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could end up having a major, major conflict with north korea, absolutely. >> as young yang unleashes a propaganda video. a mixed message, under cutting the secretary of state calling for tougher economic pressure and get it to dismantle the program policefully. >> the time has come for new pressure on north korea for us to bond this dangerous path. i urge this county till to act before north korea does. >> and work life balance as he hits the 100 day mark, donald trump opens up saying he thought his new job would be easier. >> i do miss my old life. this, i like to work, so that's not a problem, but this is actually more work.
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>> good day, everyone, i'm an degree ya mitchell in washington on a beautiful day overlooking the white house where it is day 99 and counting of the trump presidency. a critical moment with the president's stunning words about a potential military conflict with korea. the white house team is defending their legislative score card at home to a crisis on the korean peninsula. and secretary tillerson calling on world powers to toughen the sanctions on north korea. kristen welker at the white house, and jeremy bash, nbc news analyst and former chief of staff to leon panetta. first to you, kristen. this balance between their domestic record, their dependfeg the lack of achiefments, and now a foreign policy crisis front
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and center and a lot of mixed messaging on these interviews from the president. >> absolutely. well, first of all in terms of the first 100 days andrea, there has been a frenzied push to try to show that the president has had some establiaccomplishments reversing an obama era policy on the environment earlier today. but you're right we have seen time and time again overshadowed by the foreign policy crisis. president trump saying in that interview there could be a major military conflict, holding that out there, a warning to north korea and it counters what we heard from secretary of state rex tillerson. he called for a diplomatic suspension and to ramp up
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sanctions. we know with senior administration officials they want this to be resolved diplomatically, but they're not taking that off of the table. we also know they have been really trying to ramp up their communication with china. inviting president xi jinping. the bulk of that time they spent together, about 80%, was one on one. the president is really trying to foster a relationship with the leader of china and he praised some of the steps that china has taken in the wake of that including suspending kroco imports to north korea. will they get it? secretary tillerson waiting to do just that. >> what the president is talking about, at least what rex tillerson is talking about, if you ignore what the president said about a military con fi--
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are saying toughen up your sanctions. do what you promised to do and if you don't we will sanction the levies. it is principally china, or do you want to trade with all of the rest of the world that trades in dollars. >> and a toughly worded speech, he said the same thing he told 100 senators earlier this week. we're not going to engage in regime change. we're going to tighten the screws, and that is a continuation of the obama proech a -- approach and the bush approach. >> it is for this administration especially when talking about
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it. the personal diplomacy he keeps talking about, we have yet to see real steps according to all of the experts i talked to where china is not yet squeezing north korea economically, but how they are doing things that has the relationship paying off. he is focusing on personal diplomacy, even when he is talking about relating to kim jong-un. this is part of what he sad . >> his father dies, took over a regime, say what you want, but that's not easeasy, especially that age. >> other people, you know, talking about kim jong un, how he is unprepared, and i guess, i
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go with all of these comments and you say to yourself is it strategic? that is instreeging. i'm going to treat you with more respect, and if i do maybe you will come to the negotiating table. but frankly i don't get the sense that him saying the relatively kind words, i guess you could call them, or respectful words, i don't know it isn't clear to anyway is a strategic thing. president trump throughout his whole career, everybody is of tran transaction nature to him. whether it is a media interview or international diplomacy. he individualizes everything. that is something if you follow
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his career, he is trying to conduct his presidency that way. >> one of the parts of the speech of rex tillerson today is trying to reassure the world that the u.s. is not going to take pre-emptive military action. >> our goal is not regime change. over the years, we have withdrawn our own nuclear weapons from south korea and offered aide to north korea as proof of our intent to deescalate the situation and normalize relations. >> this is a traditional reassuring message from the secretary of state. of course at the same time that the president is also referring to the possibility of military action. >> and there are mixed messages. the statement out today before
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the security council is basically main stream standard fair when dealing with the crisis. what is out of the main treatment was the president's bravado tweets. basically saying china, if you don't take care of the problem we will take care of it ourselves. predicting a major military conflict. now as an analytical manner, if you're a stand back analyst, when you're a prime actor, president of the united states, and you're the commander and chief of u.s. forces in the region, that is a statement of intent, not just of what may happen. >> kristen welker, they have now passed the continuing resolution for the week. there will not be a government shut down. they acted within an hour or so of the house action. so what is front and center for this? clearly there is no solution on health care any time soon. that was following apart and
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they don't have the votes. >>. >> no solution on health care, we know there was an attempt to try and get that done. there is a faction that was concerned that yet again it would be rushed through. the president wanted to see a vote. they are saying wait, you can't make the same mistakes. now the focus will shift to tax reform. i think you will see a slightly different strategy. president trump is going to be out in pennsylvania tomorrow. he will be campaigning for that new tax plan that they put out. release a lot of details about it. i was talking to some of our friends who said he read an op-ed, liked what he saw there, and there was real urgency to
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get a tax reform plan there on the table before tomorrow. voters to really get other people outside of washington on board with this plan. we saw president balm do that to get it passed. that becomes the focus now in the second 100 days, andrea. >> influence with that op-ed, a follow up on an informal dinner, explains why white house officials were saying taxes are down the road, and the president said we're doing this next wednesday. trump on his 99th day and we're learning about the way he behaves as president. let's watch the executive order,
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when peter alexander asked about question to reuters about why this job is tougher than he thought it would be. >> i don't know, we're moving awfully well, getting a lot of things done. i don't think there has ever been anything like this. it is a false standard, 100 days, but i don't think anyone has done what we have been able to do in 100 days. >> chuck, you first, your score card if you can of domestic, foreign, and what we know now about this president that we didn't know after a long campaign and a long transition. >> i don't know if i learned all that much about him. i this in some ways he is making some adjustments to how washington works. i think he is making adjustments to his showing of more patience,
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understanding that washington moving at a different pace. but i think the most remarkable development about him is the fact that so many people now easily discount his words. just look at this north korea. what he said about north korea that we may be on the verge of a confrontation, this would be an all hands on deck situation. you would have the government move -- it was just thrown out there and he and it was probably inevitable. his thoughts were more discounted than when they started. that is one thing they do today. >> just looking at a point of comparison, when ronald reagan
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joked, before an open microphone, testing it for a saturday radio address in santa barbara, and he joked the bombing will begin on five minutes, the russians put their nuclear forces on alert because they took is seriously. that had to be quickly fixed. he took a lot of heat for having that open mic incident, but that he can speak to aggressively and there doesn't seem to be the sho shockwaves around the world. >> he has credibility issues when he makes threats, but he also has credibility issues when he wants to claim the american people should be behind him on a military option. i think his cabinet selections were great. and i think the senior leader
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visits with xi and abe were excellent. but he is discounting russian interference, and that muslim only travel ban was done on a basis and terrorists were streaming over our borders, so we had to shut our borders and we're at day 99 and that has not happened. >> and why would he be warning about cancelling the south korea trade deal on the eve of their election in the coming days, as well as the crisis that south korea now faces. they have no president, no acting president, why would you threaten them with a slap in the face on trade from the united states when they are taking the deployment of the missile defense and taking some real economic sanctions from beijing as a result of that, kristen
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welker, the president says i am a national and a globalist. how do we accommodate both? >> a couple ways, andrea. one, that statement in and of itself is replflective of what have been reporting on here for weeks now. there are two factions embl emblemmatiemblem m emblematic, and then the jared kushner side. it reaches a fever pitch and the president wanted that tamped down. i think it is debated in the white house, and within the president himself. he has these two sides and it speaks to the broader aspect.
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take nafta for example, he indicated he was on the cusp of pulling out all together and then that changed saying i will not pull out. i spoke to the leaders of canada and nemexico. they asked me to stay and renegotiate and i'm going to do that. the same with the border wall. they want today see funding for the border wall in this spending bill that just passed on capitol hill and then he backed away from that. he said okay, as long as we cast it in the form of border security p security. will his voters be okay with that down the line? will have to see. >> and there is also what is overhanging all of that, and there is less focus on it, but there is a russian investigation.
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attorney general sessions on "the today show" today being asked about mike flin and how e inspector general opened the investigation. >> he may have committed a fron and it will fall on your department. you have rescuesed yourself from investigations involving any coordination between trump associates and russian officials, does that recusal extend to this area to general flynn. >> i expect not to be not involved in this one. >> but you don't rescucuse yourself? >> the white house keeps trying to push this off saying they reupped his national security clearances. the security clearance in the
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spring of 2016. they also in the white house they didn't ask him a lot of questions about the foreign connections he had. i am told he did represent turkey on election day. he published an op-ed, supported erdogan on a controversial point. they knew about it and they still hired him to be national security advisor. >> they have plausible deniability. mike flynn was brought into the west wing. and that, i think while they can successfully or potentially in their mind.
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their problem is how to deal with flynn, and they didn't get all of the bad news out. we may end up finding out that they didn't say at the time that that was among the reasons why they were asking for his resignation. it is probably, that is why -- that that is the warning that sally yates was making to the administration about flynn. it was deeper and more problematic than they realized. that's the problem with flynn, i don't think there is any amount of deflection that is going to keep flynn from becoming a long-term problem for them. >> chuck todd, thank you so much. chrkristen welker, thank you. coming up on "mtb daily," speaking with richard branson, and on sunday, marking the first
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mostly a to-do list. supporters are still standing strongly behind him. joining me now is melody barnes. thank you so much. first of all, george, you have written in an op-ed about the sort of mixed messages and the support that the president is still getting from his people. his supporters, in a column entitled "oh, never mind, president" you said their insurrection has been rewarded by trump's swift shedding of campaign commitments. about these and other vows from the man who tells it like it is, he now tells them never mind. >> first of all, they're giving him a certain amount of time, 100 days is not long. second they're not paying close
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attention. he could reverse himself and not one in 1,000 in americans knows there is an xm bank. the question is whether or not overtime these people begin to notice all of the things that he supposedly "told it like it was or is" and he didn't. >> it is true that whether or not nafta is something that he walks back from, or if he was told by the mexican and canadian leaders, if you give a 90 day notice you can't negotiate, don't cancel it first. when he made the promises, he really wasn't conversent with the details. >> that in and of itself is a problem. president trump said it is more difficult than he thought it would be. let's put this in into context. when we walked into the white
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house, the economy was in code blue. we were losing about 700,000 jobs per month. in the first 30 days we put in a $288 billion tax cut in america's pockets. in the first 100 days he signed six major leagues of legislation. in contrast, president trump has not signed significant legislation and in fact he is insulted our an lllies, he has former national security advisor that is under investigation, and he did not follow through on many of the promises. if you counted on him to do these things, including repealing obama care, then right now you're out of luck, you have been hoodwinked. >> at the same tliime there is lot of choreography around this. when he signs an executive order, many of them truly substantive because they were reversing obama policies, but many of them are just ordering a study on taxes, hand out the
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pens, hold up the signature and the document, and it looki iss a bill signing. he looks like he is doing a lot. >> television, a camera, wants to point at something and he points at presidents and that is why the power of the presidency has increased. that is -- we're stuck with that. and again, the time will come when people will say how is this changed? i think that the executive orders that he is reversing matter a tremendous amount. an enormous amount was done by president obama. >> and they're missteps with that initial executive order on immigration. you know, a top white house official said to me that night when it was all blowing up, a saturday night, people were stranded at airports, and he
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said to me why didn't they warn us. now there seems to be a rush and they're slowing down and perhaps with the diminishing of steve bannon's influence, there are one thing that he is doing today is the first president to to be doing this, the first sitting president to speak at the nra conference, this is an important signal, mel i did, where he stands on gun laws. >> it is he certainly leaned into his support for the nra agenda. going back, addressing the nra
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at a time when he has not been an to follow through on the repeal of obama care. he is pulled back from his position on nafta. he did his dance with regard to the border wall. this allows him to surround himself with the crowd that is very, very friendly to him, and to lean into his messaging. i think what george was eluding to, but his message they have done quite a bit when he is just going back to do, what i think looks like another campaign lap. good breaking news, president george hw bush has been released. he was discharged today from houston medical center after being treated for a mild case of pneumonia and bronchitis.
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additional patience will only mean a nuclear north korea. the longer we bide our time, the sooner we will run out of it. in light of the growing threat, the time has come for us to put pressure on north korea to abandon their dangerous path. i urge this council to act before north korea does. >> that was the u.n. today at the security council. he said the goal is not regime change contradicting president
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trump's saber rattling. joining me now is richard engle. an msnbc political analyst. rick, great to see you. a lot to see you here, the president talked i did bldiplom tillerson talked about the possibility of negotiations. in his interview with nbr he talked about a negotiated solution. so what are the allies and also the adversary in north korea to think? >> you put your finger on a lot of things there. i kind of laughed when he said the era of strategic patience is over. so now do we have tactical re
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reckle recklessness? that being said, the peach was standard, traditional diplomacy. he said the failure is war and nobody wants that. he proposed a negotiated settlement. he shows the disposition that he has for bilateral talks aopposed to multilateral talks. i think that is probably the wrong strategy, but any negotiation is a good thing. as you pointed out, there is a difference in the rhetoric that comes from secretary dillerson a -- tillerson and the president. a major major conflict is possible and that is rhetorical recklessness. the secretary of state did not say anything anything like that, he said there needs to be a negotiated deal with them. >> they said there is still
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nearly 200 vacancies of confirmable posts. there is a nominee to be deputy secretary, but the message today is that they're okay with that. that secretary ditillerson is n filling posts because of the budget cut that's are proposed that he doesn't want to appoint people or nominate people for job that's will be eliminated. e wanted to figure out where to streamline and it could mean vacancies through 2018. >> and they likened the state department to the titanic on the bottom of the ocean. i'm the last person to say that every single job at the state department, and there are 70,000 people, needs to have an appointee or somebody in it.
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there is lots of room for reform of the state department, but what concerns me and concerns the people that i talk to at the state department is they're doing this in an at not fear of cred secrecy and ignorance. i think to reform it, as an outsider, there is a lot to learn before you reform it and evolve it. i think they need to do that. but the foreign services office are there to serve them and not use their exp per tees or vast experience. >> and they said there is attention between nikki hailey.
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that sometimes she doesn't get the policy right. this could be a window into the president's thinking burning a ho a -- >> does everybody like nikki, otherwise she could easily be replaced, right? no, we won't do that, right? i promise. she is doing a fantastic job. >> perhaps the real tell is that the secretary of state was not even there. you have the u.n. ambassador and the council there, and the secretary state wasn't part of the game. >> that was a videotaped example of harassment of an employee. i have never seen anything like that even in the private sector. there is a natural tension between the secretary of state. and this is reflective here.
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job. >> thank you so much for your perspective. i appreciate it. coming up, the buzz around that little red button. >> an article in "the associated press" says that president trump has a single red button on his oval office desk that he can push at any time and have a butler bring him a coke. i think i speak for everyone when i say oh, that's what red button is for, phew. >> so a second red button on the president's desk, what could go wrong? >> what if he wanted a coke but accidentally ordered a nuclear strike. what if he had to launch an attack and he accidentally ordered a soda. >> we have to send kim jong un a
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and he announced an expedited rollout inspired by an opt ed he read written last week. joining me now, the columnist at the "washington post," and sam stein, "huffington post"s editor. the rush may be a reason it was one page long. >> maybe. >> not like the subject had not come up before and not like he had a number of tax plans during the campaign. i'm sorry. look, there are a lot of tax proposals from previous presidents i have collecting tk dust on my shelves. >> it's a huge responsibility on editorial editors. be careful, it could become policy if not law. >> i find it's very clear the president isn't a policy guy and not paying too much to details,
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and the health care debate per shawnfied this. it was about getting a plan done. every promise he made with respect to health care reform was abandoned pursuit of a legislative win. that's an odd way to pursue policy and not a successful way to pursue policy, so far, too. >> and this was a rush to notch up wins before the 100 day mark to say we presented a tax plan. >> look, trump set himself up in the sense that he talked about all the things he would get in 100 days. we certainly bear some responsibility for ramping up this thing. i can't remember another time where we paid this much attention to the 100-day mark. there was a difference this week between motion and commotion and a little too much of the latter and not a lot of the former. >> the other thing was him
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telling reuters that he would get rid of the south korea trade deal, the bilateral trade deal. this is what he had to say about that. >> it's unacceptable. it's a horrible deal made by hillary. it's a horrible deal. we're going to renegotiate that deal or terminate it. >> when are you going to announce that? >> very soon. i'm announcing it now. >> we are announcing it now. with you, right here. >> because that region is not in enough turmoil. >> why wouldn't you want to have an assistant secretary -- >> that's a whole other subject. let's step back for a second. he announced numerous things that never come out in few kwreugs. he decided i will renegotiate it. he needs help with north korea. >> and he was told in a ten-minute conversation they were not manipulating currency after all.
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>> as george was pointing out in the column in our coverization earlier, people voted for him because they wanted a take-charge big guy, and somebody they thought could get it done. and until and unless it reaches the point of critical mass where people decide this is confusing and things aren't getting done, people are sticking with him and that's what all the polls show. >> people are sticking with him. >> i mean his supporters. >> there has not been a singular crisis that has not been self made yet. zika, the oil spill, and what
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you do in that moment defines your presidency. if you don't have under secretaries or deputies and taking numerous positions on the same issue you start to lose that core base because they look at you and don't see an alpha male take-charge guy and they see somebody incompetent and losing his grasp. >> in this case, somebody with both houses of congress? >> well, one would have presumed and most voters would have presumed more would happen given the universal control of congress and with that said it's clear they are sticking with him and they have got some patience. we will see how long that lasts. >> i love the more commotion than motion. on a very serious note, i want a moment to take a moment to remember a trail blazing latina that fought for the inclusion of hispanic journalists in news room when opportunities were few, back in the '70s. cecilia helped found the
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addition of "andrea mitchell reports." good to see you, and enjoy your weekend. craig melvin here from msnbc headquarters in new york. another jam packed day. crisis delayed. house lawmakers voting to extend government funding for one week. and taking the stand. president trump said to speak at the nra's annual gathering in atlanta at this hour on the eve of his 100th day in office. why he becomes the first sitting president in more than 30 years to address the gun rights group. major, major conflict. the dire warning about a face-off with north korea. we start with that which came in an interview with reuters. >> there's a chance we could end up having a