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15-0. welcome back to "early start." im dave briggs. >> and im christine romans. lets begin with the president launching an all out pr blitz to make the case for his border wall. tonight he will give a 9:00 p.m. televised address and what the white house is calling the humanitarian and national security crisis on the border with mexico. that address will be carried all the networks including cnn. the white house also announcing that the president will visit the border on thursday. the location o...

Liberty, not a big concrete wall. >> democrats stand united against the wall. how they plan to respond to the presidents address tonight. north korean dictator kim jung-un arriving in china overnight as we learn new details about a possible second summit between kim and president trump. and while you were sleeping, clemson dominating alabama for the national title. we have all the highlights. >> one of the great teams in the history of college football and they might get better, that is the ...

For the national title. we have all the late night highlights. alabama led this game early in the second quarter. all orange after that. welcome to "early start." >> it is tuesday, january 8. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. lets begin with the president launching an all-out pr blitz to make the case for his border barrier. tonight he will give a 9:00 p.m. televised address on what the white house is calling the humanitarian and national security crisis on the border. that speech will be carried on ...

Jeff, well start with you. what can we expect to hear from the president tonight? what does he hope to accomplish with this primetime address? >> reporter: president trump is going to attempt to make the case direct to the american people that there is an imminent threat brewing along the border that is best addressed, best solved by a steel barrier. hes going to make the case from the oval office for the first time. hes going to try to commandeer all of the historical residence, all of the symb...

The terrorist screening database were stopped at the southern border. six times as many were stopped up north. but nobodys pushing for a wall with canada. why is that? whats the difference? thats the question i posed to the vice president. youll be seeing more from that coming up next hour here at msnbc. >> people stay, no one leaves -- >> i want to make one quick point. which is the messaging strategy here. i cant remember the last time weve seen this kind of a pr blitz specifically from the vi...

Excellency. donald trump loves flattery, so he thinks hes in a love affair with kim jong-un, but kim jong-un is not delivering on the basic promise. thats the bottom line, but donald trump doesnt seem to care because he desperately needs some kind of foreign policy success to distract from all the troubles on the home front, whether its the government shutdown or the mueller probe, all the rest of it. both sides are desperate for a summit because both want the pr blitz. they want the propaganda ...

Rudy guiliani and the president, too, they have a long history of, you know, using new york city tabloids to do the same thing. you fight for -- you fight in the public arena. so what you cant do in the courtroom, you try and do, you know, in the court of public opinion. i think this is the case where they seem very worried about what will happen in the courtroom. >> about the real stuff. >> thats right. they cant control that, right? theyre doing what they do best, throw a pr blitz and sew enou...

Prescription ibrance >> no press conference? with an aromatase inhibitor, which is for postmenopausal women a proper president? why are we tweeting? with hormone receptor-positive >> so lets talk about -- her2- metastatic breast cancer >> i mean, most presidents would -- if you want to communicate with the public, as the first hormonal based therapy. communicate with us. ibrance plus letrozole >> right. so lets talk about sort of this was significantly more effective pr blitz and getting ahead o...

I mean there are many theories as to why mr. cohen is doing what he is doing now. what in your view is the most plausible explanation? >> i really just think its simply a pr blitz. i think michael cohen has been run through the wringer for the last several months and i think that hes had to be quiet. hes not someone who generally likes to be quiet, as some of those recordings that came out in recent weeks indicate. hes a brash, somewhat crass and can be threatening person. hes a big personality....

I dont think it will fly with the supreme court. i see the 20 page letter from the defense team as really being a hearts and minds document, trying to convince the american people of something, rather than convincing the judicial system. >> i want to be clear. we dont know, glen, the derivation of the letter in terms of who leaked it. you think it is a pr blitz, that you think it was written with that intent as opposed to defining, challenging, putting in perspective the legal authority. >> i do...