Migrants. What we are learning and not learning about those plans. And conflicting messages amid what the pentagon calls an escalating threat. There are plans to send more troops to the middle east, but what the president just said in an interview about that situation thats a bit confusing. Well dig into that in just a moment. But we start in orlando, florida, where the president will be making it official tonight. Hes promising a, quote, wild 2020 campaign launch. Some of his loyalists as you see there are already lining up waiting for a chance to fill that 20,000person arena. Some camping out at what they are calling 45 fest. The president actually dialed for reelection on the day of his reelection, but did his First Campaign ever really end . This comes at a time when mr. Trump is hurting in some polls. At least five of the Democratic Candidates would beat the president in a general election, and thats according to a fox news poll, a new one. Meanwhile, internal Trump Campaign poll.
Yeah. Thank you. Of course no, no, its absolutely not. Right. See, right there, you saw that its pretty easy. Its just a no. Absolutely not. Crystal clear answer from former Trump National security adviser h. R. Mcmaster. He knows the answer. So well, he should. Right. He should know the answer. I mean, hes a National Security adviser. Right. And of course the answer to this, lets be very clear, has always been the same. Yeah. Its been unambiguous and aim sure theres nobody, mika, on capitol hill that would have any problem answering that question. Right. So lets see how republican Senator Cory Gardner handled a nearly watch this, hes going to just say no. Nearly identical question. Do you believe its appropriate for the president of the United States to ask a foreign leader to investigate a political rival, yes or no. Look, this is what were going to get into. The Senate Intelligence committee is having a bipartisan investigation. Unfortunately what weve seen say political process tak
Morning joe. Its thursday, october 31st. Happy halloween. We have willie along with White House Reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire, and morning joe economic analyst steve rattner. On capitol hill nbc News White House correspondent Geoff Bennett, nbc correspondent garrett haake. Why even bother to start show today, because i know where youre going. Of course were going to history. Sorry you hate history. Willie, First Time Since 1924, walter johnson, theres a World Champion in baseball in washington. I tell you, i grew up and for years, decades i grew up watching the redskins play with banners saying bring baseball back to d. C. Well, my gosh, last night it came back in the most extraordinary way. What a great game. You had a couple guys on set here who stayed up all the way through the end, thats how good the game was. The nationals, the Washington Post reports this morning that in may when there were 12 games under 500, 1931 there were calls for the manager Davie Marti
0 we don t know if it s just phone records. does it extend to library records? does it extend to licensing of firearms? what does it extend to? what kind of data collection? all of this is not in the public realm? because up til now, those in the know have kept it classified. the attorney general kept it classified. what my amendment would have done was say it s not okay to classify the interpretations of the words of the law so we don t know what the law means. i would think most people say relevant to an investigation implies there is a current investigation and you re collecting information that s directly tied to it. certainly, collecting all the phone information on all americans who have verizon as a phone carrier doesn t come close to meeting that standard. this is absolutely unacceptable in a democracy this is not clear to us what the boundaries are the government is operating and we can t debate whether we think we should modify that. citizens can t get input whether they are
0 compelling verizon to hand over to the nsa all of its call detail phone records for calls made between the united states and abroad or wholly within the united states including local telephone calls. the order requires verizon to hand over these records quote on an ongoing daily basis, in other words, if you are a verizon customer the nsa is collecting records who you talk to and when and for how long right now. every single call. here is the signature of the judge who approved the order, one roger vinson. news of the secret order and the order itself came by way of this blockbuster piece published by the guardian newspaper charging under the obama administration the communication records of millions of u.s. citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk regardless whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing. the same guy that thought that paying slightly higher taxes if wondering. despite russ feingold s best efforts, it keeps getting re-authorized. barack obama, who as