now be hand selected and installed in office by donald trump s treasury secretary. it would be like one of the follow-up questions on election night. trump has won the election. treasury secretary steve manuchin, who will you put in charge at nbc news now and cnn and the new york times ? that is not the way it works here, praise jesus and the founding fathers, but in poland that has recently become not a thought experiment. last night we started talking about the radical change in government that preceded this visit by president trump today to poland. very conservative right wing nationalist party came to power in poland less than two years ago. they did all sorts of things to consolidate in themselves all forms of political power. they removed the independent leadership of the secret services. they took over the supreme court. they put their new finance minister personally in charge of hiring and firing in poland, and they didn t make up some high minded reason for that change.
house, the president teased a surprise when it came to health care, any idea what that might be. no, and he is known for trying to build suspense. i don t know if that is really talking about something specific that he knows about, or is it just a way of kind of stay tuned, see what happens next, he is very good at working into the theatrics of this. steve manuchin is at the podium now, we ll go back when they start taking questions. the president met with skeptical republicans on tuesday. we saw him flanking himself with two of the biggest critics of the bill, what will he do beyond that meeting to now to make sure
with sanctions. moving assets from this particular bank to another bank in china, are they if we find other activity, we will sanction them, no one is off limits. that is steve manuchin talking about sanctions against north korea. the treasury department hoping to maximize pressure until they abandon their nuclear and ballistic missile programs. they want to cut off elicit financin financing. we want to go back and bring in our panel. elise jordan, msnbc political analyst, and former senior advisor for senior rand paul. also back with us, aiesha from reuter s. the republicans are not willing
governance consequence to this behavior. will there be? he was like this on the campaign trail and he won. he won an election, but he has not passed signature legislation. the rollout of the travel ban, health care, taxes, infrastructure, all of the things he said he came to washington to do, these crisis are making this harder to do. we will see if his base rejects that or the congress rejects the media for not being what they believe would be fair to the president. i, maybe i m a little pessimist, but being on the road and seeing nothing change, it has consequences. these attacks have consequences. they don t go into the ether, let s put it that way, appreciate your time, guys. sarah huckabee sanders is set to hold the white house daily press briefing with treasury secretary steve manuchin.
bereaving because steve manuchin is talking about sanctions. let s take a listen. we almost be meeting with china and other countries to continue to try and cut off north korea s elicit activities. they re actions will not be tolerated. we will maximize economic pressure on the regime until it ceases it s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. with that i would be happy to answer any questions. thank you, do you have any that you like or i have no comments on that today, but i will say that we