Theyre critical but dont have life threatening injuries. Well continue to follow that. As has happened in other cities around the world in the past, people in brussels are basically in their homes, in their businesses, locked in, probably watchi ining events un on their local television outlets. Not being able to travel around the city. We want to get to richard engel, who has what appears to be a potentially Major Development on the investigation side of this. Richard, what do you have . Well, it seems the investigators are making some progress. One senior u. S. Intelligence official told me that Belgian Federal Police are searching a residence in a neighborhood in brussels that they believe was the launching pad for the three suspects believed responsible for todays attacks. A search is underway. They have leads. Theyre conducting this search, and they believe this residence was something of a staging ground or launch pad. Thats one. Combing through the chatter that theyre finding on
And yet all of this is a distraction, an attempt to get us away from it. Whats also interesting to me, hallie, the president of the United States takes a lot of time trying to take down joe biden. That suggests to me that he believes biden is the strongest possible opponent. Weve had 70 headtohead matchups in polls. Biden has won every single one of them. In that sense its not a surprise the president is spending the time, using the power of his office to try to take down his number one opponent. Tony, thanks for being on. Im way out of town. I have to hand it over to craig melvin on what has been a very, very busy morning. Indeed, a Story Changing by the moment. Craig melvin here at Msnbc Headquarters in new york city. We pick up the breaking news. Huge implications for this president , the administration, the Justice Department, perhaps for the system of checks and balances in our country. The Trump Administration just releasing that memo detailing that controversial conversation bet
Negative for covid19 as recently as thursday. But out of an abundance of caution, he will not return to washington, and instead will self quarantine in tennessee for two weeks. Senator alexander notes he will work remotely on tuesday to chair a Senate Committee meeting by video conference. Dr. Anthony fauci and other members of the White House Coronavirus task force are also self quarantining. They will appear virtually at that hearing as well. Meanwhile, Vice President mike pence plans to report for duty at the white house tomorrow, after multiple white house staffers tested positive. They include the Vice President s spokeswoman. Lets talk to nbcs monica alma who works at the white house and we are told the president continues to follow the advice of the white house medical unit but if he is not quarantining what does following the advice really mean. There were questions about this all weekend long, given that the Vice President decided to take a trip to iowa on friday after learnin
A number of elected officials have come in close contact with coronavirus. Less than an hour ago, senator Lamar Alexander revealed in a statement that one of his Staff Members tested positive for covid19 today. The Senators Office says he has had no symptoms and tested negative as recently as thursday. But out of an abundance of caution, he will not return to washington and instead will selfquarantine in tennessee for two weeks. Senator alexander notes that he will work remotely on tuesday to chair a Senate Committee meeting by video conference. Dr. Fauci and other members of the White House Coronavirus task force will are selfquarantining and will appear virtually as well. Mike pence plans to report for duty at the white house tomorrow after multiple white house staffers tested positive. They include the vicepresident s spokeswoman. Lets talk to nbcs monica alba who covers the white house. Monica, we were told that the vicepresident will continue to follow the advice of the white hous
The last little bit. We have seen a lot of young people out here. We cant make out exactly what they are saying. But you can see them clapping there in the background, and that is just behind us, so if you hear that, we wanted to let you know where that was coming from. We do begin with breaking news. Nbc now confirming the suspected bomb maker Najim Laachraoui was killed. Two of the brussels terrorists were brothers. One blew himself up at the airport, the other at the metro station. Theyre still looking for the man in the light color jacket. Today in argentina, president obama reaffirmed his commitment to stopping isis. This is my number one priority. Ive got a lot of things on my plate. But my top priority is to defeat isil, and to eliminate the scourge of this barbaric terrorism taking place around the world. We are also learning some new details tonight about some of the victims. 31 killed in all. 270 injured. This woman from peru, on the airport to visit her mother in new york wh