President trump is finding a new National Security adviser after Michael Flynn left that role last week. Nbc news has learned the president will have followup meetings today regarding the search. The president met with the president defending his comments about a nonexistent taerror attack in sweden. You look at what happened last night in sweden. Sweden. Who would believe this . They took in large numbers and theyre having problems like you wouldnt know. Give the public a break. The Fake News Media is trying to say that large scale immigration in sweden is working out just beautifully. Not and sweden responded, terror attacks . What has he been smoking . The president defending his remarks about sweden, even though Officials Say Nothing Happened there on friday. Reporter and white house officials have told us that the president was speaking more broadly about a general rise in violence and general concern, not any specific incident after he of course got a lot of attention for making
Good morning, everybody. A live look at the white house behind me. Day eight of the Trump Administration. Im Thomas Roberts at msnbc World Headquarters in new york and it is a big working saturday for President Trump and his administration. They are expected to make a series of overseas phone calls to foreign leaders. And they have a pack day beginning here at 9 00 a. M. The first call going to the Prime Minister of japan. Abe shinzo. Its going to be a day of diplomacy in just a couple hours after that Germanys Angela Merkel then Russias Vladimir Putin at noontime, perhaps the most anticipated call of the day. And then two more calls later, one with the french president Francois Hollande, and then the Prime Minister of israeli. Malcolm turnbull. That comes up at 5 00. Nbcs kasie hunt is at the white house. Kasie, what kind of guidance are you getting from Administration Officials about the nature of these calls, especially the one at noon to russia . Reporter a lot of focus today on th
House. Richard, this is nooerts sixth nuclear test but everyone seems to be taking this one far more seriously. What do we know about it . Reporter well, theyre taking it more seriously because it has the potential to be put on a missile, according to north korea, and launched at the United States. In the past, earlier tests of Nuclear Devices in north korea, the bombs themselves were enormous. They were in some cases the size of trucks and that is not a very big danger. The bomb is the size of a truck and it exploelds underneath a mountain, there is pretty much zero risk that that bomb is ever going to make it to the United States and cause damage. This is a much smaller device. North korea showed pictures of what it says is a thermonuclear weapon that could be loaded onto an icbm, intercontinental ballistic missile, and fired at the United States, and that raises the stakes enormously. There are not that many countries in the world that can threaten the United States with a Nuclear A
Toxic chemicals were not detected at the site of yesterdays explosion and fire at the arkema Chemical Plant in crosby, texas. Fire Officials Say there is more of that to come. This morning we still have six trailers on the site that are loaded with organic peroxides and we are doing overflights and watching the temperature build up, hot spots, things of that nature. And we do expect that sometime, i wish i had a crystal ball, i really dont, but sometime soon we think there will be some additional trailers that catch on fire. Meanwhile, cleanup has certainly begun for residents returning home for the First Time Since the flood. The white house says 436,000 households have asked for fema help and 43,500 people are right now living in shelters. We have reporters fanned out across texas and at the white house with the very latest on the hurricane recovery and on washingtons response to it. Lets start with msnbcs Mariana Atencio just outside of the city of beaumont that was hit especially h
Their plan literally called unified tax reform. The gop leadership spoke moments ago about their unity around it. This is a historic day. This is a day that is a long time in coming. In fact, it was on this day under this dome in 1986 that Congress Took the final vote on the last overhaul of our tax code. Derek hake was there and joins us now. Garrett, the congress wasted no time getting off health care since its not going to work sayi saying they needed that for tax reform. A problem, they needed some of that savings to make tax reform fully work but some some plan now or at least the beginnings of it . Reporter right, ali. An outline. A plan to make a plan. Republicans are by and large so far lining up behind that. Most importantly in the house. The Freedom Caucus caused so many problems for paul ryan, and establish member republicans going back quite a while said he will support the outlines of the plan. The plan moves through the house, moves simultaneously through the senate and a