national security concerns. four top leaders inside the pentagon are now out. they have been replaced by trump loyalists, including a retired general who once referred to former president obama as a terrorist. all of this is happening as the nation is continuing to be ravaged by the coronavirus. the country is breaking yet another record for daily cases with more than 136,000 reported just yesterday. hospitalizations are also at a record high, yet we are seeing no leadership from this current administration. let s go straight to the white house to our correspondent there, kaitlan collins. kaitlan, what are you hearing about what s going on from the administration? reporter: well, publicly, brooke, they are still pushing forward with this move to contest the election. they are meeting with the president s advisers again today after meeting with him yesterday to discuss going forward. you see the president is responding on twitter, but publicly we only heard from the presiden
almost everyone in power claims to believe it. the push to war in syria, by the way has united politicians have both sides. lindsey graham and howard dean typically agree on very little. not much at all. but today they are both calling for war in syria. graham is ghanelding massive attacks on the syrian military, dean is going even further than that on twitter, he called the president, quote: a wimp for merely sending thousands of troops and launching tons of bombs at syria. that s not enough for howard dean who you may remember once ran for president as the peace candidate. tonight he wants total war in syria. television pundits, of course, strongly agree. this morning the foreign policy team over on msnbc exexplained that it s far more important for american troops to fight in syria than it is to secure our own border here in america u watch. there is no question that now all these years later is donald trump s challenge. he has to take action. he has spoken to macron. what he
gulf. bara starr reporting tonight. the u.s. baton is heading to the gulf with 1,000 marines on board and armed american drones are flying over baghdad as human rights watch releases an image of what the terrorist group isis is capable of. two mass graves of iraqi soldiers, police and civilians killed by militants. barbara what are they being sent to do? we were told a few hundred advisers and now 1,000 marines. we are here every night talking about more and more fire power. 1,000 marines on board the uss baton headed to the persian gulf. now there is no word that the president is ordering air strikes or anything like that. but this just simply puts more fire power and boots in the region if they are needed. these 1,000 marines will join 2,000 marines already in the persian gulf area. seven warships already there. dozens of war planes and helicopters up and down the persian gulf. things are clearly being put into place if it gets worse. from was to be an order for air strik
claims to believe it. the push to war in syria, by the way, has united politicians from both sides. lindsey graham and howard dean typically agree on very little. not much at all. but today they are both calling for war in syria. graham is demanding massive attacks on the syrian military, dean is going even further than that. on twitter, he called the president a wimp for merely sending thousands of troops and launching tons of bombs at syria. that s not enough for howard dean, who you may remember once ran for president as the peace candidate. tonight he wants total war in syria. television pundits, of course, strongly agree. this morning, the foreign policy team over on msnbc explained that it s far more important for american troops to fight in syria than it is to secure our ownyr border here in america. watch. there is no question that now, all these years later, is donald trump s challenge. he has to take action. he has spoken to macron. what he ought to do is a co
suddenly it s ominous, it sounds more like a threat than a question. what s the point of asking that, since when is criticizing fbi officials ag crime in this country? apparently since robert mueller became special counsel. according to the new york times that s more than 40 questions he plans to ask the question under penalty of perjury. another one, what was your opinion of mr. comey during the transition? your opinion?si whose business is that? aren t americans allowed to have any opinion they want without being grilled by law enforcement about it? then there s this question, what is the purpose of the july 2017 criticism of mr. sessions? criticism of a government official reigned as a crime as if dissenting views aren t allowed or must be justified to a prosecutor. what country is this anyway? the president is allowed to have anyone he wants, of anyone who works for him, they get to hire or fire appointees. this is aot democracy, donald trump got elected, robert muelle
incumbency comes with a lot ofio benefits. you ve got the plane, the organization, the record, a war chest and his organization like his never had before. i think i would make about three things. number one, keep the economy hot, as hot as possible. he s got to figure out a way to maybe moderate the things that could hurt it, such as the trade work, trying to land that deal with the chinese, avoid a debt default crisis, already trying to work then out into the extent he possibly can if the democrats areha willing, when they do that one bill they will get through this year, infrastructure, try to do the intro you have ability to move things forward. second thing i would do is to find the democrats. he was very good at defining all of the republicans that he a ran against in the 2015 and 2016 primary. now he has to do that to the democrat. voters dislike hillary a lot more than they love donald trump. now as you can see at this rally there s a lot of people that love donald tru
investigations are a search for facts, anyone who stands in their way obstructs the truth itself. that is why we spend more than two for years looking into the question of whether or not donald trump worked secretly as an agent of vladimir putin. there was no evidence he did that, as you well know, we got the investigation. in the end, the investigation cleared donald trump of claims he colluded withtr russia. it also does something else, it implicated quite a few other people for unrelated crimes. we learned that quite a few senior law enforcement and intelligence officials think nothing of lying tont the publi, really lying to the public, or abusing their tremendous powers for political ends. they did that, we now know that. we also know the obama administration was perfectlyig willing to spy on political opponents in the middle of a presidential campaign. it did that too. these are not small revelations. nothing like them has happened in recent american history. so it woul
facts. anyone who stands in their way obstructs the truth itself. that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we send more than two full year is looking into the question of whether or not donald trump worked secretly as an agent of vladimir putin. it was never any evidence that he did that but haley clinton s campaign demanded a thorough investigation and as you well know, we got that investigation. in the end, the investigation and effect clear donald trump of claims that he colluded with russia but it also inadvertently indicated quite a few other people for unrelated crimes. we learn, for example, that quite a few senior law enforcement and intelligence officials think nothing of lying to the public. really lying to the public or of abusing their tremendous powersr political ends, we did that, we now know that. we also know the obama administration was perfectly willing to spy on clinical opponents in the middle of a presidential campaign. it did that come too. these are not small
[cheers and applause] and the last administration with biden and obama at the helm. [boos] they tried to pass the worst trade deal ever proposed. the trans-pacificwo partnership. you could have kissed many of your industries goodbye. tpp would have gutted the american auto industry. it would have been even worse than nafta. and we know how bad nafta was. all you have to do, is even to this day, look at around at all those empty plants were people moved down and companies moved down to mexico. not under the usmca. we have to get nancy pelosi to put it up for a vote. make it bipartisan. she will have tremendous democrat n support. the farmers want it, the unions want it, the manufacturers wanted to, and by the way, 600,000 manufacturing jobs in this country. remember? you would need a magic wand, you can t do that anymore. well, we did it. but we have to get usmca put up for a vote by the u democrats.r but in my first week in office, i proudly withdrew from that job-destroying
whatever you think of donald trump, he s admitting this and trying to fix it. for once americans are coming home from the middle east rather than staying forever and we ought to be celebrating that. across the country, people are. but in washington, people are apoplectic. they are telling us we aren t allowed to leave syria. it s immoral, they say. it s a betrayal. not a betrayal of americans, that wouldn t be a problem here in washington. it happens here every day. no, it s much worse than that. it s a betrayal of the ethnic group in the mountainous parts of southwest asia called the kurds. what exactly do these people know on tv know about kurds? nothing, really. it d be shopping if anybody at msnbc had ever met a kurd. suddenly everyone today everyone s washington teams outrage on their behalf. it psychotic. essentially you can go to the slaughter at the hands of turkey. i wash my hands of it. what is the message to abandoning the syrian kurds who fought so valiantly f