Package of Border Security excluding the wall thats acceptable to both sides. The president this morning essentially confirming his commitment to that agreement. Well, were working on a plan subject to getting massive border control. Were working on a plan for daca. People want to see that happen. You have 800,000 young people brought here, no fault of their own. So were working on a plan. Well see how it works out. The wall will come later. Were right now renovating large sections of wall, massive sections, making it brandnew. Were doing a lot of renovation. Were Building Four different samples of the wall to see which one were going to choose, and the wall is going to be built. The president reiterated that very same message of reassuring his once very energized and powerful base on a flight on air force one back from his trip to florida. But that did nothing to quell the primal scream from his conservative supporters. What would you call a republican who sounds like jeb bush now whe
Leaders by siding with chuck and nancy, schumer and pelosi, on the debt ceiling. So the question is how long will this spirit of kumbaya last . Confirmed a Bipartisan Group of lawmakers heading to the white house today as president Trumps Administration is ramping up efforts to push tax reform. It was a very in depth conversation. Went into detail and president basically back and forth what we can do, exciting things that can happen, how we can work together. He needs to reach out to democrats on all these big issues and hopefully generate some bipartisan support. We need bipartisanship to get things done. Anybody who talks to us wants us to roll up our sleeves and make progress on things like tax reform. This is a big change. From a president who did no bipartisan outreach, no across the aisle outreach at all in the first seven months, now hes having Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi over for dinner. Its going to be an interesting conversation. Were going to get to that and more a little
Todays arrival after all the weekend is coming, typically its not that great of a day for members of Trumps Administration who might be at odds with the president. Right now one of those people is Rex Tillerson. Nbc news has learned the president is fuming mad over our exclusive that the secretary of state called President Trump a, quote, moron. In a new piece from axios indicates the white house may have already picked a replacement. President trump is staying silent on the possible shakeup right now, but he does have people wondering what in the world he meant when he made these cryptic comments at a White House Photo op last night. You guys know what this represents . Tell us. I dont know, maybe, its the calm before the storm. What storm . Could be the calm before the storm. The calm before the storm. You talking iran . What . What storm, mr. President . We have the worlds greatest military people in this room. I can tell you that. Were going to have a great evening. Thank you all f
What they might have asked, what he might have said all of it as the 11th hour gets under way. Good evening, once again from our nbc headquarters here in new york. Day 271 of the Trump Administration leaves the president choosing to keep gold star families in the middle of what become a nasty political conversation. And threatening an even ugler fight with a u. S. Senator who spent five plus years as a prisoner of war and tortured and injured for life. President trump was asked again about his false claim that president obama did not call the Service Members of u. S. Families killed in action. You want to clarify anything there . Theres nothing to clarify. Theyre just a bunch of fakers. So you ask me that question, and think for the most part theyve called every Family Member thats die immediate. Its the hardest thing for me to do that. As far as other representatives, i dont know. You could ask general kelly did he get a call from obama. About general kelly, the Washington Post is out
Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. With precious few legislative days this year and a white house agenda crammed with tax cuts, health care, and other priorities, the headlines today were all about President Trumps handling of a phone call with the family of a fallen soldier. One reason is because President Trump decided to engage in this fight, showing once again hes unwilling to let any perceived slight go, no matter how sensitive the topic. It began with this statement by that florida congresswoman, who was with the family of sergeant la david johnson, when the president called. Johnson was one of four soldiers killed in niger earlier this month. Heres what the congresswoman said the president said. He was almost like joking. He said, well, i guess you knew he sign something to the fact that, he knew what he was getting into when he signed up, but i guess it hurts anyway. You know, just matteroffactly, that this is what happens. She was in tears. She was in tears. And sh