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Tragically seen before. a tragedy that s all too familiar. ron allen live from virginia beach. let s go to the white house and nbc s mike vaquero, what s the reaction there? since this did happen at 4:00 eastern here in washington, south of here in virginia beach. haven t heard anything from president trump. we understand from his spokesperson, hogan gidley that he has been briefed on the situation. the president does not have a schedule of public schedule this weekend at least not today. late on sunday night he s due across town at a previously scheduled gala at ford s theater. and late at night on sunday here in washington, he takes off for a much anticipated state visit to great britain, also a visit to ireland and normandy thrown in as well. so nothing yet from the president. known to be a prolific tweeter to say the least, has not yet taken to the air waves, has not yet taken to the internet to offer reaction. all right, mike vaquero ....
What we re accustomed to in the language of diplomacy with regard to the state department and yet, here we are just the same, thomas. mike, talk about the other news we re watching from the white house today. and the efforts of president trump top reach out to mitch mcconnell in this kind of weird carrot and stick approach. we have steve bannon outside of the white house and the reports being that he has the president s blessing to go after mcconnell and other establishment gop members. inside from the oval, the president is trying to make amends with him or get along to get something done. you know, he s got to play ball. it s still washington notwithstanding all the efforts that president trump and his administration have made to rewrite the rules. politics on capitol hill is still largely intact. mish mcconnell is needed. he s the leader of senate republicans, he has the loyalty of the vast majority of senate republicans. there s an enormous debate that will determine the succes ....
That. and how do you allow taxes to rise at the same time you fix the real problem. and the real problem is uncontrolled entitlement spending and a government that has grown massively. we never really get real revenues because people believe in some things like dynamic scoring, sort of a counterintuitive view that if you cut taxes, you will get deficit reduction. and increased government revenues. it doesn t make sense. i call it rumblestilken. it s a fairy tale. mike vaquero is at the white house. in all seriousness, who are the big players? i think there are two and that is the speaker of the house john boehner because he leads the majority in the house and they can block or pass virtually any other thing the other big player wants to do and that is ....
Was also asked about remarks made by senator corker and his time as secretary of state. and about being neutered on the job. so the secretary of state was willing to answer this. we ll check in with mike vaquero live at the white house for us. mike is not live right now. there he is. hey, mike. so rex tillerson s sitdown, he had to know that this would most likely come up as one of the first questions out of the gate because of that awkward press conference where he only called it a distraction whereas we see the games of washington. right, and he said he s not playing but a lot of dialogue going on back and forth between capitol hill, the foggy bottom, the home of the state department just about a mile west of here and from the west wing is a playground style rhetoric. everybody is being forced to react to it. this is the second time that rex tillerson after it was reported ....