the briefers explained to the president why expanding america s nuclear stockpile just isn t feasible. it would break with decades of u.s. doctrine but would violate treaties. there are no plans to expand the nuclear arsenal. the trump administration is modernizing the nuclear arsenal, set in motion under the former obama administration. the president continues to monitor not only iran but the crisis in north korea, trying to put his focus on domestic policy as he heads to harrisburg to talk about taxes. willie? powering through the delivery trucks and sanitation as well. reporter: thanks, willie. member of the house foreign affairs committee, republican congressman dan donovan of new york. good morning. good to see you. i just want to get your reaction, first of all, as someone who sits in the house foreign affairs committee to this nbc news reporting that donald trump wanted to know why we couldn t increase our nuclear stockpile. joe, i think, you know, your
to send a message you do not collect this kind of data on that many americans and mess it up. if you do, there will be vast consequence. i guarantee you if that happened, no other of these companies would miss their next security patch. earlier we were talking about north korea and you talked about how trump could stumble into a crisis from which there is no face-saving way out. you also write today that the president refuses to hold russia to account for anything. i too would like to see more pressure applied to russia, but i wonder what the risks are of escalating to a point of a no face-saving way out crisis. we had the president has engaged assad militarily to russia s objections, refused to yield sanctions and even kept sanctions on the ukraine with the expectation that they need to remove themselves from crimea, which is never happening. so how do we push russia until they have no face-saving way out. one thing is that your
lot of people really like or view as a sort of cultural identifier. but she was reared in kentucky. she went to school there. she s a huge went to university of kentucky. university of kentucky basketball fan. she knows how to touch the cultural milestones. the cultural touch points. mitch mcconnell is from louisville. mitch mcconnell has never been well liked out in the state. i can tell you having spent five years in kentucky that ashley judd, for all of her hollywood ties, could out-country and out-kentucky mitch mcconnell in that state. at least that s what she could try to do. this is a little bit psychobabble but this is what we like to. alex wagner, imagine you re mitch mcconnell. he is a pro. he s very smart politically, very cagy, if you will. he s thinking right now, would he rather run against a no face boring guy from the locality, worked his way up as a local lawyer, whatever the typical candidate, or this wildcard? i think he d rather run against the no face bor
he s thinking right now, would he rather run against a no face boring guy from the locality, worked his way up as a local lawyer, whatever the typical candidate, or this wildcard? i think he d rather run against the no face boring guy as you say, chris. if only because, as you pointed out, she s going to inject a ton of excitement. she has the eyeballs. there s going to be enthusiasm. she s going to have access to the ground game if the obama campaign infrastructure works with her on this. there are going to be high dollar donors who come into the race. it will be a high-profile race. mitch mcconnell would probably do best running as a guy that s just won all this time, so you might as well vote for him again. once you begin questioning who he is and what he stands for and there s a candidate on the other side who s exciting and dynamic, it s a problem for him, i think. the obama people don t want her, either. i heard you got that reporting. explain that story. my sense of it i
she went to school there. she s a huge went to university of kentucky. university of kentucky basketball fan. she knows how to touch the cultural milestones. the cultural touch points. mitch mcconnell is from louisville. mitch mcconnell has never been well liked out in the state. i can tell you having spent five years in kentucky that ashley judd, for all of her hollywood ties, could out-country and out-kentucky mitch mcconnell in that state. at least that s what she could try to do. this is a little bit psychobabble but this is what we like to. alex wagner, imagine you re mitch mcconnell. he is a pro. he s very smart politically, very cagy, if you will. he s thinking right now, would he rather run against a no face boring guy from the locality, worked his way up as a local lawyer, whatever the typical candidate, or this wildcard? i think he d rather run against the no face boring guy as you say, chris. if only because, as you pointed out, she s going to inject a ton of excit