urgent matter tonight, u.s. general barry mccaffrey. former battlefield commander in the persian gulf, these days an nbc analyst. former spokes american for the state department, white house state department spokesperson for president obama. general, the question to you and it s a tough one because we re dealing with a lay audience come together news at the end of the day. what happened today to this deal, to this nation, what happened to our standing, perhaps, with our allies and around the world? well, pretty risky course of action. the president obviously is trying to apply leverage on the iranians who are causing huge maihem and mischief in iraq, syria, lebanon and now in afghanistan increasingly. this accord that secretary kerry and president obama got didn t cover their many other lines of
and by the way, ivanka trump, everybody loves ivanka. can we bring ivanka up? come on. and this is yet another vignette in the president s day-to-day. we also heard that ivanka trump caused visible annoyance among some gop leaders. clearly the president went out of way to lavish praise on his daughter and a spokes american for paul ryan s office says it s not true that leaders were annoyed. thank you very much, sara. let s to go gloria borger, rick san tor yeah. oh, a picture can say so many words. the clown, crying chuck schumer. the president has called him twice on twitter and here they
what it means. i fought every day inned george w. bush white house i asked you a question. calm down. i won t calm down. i will not be attacked about my blackness because i happen to be a republican i didn t paris, you are going off the rails here. gentlemen you re obviously very sensitive and defensive. keith, you better watch your mouth. keith and paris, please, please, come i will not be disrespected. you can disrespect the african-americans. hang on, hang on, hang on, please. give me a minute. guy irs you don t represent them at all. you re their spokes american. i want to bring joe in. paris, please, sir. good for you, paris. denouncing david duke like he did in march. after he was forced to do it.
each other. after her husband s tweets this morning, however, her spokes american released this following statement, quote, as the first lady has stated in the past, when her husband gets attacked, he will punch back ten times harder. alice, what do you make of the first lady s response to all of this? well, i will say this about melania, she certainly has always been extremely supportive of her husband regardless of the situation and from a female woman to her husband, i completely understand that. however, politically speaking, it is very difficult, if not impossible, for her to be rolling out a cyber bullying campaign when her husband is the poster child for whatnot to do. when you were president of the united states and any elected office, governor, an example of when you take that oath, when you are sworn in, you put your man pants in and brace yourself for incoming fire that comes from your opponents or the other side of the aisle, from the
reaffirm the support of the united states for turkey, our nato ally and shared determination to confront and defeat all forms of terrorism. that official statement there from ned price, the spokes american for the national security council. again i was mentioning earlier this statement coming also from the white house from eric schultz. hans nichols, nbc correspondent at the white house, joins us now. we have now heard that the president has been briefed on this here, hans. i just read that statement coming from eric schultz as well as from ned price, what else are you hearing? it s important to know that the president has worked hard on his relationship with erdogan, and will offer any support they can. it s also important to know that the relationship right now is not complicated and then two,