look at her history. in another way, she s a weak person. she s actually not strong enough to be president. let s turn to the democratic nominee hillary clinton. she is off the trail this weekend, but her campaign working overtime to try to find the right answers surrounding the former secretary of state s use of a private e-mail server and we re also ringing the summer games officially under way. we ll take you there live as the world tunes in for the 2016 olympics. back mehere in new york city, we ll start with donald trump it s been a week of bad poll numbers and divisions. trump trying to heal some of those wounds in wisconsin last night endorsing key republicans this there. in our shared mission to make america great again, i support and endorse our speaker of the house, paul ryan. i hold in the highest esteem senator john mccain. and i fully support and endorse his reelection. very important. i also fully support and endorse senator kelly ayotte of new hampshire. trump
downgrade from there. we re very much focused on identifying those who are still missing. locating those who have suffered a loss inside who are ceas. msnbc scott cohen is live on the scene in oakland for us. scott, what have you seen within the last hour of what they re doing? reporter: they are continuing now to go through the building and trying to essentially find the dead, and identify them. we do know now that this build hag a history, and it s a recent history. as late as november 14th, a housing habitability complaint filed with the oakland department of building and planning for what s called and illegal interior building structure and the day before, a ton of garbage piling up on the property. items left on the sidewalk. the change causes our neighborhood to look bad and creates a health issue. we don t know the status of those complaints and investigations and don t know at this point whether that has anything to do with this devastating fire overnight that k
lines being drawn inside trump s inner circle. the battle for power between kushner, priebus and bannon. there s new word that trump stepped in to calm tensions over the west wing. police hunting for a suspect who allegedly stole a number o guns and mailed president trump an anti-government manifesto. thers much more we ll dive into. breaking news overnight. attacks on palm sunday. powerful blasts taking place at two churches leaving more than three dozen killed and 200 wounded in egypt. the other big story we re following involving the u.s. navy where a strike group including aircraft carrier carl vincent is heading to the korean peninsula. the ships will provide a show of presence in that region. now since march north korea has twice carried out ballistic missile tests in defiance of u.n. resolutions. nbc s janice fryer joins us. let s talk about the allies in this region. are they on board and are they taking into consideration how this might be affected and interprete
and an hour of emergency rescues from the sky, thousands now saved from rising waters p. we were so happy, like god has answered our prayers. and the president s speech short on details, long on promises. president trump starting a tax reform ball rolling in missouri and makes it clear who he s going to blame if it doesn t go through. i don t want to be disappointed by congress. do you understand me? we begin with the catastrophic devastations of harvey down in texas. far, far down in southern texas where we are talking about scores of dramatic rescues taking place amid fierce flooding and a new threat with explosions at a chemical plant just outside houston. here s the latest. texas authorities say 28 people have died including a houston family of six whose van was swept away in the floodwaters. more than 32,000 people remain in shelters. nearly 210,000 people have registered with fema for assistance. in the meantime, the military says two navy ships and nearly 700 m
escalating war on the press. i don t always agree and like what you guys write, but you have a right to do it. finally, president trump uses the power of the pen to rewrite the rules of health care. what does it mean for you? this is mtp daily and it starts right flou. now. good thursday evening, and welcome to mtp daily. i m chuck todd here in washington. a town we re just simply calling game five tonight. anyway, a hallmark of the trump white house is its cyclical movements around major developments. several times in this short administration s history where negative stories have cast a cloud of turmoil over the entire workings of the west wing. there was the removal of michael flynn, firing of james comey, the president s official comments after the charlottesville protest among others. it s often not just the story itself that makes news that impacts the west wing but how the president himself reacts to the media firestorm of that story. and then that media fire