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backdrop he is going to step in front of the american people tonight and try to make the case that he has the right path forward when it comes to afghanistan and that they should trust him. it s a very big decision for me. i took over a mess. and we re going to make it a lot less messy. reporter: president trump set to outline his strategy for america s path forward in afghanistan. a major test for the new commander in chief, one that could put more american troops in harm s way. after meeting with top administration officials at camp david on friday, the president announcing saturday he had made a decision after months of deliberation and delays. he has made a decision, as he said. he wants to be the one to announce it to the american people. it is a south asia strategy, not just an afghanistan strategy. reporter: the president has been presented with a wide range of options. everything from a full withdrawal to the deployment of up to 4,000 more soldiers, amid questi ....
premptive strike by the united states. the president also is publicly declaring that he has no plans to fire robert mueller as his russia investigation heats up. fbi said he was surprised the raid of the home of paul manafort. and pouring more feud on the top republican in the senate. he called mitch mcconnell s failure to get obama care repeals and replaced a disgrace. this after he posted multiple tweets slamming the majority leader and urging him to get back to work. this hour, i ll talk about the north korea situation with our today, trump said he would consider diplomatic efforts but offered a pessimistic view of their odds of success. we will always consider negotiations, but they have been negotiating for 25 years. you look at bush and obama imploring china to step up their pressure on pyongyang. i think what noo can do more and i think they will. his secretary of state, rex tillerson, taking a different approach. offering reainsurances to the american peo ....
bill. it would be limited to repealing the obamacare is of individual and employer mandates and the medical device tax. the measure would go to conference to cut a deal with the house. after the procedural vote, majority leader mitch mcconnell pledged to keep working to get there and noted democrats doug two struggled with passing obamacare. we watched a similar process seven years ago. they had a lot of differences. we are going to sort this out with a so thoroughly open amendment process and a situation where 51 votes can change the bill. this democratic leader tried to convince moderate republicans to oppose this effort. don t be fooled by this ruse. a vote in favor of the motion to proceed will mean deep cuts to medicaid, it may be even deeper than in the house bill. it won t be an easy lift going forward, but leadership was able to get past the first hurdle and has an opportunity to keep working at it to keep a campaign promise going back seven years. bret: liv ....
white house. good morning, al. this morning first response from the white house to north korea s nuclear test overnight. of course it comes in the form of presidential tweets. the president writing, quote, north korea has conduct add major nuclear test. their words and actions continue to be hostile and dangerous to the united states. north korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to china, this is trying to help but with little success. a couple of thoughts off the bat just reading these tweets. first, the first confirmation of any kind from the united states government that this was, in fact, a nuclear test of the north koreans. that s important, they have misrepresented their accomplishments along the way. second you hear the president say it s hostile and dangerous to the united states specifically. not just to allies and friends in the region. having a specific threat in the united states and viewing the action through that prism could d ....
main event is now over. so that does it for us from hamburg tonight. rachel will be back on monday, and i will see you again next friday live from iraq where we will take you to the front lines for the final push to drive isis out of the city of mosul. now it s time for the last good evening, richard. thank you for all that reporting. but you go, i do want to ask you given everything, do you think putin got what he wanted out of president trump today? i think he absolutely got what he wanted. i think he came in with this intention to have a long meeting. i think he wanted to overwhelm the president, presenting him lots of options, lots of things they could discuss, put some meat on the table for them to start digging right into it and hoping this will lead to more discussions, more follow-on, and a tighter relationship. interesting. richard engel, thank you very much. absolutely. i am ari melber live in new york for lawrence o donnell. now for months, people have be ....