The other big investigation, threatening the president. At least in my experience, he wont criticize is Vladimir Putin even in private. Even in a meeting with three people in the oval office. He is arguing that he gave a good answer when he said, essentially, we are the same kind of killers that putins thugs are. And that struck me. To director comey and the debate over his publicity blitz in a moment, but we begin with todays escalation of a court fight that is full of tabloid and reality tv flavor but also holds enormous consequence for President Trump and his longtime fix eer Michael Cohen. Cohen suggested in a new legal filing that the investigation of his business dealings is politically motivated. The one who did the sweeping search last week worked for the trump budget department. There is growing public debate about whether criminal and congressional investigations by the government are being undertaken impartially, free of political bias or partisan motivation. The court says
Supporting the assad regime, as the Trump White House vows to keep up the pressure after friday night air strikes targeting Syrian Chemical Weapons facilities. We of course know that our work in syria is not done. We know that its now up to Bashar Al Assad on whether hes going to use chemical weapons again. Should he use it again, the president has made it very clear that the United States is locked and loaded and ready to go. And care and comfort. The matriarch of a political dynasty decides to end her medical treatment. Shes the best grandma anybody could have ever had or has. And barbara and i talked to her last night. Shes in great spirits, and shes a fighter. Shes an enforcer. Good day, im casey hunt in washington. Lets get to texas and the latest on Barbara Bushs health, with the host of this show, nbcs Andrea Mitchell. What have we heard from the family and their closest j advisers. Reporter you saw jenna speaking emotionally about her grandmother. She and her twin barbara spoke
Welcome. The weather could be better. Could it . Its brutal. A lot of water out there. Glad you made it. Its raining men somewhere. Moving on from that. President trump firing back after former fbi director james comey ripped in to him during an interview ahead of his book release. The president tweeting this morning, comey drafted the Hillary Clint Hillary Clinton exoneration long before he talked to her and based his decision on poll numbers. Disgruntled mccabe and others based their decision. He said hes most possibly obstructing justice and sugge suggested that he shouldnt be in the white house on moral grounds. I think hes morally unfit to be president. He talks about and treats women like theyre pieces of meat and lies about matters big and small an insists the American People believe it. That person is not fit to be president of the United States on moral grounds. Are you thinking President Trump is a yes. Yeah. Comey was asked about the investigation into Hillary Clintons use o
Hunt toti for his work defending chinas leaver minority we will speak with his daughter who says the family doesnt seem the child activist since 2017. Our family members were are no longer able to visit him and we dont know if he still has held in the same prison with we dont even know if hes still alive. Plus africas penguins making a splash or at least trying to look at efforts to save the endangered species. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program nato defense ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss turkeys incursion into Northern Syria its not unprecedented issue for the alliance because turkey a nato member is closely collaborating in syria with russia and nato adversary that sees the alliance as a threat heres a look at the key issues at play in a region that until recently was in the hands of the kurds. This area is now under moscows control Russian Military police made their way into the north Syrian Border town of kabbani on wednesday. U. S. Troops had withdrawn from the re
plan is a 2.4 billion plan overfive years but the plan is the last 15 years but the plan is the last 15 years to help change that and it has got three ways of doing it. one way is to increase training numbers of doctors nurses, physios, lots of different people in the nhs. one is to retain the people and an nhs right now because that is a huge problem, about 40,000 nurses left the nhs alone last year. and to reform how they are training people. there is a suggestion of more offend to ships apprenticeships, this proposal will suggest bringing an apprenticeship doctors who were to earn and learn at the same time. the idea is to bring in even more people he would find it attractive to work within the nhs. let s go into a bit of detail. when it comes to training, they say by the next decade, by 2031, they will double the numbers of medical school places