State, Rex Tillerson, was being grilled by senators over tillersons own ties to russian president Vladimir Putin. Thats also coming up tonight on hardball. We begin, however, tonigh with Donald Trumps meeting the press himself. Heres what me s he said reportt russia gathered compromising material about him, which u. S. Intelligence agencies, in fact, have marked already did in fact mark already as disinformation. Not intelligence. I saw the information. I read the information outside of that meeting. Its all fake news. Its phony stuff. It didnt happen. And it was gotten by opponents of ours, as you know, because you reported it and so did many of the other people. It was a group of opponents that got together, sick people, and they put that crap together. Trump also answered questions about russias hacking after months of rejecting intel suggesting russia orchestrated the attacking. Heres what he said today. As far as hacking, i think it was russia, but i think we also got hacked by ot
Our air force conducted join training exercises with south korea today. The muchdiscussed Carrier Strike Group Continues its well chronicled journey of several thousand miles enroute to the korean peninsula. U. S. Air assets in the skies include satellites, spy planes, drones, and the ability to detect nuclear debt nation. Tonight the president describe in his how how prepared the u. S. To handle this escalating situation. Do you believe the leader of north korea kim jongun is mentally unstable . Is that one of the reasons you are so concerned . Is he a man who can be reasoned with. As far as north korea is concerned. We are in very good shape. We are building our military rapidly. A lot of things have happened over the last short period of time. I have been here approximately 91 days. We are doing a lot of work. We are in a very good position. I cant answer your question on stability. I hope the answer is a positive one, not a negative one. But hopefully, that will be something that g
Wrong. Good day, everyone, im Andrea Mitchell in new york. Were track a white house civil war between new communications chief Anthony Scaramucci and chief of staff Reince Priebus its broken out into the open with scaramucci going on twitter overnight and accusing priebus of leaking his financial records, even though those records are public documents, theyre not classified its not really a leak. It was the first evidence that scaramucci possibly with the president s backing might be making a move against priebus who had already lost longtime aid sean spicer and was himself on the ropes. I dont like what theyre doing to the president of the United States or their fellow colleagues in the west wing. Now, if you want to talk about the chief of staff, we have had odds, we have had differences. Journalists know who the leakers are, so if reince wants to explain that hes not a leaker, let him do that. Joining me now is Nbcs Kelly Odonnell at the white house and nbcs casey hunt on capitol hi
As President Trump ousts his Third National security adviser, john bolton with a tweet. The move clearly a surprise to some white house staff who still had bolton slated to appear at a white house event today. Now why did donald trump remove bolton a Foreign Policy figure widely known for his hawkish views, trump posted he told bolten last night he was out because he strongly disagreed with those views. You take Donald Trumps word he apparently discovered on the job what bolton thinks as if the former fox analysts views were not clear when he was hired. You know who doesnt take the president s word . John bolton hills who flatly accused trump of lying by offering a different account saying he was offering to leave last night and trump said according to bolton lets talk about it tomorrow, and then telling nbc i offered to resign last night. He never asked for it directly or indirectly. I slept on it and resigned this morning. What everyone thinks of john boltons ideology, there wouldnt
The St. Cloud V.A. is offering a pair of events they'd like to draw attention to for veterans to participate in this summer/fall. The art competition is a national event in its 41st year.