Not so much anymore, end quote. This as the president elect returns to trump tower in new york city later today. His team gearing up for another full week of meetings with potential candidates for his administration. And in the meantime House Democrats still reeling from the election voting for their next minority leader this next week, nancy pelosi, being challenged by ohio congressman, tim ryan. Is she in danger of losing her seat. Lets begin with ryan nevils near the maralago resort. Sounds like hes not too happy about the upcoming recount. Cant blame him there. What more is he saying . Reporter martin and christi, good morning from palm beach. Youre right, donald trump not impressed at all by this effort by dr. Jill stein. He called it ridiculous in a statement yesterday and last night a series of tweets tying it back to Hillary Clinton and the democrats. Let me read for you one of those tweets from trump last night. He said, quote, the green party scam is to fill up their coiffeur
Good morning, everyone. It is monday, november 28th, im alex witt alongside louis burgdorf. Cubans will gather today in havanas revolution square to begin a weeklong ceremony for fidel castro, bringing an end to his nearly 50year rule over the island nation. Castros remains were reportedly cremated on saturday. Following the end of the public ceremony tomorrow night, a procession will carry his ashes east to santiago de cuba, where he will be laid to rest. Tributes to the late leader poured in across havana and the rest of the country, but around the rest of the world, the reaction has been mixed to say the least. In miami, the epicenter of the cuban exile community, hundreds took to the streets Early Saturday Morning, celebrating and waving the flag of their homeland. It was a similar scene in cities across the country. The miami herald published a special 16page sunday edition with one word on the cover, dead. Joining us now from miami, msnbc correspondent. Good morning to you. We ju
Pushing . Its hard. On capitol hill, the New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters and in nashville, tennessee, Pulitzer Prize winning historian, john mee j meachem. Except for michigan losing, it was great. What a game that was. Fantastic game. Brutal. Great game. My dad and mom came to visit. My dad actually stayed more than an hour. Did he really . Yes, he did. He was threatening to leave immediately. Obsessed with the michigan ohio state game too . We were talking a lot about transition and we taught him about instagram. He thought it was fascinating and selfinvolved. Hes right on both counts. And stupid. Western culture on the skids basically is what he said. Something like that. Lets get right to the news. Theres so much to report from here. Trump is back in new york and begins his week with another full day of transition meetings. Over the Holiday Weekend there was more public jockeying for that secretary of state position especially by rudy. Rudy out front. Hes out there again. The
So the senate can look better on this, but burr has been very impressive. Nunez hurt himself with that Midnight Ride of paul revere heading to the eisenhower building, heading back with news he got for the president and looked absurd. It did look absurd because it was absurd. I think burr and werner are going to do a tough job here. Again, i go back to they dont feel the need to be instinctively defending the president. Go back to watergate. One big difference in terms of watergate. They said there was a candidacy on the presidency and President Trump said there is a cloud over the presidency. Different mindsets. Nixon and his people were thinking about the institution of the presidency. Whatever you think of nixon, he was trying to protect his presidency. Trump is trying to defend his butt personally against bad pr. Its the cloud versus the cancer. Nixon really wanted to be a good president. He wanted to succeed in his Public Policy which was pretty moderate, actually, politically, ev
An investigation in the white house launching a new more aggressive Counter Campaign after a week of explanations, team trump is punching back hard to keep the president out of the story. Take a listen. No, i dont represent donald trump jr. , and i dont know for sure who was at that meeting. I dont think the denials are suspect. And i dont think the denial by the president of the United States is suspect at all. Im not involved with the discussions with the lawyers about wo paid what entity and i certainly dont represent donald trump jr. I dont represent donald trump jr. , i represent the president and the president was not aware of that meeting. Im obviously e the president has been very clear on that. He had no meetings, and was aware of no meetings with russians. Jay hit all five morning news shows and he wasnt the only member of team trump who came out swinging this morning. The donald himself got back on twitter and released a storm of messages voicing strong support for his son a