after six women of asian descent were among eight people killed in a rampage at three spas in the atlanta area. joining me now nbc news white house correspondent geoff bennett in atlanta, nbc news correspondent dr. john torres and heidi presblea. tell us more about the visit to the cdc and the vice president and president s visit meeting with asian-american leaders this hour. the visit to the cdc officials told us that was the president and vice president s opportunity to get a briefing from their medical and health teams about this ongoing fight against the pandemic. but based on what we saw from the president in his own words that was his opportunity to thank the scientists, to thank those career staffers who have been working around the clock at the cdc. he said science is back. he thanked those career staffers he said for changing the psyche of a nation. since then the president has made the short trip from the cdc over to emery university where he s meeting privately w
Businesses around the country want and there are big businesses interested in it as well. i think a lot of people have baked this into their assumptions and thinking how they re going to spend. i think you can find a lot of democrats including me wanting to see some tax reform done. but it can only be done in an orderly way. i think the comments of mccain over the last few days and roy blunt all making clear has an equal role to play and the president should expect them to play that role thoroughly and autonomous, that they said buck the president when they need to, support him as well. but they are an equal cobranch of government. given this relationship it s want going so well most of the time. are they going to be able to get anything done? well, it all depends. on the tax reform bill you can get it through reconciliation,
On is this attack of the judiciary that s been going on. i think that s going to hurt him in the long run. he s making no effort to show any kind of comity in his cobranch in the federal judiciary. rather he s continuing and most recently attacking them on the sanctuary cities ruling. so that s going to hurt him. and that s going to play out over a number of years. and i think that will be one of the lower points of his presidency. would you be surprised john dean if donald trump attempted to pardon some of the figures involved in russiagate, namely people like michael flynn? would that surprise you? not at all. there is precedent, of course. george bush one did it for a number of people he was involved with. and some thought he got off himself as a result of the pardons he issued late in his term. gerald ford of course did it for richard nixon.
You can get the most done. he has gotten nothing done. generally downhill from here. what is the biggest detriment to donald trump. one of the things that tim just touched on and you had in the clips, steve miller touched on is this attack of the judiciary that s been going on. i think that s going to hurt him in the long run. he s making no effort to show any kind of comeity in his cobranch in the federal judiciary. he is attacking them on the sanctuary cities issue. that s going to hurt him. and i think that s going to play out over the years and going to be one of the lower points of his przsy. would you be surprised john dean if donald trump attempted to pardon some of the figures involved in russiagate, namely people like michael flynn? would that surprise you? not at all. st there is precedent, of