five things that matter most this week. what do you got? chris, you mentioned at the top of the show, we have to find the signal and the noise. a lot on russia this week. i want to go things on russia and trump that matter. these are not in any order other than the order i thought of them. after the summit, vladimir putin goes through what happened in the meeting and he is thrilled. sergei lavrov said it went better than souper. that tells you how they are thinking. dan coats is in aspen, colorado and is asked about this meeting, this second summit. he not only doesn t know it happened, it s going to happen, he doesn t know what happened in the first summit. this is the director of national
when he was asked how the summit went, he burst with happiness. like a grape. he told russian state media that today was fabulous. better than souper. i department have to add the ellipses there. fabulous, more than souper. michael mcfaul and nbc news analyst, you have been up all night and this has been a remarkable president. from what you saw and the importance of these events. i wanted to ask what you think of the fact that there is a national freak out happening about what the president did. the behavior of presidents of foreign summits is always of interest is always news worthy. it seems to have shaken that country.
four or five years of legislative priorities packed into one year. and it s smot surprising donald trump hasn t ever legislated before, and his senior aids have not either. his chief policy advisor was most recently a senate press secretary. this is not i could see where they might be getting lost in the details here, but you re talking about a lot of stuff to get done and very quickly we re going to get into an election year where the senate s up for grabs and 435 house members are seeking reelection. and ladies and gentlemen, an exciting anounlsment if r you, our super panel just got more souper. katie tur, our own katie tur joined us. katie tur, you were out there on the campaign trail with donald trump. this issue, immigration, his signature issue. you saw the response it generated from the crowd. we re talking about how if this is the direction he were to go, some sort of call for legal status, not citizenship. that base, do you think they d go with him? do you think he s bo
really an opportunity for him to solidify coming out of souper tuesday a lot of momentum coming out of the nomination, but one of the things held up in the process is the debate. of all of the candidates we are going to be seeing ted cruz flat footed in the nomination, and he is the last guy that you would see, and marco rubio has turned the immigration talk to everything that you see. here is marco rubio. turning to the borders and stopping immigration is a mat e of national security. that is why i fought so hard to defeat president obama s amnesty plan. and that is the last shot of mar coe rubio with the gang of eight, and that is added into the commercial, and 24 hours l earlier they had released the same ad, but it was on defending ted cruz s position to being long-time opposed to legal
in union square. and they apparently plan to march up here towards times square. but the nypd says that will be impossible for them to actually reach this area. as you guys know it is locked down souper tight here. nypd doing a great job this year, as they do every year, to keep everyone safe and secure working. you can see they re working while the rest of us, well most of us, celebrate. that s right. you know, this protest specifically this is personal. a lot of these sometimes protesters here in new york city they re against, you know, for the climate change situation or it s an occupy wall street, these are anti-nypd protesters. you ve talked to some of these police officers. do you get a sense this year is different on new year s eve and they re dealing with a different type of protest? or has that affected their mentality tonight? i don t know that s it s affected their mentality. i know that these guys are upset that the public might or some members of the public might tur