And happy friday, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington, where the Trump White House is trying to force feed its health bill to reluctant republicans doing damage control on the unsubstantiated wiretapping allegations against president barack obama and taking comfort today in the trump eras first monthly jobs report and its a good one. More on that in a moment. Joining me nbcs Chris Jansing at the white house, nbc justice correspondent pete williams. Chris first to you. Lot on the president s plate, were about to have this pool spray. Lets roll the tape, the president with House Committee leaders. Lets watch. Hello, everybody. Mr. Vice president . Mr. President. Hi john. I want to thank each of the House Committee leaders for being with us today, your devotion and leadership has been amazing. I want to just applaud you and the diligent work of your committees to advance the obama cair repeal and replacement legislation that weve been talking about for a long time and that weve bee
General, Jeff Sessions, talks about gangs. Americas news headquarters starts right now. Eric we begin with a milestone today for President Trump. You know, its been 100 days since he took up residence in the white house, and the president is scheduled to travel at this hour to harrisburg, pennsylvania, where he will tour a factory and sign an executive order calling for a review of americas trade agreements. Molly he will cap off the day with that campaignstyle rally later on tonight where he is expected to tout his accomplishments and lay out his agenda moving forward. The rally will be held at the same time as the annual white house Correspondents Dinner which the president is skipping, having a rocky relationship as weve seen with the media. President trump tweeting today mainstream fake media refuses to state our long list of achievements including 28 legislative signings, strong borders and great optimism. Kevin corke joins us live from the expo center in harrisburg. Lovely day do
Interview. Making the grade, Trump Supporters share their take on the president s first 100 days. The problem that wont go away for the trump white house, russia, specifically, its ties to fired former National Security adviser Michael Flynn. Just a short time ago the republican and Democratic Leaders of the House Oversight committee emerged from a Briefing Regarding flynn and suggested that flynn may have broken the law. Republican Jason Chaffetz and democrat Elijah Cummings say during his white house vetting flynn did not report money he received from russia nor did he receive permission to receive money from a foreign source. As a former military officer, you simply cannot take money from russia, turkey, or anybody else. The white house has refused to provide this committee with a single piece of paper in response to our bipartisan request and thats simply unacceptable. We have reports and analysis from nbcs kasie hunt, Kristen Welker and chief Legal Correspondent ari melbur. Kasie,
The fbi has been in turmoil. You know that. I know that. Everybody knows that. You take a look at the fbi a year ago. It was in virtual turmoil. Less than a year ago, it hasnt recovered from that. Monday you met with the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. Right. Did you ask for a recommendation . What i did is i was going to fire comey. My decision, it was not you had made the decision i was going to fire comey. Theres no good time to do it, by the way. Because in your letter you said, i accepted their recommendation so you had already made the decision. Oh, i was going to fire regardless of recommendation. He made a recommendation. Hes highly respected. Very good guy, very smart guy. The democrats like him. The republicans like him. He made a recommendation. But regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. Let me ask you about your termination letter to mr. Comey. You write, i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i am not under investig
Weapons, but it was an okay briefing. What do you mean it was okay . You didnt really learn much . I it was okay. And good day, im Andrea Mitchell in washington as we now learn that the pentagon expecter general is investigating michael flin who has Foreign Government payments, eli jah cummings firig back at the white house. The white house refused, absolutely refused, to produce even a single document, not a single document in response to the bipartisan document request that i sent with our republican chairman. Sean spicer made all kinds of excuses about how hard it would be to comply with our request. Come on, man. That excuse, in the white house will not fly. Nbc National Correspondent Peter Alexander is at the white house. I want to get to this, why is the white house saying they have no pairp work, theyre not going to comply on this, it is a bipartisan request. We asked for any specific statement they have in response to the new information today. We learned about the Inspector Ge