The only thing keeping him from the white house now is a candidate whos not yet entered the race, either another republican or democrat Hillary Clinton. A number of the potential republicans may have been scratched from the race by the mere fact of jeb bush entering it today. I think of mitt romney whose best argument for running was if jeb decided not to. Same for Chris Christie who has enough baggage from the bridge mischef. The announcement today jeb bush has taken a first step gives this race a shape it doesnt have just yesterday. Its now bush against the hard right. And a bush in theera ratce ahea a clinton. Michael steele and joan walsh, both are msnbc political analysts. I want you both to talk about analysis first and then attitude. Ill start with joan now that you said yes. Thanks, joan. When you look at this as a person who studies politics and has a view, what do you see happening because of this pretty much statement im running for president today out of nowhere it came . O
The only thing keeping him from the white house now is a candidate whos not yet entered the race, either another republican or democrat Hillary Clinton. A number of the potential republicans may have been scratched from the race by the mere fact of jeb bush entering it today. I think of mitt romney whose best argument for running was if jeb decided not to. Same for Chris Christie who has enough baggage from the bridge mischief. The announcement today jeb bush has taken a first step gives this race a shape it doesnt have just yesterday. Its now bush against the hard right. And a bush in the race ahead of a clinton. Michael steele and joan walsh, both are msnbc political analysts. I want you both to talk about analysis first and then attitude. Ill start with joan now that you said yes. Thanks, joan. When you look at this as a person who studies politics and has a view, what do you see happening because of this pretty much statement im running for president today out of nowhere it came .
President trump is finding a new National Security adviser after Michael Flynn left that role last week. Nbc news has learned the president will have followup meetings today regarding the search. The president met with the president defending his comments about a nonexistent taerror attack in sweden. You look at what happened last night in sweden. Sweden. Who would believe this . They took in large numbers and theyre having problems like you wouldnt know. Give the public a break. The Fake News Media is trying to say that large scale immigration in sweden is working out just beautifully. Not and sweden responded, terror attacks . What has he been smoking . The president defending his remarks about sweden, even though Officials Say Nothing Happened there on friday. Reporter and white house officials have told us that the president was speaking more broadly about a general rise in violence and general concern, not any specific incident after he of course got a lot of attention for making
Breaking rules that bar white house workers from taking part in political campaigns while on the job. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Wolf blitzer is off today. Im jim sciutto and youre in the situation room. While Many Americans are talking turkey on this thanksgiving eve President Trump is turning to twitter to vent his anger and his outrage. In a series of tweets from his resort in florida, the president lashed out at lavar ball, the father of the ucla basketball player who was detained for shoplifting in china. The president is unsensed because lavar ball wont thank the president for thanking him for his sons release. Theres also breaking news coming in, cnn has learned the atf and fbi are being ordered by the Justice Department to cary out a comprehensive review of the National Data base that houses gun background checks. Jeff sessions says its in review to the Church Shooting in texas, after an air force servicemans conviction was not rep
Ledges, thou election, but whats really happening. State of emergency, one has been declared in californias fire fight battle. 141,000, thats the number of acres already burned. 200,000, thats roughly the number of people forced to evacuate. Well have a live report from california but we start with breaking news in the russia investigation. Nbc news has learned an email was sent to candidate donald trump and donald trump jr. In september of 2016 offering access to hacked wikileaks documents. Two sources with direct nojt tell nbc news the campaign was offered a decryption and website. Candidate trump frequently extolled the virtues of wikileaks. This just came out, just came out. Wikileaks, i love wikileaks this wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. It tells you the inner heart. Youve got read it. Its amazing whats coming out on wikileaks. Another one came in today. This wikileaks is like a treasure trove. We have the latest now from nbcs Peter Alexander at the white house and ken is standin