Up to donald trump against torture. We have a very clear position on torture. We do not sanction torture. We do not get involved with that and will continue to be our position. And moments ago the Mexican President announcing that his meeting planned for next week with President Trump has been canceled. We are on the same page with the white house. How surprised are you every time there is a new tweet from the president . This is going to be an unconventional presidency, i think you know this by now casy. And i think we are going to see unconventional activities like tweets and thats just something we are all going to have to get used to. Good derek everyone. A busy day. Im Andrea Mitchell In Washington. President trump just arriving in philadelphia. You see Air Force One there. We are expecting his remarks to house and Senate Republicans later in this houn. He will go its about a 20 minute ride from that airport in South Philadelphia back into center city, where he is going to be meet
What did the president know and when did he know it. And we all know where that phrase comes from. You know on days like this within this week of big news around Michael Cohen and other people like Paul Manafort, sometimes we will hear an Immediate Response from the white house. We have not yet heard anything as far as i know from you, john, but this is one of those situations where the president would say, what about the situation . I mean it is not i said situation twice in one sentence, i apologize. But now is it more apparent perhaps of why he would have passed this on to federal prosecutors . I was talking with Brian Kilmeade about this on the radio this morning and even though this was not about the mueller case and a mueller hand of the soft to the Southern District of new york because they felt it fell outside of the purview of the investigation into russia collusion, it would definitely seem to be a loop
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I really mean it when i say i could talk to these friends for another hour. My thanks to all of them, and mostly to you for watching. Chuck todd with mtp daily starts now. Welcome to tuesday. It is meet the press daily. Good evening. Im chuck todd in washington where another round of potential bombshell testimony as the president and his allies once again struggle to defend him as democrats unveil their official road map for the next phase of the impeachment inquiry. This afternoon the house laid out a resolution that will lay out the rules and procedures that will govern the next phase
that will include public hearings and the official rollout of the impeachment. It will include an ability for President Trump to have attorneys around. Meanwhile, there was more potentially explosive testimony in the investigation itself from Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman. He is a purple heart recipient, a National Security official who was in on the infamous phone call with the ukraine president