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>> mark, thank you. up next, the president announcing where else on twitter that he plans to ban transgender americans from serving in the military. it appeared to catch many in washington off guard. but was that really the case? >> senator cotton, can i get your reaction to president trumps decision to -- transgender people? >> i havent responded to the tweet. >> do you think transgender people should be banned from the military? >> we should have a hearing about it, not a tweet. underwear to...

Himself who said he did ask vladimir putin a couple of times whether or not russia meddled in the election. whats your assessment now a week later of how the president handled it based on what youve been told? >> truthfully, i think the president went in there and did actually pretty well. i think nobody expected him to bring up -- we were talking on all the shows, do you expect him to bring up election meddling? most people said no. he brought it up immediately. i think that probably would have...

Surprise and about that warning from former president or outgoing president obama to incoming president trump about just this. >> well, in fact, this was a two-stage intercontinent is ballistic missile. immediately afterwards, we were told by u.s. officials, pentagon and intelligence officials that it was a medium range ballistic missile. they did not realize immediately this was the first icbm, a two-stage missile which was capable if the trajectory were flattened out of reaching alaska at leas...

Is to have a good exchange between president trump, president putin over what they both see as the nature of this relationship between our two countries. >> andrea, excuse my bluntness. i mean no disrespect to the secretary of state. what is he talking about when he says an effort to rebuild confidence between ourselves and russia at the military level and the diplomatic level. russia hacked our election. theres no debate in this country whether thats a fact. what is he trying to say? >> he is t...

The russias intentions are in this relationship. i think thats the most important part of this meeting is to have a good exchange between president trump, president putin over what they both see as the nature of this relationship between our two countries. >> andrea, excuse my bluntness. i mean no disrespect to the secretary of state. what is he talking about when he says an effort to rebuild confidence between ourselves and russia at the military level and the diplomatic level. russia hacked ...

States that its missiles are intended to deliver nuclear weapons to strike cities in the united states, south korea and japan. and now, it has greater capacity to do so. >> thats u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley again showing just how seriously the administration takes north koreas missile launch test. andrea mitchell remains with us and getting us victor cha who just penned "the right way to play the china card on new york." and blues clingner now a north korea expert at the heritage fou...

Mechanic after the bill was released, we have people say and wrap the back, we are not in favor the bill in the current f. we knew there were issues there, and they would have to go to the table essentially to get some of that to yes. then you have some, yesterday and say, date anyone a vote on the motion to proceed, a caught g.o.p. off guard. surely, you can debate it amended, and then ultimately a vote on it by the end of the week. hopefully improve it first, but they were taken aback when at ...

Day 159 for president trump. here it is in 60 seconds. >> a surprise statement on syria catching capitol hill off guard. >> the white house is issuing a stern warning to syria citing evidence that the syrian government is preparing another deadly chemical weapons attack. >> its an uner inving statement. i dont know what information the president has. >> the goal is at this point not just to send assad a message but to send russia and iran a message. if this happens again, we are putting you on n...

Republicans or democrats all say chris wray is a top-flight lawyer. he was an incredible member of the department of justice when i worked with him. he has the respect of law enforcement, the respect of the prosecutors, the respect of the defense bar. >> with that high-level, lawmakers of both party caught off guard. mitch mcconnell issued a statement hours after the announcement but others were left searching for the response. >> did the president consult you at all on the fbis pick? >> no, he ...

Fbi is scrutinizing this meeting along with one other one as part of its larger probe into russias interference in the u.s. election. but the one right now is also on michael flynn, and according to "the washington post," during the december meeting kislyak was reportedly caught off-guard by the unusual request that an american would use russian communications gear in its embassy. its important to note, though, wolf that russians will sometimes feed false information into communication because t...