President trump announce his Supreme Court pick coming up. Well be announcing a Supreme Court justice who i think everybodys going to be very, very impressed with. Cnn has learned that the top two candidates, neil gorsuch and Thomas Hardiman, both were summon Todd Washington today. Hardiman driving himself from pennsylvania. This drama oshg straighted by trump resembling an apprenticestyle announcement tonight, not tipping his hand on who hes saying youre hired to. The reason, one person says, trump likes a contest. As for the one who isnt chosen, its not a youre fired, apparently. Trump doesnt see second place as a bad thing. This source telling cnn there will be other openings on the court so the person not picked will be runnerup, all in an attempt to distract perhaps from the growing controversy surrounding the travel ban. Today the Trump Administration tried to deny that it even is a ban. It cant be a ban if youre letting 325,000 people in. This is not a travel ban, not a ban on m
This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd in washington and welcome to fridays mtp daily. Everyone is trying to decode President Trumps action in syria. What do last nights strikes mean . Are we looking at Mission Creep or Mission Accomplished . What is his goal . End of blood shed . Remove assad . Rattle some sabres . What is mr. Trumps men to the world. Was this a warning to russia . A warning to north koreas ally china . It happened with president xi actually staying at maralago. And what is the message to President Trumps base at home . How does he sell it . How does he navigate the political cross currents . That one question, the one closest to home, may be the most difficult to answer. It comes as our ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley Says the u. S. Is prepared for escalation. And warning about assad may have retained a stockpile of nerve agents or rekonconstituted the ability to make one. Here at home the Political Landscape has been scra
Shoot at us. If they do that, then its game on. Hes back. Were going to begin with President Trump working out of his home, trump tower, where he got a very rude reception from protesters who are angry over his response or lack of response to the hatefueled violence that took place in virginia. So how is the big question, does the president get his agenda back on track . Tiff best team here to break it down. Nbcs Kristen Welker live at trump tower. Kristen, President Trump, or his team, im going to say, want to turn the page and they want to get him back to his agenda, yet when i look at the president s actions, his tweets, his responses, i dont see his agenda anywhere. Reporter right. His tweets could very well be overshadowing his agenda, steph. Just to walk you through a few of his tweets this morning, the president retweeted an image of a train crashing into a cnn logo with a person actually getting smashed in the middle of it. Now, important to point out that he deleted that tweet
Injured during a shooting this morning as the fbi is removing evidence from the dead shooters home. Well have more on that story in a moment. Also breaking news this evening. The president of the United States, not his campaign, not his advisers, the president of the United States, donald trump, is now, according to the Washington Post, under investigation. The Washington Post says that Robert Mueller is investigating whether President Trump possibly attempted to obstruct justice. Three top intelligence fishes will be interviewed by mueller as early as this week to see what President Trump may have said to them about possibly contradicting the investigation into possible collusion between russians and members of his 2016 campaign team. Lets bring in evan perez. Evan, forget for a moment about what the Washington Post is reporting. What do we know . What is going on . We know that the fbi and the special council are gathering information as part of the investigation. We know theyre goin
Republican congressman chris collins. Thats coming up. And a big payday for barack obama. I think at a time when people are so frustrated with the power of wall street, and the big money interests, i think it is unfortunate that president obama is doing this. President obama reportedly pulling in 400,000 for a speech to a big firm on wall street. Were going to talk about the controversy around that. Also look at some examples of some expresident s doing similar things. Were going to dig into the archives. You might want to stick around for that one. A lot of fun there. A lot of news to get to. A lot to talk about. We do begin with the top story, trump at 100 or very near to 100 days, of course, the symbolic cigsignificance of the first 100 days. Dates back to fdr. President trump setting day 100. Back on friendly turf. A campaignstyle speech down there in georgia, a state he carried back in november. He was there for the annual convention of the nra. What fun that was. November 8th. Wa