off to meating with russian ambassador. upset about arbitrary, cruel decision to end all u.s. adoptions, even those in process. she explained it this way. you know, 140 characters are tough. the word from should have been in there. but i didn t have room. i was thinking of a one-on-one meeting like he had. i was talking about international adoption. it wasn t anything about armed services. it wasn t one on one. musccaskill has called on je sessions to resign. coming up, the president will soon arrive at the uss gerald ford. he ll be speaking in the next hour. will he provide details on his proposed defense budget? will he even address the controversy surrounding his attorney general? we ll look ahead and discuss when we come back.
the time recould yscuers arrive some were able to be saved at high tide. joining me now, chris van who wi who wi hollen of maryland, i don t know if you have listened to our coverage. new breaking news regarng mike flynn, the national security adviser. did you hear us reporting that the vice president said what he said about flynn s meating with the russian ambassador because he had a conversation directly with mike flynn who said he did not discuss sanctions. now we have reporting that in fact he did discuss u.s. sanctions against russia in those phone calls. this was all during the obama administration before the trump administration took over. your assessment of that? is this a big deal? not a big deal? it is a big deal. this story gets more and more
science adviser about some of the issues that are raised. i try not to be offended when i m cut out of meetings. i m the type of person who s really like why wasn t i in this meeting, but the fact that he did discuss this novel with his science adviser and didn t include me in the discussion, i might always be bitter of that. reporter: is that your low point of the white house service? me being cut out of that meating, yeah. reporter: furman takes a lot of good-natured ribbing about being a nerd, takes it well. it was said famously that when he decided he needed to lose some weight, he plotted it all out on a spreadsheet. alex? makes sense. got to love the wonk. thanks, chris. what donald trump has to say in his inaugural address that could begin to heal the country s divide. and next hour on am joy, joy s exclusive interview with broadway legend jennifer holliday and her decision not to perform at the inauguration. your insurance company won t replace
but the two statements of secretary kerry we showed you updated the world on the syria deal and the nuclear accord occurred in seven minutes of today s two-hour meating. militants in the gaza strip fired dozens of rockets today. no casualties were reported. the israeli military said it s the largest rocket barrage since 2012, when it launched an eight-day air campaign in gaza. it said it was aimed at stopping those attacks. defense attorneys for blade runner oscar pistorius are trying to cast doubt on the competence of a south african police forensic expert who presented a partial reinactment of the shooting. the expert said he believed pistorius was on his stumps when he bashed open the door to get to his dead girlfriend he had just fatally shot. the defense insists he was wearing his prosthetic legs.
that there is common ground on these issues. so let s go forward with them. democrats, of course, are pushing to fund the entire government. neil? all right. we ll see what they do, or don t do. mike, thank you very much. until that meating takes place, both sides remain pretty much stuck in place. so who is right in this fight? town hall s guy benson, mark hanna have their own idea. mark, what do you expect out of this meeting with the president, could say, will say? what do you think? look, i think that the president is going to listen to what republican have to say, as he has in the past. and i think that there s going to be a really dialogue here. but at the end of the day, they re not going to be a negotiation in term of whetheth single landmark peace of legislation the president has passed, the affordable care act, or obama care, is going to be repealed or somehow defunded. the time for negotiating on these tapes of things is during when you re making legislation, not decidin