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Got what they call state tv, and they just, they give them free rein. and, ed, youve been in situations like this before, the u.s. tv pool often gets shoved aside when these dictators come in and say we want it the way we want it, and youve got nothing to say about it. but the american team fought back hard. ed: thats right. we are now at the top of the hour in the united states, six a.m. eastern time. weve been watching these historic pictures and moments at the dmz. president trump meeting dir...

Onboard. rllier today canada joined the european union and 40 plus nations around the world that grounded the max 8 planes or banned it from their airspace. joining me now is kelly odonnell, kelly? >> this was a surprise announcement from the president using a moment when the tv pool and journalists were gathered saying he spoke with all of the relevant parties and there is new information from the site of these crashes that will be part of the decision, but the cause of these crashes has not ye...

Tolerate us. so it is more important than a specific deal, anything that we bring jobs into america. >> thats sort of how it went. there are a couple of facts and points that were woven together with a lot of words. it was a wild and weird press conference. that was kanye west with president trump in the oval office this afternoon. the president and rapper expected to discuss violence in chicago, mental health and prison reform over lunch. i dont know how much of that got discussed, a lot of it ...

America, a debate that continues today because on the eve of the anniversary of that deadly clash, where is the presidents ire? its focused on nfl players protesting racial injustice in america. the president tweeted be happy, be cool, and instructed the players to stand proudly for your national anthem or be suspended without pay. this as the city of charlottesville prepares to go under a state of emergency just hours from now. joining me is nbc news kelly odonnell in new jersey where the presi...

Fix. that aint happening. >> and another example of how congress doesnt do something especially on immigration that theres a crisis happening, there were going to act on family separations until the president did the executive order. they could pass a stand alone bill, but it seems like theyve kind of forgotten about that. they talked about it a lot two weeks ago. i think if im just speculating here, this is something that the president wants to use as leverage. he wants to use this family separ...

Then you see what happened in the united kingdom. i was glad to see nikki haley, our ambassador to the united nations, take such a strong stand, together with our allies in the united kingdom, against that sort of activity. but theyre out of control, russia is, and that needs to be dealt with one way or the other. this is one way for us to discourage that. >> the president just met with the irish prime minister, and we are told that the president did respond to a question about russia from our c...

Everything that weve seen across the country this year. >> and before we get that tape rolled by the tv pool, just want to recap something reported by the associated press on the details of the rates that have been set. michael steele, follow me here. the corporate rate, 21%, not the 20% the president asked for, not the 22% some suggested to bring that deficit down. the personal rate, the top rate going from 39.6% to 37%. this is good for the wealthiest americans. and among the tax breaks, they ...

>> thank you for your service, appreciate it. keep up the great work. tomorrow. [inaudible conversations] >> we had heard the president talk about a national prayer day tomorrow, he talked about that yesterday as well from the oval office. you can see him there talking to texas governor greg abbott, we are going -- we are having a little bit of problems with the microphones, the tv pool is kept pretty far back, sometimes they dont want us to hear, thats just what the secret service does but we h...

Releasing crude oil, that helps crude oil prices, that helps bring on refineries to help them ramp back up but doesnt help the gasoline prices because the storage reserves are holding crude oil not gasoline and the crude oil has to go to refinery first before it becomes jet fuel. >> yeah, weve also watched jet fuel, update our viewers right now that the president is arriving at stadium, thats where the houston texan play. that being one of the places that they are turning into the shelter for fo...

And walked through the center where there was kids playing and set up play areas. people were asking, when are you going to release fema funds and that was folks in the crowd who were shouting, not folks with the tv pool, so its clear that folks on the ground are very concerned about when theyre going to get money and when fema is going to be able to begin doing that. also noteworthy that just now the ap putting out an alert, many houston ultra polluted super fund sites are flooded, concerns abo...