Is urging President Trump to show restraint this morning. As nuclear tepgsz are escalating with north korea now. President trump initially called president xi last night to pressure him on a trade issue. He wanted to warn she that u. S. Investigation into chinas practices could start as soon as monday, but she in return pressed President Trump to tone down threats like this one. If anything happens to guam, theres going to be big, big trouble in north korea. And japan now ready to respond with massive missile interceptors that are in place this morning should north korea make good on their threat to strike guam. But aside from the north korea challenge, President Trump is signalling possible military intervention in venezuela. Officials there calling the president s warning, quote, cow wardel, insolate and vial. We have many option for venezuela. And by the way, im not going to rule out a military option. We have many options for venezuela. We have correspondents covering all angles fr
World. That raised some questions, and certainly there is fundraising that goes on and mike pence has a good network of fundraising that far surpasses what the president has, because he has not been a politician. Those factors brought pence into the conversation. You see republican senators, governors, some of whom have challenged the president on different issues, who also appear to be making those visits to iowa, new hampshire, that raise some eyebrows. We dont know if the president will run for reelection. He has told us he expects to, and its awfully early. The next big election is 2018. Answering all of this today was counselor Kellyanne Conway, who defended pences loyalty. I worked with him for ten years as his Senior Adviser and certainly worked with him daily in the white house. It is absolutely true that the Vice President is getting ready for 2020, for reelection as Vice President. And one of the things you see now, even when a story like this, which might be part of the parl
Hi there, everyone, im j Jacob Soboroff in los angeles. Were watching a number of protests around the country right now. Take a look at venice, california, where demonstrations are under way protesting the altright. Theyve just started, and in boston, massive crowds took to the streets in protest of a right wing free speech rally. That rally appears to be over but the counterprotest is still going on with an estimated 20,000 people in the area. Nbcs Garrett Hague has been covering this all morning for us, and into the afternoon in boston. Garrett, what are you seeing out there right now . Any interactions between the two groups that came out . Reporter hey, jacob. I think if this protest and counterprotest ended right now, the counterprotesters would say this was a huge success for them. The counterprotest, the folks opposed to this free speech rally that they felt like was more of a hate speech event, drew Something Like 15,000 people, and by all accounts, the folks in that free speec
In new jersey where the president is this hour, thats where she is, kim delaney in our washington newsroom. Courtney kubae is at the pentagon many keir simmons is following International Reaction from our london newsroom, i want to start with kristen and where craig left off a moment ago, we asked whether the white house has had a response to this. Has the white house had a chance to be briefed on this, should we expect any sort of announcement from the president of the United States today. We just spoke with one of the officials and asked if there was any reaction. No reaction yet. We know President Trump at 3 00 is going to be meeting with hhs secretary. The focus of the meeting is going to be the opiod epidemic, i would be very surprised if reporters didnt shout a question at President Trump about this latest discovery. Well have to see if he decides to respond. He has had very tough words, tough talk for north korea, in recent days, we know he spent an hour on the phone with his se
With the weekly standard. I want to get your thoughts on it. The Trump Presidency that we fought for and won is over. We still have a Huge Movement and well make something of this Trump Presidency. But that presidency is over. Whats next in this bannonless chapter for President Trump . Steve bannon can play an important roll getting the priorities that the president was fighting for that need to be done for the american people. Steve bannon was someone, i spent time with him. Passion nal natalie talking about come batting the bds movement. Hes pro israel. He talks about how we could be going in a better direction the nuclear deal. Even though hes moving on, he can play an Important Role talking about those issues. Within the white house, you need to have the best possible effort on all parts led by a fourstar marine general to be able to deliver not just for a president , but more importantly for the american people. I dont believe the Trump Presidency is over by a longshot. Signing do