Also with retired attorney general mike jack jobs. What do we know about this launch and the actual threat it could pose to the United States . The concerning thing about this launch, chris, is not necessarily the distance that it traveled, some 500 miles, but the time aloft. This missile, which the initial assessments from the United States are that this was an intermediate range missile, not the icbm that the North Koreans are blaming. But you extrapolate out from the time aloft. They basically shot this missile straight up into the air, maybe went some 1700 miles up into the air. So clearly outside of the earths atmosphere and then it came down about 500 miles towards japan. But if you tease that out and you think how far a missile like this could go, it clearly puts you in the range of around 4,000 miles. And that puts into range. Thats whats so concern background this test, this launch. Now, theres a lot of back and forth, is this an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, is this wit
Needle . Then we turn our attention to the blame game about russia and one of the president s new tweets may contradict what he said in the past about russias election tampering. It could be the biggest story of the week as the Current Supreme Court term ends tomorrow. Future plans of one justice now swirling. Beverage details here on msnbc live. But we do begin with new action by President Trump expressing action in the tax reform bill despite opposition of five of his members. Heres what he said in an interview this morning about his relationship thwith them this morning. This is about picking a plan that everybody is going to like. Id like to say love, but like. Ive made a lot of great friendships with people in the house, a lot of them. Same thing in the senate. Theyre good friends of mine, and i dont think theyre that far off. I dont think theyre that far off. Famous last words, right . But i think were going to get there. Also new today, senator Bernie Sanders wrapping up a serie
President. Were going to take a look at what might be behind all the changes. Plus donald trump jr. , Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner all facing questions on capitol hill in this next week. What can we expect . Im going to ask my colleague, andrea mitchell, about that. And the first meeting of the Election Integrity commission took place this week. Ill talk with a member about what happens next here on msnbc live. President trump is heading back to d. C. After visiting the Norfolk Naval station in virginia to commission the uss gerald r. Ford. At one point during his remarks he turned up the pressure on the senate to pass its health care bill. We reached a deal to secure an additional 20 billion for defense this year and its going up. And why i ask congress for another 54 billion for next year. So call that congressman and call that senator and make sure you the it. And boy the way, you can also call those senators to make sure you get health care. The embattled Gop Health Care bill wa
One of the drivers involved in the fatal crash. This is where a gray challenger slammed into pedestrians, on foot part of a counterprotest march of the White Nationalists in charlottesville virginia. Police have not released any more information beyond that when it comes to the one driver that they have in custody in questioning over what happened now. What would be this fatality. We do have video of this crash. I want to warn you about the graphic nature of this video that was captured by the counterprotesters on scene. And the violent crash that happened with bodies flying in the air. The twodoor car with tinted windows, it plows, without stopping through this crowd of people and into another vehicle that caused a Chain Reaction. Now people were screaming, running, there was chaos on scene. That car reversed and fled, injuring more people on its way out. So we heard from the hospital. We know and can confirm about the one death and 19 other people were being treated at the hospital i
Toxic chemicals were not detected at the site of yesterdays explosion and fire at the arkema Chemical Plant in crosby, texas. Fire Officials Say there is more of that to come. This morning we still have six trailers on the site that are loaded with organic peroxides and we are doing overflights and watching the temperature build up, hot spots, things of that nature. And we do expect that sometime, i wish i had a crystal ball, i really dont, but sometime soon we think there will be some additional trailers that catch on fire. Meanwhile, cleanup has certainly begun for residents returning home for the First Time Since the flood. The white house says 436,000 households have asked for fema help and 43,500 people are right now living in shelters. We have reporters fanned out across texas and at the white house with the very latest on the hurricane recovery and on washingtons response to it. Lets start with msnbcs Mariana Atencio just outside of the city of beaumont that was hit especially h