James comey. Hes also known, and this is important, could be important to the investigation, for having taken copious notes for these meetings. You might expect the investigators looking into these decisions would be interested in seeing or having those notes described to him as well. In addition to Reince Priebus, which you mentioned, anderson, we also know earlier keith kaling, who briefly served when Michael Flynn was fired, hes also been interviewed now. Theres also investigation in the Senate Intelligence investigation involving carter page. Carter page hes been sort of the public face early on of this investigation because he was willing to speak publicly about his role here. Its now clear how essential carter pages role was in the campaign. President trump early Montana Campaign did name him as part of the campaign although later said he was not as close to the center as he described him. He did make many trips to moscow. He spoke in moskow during the campaign, very critical of
Todays arrival after all the weekend is coming, typically its not that great of a day for members of Trumps Administration who might be at odds with the president. Right now one of those people is Rex Tillerson. Nbc news has learned the president is fuming mad over our exclusive that the secretary of state called President Trump a, quote, moron. In a new piece from axios indicates the white house may have already picked a replacement. President trump is staying silent on the possible shakeup right now, but he does have people wondering what in the world he meant when he made these cryptic comments at a White House Photo op last night. You guys know what this represents . Tell us. I dont know, maybe, its the calm before the storm. What storm . Could be the calm before the storm. The calm before the storm. You talking iran . What . What storm, mr. President . We have the worlds greatest military people in this room. I can tell you that. Were going to have a great evening. Thank you all f
Lets listen to john mccain. To abandon the ideals we advanced around the globe, and our duty to remain the last best hope of earth, for the sake of some halfbaked nationalism cooked up by people that would rather find scapegoats than solve problems. We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil. We are the kau custodians of the champions abroad. Obamas complaints about republicans stopping his agenda are bs, and he can never take responsibility. Lets go to the white house where we find our joe johns. We see the president trying to appeal to the warring factions in the Republican Party. Its a very difficult job, and in our poll the president does not get very high marks for the way he has been dealing with congress. Just to look at the graphic. Overall, 32 approve the way the president is handling congress, and 54 disapproves. The poll also shows that 68 of republicans do approve of the way the president is handling the relationship. Lets talk a little about how the president is
Id say it was a 10. I give ourselves a 10. The scene in the oval office when puerto ricos governor wouldnt echo the president s perfect selfassessment. Did we do a great job . What it looked like when president obama returned to the campaign trail today. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Two weeks after four american soldiers died while serving in the west african nation of niger, a lot of questions remain about the circumstances of their deaths. In fact, it was a question to the president about why he had not yet talked to the public about those deaths that prompted him earlier this week to mischaracterize how his predecessors handled similar situations. We havent heard anything from you so far about the soldiers who were killed in niger at some point during the before the called the parents and the families. The traditional way if you look at president obama and other president s, most of them didnt make calls. A lot of them didnt make calls. T
Delivered. Why . New reports defense secretary james mattis is dismayed at the lack of answers on what happened on the ground. Why did the four american heros die, why was one left alone on the ground for 48 hours and were learning how accurate the president s claims are that he has called the families of every Fallen Service member. First to the investigation into the facts. Barbara starr joins us from the pentagon. There are still so many questions that these families especially deserve answers to this morning. What do we know and what do we not know . Well, lets be clear, the full pentagon investigation that is under way, not done yet and a lot of people want these answers. There are some initial reports, some initial indications, so what we do know at this point, the assessment is that it was an isis attack. That is not something President Trump is likely to particularly want to talk about because hes been talking a lot about isis being defeated. But in this area of west africa an