the end seven years ago we were left with something that is unsustainable, we were left with something hurting americans back home, that s hurting health care coverage and it s a binary choice, a choice of continuing down a path of affordable care act that s not working or repealing it and repairing it and moving forward in the process. i ran on that in 2009 that i was going to repeal and replace obamacare i m going to vote yes so we can repeal an start the process of of repeal and replacing obamacare. do you have a sense of other februaries of the freedom caucus if they are moving forward? i don t. the wednesday group, the friday group, i got a lot of friends on both sides of the aisle, what i m hearing is everybody has their opinion. the real problem is there are two choices either move forward and repeal this bill that everybody wants us to repeal back home and what we all ran on
or you re going to allow it just to continue. because you heard the president and i ve got to giv
believe me, is the united states of america. tucker: the president also denied allegations he pressured to fired fbi james coming to advance in an investigation of former national security advisor michael flynn. did you urge james comey in any way, shape, or form, to back to me investigation against michael flynn? no. no. next question. tucker: donald trump is a volatile president. he s impulsive, he changes course on a dime, sometimes without claiming why. he s elusive about what he really believes that he talks and tweets about himself too much, too much for his own good or for the country s good. by the way, he s not always a great manager. the white house is actually pretty chaotic right now, but not just media spin. it s real. if you voted for tom, you already know this. you probably knew it back in november when you voted for him. but what you also knew, and what has worth remembering right now, is that there are worse things than what we currently have. so, the left ba
refuse to share information about the islamic state with the united states. and official telling the post that trump revealed more information to the russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies. nbc news has not confirmed the reports about the meeting. roughly an hour ago national security adviser h.r. mcmaster emerged from the white house to offer this denial. there s nothing that the president takes more seriously than the security of the american people. this story that came out tonight as reported is false. the president and the foreign minister reviewed a range of common threats to our two countries, including threats to civil aviation. at no time at no time were intelligence sources or methods discussed and the president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known. two other senior officials who are present, including the secretary of state remember the
meeting the same way and have said that. their on the record accounts
reporter: we do know that something that president trump had been considering, what we re being told by senior administration officials the deputy attorney general was confirmed two weeks ago, he had time to look over james comey s turn your, and we have seen the letters which are essentially an indictment of the handling of hillary clinton s emails. they said they no longer had faith in comey s ability to lead the department, they took this recommendation and he drafted this letter. but there s questions about the timing of this, why this is all happening now, it s information that president trump has celebrated in the past, but it s serge not new information. the letter that the president sent to former fbi director comby. can you explain what it cede said? reporter: i want to read you the portion that i think is
particularly confusing in president trump s letter to comey, in this he s dismissing him. he said that while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate
here is the clip in question with janine pirro of fox news for an interview to air saturday. are you moving so quickly that your communications department cannot keep up with you. yes. that s true. what do we do about that? we don t have press
elliot necessary found it so hard the believe that he would have reassured the president that he is somehow not under investigation note once, and certainly not three times. let s bring our kickoff panel on the, the veteran new york times chief white house correspondent peter baker is with us, who happens to be our newly minted msnbc political analyst. vivian solana, and matthew nussbaum. good evening to you all. peter, i was watching you on live television slight after 4:00 p.m. eastern time.
micolle wallace played the clip. that i can t talk about. i won t talk about that. all i want is for comey to be honest. i m sure he will be, i hope. you reacted in real time. i m not going to talk about that. you think this is a very ser
obviously the investigators are still trying to figure out what was behind this, who the bomber is. i m told they ve identified a male as the bomber but they re still trying to learn more about him. what is most striking to you? what was the bomb made out of? because that leads you to oo lot of conclusions. this is the deadliest terror attack since july 7th, 2000 fiv 2005. and almost certainly a hydrogen puraukside bomb. because the signature of al qaeda and isis are these kinds of bombs. so where was it made? because you need a commercial refrigerator often the store the chemicals. they re very toxic if you re making these kinds of bombs, you re oftenb wearing a gas mask. there s a whole apparatus i would be looking for. we don t know if it s a hydrogen
peroxide bomb. would it be a loan wolf scenario? or how likely would that be? i m skeptical. we ve had people in this country build those bombs and kill themselves. it s difficult. you need training. i ve been in bomb making
marker. their blood type, their d.o.b., their social, in case the very worst happens. that s how dire and how broad this storm is on the coast of texas. so obviously, over these next few hours, we ll be covering this. we re a bit hampered because communications right at this point, after landfall, can often enter into a kind of dark side of the moon phase. some satellite television trucks because of rain fade and high winds lose their ability to broadcast a signal. even some satellite phones can t work. cellphone service is down along with power. so we ll bring you reporting from it from our friends at the weather channel, from our own meteorologist bill karins, when we can. now to the other news that is happening tonight. somewhat under the cover of the first natural disaster of his presidency, a category 4 hurricane making landfall in the united states, the president and
our white house stories, on the phone with us, our friend and colleague, the host of our 4:00 p.m. hour here at
i know you have other duties for the network so we ll let you go. but with eappreciate we appreciate you being with us. jonathan swan, i m sure you have more of the conversations than i do, but aides increasingly want you to one, give them credit for all the quote crazy stuff that doesn t happen. i think i have seen that in axios and other places, and two for the scripted moments which are sort of milestones that they are proud of getting him to hit. whether it s ultimately affirming the commitment to article 5, whether it s delivering a decision on afghan policy. and they want to sort of separate out judgment or responsibility from these wild, unhinged performances like last night. yes. it s doubly strange because you really have a white house at the senior level where if you take the family out of it, if you take jared and ivanka who obviously voted for their father in law and their father, if it was any other election they weren t related to him they would have voted for hilla
i love you. but, but come on, come on, buddy. jesse: fresh off that embarrassing prediction, donald trump quote hired a group of prostitutes to defile a hotel room where obama slept. it turned substitute to be fake news. february 14 the new york times flashed this so-called school. trump campaign aides had repeated contact with russian intelligence. james comey was asked about that and he said quote it was not true. he went on to say this about whether there was any obstruction of justice. did the president at any time ask you to stop the f.b.i. investigation into russian involvement in the 2016u.s. elections. not to my understanding, no. did any individual working for this administration including the justice department ask to you stop the russian investigation. no. this is the president speaking, i hope you can see your way clear to letting flynn go, you don t know anybody charged for hoping something. i don t as i sit here. jesse: it s revealed james comey was the sou
main event is now over. so that does it for us from hamburg tonight. rachel will be back on monday, and i will see you again next friday live from iraq where we will take you to the front lines for the final push to drive isis out of the city of mosul. now it s time for the last good evening, richard. thank you for all that reporting. but you go, i do want to ask you given everything, do you think putin got what he wanted out of president trump today? i think he absolutely got what he wanted. i think he came in with this intention to have a long meeting. i think he wanted to overwhelm the president, presenting him lots of options, lots of things they could discuss, put some meat on the table for them to start digging right into it and hoping this will lead to more discussions, more follow-on, and a tighter relationship. interesting. richard engel, thank you very much. absolutely. i am ari melber live in new
york for lawrence o donnell. now for months, people have been wat