President is a liar and not to be trusted ever we will explain and we have highlights of his most recent and frankly most egregious lies about the border and his son and blaming the nationwide crime wave that he created of course on donald trump in also tonight biden, obama and clinton fundraising in donald trump was visiting the wake of the slain nypd officer and will have reaction straight ahead and also joining us with more on joes transgender day of ability proclamation and we have a copy of it. Laura responding to a nasty violent attack and the speaker of the house Micah Johnson has a message for the president who just called him uninformed and we will see who was uninformed but first well turn our attention to what is joe bidens most blatant lie of all is yesterday millions of americans celebrating easter which is the holiest holiday in all christianity but the white house are busy promoting another celebration frankly one they made up on Easter Sunday selfproclaimed devout catho
Up pt originally the house was supposed to pass this bill and it would go into the floor into the session. i was talking to senate republicans yesterday and mcconnell was very clear and they couldn t get this until may and they wanted it to be more deliberative and they wanted to work on an underlying bill that was different than the ahca and this is a long way from done and you can give it the old college try and they re nowhere closer than they were. and for pr perpes, they ll keep fighting and talking and in the meantime we ll move on to other pressing issues. julie, great to see you. ing come up for us, hillary clinton in her most political speech since the election calling out a fox news host and the press secretary for racism and sexism. how they re responding today. plus president trump seemingly off-the-cuff remarks about iraq raising the question of the role of u.s. troops and the status of the war against isis in general. we ll discuss. hey allergy muddlers
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Kurds. more bringing together our allies to really take isis out. well, the pentagon, one of the other issues of course i m sure you know is all the talk today about donald trump and even the pentagon had something to say to him about national security. let s listen. we have troops serving that follow the muslim faith. and, again, without wading into politics, anything that tries to bolster, if you will, the isil narrative that the united states is somehow at war with islam is contrary to our values and contrary to our national security. islam are we at war with islam, radical islam or nobody? well, let me just say, greta. i firmly believe to the statement that was just made, i respect all of our service members, regardless of what their religion is. we shouldn t have a religious base test on either immigration or service. but this administration. we also have a constitutional amendment.
Short of invoking article a to bring to actually under article 4 call a nato meeting. a0c meeting. how are we going to work together to defeat isis and bring in a coalition. i would step it up to five but that s just me. what is the military saying. i think the military, we are going to hear tomorrow from secretary carter on this issue. but what i think is that we need to obviously have rules of engagement. and especially on the air campaign. that s starting to change. that really make sure that we are focusing on the right targets. we saw that when they took out the 116 oil trucks but obviously that was way too late. we need to do more of that. we also need, i believe, greta, a lot of coming back they don t drop the bombs. the way you avoid that is more forward a controllers j techs imbedded with the kurds. embedded with the iraqi forces so we can call an accurate air strikes to go after a the best targets. and more support for the