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Softening the language. nbc news is reporting that president trump does not want anyone in the trump administration to make any negative comments about vladimir putin, even when the administration takes steps to resist putin. according to nbc report, president trumps national security advisors spent months trying to get him to sign off on a plan to aid ukraine. but with the policy shift he told aides not to publically tout his decisions.

Coordination with nato on defense planning but the final language deleted the reference to lethal defensive weapons. after the convention denman told routers in 2016, jd gordon told her that he was going to speak to trump about the language and that trump campaigns team played a direct role in softening the language. nbc news is reporting that president trump does not want anyone in the trump administration to make any negative comments about vladimir putin, even when the administration takes st...

Mr. president. a member of president trumps only party from here in south florida actually wrote, such a strong message of love and new beginnings from the president on easter sunday. and then a little bit of emoji humor there. and, further, the congressional hispanic caucus putting out another message pointing out the fact that it is easter and the president is sending this message. they write, quote, on easter it is important to remember jesus, mary as immigrants and refugees sought a place to...

And you can judge that for yourself about the political implications. >> david axelrod, you wrote earlier about all of this. "you can certainly argue whether the things that the president of the united states has done is good or bad but you cant argue they havent been consequential." >> yeah. look, the fact is, this is a consequential bill. its a major rewrite of the tax law. it does greatly reduce corporate taxes. it shifts the tax code a little bit more in favor of wealthy americans. it is adv...

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Terrorist groups. some are cross-border groups. theyre also talking about the flow ofussian arms, what russian small weapons are doing to the fight. again, this is a review, this has not gone to the president for a final decision. he has some pointed questions about what the overall strategy may end up being. hallie. >> hans, stick around for a minute. i want to go to kristen at the white house. unsurprised that the president is looking at all of these options here. thats what senior administrat...

Ballistic missiles and more nuclear weapons. i think china has the capability of doing that, so the partnership with china and other countries in that region is what we have got to focus on >> as you note, president trump has seemed to follow that basic idea that china is the key, after he met with chinese president xi, an editorial in a semiofficial chinese newspaper warned that north korea, warned north korea specifically that it must rein in its nuclear ambitions or risk losing vital chinese ...

Developing these weapons is the right path forward for their country even though critics say it has led to economic hardship and isolation for the people here. the people here do want to interact with foreigners. the way they were interacting with foreigners running in a pyongyang marathon today and smiling and high fiving and talking with people and curious about the outside world that they are kept isolated from the outside world by the government that is in power here. >> colonel, any evidenc...

My job is not to represent the world. my job is to represent the united states of america. [ applause ] >> so people were waiting to see whether or not he would insert into that speech something he had told to network anchors earlier in the day. give us the background on that. >> the bottom line is he meets as is tradition for presidents on nights of the state of the union or joint addresses before congress with some national media types, including chuck todd and lester holt just yesterday. in t...

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