Reelection, a looming battle over gun control, growing fears about domestic terrorism, and the like, the president , eager to avoid all of those topics today chose russia and chose today to signal new support for russia and Vladimir Putin. Trump renewed his call for russia to be welcomed back into what is known as g7 the leading nations due to meet this weekend in france. The United States, canada, united kingdom, france, italy, germany, and japan are all members. Russia was suspended from the group when it was known as g8 when they invaded the crimea portion of ukraine. Trump said it is time to let russia back in while taking a not so veiled swipe at his predecessor. Ive gone to numerous g7 meetings and i guess president obama because putin out smarted him thought it wasnt a good thing to have russia in so he wanted russia out. But i think its much more appropriate to have russia in. It should be the g8 because a lot of the things we talk about have to do with russia. So i could certa
Home to run for senate. And a third sounds just like donald trump, as the 11th hour gets underway on a tuesday night. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 936 of the trump administration. And as the headline writers put it tonight, the president blinked. He has apparently yielded to the markets and just about all members of the Business Community and hes backing off his threat on tariffs on imports from china. They were to take effect in just three weeks, but would be delayed now until december 15th. Were doing this for Christmas Season just in case some of the tariffs would have an impact on u. S. Customers. So far theyve had virtually none. The only impact, weve collected almost 60 billion from china, compliments of china. But just in case they might have an impact on people, what weve done is weve delayed it so that they wont be relevant to the Christmas Shopping season. Trumps own trade rep filled in the details. The products affected i
Summit. John king leads us with more nastiness between the president and the speaker of the house. Reporter in the last few minutes, President Trump tweeting out a big announcement for tomorrow. He is saying, i will be making a major announcement concerning the humanitarian crisis on our southern border tomorrow afternoon 3 00 p. M. Live from the white house. Nobody tipping their hand as to what the president might be talking about but nancy pelosi may be glad she did not head off to afghanistan as was planned yesterday with this big announcement. All day today and yesterday, tan gelinas gential issues took place. The speaker of the house talking about her postponed trip to afghanistan. The tit for tat. We have the prerogative to travel commercially. We made plan toss do until the administration leaked that we were traveling commercially. Reporter in an interview with jesse watters, Sarah Sanders denied leaking details about pelosis possible commercial air travel. Thats outrageous. Nob
Day as a matter of fact. The Washington Post reporting that in the house alone, 39 democrats are already onboard. A report by the special counsel, Robert Mueller, outlines at least ten areas where trump may have committed obstruction of justice, and it did not exonerate the president as he falsely claims. But for democrats, impeachment is not just about the Mueller Report. There is mounting frustration with the stonewalling by the white house, which is refusing to honor subpoenas for documents and congressional testimony. Last week, the former white house counsel, don mcgahn, at the president s urging, ignored a subpoena to appear before the house judiciary committee. Then theres the president s strategy on going around congress when he doesnt get what he wants like he did when he declared a National Emergency after congress refused to fund his border wall. Not to mention the fact that with 2020 looming, democrats may be running out of time for impeachment. So far, the House Speaker Na
Experienced. He wrote it down. Implicitly, he wrote down everything, everything. Took copious notes. And it all came out today. Its a pretty explosive letter. Now, the republicans will say cant trust this guy, i think its a weak argument. He took all these notes, why . Because he was nervous that he was part of something wrong and he didnt like it. Maybe hes a professional. This level of meticulousness, i think mr. Taylor knew this day was going to come some day, that he would be held to account for what he was a part of. The argument is, what should be the consequence. Well, ill leave that up for congress and the American People to decide. I just think everyone should read his Opening Statement and then you can decide for yourself. I dont think theres a lot of deciding that you have to do. Its there. Im going to get to it because i got a lot to get to. You do, its a big night. Make the most of it. I hope everyone reads this letter. Im going to read a lot of it to help you along. This