Military of the United States of america at a time we most need it. [ applause ] this defense spending increase will be offis the and paid for by finding greater savings and efficiencies across the federal government. Were going to do more with less. All that, as the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, youre looking at him now, late this morning responded to Darrell Issas call for a special prosecutor to investigate russias role in the campaign. Kasie hunt on the hill, Hallie Jackson at the white house. Hallie let me start with you. Lets talk about thi budget guidance basically that President Trump has put up. What does it basically show about his priorities . Reporter what you need to know coming out of this, the president wants to spend a lot more money on defense, military and Homeland Security spending. Take a look here, 54 billion is what hed like to boost the budget, increases to agencies not just the Defense Budget but Homeland Security, the cia. You can see him there, mi
Yeah. But the voters voting against it frequently used two words that were very disturbing to me. One of the words was older. Oh. It was very disturbing and the other even more disturbing was the word bannon. Oh this is no night to look like steve bannon. No, not tonight, rachel. No. This is not the night. You know what . Even if you put on three shirts and you ruounlged the end of yor nose, you could not look like steve bannon. I dont think anyone can. And, rachel, i want to go back to what you were reporting earlier in the show about Rod Rosenstein going up to the speaker of the house today. This is fascinating. We know very little about it but you framed it as fully as we can understand it. Faced a request, subpoena to produce documents basically the full fbi investigation as we know it. At least very sensitive parts of it, yeah. Very much so. They apparently it seems like the fbi director and rod rosen steen going over nunez head to the speaker apparently making case about why they
Im Richard Quest and youre in the cnn newsroom. Now lets begin with President Donald Trump whos making perhaps we might say questionable claims about what hes done as he heads towards his first year in office. The president said on wednesday hed signed more legislation than any other u. S. President in the same time period. It follows the passage of his tax cut plan. The bill widely recognized as the only major piece of legislation donald trump signed this year. This is how he presented that feat while visiting world responders. We have broke the record of harry truman and they were saying if we get this big tax cut, thats the biggest legislation there is. It included the repeal of the individual mandate. Thats where you have the privilege of paying a lot of money so you dont have to buy health insurance. The most unpopular thing, which most people thought should have been unconstitutional. Heres the problem with what the president said when he talked about breaking a record. Whether h
That were very disturbing to me. One of the words was older. Oh. It was very disturbing and the other even more disturbing was the word bannon. Oh this is no night to look like steve bannon. No, not tonight, rachel. No. This is not the night. You know what . Even if you put on three shirts and you rounlged the end of your nose, you could not look like steve bannon. I dont think anyone can. And, rachel, i want to go back to what you were reporting earlier in the show about Rod Rosenstein going up to the speaker of the house today. This is fascinating. We know very little about it but you framed it as fully as we can understand it. Faced a request, subpoena to produce documents basically the full fbi investigation as we know it. At least very sensitive parts of it, yeah. Very much so. They apparently it seems like the fbi director and rod rosen steen going over nunez head to the speaker apparently making case about why they shouldnt comply. Thats what it seems like from a distance. There
Now, in real life you can have the best of times and worst at times but under the trump of this media its all bad all the time. Things are pretty good when the top storyline gets trotted out. President trump isolated going more furious by the day. His mood dark and angry. The president is lashing out on the mueller probe. He was in a foul mood. His data mine is the worst its been since the campaign and there is a near universal sense of foreboding. Greg a universal sense of foreboding. Thats how i feel after eating taco bell. [laughter] but trump is mad and so mad that maybe he will stage a coup. In each sediment he does run and he does lose it will be studying what we would see im not leaving call the military. We have to look at this man. Greg im looking at that man. From that, msnbc eight him in a lab chicken butter in botox paste. Now that the apocalypse has been postponed to a brunch we must make do with the old chestnut, trans unstable. With some network stop talking about how th