He was talk about tax reform. He also dismissed flakes criticism. He said to his campaign advisers, i take it hes a democrat. He was told he was a republican. Flake, of course, yesterday went off on the president , standing up in the senate to denounce his uncivil tone, saying it was reckless, undignified outrageous. The president was asked if he thought he needed to be more civil. He said he thinks the press makes him to be less civil than he is. He repeated the fact that he went to an Ivy League College and he is a very intelligent person. The president also weighed in for the first time publicly on the revelations that the Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National committee, at least funded in part that so called unverified dossier that was put together by that former british spy, as well as fusion gps. Lets listen to what the president said on that front. Hillary clinton always denied it. The democrats always denied it. Now only because its going to come out in a court case they
President tried to project one message about his party today. We have actually great unity in the Republican Party. We have great unity. I called it a love fest. It was almost a love fest. Maybe it was a love fest, but we had standing ovations. There was great unity. I will say this, i think the Republican Party has a pretty good unity. There was tremendous unity in that room. And were really unified were really unified on what we want to do. Theres great unity. We have actually in the Republican Party in a true sense we have great unity. We have great unity. I was with the senate yesterday, the entire Republican Senate and other than two people, i tell you, there was a lot of love in that room. As you might have gathered unity was a big message today. When people talk about the fight for the soul of the Republican Party these days theres really just one soul theyre talking about, and thats steve bannon. After jeff flake announced hes not running for senate again bannon called the sena
Negotiating. Trust me, thats one of the great things. In the short run, we will see an increase in deficit. The president s Approval Rating fell to a new low in the fox news poll, just 38 approve, down four points since september. We have actually the Republican Party in a true sense we have great unity. Its like you are back in junior high. I dont care who passed a note to the cute girls. We got a job to do. New questions being raised by the Company Awarded the largest government contract to rebuild the ielslands power grid. Its based d out of the hometo of ryan zinke. We will do an important meeting on opioids in terms of declaring a National Emergency. This would stop short of the full National State of emergency the president s own Opioid Commission recommended. Will declare it a Public Health emergency. Will that help solve the problem . Right now, the house just narrowly pass aed a budget plan that passed in the senate a week ago today. There you go, a big win. Republicans needed
From our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 279 of the Trump Administration brings headlines of strife, anxiety and all out warfare in the gop, an internal struggle on public display. With no major legislative victory to speak of, the president tried to project one message about his party today. We have actually great unity in the Republican Party. We have great unity. I called it a love fest. It was almost a love fest. Maybe it was a love fest, but we had standing ovations. There was great unity. I will say this, i think the Republican Party has a pretty good unity. There was tremendous unity in that room. And were really unified were really unified on what we want to do. Theres great unity. We have actually in the Republican Party in a true sense we have great unity. We have great unity. I was with the senate yesterday, the entire Republican Senate and other than two people, i tell you, there was a lot of love in that room. As you might have gathered unity was a big message
Have you heard. All across the nation. All across the nation. We are going to be. We are going to be. A great generation. A great generation. Flnow give yourselves a hand. Good morning. We are live in washington, d. C. Where on saturday america witnessed one of the largest mass protests in u. S. History. Emma gonzalez amplified the voices of her peers. She stood in silence for six minutes and 20 seconds. She said that was the length of time it took for 17 of her classmates and staffers to be killed february 14th in parkland, florida. For that time she made the nation stop and sit with the trauma of loss and absence. Her silence was deafening. In part, because for the last 39 days, since the shootings in their hometown of parkland, florida, emma and her activist classmates have been so vocal in their demands for change and to local and national gun policy. They organized. They got a gun reform bill passed in florida. They have begun chipping away at the power of the nra while making sur