Football . Moments ago, the president called for a new league rule barring players from kneeling during the National Anthem. He has written many messages about the nfl this morning. In the midst of it all he did find time to promise puerto rico food and water, after he blamed broken infrastructure and massive debt for much of the islands misery. Were also waiting to hear from House Speaker paul ryan how will he respond to the president s latest comments about the nfl and how will paul ryan respond to the apparent death of the Republican Health care effort on the hill. Lets go to the white house, cnns joe johns is there. Joe, a busy morning. A very busy morning. You know, john, the president started this fight over the nfl in a speech in alabama on friday evening and tweeted about the nfl every day since, and so this mornings tweets, we, obviously, looked at with great interest. Heres the first one. Ratings for nfl football are way down except from before the game start when people tup
Approved and after the budget assuming we have the support of all the republicans because we will have no support from the democrats or almost no support because they really become just obstructionests and have no good policies and frankly are not good politicians but are very good obstructionists and that is what they do well, obstruct. The number of nominees i have approved by the democrats are about half of what president obama had. When you look at that and you can look at judicial appointments and how slow that is going. I will have 145 ultimately which is a tremendous number. We will have 17 court of appeals appointments. They are not getting approved. They are being slow walked by schumer and the group of democrats that really its really disgraceful. Even people they know they will approve they take it right out to the end and use every single minute. I think its a very disgraceful situation. Obamacare is everything but dead. The people arent going to take it. They are not going
Protect its users and is exploiting its market dominance is also coming up the United Nations divided the Security Council trains to agree on a coordinated response to the alleged use of chemical weapons in syria the u. S. Says damascus and russia are to blame. A spoof press conference that landed a dissident from john in jesus with the foremost Public Sector reelected strongman president we need an activist in but then. I dont welcome that she. We begin in algeria where case one hundred people have been kids in a plane crash the soviet design aleutian seventy six strong supporter jet went down near who photic airports around thirty kilometers southwest of the capital. The area is an agricultural zone with no residents it was reported be headed for beach are in southwestern algeria its also been reported that those onboard was so risky a cruise at the site theres no word yet on the confirmed number of casualties and of course wed bring you more on that story as details come in the head
Burgdorf. The head of the House Intelligence Committee says President Trumps handpicked nonsenate kmirconfirmed head of Justice Department should let Robert Mueller finish his investigation. Watch this. Now since you have received your briefings, is there anything youve seen or read that gives you concern about special counsel Robert Mueller or his investigation . Ive been fully briefed on the investigation. And, you know, i look forward to director mueller delivering the final report. And i really am not going to talk about an open, Ongoing Investigation otherwise. The statements i made were as a private citizen, only with publicly available information and im comfortable that the decisions that were made are going to be reviewed, you know, either through the various means we have but right now the investigation is, i think, close to being completed and i hope that we can get the report from director mueller as soon as possible. A few hours later House Intelligence Committee chairman
To intimidate someone by threatening their therapy dog. Dont do that. Along with joe, willie and me we have Mike Barnicle, Nbc News National Political reporter Heidi Pryzbyla and prize winning columnist, very wise, and associate editor of the Washington Post eugene robinson. Heidis getting wired up. Did we get a text . This morning well be joined by two former trump insiders, former white house staffer cliff sims is here for his book team of vipers. How mad are you, willie, he stole your title for your upcoming morning joe expose, right . Right . Well, mines going to be dark, a little darker than cliffs book. Im working on it with a publisher. Ill let you proof it. Lets just say weve been over some very rocky roads in our yet here we are. Longest running anchor team on television. Seriously, come on. Can you name four people who have been around for like 12 years of a tv show every day. Just grinding it out, man. The iron man, Mike Barnicle. Former trump transition chair Chris Christie