Putin. Steve harrigan is live in West Palm Beach florida may the presence maralago estate. Steve . What is clear at this point is that the sale of antimissiles, antitank missiles by the us to the Ukrainian Government would mark a major escalation in us support for Ukrainian Forces that have been fighting russian backed separatists on their own territory since 2014. Despite ceasefires, fighting between the two sides has sparked in recent weeks. This could really spark things even further. Russia lost no time denouncing the move. They say this can lead to further bloodshed and her relations between russia and the us. Both the Foreign Ministry and officials denouncing it. The us saying these are purely defensive weapons to protect Ukrainian Forces on their own territory. As for the president , his motorcade here left maralago just after 9 am. He played at least 18 holes of golf today with at least two golf pros. He may have played 1 19 hole. It may have been that the magic was tight and w
Is it i a sure thing . Start with marco rubio. He said he was a no. He held out in exchange for a boost in the Child Tax Credit. Lawmakers quickly worked to meet his demands. So he got a 300 boost in the Child Tax Credit for working class families so hes now on board. Then you have bob corker, the republican from tennessee. He caved without winning any concessions, but said he didnt want to stand in the way of republicans progress. So with those two yeses, the house is now scheduled to vote on tuesday, the senate a day later on wednesday, potentially, potentially, fulfilling the president s Christmas Wish of signing this bill into law by the holiday break. President trump, earlier today, aaron, he touted the tax plan while on the south lawn, talking to reporters and he played up a feature in the bill that is designed to give companies breaks on profits earned overseas. Take a look. As an example, we think 4 trillion will come flowing back into the country. Thats money thats overseas, s
Tillerson and all staff in the meeting deny these outrageous claims. Its both sad and telling the New York Times would print the lies of their Anonymous Sources anyway. While this comes as the president took his feud with fbi to twitter, attacking Deputy Director Andrew Mccabe this morning, mccabe had faced hours of questioning on capitol hill last week. Cnn reports mccabe testified that former fbi director james comey had informed him of his conversations with President Trump, including one in which comey claims the president demanded his loyalty. And the Washington Post reports that mccabe is hoping to retire from his position in early march. Lets begin with msnbc correspondent Garrett Haake in West Palm Beach florida. What did we hear from the president this morning . He did a teleconference with Service Members serving overseas. What did he have to say . Well, we have heard a mix of the sort of traditional president ial and what this president might call the modern day president ia
What we can tell. We dont you for a second to think, all of a sudden, we have got a massive evacuation in the suburban area. If you look behind me, im in ventura, california, right now. This is one of those apartment buildings that was ravaged by fire. You can see that palm fronds and what not are falling as we speak. The fear that the fire would spread to other areas. Back to where these evacuations are. Far inland in the back country, the fire is burning on the Santa Barbara county and Ventura County line so that is why youre hearing this eastern part of area for the evacuations. Right here, this is the worst of all these fires burning. This is ventura. This is the thomas fire. This was once an apartment complex. Now if you look behind me you can tell where the rooms were. Its been reduce to do complete rubble. Just challenging beyond belief. The reason there are these evacuations you can kind of see the particulate in the air and why im wearing my goggles. Fire can smolder for a whi
Defined by this day this sunday morning in 1941 that really shames everything, it started a war that changed the world we live in today. It really created the modern world the universe we live in, to some extent, ive always thought of world war ii as the second largest event in human history. I think the first if you look at in terms of the impact on culture in life is the passion of jesus of nazareth in the year 33 a. D. The second largest event is arguably the second world war. By the end of it. By 1945, we had the capacity to destroy life as we know it and unimaginable power. And what happened today sunday morning in hawaii, sunday afternoon in the United States was the end of something called America First, which was a compelling National Movement to try to isolate ourselves from the rest of the world and what we learned at pearl harbor is history has a way of intrudings itself on us whether or not we want it. Of course, church hymn, after the nazis attacked and started world war i