Debate in a landslide, he notes, he said every poll, its hard to do well when paul ryan and others give zero support. We do want to note that the polls hes referring to are not scientific out of sundays debate and actually, scientific polls have shown that Hillary Clinton won both debates. And this morning, our new nbc news wall street journal poll shows Hillary Clinton leading double digits in a fourway race has an 11 point lead and two ways, 14 points. Our poll over the weekend with the height of the controversy over that 2005 vulgar tape but amid all of this, trump remains defiant threatening new attacks on the clintons and he says hes not backing down. I was getting beaten up for 72 hours on all the networks for inappropriate words 12 years ago. Locker room talk, whatever you want to call it. If they want to release more tapes saying inappropriate things, well continue to talk about bill and Hillary Clinton doing inappropriate things. He has an equal opportunity in salter if there
Committee on russian interference in the 2016 campaign. They are on their lunch break right now. At the same time, President Trump has publicly threatened a faction inside his own party and promised to fight them. Whats happening . What it all means. Were all over it with our team of correspondent the and analysts. Kelly odonnell at the white house, kasie hunt on capitol hill, Robert Costa National political reporter at the Washington Post and msnbc chief correspondent ari melber. Kelly, start with you, President Trump threatening to go to war with conservatives tell us about the threat and how we got here . Craig, the president has never been shy about using the power of his megaphone, whether that is twitter or his appearances in public, and he chose to use his twitter feed to take on the Freedom Caucus, that most conservative group who was part of the problem in getting the Health Care Repeal passed, not the entire cause, but certainly the white house is putting more blame on that c
And to restore the full promise of america for all of our people. I want to bring in nbcs kristen welker. Shes at maralago, Donald Trumps resort in palm beach, florida. Good morning. Happy thanksgiving. Happy thanksgiving to you. Can you tell us a bit about this devos pick . We hear all about this, this woman is a billionaire, she never worked in education. But shes been working for education for 30 years. Reporter thats right. She has been. Shes a lightning rod. No doubt about that. She is a billionaire, one of the top gop donors. Shes someone who supports school choice. Voucher programs which are highly controversial, steph. Shes opposed common core. All of that is drawing criticism, the top two teachers unions saying she will actually be bad for students. Bad for public education. But then on the other hand, a lot of these are principles and policies that republicans have been supporting and pushing for. Jeb bush praising this pick yesterday. So her confirmation hearing might be a l
Influence the election. He now joins at least four other Senate Leaders who want answers. Obviously, any foreign breach of our cybersecurity measures is disturbing. And i strongly condemn any such efforts. I agree with senator schumer, mccain, bur, and others. Sim lply cannot be a partisan issue. This as high ranking members of congress raise more questions today about Rex Tillerson as trumps possible pick for secretary of state and how the president elect is defending tillersons ties to russia and putin. And first, it was boeing and now this morning, the president elect now taking on another u. S. Defense company, Lockheed Martin in whats being called today the 4 billion tweet. Stocks dropping immediately after trump calls the companys f35 program, quote, out of control. And hundreds of flights cancelled across the country due to bad weather as millions brace for a week of bitter cold and snow. Temperatures in many parts of the country expected to be 15 to 30 degrees below normal. Wev
We start with the trump transition, the president elect defending his choice of industry, insiders, generals, mill theirionaires and billionas he narrows his candidates for secretary of state. Kasie hunt and Peter Alexander. The senate coming back into session this hour, working to avoid a government shutdown. Peter, what are we hearing now from the Transition Team when it comes to that most high profile position, secretary of state . Still romney . Reporter well, i think thats a good question right now. We heard from kellyanne conway, transition advisor, former Campaign Manager for donald trump saying the answer to this question could come within the next few weeks. We heard initial indications it could come as soon as next week. Msnbc heard from sources inside trump tower close to donald trump familiar with his thinking that at the top of the list remains mitt romney and the exxon Ceo Rex Tillerson saying trump viewed the visit with mitt romney last week, their dinner together as a g