falsely accused, life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as due process he asks . Lets go straight to the white house to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. Listen, there are all kinds of questions, including security clearances. Right. These allegations kept porter from getting a full security clearance. He had an interim one and now we know dozens of oth
Administration hear the audio that way . Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. This is something we have never seen before, even with all the chaos of the Trump Administration, to which some of you may have grown a accustomedy now. The first lady, Melania Trump, calling for a top official on the Security Council to be fired. The spokeswoman issuing a statement declaring, mira ricardel, the National Security adviser, standing behind the president at the white house, saying she should no longer work for the Trump Administration. Quote, it is the position of the office of the first lady that she no longer deserves the honor of serving in this white house, unquote. She still serves in the white house, according to a senior white house official. This remarkable display of dysfunction comes amidst the more typical trump drama with advisers telling reporters that President Trump is preparing for yet another purge. Officials telling cnn President Trump is eyeing potential replacement for severa
Good morning, everyone. It is monday, august 27. Im ayman mohyeldin. Yasmin and louis have the day off. We are getting new information this morning about yesterdays deadly mass shooting at a video game tournament in jacksonville, florida. According to the jacksonville Sheriffs Police, three people are dead including the gunman. 11 others were injured. The shooting happened around 1 30 p. M. In a pizza restaurant along the citys water front. It all unfolded during a purported livestream of a madden 19. Tournament. A warning to our viewers. The audio you are about to hear which is believed to be from the moments the shooting began may be disturbing. The video remains unconfirmed by law enforcement. A lot of good games going on. It is going to be hard to get them on live. It is not a tough out. Not an easy out. [ gunshots ] we just heard gunshots. The first time we thought it was a balloon popping and then we heard multiple pop, pop, pops and we realized it was gunshots and took off runni
There is no doubt that the president who has had some rough times in the white house is now facing perhaps his toughest run. The reports coming out of the white house all suggest its a president who is growing increasingly disinterested in his job, increasingly angry. Weve got phil rutger here and well be talking about it in a moment. But willie, none of the portraits are flattering, of course, of the president , but also not comforting to americans and people around the world who understand that the president of the United States is one of the key figures in Global Politics and right now he seems to be checked out. Yeah. Well have all this reporting from Phillip Rutger and nbc news about the state of mind of the president and whats going on in the white house right now. But it supports i think what youve heard and what a lot of us are hearing is that because of the Mueller Investigation, because of the midterm elections which day by day continue to get worse for republicans, the presi
Crazy day for this white house, and it could definitely get even wilder. The jitters in the stock market, the fears of a reelection recession. Thats just for starters. President trump left town this morning announcing a new attorney general and a new ambassador to the u. N. Multiple sources telling nbc news that his chief of staff john kelly may just have a few days left. Personnel changes, perhaps just a distraction from the biggest shoe to drop to date, bob mueller and federal prosecutors here in new york are expected to release more details about what the president s former Attorney Michael Cohen has revealed to them. Also, more details expected on how excampaign chairman Paul Manafort torpedoed his plea deal. President trump already venting ahead of the reports. He has tweeted five times today about bob mueller and about james comey, who is behind closed doors at this moment on capitol hill testifying. And if all of that were not enough, just last hour one of the former Trump Campa