While the white house withholds what, if any, evidence it has to back up that claim, republicans are working to counter a health care problem, just a little one, 24 Million Health care problems in fact. Thats the number of americans cbo says will lose their health care a decade from now under the gop plan. Joining us now this morning vice chair of the Intelligence Committee senator mark warner, plus white house budget director milk mulvaney. Andrew cuomo and the massive storm that triggered a state of emergency shut down much of the northeast. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to morning joe. Joe has the morning off. With us on set on capitol hill senior political analyst for nbc news and msnbc mark halperin, political analyst and coauthor of game changer, associate editor of the Washington Post and msnbc analyst euGene Robinson, New York Times Jeremy Peters and in new york former treasury official and economic analyst Steve Rattner. We begin with the latest on the massive storm thats br
Syrias Bashar Al Assad to go. I think it is clear to all of us that the reign of the assad family is coming to an end. I hope that what the russian government concludes is that they have aligned themselves with an unreliable partner. Vladimir putin meanwhile, does not seem open to losing his key ally in that region. Today, he raised the fake news flag, suggesting not only is syria being framed for the april 4th chemical weapons attack, but that future chemical weapons attacks could happen and also be wrongly blamed on assad. Here to talk about all of that nbcs chief White House Correspondent hallie jackson, chief Foreign Affairs correspondent andrea mitchell, again in moscow for these talks, and we have michael crawly, senior Foreign Affairs correspondent for politico and the washington posts ann gearon with me in washington. Let me start with you, because i understand you have new reporting on that syrian chemical attack. What can you tell us . Senior white house officials spoke with
Further. Thanks, mr. Chairman. Senator hatch. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Let me first say that i agree with you that there is no legitimate basis for asking the attorney general to appear before this committee. It is a hearing before the attorney general has had a chance to address this matter further, as he has now done. Skipping that basic step of fairness makes it look like this is more about publicity and partisan posturing than anything else. At least it looks that way. Responding to written questions after his hearing, the attorney general stated if the matter rose where he believed his impartiality might reasonably be questioned, he would consult with department ethic officials regarding proceeding. Now that is exactly what he did. I wish he could say the same thing about his pred sorecessor. Our like i say, this kind of double standard makes it at least look like partisan politics. Hopefully we can start depoliticizing the justice department. Now, let meur to the nomination befor
One of those wrapping up this morning but another committee in session at this hour. Democrats are using tactics to delay the process of bringing up trump and the tax returns as well as debating tanning while republicans are trying to fast track the legislation. As opposition grows to the gop plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act President Trump coming up with a back up plan. Sources inside an Oval Office Meeting say the president announced if the plan fails hell allow obamacare to fail and let democrats take the blame. Let it be a disaster because we can blame that on the dems in our room and the democrats and president obama but thats not the fair thing to do for the people. The president telling these skept car length right wing groups he is open to discussing some changes but the American Health care act like moving up the roll back of Medicaid Expansion to 2018 instead of 2020. The example also chastising them for their opposition according to sources. The president c
Trump. They have had enough along with the wall street crash yesterday. A president s credibility, they say two months into his presidency, gallup has his Approval Rating at 39 and no doubt mr. Trump considers that fake news. If he doesnt show more respect for the trunth, Many Americans will consider him to be a fake president. Willie, that is how we start the day today on one of the most gosh. One of the most explosive weeks of our lifetime away from a president ial contest. We havent talked about the confirmation hearing for judge gorsuch yesterday and get into that this morning. Director comey earlier in the week. Youre right, joe. The president has spent a lot of his Political Capital on this Health Care Bill that looks like it wont pass the house. They dont vote until tomorrow so maybe that will change. Its wednesday, march 22nd. Mika has the morning off. We are joined by the vet. Old vet. Mike barnicle and the great katty kay of bbc news america and jim vandehei and kasie hunt, a