Secretary of state and cia director could face confirmation fights. I will oppose both pompeos and haspels nominations. The president needs the team around him he feels most comfortable with. Might a republican tank trumps nominees . Senators rand paul and Lindsey Graham weigh in, ahead. And charging into the storm . President trumps Attorney Says a porn star might owe them millions of dollars for violating her nondisclosure agreement. But is Stormy Daniels lawyer says his client is the one whos been violated. She was physically threatened. Might a lawsuit keep stormy silent . Hello. Im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is waiting to see who might be fired next. It was a week of highprofile firings in washington that ended with exfbi deputy director, Andrew Mccabe, getting pushed out, after fbi disciplinary officials recommended his firing for leaking and for a lack of candor during its internal investigation. Mccabe disputes this and says he was a trump target aft
Im christine romans. It is thursday, march 15th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. Eye popping comments from President Trump on trade suggesting how far he is willing to go in talks with American Allies. Two major admissions at a private fundraiser in st. Louis according to audio obtained by the washington post. He first made up facts with discussions with Justin Trudeau. Insisting he has a trade deficit with canada and admitted he did not know if that is the case. And President Trump said, Justin Trudeau is a nice guy. Good looking guy. We have no trade deficit. He is proud. I said wrong, justin, you do. I did not know. I had no idea. I said youre wrong. You know what . Were so stupid and i thought they were smart. The United States has a trade surplus with canada. The president launched an attack on close American Allies, including south korea. Accusing the country of ripping off the United States. He threatened to pull american troops in south korea if seoul does not make the concessions on t
You have to wonder if they are regretting that decision now. That does it for us tonight. Its going to be a big day tomorrow. Well see you again then. Its time for now last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, rachel am and Michael Avenatti appeared on your program this week where he previewed what happens today. Michael avenatti will be my first guest tonight taking us through what happened today and some of the accusations made against him by President Trump, Lindsey Graham and others. But, rachel, at this time tomorrow night we will be wondering if there is a republican who believes that we need to hear more or there needs to be an fbi investigation now that theyve heard this testimony. And that republican could be jeff flake. If it is jeff flake, then this whole thing stops because jeff flake is on the Judiciary Committee. They need every republican vote on that committee in order to move that confirmation out of the committee. So if they dont have jeff flake on the committee
Briefed on what the u. S. Knows about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but not by the cia director who actually heard the tape of his murder. Coming up, the insooiders viewf the former cia chief john brennan. And unopposed, Nancy P Pelosi no competition as she seeks to take the speakers chair, but will she be able to control the e e vvolving caucus . I think that the caucus is coming together very well, and we all agreed on everything all of the time, then there would not be much growth. Hi, and good morning, everybody. And goodday, rather. Andrea mitchell here with a shocking fallout of a New York Times report that Paul Manaforts lawyer has been secretly briefing President Trumps team on the talks of the federal investigators and a possible reason that mr. Mueller canceled mr. Manaforts plea deal. And could the latest twitter tirade break the senators longstanding resistance to protect the Mueller Probe . Kristen welker is joining with us the very latest. Kristen, talk about
Pressure from the investigation. It leaked. The New York Times saying trump said, i just fired the head of the fbi. He was crazy a real nut job. I face great pressure because of russia. Thats taken off. Thats not all. On that same day, mike pence was publicly denying what trump was privately telling those same putin appointees in a comment that would later be shredded by Donald Trumps own Public Statement to lester holt. What about the president s dissatisfaction with the russia probe . Did that play into this, sir . Let me be very clear, that the president s decision to accept the recommendation of the Deputy Attorney general and the attorney general to remove director comey as the head of the fbi was based solely and exclusively on his commitment to the best interests of the American People. Some statements dont age well. Tonight a year later we know that even trumps allies dont bother claiming anymore the comey firing was about a recommendation from Rod Rosenstein and jeff sessions.