compared hitler to bashar al assad. is that enough to stop calls for him being fired? in the driver's seat. my one on one sit down with ford's ceo mark fields. his message to the president and his vision for the future of the auto industry. good morning, everybody. i'm ali velshi at msnbc headquarters in new york. rex tillerson and sergey lavrov have ended a high stakes meeting in moscow. the two are scheduled to emerge at the top of the next hour and hold a news conference. we know that there has been tense talk over syria. today's meeting comes on the heels of a newly declassified white house intelligence report that accuses russia of helping cover up that chemical attack in syria last week. president vladimir putin saying in an interview today, quote, where's the proof of syrian forces using chemical weapons?
there is none. end quote. putin also says relations with the u.s. have, quote, degraded since president trump took office. president trump had his own criticisms of vladimir putin. in an interview this morning on "fox business." >> frankly, putin is backing a person that's truly an evil person. and i think it is very bad for russia. i think it is very bad for mankind. it is very bad for this world. frankly, if russia didn't go in and back this animal, you wouldn't have a problem right now. he was going to be overthrown. >> we have all this covered with our nbc news correspondents in moscow and at the white house. let's begin with nbc news chief global correspondent bill neely, live in moscow. bill, what can you tell us about this meeting between secretary of state tillerson and his russian counterpart foreign minister lavrov? >> good morning, ali.
approaches may be different. >> listen to the word tactical. i don't think rex tillerson went into that meeting banging a table, giving an ultimatum to russia, that it should give up its relationship with president assad. but he will be saying, look, tactically, you can be with assad in syria, but strategically, is that a great place to be, in terms of your global position in the way the world looks at you? as i say, we'll get a read oout from a news conference to be decided. >> we'll stick close to you. interesting to point out that issue, that rex tillerson putting on the table that perhaps there can be tactical differences but strategic alignment. bill neely for us in moscow. let's go to peter alexander at the white house. peter, it has been a busy 24 hours for you. >> yeah. >> what more can you tell us about -- let's start with the declassified report that accuses russia of helping cover up the chemical weapons attack in
deflecting blame from russia. the simplest of terms beyond that, they said this was a unique opportunity for russia, ali. in their words, they said, this was their chance to stop their disinformation campaign. >> peter, we're going to come back to you in a little while because we have several stories happening, and you've been on top of the story with sean spicer and his apology for remarks he made at the white house press conference. don't go too far from your camera. back to the issue of international affairs, secretary of state rex tillerson is meeting with his russian counterpart and it comes as the white house faces brand-new questions about the trump campaign's ties to russia. the "washington post" is reporting the fbi obtained a fisa warrant to monitor trump adviser carter page. i'm joined by one of the journalists behind the reporting. "washington post" national security reporter, adam. thank you so much for being with us. let's just talk about this for a second. what is your understanding from your reporting of what led the
fbi to request a fisa warrant in the first place, as it relates to carter page? >> right. we know that donald trump, when he was a candidate, named page as one of his foreign policy advisers in march 2016. page has spent time in moscow. there's been new documents that came to light. buzzfeed broke the story a couple weeks ago that page had engaged -- had been in contact with a russian intelligence officer who he apparently thought was a diplomat back in 2013 timeframe. so what was happening is, you know, as the fbi and other intelligence agencies were seeing that the russians were intervening in the summer of 2016, in the presidential race, they were trying to get a handle on what are the relationships between members of potentially this new administration's team, in this case, carter page, and the russians? so as you probably know, a fisa
requires they basically have, you know, cause for believing that there is this connection. so they had to provide evidence of suspicions of those connections to the fisa court judges, who then have to decide whether or not to issue this warrant. >> so if a viewer is watching tv today, they are hearing some people say, wow, you just never get a fisa warrant unless there was something really serious involved. we're hearing this from members of congress today. then other people say, actually, it is a secret urt. we don't really know what would lead to a warrant. do you have any sense of, you know, whether there's wrongdoing involved? what we do know is this isn't i -- this fisa warrant is to collect information on carter page. >> it is a fisa warrant to monitor carter page. in order to get the warrant, they need to provide evidence of their suspicions he was acting as a foreign agent for russia.
sort of, you know, helping russia behind the scenes. so there could be that there was an incidental connection that involved carter page. we don't know what was in the application that the fbi and justice department brought to the fisa court in order to get this. but, you know, clearly, i think it is important to keep in mind that a parent is not conclusive proof of anything. there are plenty of warrants that are issued to monitor people that, in the end, it shows there was a lot of smoke and no fire. so i do think it is important to keep in mind and not to get ahead of ourselves here. >> on that note, i want to read a statement that carter page gave us at nbc news. here's the part of it that is relevant. there had been prior reports, but i was so happy to hear that further confirmation is now being revealed. it shows how low the clt clinton/obama regime went to destroy o democracy and
depress distants who didn't agree with their failed foreign policy. is this idea that carter page had a fisa warrant in some way connect to or validate donald tru trump's discussions about trump tower being wiretapped? if carter page was the subject of a warrant, there could have been other collection because he was talking to people of the trump campaign. >> obviously, i think there is a -- you know, this is not something that, as far as i know, is brought by white house officials or anybody else. this is a decision -- seeking a fisa warrant is something decided by a judge who, you know -- and that judge is, at least as far as i know, not under political pressure from the administration. in this case, the obama administration. i realize that the way he is responding to this news, maybe it is the way other people might also choose to try to perceive
this. certainly, based on everything i know about how the fisa court operates, you know, this is not something that is even briefed to members of the white house before a fisa is brought. this is the kind of thing that is very closely held within the fbi and within the justice department and shared with some officials in the intelligence community as part of the process. >> adam, we're always smarter for talking to you. thank you for joining us. always a pleasant. >> thank you. i'm joined now by two special guests. angela stent is director of the center for eurasian, russian and eastern studies at georgetown. 2004 to06, she was national intelligence offic for russia and yraa at the national intelligence council. her latest book, u.s./russian relations in the 21st century. also joining us, military analyst kevin. he is also the executive editor of the website, defense one, which provides news and analysis
on defense and national security matters. these two know a lot about these topics. thank you for joining me. angela, i'll start with you. often times when there is a major diplomatic meeting like the one today between secretary of state tillerson and his russian counterpart and maybe vladimir putin, it is set up so there can be obvious accomplishments to come out of the meeting. as bill neely reported at the top of the show, that doesn't seem to be the case today. >> no, i don't think anyone had those kind of expectations going into this meeting. i think when it was conceived and announced, before the chemical weapons attacks and the bombings in syria, it was an attempt to normalize relations, since relations at the end of the obama administration with russia were really so bad. so i think the agenda -- there was no designed agenda that they knew they were going to come out with a statement that everyone was going to agree to. this is really exploratory. obviously, what you saw was the discussions of what the soviets
called frank and business like. that is to say, very tough talks. i think at the minimum, they can come out and jointly agree that they need to find a solution to what's happening in syria. that would already be an accomplishment. we don't know whether that's going to happen. >> yeah, we're not sure we're talking about getting that done. let alone finding achievements on that. kevin, it seems the big demand today by secretary of state tillerson will be that russia end its support of the assad regime. i can't imagine there are many chances of that, but does he have any leverage at all? >> well, the leverage, i think, is the u.s. military presence in syria. inching toward the end of the isis war, which i think just becomes an inching closer to the final, you know, what's going to happen with assad and the rest of syria. and that's, i think, a peculiar point. just yesterday, the pentagon took great pains to say once again, despite last week's air strike, the isis war is separate from assad, separate from the
syrian civil war. but within hours, by the end of the day, john mccain and lindsey graham put out a joint statement saying the time has come to end the bifurcation. that those two cannot be -- they're inklinked. because iran backs assad, and as long as assad is slaughtering the syrian civilians, the civilians have no chance of defeating isis or a resolution for a greater syria against assad. >> interesting point you make, kevin. angela, i'd like your take on this. people like to draw this distinction. that we're fighting isis, and isis poses a threat to the rest of the world. the assad regime doesn't. and that's a civil war. the united nations takes that view, by the way, and hence, doesn't do anything about bashar al assad, as well. do you agree with kevin's take, that maybe we shouldn't be -- maybe we shouldn't be drawing such a clear li? that's john mccain's take. >>ohn mccain's take that kin has given us. >> well, you know, why does isis
have support in syria? what assad has done to his own population and the past years have fueled recruits for islamic state. therefore, you can't draw a distinction between them. the russians do. they're not interested in fighting islamic state. they're interested in keeping bashar al assad in power and consistently deny any connection between what he's done and the growth of isis. so, you know, i think you can't say these things aren't connected. >> and kevin, i want to be clear, you were conveying that it is john mccain's take. you agree that these lines don't make sense? >> well, it's not that i agree or not. i think anyone can see them starting to come together. again, isis just loses territory, raqqah is waiting on the horizon. what then? we've written a lot about this. everyone keeps saying, what then? what's supposed to happen next is a non-military path to peace. something that brings everybody to the table.
i even asked secretary mattis yesterday at the pentagon, where's the new counterisis plan we were supposed to get, that trump demanded in 60 days? it hasn't come. they both put brakes on that to say, look, this is going to take time. tillerson, two weeks ago, had the meeting in washington with all the other foreign ministers of the counter-isis group. they have to find a way to peace. those -- you can separate them on the battlefield. the pentagon and the u.s. military can say, we are not at war with the syrian government. we are fighting isis in syria. but the rest of the government, the rest of the world, sees through that to know the entire conflict has to end somehow. >> i wish i could talk to you guys for an hour. i hope you come back. this is an important conversation. >> any time. >> thank you very much for your contributions. kevin is the executive editor of defense one and angela is the director of the russians, eurasian studies at geortown. sean spicer apologizes for
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there's no other way to say it. i got into a topic that i shouldn't have, and i screwed up. >> the whiteouse pre secretary sean spicer, as if we have to introduce him. he must be the most well-known white house press secretary in the world. apologizing again and again for his comments yesterday, comparing bashar al assad to hitler. here it is. >> he used chemical weapons in world war ii. you know, you had a -- you know, someone as despicable as hitler who didn't use chemical weapons. >> he tried to clarify his comments, even to peter alexander, who joins us again live from the white house. there's a lot of backlash for the comments. i remember it was happening in real time as he said them. add he tried several times in the press conference to clarify his remarks. almost making them worse every
time he did it. then there were calls for sean spicer to be fired. he apologized. you were one of the people to whom he presented his apology on camera. what are you hearing now? >> i think what's striking more than anything in this episode, ali, is the fact an apology from this white house isn't just rare, it is almost unheard of. the fact he came out as soon as he did and did publicly apologize on cable television, apologized in a conversation that we had, interview with nbc news, as well, and again as part of the apology tour. he did it this morning with our colleague. in effect, saying, it was a mistake. he's sorry. that he let the president down. that there is no comparing atrocities. what is striking to a lot of people, including myself, is how subdued and perhaps even humbled sean appeared on this day. he said, among other things, the fact this is happening during such a holy week with the jewish holiday of passover right now, with easter coming up this weekend, that he said he himself even felt pained by what he had done. the words he had used and the
harm they had caused. during our conversation yesterday, i asked him, specifically, about this comparison between bashar al assad and adolph hitler. here's what of what he said. >> well aware of what he did. but, again, it was a distinction that didn't need to get made. they both did horrendous, heinous things to innocent people. to make any comparison is regrettable and a mistake. >> i asked him specifically if the president had asked him to apologize. he said the answer was no. ali, at the end of the day, it is more than this one instance. it is a broader question about the credibility of spicer and ultimately the white house that's at play here. remember, a matter of days ago, he said the u.s. would be prepared to strike if syria used chemical weapons or barrel bombs. if that was the case, it'd be a dramatic escalation of the u.s. involvement in syria. he clarified and said there was no change in the u.s. policy. >> they've been using barrel bombs for years on their own people. sean seemed to do the right thing by apologizing and
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counterpart, sergey lavrov which a parent apparently didn't go all tt well. took three hours. what do you make of this? >> i'm pleased that putin is meeting with rex tillerson, but it's going to be an interesting discussion. because the trump administration has no strategy in syria. you have nikki haley saying we want regime change. secretary tillerson saying we need the people of syria to decide if bashar should stay in power. and then others are saying the policy hasn't changed. it is not clear what discussion this is going to be with putin on syria when the white house doesn't have its story straight. >> at some point, if there is force involved, this happened in 2003, you and your fellow members of congress are going to have to be involved in this. so you must have thought this through to some degree. what in your opinion is a strategy that we should be employing in syria with regard to the refugees, with regard to what assad does to his own people, with regard to russia and iran, strategic interest
there, and with regard to isis? >> if donald trump truly cares about the beautiful babies of syria, he wouldn't ban them from entering the united states as refugees. we need to absolutely make sure that refugees, children, women, senior citizens fleeing is syria need to be able to come to the united states for safe haven. he also needs to come to the united states, the president, and seek authority from congress before more action in syria. that's where the constitution stands. >> last time obama tried that, congress didn't authorize use of force in syria in 2013. >> that's because in a democracy, congress under the constitution is vested with the war making powers and the people through their elected represents, decided that syria was not a critical national security interest. i have yet to see donald trump describe to the american people why we are engaged in a civil
war halfway around the world. if donald trump can make the case, he can get the authorization. >> what's your view of it though? if it is seen as a civil war, a view the united nations takes, does the world and -- or the united states not have a role that involves a military in a place like syria? >> the united states has been at endless war for over a quarter of a century. i think the american people don't want to send in ground troops to syria. if you don't have that option, really, you need to resort to diplomacy. i hope there is a peaceful resolution of all the countries involved. i think sending in a massive number of ground troops would be a very bad idea. >> quick question. would you support military action in syria if it did not involve ground troops? we have some ground troops in there already but if it didn't involve fundamentally ground troops? >> as a veteran, i know we have an awesome military, but it is really stupid to use military force without a strategy. i could support the use of force, but the president needs to come forward with a strategy first. >> representative, good to talk
to you. good to join us. >> thank you. up next, my interview with ford's ceo mark fields. and i'll speak live with steve rack ner. are we seeing a trump bump in the economy? ♪
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three auto makers, he's come under pressure from president trump, tweets and all, to keep american jobs in the united states. in january, the president tweeted, quote, thank you to ford for scrapping a new plant in mexico and creating 700 new jobs in the united states. this is just the beginning. much more to follow. this morning, i asked fields how all that pressure factors into the decision that ford -- decisions that ford is making now. >> as a business, we're always looking at the business environment. we make investment decisions based on what's right for the business, but also being cognisant of, you know, what's the tax policy, what's the trade policy, so we can maximize the returns for our shareholders while bringing great products and services to our customers. >> the president called on you and other manufacturing ceos in what he calls listening visits to try and establish what it is you most want. what's the message from you and others to the president about what you most need to continue to prosper and keep jobs here?
>> from our standpoint, first, free and fair trade agreements. that'll help export even more for the united ates. comprehensive tax reform. we do have a tax -- corporate tax rate here, this is uncompetitive versus the rest of the developed world. we feel it needs to be addressed. regulatory certainty. again, we make long lead investments, so the investments we're making now really anow us for products coming out three, four, five years in the future. having the regulatory certainty is important. >> for instance, under the obama administration, fuel efficiency standards increased. now, they have been lowered under this administration. do you all sit around and say, oh, now we don't have to make cars at that level of fuel efficiency, or are you worried there will be another administration that may increase them? >> as our standpoint as a company, we are committed to improve fuel efficiency, both
for customers and the environment. and we're making big investments in lelectrification, 13 new electrified products. as a company, our sustainability strategy is not just about reducing ce 2 emissie ining co2 reducing fuel company. though the president is asking to reinstate the midterm review, which was the agreement back when we agreed to the fuel economy requirements in 2011, that's not going to change how we invest in the business going forward. you have to look at not only the regulatory environment but customer requirements. be obsessed over the customers. our customers are telling us around the world they want better fuel economy and our approach as a business is, let's have our vehicles will as easy on the planet as possible. >> one of the things you're working on is that you just came back from china and realize the world is an urban place.
america is slightly less urban and urbanizing less slowly than the rest of the world. you see your future in cities. cities need different things. they don'tctually need people buying as many cars as we all did. you have a strategyround the shared economy and reducing the number of cars on the road. tell me a little about this. >> our strategy overall is to, i'd call it, fortifying the profit pillars, trucks, suvs, our performance cars. transforming the underperforming parts of the business and emerging in the mobility, elek triificati -- electrification. we're seeing the growth of megacities. 10 million sort more people. there will be 40 of them in the next 15 years. there's maybe 28 today. more people. the issues of pollution and just changing consumer habits around not only owning but owning and sharing. so we're looking at that as a business and saying, what does that mean for us?
so we love our core business of, you know, designing, developing and selling great truck trucks,e also see a huge opportunity in this area of mobility, almost the monetization of the usage of our products. and so we're going to cities these days and we're asking them, what are your transportation and mobility issues? and what assets can we bring as a company to help that? what that will do for us is, yes, it could mean less vehicles in cities, but it could open up new business opportunities for us in terms of a dynamic shuttle, autonomous vehicles, that we currently don't have today. you end up solving a solution for a city because cities want to solve -- they want better flow in their cities, but they also want less congestion and less pollution. we help solve that by putting more, for example, dynamic shuttles on the street, which take 25 cars off the road for every one shuttle. then it also offers us a
business opportunity to grow. >> you're here because you're launching a new product. you have the ford lincoln navigator. >> yup. >> tell me about this vehicle. we've all known the navigator for a while, but you've had a lot of success with the lincoln brand. >> mm-hmm. we have a lotincoln brand. we've grown it a l the last four years. grew it over 70%, almost more than double the injury. >> how is that? lincoln was the car you got picked up in with a driver. how did you make it into something people wanted for themselves? >> it is a luxury brand. beautiful and elegant. also, personalized experiences. warm experiences that match. that served us really well. we have launched in china. we're the fastest growing car
luxury brand in china. we gained share here in the u.s. this year, the first quarter last year. now, we're building on the momentum, introducing the new lincoln navigator, which is our flagship suv. it's the most luxurious we've -- navigator we've ever done. it tries to combine modern luxury with advanced technology and these personalized experiences. >> if you're very small, you can't get into a lincoln navigator. it is about the biggest car there absolutely is. i'm here with steve, by the way. if you don't know steve, you should. this is a guy who has -- who served as president obama's car czar, among other things. i wanted to talk to him about that. but the lincoln thing was an interesting conversation with him. because some people think -- i'm not going to say myself -- but some think lincoln is an older person's car that picks you up, particularly if you get driven around, a limousine service.
they came up with this new model. >> it was a tired brand that had seen its day. if they can bring it back and make it successful, god bless them. >> let's talk about the pressure that -- none of the car makers are going to really say too much about this out there, but they have pressure by president trump who claims that his pressure on them is what is causing them to create new jobs in the united states or not move factories overseas or cancel factories overseas. how much of that is true? >> first of all, i think the companies have been clear, and they haven't gotten into a fight with the president but they've been clear, these are decisions either made before he was ever in office or made for other reasons. the reason they cancelled the plant in mexico is they think car small demand is not going to be as robust as they might have thought a couple year ago, with gasoline being in the $2 plus range. they don't want to have a fight with the president, but they make their own -- as you also know, companies don't decide to open or close a plant in two weeks. these are years in planning. >> right. >> they're making the best
commercial decisions. now, that said, i think his comments about the advantages of having more certainty around regulation, better tax policy, things like that, which the president also wants to do are in sync. we should all want that because it would make the companies more successful. >> let's talk more broadly about the economy. one thing i love about watching you is you always come with some sort of chart. the consumer confidence index. it is now above 125. 's not a rcentage, it is an inde it was hovering about 100 in october before donald trump's election. showing you a chart on there. if you pull that chart back, it's been going on for a long time. donald trump likes to take credit for this sort of thing. does he deserve it? >> i think a little bit, for sure. look, as you pointed out, first of all, you corrected him because he talked yesterday about percentages and it is not a percentage, it is an index. since the recession, it has gradually been coming back. even those who are not fans of
his policies or style have to acknowledge not that just index but small business optimism, all kinds of -- >> manufacturing. >> all the confidence indexes have turned up since the election. whether they can be sustained depends whether he gets stuff done or not. >> i think we can listen to this about job creation. let's hear what he said yesterday. >> you see the numbers. we've created over 600,000 jobs already in a very short period of time, and it is going to really start catching on now. some of the things we've done are bigly and they are catching on. >> okay. so it is important to catch some of these little thing s as they go along. 533,000 jobs created this year, not 600,000. 216,000 of those were created in january. donald trump was president for ten days in president. we come out to 307,000. it makes it an exaggeration, but the fact is, again, donald trump wants to take credit for this. president obama did not want to
take credit for the 700,000 jobs that were lost the first month of his presidency. i often say presidents get too much credit and too much blame entirely for job kree jags. >> i agree but let's talk about what happens the first two months of a presidency. nothing a president does in the first two months affects the jobs numbers for that period. the president didn't mention that last month, we only created 98,000 jobs. i'm not blaming him for that. it is one month. but what his impact on jobs is going to take time to develop and time before anybody can say, he gets credit or blamed. >> what's the best thing a president can do to create jobs since they can't really create jobs they create an environment which companies crea jobs. >> i'll take a different approach. our biggest economic problem is not jobs. we have an enormous amount of jobs. the unemployment rate is down to 4%. one problem is wages, which are finally growing. a bit above inflation, good
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you have to look it up if you don't know what it means because collins is one of the big and most important in the world on this. in most businesses if you have a brand or advertiser problem it relates directly to your business. in his case, his asastronomical high ratings are higher and they can't make money from it because the advertisers have pull ted money. >> on top of it, i think bill o riley is suffering from the women's movement and the recognition that the women drive the economy. and in the second thing you have an agitated grass roots left wing who look at the soap box
that he built as self righteous one and looking to pile on the news of the "new york times" and piggy back on that. so you have an agitated and activated left wing. now you have a new branding economy that what you say is not as important as what you do. >> how does a company who depends on advertising revenue square this circle? when you put an anchor in a chair, you want people to watch that anchor when he skreucceeds. >> yes, shehe is a juggernaut i broadcast and writing. the market is so splintered, they can take the money and put it lots of other places.
he is not the only show in town, and the brands recognize they can't be associated with stories that don't build the realities of their business. >> bmw, hyundai, al l state, regular every day companies. drug companies, if they shift their advertising as they do in other -- some shifted to other places in fox, are they just coming around to a realization or are they feeling pressure. >> i think they're feeling pressure. their constituencies because twitter gave them a platform to talk about it, but nothing ever dies on the internet. if you go back and dig, bill o riley has had this problem for a decade. >> this is where i'm going with this thing. a lot of companies and their research departments would have known that. >> sure, but the world was very
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you play at. just shaking our heads because it's hard to know where to begin. because it's just not within the bounds of what a criminal statute provides, and what could be a possible legal or factual defense. e >> nail, what i hear and wheni listen to trump's defense lawyers speak. is i hear the strength, apparent strength of jack smith 's prosecution case. because i'm not hearing a single thing that penetrates any thing we know about the case. i'm not hearing a single thing that sounds like it could create reasonable doubt on some aspect of what we expect the evidence and the pleadings and the arguments to be in this case? >> that is exactly right, lawrence. when you talk about how donald trump was surprised by this indictment tonight, i don't think that anyone should have been surprised by this indictment. you and i were on tv the very first night of the mar-a-lago
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through it, and next i'd like to introduce the district attorney general for this area mr. funk. >> this is the ultimately crime when school children and careñr givers are the victims of senseless gune1 violence.çó can't say anything before first expstáj our concernsw3 for the victims and their families. and the extended number of victims that are traumatized by1 today's event. i came out on the scene today because our current operating procedure is that wheni] an officer is involved in a shooting, that the tbi comes out, and i knew this was a unique case, and i wanted to make sure that everything was handled5a■q appropriately. director raush wasu almost at5a■ the exact time i w here, and had been on the scene for a while. th