Melissa im Melissa Francis in for jenna lee. By this time tomorrow know who will join mister trump on the republican ticket with the presumptive nominee promising to reveal his running mate at 11 am eastern on friday. Jon he and his team have been meeting with indiana governor mike pence, Newt Gingrich, alabama senator Jeff Sessions, new jersey governor Chris Christie. Hes gearing up for a series of fundraisers in california before heading back to new york city for the big announcement. John roberts is live in Beverly Hills with more. John . Reporter might be, might not be. Who knows . Maybe this is an elaborate head fake to somebody we havent thought of. Could he come out tomorrow and say john kasich is my running mate . Not unlikely. Some news report regarding the Republican National convention, we now know who some of the prominent speakers are going to be. While hes not on the preliminary list that was revealed early this morning i have it on Good Authority that tim tebow, former q
Inclusion. Good day to you, im peter alexander. Weve been listening to the House Minority leader nancy pelosi as shes been speaking her first News Conference since donald trump elected as if president praising Hillary Clinton for efforts in the course of her campaign and saying its important that this country moves forward together. Right now, expecting to hear any moment from president obama alongside Angela Merkel in berlin, they will both be taking questions as well. This, of course, part of the president s final overseas trip as commander in chief. In fact, his final trip to europe as president. We will bring you that News Conference live but we do want to begin with some breaking news that weve been reporting here on msnbc. It comes from the pentagon. James clapper, the director of National Intelligence announced his resignation from his post. I submitted my letter of resignation last night which felt pretty good. I got 64 days left and i think id have a hard time with my wife wit
All of these foreign trips, one after the other, meeting with key allies, one thing hes been doing is reassuring them that he didnt think there was going to be a Trump Presidency. He described other leaders as rattled at that prospect. Well, thats not how things turned out, and so now his goal is to reassure them but in much different ways. And one of those aspects that theyve been worried about is, of course, nato. You can say given russias activities and other things going on, touching on europe, theres never been a more important time for nato since world war ii, and some of the things that were said on the trail, for example, donald trump casting doubt on whether the u. S. Would continue to defend its allies. Now the president says that when he sat down with donald trump last week, trump did express a commitment to nato. So thats one of the things president obama will use as hes speaking to these World Leaders throughout his trip. Heres part of what he said earlier today. Listen. I
President s list, but making sure that all are done in a way that respects the tax payer, but gives them the benefit they truly deserve. If 35 Million People voted illegally thats a scandal o of tof of astronomical size. Why not investigate something that is the biggest scandal in american history, 35 Million People voting illegally . Well see where we go, but right now the focus that the president has is putting americans back to work. It was a comment he made on a long standing belief. He talked a lot about banning muslims from coming from the country and extreme vetting, when can we expect action on this. When the department of state Rex Tillerson gets confirmed and other departments in Homeland Security trying to put in place access of extreme question, but the thing about the question youre asking is we are sitting here with two three cabinet with mike pompeo last night, asking whether the president s agenda is moving forward when the Senate Democrats are holding up this cabinet.
President trump is finding a new National Security adviser after Michael Flynn left that role last week. Nbc news has learned the president will have followup meetings today regarding the search. The president met with the president defending his comments about a nonexistent taerror attack in sweden. You look at what happened last night in sweden. Sweden. Who would believe this . They took in large numbers and theyre having problems like you wouldnt know. Give the public a break. The Fake News Media is trying to say that large scale immigration in sweden is working out just beautifully. Not and sweden responded, terror attacks . What has he been smoking . The president defending his remarks about sweden, even though Officials Say Nothing Happened there on friday. Reporter and white house officials have told us that the president was speaking more broadly about a general rise in violence and general concern, not any specific incident after he of course got a lot of attention for making