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Such. president trump payinge a surprise visit to u.s. troops in iraq amid criticism for his decision to withdraw from syria. the continuin turmoil in the mi, threats from china and north korea. we take a look back at the foreign policy flash points of 2018 and what to expect in the year ahead. this is not a bed. its a revolution in sleep. the new sleep number 360 smart bed is on sale now during our lowest prices of the season. it senses your movement, and automatically adjusts to keep you both ...

>> this is just from october of to 17 to october 31st of 2018. if you think drugs and crimes and trafficking, sex trafficking and human trafficking are not happening, youre a fool. you dont look at reality. so when ted lou and all of these other fols say its a vanity wall, theyve never been to other international flash points where walls work. turns out the southern border is a flash point now. build it, stand by it and stand official. >> the democrats, reb, both parties agree on funding for som...

Nicolle wallace starts now. hi, everyone. its 4:00 in new york. were juggling breaking news in the special counsel investigation this afternoon. waiting on two potentially explosive reports from the mueller team today. but first, did white house counsel don mcgahn, who reportedly spent upwards of 30 hours testifying before the special counsel provide a road map detail exactly when and how donald trump obstructed justice? nbc news has learned that white house chief of staff john kelly, who is r...

Have witnessed in the nine months he served as the senior trump campaign adviser. its worth noting the timing of all this. mueller repeatedly requested delays in flynns sentencing. that was until he received testimony from trump on some of those key flashpoints. now, trump has reportedly answered questions on the trump tower meeting, owen hn business dealings in russia, on communications about wikileaks and a pro-russia platform change at the 2016 republican convention. today, we may learn how h...

That donald trump has been a lot more proactive than barack obama when it comes to russia and ukraine, he has sent to lethal weapons and advanced artillery to the ukrainians, president obama refused to do that. on the other hand he has made it very clear that he understands russia has much more direct interest then in crimea, i would be curious to hear what jennifer has to say, but i do not think that he will get much more deeply involved. >> and canceling that meeting and the g20, saying that i...

North korea, now it is going to center around defense budget. thats where you will see a lot of flash points, because you have a new defense strategy that articulates that we are going to have to focus on and to deter russia and china, but it comes at a time when you just have the $716 billion budget of one of the largest of all time, and already the president is talking about having the defense department cut by 5% when they just start to deal with the readiness issues. you have a new democrat ...

Huge trade issue, and he has signed the new nafta agreement with canada and mexico today, but usually, when the president of the united states, the leader of the free world goes to these meetings as what happened in paris when he was in paris recent recently, he did not have any bilateral meetings and he stayed in the hotel room and he did not go to the scheduled scemetery visit and not as if they are knocking down the doors to meet with the president. >> and to the emphasize that, we saw the pr...

Frustrated about their position. where i am right now, theres a railroad track and that railroad track goes into the united states and there are maybe, i dont know, 20 to 30 migrants walking back towards into mexico. just another sense of what its like here, there are helicopters all overhead as well as drones. you just hear the constant humming of helicopters. there have been reports of tear gas that were fired to disburse some of the protesters. just where im standing, there are about 40 mexic...

Flashpoints right now i think theyve felt emboldened for a while now i think that they see an america that is in general weakened on the world stage and now you have such deep fractures within the western alliance and the fact that trump and europe are at odds with each other the fact that trump is portraying europe as and in some cases an adversary of the united states which i think is is you know a complete shock to the european leaders for russia and china thats thats a godsend theyre there s...

Tonight ashley parker, philip rucker reported that president trump settled on a strategy of fear. the president has been focussed in recent days on a caravan of about 5,000 migrants traveling north across the u.s. border, a group he has darkly characterized as gang members, violent criminals, an unknown middle easterners. the approach, in many ways, seeks to recreate the 2016 playbook that lifted trump to the presidency in which cultural flash points and controversies like the specter of mass il...