Process to organize what he said was the whole of government approach, but as the American People have witnessed and been a part of, its really been a whole of america approach. We are working with governments at every level, state and local leaders, we are in continuous contact. Weve assembled the very best Health Experts, weve brought together our top agencies that deal with Health Issues and security issues, financial issues, everything in the way the coronavirus is impacting the people and we meet every day in the situation room. Thats where we start. We listen to what the statuses from the Health Experts. At this point, with some 10000 cases at the time were speaking, nearly half of those cases are in three american counties. We have been focusing resources on those areas to really come alongside state and local leaders that are responding to the coronavirus, giving them the support they need, but our focus every day is to ensure the president has the broadest range of policy opti
U. S. History ever. The u. S. Women are champions of the world. You stay stunning. I say awesome. I have never seen anything like it. I have never seen anything like the energy and emotion in the first 16 minutes. If we can match that in the next two hours. 170 by 6 00. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Im christine romans. Lets start with breaking news in greece. The greek finance minister quits after he says take your bailout and shove it. A no vote on the referendum. Latest on the offer. No no no. The greeks tell europe. The finance minister staying they wanted them gone. He says he is quitting his job to help the Prime Minister reach a new bailout deal. He says i shall wear the creditors loathing with pride. Big smile on his face as he quits. Gets on his motorcycle and leaves. Smiling with 20 unemployment unemployment. A potentially a world selloff. Now the response to the bailout deal. European stocks sharply lower. The euro plunging against the dollar. This puts greeces fut
His assertions as he continues to push substantiated claims of voter fraud with no evidence to support it. Tonight stories with all of those categories starting with chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto at the pentagon where President Trump welcomed his defense secretary to the job and signed that executive action on refugees that is getting a lot of attention tonight, jim. Lets talk about that executive action and what the president says institutes extreme vetting of immigrants. What exactly does that mean . Reporter john, key measure of this extreme vetting, hard to call it anything else but a religious test. The majority muslim countries, one of the exceptions in this executive order talks about minority religions in those majority muslim countries, which by definition means not muslim. Theres that. But theres also the question as to what data justifies this. When you look at these countries, iran, iraq, syria, smael ya, libya, certainly countries that have terror probl
Throughout the day. He gave a preview this morning on fox news. All i can do is speak from the heart and say what i want to do. We have a really terrific, i believe, Health Care Plan coming out. We have to understand obamacare has been a disaster. Its way out of control. Doesnt work. And ill be talking about the military. Ill be talking about the border. Right now the president is scheduled to be meeting at the white house with state attorneys general from across the country who are holding their winter meeting now in washington. Nbc News White House correspondent Kristen Welker joins us live. Lets start with the bik speech tonight. The there is a lot at stake for the president. What are his plan. Reporter a lot at stake indeed. According to officials he has been working on his speech overnight. As you pointed out, the goal is to be optimistic. Thats important. Because remember his inaugural address was criticized for being pessimistic and not unifying enough. Tonight we are told that
We have new reports suggesting deeper ties between the House Intelligence Committee chairman devin nunes and the white house. Now there are more calls for him to step down from investigations into the trump administration. And finally, going nuclear. Senate democrats continued their obstruction to the president s nomination of judge neil gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Democratseem on course for a filibuster attempt of judge Neil Gorsuchs Supreme Court confirmation. Does that mean republicans will trigger the socalled Nuclear Option . There is a lot to get to. We begin, though, with that old yogi berra line, when you come to a fork in the road, he said, take it. Thats not an option for the trump white house, but now that his Health Care Replacement plan has collapsed, the president has to choose between two very different paths forward. He wants to move on from health care. He wants to move on to his next bigticket item. That is tax reform. The question is, how . Option one for trump, he