from the attorney of the passenger removed from the flight. let me read you what the attorney said. the family wants the world to know they are appreciative of the out pouring of prayers, concern and support they received. currently they are focused only on his medical care and treatment. there will be no further statements for now. that's from the family that. does it for us. mtp daily starts now. >> if it's tuesday, the trump white house focuses on messages to assad and putin. rex tillerson in moscow. >> assad made the russians look not so good. >> someone as despicable as hitler didn't sink to using chemical weapons. >> even in world war iimi chel weapons were notdn

battlefields. how will it play at the kremlin. >> this is just the beginning. we will reduce taxes. >> why some on the left are fighting against the plans to tackle taxes. can democrats seize on a ground swell of energy as voters head to the polls for special election. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. good evening from new york. i'm katie turr. they are focusing on messaging for syria. defense secretary james mattis and the commander of the central command finished their briefing at the pentagon. >> the goal in syria and the military campaign is focused on accomplishing that and breaking

isis and dtroying isis in syria. this was a separate issue that arose in the midst of the campaign. the use by the assad regime of chemical weapons and we addressed that militarily. the rest of the campaign stays on track. >> now all eyes are on moscow. secretary of state tillerson who has touched down in the russian capital. there are no plans for the secretary of state to meet with vladimir putin. the meeting on the books for his counterparts could be contentious based on what we heard from both sides over the past 24 hours. white house officials said russia is trying to cover up the origins of serious chemical weapons attack. russian-american relations are in the worst period since the end of the cold war. ahead of his arrival, he told reporters that russia needs to pick a side.

>> stockpiles and continued use said they failed in the responsibility to deliver on the 2013 commitment. russia has aligned themselves with the assad regime, iranians and hezbollah. is that a long-term alliance that serves russia's interest or would russia prefer to realign with the united states? >> but tillerson does not enter today's meeting with the wind at his back. the message lacked cohesion. the group condemned the chemical attack and the foreign minsters were divided over the next steps and refused to back a uk call for fresh sanctions. white house officials shared declassified intelligence saying it is confident that the president used gas on his own people, but there is no consensus on any russian involvement.

vladimir putin attempted to swat away conclusions about assad and said it reminded him of 2003, the weapons of mass destruction claims that prompted a military action in iraq. noticeably president trump has not spoken out since last week's strike on the air field. administration officials said russia needs to rethink their alliance and sean spicer stepped in it when he struggled to clarify when they asked why russia would pull back. >> we didn't use chemical weapons in world war ii. you had someone as despicable as hitler who didn't sink to using chemical weapons. you have to if you are russia ask yourself is this a country that you want to align yourself with. >> of course millions of jewish people were gassed in world war ii. he clarified his comments three

times after that. he said in no way was i trying to lessen the horrends nature of the holocaust, however i was trying to draw a contrast of the tactic of using airplanes to drop chemical weapons on population centers. notice to the white house, you should probably avoid invoking hitler. andrea mitchell is in moscow and white house correspondent halle jackson at the white house and hans nichols is at the pentagon. andrea, let's start with you. a tenser situation for the secretary of state than initially people would have thought. >> and in fact for him to be the first official to come to moscow after the chemical attack after the air strikes with people here saying as you reported, the foreign ministry said hours before he arrived that relations with the u.s. are at the worst since the cold war, when i first started coming here when nuclear

weapons were pointed at each other and the reagan gorbachev summits were taking place. for putin and the foreign ministry to be saying that is teeing this up. what's most remarkable is that the hardest line coming out of the administration after weeks of mixed signals on what to do about syria is coming from rex tillerson. now they seem to be on the same page. he and general mattis at the pentagon where hans is working together. we have a new security adviser. steve bannon has been taken off. he seemed to have a new confidence that he can take this hard line. coming here after he once received the friendship medal from vladimir putin when he was the head of exxon-mobil when he was the head of oil deals here. it's a remarkable change. we don't know whether or not he is going to see putin tomorrow.

nothing was on the schedule although people say it was planned. now it's up in the air. >> and the u.s. is confident that syria planned this and carried it out. putin said it reminds him of 2003 and the u.s.'s reasoning for going into iraq and the reasoning of wmds. what is putin trying to do here and how does rex tillerson deal with that? >> she muddying the waters and throwing it up in their face that the push administration falsely claimed that saddam hussein had wmd and he is using this as an excuse and that's a potent message where putin is so popular and around the world. people have not forgotten that the iraq war was fought on false claims. he is undermining the u.s. claims and this white house now

putting out declassified intelligence to make the claim, it is widely believed that the g 7 where tillerson was earlier in italy. this is coming from the white house led by donald trump who has been disparmging the intelligence agencies for all of those weeks and months during the campaign and the transition and even after he was thwarted off as largely under the influence of mike flynn. we don't hear that so much. the other thing i should point out is that tillerson had planned to come here and make the case about the russian hacking of the election and he was going to confront that. now is that much harder to do given the stakes in area, it's something that president trump has never acknowledged. tillerson is buying into the u.s. intelligence on that as well. he was going to raise all of these issue when is he meets. he is at least confident with having the meeting with his

counterpart who is not an easy customer. he was tough with hillary clinton and with john kerry. now his second meeting with rex tillerson. >> hans nichols, you were at that briefing with general james mattthe defse secretary. wh was tatest to come out of that? >> the certainty that these officials have that assad was behind the chemical weapons attack on april 4th mixed with the ambiguity that seemed studied on whether or not chemical chlorine weapons will constitute an attack. there is that tension saying yes, this will not affect several points. the overall isis strategy. then when we get to the question of russia on whether or not the red lines that russia will talk about will collide with the red lines. you can have an escalating

conflict. he seemed pretty confident we were not heading for a tit for tat. >> do you know secretary of state tiller son is in moscow ad we remain on communication with the russian military and the diplomatic channels. >> how do you feel confident this will not spiral out of control? >> they will act in their own best interest. >> all that is predicated that russia is a rational actor. if not, the pentagon miscalculated. >> donald trump has not spoken that much about syria at all since those missile attacks he launched last week. i hear he did just do an interview with fox news. >> he did. fox news network was asked about

syria. i want to paraphrase what they are saying. they are posing the question and he said no. if i see them using gas and he interrupts himself that the worst tyrants didn't use the gasses they used. when i saw that, i said we have to do something. he said when he saw the images, they know the reporting from the youngest victims on april 4th, he said i immediately called general mattis and said what can we do and he came back with alternatives and we hit them very hard. the president said we are not going to get involved, but affected from what he saw. i think where hans was, he was in the briefing room and that was the strongest message we have seen that was not mixed. i think there has been and they

call the red line and that's the red line. even the worst dictators in the world have not used this gas. sean spicer stepped in it a little while ago in the briefing room when he tried to make a compare to hitler saying not even hitler gassed his own people. obviously hitler gassed many of his own people. six million jews. was this a coordinated line? this was a line that they were planning on using. >> right. i think probably a lot is in the nuance or subtlety of how they are describing this. when asked directly whether this was as you are saying, this coordinated talking point that the administration wanted to push and the response that was it was not. his remark in that briefing that you are talking about was off

the cuff. sean spicer is meaning to note the tactic. as you have been talking about this, there have been a series of communications. one on camera and several more written statements attempting to walk back or clarify or say what he meant to say about this implied comparison between assad and hitler. it is something that created quite a bit of buzz. raising questions about the messaging strategy specifically when it comes to syria. specifically about syria given that it is the dominant headline here. >> in that fourth clarification that sean spicer made, they added one line to the bottom of the third. any attack on innocent people is reprehensible and inexcusable. hans nichols at the pentagon briefing. thank you very much. the panel is here with me now.

political analyst and politico new york senior reporter and "washington post" columnist. they are saying it was not a coordinated line, but it sounded similar to what they were trying to get out. james mattis talked about how they were not getting used. how he was trying to deploy that. >> i have been wondering about the messaging coordination when you have un ambassador saying it was opposed to what rex tillerson is saying. they are bringing together all the players and giving guidance. i wonder if they decided we need to put together inner agency guidance and it's the most mangled talking point of all

time. >> shaean spicer said even hitl didn't do things as bad as what assad is doing. we are not going to take in their refugees. that's quite a way to set up an argument. >> it's a strange perversion that all arguments end in comparisons to hitler. or a favorable compare to hitler. there has been a lot of mixed messaging coming from the various stakeholders. important people in this administration. i would differentiate between a lot of clashes from this weekend and what happened today. it seemed like they were taking their queues from the president. >> is that what they have to do. they don't know what the president thinks? >> it seems that way. i don't know. i'm not in the room, but it appear that way to outsiders. to the question about the red

line although that's a toxic phrase, there has been equally mixed messaging on that. tillerson, for example, saying that we are not going to be the world's policemen anymore and something to the effect that any killing will be held accountable. >> i'm trying to figure out where the moral high ground is. how this administration can hold it given that assad is terrible and he is gassing his own people and killing innocent children, but we can't let refugees in. >> we are long past logic and consistency to rhetoric or policies and that gets to the problem of people trying to guess in his own administration what he is thinking and trying to do. clearly there was an effort to make a compare by the use of chemical weapons. sean spicer ruins it.

donald trump goes back to it. you have seen there is an echo chamber. the president watches cable news and thinks he hears something and says it. the people apply facts to it evenhen it doesn't fit and try to walk it around. it is very complicat aend when you have a president that undermines intelligence and you have putin picking up on that and under mining the trump white house. you start seeing the result of trump's rhetoric. it is soing confusions on it. >> he said two things. this proves that there was no coordination between the trump campaign and russia that implies this was a politically motivated attack to make his pr essentially better here at home and deflect from the russia investigation and also saying that president trump's decision to bomb a syrian air base came

from ivanka. this quote was to punish assad for a nerve gas attack that was influenced by the reaction of his sister, ivanka who was heart broken and outraged by the atrocity. >> they clearly have a big messaging problem here, but i'm not going to say that sean spicer and eric trump and everything being off the reservation, but it comes back to huge policy problem. in politics, one thing is always true. maybe one of the only truisms. whenever anyone is complaining about the messaging, it's the underlying policy that is completely non-existent. that's what we are seeing with syria. there is no strategy for what he wants with his foreign policy. >> no trump doctrine. >> no doctrine. general mattis said this was a one-off exercise because of chemical weapons and no limiting

mechanism and now i think there is going to be a huge potential for mission creep going forward. >> what are does america first mean? >> who knows. that's the problem. it implies that if americans direct national interest is not at stake, we don't get involved. we don't lecture and we don't bomb and put troops on the ground. we don't care about humanitarian interests. can argue that they are in the u.s.'s indirect or longer term interest as well, but the implication i got anyway throughout the campaign was if it doesn't affect us directly now, we don't care about it. it's hard to make heads or tails of what we just experienced. >> you never know what to expect on a day to day basis. you wake up in the morning and check your phone. what did i miss? >> trump liked unpredictability. >> certainly this is unpredictability.

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>> welcome back. if it's tuesday, somebody is voting somewhere. that somewhere is kansas's fourth congressional district. they are vacated by mike mom pe. president trump took the district, but democrats think they can score a shocker today or at least keep the race close. their candidate is civil rights attorney james thompson whose

campaign donated and mobilized nationwide by preside trump. democrats are hoping unpopular governor sam brownback nudges voters in their direction. republicans are going all out to make sure they win this one by a comfortable margin. ted cruz gave an updated version of his stump speech yesterday. mike pence and president trump both recorded robocalls. >> on tuesday republican ron es tes needs your vote and needs it badly. ron is a conservative leader who is going to work with me to make america great again. >> president trump sent up this twitter sound from the white house. ron estes is running today for congress in the great state of kansas. a wonderful guy. i need his help on health care and tax cuts

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raise for tom price's old seat. astronomical for a race of this type. the atlanta journal constitution reports 95% of the money came from outside of georgia six. they hope it can be used to drive turn out. the situation starting to seem reminisce ant in the election in the obama administration. scott brown's victory in massachusetts for the seat left vacant by ted kennedy. they were able to turn energy into money into turn out. joining me now is the editor and publisher. $8.3 million is quite a bit of cash. can that affect turn out in a significant way enough to get us into the seat without run offs?

>> $8.3 million for perspective. that's what we thought were top tier senate candidates. he raised that in three months and will get to $10 million. democrats are using it effectively. one thing we haven't talked about with the race is a couple of key things. credit has to go to daily blogging community for getting the fund raying ball going and showing he could be a viable candidate. the d.c. cc put field staff on the ground and helped the campaign build an infrastructure so when this money came in, they were able to do something with it. in 2008, a couple weeks before the election, michele bachmann went on "hardball." it was a disaster of an interview and all this money went to her challenger, but he didn't have the infrastructure to take advantage of it. he was running a luxury campaign that most dream of.

including turn out. democrats have been leading in the early and absentee voting in a district where the republicans had the advantage. some voters are low propensity voters and have not voted in the past. that is key. if this district and everyone who votes votes republicans are going to win. looks to me they are changing the shape of the electorate in having democrats come out. if they change it enough, that's the recipe for victory. >> that should be and normally is a ruby red district. >> we had all of this and started with the march after the inauguration and protests. the democratic community started to focus on that. kansas pops up and all of a sudden there was panic on the republican side and excitement on the democratic side saying we can challenge here. the fundamental differences are

that donald trump won the district by just a point. he won in the fourth district by 27 points. >> is this more of a sam brownback backlash? >> i think it's a little bit of everything. donald trump isriving enthusiasm in the democratic base. sam brownback is one of the least popular in the country and that includes some governments. from the sources i talked to ran an under womenmiwhelming campai. he is really an establishment republican. it's a mixture. james thompson has been ignored by democrats until the last few days. there was a clip a couple of weeks ago where he was asking for $20,000 from the local party for mailers and couldn't get that. now everyone is focussed on what's going to happen. >> how effective is it for ted

cruise to give a version? >> this is a district that he did well in the primary and it helps draw attention. it could help. the combination of the robocalls. if republicans can get up to normal turn out, they will be okay. if there is app athy combined with enthusiasm, that's a problem. >> do they 23450ed a win in kansas and georgia and maybe a close call in kansas? what do the democrats need to call it a win? >> that's a great question. if democrats win in kansas today, there will be panic on the republican side like we haven't seen before. it will be panic if they lose georgia. the results, say democrats win both. it doesn't many that 19 months from now, they will take the

house. it will be a good sign. if democrats lose both and lose in montana, then that doesn't mean they won't do well in 2018. let's remember in may of 2010, democrats held a special election in pennsylvania. six months later lost 63 seats in the house. >> good point. that is a lifetime in politics. still regardless we will keep an eye on the polls. we always love to find out what's going on in the polls. it will be an interesting race, period. appreciate your time. democratic candidate for the congress from georgia's district will be here tomorrow. this hour, t trump administration psues a major overhaul of the tax code. jeffries joins me to say that he needs to see trump's taxes before he looks at new tax

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we asked and answered that and the president is under audit. the american people and the middle class in particular, companies that are trying to grow are much more concerned about tax reform. >> welcome back to "mtp daily" that is sean spicer responding to a question about president trump's tax returns. after the health care bill supported by the white house went down in flame, the president repeatedly declared howed he was to take on tax reform. steve mnuchin wants to see a tax

overhaul, that timeline is looking unlikely. the associated press reports republicans are including a drastic cut aimed at appealing to democrats. that will not be easy. democrats are trying to push back on a number of fronts and they feel taxes could be personal to the president and that's all the more reason that they need to start by saying that donald trump needs to hand over his tax returns before they work with him on any tax legislation. one of the democrats, jeffries from new york is arguing that changes to the tax code shouldn't be adopted until members of congress have the chance to review the president's own tacks to see how any changes might affect him personally. congressman jeffries from the leadership team is here with me now. welcome. here's the question for you. donald trump was elect and didn't release his tax returns

in the election and clearly his voters did not see that as a priority or a mandate for him to get to the white house. why do you think this is an issue that democrats should be championing now? >> well, donald trump is now the president and there is a higher standard in terms of the way he should conduct himself. every president since gerald ford, democrats and republicans have released their taxes. ronald reagan and george w. bush and barack obama and bill clinton. >> democrats have been making that argument for months and the white house said it's not going to happen. is this the best way for democrats to use their capital to just force him to release his taxes? is it going to wo? >> democrats are engaging in a public policy debate on a wid variety of fronts. many throughout america are interested in the tax question as they themselves, everyday americans have to prepare their taxes consistent with their responsibilities as citizens in

the great united states of america. the fact that yes, every president since gerald ford has done this, this is a presidential standard that should be kept. why is he held to a different standard. if he is a supposed billionaire with conflicts of interests with business entanglements and different countries that he has done commerce with over the years, the american people deserve to see his tax returns to figure out if he has our best interest at heart or does he have the best interest of some of his cronies or other business friendships and partnerships. the only way to figure it out is to look at his tax returns. >> do you think they want to see his tax returns or have tax reform put in place? >> first of all the tax reform that donald trump has proposed would benefit millionaires and billionaires. i don't think the everyday

middle class folks that i represent want the tax reform that will only benefit the top 1% in the united states of america. what we want is job creation and the ability to deal with the stagnation problem that impacted the country for 40 plus years and put people back to work in meaningful employment and strengthen social security and deal with the high cost of a college education. that's what average americans want. they don't want the tax re that paul ryan and donald trump are trying to jam down the throats of the american people that is designed to benefit corporations as well as the wealthy and the well off. >> what if there was a tax reform package laid out between the republicans and the democrats. this is idealistic thinking, but it didn't just cut for the rich, but the poor as well. would democrats demand the tax returns to get that passed?

>> with respect to his tax returns, i am speaking to myself as it relates to what i think my constituents would expect me to do before proceeding with tax reform. house democrats and senate democrats have to make that decision on their. we are of course completely in synch as it relates to being concerned with the absence of transparency and the fact that donald trump promised to drain the swamp, but turned into a living breathing conflict of interest with a host of interests. >> congressman, why not focus on trying to find a better tax reform policy or better legislation rather than force an issue that you are not going to get anywhere with with the republicans if they are not on board. >> members of congress should be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. we can demand transparency and have the democrats like others on the house ways and means who are working through the nuts and

bolts of trying to progress a progressive meaningful tax system that benefits middle class folks and seniors. you can do both. >> thank you, congressman jeffries. appreciate your time. coming up, jeff sessions on the trump era quarter policies. stay tuned.

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>> the panel is here. let's talk about jeff sessions and the border. he gave these immigration remarks and let's take a listen to them. >> for those that continue to seek improper and illegal entry into this country, be forewarned. this is a new era. this is the trump era. the lawlessness, the abdication of duty to enforce our laws and the catch and release policies of the past are over. >> he didn't use one word there that was in the prepared remarks. and i'm going to read it to you. "it is here on this sliver of land where we first take our stand against this filth, referencing criminal organizations like cartels. the word felt is getting attention. it was in his prepared notes.

>> the speech writer's job is to capture the writer's voice. this is a twisted and warped way of the speech writer actually trying to capture jeff session's voice which he didn't deliver in fairness. he deemed that it didn't hit the mark, or this is the idea logical underpinnings of the people who surround jeff sessions. >> are we changing policies here? there was that washington post a couple weeks ago with the update this weekend with the wife who voted for trump and whose husband ended up getting deported because he was an illegal immigrant. we're seeing more deportations. are we seeing a new policy change across the board? >> as with foreign policy, it does feel like what's going on with immigration policy feels very incoherent at this point. and this administration has gone back and forth saying oh, we're only going to deport people who have broken other laws. no, we're just going to deport the bad hombres. >> what is an hombre?

>> the example where you were talking about the wife voted for trump, hereasoning whee was interviewed, i don't think my husband would be affected because he's not a bad hombre, trump was going to get rid of the bad guys. my husband hasn't broken any other laws other than being here without authorization. he did have work authorization. he had lots of other documents. his immigration status was not up to code, of course. so, it's not clear, and i think that the very fact that it's unclear has caused lots of fear and panic in immigrant communities because they don't know what the rules of the road are. >> beyond immigrant communities, how much concern should there be across the country that there's no cohesion in messaging coming out of this whi house on a whole host of issues, not to mention the fact that there's still so many positions in senior levels of government that are unfilled? is it hundreds of positions? >> oh, hundreds. >> like 500. that require senate approval.

>> that's at the top level. so, you consider that secretary of state rex tillerson is going into a diplomatic fight right now with russia, he's half unarmed. he doesn't have anybody to back him up. >> this is what happens when you have a candidate who confuses, you know, a slogan with a policy. he thinks standing in front of a crowd and getting a reaction is an affirmative and therefore he should keep doing that. there is no intellectual underpinning to most of what is coming out of this white house. >> i find it fascinating, fascinating that he stood out there, that new campaign rally that he had a few weeks ago and said, promises made, promises kept. he was like barely two months into his presidency and he has his campaign slogan for 2020. put that aside for the moment. let's talk about the taxes. i was just talking to hakeem jeffries. you guys were watching it. is this something the democrats should be using their political capital on? yes, people want to see donald trump's taxes, yes, it is relevant. but is there a chance anybody is

going to see donald trump's taxes? >> i think it's a drum they have to keep beating, they have to keep their troops energized. at the end of the day the electorate didn't care that much about the taxes. >> trump supporters. >> but a lot of people know that the tax code is unfair and they kind of, you know, he didn't pay taxes. >> what about draining the swamp, another one of those promises, the slogan that doesn't amount to much? >> it's a signal to the democratic base that they are not getting off this fight. it is keeping them engaged and it's trying to increase the cost of compromise. trump, if he hadn't, you know, gotten his supreme court nominee in when the senate didn't even give garland a hearing, if trump hadn't offended so many people with comments about immigrants and border wall and all this stuff, democrats might have been in a position to say, you know what, we can work with this guy. we agree on certain issues. tax code is going to affect a lot of people, let's work on this. that is not the mootd democrats are in right now.

if they can point to his inconsistency tax that's it. >> my fear is they are so beholden to -- the democrats, they are so beholden to trying to give the base what they want they may not be thinking strategically. >> that is a good question, whether or not the base wants to see things get done, whether or not the american public wants to see things get done. after all, that is why so many people voted for donald trump, or if they want him just to stop, i want democrats just to stop him at all costs. elise, ozzy and catherine, thank you for being here on this tuesday. after the break the economic impact of the winter white house. stay tuned. you do all this research

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in case you missed it, president trump really likes his palm beach estate, the one he calls the winter white house, but is really just a private club that he charges 200 grand for people to join. well, he may like being home and his well to do members may enjoy face time with the president, but the city of palm beach isn't so thrilled. now county lawmakers are weighing a special tax against the trump's mar-a-lago estate to pay for the cost of his presidential visits. the county spends $60,000 each day that president trump is in town on assorted protection costs. the county's toll since january is $2 million and counting. as a private club, mar-a-lago pays lower property taxes than a hotel and it also receives a tax break in exchange for trump's surrendering development rights on the property in the 1980s. a county commissioner floated

turning mar-a-lago into a special taxing district to recoup some of those costs and the federal government does not reimburse the county. not to be deterred, trump is heading back down this weekend to celebrate easter. it will be his seventh visit since taking office. that's all for me tonight. for the record with greta starts right now. hi, greta. >> thank you, katie. it's getting hot in washington because house minority leader nancy pelosi is demanding president trump fire white hou press secretary sean spicer for this comment. >> we didn't use chemical weapons in world war ii. you know, you had a -- someone who is difficult spencer christianable as hitler who didn't sink to using chemical weapons. i think when you come to sarin gas, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that assad is doing. >> pelosi says he must go and we have a lot more on this exploding