Atta attack. They see our resolve breaking and it becomes a tweet without meaning hes hurt himself in forth corkorea. Hell look in the eyes of russia and iran. We have full Coverage Today for you from the top stories from White House Correspondent jeff bennett and rodriguez and alexi from axios and npr and ill talk to castro coming up. Lets head to the white house for reaction. Jeff, another good day to you on this sunday. What can you tell us . President trump responded using what is his favorite me megaphone twitter to level the most direct criticism yet. President trump says putin bears responsibility for that deadly Chemical Weapons attack in
out saying we dont want the United States to get embroiled in another war in the middle east. There is still a lot of feeling along americans that we went into the war in iraq under pretense that was false, there was a lot of fatigue about being in iraq for so long and so the support for any action fell apart. We ended up doing was a compromis
To deal with immigration. But first the senior senator from arizona has endured insult after insult this week. At one point labelled songbird john, a reference to his time as a p. O. W. And while discussing votes for cia director gina haspel who mccain opposes, white house special assistant kelly sadler said, quote, it doesnt matter, hes dying anyway. Heres the white houses apology for those comments. Does the white house not think you need to condemn these remarks or comments again, im not going to validate a leak one way or the other out of an internal staff meeting. Are you saying she didnt say this . Again, im not going to validate a leak out of an internal staff meeting one way or the other. No, no, sorry, heres the white house apology. I think the remarks are awful, but lets look at this in context. That was said in a private meeting inside the white house. Thats not like you might Say Something really nasty about me off the air, it doesnt have
that much impact. You come on air a
Both sides and the president s side, the Special Counsel side had a facetoface meeting last week. A rare facetoface meeting after weeks of informal discussions and were told by a source familiar myself, my colleague that Robert Muellers Team Provided more granularity on the topics they would like to discuss with the president in a possible interview under the umbrella of the firing of james comey as well as the firing of the former National Security adviser Michael Flynn. The specifics include the Attorney General Jeff Sessions role in the firing of james comey as well as what the president knew about his National Security adviser Michael Flynn and his conversation he had had with former Russian Ambassador Sergei Kizlyback about the actions. There is possible collusion, possible Obstruction Of Justice and what the president knew. Im told by a source familiar that legal team has taking the
topics and created questions possible questions that could be asked in an interview on a memo. But
Enormous turn and that brought us to 24,265. These trade tariffs are widening a lot. It started with steel and aluminum. Its affecting a variety of products, everything from televisions and cigarettes to plastics. You name it. Porkrelated, beef products. Soy beans, an area that they didnt want to get into that theyre into. All of this was a big stepback moment to say its bad, its coming but maybe its not coming at all. This was crazy. Youre right. Boy, just as the opening bell rang this morning at 9 30, it was looking like we were going to have one of the worst days you could see on wall street. We were down 500 points like this. A couple of things happened after that. The aforementioned larry kudlow did an interview and he shade we
wouldnt see a trade war. The markets started to come back after that. There were technical factors at play. People in support levels, held up meaning that at a certain level in a market, whether its the Dow Jones Industrial average, maybe the nasdaq or the
The question is who he can get confirmed into any of these jobs. Or recess appointed. Never a boring moment. My thanks to the squajeremy bas. Ill see you back here monday for deadline white house at 4 00 p. M. Weird night in the west wing. Lets play hardball. Good evening, im Chris Matthews in washington tonight. The american presidency is grim and chaotic. The New York Times is reporting the Chief Of Staff is offering to resign. The communication chief is in danger, and the white house secretary is gone altogether. President trump publicly addressed the growing west wing scandal for the first time today defending the former aide whos been accused of two exwives of
violent behavior. We certainly wish him well. Its obviously a tough time for him. He did a very good job when he was in the white house. And we hope he has a wonderful career, and hopefully he will have a great career ahead of him. But it was very sad when we heard about it, and certainly hes also very sad now. And as you pr