will be takingest is questions since this hearing. a chance to redeem himself, a chance to put the best light on what jim comey did, dispute what he said as his lawyer did today. it should be ierested to see what he picks out of the testimony to emphasize and do we learn more about his account of these meetings. these were one on one meeting. his lawyer wasn t in there. we have yet to hear from president trump deckly his version of what happened. i believe tomorrow is 111 days since the last formal solo news conference. to peter s point there have been these kinds of bilaterals with visiting or overseas leaders. two for the home team press corps, two for the visitors, and the event is over. this will be interesting nonetheless tomorrow. we ll fit in break here. the panel members are sticking with us. coming up, what members of the president s own party have to say about all of this
national security adviser told him to put a pledge in his nato speech saying article 5, we stand with you, and they were gob smacked and surprised when it wasn t in there. it was an interesting story from my colleague because it s been a consistent thing i ve heard from sources within the intelligence world over the last month, two months really, was this question of why can t the staffing kind of pull him back from the ledge is the quote one of them used. their expectation is that trump doesn t know thousand handle this himself. there s this high bar that a lot of people within the intelligence world are kind of setting for the staff around trump off why couldn t you pull him back from the ledge and show him how to maneuver. he heliums to be immune to this guidance. so there s the guidance he doesn t take and there s the vacancisies.
it wasn t in there. it was an interesting story from my colleague because it s been a consistent thing i ve heard from sources within the intelligence world over the last month, two months really, was this question of why can t the staffing kind of pull him back from the ledge is the quote one of them used. their expectation is that trump doesn t know thousand handle this himself. there s this high bar that a lot of people within the intelligence world are kind of setting for the staff around trump off why couldn t you pull him back from the ledge and show him how to maneuver. he heliums to be immune to this guidance. so there s the guidance he doesn t take and there s the vacancisies. we have this situation in the middle east in which a bunch of gulf countries led by saudi arabia are cutting off all diplomatic ties with qatar.
they re surrounded by his aides, and kellyanne conway wasn t in there. if she was, she d have been the only woman in the picture and it was not a good moment that, at a moment when they re making the decision, there s that photo, making the decision to basically say no, we re not going to have gender neutrality when it comes to health insurance basics here, that picture is not going to sit well with many women in this country. where is k.t. mcfarland and kellyanne conway when you need them? thank you very much. see you sunday. busy day. busy day. we re going to need two or three hours. tune in of course for chuck todd today at 5:00 on mtp daily and if it s sunday meet the press. stay with us. we re continuing to follow all the breaking developments on capitol hill as the debate continues on the floor. up next, tom cole on why he s a yes vote on health care. his message to his party s holdouts. you re watching andrea mitchell
and there s some way to more carefully vet people without a lot of rhetoric and playing to the base, that ice another thing. but i don t see it here. matt lewis, in the exact executive order i do not believe there is the language listing which countries people would be that was floated in the draft. i m not sure the final version listed those countries but when they were being discussed none included the 9/11 hijacker countries, pakistan, afghanistan. belgium. france wasn t in there. we know terrorists are active right now. are you preventing what you re saying you re trying to? i don t know if it makes sense what the countries that he picked. maybe saudi arabia should be on there. i don t know. but i think it proves this is not a religious test because there are countries predominantly muslim allowed to come here. this is high risk countries. it is for 120 days. we don t know they say they re going to pick the countries. we don t know which they ll