Russia, quote, worse than its ever been. Jim mattis said the u. S. Stands ready to act on the president s orders. Were still assessing the intelligence ourselves, and our allies. Were still working on this. Is the u. S. Military right now to launch a counter military strike . We stand ready to exercise military options if theyre open as the president determined. Are there any good options on the table for a u. S. Strike on syria . Weve got a team of reporters and analysts ready to talk about that, and more. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is at the white house to start things off for us. Hans nichols and cal perry is with us right now. Kelly, from are things going on on two fronts for the president. Hes looking seriously at what steps to take with respect to syria and looking serious with what steps to take with respect to the mooueller investigation. One of the most complicating factors of the office is that there are competing enormous crises that really are often on the president s plate and he
He has been telling. The other breaking news, dateline calm and calculated, where the president of the United States Just Announced a missile strike and he did it on twitter. This is the breaking news and official statement from President Trump. Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at syria. Get ready, russia, because they will be coming. Nice and new and smart. Pay attention to those words. Theyre important. You shouldnt be partners with a gas killing animal who kills his people and enjoys it. Leave aside for the moment that this seems to break the president s longstanding claim that he would never telegraph military action, the president also noted that the u. S. Relationship with russia is worse than it has ever been and he did that all within a few minutes of bragging about stability within the white house. This is a major escalation and rhetoric with International Security consequences. Abbey at the white house. Reporter President Trump this morning really escalati
Hard line on syria tweeting missiles will be coming. Lets begin with capitol hill and the news about paul ryan. Joining me now is garrett haake. We have seen this long line of people deciding not to run ag n again. No name bigger than paul ryan telling staff and frebs and others in congress recently he decided he will not seek reelection this year. This is a big blow to the Republican Party and their chances of holding on to the house in thov. Ryan has been a prolific fundraiser and has despite how fractious the conference has been largely been able to hold them together on the big issues that they were able to accomplish this year. Remember in the house, they passed their Obamacare Repeal bill. They passed the tax reform package. That was something ryan championed for a long time. While we havent gotten the full read out into his decision, tax reform has been an issue that has driven him to congress and driven him through his congressional career. To not seek reelection in wisconsin.
Requests were made by people within the obama administration, exclamation mark. The president wants his investigators to be investigated. And so to that end the white house says justice, fbi, and intelligence officials have agreed to meet with republican congressional leaders to, quote, review highly classified and other information that lawmakers have requested about the fbis use of an informant in the early months of the russia investigation. Chief of staff john kelly has been given the assignment of setting up that meeting. This agreement came after the president met today with Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein and fbi director christopher wray. And a day after the doj asked its Inspector General to please look into the president s claims that his campaign was essentially being spied upon. And after repeated requests from republicans that details about the informant be released, yesterday rosenstein issued a carefully worded statement. Quote, if anyone did infiltrate or surveil
Department of justice look into whether or not the fbi doj infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for political purposes. And if any such demands or requests were made by people within the obama administration, exclamation mark. The president wants his investigators to be investigated. And so to that end the white house says justice, fbi, and intelligence officials have agreed to meet with republican congressional leaders to, quote, review highly classified and other information that lawmakers have requested about the fbis use of an informant in the early months of the russia investigation. Chief of staff john kelly has been given the assignment of setting up that meeting. This agreement came after the president met today with Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein and fbi director christopher wray. And a day after the doj asked its Inspector General to please look into the president s claims that his campaign was essentially being spied upon. And after repeated requests from rep