Hours later, a Republican Health care plan collapsed. A pair of republican senators pulled their support killing the republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare. Now the republicans are just talking about repeal. Good morning, welcome to morning joe. We have columnist mike barnicle, economic analyst steve rattner, senior political analyst for nbc news, Mark Halperin and from the associated press, julie pace. The president said youre going to have such Great Health Care at a tiny fraction of the cost and its going to be so easy. That was october of 2016, joe. And Mark Halperin has said all along the greatest risk to donald trump, the greatest risk to the republican majority may not be the russian scandals, it may not be the indiscriminate tweeting, the unpresident ial behavior, it may not be the question of checks and balances and throwing aside every sacred tradition of the United States government over the past 240 years, it may be the inability to get things done because Donald T
Finished a meeting with local leaders. They were near the niger border when their pickup trucks came under fire. The troops fighting back. Four of those men losing their lives before French Military assets came to their rescue. At some point during the firefight Sergeant Johnson got separated from his comrades. His body was found 48 hours later by niger een troupes and t known how he got there. How long he was alive. Why he was left behind. Joining me now as we sort out these details is our cnn senior diplomatic correspondent. Michelle, it appears the pentagon chief doesnt have the full story here. The lack of detailed information on how this happened, why the outcome, dismaying cnn is told by three officials even to the secretary of defense. He wants those answers. But there is an investigation going on. Doesnt seem like hes trying to rush the investigation. This is being handled by africa command. They are trying to establish a more detailed timeline, minutely minute if not more deta
House Communications Director. The president also shocked lawmakers yesterday and of course the nra by embracing new gun Safety Measures that went well beyond what the democrats would ever have expected from the president. Jeff sessions then fired back at the president of the United States with a statement defending the integrity of his Justice Department. That as the Washington Post published new reporting that the Mueller Investigation is now examining the president s apparent efforts to drive out the attorney general last summer. And to cap off the day, last night as you were going to sleep the New York Times breaking news that Jared Kushners business got big loans from a billionaire after regularly hosting him at the white house and even discussing a possible job for him inside the Trump Administration. And yes, my friends, that was all yesterday. So whats today going to hold in store . Willie, who knows . This morning joe, thursday, march the 1st. Willie, my god, i dont know where
A little bit volatile. Thats the word to use, right . Thats like down 500 at one point . Steep drop. I went out, i went and you know did my tilling in the garden. And i came back in, 15 minutes later and it was, it was you did exercise, that was historic event. Its tuesday, february 6th. With us we have former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst Steve Rattner to explain what happened yesterday. He knows everything about it. Im sure he is, what happened and whats going to happen. Hes going to tell us exactly what we should do. President of the counsel on forng relations and author of the book a world in disarray richard haas. A associate editor of commentary magazine, noah rothman and National Political reporter Heidi Przybilla is with us and Pulitzer Prizewinning historian john meechum. Could be another highly volatile day for the market. Stocks fell sharply. The numbers were stunning. The dow shed 1500 points. The index fell below the 25,000 mark. Erasing all of its gai
The investigation is hurting relations with russia. The president is heading to finland to have his First Official oneonone summit with putin on monday. That is specifically the part where putin and trump are supposed to meet, just the two of them thach. That is worrying many on capitol hill. Its something bob corker expressed to cnn multiple times this week. Yeah, i, you know, i hope there are people present during the meeting. Why do you say that . I just i just i just hope there are people around him, mattis and others, hopefully pompeo. In light of the indictments, Top Democrats are calling for the summit to be called off. It draws no conclusions about the guilt or innocence of americans. It does mention how russian Intelligence Officers posing as a hacker, how they communicated with a person who was in regular contact with senior members of the president ial campaign of donald j. Trump. We do not know how or whether any of the officers indicted had anything to do with alleged effo