Those in the recent past. American military mite fares one aspect of the policies that get high marks from the public. Well be having a big announcement on wednesday having to do with tax reform. So new reports today on why President Donald Trump might have caught some of his closest advisers off guard when he made that promise this week, and a Government Shutdown looming. What has to happen this week by friday to avoid that for the Trump Administration . Then we go overseas, where french voters are heading to the polls today. Will that country be headed in a different direction after this election . Live report coming your way from paris next. We do begin with new polling numbers showing President Trump as the most unpopular president in modern times as he nears the benchmark of 100 days in office. 42 approve of the president s job performance. Thats about the same in the nbc wall street journal poll where he stands at 40 , which is down four points since february. One bright spot in
Election. What sally yates could reveal when she appears on capitol hill, and health care backlash, members of Congress Facing some pretty angry constituents when they go back home to hold these town halls about the votes and why one lawmakers defense is gettg a lot of attention today. Happening now in france, the polls are open in this historic president ial election and at the same time police in paris confirming to nbc an area at the Louvre Museum has been evacuated after a security alert there. Here is a live look at Polling Centers there and the centrist president Emmanuel Macron has a celebration planned at this landmark later tonight. Again, at the louvre. The election pits two radically different candidates together. Matt bradley is in paris with more on this. The effect of the hacking attack, while there has been somewhat of a internet blackout for voters to hear about it. Reporter thanks, thomas, and good morning. There were many fears that there would be mass abstentions bec
Election. They had a very robust and lengthy exchange on the subject. The president pressed president putin on more than one occasion regarding russian involvement. President putin denied such involvement as i think he has in the past. The two leaders agreed though that this is a substantial hindrance and the ability of us to move the russian u. S. Relationship forward and agreed to exchange further work regarding commitments of noninterference. And for a meeting that started with a hand shake and an american president describing it as an honor to be with putin, this too from the secretary of state. There was a very clear, positive chemistry between the two. I think again and i think the positive thing i observed and i have had many, many meetings with president putin before, is there was not a lot of relitigating of the past. Mr. Secretary, can you say if the president was unequivocal in his view if russia meddled in the election or produced evidence . The russians have asked for proo
Been a punching bag for some, has been finally gaining some momentum. Plus, Carly Fiorina on the way forward for her party. And later, congressman Carlos Curbelo joins us to talk about whether there will be a fix for d. R. E. A. M. Ers before the clock strikes midnight new years eve. Amid rumor and intense pressure, the president says he is not considering firing Robert Mueller. Here he is responding late tonight to reporters over the roar of helicopter blades. [ inaudible ]. No, im not. What else . What, are you surprised . A trump transition lawyer is accusing the special counsel of illegally obtaining emails from the trump Transition Team. As attacks on mueller appear to be growing in number and intensity. Axios first reported mueller obtained tens of thousands of emails from the General Services administration. Including emails from jared kushner. And that he was using them as the basis to question witnesses and come up with new leads. Returning from camp david a short time ago, Pr
By phone, sharon is joining us by phone, reporter for New York Times. As you look through the article, ill read the title, says emails dispute white house claims that flynn acted independently on russia. Then sharon won asks who else might be involved in the process. Reporter what we learned is that the narrative has changed, right . What the white house had been saying was that flynn talked to the Russian Ambassador about u. S. Sanctions against russia and that the other transition official on the trump team didnt know about it but in fact the emails coupled with Michael Flynn showed that others did know he was talking to the Russian Ambassador and that kt macfarlands email with another transition official were forwarded to six trump transition officials, including reince priebus, shaean spicer a steve bannon. You add those names to the list of potential people that knew this, what does that mean, sharon . What does that mean. Good question. As the white house points out, theres reall