Today on Andrea Mitchell reports. Good day everyone, im Andrea Mitchell. We are previewing President Trumps first speech to a joint session of congress. With me is Kristen Welker and kasie hunt. Kristen, first to you. What are the aides telling you about whats going to be in the speech tonight . Reporter andrea, Senior Administration officials tell me the president has been working on his speech overnight early into this morning putting the final touches on it. The theme is going to be the renewal of the american spirit. They tell me it is going to have an optimistic and unifying tone. Andrea, thats significant because you recall that the president has criticized after his in all urlaugural address. Critics say it was too negative, it didnt do enough to reach out to some of his opponents to try to unify a deeply divided country. In terms of the actual content expect the president to talk about some of what he views as his accomplishments already on jobs, on trade, pug out of the tpp fo
Bbc anchor katty kay. From the Washington Post euGene Robinson, New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters and in new york veteran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnicle. Good to have everyone with us this morning. We begin with this, former state department speaking out the Trump Administration planning to roll back punitive measures against russia almost as soon as he took office. Dan frooed who served until late february said colleagues asked them to appeal to congress after they were directed to develop a sanctions lifting package and to arrange a summit between trump and russian president Vladimir Putin as part of a grand bargain with moscows. To these officials it felt like a winwin for putin who said they were unclear what america got out of the deal. Quote, weve ben reviewing all the sanctions and this is not exclusive to russia. The administration backed down after senators made clear they would pass a law to enforce obamas punitive measures. But a Washington Post report we