issues and he s standing for the forgotten men and women and running that campaign, i think fantasticic. te nobodyly really. and it s a fantastic show tonight. sean, i ll pick up where you left off. not going too hammer again. is ingram angle fromtoain. washington tonight. the china block. that sinat the focus s of tonigs angle. will she or won t she? so who s bluffing? china or pelosi now nancy s really tough when she s waggingi her finger at trump or ripping her speech up at the state of the union. but is she tough enough toy defo bothur our pentagon handwringers and the ccp now? she has a long history of at least speaking out against the evils of china. and justbi because china is a bg economy and because we have a big relationship doesn t mean that the challenge to our conscience if we don t speak out against that in china with his own moral authority toy speak out against in any other speak out against in any other accession is simply giving china a blank checkck, failed
Now. well, eight hundred billion dollars a year. i mean, that s what their budget is . right. and here s how the white house today tried to explain biden s w stance on this trip. watch this. you can t say whetherhe the president personally would support this trip,n even in a hypothetical. no, i have not spoken to him personally. you ve heard him. i think someone and maybe someone on your team asked him a week ago last wednesday about this, particularly specifically about the speaker s travel and not going tospea go beyond t he said. no. now, this is no small issue and she s claiming that she hasn t spoken to the president about it really abo? sure. of course. i believe that you ve got a guy who is cognitive challenges. i m not sure he knows k whereno taiwan is . w why would in and he has a press- secretary doesn t know anything. so why would you think that the woman who did not know c anything and the guy who can tis remember what it is he used to
i think it already has. john: like he never imagined. always great to see you. have a great weekend. jacqui: the supreme court is expected to make a decision on the case of a virginia high school and whetherhe equity-based admissions policies is discriminatory against asian americans. john: and freakout over elon musk s intent to buy twitter. wasn t it the same folks in favor of jeff bezos buying the washington post when he was the richest in the world? what is really behind the musk meltdown. welcome him as a shareholder but not a board member. something that so what does that mean like what twitter is doing and what it stands for.
In the civilian roles in the pentagon and also at the state department. so i think there is a counterbalancing that is challenging to find at this moment. gale, thank you. patrick, good to have you. enjoy your holiday, guys. that brings us to our microsoft pulse question of the day. should the united states launch a preemptive military strike against north korea? that s the question. you can cast your vote right now, the pulse is live. it s pulse .msnbc.com. about face. wrapping up a week of presidential flip-flops. we ll talk about whetherhe president is at riskf now alienating his base. and later, a potential ecological disaster in the making. environmental groups are now protesting the president s proposed border wall. they worry that it could kill off dozens of already endangered species. the animal planet s jeff corwin will join me to talk about that.
Cooperation with russia. but i think there s a lot of question on the minds of allies here, whetherhe vice president, one voice with president trump. that is the big question going forward. and i think for the folks here, actions are going to be a lot louder than words, going forward. dara? lucy, thanks so much. let s bring in steve clemmons now. nbc contributor and editor at large at the atlantic national journal and courts. steve, thanks for being here. good morning, darra. do you think vice president pence was able to reassure the world leaders in munich in the early days of this new administration? i think he can take it to a certain degree, but fundamentally, donald trump puts the stamp on his presidency. he s the one who established the policies and we see both vice president pence in munich. we saw defense secretary jim mattis, all over at some of these european meetings, but in japan, recently, trying to send a different message that our core and key allies shouldn t