A major challenge is ahead, another partisan standoff has escalated in washington, d. C. Now despite the president s dealmaking promises. Before the year is out, congress aims to rewrite the tax code, fund the government before the december 8th deadline. Forge a daca deal for undocumented brought to the u. S. As children. Renew the Childrens Health Insurance Program and much more. Not even talking about the Foreign Policy stuff. But President Trump derailed a bipartisan meeting with a tweet yesterday, quote, saying meeting with chuck and nancy today about keeping government open and working. Problem is they want Illegal Immigrants flooding into our country unchecked, are weak on crime and want to substantially raise taxes. I dont see a deal. As a result, schumer and pelosi pulled out of the meeting. We had hoped to make progress with the administration on these issues in a meeting this afternoon. Unfortunately, this morning, instead of leading, the president tweeted a blatantly inaccur
Every background can grow up free from fear, innocent of hatred, and surrounded by love, opportunity, and hope. Today we pay solemn tribute to our heroes of the past and dedicate ourselves to building a future freedom, equality, justice, and peace. Welcome, everyone. Im alex witt at nbc World Headquarters. Were going to kristen welker. What more did the president say . Can you give us a sense who have was in in a room and reaction to the speech . The governor was here state and local leaders were here, alex, as well as those who fought in the civil rights. I can tell you that medgar evers widow was here as well as medgar evers brother who greeted the president on the tarmac when he arrived. The president used this moment to really pay tribute to all of those who made the civil rights possible, who fought, who gave or risked their lives for that movement. And he really did focus on medgar evers. This is someone obviously a civil rights leader who was killed right here in jackson. The ri
Dozens, died in the wake of Hurricane Maria. This is mtp daily, and it starts right now. Good evening im chuck todd here in washington. Welcome to a wednesday version of mtp daily. Investigators are closing in on Michael Cohen. Mull ears obstruction of justice investigation seems to be bigger than we thought. Has he actually interviewed the attorney general . And the president is prepping himself for an interview. We begin tonight with a Conspiracy Theory about the russia investigation, and the cultish nature in which they are seemingly embraced. Because if the truth will what happened doesnt matter, what does . Which brings me to last nights trump rally. They had people infiltrating our campaign. Can you imagine . Can you imagine . Do you believe the president that there was a spy planted in his campaign . Absolutely. Yeah. So you believe President Trump. Yeah. Yeah. When the president says there was a spy within his campaign do you believe him . Absolutely. Absolutely. Now, there is
On elections that will determine the control of congress. As the 11th hour gets under way on a wednesday night. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in nrk. Day 643 of the Trump Administration is 13 days out now from the midterm elections. And the president has held as of tonight his latest rally in wisconsin. As the hunt is on for whoever sent explosive devices to his political opponents. The targets are all public figures, including president barack obama, Hillary Clinton, her husband the former president. And all are frequently attacked by donald trump at his rallies and on social media. Tonight the president opened his event with this. I want to begin tonights rally by addressing the suspicious devices and packages that were mailed to current and former highranking government officials. My highest duty, as you know, as president is to keep america safe. Thats what we talk about. Thats what we do. The federal government is conducting an aggressive investigatio
Friend and Naval Academy classmate chuck larson. The ceremony is the conclusion to an extraordinary week of mourning and celebration, including eulogies from two former president s at the National Cathedral yesterday. Perhaps just as notable, the fact that the sitting president was not in attendance at mccains request. It may have been a thinly veiled shot from Meghan Mccain that caught President Trumps attention. America does not boast because she has no need to. The america of john mccain has no need to be made great again because america was always great. [ applause ] among a flurry of tweets sent out by the president during the Mccain Service was this one shortly after Meghan Mccains eulogy. It reads in all caps, make America Great again. Lets go to annapolis. Hans nichols is there. And we were seeing some pictures earlier, hans, of the motorcade making its way to your location there. And really a capstone here, isnt it, that this is a military man, this is a veteran who went throu