Arrived at bostons Logan Airport from his home in england. Hes a former advisor who has just finished a book called the plot to destroy trump, how the deep state fabricated the russian dossier to subvert the president. In 2016 just days after the election he spoke with the bbc about donald trump. Ive been involved in the campaign for over a year now. I think the media gets trump wrong almost constantly. I think the world would have been a safer place, the world would have grown, and i think there will be an interesting relationship between putin and trump as powerful world leaders. Whether its a bromance i think its to be decided. But i think itll be a much healthier situation. Well, he got part of that right. Its an interesting relationship, at least. Fast forward to his encounter this week at logan up in boston with the fbi. According to a statement malic emailed to nbc news, well quote here, two fbi agents told him he was being detained to answer questions related to the special cou
Good evening from new york. Im ali velshi, in for chris hayes. Things are not looking good for scott pruitt. Amid an avalanche of scandals, there are multiple signs the white house is getting fed up with the epa administrator and could cut him loose. Pruitt did get a few encouraging words today when President Trump on a very windy tarmac, responded to shouted questions about whether he still has confidence in pruitt with the words i do and followed up with this on air force one. I think that scott has done a fantastic job. I think hes a fantastic person. You know, i just left cold and energy country. They love scott pruitt. They feel very strongly about scott pruitt. And they love scott pruitt. But trump has offered kind words for plenty of top aides, right before theyve gotten the ax. And trump seems to be cooling on pruitt. Officials familiar with the president s thinking tell nbc news that as recently as last week, trump had been considering firing attorney general Jeff Sessions and
Earlier cnn learned the president was angry over reports that pruitt rented a room. But we learned this morning that theyre urging him to fight on. Kaitlan collins is covering this from the white house for us. The president made the call to pruitt last night. What do we know about that . Reporter really the standing of scott pruitt depends on who you ask and what is going on. If you ask the president , he calls scott pruitt last night to voice confidence in him, saying we have got your back, hang in there. And then the chief of staff john kelly also phone ed pruitt this morning, reinforcing that confidence in him. But officials inside of the west wing are describing a sense of deja vu, because we have got another cabinet secretary mired in scandal, this time over Scott Pruitts living situation where he paid 50 a day to live in an apartment owned by a lobbyist. But what is clear, here, is that it is not clear at all what is going to happen with scott pruitt because he is someone that th
Ignoring his staff. This was going to be my remarks. It would have taken about two minutes, but what the hell. All in starts now. Good evening from new york. Im ali velshi, in for chris hayes. Things are not looking good for scott pruitt. Amid an avalanche of scandals, there are multiple signs the white house is getting fed up with the epa administrator and could cut him loose. Pruitt did get a few encouraging words today when President Trump on a very windy tarmac, responded to shouted questions about whether he still has confidence in pruitt with the words i do and followed up with this on air force one. I think that scott has done a fantastic job. I think hes a fantastic person. You know, i just left cold and energy country. They love scott pruitt. They feel very strongly about scott pruitt. And they love scott pruitt. But trump has offered kind words for plenty of top aides, right before theyve gotten the ax. And trump seems to be cooling on pruitt. Officials familiar with the pres
Happy wednesday to you. Hump day. And its 11 00 a. M. I always find that funny. 11 00 a. M. Out west and 2 00 p. M. On capitol hill. Where despite his budding bromance with President Trump, french president Emmanuel Macron called the american president out on his isolationist agenda. In a rare address to congress, the socalled trump whisperer spoke pretty loud and pretty clearly on the need for the u. S. To reject the politics of fear and anger. Also on capitol hill, dr. Ronny jackson was supposed to appear today for his confirmation hearing to be the next secretary of veterans affairs. Instead this afternoon the white house physician is facing questions about his ability to lead whether he overprescribed pills, and whether he drank on the job. Thats a big, big problem to the point where some of the white house call him the candy man, he passed out in the room, that there was some folks that needed some help and another person got what they needed out of the medical kit and took care o