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And of the need for denuclearized north korea. >> all right. thank you so much, bill powell, john than, hallie jackson as well as chris jansing there in tokyo for our coverage here of president trump landing now in tokyo, japan. we'll continue our coverage of his 12-day trip here on msnbc. for now, a short break, and then we'll return you to our normal programming.
For now appears to be on his record. >> john than, if we can turn to steve bannon. he is accused of leaking stories about h.r. mcmaster. what are you hearing about this? >> dara, the best way to get donald trump to be angry at someone else is to leak the idea that they are leaking against someone else. bannon gets tagged every time breitbart says something about one of his enemies. certainly there was a huge effort to push out h.r. mcmaster by right wing media. and it looks like people who support mcmaster are pushing back with the argument that steve bannon is undermining the trump presidency...
That. saying it was their last chance even. it's very clear when the white house put out a tax policy, a joint statement on tax policy with house speaker ryan, with the senate majority leader yesterday, before those votes had finished with obama care repeal, that they were already ready to start moving on to something else. the president just wants a win, and whether that's on health care or taxes or something else, it's clear that he is willing to take what he can get. >> that is sort of a sad statement of affairs. john than, i want to ask because you talked earlier about the factionalism ins...
Commentary is donald trump's never going to show his taxes and he's never going to testify under oath. i just don't believe either one of those things are going to happen because he doesn't have to but we'll see how this plays out. we haven't talked about, are there really tapes in the white house now? that's another piece of confusion that we'll see exactly what it means. >> yeah. sorry. that was me signaling to my crew. sorry about that. keep talking. keep talking. >> hey, joy? >> yeah, go ahead, john than. >> you know what, in this contest of credibility that we have here that's set up betw...
Public access, you know, to the center of manhattan. and that's the struggle that, you know, they're working through right now. but at the end of the day, it is the necessity to this these security plans in place. >> will they be ready? >> absolutely. the coordination between nypd secret service and the military's fantastic. >> and this is a top priority. >> it is the priority. this is the seat and security of donald trump as president of the united states is the number one priority right now. >> add into that, the fact all of the security preparations for inauguration that will be happening. ...