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This heartbreaking impact of the Government Shutdown has now sparked a national outrage, one that washington can no longer ignore. Shouldnt we, as a body, republican, democrat, no matter who we are, shouldnt we be embarrassed about this . Shouldnt we be ashamed . Now Congress Plans to act. The house will vote today at 3 00 to reinstate the death benefits. The senate as well. The chaplain appealed to a higher power. Lord, when our federal shutdown delays payments of death benefits to the families...

Happened here is the u. S. Government is calling chinas bluff according to officials here. What they say is the chinese whenever they have been accused in the past of specific cases of economic espionage say show us the proof. So what the government has done today is they will say here it is. On this date, such and such happened. Its quite a bill of particulars against specific people in china. So the logical question is, would the chinese ever send these people here to face charges, what the go...

Going to mean different things. The conflict is going mean Something Different for the Syrian Government. It will also have an impact on the rebels trying to topple the government. Theres no doubt its going have an impact on the humanitarian situation on the ground that weve seen over the past several days worsen as thousands of people flee their homes from syria into neighboring turkey. I think the question is going to be the central question is going to be what is isis going to do next . Will ...

The 90s from page news today. Nbcs halie jackson is in new mexico where trump will be campaigning today and Kristen Welker, she will be joining us shortly. Halie, lets talk about the trumps strategy. Is this a smart strategy given the fact that certainly the ben foster suicide plan we heard him with independent swing voters. Reporter and thats the question, andrea, having a little bit of difficulty hearing you here. I think you are talking of the conspiracy of ben foster and what that could do w...

The president s announcer at inaugural parades dating back to harry truman. Hes one of my favorite people, this guy. Youre going to love him. This year the thing is the Trump Inaugural Committee went in a different direction, surprising charlie and all of his fans. More on that coming up. Lets get to business with the the business to attend on capitol hill at this hour. A pair of important hearings for trumps cabinet picks. Were talking about Steve Mnuchin for treasury secretary, rick perry up f...

Carson for housing and urban development n. A moment, we will play for you one of the more Heated Exchanges from that hearing between dr. Ben carson and senator Elizabeth Warren, democrat, of the commonwealth of massachusetts. Some highlights, though, from the other two hearings that have a military and intelligence, slash, National Security bent. The headline by one way of viewing them is that both nominees, mattis and pompeo are way out ahead of donald trump, the president elect. That is to sa...

Nbc news exclusive, the u. S. Prepared to strike first if north korea makes moves to again test a Nuclear Weapon. Something that could happen as soon as tomorrow. The Vice President is now heading to south korea. Plus, caught on tape. Two cops fired after a black man is first punched and then kicked after he was already handcuffed. The victim speaks exclusive to msnbc. Nbc. I wished this never happened to anybody. I wish this never happened to me. We begin today with our first look at the unprec...

Pentagon and the Afghan Ministry this morning. The commander of u. S. Forces in afghanistan, general John Nicholson called this the right weapon against the right target. The u. S. Coordinated with the Afghan Government on this. He also said the u. S. Forces on the ground have seen no evidence of civilian casualties. This mother of all bombs socalled was dropped in a very remote mountainous area of afghanistan. The target was a series of tunnels and caves used by isis militants. The Afghan Defen...

Lower 49 and how close they are to that. Give us sort of an assessment, does the pentagon have a timetable as to when north korea could reach that viability . That it could have a long range missal to reach the lower 49. They dont have anything firm. By the time that north korea has the ability to hit the lower 48 or the lower 49 because there are some areas where hawaii would be in range. By the time they do that, its too late. So when they think of intercepting this program, they think about i...

This was day 273 of the Trump Administration, and on this one day the president s chief of staff, retired marine four star general john kelly, did something he abhors. He talked publicly about his dead son as a gold star father, and so did a service to donald trump. Also on this day, former president george w. Bush, 43, did something he abhors. He criticized a sitting president , not by name, mind you, but the association was crystal clear. This is now the 4th day in a row we have spoken on this...