financial interests. you can question it all day long. but this guillotine hanging doesn t seem to bother the trumps. they keep on. i willing. i willing through it. it s a cloud. and for anyone who is concerned about good government, ethics in government, conflicts of interest, it s an issue that hasn t gone away. events like this only make it more problematic. what could this mean for jared? i mean jared might be publicly embarrassed by the new york times reporting but he can easily say fake news, i don t pay attention. at the end of the day, if it s helping his family business, then he won. well, that s why there needs to be some political courage here from the gop to say in a nonpartisan, nonideological way, what do we want out of our government and what is good governance and why do we have ethics watchdogs in the federal government to police these kinds of issues? do we really? take yourself to twitter.
african-american community. leading to the civil rights movement. in 2011, the alabama house of representatives officially apologized for the state s failure to prosecute her attackers. taylor died on december 28th. she was 97 years old. that is an extraordinary woman. a strong, strong american. if you have a monumental american tweet us us # #velshirhule. what an hour this has been. what a way to start the week. thank you for watching this hour. i m stephanie rhule. my partner in crime ali velshi will be back here with me tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. eastern. right now, i hand off to another great american, andrea mitchell for andrea mitchell reports. right now on andrea mitchell reports, question time. an nbc news exclusive report. the president s lawyers talking to the special counsel s office whether and how the president would agree to an interview while the president insists he
to all dress in black and it would be depressing or funereal or this statement of horror. in fact, they talked a lot about solidarity, both on the red carpet and in their speeches. i think it really did come through. at the same time, you know, each woman looked individual. there was this sense of real delight in what they were wearing and ownership over their choices, which hasn t always been there in the past. it is an interesting way to put it. they were all in black, but there really was a sense of joy and pride. it came through. in the many speeches you heard that were strong and outspoken, they really weren t negative or condemning in any big way. tina, i want to point out, one of the speeches beyond oprah s that really stood out for me, where laura dern spoke. here s what she said.
the administration is not obligated to release the results, right? right. the 25th amendment is set up really so that if there is a president who recognizes his or her own incapacity and the cabinet agrees, this would be best for the vice president to move in. it s not a process that s meant to seize power from someone who is unwilling. if they re unwilling to even undergo assessments and tests and share the results, it s not going to be possible to act. now that tax reform has gone through, the economy is booming, republicans feel some sense of optimism and accomplishment, does it seem likely in any way that members of the gop will take this seriously, will want to take a look at the president s mental fitness? because it almost seems as he could become more unruly or unhinged, they seem to be more on his team this weekend than they were a few months ago. yeah. i think that s exactly right, stephanie. you don t have to look a whole
that s a bad comparison. not the least of which because it was later determined that ronald reagan did show symptoms. people around him suggested he was showing signs of alzheimer s during his final years in office. it was well into his second term that we even had that discussion. and the way the white house responded to it then was, essentially, not to engage, or to engage privately. certainly not to go out publicly and essentially welcome the deba debate, as president trump is doing now. i think that s not the recipe to try to move fapast this, which the goal of the white house and trump himself. trump is making it harder for that to occur. we ll leave it there. that s when i wonder, if they think this is tabloid garbage, not fit to line a bird cage, why engage it by engaging? by having a cease and desist order. you re selling books and have us talking about it for days and days. thank you so much. this story is not going away. we ll leave it there. golden globes is where we re