Here in singapore, and this city has been under siege in philippines. On monday the government said it had a decisive progress to retake the city, but at least 100 civilians have been killed in 2000 people may still be trapped in a militant held areas. Our correspondent has more. We are seeing and much more optimistic note coming from the Philippines Bollettieri Spokesperson now, they seem to be making more progress in regaining the city, but in the first place we do not know how long it will take to push out those last pockets of resistance while the group. They have shown themselves to be tenacious, very well armed and very tough to get out of the city. They cannot put a timeline on it. The military has regained control of most of the city, controlling people going in and out, there will be interesting to see, once this is over, people will want to know how many of the group who got involved in this attack, this hardline militant group, how many of them managed to escape than once th
And a dozen entities. Irans Foreign Minister responded, also on twitter, saying iran unmoved by threats as we derive security from our people. We will never initiate war, but we can only reply on our own means of defence. So how serious a moment is this . Im joined by our diplomatic editor. Is this a harbinger of much worse to come like a Handbrake Turn on iran policy . In a sense it is Unfinished Business from the last months of the obama administration, these missiles, over 1000 mile range, not very accurate, the general view of Intelligence Experts is that they are being tested as Nuclear Delivery systems, that is counter to United Nations agreements. Another problem is that some people connected with these, the firing of warships by rebels in recent months, another issue is that basically apart from one counterstrike against those batteries president obama kicked the can down the road. So emphasis tonight from us officials is that this doesnt mean the end of the nuclear agreement,
Indecisive. Feckless. Feckless. On the left, sally kohn, on the right, Newt Gingrich. In the crossfire, senator ben cardin, a democrat and lindsey graham, a South Carolina republican. Is the president being undermined by republicans or by his own decisions . Tonight on crossfire. Welcome to crossfire, im sally kohn on the left. Im Newt Gingrich on the right. In the crossfire tonight, two key u. S. Senators in the ukraine debate. More breaking news out of russia today. Vladimir putin spent his day staging large scale war games near the Ukrainian Border and had the russian navy sink a ship to block in the ukrainians. How did President Obama spend his day . Imposing symbolic sanctions that
will prevent russian thugs and oligarchs from vacationing at disney world. He could get rid of the symbolic liberalism and boost Defense Spending. That might start to convince put than the u. S. Is serious. Look, newt, the president has been taking serious steps all day, but no step seems to be enough t
Tamron hall in the house. Craig, thank you so much for not dancing. J. T. Is a national treasure. Thank you for not dance. Are you ready . A new round of new polls, including a new National Poll out and one from the Battleground State of florida. This is a bloomberg poll. A lot of people talking about it this morning. Kellyanne conway forced to defend Donald Trumps schedule this morning which includes promoting his new hotel before hitting the Campaign Trail. Claiming hillarys plans in syria could spark World War Iii. Also ahead, Hillary Clinton finally connecting with millennials. A new survey is out this morning. Clinton is speaking this hour in florida. We will bring her comments to you live. Plus, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is also a donald trump supporter. Hes now been charged with Criminal Contempt in a case
involving racial profiling. What this means for the man with the nickname americas toughest sheriff. Good morning, everyone, im tamron hall. Coming to you live from the msnbc
Have constant exchanges with President Trump. I share his goals, sometimes we say we dont agree on methods. But i want to get there. I want to have an agreement. And i think theres been a true change. This morning president rouhani showed himself to be open to this meeting happening and President Trump has been saying for weeks that hes been demanding, hes been tough, hes put sanctions, but im ready to have a meeting to make a deal. I think were making progress. I want this meeting to happen and i want there to be an agreement between the United States and iran and france will play the role together with United Kingdom and germany and all the other Signatory Powers and the permanent members of the security council. Iran is a country that is not the same country that it was two and a half years ago when i came into office. Iran was the number one state of terror throughout the world. There were 18 sites of confliction in my first week when i spoke with the folks at the pentagon, includi