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says, president trump s vision of soldiers marching and tanks rolling down the boulevards of washington is moving closer to reality in the pentagon and white house, where officials say they have begun to plan a grand military parade later this year showcasing the might of america s armed forces. trump has long mused publicly and privately about wanting such a parade, but a january 18th meeting between trump and top generals in the pentagon s tank, a room reserved for top-secret discussions, marked a tipping point according to two officials briefed on the planning. so there s where we begin. let s bring in our leadoff panel on a tuesday night. phillip rucker. white house bureau chief for the washington post. shannon pettypiece for bloomberg news. and the pool reporter on duty at the white house today. so, todd, i d like to begin with you. talk about the president s demeanor, the kind of bluster index compared to other days you ve spent on the beat and the mood around him ....
today, you have one spokesperson, in fact, denying that he said it. the president himself seems to be denying it, too. so for more on that, we ll go to jeff bennett who is at the white house. geoff, the president had a serious of tweets duick durbin referred to. how is that changing what you are hearing from the white house spokespeople? reporter: last night the white house released a statement seeking to clarify the president s comments. they didn t deny the remarks or the context in which the president is said to have made them. fast-forward what, 12, 16 hours, the president tweeting this, the language used by me at the daca meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. what was really tough was the outlandish proposal made, a big setback for daca. the president then followed that up an hour later, hallie, with this. never said anything derogatory about haitians, other than haiti is a very poor and troubled country. never said take them out. i have a wonderful relatio ....
they are talking about this incredible success. if i didn t get elected, if the opposition party i call the obstructionist party, that s all they are good at. if they got elected they wouldn t have cut regulations and taxes. you would have been down to a gdp that would have been negative. you see what s happening. our companies are ready to soar. wages for the first time are rising at the fastest pace in many, many years. 18, 19, 20 years. and i tell you, i would always go around and say to you strongly, people have jobs, they made more money 21 years ago than they make today and in some [applause] wages are going up for the first time in mani many years. that s freight. as a result of our massive tax cuts which by the way debbie stabenow voted against. if the democrats get in they will take the tax cuts away and raise your taxes to a much higher level than you ever thought possible. that s what they want to do, so they can give the money away. millions of americans are recei ....
canceled it? on friday, the new york times wrote the following. quote, a senior white house official told reporters that even if the meeting were reinstated holding it on june 12 would be impossible given the lack of time needed. president trump 1307bded on twitter with this false accusation. quote, the failing the new york times quotes a senior white house official who doesn t exist, use real people, not phony sources. the source was, in fact, a senior white house official speaking to a large group of reporters in the white house briefing room. we journalists try as hard as we can to always identify our sources on the record so that we can tell you, our viewers, watchers, listeners, why you should trust our information. sometimes we agree to allow people to speak anonymously. we ll refer to that as talking on background. nbc news does know the identity of this official, although we re not identifying him because we agreed not to. we, however, do not invent people. if we did, ....
find their children, how to keep a roof over their head, clothes on their back, food on the table, care for an ailing parent. and we re in here wasting time. with that, i ll just yield the balance of my time. if there s anything that you think you need to add or that you were cut off and not had the time to add to this discussion, i ll give the balance of my time to mr. strzok to do that. sir, i appreciate that offer. i m struck listening to your statements and i know the history of the fbi. i certainly want the fbi to be something that you immediately leap to the defense of and i think that s something we re working very hard to become. i appreciate the offer and thank you. when it comes to the fbi, i asked years ago to have a hearing on the fact that we don t know or track how many crimes are committed by fbi informants. we haven t had that hearing. but we spent time on fast and furious because we were putting guns, introducing guns into the hands of criminals. the ....