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>> were watching thoes votes. let them vote against us. well save a lot. we dont care. >> okay. cue the countries apparent response, please. >> bye felicia. >> joining us now, steve clemens, editor at large for the atlantic and endira lakhsman. steve, doesnt appear that 128 countries afraid of the united states having issued that kind of a threat. what does that do to the united states position now that they dont seem to be willing to enact it or stand behind it? >> you are hear the air coming o...

Welcome back. new figures reveal a drop in life expectancy in the u.s. with the opioid epidemic playing a major role. more than 63,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2016. the cdc said drug related deaths serves 21% from the previous year. 42,000 of those deaths were opioid related. mortal dity recline. third leading death after heart disease and cancer declined in 2016. >> office trump has boasted presidential achievements outweigh those of predecessors. one of the many examples, few, if any,...

Conversations with the president. a lot is going on now, but well start at the white house with nbcs hallie jackson. a lot of questions you and the press corps are hoping to ask the president before he departs in the hour, but i want to start with the ftax bill. what do we know about a signing today? >> reporter: first as i was walking out here, im told it was very likely hell be signing the tax bill before leaving for mar-a-lago. there are still questions about whether that will happen behind c...

>> neil: you talked about prior administrations, too. they all advocated, democratic and republican administrations alike, and candidates alike in the past that jerusalem is the capitol of israel and some day we should put our embassy there, whatever. they never followed up. this president did. so i understand the rage on the part of the administrations response to say, we might hold back aid to the united nations in the future. should that? >> i think that its wise on a case by case basis, espe...

Nations. in way they called the presidents bluff. were seeing in the hours after this vote the trump administration start to back away from that. just a few minutes ago at the state department, the spokesman said theres been no time decision. and haleys office says this will be one factor but not the only factor. >> trace: you know what i found more interesting, josh? you look at the run down here. you have india, russia and china voting against this. israel in recent months has kind of touted t...

That? one way to do it is to compare turkeys agenda to russias which we know was working on our politics. that clearly got tangible benefits. the positive effort in the campaign. thats a lot since russia is not typically friendly with u.s. administrations. and turkey hasnt been that friendly either. after an attempted 2016 coup, he was cracking down about only . >> reporter: at least 160 people were kill and more than 1,000 injured. the crackdown is now underway. they are now calling for the dea...

States depends on them just as much as they depend on the united states, so allowing this issue to become such a focal point of dissension between the united states and some of its best friends is a choice that prioritizes it over other issues and categories like counterterrorism cooperation, like economic cooperation and so on. look, other administrations in the past have made threats like this. i was talking the other day with someone from the reagan administration who recalled during their ti...

>> this president, at this time, with this national security team, is finally doing what people on both sides of the aisle have tried to get administrations to do. these weapons are to defend ukraine against russias aggression. >> russia hawk senator tom cotton turned it up a notch. quote, this is a break from failed obama era policy to make russia pay a cost for its aggression. with its decision, the trump administration is reminding vladamir putin that they lost the cold war and we wont tolera...

The aisle have tried to get administration to do. of these weapons are to defend your crane against russian aggression. >> tom cotton turned it up a notch saying this is a break from failed obama policy is to make russia pay a cost for its aggression, the decision, the trump administration is reminding vladimir putin and his cronies that they lost the cold war and we will not tolerate the bullying of our friend ukraine weapons have been available before and kremlin fighters in eastern ukraine, u...

Mandatory spending and were able to pass that out of the house. it didnt get through the senate. we need to go back and do this. we need to do welfare reform. the other thing that happened under the previous administrations, too, when there was tax reform done. more money come in, but an increase in spending. we have to remember theres a balance. its not one or the other. it is a balance. we have to make sure we dont, when think money comes in, start seeing this economy boom, theres a jolt that ...