point that that s a good thing for the world. but at the same time, this president is going to be tough on russia until we see some changes in their behavior just as we have done every day over the last year, and as we ve outlined multiple times before, both from the president and as i have done from this podium on many occasions. john in the back. thank you sarah. two questions on the foreign policy front. given the situation on syria and your statement today, could the president be in the process of forming an alliance with president macron in france and prime minister may in britain not unlike that envisioned by the previous administration with france and britain when the first reports of chemical weapons came out? certainly we have a great relationship with both countries, and are continuing conversations with both the uk as well as france. hope to work with all of our
don t happen again. emily chang, thank you very much. the facebook hearing starts tomorrow at 2:15 during our hour. you re going to want to tune in for that. there is also this next hour apple co-founder steve wozniak joins my colleague ali velshi to speak out on why he deleted his first facebook account. his first interview. things are looking ugly for chief of staff john kelly. we ll take you inside the white house on why kelly is not only losing influence but patience with president trump. we are also waiting for the daily white house briefing to begin. sarah huckaby sanders will have a lot to talk about. the president said he might make a decision on syria as early as today. we ll bring you that briefing live once it begins.
again, we are continuing the review. until that s complete i would refer you back to the epa beyond than. sarah, two questions on syria. with all that s happened with russia with the sanctions last week and now the strong words associating russia with the syrian attack, there an expectation or a feeling that relations, diplomatic relations with this erosion or our country with russia are eroding. we ve been very tough on russia for quite some time. i think the only people that didn t understand that or see that were members of the press who continually questioned that. now i guess people are concerned that we are being tough on russia. i guess i m confused on which way you want to have it. the president would like to have a good relationship but that s going to be determined by the actions that russia takes. and we are going to continue pushing forward. second question, the items on the table, beyond strikes, is there a thought or on the table
from acting against assad who the president has called an animal. and i think in this case he s right. i want to get just one question on no labels. your goal is to put country before party. how do we get back to a time where we put country before party? first, it was just a demand for everybody. a demand of their member of the house or senate in washington, put country and constituents ahead of party and ideology. second, no labels tries to bring together republicans and democrats. we ve got in the house and the senate two bipartisan groups working in both chambers now. third, we re getting involved in politics. we ve created some pacs and we re supporting moderate candidates, problem solvers in both parties, primaries, against people who we think are too partisan and too ideological. the country has stopped functioning and that s why a lot of americans, including me, are angry, disappointed and
nbc s bill neely is in beirut, lebanon. also joining me, ashley parker, white house reporter for the washington post and an msnbc political analyst. krit t kristen, how much pressure is the white house facing right now to respond to this attack and what could that response look like? i think they re facing an immense amount of pressure, katy. you heard president trump in those remarks today clearly infuriated by these images that he has seen. we know that he had a conversation with france s president, manuel macron, and this statement was very forceful saying that there will be a strong response, that he wants to have a joint response, effectively saying that he is looking to allies as he comes to a final determination which he says will happen in the next 24 to 48 hours. now in addition to that cabinet meeting, obviously there was a national security meeting earlier today as well. in terms of the pressure that he s getting, you have some