Inclusion. Good day to you, im peter alexander. Weve been listening to the House Minority leader nancy pelosi as shes been speaking her first News Conference since donald trump elected as if president praising Hillary Clinton for efforts in the course of her campaign and saying its important that this country moves forward together. Right now, expecting to hear any moment from president obama alongside Angela Merkel in berlin, they will both be taking questions as well. This, of course, part of the president s final overseas trip as commander in chief. In fact, his final trip to europe as president. We will bring you that News Conference live but we do want to begin with some breaking news that weve been reporting here on msnbc. It comes from the pentagon. James clapper, the director of National Intelligence announced his resignation from his post. I submitted my letter of resignation last night which felt pretty good. I got 64 days left and i think id have a hard time with my wife wit
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in that incoming administration. kristen? kasie hunt, great stuff there and great getting that question to him. he did not directly answer but something to chew. you re absolutely right talking about the military and economy will be among the first priorities. thanks so much. in just moments from now, president obama will hold his final joint press conference with german chancellor angela merkel. the two leaders had a close relationship with germany being a top trading partner, a key nato ally and home to thousands of american troops. emphasize the need for a message that runs counter to many of donald trump s foreign policy pledges, of course. chris jansing joining us live in berlin and tracking this whole trip. i know you had a chance to sit down with susan reiss. tell us what she said and particularly given the context of some of the policy differences that the current administration has with the incoming trump administration.
reporter: i think you cannot almost overemphasize the things at stake here. trade, just came from greece. the financial crisis there. climate change, very big. all of that wrapped up into a trip that was supposed to be very different. it was supposed to be the farewell to europe but as susan reiss put it, his national security advisor, intensively in talks about how this all is going to move forward. it s very rare for someone in her position who s always by the president s side to have time to sit down in the midst of one of these trips to talk but we did, including about one of those other key issues, syria. take a listen. donald trump has voiced support for russia s intervention and suggested working with assad against isis and president assad himself said that trump could be a natural ally in the fight against isis. are we looking at a fundamental shift in long standing u.s. policy there?
transatlantic relations right now. what was the message delivered in that sort of shared statement? in effect, a rebuttal from merkel and president obama to donald trump? reporter: i mean, obviously, they have this world view that they share. they want the world to know where they stand. i think, nato, a strong support for nato is important. donald trump has talked about how many countries don t pay their fair share into nato. i think this was really trying in many ways to refocus attention on the issues at hand. i talked a little earlier, peter, to the national security advisor, susan reiss. a lot this was going to be in some part a fun trip for them, a place where the president had 200,000 people screaming for him when he first visited berlin in 2008 but instead talked about the intensive meetings going on, peter. chris jansing, traveling with the president in berlin. thank you very much. outstanding reporting over the course of the last 72 hours.