Plus, our brandnew nbc news wall street journal poll out this morning, and it suggests democrats may be right, that a wave is coming. Well bring you all the numbers. And republicans get the votes to pass their tax bill. This is going to be one of the great gifts to the middleincome people of this country. But can they keep their promise that the tax cuts may for themselves . And who gets hurt if they dont . Ill ask the white house director of legislative affairs, marc short. Joining me for insight and analysis are syndicated columnist george will, Helene Cooper of the new york times, al cardenas, former head of the american conservative union, and former Obama Deputy Campaign manager Stephanie Cutter. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Announcer from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history. This is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. If you have the sense that history may be repeating itself, youre not alone. Back in 2010, there was a
On april 7th the regime [ inaudible ] disregard for international law. By using chemical weapons to murder women, children, and other innocents. We and our allies find these atrocities inexcusable. As our commanderinchief, the president has the authority under article two of the constitution to oous military force overseas, the United States has a vital interest in sear and specifically deterring the use and proliferation of chemical weapons. Last year in response to a chemical weapons attack against civilians and to signal the regime, to cease chemical weapons use, we targeted the military base from which the weapons were delivered. Earlier today President Trump directed the u. S. Military to conduct operations in continents with our allies to destroy the Syrian Regime chemical Weapons Research and development and production capability. Tonight france, the United Kingdom and the United States took Decisive Action to strike the Syrian Chemical Weapons infrastructure. Clearly the assad
Calloused disregard by using chemical weapons to murder children, women, and other innocents. We find these atrocities inexcusable. The president has the authority to use military force overseas in United States national interest. We have Vital National interest in a worsening catastrophe in syria and the use and proliferation of chemical weapons. Last year in response to a chemical weapons attack against civilians and to signal the regime to cease chemical weapons use, we targeted the military base from which the weapons were delivered. Earlier today, President Trump directed the u. S. Military to conduct operations with our allies to destroy the Syrian Regime chemical Weapons Research development and production capabilities. Tonight, france, the United Kingdom and United States took decisive action. Clearly, the assad regime did not get the message last year. This time our allies and we have struck harder. Together, we have sent a clear message to assad and its murderous lieutenants
Final push down the campaign stretch. 11 stops in 67 states 6 states. Right now, hes en route to florida, couple of high profile races in that state. Among them the senate race, one of the president s earliest supporters. The governor there, rick scott, trying to unseat bill nelson who is the incumbent senator, one race. Then because scott is term limited, the Governors Mansion has a vacancy, soon to be in tallahassee, one of the president s earliest supporters. Ron desarn advertise is running for that position against andrew gillum. Gillum and the president sparred in the last couple of days. Florida is one of three states this the president will visit twice between now and tuesday. Other two, indiana and missouri. The president held an event touting job creation and reskilling and retrading modernization. The president reiterated that if democrats take control of capitol hill, in his estimation, the stock market would go down. President trump if the mid terms dont do so well for repu
Were gonna miss him. Dana Robert Wilson is a Fox News Contributor and former obama economic adviser and luke thompson. Great to have you both here today. Earlier in the week, there were some people, robert, who thought alex acosta did just fine in the press conference and he would make it, but there were others who said hell be gone by friday. Here we are. Im not surprised hes gone. As labor secretary, you want to talk about the economy. If youre only talking about Jeffrey Epstein and all the dems are for him leaving. Republicans are not really showing support, but saying its up to the president , it seems it was going to be an end to this cabinet job. Dana going to be very difficult. The story is not going away. Questions wouldnt be going away. I assume he wouldnt want to be a distraction. I agree, this was the most nontrumpy departure that weve seen so far. He had an opportunity to sort of fill in the space left by the deal he made so many years ago and blaming it on the culture didn