Death, what does this mean for the president s trip to india, would he have to cancel that would he go to saudi arabia . The white house established Vice President biden would lead a delltation to saudi arabia and that the president s plans in india would continue. But then news broke in india from officials here that the president had cut his trip short. Not by a long period of time. In fact less than a day. Hell still be able to give remarks on tuesday. Once that broke, then the white house did release a statement early this morning saying that was the case that they they said they looked at the schedules of when the Vice President would land in saudi arabia versus when the president was scheduled to leave india and decided it was just too tight a window of time why not have president obama continue on to saudi arabia on his way back to the u. S. Again, not cutting his trip here short by much. Our question was, why decide that now . Werent these schedules known in the beginning when
From the factor, President Trump defends oreilly, saying, quote, i dont think bill did anything wrong. First of all locker room tock. Rebecca tracer and gloria ryan are here to respond. Plus senator tim kaine on the democrats fight to stop neil gorsuch. And congressman Eric Swalwell on todays hearings on the trump russia probe when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. A lot to get to tonight, including a remarkable president ial press conference that well get to in just a moment. But we begin tonight with news that President Trump has removed his controversial chief strategist, the website publisher steve bannon, from his permanent seat on the National Security council, which is the nations primary policymaking group on National Security. Trumps initial decision to putt bannon on the nscs Principals Committee, despite the fact he is a political operative with no National Security experience other than his time in the navy, was widely criticized as reflec
Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. A lot to get to tonight, including a remarkable president ial press conference that well get to in just a moment. But we begin tonight with news that President Trump has removed his controversial chief strategist, the website publisher steve bannon, from his permanent seat on the National Security council, which is the nations primary policymaking group on National Security. Trumps initial decision to putt bannon on the nscs Principals Committee, despite the fact he is a political operative with no National Security experience other than his time in the navy, was widely criticized as reflecting a plitcization of Foreign Policy, particularly since actual National Security officials were given reduced roles. The Trump Administration today insisted bannon was not being demoted. So its not a demotion for steve bannon . Well, not not for steve, not for tom. These are very highly valued members of this administration. Theyre going to continue to pl
Theories and terminology the president pushes and prefers. Most recently he echoes the president s spy claims and doesnt back down the claims of a witch hunt. And a look at the harm the trump name has brought to the trump brand that the president covets as the 11th hour gets underway on a friday night. As we bring another week to an end, good evening from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 848 of the Trump Administration, and the president s latest assertion that the russia investigation was actually all about illegal surveillance on his president ial campaign which he prefers to call the nefarious title of spying. That belief is getting new support from his hand picked attorney william barr. This was trumps message early today and we quote, my campaign for president was conclusively spied on. Nothing like this has ever happened in american politics. A really bad situation. Treason means long jail sentences, and this was treason. Usual friday stuff there. But about the sam
He was the merchant of death. Nobody was able to touch him. As a former fbi agent and chairman of the house intelligence committee, i had oversight of all 16 of the nations intelligence agencies. My name is mike rogers. I had access to classified information gathered by our operatives. People who risked everything for the United States and our families. You dont know their faces or their names. You dont know the real stories from the people who live the fear and the pressure until now. A worldwide hunt is on for a russian weapons dealer who u. S. Authorities fear is every bit as dangerous as osama bin laden. Viktor bout is a dangerous figure. They dont care who they do business with and provide lethal weapons to drug traffickers, terrorists, human traffickers. They are basically the engine behind those groups. He facilitates that death and destruction. And the deaths of many innocents. What he did is the worst thing ive ever experienced as a dea agent. The drugs are one thing. Drugs ca