workings of the power couple. she has defended her father after trump made the remarks following the deadly charlottesville protest. i think there s blame on both sides. my dad is not a racist. he didn t mean any of it telling then white house economic adviser who was rocked by trump s remarks and surprised by ivanka s response. the new york times in a story about the book also saying trump at one point want his daughter and son-in-law out of washington demanding then chief of staff john kelly get rid of my kids, get them back to new york. the white house today pushing back sanders saying it is sad but not surprising the media would spend time promoting a book and false information instead of all of the incredible work jared and ivanka are doing
for the country. incredible work the president touted falsely claiming my daughter created millions of jobs. i don t know if anyone knows that but she created millions of jobs. the new york times writing trump also requested to travel on air force planes when it was not appropriate. when tillerson would deny the request the couple would invite along a cabinet secretary to get access to a plane. a spokesperson released this statement saying every point she mentioned was entirely false. correcting everything wrong would take too long and be pointless. when asked about life in
visit four cities in the early caucus states and sliding her 2020 those were committee monday. warren s committee announcement will raise campaign money. after taking time away from politics kanye west is throwing his m aga had back in the ring making sure everyone knows he is still team trump. carly shimkus with fox news headlines serious xm 115 here with the online reaction. good morning and happy new year. reporter: kanye west appears to be back on the trump train ringing in the new year with a politically charged tweet, writing trump all day. the 40 one-year-old wrapper went on to say one of my favorites of many things of what the trump hat represents to me is people can t tell me what to do because i am black. this after kanye west set on twitter a few months ago that he would be distancing himself from
republicans who are writing trump off yet, and most are operating under the assumption that he is running for ree ek shu re-election, and that not a fate de compli, and many are saying that the 2020 is barreling ahead here, but some of the people who i know who know the president very well, they just don t believe it to be a sealed deal. joining us now is nbc news white house correspondent geoff bennett on the north lawn, and we wanted to get to you to talk about the questions around the homeland security secretary kirstjen neilson who is an ally and friend of john kelly who is rumored to leave. yes, and these two stories dovetail, because the only thing standing in the way of president trump firing his homeland security is john kelly who is a long time champion of kirstjen neilson s position.
critics like the mayor of san juan remain in office. trump said he was an absolute no when it came to statehood for the island and slammed puerto rico s current leadership. with the mayor of san juan as bad as she is, puerto rico shouldn t be talking about statehood until they get some people who really know what they re doing. she s running for governor, i hear. with people like that involved in puerto rico, i would be an absolute no. the mayor of san juan hit back, writing trump is accusing me again for telling the truth. now he says that statehood doesn t come for me. puerto rican governor weighed in writing the president said he is not in favor of statehood for the people of puerto rico based on a personal feud with a local mayor. this is an insensitive disrespectful comment to over 3 million americans who live in