Why . Because information is powerful. Thats our closing thought for you. And that does it for the beat. I also want to say a big thank you to Ayman Mohyeldin and Chris Jansing for anchoring all last week. I will be back here at 6 00 p. M. Eastern tomorrow. Hardball with Chris Matthews starts right now. Big bad wolf. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews back in washington. Well, the president spent the weekend defending his mental stability. And look, ive been away for two weeks and ucome back to that kind of news. And perhaps more telling, his defense of his military or mental stability only raised more questions about, you guessed it, his mental stability. And then there is the new hope of the resistance. Like other heroic figures, she goes by one name and one name
president. On saturday, President Trump tweeted, actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being really smart. I went from a very successful businessman to top tv st
it s wednesday, january 17th. i m ayman mohyeldin. alongside louis burgdorf. it is day 27 of the shutdown and a bipartisan effort to refund the government has hit a major snag. a group of senators have planned to send a letter to president trump requesting the government be temporarily re-opened in exchange for a serious debate about border protection but wording to politico the effort failed after the letter s signers fell short of the 20 senators in both parts that supporters were trying to accrue. many republicans wanted more of a commitment from house speaker nancy pelosi in order to move forward with the letter and others thought it was a pointless endeavor to endorse it if there was no signal from trump that he may accept it. senators hoped to set up a meeting with the vice president mike pence yesterday afternoon but that never happened. republican senator lindsey graham is still urging the senate to take the lead on this. the house is not going to be the center of gravity, it
the most corrupt and biassed of the mainstream pedia will be presented wednesday, january 17th. that s today. at her briefing today, sanders promised something later today. as of this hour, it s still a mystery what it is. that s the absurd. here s the reality. according to committee to the protect journalists 42 were killed last year doing their jobs. another 262 were imprisoned, 21 arrested on charges of false news. those were the phrase used. i m joined by senator richard blumenthal of connecticut, columnist eugene robinson, and katie townsend, the litigation director for the reporter s committee for freedom of the press. i want to start with katie. congratulations on your organization. thank you. tell me what s the danger of the press, just using the press as his tackling dummy because he doesn t like objective reporting, not opinion like eugene. he s afraid it seems to me of front page facts that are thrown
testimony that the regions were preferenced by them because they re hark working i did excuse me, let me finish. i d be happy to. the eyeroll seen around the world. the homeland security secretary facing anger and pushback after again saying she can t remember whether the president used a vulgarity about african nations. good morning and welcome to early start. i m christine romans. i m dave briggs. i m not sure how your health would hold up, but mine would not hold up well after an hour of questioning before the white house press corps. we ll discuss that. wednesday, january 17th. 4:00 a.m. in the east. three days until a government shutdown. house republicans introduced a short-term spending bill last night to fund the government through february 16th. it includes six years of funding for the children s health insurance program or c.h.i.p., and delays famous obamacare taxes. republicans hope it puts pressure on democrats to support the bill. right now even some repu
norway during the meeting. norway is a predominantly white country, isn t it? i actually do not know that, sir, but i imagine that is the case. really? you don t know about norway? what the fjord are you talking about? i will remind you, i will remind you, your name is kirstjen nielsen with a silent j. my god. welcome back to morning joe. it s wednesday, january 17th. it s hard to laugh. i m going to try. with us now we have the political writer of the new york times, nick, former treasury official steve ratner join the conversation. peter baker and white house correspondent for pbs news hour yemisha allison.