President called robert costa at the Washington Post of all people and said hello, bob. And told him with no further preamble that he had pulled the kill obamacare bill. Democrats are definitely taking a victory lap tonight. There have been many, many jokes, perhaps too many jokes about the art of the deal. But the big question after a big win is how you capitalize on it and what you do next and this really was an epic political event. It made headlines not just here, it made headlines around the world. Other governments commented on this. Other countrys newspapers are leading with this. But when you think about it in terms of what happens next, i think its important not just to think about what happened today but consider what else is going on for these guys right now as this central thing collapsed for them. I mean, its not like things were going great for them anyway and then they had this one thing go wrong. Things are really this has happened, the collapse of their central policy
Were going to start with british spy stuff. If you are into british spy stuff, even spy novels and bbc cereals and that kind of stuff, you will know there is a convenient mnemonic device for us americans about british spy stuff, a convenient device to help us remember what the different british spy agencies are. They have one Domestic Intelligence agency thats mi 5. Thats the rough equivalent of fbi. They have mi 6 which is the equivalent of our cia. And theres this handy mnemonic device which is mi5 is the fbi. And mi6 is the cia. Its very handy. That said, it all falls apart when you get to the third agency which is called gchq, because that does not sound like anything. Theres no neat, easy to remember device to remind us all that the british Intelligence Agency called gchq is the equivalent of our nsa. Our National Security adviser. Theres no easy way to remember. Thats their headquarters. Kind of amazing looking building. The shape reminds you its a global vacuum for information.
From a geopolitical standpoint. The strain on the already lets call it complicated relationship between washington and moscow. A putin spokesman called this a, quote, significant blow to relations with the u. S. And here in new york, that was on public display today at the united nations. We strongly condemn the illegitimate actions by the u. S. The consequences of this for regional and International Stability could be extremely serious. It could be that russia is knowingly allowing chemical weapons to remain in syria. It could be that russia has been incompetent ten in its efforts to remove the chemical weapons. Or it could be that the assad regime is playing the russians for fools. The United States took a very measured step last night. We are prepared to do more. But we hope that will not be necessary. The Trump Administration is signaling a new round of sanctions on syria is forthcoming. There are also reports tonight the pentagon is working to determine whether russia, as you may
The white house grounds. One to view a source, one to share information from the president. Hes ignoring increasing pressure, mostly from democrats to step aside from his post. The list of law makers calling for it includes one republican, walter jones. Late today our capital hill. So youre not going to tell the committee who your source is. We never tell sources. I wouldnt expect you to do this. Youre so infatuated with sources. And youre waiting to hear back from comey before you schedule yates . Yes. We have the witnesses we want but we dont know who the democrats want to bring in. Okay. So were still waiting on them. Can you tell us who signed you in to the white house . Were not going to ever talk about any of that. House Speaker Paul Ryan resisting calls to remove chairman nunes. Here he is taking questions from our own casey hunt. Two questions, if i may. One should devin nunes recuse himself and two, do you know the source of his information . No and no. That was quick. The oth
With lawrence odonnell. There you go giving trump ideas. He might not have known he had this slush fund. Now lookhat you have done. Anybody in government who is sitting on tens of millions of dollars that isnt earmarked for anything that they dont have to answer for but that they can control without anybody knowing . Thats always the first chapter of a book that ends with something very bad. Well, and you have written that first chapter force, rachel. Sorry. As usual. Sorry. Thanks, lawrence. Appreciate it. Lisa bloom is known as the woman who drove bill oreilly out of fox news. Many women drove bill oreilly out, including of course the women who brought sexual charges against him. Wendy walsh drove bill oreilly out because she was one of the few women who could tell her story publicly because she had not entered a legal settlement with bill oreilly in which oreilly purchased her silence for millions of dollars. Wendy walsh was guided in telling her story first to the New York Times, a