Answers right now and to sara murray traveling with the president as we speak. Sara, first on human rights its a huge issue when it comes to the philippines. Was it discussed or not . It is a huge issue here in the philippines. Duterte has been here presiding over what has been a bloody drug war, raised alarms against human rights activists, saying thousands are being killed without going through proper judicial proceedings and should be a relatively simple answer did it come up in the president s meeting with duterte or did it now. Dutertes side says that human rights did not come up. It was not brought up during this meeting. The white house is insisting something different. A spokesperson and in an official statement insisted human rights were on the agenda and at least briefly discussed. So two conflicting versions of whether this very important issue came up at all. And once again, it seems when it comes to russia, sara, i mean where exactly is the president today on what has been
I just cant let that happen. Harris the campaign arm of the House Democrats was taking no time, taking a shot at the announcement. Saying big orion seeds with coming in november and is calling it quits for the manure of billable house republicans, y unpopular house policies President Trump paying tribute on twitter saying appalled ryan to backtoback down we are with you, paul. It has been a wild ride but it has been a journey well worth taking to be able to do my part , at my little part in history to set us on a better course. To speak of the focus shifts to the person who will ultimately replace ryan, the two obvious contenders, Steve Scalise and Kevin Mccarthy. The only focus i have is continuing to work to get everything we still have left to get done, from reform to infrastructure, we have a lot of things to focus on and do. We are working with President Trump, getting big things done. The tax cut bills, but theres a lot more work to get done. We have to keep the house majority. I
Americans from iran and its top general. Dont the American People have a right to know what specifically was targeted without revealing methods and sources . Well, i dont think so, but we will tell you that probably it was going to be the embassy in baghdad. Did they have large scale attacks planned for other embassies . And if those were planned why cant we reveal that to the American People . Wouldnt that help your case . I can reveal i believe it was four embassies. Four embassies. Yesterday morning it was just one and that one was in baghdad. We did it because they were looking to blow up our embassy. Trump is asking americans to trust him, right, on his decision to take out soleimani, to trust him and not congress with the big decision of whether to go to war. This is a very big ask because trumps record when it comes to telling the truth is bad. And when it comes to numbers, well, here he is talking about the number of jobs the u. S. Would lose if he tore up the u. S. Arms deal w
Trump is talking about already this morning. And hes also talking impeachment with the ball now in the democrats court. How theyre getting ready to face their most consequential moment yet. One democrat on a Key Committee will join us to talk about how they plan to get the public behind them. Weve got a busy friday for you. Our team of reporters and analysts are out covering all the top stories of the day and we want to start with the breaking news from senator warrens cane. She is just out on her plan for paying for medicare for all in a tweet confirming my plan wont raise taxes one penny on middle class families. I want to bring in nbcs alli vitaly. Ali, this one say big deal because shes been hammered, hammered by her opponents on how shes going to pay for her medicare for all plan. Now shes got an answer. Yeah, hallie, now she has an answer. I never thought id be describing a policy paper as hotly anticipated, but here we are in 2019 learning new things every day. I think the simpl