plus the democratic party s big dilemma. do they have to decide between appealing to aggressives or appealing to democratic party. t this is mtp daily and it starts right now. good evening, i m chuck todd here in new york city. welcome to mtp daily. if someone tried to interfere in the u.s. election, it would be a big story. but what if they were doing it to try to keep a certain person from winning, and what if they got caught, and what if the incoming president didn t believe a word of it. what would your reaction be? here s the reaction. crickets, of sorts. the cia has said they now believe with a high level of confidence, and they have hard evidence to prove the following, that russian president vladimir putin was covertly involved to interfere in the presidential election, first as a vendetta against clinton, then as a campaign to destroy american credibility when it comes to american democracy. in 1972, watergate started when a couple burglars opened a file cabi
for a fourth straight weekend, ordinary citizens are taking to the streets from coast to coast. it s a heightened level of activism seldom seen in this country in decades. i m sheinelle jones in new york city. it s 1:00 in the east, 10:00 out west. another busy saturday. we ll have more in just a moment on that. but nirs, republican lawmakers facing anger from constituents who are worried about how a repeal of obamacare would impact their lives. a town hall meeting just wrapping up a short time ago in newport richie. tammy leitner is there for us. tammy, talk about what people had to say today. reporter: hey, sheinelle, hundreds of people showed up, so many that couldn t even fit in this room. a lot of personal stories being shared today. emotions were high as i mentioned. i want to give you a sense of what it was like in this room a short while ago. let s listen to a little bit of sound from earlier. i am 77 years old, and i think it s unconscionable for this politician
no. reporter: the president ask speaker ryan to delay the vote while no. steve? reporter: i was giving you the opportunity to respond to what leader pelosi said. she said it s a rookie mistake to set a date for a bill before there s consensus in the republican caucus. thank you. i appreciate that. i think we have a strong record on the republican side of getting bills passed, getting things done. so, i i know that they have a pretty strong record of passing things and telling people they can read the bill afterwards. i think we ve done this the right way. and i think we know that weave do we ve done it with the support members told the president they wanted. reporter: there are some former white house lawyers who served in the prior administration who say that by tweeting from his official potus account this morning a video that was put out on official social media channels the president in the white house violated the anti-lobbying law because they re using m
in new jersey where the president is this hour, that s where she is, kim delaney in our washington newsroom. courtney kubae is at the pentagon many keir simmons is following international reaction from our london newsroom, i want to start with kristen and where craig left off a moment ago, we asked whether the white house has had a response to this. has the white house had a chance to be briefed on this, should we expect any sort of announcement from the president of the united states today. we just spoke with one of the officials and asked if there was any reaction. no reaction yet. we know president trump at 3:00 is going to be meeting with hhs secretary. the focus of the meeting is going to be the opiod epidemic, i would be very surprised if reporters didn t shout a question at president trump about this latest discovery. we ll have to see if he decides to respond. he has had very tough words, tough talk for north korea, in recent days, we know he spent an hour on the ph
no, it doesn t mean that yet. it s a significant development along that path. but there are other technological hurdles our sources say to doing that. you have to be able to build a missile and warhead that survives reentry and you have to have a reliable missile system. and of course u.s. intelligence inside north korea is very limited. we don t know what we don t know, so there is significant question as to what their capabilities actually are. this assessment speeds up the time table and subjects that they have achieved miniaturization much sooner than previously had been understood. and how did we miss this? how did it happen so much faster that be we thought it would? well, in a sense this is something that many analysts have been saying, they are two years away, five years away. and now it s finally now arrived. all right. stand by for me. general, what does this mean for our relationship with north korea now moving forward? it means we ll move into a period