The white house is playing down expectations, saying it wont be different from discussions with any other country. Will the two leaders discuss russias meddling in the u. S. Election . Growing threat. President trump reaches out to china to discuss the growing threat as they brace for the possibility of another nuclear test. But is the honeymoon with china already over . Beach day. Governor Chris Christie orders state parks and beaches closed due to a Government Shutdown and then enjoys a beach day alone with his family. His time in the sun has many feeling burned. Im brianna keeler. Youre in the situation room. President trump has been working the phones, dialing World Leaders ahead of his first meeting with russian president ladder mirror putin. At the same time hes been dialing up his attacks on the news media, raising new questions about what kind of message hes sending abroad. How that reflects on his presidency and also how it reflects on america. The president of the United Stat
Next tweet he takes aim at the coverage hes not watching. Quote, remember when you hear the word sources say from the fake media, oftentimes those sources are made up and do not exist. Keep it honest. It would of course be better for reporters if every source to every story agreed to go on the record name and all. The interesting thing is it didnt seem to bother candidate trump who frequently quoted anonymously sourced stories that benefit him. In any case in the donald trump jr. Email story, sources have been confirmed by the very emails donald trump, jr. Finally released under pressure from the the New York Times. Now hes talked about that meeting on television. In retrospect, i probably would have done things a little differently. Again, this is before the russia mania. This is before they were building it up in the press. For me this was Opposition Research. They had something, maybe a concrete evidence to all the stories i had been hearing about that were probably under reported f
Like a threat but whether he meant it or not and whether he thinks that will get congress to pass tax cuts its really immaterial. I dont think theres any resolution or legislation passed this year on tax cuts, so i look back and id say what is the market running on and it seems to me yes earnings are good and trump is doing a pretty good job cutting regulation but it seems to me honestly its running on fumes. You know, people think dagen that the crash for example, in 87 was a oneday thing. It wasnt. It started back in august for crying outloud and that 22 drop we had on black monday was a part of an overall 35 trump. If we start going sideways and start tailing off and then we hear the news about the tax cuts , we could really have a pretty awful market. Dagen well john so far this past week, we didnt see a sideways market we had a new record on friday for all three major market gauges but if we dont get tax cuts does that rock this market . John i think it does because you look at wh
Being made public by Elijah Cummings. Mr. Flynn believed that ending the sanctions could allow a business project he had once participated in to move forward according to the whistleblower. And mike mimoli covering this story at nbc news writes donald trump was just 11 minutes into his presidency when flynn texted a former Business Partner to say ambitious u. S. Collaboration with russia to build Nuclear Reactors in the middle east was, quote, good to go, according to a new whistleblower account. This news comes as the president s son donald trump jr. Fielded questions from the House Intel Committee today. Lets get to our reporters and gifts on all of these stories. Msnbc National Security analyst and former chief of staff at both the department of defense and the cia, jeremy bash joins us, along with New York Times reporter msnbc National Security contributor michael schmidt, one of the reporters on this new flynn story today and our panel. Associated press White House Reporter jonath
Republicans at it again. Trump had personal involvement in email scandal. So 25page report out by the republican ron johnson and in it he sites a text message between two fbi officials yes talking about peter strzok and lisa page. According to johnsons report page texted strzok about preparing talking points because, this is the operative line, pod us, President Trump wants to know everything we are doing. Okay. That one phrase was enough for senator johnson to make the connection between President Trump and the clinton email investigation. And the current president of the United States did not wait for the facts, the context or the details before tweeting about johnsons report to 47. 5 million followers in all caps, new fbi texts are bomb shells. And then Sarah Sanders came out calling for a review. I think it further shows there is reason for all of us to have great cause for concern in this pros stes and we hope its more thoroughly and fully looked at as we move forward. Okay. There