move forward. the idea is to put the economics before the politics. the problem is for a lot of people in this region they believe that the political and the economic solution have to go hand in hand. you cannot separate them. but that is what the white house seems to think that they can do, put the economics and the politics will follow. but as you noted, so far we aren t getting the most positive reactions. a spokesperson for the palestinian authority told us that they did not have any direct reaction yet but did note that any sort of effort to do any of this without the political reality is futile and that they did know that they were invited to a similar conference in washington last year and that they chose to stay away. we also so far do not have any sort of conflict from the israelis. but the choice of location as well in bahrain is very interesting because an israeli official has not been in bahrain for decades. it would be a very important moment to have an israeli official in
miss tierous illness. reporting dizziness and hearing problems. some reported hearing high pitched noise before getting sick. the incidents stretch to 2016. in response president trump expelled 15 cuban democrats from washington last year. cuba denies any wrongdoing. the president says his chief of staff is not leaving the white house. president trump slamming media reports about john kelly parting ways with the west wing calling it fake news. general kelly also confirming he is not going anywhere. his one year anniversary of working in the administration is july 31st. are you flying for the fourth of july buckle up and get those tables and seats in upright position. the tsa says it s possible that today could be its busiest day ever based on airline ticket sales. the agency projects to screen nearly 2.7 million passengers and crew members throughout the day. yikes. it s the end of an era for
after the people who occupied that office. spending a snow day on wednesday watching cable television and tweeting as well. as we start this thursday here at the white house, certainly meetings on the schedule that were added from yesterday s snow day. so many things hanging over this white house again today. christine and dave. jeff zeleny, thank you. the wall street journal reporting prosecutors have quietly dropped charges against the turkish president recep tayyip erdogan s security team. they were accused of beating protesters during the visit to washington last year. you remember the video? the charges were dismissed last year and others dropped last month before secretary of state rex tillerson included to offer meetings with erdogan. no one pressure prosecutors to drop the charges for political purposes. eight days after the special
we re also looking at chicago, new york, and washington, all three represented here. that means we have reporters covering the marches for us across the country. we start in washington where nbc s blayne alexander joins us. the march is shaping up to be as big as last year s potentially. how do you see it, what are the numbers? reporter: so alex, certainly nowhere near the crowd we saw this time last year. all along organizers have only been expecting a fraction of the 500,000 people that filled washington last year. but if you look over here you can tell this crowd is still a very sizable crowd, and very enthusiastic. organizers are expecting anywhere between 5 and 6,000 people to turn out today. by eyeballing it, it looks like they ve met that mark if not exceeded it. i spoke with some people who came here by bus, people who traveled from all over the country. i even talked to a group who came from as far away as
the manafort, it ought to be noted, had an apartment inside trump tower during that time so it s virtually certain that surveillance of him would have included other members of the trump campaign staff maybe trump himself in other words trump s tweet may have been right. why did the top law enforcement officer all assure us that surveillance didn t happen. that there wasn t a shred of evidence to suggest it had happened. were they lying or simply not know? neither answer is comforting. either intelligence has gone rogue officials or officials colluding with one another to lie to the public. apparently for political reasons. either way, something ominous is happening in washington last year s election terrified the. populist public. they have done everything in