and tillerson made a keen focus on we re going to protect our people, we won t put them in harm s way, but there s a difficult position to sustain going forward when you have the fbi with this report saying, we have been looking into this for months. we have gone down to havana four times and got nothing. and the state department without anything really there trying to say, no, this is still real, these were not just incidents. they are not illnesses. they are deliberate attacks. i think tillerson will have a difficult time sustaining that policy unless the u.s. is able to really show something to the public. josh, stick around for a second. i put your national security reporter on versus your state department reporter hat. and then i bring in ashley and sabrina, too. you have been watching paul ryan. right now he s out thing the economic plan and taking questions. let s listen in. we re havinging conversations. i already know where you re going. just kidding. i m not going to nego
his contributions clearly to the resignation of president nixon without dispute. but let s be real. he turned in his reporter hat long ago in exchange for an advocacy badge, if you will. having said that, there is no question that from time to time these tweets, there are many people both republicans, independents across the board who would rather not see them. in the president s defense, he is controlling the message. it is up for debate whether or not it s helpful to his cause, but as always he is on offense and defining the narrative even here between christmas and new year. leah: controlling the message. robin, some tweets are directed at the dossier. it contains some nasty allegations that haven t been proven. you are a former army ranger, is the president lobbing grenades when he is taking incoming fire? that is fair to a point. the f.b.i. are civil servants
coverage they won t believe anything critical about him. if he does that he holds his base and his party. reaction just in right now from senator john mccain who is a republican, we should note. talking about from meghan mccain, the daughter of john mccain. didn t quite hear that. put it up on the screen. i do not think making fun of a woman s looks is acceptable. i get it every day of my life. i think that tweet is cruel and unpresidential. wearing my reporter hat, you know, it s interesting to watch the back and forth and remember that this president received a large number of votes from women. and you know, the i guess the signs were there that these kinds of things had happened. we saw the fight with the president, then candidate trump, we rosie o donnell and others, and carly fiorina on that stage
cordoning off the area after the shooting, and chris, to the senator s point about what could have been, and thank god it didn t happen today, one of the eyewitnes eyewitnesses told me that in that shootout, he never saw the shooter have to reload. whatever the high-powered weapon was that he was using, he came fully loaded and meant to inflict damage. i m a resident in this neighborhood, and when i heard the news this morning, i immediately jumped up. i knew that there was something that may have ended in this being a targeted shooting just because the profile of this neighborhood, it is all families who live in this area. right down the street there is a popular promenade just literally a stone s throw, a bunch of boutiques and shops where families frequent. so when i heard this, i got this sinking feeling that whoever did this, in the end we still have to get all the facts in it very well may have been a targeted shooting. i know you have your reporter
hat on right now, but as somebody who lives in this neighborhood, and i mentioned before, it strikes you i m coming here for the first time to this particular park. you see all the baseball fields, and just feet from where i m standing, i see a playground for children. what is your feeling? have you had a chance to process it, even, as somebody who lives here? reporter: yeah, i do have my reporter hat on but let me take on off for a second because i had a seven-year-old daughter who had just gotten home from school so she was home for all of this. i was trying to explain to her what happened, i think is a position of a lot of parents here today whose kids are probably out of school the same as my daughter, and it s hard to explain that, yes, you are safe. there was a bad man, he did a bad thing, but this is a safe neighborhood. and as we saw from the mayor and the governor and all of the local officials who came out today, that was the number one thing. they were almost tracking us