She joins me from florida, where the president is spending the holiday week. So this next push is infrastructure. And it is the lesser, i guess, of the controversial moves you could make or choices you could make, on what to push forward on, but its really unclear if the president is going to get democrats behind him on this one. Reporter thats right, poppy. I mean, some people would argue that infrastructure was one of the things the president should have done first, because its the one thing the democrats have been saying since the campaign, they would be interested in working with him on, but the white house is saying, theyre going to try again in january, after this big tax cut push was such a success, the president wants to work on something that he thinks can get democrats to the table. Theyre planning on rolling out a big infrastructure plan midmonth, in time for him to give a big push for it during the state of the union address. Its going to be about 200 billion in spending ov
Wherever in the world youre watching and joining us, a very good day to you. Donald trump has promised to get bark to work on the day after christmas and then on tuesday he headed for the golf course instead. Mr. Trump spent time on twitter lashing out over the russian dossier, calling it a pile of garbage. It was a document compiled by a former british spy and has become part of the fbi and special counsels investigations into russias meddling in the 2016 u. S. Election. Cnns ryan nobles reports. Reporter there were no events on the president s public schedule on tuesday. So the only way we can see what he was thinking or working on is through his twitter feed. As a result we know he was thinking about health care and taxes and he was also working to discredit Robert Mueller and his investigation. Merry christmas. Reporter after tweeting on Christmas Day tomorrow its back to work, President Trump spent today on the golf course. The 110th day of his presidency that he has spent at one
Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. President trump refuting one of Omarosa Manigault newmans most damning charges there is an outtake from the apprentice where he uses the n word repeatedly. One called there are no tapes where he used disgusting word by wacky omarosa. I dont have that word in my vocabulary and never have. The tweet capping off the day. He retweeted his former lawyer michael cohen, who, of course, secretly recorded the president. Many in the white house are bracing for yoeomarosa for more recordings. The White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins with more. Reporter dave and christine, a week ago, the white house strategy was to not respond to the claims in omarosas new book, but the president went through that when he tweeted multiple times about omarosa calling her a wacko. Saying she was vicious and disliked by white house colleagues and skipping white house meetings and work all together. Adding he kept her around because she said nice
Moment, and then canceled, on the spur of the moment. The usual National Security Council Process was dispensed with, only a small circle of advisers was even clued in. National security adviser john bolton vehemently opposed meeting with the taliban, while secretary of state mike pompeo went on all five sunday talk shows to defend his peace efforts and the decision to host the taliban at camp david. Watch this. In the end, if youre going to negotiate peace, you often have to deal with some pretty bad ak tors. There have been discussions about war at camp david and discussions of peace as well and pretty bad ak tors traveled through that place throughout recorded history and an important place, a place where we thought we could convince awful leaders of the afghanistan, as well as the taliban, we could convince them to begin to head in the direction that would create better conditions on the ground in afghanistan. Does this mean talks are off completely . So for the time being, thats a
Name political analyst nick. The president of the counsel on Foreign Relations and author of the book a world in disarray richard haas. And author of the matriarch, susan page is with us. Seep yore write at politico, jake sherman, an msnbc contributor. And journalists and residents at Georgetown University school, foreign service, alize labbott joins us. Were learning more about the secret meeting the president learned on twitter that it was cancelled. The meet would have happened yesterday just days before the 18th anniversary of 9 11. The president says he canceled the meeting after the taliban claimed responsibility for a bombing in kabul last thursday that killed an american soldier and 11 others. Trump tweeted in part what kind of people would kill so many in order to seemingly strengthen their bargaining position . They didnt. They only made it worse. If they cannot agree to a ceasefire during these very important peace talks and would even kill 12 innocent people, then they prob