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casualties. there has, in fact, been a surge in reported civilian casualties in the u.s. air campaign against the so-called islamic state. and under trump, a massive increase in u.s. drone strikes, more broadly, almost one every two days according to the council on u.s. foreign relations. today, tragically, marked the third time this month a u.s.-led air strike may have killed civilians or even our allies, with 18 syrian fighters alied with the u.s. killed in a coalition air strike in syria. the pentagon blamed partner forces. that news comes on the heels of last week s air strike in syria and now today the decision to launch the mother of all bombs. and we are just 84 days into the trump administration. i m joined by steve schmidt larry corb. larry, i m going to go to you first because there is a very strange donald trump relationship to the military. he claimed during the came papa that you knew more about the generals, that he was smarter about isis, now he s in office he s ....
arpaio. in the next hour, a lot more people are here. more than 10,000 people have signed up on facebook to participate in the protest. the rally begins in about two hours. right now, the police are doing a good job keeping both sides separate. the s.w.a.t. is here with rifles. gary, thank you very much. the mayor of phoenix opposed the president s visit. he is a democrat. in a recent op-ed, he accused the president of dousing racial tensions with gasoline and he fears he may be looking to light a match. i spoke to the mayor before we went on air. you called on the president not to come to phoenix. i m wondering what your concern was, is it just the possibility of the protest, certainly there are a lot of trump supporters there that want to see him tonight. i felt after the tragedy in charlottesville, which happened just a short time ago, the president failed moral leadership after charlottesville. his failure to condemn the racism and the nazis there, to have a campaign r ....
likely the influence of the new chief of staff here, retired general john kelly who has been clear, trying to send a signal there is a new sheriff in town. that he s not going to tolerate discord and some of these tweets that are off message. but will we see this over the course of time? that remains to be seen. we ve had sort of the pockets of the president being very restrained when it comes to his messaging. i think when it comes to the relationship on capitol hill and this next battle that you talk about, the challenges, not only do you have republicans, conservatives like jeff flake speaking out, obviously he s been critical of candidate trump all the way back to the campaign trail, but republicans just don t seem that afraid of him. that s why you have lisa murkowski saying i m going to vote against you in the health care fight. how does he get republicans on board to get tax reform done? the reality may be that they re looking at tax cuts, because they don t have that big, ....
nbc nationalist correspondent peter joining me now where we re expecting the greek prime minister to pull up, so we ll watch that. first of all, all the confusion. we see the president there in the doorway of the portico to the west wing entrance as the car pulls up, and we re going to see the greek prime minister. greece, of course, has been in financial turmoil. it has been part of the european union crisis financially and economically and is also right in the region where migration has been a crisis, peter. so as we see him arriving, there will be an oval office meeting, a quick photo opportunity, later another photo opportunity in the cabinet room as they have an expanded lunch. then there s going to be a news conference. but let s go to the news conference that you were a big part of yesterday, because this was the president trying to pretend there was no problem with mitch mcconnell, but importantly, you ve got new reporting on the whole issue of gold star families and ....
immigration. as you pointed out, he spent a three-day weekend in mara large reminding the president that the midterms are coming up. on top of the vocal criticism from ann coulter. we are told that the president was already frustrated that there has been a lack of progress in his view in building the border wall. all of this was exacerbated with the reports on fox news with the caravans coming. it isn t just on the immigration issue as you pointed out. it is a myriad of topics the president is touching on. amazon, nafta, mexico. some may say he has lost some of his moderating forces in the white house including hope hicks former communication director who left last week and this is the first week the president was without her by his side. even when she was here, he still went through these fits of fury. at the bottom line here is this is the president being the president. it is obviously not the first time that the president has gone after multiple groups in just one day. ....