Briefing room after slamming the media from the podium over the weekend. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Nice to see you. Im john berman. It is tuesday, january 24th. The sense things are going to be different. The big three u. S. Automakers do who rushed to the white house about keeping jobs in the United States for a meeting. The president signed an executive order pulling out of the tpp. It was pretty much already dead. It did not have congressional approv approval. President trump wants to renegotiate nafta. This is bringing in a mix of trade and scorn from a mix of sources. Listen to Bernie Sanders. Its one thing to kill the tpp, which is a positive step in my view. It is another thing to develop a trade policy which finally works for American Workers and not the ceos of large multinational corporations. If mr. Trump is serious about that, i would be delighted. A liberal and socialist likes the killing of the tpp. Some senators like john mccain says not
So help you god. Shannon that was mike pompeo sworn in last night by Vice President mike pence. At about the same time the president was meeting with top congressional leaders from both parties. Bill a lot to get to. Peter doocy is watching a busy day on capitol hill and byron york has analysis but we begin with john roberts. Set the stage for this meeting today with automakers, what is going the happen . Today the focus will be on jobs for the first part of the day meeting with leaders of the Automotive Industry and the ceos of the big four. He will sign another executive order this morning at 11 00. We dont know what it is. Were trying to dig up the contents of it. There are a number of executive orders he will sign over the next week that have to do with jobs. 1 00 this afternoon hell meet with his new c. I. A. Director mike pompeo, confirmed and sworn in. President trump wanted to have pompeo in place on friday. The democrats decided they wouldnt hold a vote on his confirmation whi
Debate. All this comes as the ceos of some of americas Largest Tech Companies like apple, facebook, amazon and tesla heading to trump tower to meet mr. Trump. Jenna here elevator. Geelden elevators at this point. John roberts is live at trump towers in new york city. No winter coat compared to yesterday, im sure it feels positively warm here. High 30s today, basically a beach walk. You mentioned that rick perry was a former rival, not just a former rival but called donald trump a cancer on conservatism but donald trump reaching to rivals wanting to put them in cabinet. Well versed in the Energy Sector and invested in fossil fuels and he was saying four years ago he we wanted to abolish the department he is running in with ryan zinke expected to be secretary. Two cabinet pix left for donald trump, he may try to get them out of the way by christmas but agriculture secretary is taking longer than they would like as well as secretary of veterans affairs. Last night wisconsin, monumental ev
I will not prejudge the issues, end quote. And when asked by senator blumenthal whether he believes a woman should be punished for having an abortion, as the president said during the campaign, senator sessions could have given a simple no answer, but he did not. He refused to rule out punishment for women. Instead, he merely noted that while the Supreme Court had upheld the right to an abortion, that right had been limited by various state and federal statutes, quote, many of which have been upheld as constitutional, end quote. And noted that his role as attorney general would be to faithfully enforce all laws. He clearly left open the possibility that he would enforce laws that punish women. The final issue id like to touch on, mr. Chairman, is Civil Liberties. Ever since 9 11, weve had an intense struggle between self liberties and National Security. I think people know i believe in Strong National security, but i also believe we must never sacrifice our values or fundamental Consti
We couldnt be more pleased that, thanks to President Trumps leadership and direct engagement, last night the white house and leaders in the house and senate in both parties signed off on a budget deal. It will avert a Government Shutdown. This is a budget deal thats a bipartisan win for the American People. Five months, certainly better than two weeks. I have a great panel to break down whats in and out and where we go from here. Take you first to nbcs kasie hunt on capitol hill. Kasie, give us the details . Well, stephanie, they were working late into the night last night, this deal coming out overnight and it includes some things for both sides to come out and celebrate. First of all, defense spending. This does represent 25 billion over the Previous Fiscal Year and 15 billion in new money for defense. Theres also 1. 5 billion for Border Security included in this bill but, of course, just as important as whats in it is whats not in it, including funding specifically for the border wa