Jake, thats sort of the central question underlying this. We have to take a step back here, jake. This is a monumentous shift in this Trump Administration posture towards Vladimir Putin. Throughout the campaign, throughout his first, you know, almost three months in office, the president has stood virtually alone in this town in this government for not being critical of Vladimir Putin. I asked him a question earlier this morning about mr. Putin. He did not respond, but, jake, his administration right now is saying that the russian government was complicit in knowing about syrias chemical weapons. Certainly thats a departure from where this president has been. Jake . Thanks so much. Lets go to Barbara Starr who was in this briefing. Barbara, what struck you as the headline from this briefing. What was the most important thing said by secretary mattis . Well, jake, one of the most important things is what was not said. You saw him being repeatedly questioned by reporters, and i think jus
Here for you. A pack of wolves. Along with joe, willy, and me can i ask you this question im going to kick him off the set. How did the wolves get to gerald ford . That was an old snl skit. Where brokaw was gone on vacation and he did all of these and all of these scenarios and it ended up, the brokaw character stopped him and said, is that really going to happen . Do i have to read this . Okay, along with joe, willy and me, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, former aide to the george w. Bush white house and state departments, elise jordan, and historian and rogers professor of the presidency at vanderbilt university, jon meacham. He is an nbc news and msnbc contributor. And of late, tim mcgraws partner. Faith, step aside. Yeah, hows that going . Its gone very well, thank you for asking. I was i actually did it under false pretenses. I thought it was a project with faith and mcgraw showed up. So it was kind of like when mika shows up when mika doesnt show up and joe does, its awf