Assert themselves. Well, and here we are. Guys, i dont even know where to begin. That is all we have for mtp daily tonight. In the midst of the Breaking News, the house is voting right now on the key vote that will apparently tell us more about whether there is a shut down coming and we have this National Security imploegsion. And our Breaking News continues with ari melber. I dont know if i dont know if Breaking News is enough to describe everything that is happening right now, but the Trump White House might be unraveling. I heard you say nightmare and unraveling. We have the language here, bry let you go, of general mattis say you have the right to have a Secretary Of Defense that whose views are better aligned with yours. Where do we go from here . And if you believe jeremy bash who said the president that secretary matt is was never going to resign and the president would have to fire him. So it is some form of resignation or protest or firing, but either way, major and one of the
To mount juliet, tennessee. Christy walked in for a get together and got the surprise of her life. Not a dry eye in that house. Thanks for joining us. Busy day. Im dana perino. Heres shep. Shepard a live look, the Eisenhower Executive Office building next to the west wing where were about to hear live from the president in the wake of an extraordinary morning. The pressure on President Trump accelerating and in moments hes scheduled to speak. Two big issues, first, the president s decision to withdraw troops from syria. Widely criticized by members of his own party, his own advisers and generals and cabinet. Our own reporting that he stopped listening to top leadership, didnt inform our allies or the pentagon. Hes getting praise from putin and condemnation from conservatives. At the same time, in the face of pressure to build that wall, the newly announced president ial decision not to sign the
shortterm budget deal that easily passed the u. S. Senate. His base was rebelling. The Freed
new thing together. and maybe they ve come up with that. they ll come out and the president will have a new announcement about how we re going to do this moving forward. as of yesterday, the president said here s the tweet, by the way. with a clip of him at the emmys as a former. as you know, this is a farm bill signing. he sent out farm bill signing in 15 minutes. emmys, tbt. so an emmys throw back thursday, i believe that would be. today is thursday, right? so that would stand to reason the president there in the hee-haw regalia while discussing the coming farm bill. but we have already been told that the president could we put the tweet back up again? could we do that? the tweet.
hearings. kirstjen nielsen made the announcement today ahead of the hearings that she s been a part of in the house judiciary committee where democrats came down hard on her for the death of a 7-year-old girl in custody of border security. plus, amid all of these very serious headlines, the president just tweeted this seriously. a clip from when he appeared on the emmys in overalls more than a decade ago. he tweeted this himself. the tweet cites the farm bill signing with the hashtags emmys and tbt. you can t make this stuff up. t p - [narrator] the typical vacuum head has its limitations, so shark invented duo clean.
know for sure is looking toward the united states in their target sets. mr. president, you have a chance to change course, you have a lot of bipartisan support to do so, take advantage of it. hallie? reporter: well, listen, we know we already are hearing from senator graham not just on those issues, but on that but on the resignation, the ousting of secretary jim mattis given that senator graham said now it is with great sadness he s been informed of this resignation, this retirement. however you want to phrase it. let me tick through those new reporting pieces of information that we have for you. so senior white house officials said secretary mattis came to the white house this afternoon. i m told that it was scheduled for right around 3:30. i don t know that is right because that is when the farm bill signing was but my guess is that is why the president was so delayed to that farm bill signing. so the secretary came here and he told the president that he would be leaving the