Page 2 - Helping Us News Today

Now as commander in chief at a war zone overseas. its not surprising because donald trump is so political, but it is unusual to see a president act that way. >> phil i rucker, douglas ol vant, big thank you to both of you gentlemen. coming up, lawmakers back on capitol hill today trying to come up with a way to reopen the government on day six of the partial shutdown. will this wrap up before the new year starts? first though, more of "time" magazines top photos of 2018. this one offering a ...

Decade. looks like that was changed. we started reporting earlier this year back in june during the family separation policy that there was more of a backup of children and customs and border protection. no immigrant, no matter their age, is supposed to stay there longer than 72 hours. but because there wasnt enough room at i.c.e. and they were being forced to taye routes into places that are not given easy access to i.c.e. facilities, there was a backup. we knew at that point there was already ...

Temporary stay. it holds off the penalties that are accruing because of noncompliance. it doesnt mean how the supreme court will rule ultimately on the merits oof it, if they even agree to take up the case. they have not even decided to hear the case. so it could be that the court of appeals is the final word on this, and that the penalties will accrue, and that the government which ever country it is from will have to do it. one of the reasons that i dont believe it is russia is because russia ...

Use them for ex-essential threats that he wants them to protect the united states at its borders against invasion, the type of traditional threats we think about and not use them all over the world on more peripheral interests. that has not been the majority opinion in washington the last several decades, but it doesnt mean thats not a legitimate point of view, although arguable. >> president trump, as you heard there also, name-dropped turkey and saudi arabia as two countries that would help re...

And were usaa members for life. ♪ get your usaa auto insurance quote today. children while in u.s. customs and border patrol custody are prompting calls for an investigation and forcing changes at the agency. now homeland security secretary kyrstin nielsen is set to travel to the u.s./mexico border this week to personally review her departments care of migrant children. that coming amid outrage following a guatemalan boys death on christmas eve. that 8-year-old was the second young migrant to ...

Your family during the holiday, be with them at work. thats does it for us on msnbc live. catch me later on "nbc nightly news." heading over to the white house. >> good morning to you. greg melvin here in new york city. were following breaking news right now. a little whiplash on wall street. the market is taking another tumble this morning. this one, though, coming a day after the dows biggest one-point point gain ever. >> too early to say if were bottoming but a lot of repair work needs to be ...

Washington helping us make some sense of this. julia, thank you. >> thanks, craig. coming up -- new clues in a mystery case tide to special counsel robert mueller. were shedding some light on what this case could be all about. jill winebanks is going to join me. before that more of "time" magazines top photos of 2018. this incredible picture from thousand oaks, california, was taken on november 9th showing a resident running from his home with literally just the clothes on his back. not even s...

Syria and his plan thats could cut afghanistan troop levels in half or pull them out all together. so whone of the big questions about this trip is how the president who show support for the troops serving in iraq, even if he didnt necessarily believe in the mission. heres what president trump had to say. >> under my administration were winning now. were not planning to lose slowly like theyve been doing for 19 years. were fighting in areas where we shouldnt be fighting, and spending hundreds of...

Picture on a very public plat form. it was clear they were navy s.e.a.l.s and team five, which everybody knows is serving in iraq. which is generally a violation off the op-sec, operational security. that said he can declassify what he wants and its not a firm and fast rule of never showing faces when theyre deployed in a war zone. craig? >> hans nichols for us. thank you for that, sir. lets bring in phil rucker, white house bureau chief of "the washington post." and an army retired officer who ...

A price and sometimes that is also a monetary price. so were not the suckers of the world. were no longer the suckers, folks. and people arent looking at us as suckers. >> douglas, fair to say that the presidents world view could be characterized as isolationist? >> certainly he has a different view of how military power is used and the quid pro quo that comes from that. previous presidents tend to see the united states as acting in its interest, even when it helps out others in their countries....