Administrations response to Hurricane Maria. This morning crews told my colleague that it should not be about politics. I am not going to be distracted by small comments, by politics, by petty issues. This is one goal, and it is to save lives. The situation in puerto rico remains dire. Many of the islands 3. 4 million residents still without water, gas, or even cash. President trump is headed there on tuesday. But at this hour will be making a series of phone calls to puerto rican officials and brock long. Lets bring in Kelly Odonnell who is in branchberg near President Trumps golf resouth in new jersey. Can you give us an idea of what trump will be discussing with puerto rico officials . We have not been given a specific preview. We can look paced on how the president typically interacts with officials when theres a situation like this. We found a number of times when hes in his new jersey home, and its a weekend, but theyll try to make public the fact that hes doing business calls. O
Way on a monday night. And good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 788 of the trump administration, and we are coming off a weekend that had many people openly questioning the president s sense. His state of mind and his ability to display anything approaching the kind of stewardship weve come to expect from our president s. This has to do with what we witnessed from the president on his cell phone this weekend. A string of 50 messages over the course of a couple of days. His attacks were angry and unsparing. His targets ranged from robert mueller, to a comedy show that originates five floors above us here in this building that he, himself, has hosted, to an auto union leader, to the late senator and former prisoner of war, john mccain. Washington post points out he averaged just over a tweet per hour through the weekend. Late this afternoon, the president made his first and only public appearance of the day. No mention of what we witnessed from him
Originates five floors above us here in this building that he, himself, has hosted, to an auto union leader, to the late senator and former prisoner of war, john mccain. Washington post points out he averaged just over a tweet per hour through the weekend. Late this afternoon, the president made his first and only public appearance of the day. No mention of what we witnessed from him his weekend. Just a mention of his own administration. The world is talking. When president s and Prime Ministers and others come to see me, they all say, congratulations on this great economy that youve built. And they try and do the same thing but it doesnt work out so well but thats okay. The president s twitter feed, however, reveals what else may be on his mind. Perhaps the most pressing issue is the upcoming widely expected Mueller Report on the russia investigation and the potential legal and political battles that could follow. At one point, trump attempted to create a new narrative by writing, on
And good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 788 of the trump administration, and we are coming off a weekend that had many people openly questioning the president s sense. His state of mind and his ability to display anything approaching the kind of stewardship weve come to expect from our president s. This has to do with what we witnessed from the president on his cell phone this weekend. A string of 50 messages over the course of a couple of days. His attacks were angry and unsparing. His targets ranged from Robert Mueller to a comedy show that originates five floors above us here in this building that he, himself, has hosted, to an auto union leader, to the late senator and former prisoner of war, john mccain. Washington post points out he averaged just over a tweet per hour through the weekend. Late this afternoon, the president made his first and only public appearance of the day. No mention of what we witnessed from him his weekend. Just a men
Same fate, bureaucracy quickly metastasize is and overwhelms good intentions and it certainly happened with the cia. Within a few years, harry truman himself regretted creating it. In an oped he complained that the cia has diverted from its original assignment, it has become operational and at times a policymaking arm of the government. Truman was disturbed by that development and he called for scaling back the cias power dramatically but of course it never happened the opposite happened. Over time, the cia got more powerful. Today, the agency and other intel agencies like it arent simply policymaking arms of government, at times they clearly want to be the government itself, they want to run it, everything. And they do. That is the main lesson of Donald Trumps phone call with the ukrainian president , we learned today that the official who filed the socalled whistleblower complaint against the president was a career cia officer. The official did not agree with the president s Foreign