Transcripts For KNTV Sunday Today With Willie Geist 20170409

KNTV Sunday Today With Willie Geist April 9, 2017

We have it all covered and chuck todd is here to talk about President Trumps week. Later, our sunday sitdown with Rashida Jones, from roles on the office and parks and recreation and Angie Tribeca and using the star power and changing the role of women in hollywood. Im in an industry obsessed with looks and youth and im in a town obsessed with youth and looks and i know you have more to give. You can cultivate your skills. You cant cultivate your looks, you marks church and 11 People Killed and 33 wounded and isis claiming responsibility for attacks and this was supposed to be a day of celebration the sunday before easter, kicking off holy week and shock across the country over the brazen attacks. The earlier one targeting a Coptic Christian Church in the city of tanta, 50 miles north of cairo. 9 00 a. M. Local time and the pews were packed with pham looks, and injuring 26 and injure dozens and horrific footage emerging on social media in the aftermath of the attack showing bloodstained pews and people screaming. An explosive device was planted inside the church and isis claiming responsibility for both attacks. Egypts Christian Community has been the target of an Ongoing Campaign by isis as well as other Islamist Groups and todays violence coming just weeks before pope francis was due to visit egypt. The pope this morning condemning the attacks saying hes praying for the victims. Willie . Lucy kavinof, thank you. Tensions rising in two places of critical interest of the United States. Aircraft carriers led by the uss carl vinson. The russian government angered by the american air strikes on syria this week stepping up its military presence in the mediterranean just days before the visit of Rex Tillerson to moscow. Nbcs chief White House Correspondent Hallie Jackson is live in West Palm Beach near the president s maralago resort this morning. Hallie, good morning. Reporter hi, will. Good morning to you. New reaction now from north korea about that syrian air strike with the Associated Press reporting its Foreign Ministry calls it absolutely unpardonable. For President Trump its more aftermath from the military action as Foreign Affairs take center stage. Far from maralago where the president s spending a sunny weekend, an ominous signal in the mediterranean. This russian war ship with its own cruise missiles at the ready, Vladimir Putin sending a clear signal to the u. S. After a syrian strike. Hes not worried about russian retaliation. I see no reason that there would be retaliations since the russians were never targeted in this particular strike. Tillerson warned by his russian counterpart that the strike plays into the president s hands. The president notifying congress behind the military action to protect Vital National security and Foreign Policy interests. Still, critics want more about the administrations longterm strategy for syria. The president s strike, a departure from his America First Foreign Policy. America first. Remember that. Reporter the move triggering backlash from his base, but not from all his supporters. I know trump like he said was America First, but sometimes that doesnt always work out. Reporter steve bannon, the architect of that populist policy now appears to be quashing rumors hes at risk of getting ousted. A source close to the strategist tells nbc news bannon aint going anywhere, viewing himself as a protector of the Campaign Promises fighting the westwing democrats including Jared Kushner, but bannon, kushner and Reince Priebus look to be putting the back playing behind them holding an hourlong meet friday afternoon to, quote, bury the hatchet or at least show the president theyre trying and donald trump apparently pleased with where things ended up. And this morning secretary of state Rex Tillerson is now wheels up to italy, an overseas trip that would include his first face to face with his russian counterpart when he heads to moscow. That trip, of course, willie taking on real significance in light of these new questions about the u. S. Russian relationship. Hallie jackson with the president in florida. Thanks so much. Chuck todd is moderator of meet the press. Good morning, good to see you. Good morning, willie. Donald trump was praised not by all, but most Congressional Republicans after the a air strikes on syria in the response as what they saw the humanitarian crisis and the pictures of children in syria dying this week and he also got his Supreme Court nominee confirmed by the senate. A lot of people saying this was a good week for donald trump, what did this week mean to him and his presidency . Well, look, i think he got a big win on the board. He hadnt had a win on the board in a while, and im talking about the neil gorsuch confirmation. Right. It was ugly, and it wasnt very pretty how it went down in the senate and there are some that argue that the difference between him winning and losing this election was the Supreme Court vacancy. So that was his win on the board. Look, i think the syria question, i think we dont know if we will look back on this and say this was a great week for him or a bad week for him. I think it all depends on what comes next with syria. I think there are a lot more questions than answers here. This was not candidate trump. This was not private citizen trump who was very skeptical of new interventions in the middle east, but this was a very, very limited military strike. Its clear this was President Trump looking for something that was more symbolic to send a message, and at the same time, i think, essentially say okay, lets have a debate about what we should do with syria Going Forward. I think the best way to look at this is this is President Trump signaling hes open to being convinced to do more in syria, but remember, hes skilltill a skeptic on whether doing more will work. The attack is open for business again and syria is flying sorties and going back and attacking same towns that were attacked just earlier this week. So what comes next now . Thats the big question. Thats not a apology and thats a oneday attack and that was 59, 60 tomahawk missiles. Rex tillerson is going to moscow this week. What does he tell Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov . I think the message seems to be, hey, this was not, you know, youve got to help us deal with this assad situation, but dont use this as an excuse not to work with us anymore. That seems to be its clear that thats the message secretary tillerson wants to carry there. I do think what we will see now Going Forward is a more open debate both inside the Republican Party which, frankly, is split on this and inside the Democratic Party which also is split on this, but i think you will have an open debate about number one, should he be given more authority in syria, and i think you will see a bunch of hawks inside the Republican Party view this as an opportunity to convince President Trump to have a world view closer to theirs. So i think you will see almost a rush to convince the president to go further down this road. And it would be interesting to see if President Trump who likes affirmation if he sees this kind of an attack as something that helps him. Lets go inside the white house, chuck. Youve been covering this pretty closely. Jared kushner, Senior Adviser and also soninlaw to President Trump, steve bannon representing the nationalist side of the party that didnt like the fact that the United States went after syria the other day. Who wins here . Is it the Jared Kushner wing or is it the steve bannon wing . What emerges as a stronger force upon President Trump . You know, the old adage, blood is thicker than water and while jared is not technically blood, hes married to blood. I think that it is it is if steve bannon wants to stay in that white house he has to figure out how to coexist with Jared Kushner. Jared kushner is not the one who has to figure out with coexist with steve bannon and Reince Priebus and thats the issue here and its about whether steve bannon thinks that if he down plays his public persona a little bit, can he still win the influence of President Trump over time . Does he have the patience to keep his powder dry to sort of be there, perhaps win President Trump when as we know he gets tired of aides every now and then, but do you keep do you sort of stay in the outer circle and hope you get brought back in to the inner circle. Ask a Corey Lewandowski who while out of the circle never has fully been kicked out of the circle. He has found his way to stick around. Bannon has to figure out how to coexist with Jared Kushner. Chuck todd, thank you as always and well be watching meet the press where chuck will be joined by u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Nikki haley who had very strong words this week for russia. Other headlines making news, starting with a man hunt in wisconsin. Authorities are searching for a suspect who sent a bizarre manifest onto President Trump and allegedly stole 16 weapons from a gun store. The city of sun prairie is stepping up its patrols after a suspicious man requested information about services at a church there. An acquaintance says 32yearold jacob jacobowski threatened local schools. Theyre offering a 10,000 reward leading to his arrest. He is considered armed and dangerous. Five children hurt after a strong wind blew away two bounce houses at a Church Carnival near greenville, south carolina. Authorities say one of the inflatableities flew into a tree and the other into a power line. The children were sent to a hospital with two of the five in serious condition. The final round of the masters shaping up to be a great finish. Justin rose and Sergio Garcia tied for 6 under par and garcia hoping to win a major for the first time in his career. Right behind him, americans Rickie Fowler and jordan spieth. Spieth hoping for redemption after that disaster in the final round last year. And ladies and gentlemen, frankly, we have buried the lead this morning because dylan dreier is back from maternity leave. Ive been back for two and a half weeks and im finally back with you. Hes beshes been hanging ou the this cute little dude. Look at this guy with his dimples. We are so happy for you and mr. Cal. Hes sleeping for you, apparently. Hes been going ten, 11 hours at night. Im not home to appreciate it. Im waking up at 4 00 in the morning either way. Hes sleeping like a teenage boy. Thank you. So nice to be here and i am so happy to be able to talk about warmer temperatures and 15 to 20 degrees above average and all thanks to the area of High Pressure and pumping in the southwest wind and temperatures in the 60s and 70s and new york city about 66 degrees and watch what happens as we start off the week. Columbus, ohio, 77 by monday and well get close to 80 in new york and even boston should get into the mid70s tuesday and st we are waking up to cold temperatures in the 30s in the north bay and even 40s along most of the area. Livermore, 37 degree. Santa rosa, 34. San francisco, 46 right now, and san jose, a cold 43 degrees. Today, we can expect a dry seasonable day across the bay area. Temperature trend should be warming up nicely into the upper 50s and 60s for a mostly clear sunday. And thats your latest forecast. Dylan thanks. Stick around for the highs and lows of the week including the pepsi ad that made you want automatic out and have a coke. Soft drinks, supermodels and social justice collides. And dancing, the couple whose moves burned up the internet this week. Plus, where do the happiest children in the world live. Well travel there and tell you societys fascinating secret. All of that coming up on sunday today. 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Kushner made a trip with the chairman of joint chiefs of staff to meet the troops with military leaders there. Good for him for going but kushners look struck observer as as eye bit formal. Going with the contact kiss and a personalized flap jacket to pull it together. I think he stepped off the plane and threw on his gear. It just looked like he was on a cruise. Thats probably what he wears. The first logos to the illconceived attempt by a major soft drink key to coop the social protest. In an ad with Kendall Jones of kardashian fame, pepsi sent a message between police and good looking americans holding protest signs. We are the joneses were going to shine now were the movement this generation the public reaction to the ad was swift and unkind. Social media had a field day accusing pepsi of trivializing political movements many of the memes placed pepsi like this one in Tiananmen Square with that. And pepsi pulled the ad and apologized saying clearly, we missed the mark. A man speaking out approached the citys mayor, reached into his pocket and pulled out a pepsi. Then he walked away cracking one himself. Any attention is good attention . But not in this case. I just dont think this one worked. Are you a pepsi drinker . I dont drink much soda. The next one goes to the german couple that unwittingly became the most famous pair of dancers in the world this week. 70yearold dietmar and his lovely wife elia were participating in a dance competition and they threw down. They won numerous others in the boogiewoogie category. Look at the moves. They were stunned to learn their routine had been seen by hundreds of millions of people around the world. Dietmar saying, quote, we are quite flabbergasted with the video. I wonder if those are their original knees. I have a feeling they were replacements. The next logos to the depth one baby in mexico plunged during his baptism. This aggressive baptismal made the priest and baby star as the baby got a full face down dunking in the water during that blessed sacrament. One person on twitter saying it reminds her of the way wings are dipped in ranch dressing. Did you do that with cal . He had a little drip on his forehead, that was head. The next high goes to excellence. Excellence in the field of promposal, do you know about these . Where you go to Great Lengths to ask someone to your prom. If you saw la la land, you know it opens on a freeway. A student at Arcadia High School went to lengths to ask emma stone to his prom. You go sainsane emma stone please be the one nice work jacob. Sto

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