Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Transfer your service in minutes, making moving with xfinity a breeze. Visit xfinity. Com moving today. Good day from msnbc World Headquarters here in new york. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. Well bring you the latest as we begin with new reaction this hour to bombshell secret recordings of President Trumps sister sharply criticizing him. Maryain trump spoke with mary trump for hours in 2018 and 19 unaware she was being recorded and saying things like this . [ bleep ] and the lying oh, my god, really, but you know it is the change of stories, the lack of preparation, the lying, the holy [ bleep ]. But hes appealing to the base. What theyre doing with the kids at the border, i mean well the tapes were reported by the Washington Post and obtained and confirmed by nbc news and recordings were made here in new york where only one party needs to consent for a conversation to be legally recorded. Meantime, the president is gearing up for a scaled down Na
Members to keep their powder dry for the time being if they dont think a vote should move forward. But in a statement here is what senator murkowski said. She said that she did not support taking up a nominee eight months before the 2016 election to fill the vacancy created by justice is scalia, we are now even closer to the 2020 election, less than two months out and i believe the same standards must apply. And so she joined Susan Collins of maine who came out yesterday and also said that the person who wins the election on november 3rd should decide who the next nominee is. But what is clear, alex, is that it is two republicans. They need at least four for this process to stop from moving forward. There is 53 republicans in the senate and they need four to block anything from going forward. So what is also clear is that the battle lines are completely drawn. We heard from republicans and democrats on the the sunday shows this morning outlining their arguments. Lets take a listen to s
The candidates trying to rally their supporters and make the case for why they should be the one to take on President Trump. We are also following new developments out of washington where in the wake of the impeachment trial the president and his team are cleaning house. President trump firing three people including two witnesses who testified under subpoena in the impeachment hearings. We start with new attacks on the Pete Buttigieg campaign from former Vice President joe biden. Take a listen. When president obama called on him, joe biden helped lead the passage of the Affordable Care act which gave health care to 20 million people. When park goers called on Pete Buttigieg, he installed decorative lights under bridges, giving citizens of south bend colorfully illuminated rivers. What is the theory . What is the strategy from the Biden Campaign on this ad . Reporter im going to be speaking in a low tone here. You can actually see the Vice President taking questions from reporters right
People looking out across the strilooking at the situation. People look fairly relaxed, so they appear to be getting that message from police that it does not seem to be another suspect involved as far as the police are concerned at this stage, but part of the strip there cordoned off by police with a man in a standoff with police. Well continue to monitor this breaking situation and bring you the latest as we get it. Im keir simmons at msnbc world headquarters. Our top political story of the day, a white house defiant over the collapse of the Republican Health care legislation. The president pledged in a tweet today not to fix obama care but instead watch it explode first. Vice president mike pence just a short time ago in West Virginia promising yet again to kill obama care. Yesterday wasnt a victory for the American People. It was a victory for the status quo in washington d. C. , and it was a victory for the disaster of obama care. I promise you that victory wont last very long. Th
He has been on defense about this tariff he made yesterday. You can see his plane right there as he gets ready to head out. Hahn, the white house isnt backing down theyre saying this is going to happen. It depends how you define it, pretty certain, those are the words Sarah Huckleby used. She said the president is pretty committed. She didnt expect the amounts to changism she had no reason to believe that john comb, the white house economic director would leaf. Heres what the president s saying on twitter. He says when a country, usa is losing many billion dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good and easy to win. Example, when we are down a hundred billion with a certain country they get cute. Its easy. He had another one, we most protect our country, our workers and Steel Industry is in bad shape. If you dont have steel you dont have a country. Heres the issue the president s running into, members of his own party is critical of his posi