That would be at least 41 people and that number might still rise, or the tens of thousands of people displaced from their homes. But maybe todays visit will be different. Trump already tried to do something that hasnt seemed to come naturally to him, namely expressing some empathy. He pledged 1 million of his alleged multibilliondollar fortune to Harvey Relief efforts. We heard pledges of charitable donations from trump in the past that nefrl materialized. Trump offered a 5 million donation to charity in 2012 if president barack obama coughed up proof that he was born in the United States. His milliondollar pledge is also dwarfed by the efforts of celebrities like beyonce and j. J. Watt who launched their own fundraising campaigns with watt raising 16 million in counting. Disasters can wind up being defining leadership moments for president s or defining failures. The question for trump whether he wants to change so far. Gabe sherman, car reen jean pierre, david fromme, National Repub
Superstar j. J. Watt begins to spread some of the 18 million in donations he has helped raise. Plus, a bizarre death and investigation at this years 70,000 strong burning manifest val. Msnbc live starts right now. Zbloor good morning. We begin with breaking news overnight. Thats rattling millions in the United States, including hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants. Politico is reporting that President Trump will soon halt daca. Undocumented imbrants arrived as children. The president is expected to make an announcement on tuesday after wrestling what to do on the issue for months. Heres the president back in february. Take a listen. You are going to deal with daca with heart. I have to deal with a lot of politicians, dont forget, and i have to convince them that what im saying is right. And the president s decision comes as up to ten states threaten to sue the administration if the program is not canceled by tomorrow. With nearly 800,000 Daca Recipients already shield
Reacting to the decision to not recertify the iran deal but we begin with chief White House Correspondent john roberts with how these meanings are already hitting with lawmakers. President trump valid on the campaign trail he was going to rip up the Iran Nuclear Deal. Today, he stopped short of that, but then unannounced things are going to change. President trump today refused to recertify the Iran Nuclear Deal. Though he has twice before, insisting it does nothing to rein in the bulk of irans bad behavior. The regime remains the worlds leading sponsor of state terrorism, and provides to al qaeda, isis, hamas, and other terror networks. Speak of the president also announced he would slap sanctions on irans notorious Iran Revolutionary guard, and called on new steps to punish iran for its destabilizing actions and fix what he says are serious flaws in the nuclear deal. These include the deals by various onsite clauses that in just a few years would eliminate key restrictions on Irans N
They are undisciplined. It is friday october 13th and this is fox and friends first at 4 00 am, thank you for getting up super early and joining us today. Lets get our top story, congress couldnt get it done so donald trump is taking repealing and replacing into his own hands signing an executive order targeting obamacare. What is different this time around . Reporter the white house announced it plans to start making payments to Health Insurers in an order known as costsharing reduction. Those payments which donald trump threatened are a key part of obamacare and help reduce Health Insurance copays and deductibles for a lot of middleclass americans. The white house as it decided end those payments because Congress Never designated specific funding to pay for it. Explaining in a statement there is no appropriation for costsharing reduction payments to Insurance Companies under obamacare. In light of this analysis the government cannot lawfully make costsharing reduction payments. This
Fired National Security adviser michael flynn. The entire russia investigation is a hypothetical. The president has called it a fiction. Total fabrication to excuse the colossal and unexpected, unwanted defeat of Hillary Clinton in last years election. And three years after ferguson, the look at how the city sparked a National Conversation about race and Police Practices in america. First, the white house and mike pence pushing back against reports the Vice President is prepping for a 2020 president ial run. A New York Times article reporting the vp is part of what appears to be a republican Shadow Campaign. Pence released a statement saying, whatever fake news may come our way, my entire team will continue to focus all our efforts to advance the president s agenda and see him reelected in 2020. Any suggestion otherwise is both laughable and absurd. I want to go straight to Nbcs Kelly Odonnell in bridgewater, new jersey, near the president s resort, where he is spending the next two we