Our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 249 of the trump administration. Eight months into this administration, and we have several looming crises we are covering tonight. All going on at the same time. There is high anxiety over what will become of health care as the latest effort to repeal and replace obamacare appears to be dead in the water. There is high anxiety over north korea and their read of our president s words as a declaration of war. And anxiety over 3. 5 million americans in peril and in the dark tonight as a real humanitarian crisis is growing now in puerto rico. But through most of this weekend into today, the president s priority has been the National Football league. His comments about owners and players who have taken to taking a knee during the anthem as a civil rights protest, so it was an interesting visual tonight from arizona prior to cardinals cowboys when the cowboys owner jerry jones, whose company, by the way, donated 1 million to the trump inaugura
Administration. Eight months into this administration, and we have several looming crises we are covering tonight. All going on at the same time. There is high anxiety over what will become of health care as the latest effort to repeal and replace obamacare appears to be dead in the water. There is high anxiety over north korea and their read of our preside president s words as a declaration of war. And anxiety over 3. 5 million americans in peril and in the dark tonight as a real humanitarian crisis is growing now in puerto rico. But through most of this weekend into today, the president s priority has been the National Football league. His comments about owners and players who have taken to taking a knee during the anthem as a civil rights protest, so it was an interesting visual tonight from arizona prior to cardinals cowboys when the cowboys owner jerry jones, whose company, by the way, donated 1 million to the trump inauguration, led his players and Coaching Staff in taking a knee
59 people are dead and well over 500 have been injured. The story as we understand it starts with a 64yearold man, apparently a veteran gambler in las vegas who days ago checked into a hotel room with several suitcases of weapons. A hotel room situated 32 stories above an event field that last night hosted 22,000 people for a Country Music festival. Before people knew what was happening to them or what that noise was or where it was coming from, some were already dead and wounded. The firing lasted minutes at a time seemingly indiscriminate pausing apparently only to reload. First responders were heroic and so were so many civilians, many of whom helped each other while in great danger themselves. The gunman and otherwise unremarkable 64yearold named Stephen Paddock apparently killed himself right before the swat team entered the room and put an end to him. His own brother said he was quote just a guy and now of course, hes a mass murderer. We dont know a motive as one of our journalis
Nuclear button is on his desk at all times. Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that i too have a nuclear button, but it is much bigger and more powerful one than his and my button works. Well, that may have been an attempt to project an image of control. Events beyond the president s control quickly took over. Fire and fury inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff dropped like a bomb on the west wing. The initial excerpts painted a scathing portrait of the administration and the president. In an exclusive today show interview, wol interview, wolff described what he learned about the president. Everybody questions his intelligence . Let me put a marker in the sand there. 100 of the people around him. The one description everyone gave, everyone has in common. They all say he is like a child. They say he is a moron, an idiot. This man does not read, does not listen. So hes like a hes like a pinball, just shooting off the sides. I will quote steve
Not at all how he envisioned kicking off year two in office. He began just three days ago with a storm of twitter messages, including this one. Quote, north Korean Leader kim jong un just stated that the Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times. Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that i too have a Nuclear Button, but it is much bigger and more powerful one than his and my button works. Well, that may have been an attempt to project an image of control. Events beyond the president s control quickly took over. Fire and fury inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff dropped like a bomb on the west wing, painting a scathing picture of the president and his administration. In an exclusive nbc interview, wolff talked about his impressions of the white house. Everybody questions his intelligence . Let me put a marker in the sand there. 100 of the people around him. The one description everyone game, everyone has in common. They all say he is like a