Contrast to the public statements from other american elected officials, congratulated Vladimir Putin on his election victory. Nbc news reports that President Trump also said to putin, quote, if you want to have an arms race, we can do that. Now, while americans have debated whether to take trump literally or not, putin wasted no such time with that kind of foolishness, testing a new Ballistic Missile earlier today to help unpack the increase little bizarre relationship between donald trump and russia we brought in some of our best experts and reporters. Nbc News National Security Military reporter courtney cube, one of the by lines of the report we started with. Jill colvin, White House Reporter for the a. P. Chuck rosenberg, former u. S. Attorney, former senior fbi official, now lucky for us an msnbc contributor. And Steve Schmidt is back with us today. Courtney, let me start with you on your reporting, and i think this is a Development Since your story broke. Im sure prompted by the
Dictator assad in response to syrias use of nerve gas against civilians. One year later the world is reacting to reports of yet another devastating chemical attack on civilians. Be warned the images youre about to see are graphic and disturbing. Dozens of civilians including children were killed in a rebel held town near damascus currently under sieged but the russian backed forces. The state department condemned the attack and pinned the blame on russia, saying they upt bear responsibility for the brutal targeting of count is syrians with chemical weapons. Its unclear exactly how the United States respond. Right now American Foreign policy exceptionally ruder is even by the standard of the trump era. Trumps new pick of pompeo has yet to be confirmed and Uber Hawk John Bolton starts his job on monday. The president tweeted about syria only after a typical weekend morning tweet storm attacking the Washington Post and fraizing fox news. In true trumpian fashion he blamed the crisis hes f
They believe the bully and must be held account credible. What is with all the vitriol aimed at parkland shooting survivors. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. It looks like the Climate Change skeptic that donald trump installed to lead the epa scott pruitt, took a bribe from the wife of a top Energy Lobbyist who gave him a sweetheart deal on a condo where he lives for six months last year. Its precisely the sort of ethically objectionable arrangement that the president promised to eliminate when he took the white house. Instead of draining the swamp as he promised to do over and over, trump filled his cabinet with swamp creatures like Steve Mnuchin and ryan zinke who spent public money for unnecessary and lavish travel and ben carson for allegedly using his office for his sons private gain and tried to order a 31,000 dining room set for his office. The swampiest is pruitt who now leads the epa, the agency he sued 14 times when he was Oklahoma Att
Late. Yeah. When you had to do that before 2007. If the fox news feed goes in one ear and comes out the other ear and comes out the mouth it becomes something about daca people coming over the border. Okay. Mr. President , people who are applying for daca are already here and they are not coming here from mexico now. They are already in america, just fiy. Fiy. Trump tv or people who feel they work for trump on tv. I dont know how they spend this one. Good morning, everyone. Theyre not qualified. Again, Daca Recipients are not qualified unless they got here before i think it was, what, june of 2007 . So were stumbling into monday, april 2nd here. With us we have Political Writer for the New York Times and msnbc political analyst, Nick Confessore and columnist associate editor, for the Washington Post, David Ignatius and jon meacham. I thought it was interesting, mika, if you look at what the president said and this weekend i was struck by all of the false information coming out of the w
We begin with President Trump who leveled some factually inaccurate charges this weekend. After a week of more turnover in his administration, during which trump sought the advice of former Campaign Operatives and hard core supporters, the Washington Post reports meeting with his political soldiers, Corey Lewandowski and david bossy, strategist brad and soninlaw and Senior Advisor jared kushner. White house chief of staff john kelly did not travel with the president to maralago this weekend, but senior policy advisor stephen miller, a proponent of hard line immigration policies, has been at trumps side. And the president reportedly dined with fox news host sean hannity friday night who was later spotted at the president s golf club. All right. So, yesterday President Trump began the 16th calendar month of his administration by blaming democrats for the border, lack thereof. A, quote, Border Patrol agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the border because of ridiculous liber