That understands how important having enemies is. And if its not the media, its going to be some other group. Expect to hear this a lot. If i were doing fake news, i would have been fired a long time ago. Theyre the enemy of the people. It is an effort to divide and conquer, to divide the press from the people and to divide the press among themself. I dont think in the long run, i dont think honestly in the short run its going to work. They shouldnt be allowed to use sources unless they use somebodys name. His aides were giving an unnamed background briefing at the white house just this morning. Just hours after President Trump called fake news an enemy of the people, his administration refused to allow several reporters into an offcamera, on the record session with press secretary sean spicer. His staff would use fox and breitbart to plant news that is fake, gosh. I wish there was a term for that. Good evening to you. We have some important breaking news tonight and it comes as Presid
Chief White House Correspondent john roberts. Good morning to you, john. Good morning to you from helsinki where its just now turning 6 00 in the morning and another Beautiful Day here. President trump back in United States after his summit with Vladimir Putin. Putin back in moscow of course. The president came here to try to really reset the russian relationship with the United States. The Obama Administration tried it come i didnt get too far. The president believes that he has at this relationship between the u. S. And russia on a new course. But the big headline of the day came when President Trump compound after staying twice last week that he was going to be very direct, very frank, very tough with Vladimir Putin about allegations of meddling in the 2016 election, the president basically said that he didnt know if you believed u. S. Intelligence or if he believed Vladimir Putin, who told him again today, that russia had nothing to do with meddling. Listen here. Dan coats came to
He did address the troops for about 20 minutes. I think what we need to find out next here we have a little bit coming out from reports from reuters, as well. Number one, the president is not going to withdraw from iraq. Thats something he said they are going to stay there. He thinks the world will come around and the rest of the International Community to his decision to withdraw the 2,000 troops from syria. He said that the current or soon to be acting secretary of defense will be there for some time. The president s next stop is going to be the air base in germany about five hours away on the plane. So far the head lines, president making an unannounced trip to iraq. Stay with us if you will. I want to bring in hally jackson. What can you tell us about the trip . Significant moment for President Trump given he had come under fire for not having visited troops. At this point in his presidency barack obama had been to afghanistan. A couple of things to note here. The president is goin
Partial Government Shutdown passes the 2week mark, ellison barber live in washington in bureau with the latest with really no developments, hi, ellison. Democratic leaders have said they agreed to continue conversations with the white house, we, of course, saw that today, we will see that later on this weekend as well. The white house, though, democrats said they told President Trump a resolution is unlikely unless the government is open, they want him to open the government and then continue Border Security discussions, the president has said many times the shutdown will not end without money for a physical barrier at u. S. Mexico border. Democrats say they will not do it. Right now most republicans on capitol hill are on the president s side. Speaker pelosi is negotiating for the democrats obviously President Trump for the republicans. Speaker pelosi hates trump more than she likes Border Security. I just dont see any Common Ground here. Top lawmakers from each chamber of congress me
Nbc news and msnbc contributor and coauthor of the fourth coming book songs of america. John, we were just talking about your book with tim mcgraw that also comes with a world tour where you will be singing backup for tim mcgraw. We are excited to to see you across the country, jon. You should see me with a tambourine with the Brooks Brothers suit. Its a fantastic combination. Its unique. There actually is a tour you can find out about. Lets get to the big show ahead including an exclusive interview here this morning with Andrew Mccabe the former acting fbi director who the president access of treason. Plus former acting solicitor general kneel katyal who literally wrote the rules for the special counsel. We will talk to Steve Bullock of montana and rob reiner with a first look at his new project on the russia probe. Lets hear more now from the special Counsel Robert Mueller who yesterday stepped away from what appears to be his final job in law enforcement, ending a long career in Pub