House. This is picture for that meeting. And for the second straight day the dow bounced on wall street. Truly an unprecedented thick and it runs completely counter to many of the prognostications out there before. Yet another record today after Donald Trumps win. Michelle kosinski is outfront at the white house. Michelle, the moment today of this meeting so many people thought 24e8d never see barack obama and donald trump meet, never mind as president and President Elect at the white house. Maybe even not the two people at the meeting. And tonight outside the white house more protests but inside today it was all about reassurance and everybody on their best behavior. What was so fascinating about this, on the one hand you have this incredibly organized Transition Process with handshakes and good wishes on all sides. But then on the other, you have this intense bitterness from the Campaign Trail. And today the white house didnt really hold back in saying that i have great respect. The
Benefiting the most are not High Frequency voters. Thats huge. Their benefit is needed, i think. Thanks for joining us tonight. Thats all in for this evening. Make sure to stick around because its veep night on msnbc. Rachel maddow has an exclusive interview with tim kaine and mike pence will join brian williams. That is true. Almost a little weird, but thank you for the preview. It is, in fact, Vice President day here on msnbc. Vice president or would be Vice President day. Chris matthews this afternoon had an interview with our current Vice President of the united states, joe biden. Joe biden is now into a third day of explaining what he meant when he said he wishes he was in high school and he could take donald trump out behind the gym because he wants to get in a fight with him, basically. Donald trump today responded that he, too, would kind of like to go get in a fight with joe
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Resigned tonight. The robust way he stood up to the Trump Administration and to trump himself on ethics issues and the president s unprecedented financial conflicts of interest. His name is walter shoeb. He said he was not forced out of the Office Of Government Ethics. He basically says hes leaving because the u. S. Governmentestics rules are not Strong Enough to allow him to stand up to what this president and his family are doing so he is leaving his jb at the Office Of Government Ethics in order to try to strengthen the rules from the outside. Very interesting resignation today. Weve got more on that story ahead. Theres a lot going on. Weve got a big show tonight. I said at the very end of last nights show weve got a scoop to share with you tonight. This is that scoop. Inhouse on your staff weve been talking about this as and inside, kind of an insideout
story. Not your typical news story, not your particular scoop. But i think its important. One of the few times weve ever had a sco
Confronting internal revolt over the House Health Care bill and his unsubstantiated claim that president Obama Wiretapped phones at trump tower. A lot of americans need to know. Reporter amid this turmoil, fbi director james comey could confirm today whether the bureau is investigating ties between Trumps Campaign and russia. Leaders of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee also Hopeful Comey will also respond to their request to provide evidence regarding the wiretapping acquisition. Theyre about to screw up big time if they keep running to the Intel Committee and not answer that letter. Reporter earlier this week sean spicer qualified trumps accusation, but now hes sounding defiant. He feels very confident it will ultimately come of this, it will vindicate him. Reporter lawmakers on both sides of the aisle showing growing frustration about the white houses failure to provide any evidence to support trumps extraordinary claim. I think, frankly, the
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Tries to clean up trumps tweet, saying he knew general flynn lied to the fbi when he urged thenfbi director jim comey to drop the investigation into flynn. The president s tweet raising serious questions about whether the president obstructed justice. Heres Sarah Sanders late today. Look, the president knew that he lied to the Vice President. That was the reason for his firing. The problem is, that is not at all what the president tweeted four days ago when he fired off this tweet. Quote, i had to Fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the fbi. The white house has made it very clear, President Trumps tweets are, quote, official statements by the president of the United States. No matter who might draft, tweak, or actually type them. In this case, lawyer john dowd, the first person ever to take the blame for a president ial tweet. Trumps tweet and Sarah Sanders explanation simply are not the same. They contradict each other. They also dont match cnns reporting. A s