Big question for the world tonight. Thanks for joining us. You can watch us any time, anywhere on cnn go. Have a good weekend. See you monday. Ac 360 begins right now. Good evening. We begin with more startling headlines from President Trump. In just a last four days, hes threatened north korea with fire and fury, said maybe that wasnt enough of a threat. Said American Forces are Locked And Loaded and late today he said even more. Appearing this morning outside his new jersey golf club, the president went before reporters. When he was over, he raised the possibility of u. S. Military action in venezuela and renews his warnings to north korea. Nobody loves a peaceful solution better than President Trump, that i can tell you. Hopefully it will all work out. But this has been going on for many years. It would have been a lot easier to solve this years ago before they were in the position that theyre in. But we will see what happens. We think that lots of good things could happen, and we
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statement, answers posed by the senate judiciary committee. in that statement she denies she had any russian ties to the government, wasn t giving anything to them. but she did say she got the impression the trump campaign thought she did have something because of the ron goldman setup of this meeting. one of the first things donald trump jr. asked her was whether she had any illegal contributions to the clinton foundation. when it was apparent she didn t have that evidence, she said the trump side lost interest and the meeting sort of petered out. don t forget, mattis and was in that meeting. he was believing he was getting critical information on his father s opponent from the russian government, andrea.
moment. i would point out that the people who have got to this moment are a lot of newcomers to washington. of course, general mattis and general kelly, you know, are well steeped in these issues rex tillerson, jared kushner, greenblat, trump s real estate lawyer, the president himself, those are the people who have been involved in making this decision. so, while it has been a thoughtful one, it s it will tell if they know exactly what they re moving towards. we should point out, tillerson and mattis, according to my reporting, our reporting here, were against the decision but it was supported by vice president pence and nikki haley. shannon, thank you very much. thanks to eamon and richard engel, of course, peter alexander and all the rest, matt bradley. that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. craig melvin picks up our live coverage right now. thank you. good afternoon to you from msnbc headquarters here in new york. craig melvin here. two important stories
he respects toughinize, people who speak their mind and president trump has been nothing like that. i don t think that the president is putting us in a strong position visa vee russia. we need to talk to him about iran, our nuclear weapons stand off. but you also have to exact a price when putin crosses the line, like hacking our election. i think it s been entirely misguided and i hope he listened to rex tillerson and mattis. i think they have a much better sense in how to deal with the russians. the president has not criticized vladimir putin but he has been going after the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell. we ll tell you what the president said with many senators rallying around mcconnell. for zero down. plus, get 4 unlimited lines for 40 bucks a month,
secretary of defense sort of following it up with i don t know if measured is the world. but coming at it from a different angle. you have a bad cop scheme going on. and to borrow the synchronization example, is the sinkiniynchronization around th national security team. he has willingness to their advantage. by having tillerson message that there is a way out of this but having mattis back up some of the president s threats, the message is meant to sort of break this log jam in north korea. everything the u.s. has tried to do over the past couple of decades hasn t stopped them from moving forward on nuclear development, nuclear weapons development. the last time we saw some sort of break in this was back in 2003 after george w. bush called