deal with the ryan regime, but almost no one arrives in minutes administration at the white house of the state department shares the objective and some seek containments of your on some of the topics relation of your on a and, and that's why you see the difference between the presidents rhetoric and what is put on the paper in terms of for instance, the memo of that. he signed 2 weeks into the office which reimpose maximum pressure of sanctions, which is the policy you pursue this 1st term. and didn't result in a deal only resulted in a much longer oppressive iran at home, much more aggressive around in the region and brought ross into a program to the verge of nuclear weapons. and then the 2nd structural problem is this. uh, the administration's policy is still pressure 1st as a way of getting around to the negotiating table. and the wrong is never negotiated with a gun to their head and asked why. 6 weeks into this administration. we are already at an impasse and it doesn't matter who carries the message to turn on, whether it's a letter or as an intermediary. the problem is that the rise reluctant to

. >> you're at the office of the state department and at the white house. the envoy to the middle east is now involved in the russia portion of this . he also has an office at the state department and in the white house. okay, how much coordinationis there between the two or is this completely parallel . >> steve is a great guy and we've got a good relationship and my deputy john call we're working well together. we talked well together. my office is on the fifth floor. i know where his offices are in my house . and we are in sync because he understands the importance behind it. what's happening is because the relationship steve has on the russia side that started because of mbs, the crown prince in saudi. and he brought in demetrios who is the interlocutor with russia. so he brought them together. it made a lot of sense to say with steve, you wrote run this land really hard and were talking about it and comparing notes. marco rubio made a great point when he was asked on a program about one of the special envoys, the beauty steve and i have is that all our

we're getting on the air, that the united states is not only starting the process of dropping sanctions on russia, the white house reportedly ordering the treasury departmentutting a stop to all u.s. aid to ukraine in the middle of this war. joining us now is nbc news correspondent courtney kuby. she covers the pentagon and national security. courtney, it's really nice of you to make time to be here tonight. thank you. >> thanks. thanks for having me. >> can you put sort of in layman's terms for us what these things together mean? we've seen the headline about cyber command. we've seen the headline about dropping russian sanctions. we've seen the headline about pausing all u.s. aid to ukraine. can you help us understand what what viewers might need to understand about what this means for this u-turn in the us government? >> yeah, sure. so i mean, there's really two sides to this argument. there are the people who believe that this is just part of negotiating that you make some, some sacrifices or some changes during negotiation, whether it's a show of good faith or getting the other side to the table. and then there are other people who clearly think this

the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. anchor: the trump administration analysis planning to fire thousands more employees at the department of veterans affairs as part of the white housey downsize the federal workforce. a quarter of the workforce comprises veterans themselves. that is prompting questions about how that cuts might affect the quality and timeliness of the services the v.a. provides. doug collins is the secretary of the department of veterans affairs. thank you for being with us. >> good to be here. anchor: the v.a. will terminate more staffers. how exactly will it be possible to reduce staffing and resources without negatively impacting the timeliness? >> first off, i did not announce we are actually doing through that. that is what we begun to do. washington as a dependency to throw money at problems. there have been backlogs of benefits. health wait times have gone up. the question is not what we are looking at to make sure we are getting efficient. also making sure we are delivering it. >> given the wait time scandal during the obama administration and ongoing concerns about access, how can there be no more longer delays? >> employees doing their job

some of the park space in the district of columbia, quite a lot of it, are federal parks. >> i was about to say, i mean, the president can say clean up outside the white house and the state department if it's on federal land, isn't that that's his job? >> well, it is. >> but i. >> will with this caveat. we want to be involved because we want our residents to be able to transition to housing. >> one of the other things that the president has focused on is crime. would you welcome the administration's support on street crime and local offenses, and if so, what would that look like? >> well, again, another way that we are unique is that our prosecutors are not appointed by the mayor. they're the dc voters have no connection to the prosecutors, but they're federal prosecutors. so we want prosecutors at the u.s. attorney's office for the district to focus on gun crime in the district and have consistent prosecution of gun cases. our metropolitan police department is the best of the best, and they're delivering great cases to the u.s. attorney. and we want prosecution of gun crime. another thing that the president is directly responsible for is nominating judges and our superior court to

[laughter] conversations with the incoming administration under the state department, white house, secretary ofhomeland security? was there any military contacts during those visits? just more generally, what is the process for discussions, dialogues, issues. >> there have been no contacts beyond the bureaucratic diplomatic communications. organize your flight. operational communications but no meetings, what are we arguing about. >> i've been traveling to cuba for almost 50 years. in my 32 years at the institution, assistant secretary for education a public service and director of cultural heritage policy, as well as in my phd work in latin american history, particularly interested in the relationship between cuba and the influences of africa. today, we are talking to one of the sons of the cuban household who is a member of government as our the women who work in government, they come from cuban households. there is no parallel universe of over here come ministers are the president of the country. these are people that come out of ordinary everyday households who are elected by their fellow c

of the most powerful people on the planet. >> my name and identity were carelessly and recklessly abused by senior government officials in both the white house and the state department>> so why would the u.s. government expose one of its own secret agents? well, to hear plame tell it, that's because her husband tried to blow the whistle on the white house's shaky justification for invading iraq. but that's just one version of the story. and the whole truth is actually more illuminating and in some ways, troubling. the story begins in the wake of 9/11 with bush administration officials fearful that saddam hussein of iraq might have weapons of mass destruction. >> saddam hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction. >> the only thing that would keep americans safe would be to invade iraq and take him out, bush said. and so we did. and within the year, one man stepped forward with what he believed to be the truth. ambassador joe wilson, valerie plame's husband. wilson wrote an op ed in the new york times claiming that the bush administration was relying on shaky intelligence to assert that saddam was seeking uranium from africa because

bowser to clean up homeless encampments across the city, the ones outside state department and near the white house. president said if she is not capable ofwill be forced to do it for her. washington, d.c. must be clean and safe, we want to be proud of our great capitol, thank you on behalf of citizens of our country. hope you will be successful. measles outbreak continuing to grow with one case in florida. doctors confirming miami high schooler contracted the virus, first reported in the state this year. virus spread to 11 different states after the outbreak started in west texas. case count in texas is up to 159. canadian lawyer leading delegation to washington to ask trump to make alberta a u.s. state and he's telling us about that. first,s check in with bill hemmer for what is coming up. >> bill: doge is front and center. big meetings on cutting federal government, a moving target by the day, what is going to give? tariffs have been a boomerang, c payne on more there. democrats are flailing he said after trump's address before congress, they don't know what to give so far. big morning, dana and i will see you eight minutes, 9:00 easte

the obama white house. what do you make of this? the state attorney general of missouri andrew bailey, he's urging the justice department to investigate's former aids exploited biden's mental decline to go put in place and enact their far left agenda and policies, and he's saying if that happened then all his executive orders, all of biden's pardons, all of his other actions are unconstitutional, legally void. he also said the proof is this is that many of the executive orders were aggressively farther that left than any previous president even what biden had campaigned on, so when they circled the wagons insulating him, they were covering up. they stopped to your point meeting from one on one with anybody and even in his cabinet, so this is a really bad thing for america. so shouldn't we be looking at all of his orders and who actually pushed them? >> well again, liz. this is a democrat. the missouri attorney general is correct. we need a full accounting on this and take a look at the epa climate fund. the justice fund of $27 billion that went out the door right before the end of the biden administration that looked like it was going

meeting with the defining counts upon a white house. officials as washington's reviewing, with a millions of dollars given to keep helping to end the world. russia, the, the us state department says special envoy, steve woodcock, we return to the middle east in the coming days to try to prevent the collapse of the guns a ceasefire. uncomfortable the steel with cough is looking at 2 options, extending the 1st phase, which is well insist on how much refuses or progressed of the 2nd phase of the agreement. will. that requires that withdrawal of his writing forces from gaza, unreturnable captives, and exchange for a permanent ceasefire. israel says it backs with cups of puzzle to extend the 1st space by 6 weeks, which he hasn't yet confirmed. obviously was my kind of reports in washington dc. i'm the us invoice let's especially long boys. the wood cost has been saying for days now that he's planning to go to the region. state department has confirmed that he will be traveling to the area in the middle of this week. now not quite clear, what do you say mean to accomplish state department says one of 2 things, either to extend phase one of the ceasefire to allow for the release of

from my perspective what's happening with secretary of state, the department of defense at all to the white housewithinin the president's authority they have discretion on some of these funds and how to use them. there's been a consternation about the announcement it would posit military aid to ukraine i had a few people asked me this morning don't you think that the violation of separation of powers or something? it is not the president has authority to do that to act as the commander-in-chief. to use the strategy that he and his team believe is best fit for that it is not changing or redirecting something congress did. unlike the by demonstration with israel he was basically redirecting whole categories of armaments and bombs that congress had duly enacted hadad voted to send to israel. they're trying to redirect and hold it in perpetuity this is it different a temporary pause is a strategic move by the commander-in-chief and we support that. andin so we will see the be more information tonight and we'll we how it develops. >> mr. speaker if you are moving ahead with the cr current spending lev

of the united. >> states. >> pam. >> bondi, posted through the justice. >> department on their website. >> then, of course, there was. >> that scene. >> at the white house where you had a. >> number of. >> social media influencers. >> holding up binders. >> the binders said declassified. >> on them. there's no classified. documents that were declassified in the course of releasing it. i had seen most. >> if not all of the. >> documents in court previously. >> i've checked the jeffrey epstein docket. >> and the glenn maxwell docket. >> not that i really needed to. because i remember those trials quite well. >> having covered. >> those. >> proceedings. >> there was no classified information that was supposed to be. presented there. but the ag's explanation of this has been a bit of a winding road over the past couple of days, and people in. law enforcement, frankly, just don't believe the things that she's saying. and she seemed to suggest initially that the documents, the reason why they were so few is that they were being withheld by the fbi field office here in new york. and then last night on sean hannity on fox news, she suggested that the documents

the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> the trump administration announces planning to fire thousands more employees of the department of veterans affairs as part of the white houseort to dramatically downsize the federal workforce. a quarter of the workforce comprises veterans themselves, and that is prompting questions about how the cuts might affect the quality and timeliness of the services the v.a. it provides. doug collins is the secretary of the department of veterans affairs enjoins us not. welcome to the news hour. >> i'm glad to be here. >> earlier this evening you confirmed that the v.a. will terminate an additional 70,000 plus staffers and you say these cuts will help the v.a. fulfill its core mission. how exactly? how is it possible to reduce staffing and resources without negatively impacting the quality and timeliness of care? >> well, first off, i did not announce that we were actually going through it at this moment could i said we are beginning the process to look at a reduction in force that will resemble about 15% of the force and that is what we have begun to do. what we have done all along is take a look at our core functions, making sure th

the white house, and nancy, why is the president so focused on putting this one department out of business? >> reporter: well, maurice, president trump says this is all about sending the power back to the statesan make their own decisions about education. one problem with that, though, is that the department of education actually doesn't have any say right now in what is taught in local schools. by law, that is left to the states. here's what the department of education does do, though. it's essentially a pass-through for billions of dollars that go to help schools educate students with disabilities, help schools in low-income areas, and of course billions to help low-income students go to college through grants and loans. we have seen a draft of the executive order that he is expected to sign, and it is still very unclear how all those funds would get dispersed if this agency is radically downsized. >> john: nancy, the agency was created by congress, funded by congress. can he do this? >> reporter: technically he can't close it entirely. congress created the agency, so congress would have to eliminate it, but even linda mcmahon, the secretary of education, while acknowledging that that is tr

the white house and the. >> department of homeland. >> security will try to do to deter families from coming. >> to the united states. >> ever since wethen president obama, who started family detention, the very centers that you're looking at there. of course, we know that trump in 2018 tried to deter them by separating parents from their children, a policy. he later ended. and then now we are looking at bringing back these places. the biden administration closed family detention. trump is reopening them. and we know that as of last night, there were 2 to 3 families staying inside this facility here. karnes in texas. there's also another one being operated in dilley, texas that will soon be opening. but the difference here now, chris, is that because of these large scale operations that we understand are starting soon across the country, we're no longer talking about families crossing the border. we're talking about those who are arrested and uprooted inside the country and taken to these detention places before they are deported. it's a completely different way. they're using family detention. they may still use them for those cross

former senior official at the white house and the state department, former new york prosecutor and civil rights attorney charles coleman jr. and paul rieckhoff, founder and ceo ofependent veterans of america and the host of the independent americans podcast. his latest episode is with navy vet and arizona senator mark kelly. it is a must listen. okay, one of the main reasons president trump won in 2024 was the economy and day one, a promise to bring prices down. let's start with what we're witnessing, because what we're hearing from the president, the treasury secretary, the commerce secretary, it's not going to be inflation. we may have some short term pain, but then things will smooth out. short term pain to what i'd love for us to be a massive manufacturing nation. again. that doesn't happen overnight. >> no, i think it's going to be a lot of pain short term, long term, everywhere in between for everybody. and i think that's what this is another week of pain. happy friday everybody. here we are again. new kind of pain. but i think hitting more and more people in their guts and in their wallets. and i think maybe most importantly politically gotten a lot of c

of over 5000 hasae $5 billion and now recognize mrr coming. >> thank you chair, ranking member white house and committee members for this opportunity as stated on russell mcmurray at the commission of the georgia department of transportation representing which consists of the 50 state dot's, puerto rico and the district of columbia. the video playing today highlights many successes resulting from ii ja in georgia from maintenance, to large capitol projects. georgia dot wheat recognized mobility of people and freight safely and efficiently is more than just about projects, it's about our quality of life and it is about our economy. the eye ij eight federal surface transportation funding has been vital to move people and goods. relies on the court federal programs to deliver projects from very diverse state from her coast, tour mountains from rural georgia were agribusiness is our number one economy, metro atlanta with over 6 million people and growing. the court formula program plant deliver for the future. federal funding is a foundational investment, vital for every state for state of good repair of our nation's highways and bridges 80% of our capitol maintenance program is iija for bridge rehabilitatio

white house. >> and the state department, former new york prosecutor and civil rights attorney charles coleman jr. and paul. >> rieckhoff, founder and. >> ceo of independent. >> veterans of america. >> and the host of the independent americans podcast. >> his latest episode is with navy vet and arizona. senator mark kelly. it is a must listen. >> okay. >> one of the main. >> reasons president. >> trump won in 2024 was the. >> economy and. >> day one. >> a promise to bring. prices down. let's start with. >> what we're witnessing, because. >> what. >> we're hearing from the president, the treasury secretary, the commerce secretary, it's not. >> going. >> to be inflation. we may have some short. term pain, but then things will. >> smooth out. >> short term pain to what i'd love for us to be a massive. >> manufacturing nation again. >> that doesn't happen overnight. >> no, i think it's going. >> to be a lot of pain short. >> term, long. >> term. >> everywhere in. >> between for everybody. and i. >> think that's what this is another week of pain. >> happy friday everybody. >> here we are again. >> new kind of pain. but i think. >> hitting more and

i would refer you to the department of state for further details, but i'm not going to get into those talks here that officials the white house with more details. this is an indication that donald trump is going to approach things differently and rip up the playbook that has been used in the past. it is this, this is hugely significant. how much was a group that was designated by the united states as a tenant, restore united nation back in 1997 and the us has a long standing. busy that it does not negotiate or meet with terrorist organizations. now we find out that adam buller, who is the president invoice for hostage affairs, as health discussions with senior home us biggers in dual ha. over the last few weeks now were told that the facilities have been informed of those discussions, but not told about all the details. they've been talking about the release of 59 captive still in guys a. it's believe $22.00 of them may still be alive. but it's also so the talks are broken into a wider peace deal. we know that steve, what color is the mind that donald trump costs with the idea of extending the c spot and guys, and also seeing

of his bigger goal quickly. >> jacqui heinrich with the latest at the white house. thank you. sandra? >> live at the state departmenthere tammy bruce is briefing here she is taking questions from reporters. a hot topic right now is usaid. >> was to say it's not going to happen again. rich, fox news. we all know that. >> thank you. tammy, on this usaid investigation, on capitol hill -- the past couple of days. briefing numbers of congress and updating them on this. requiring deferrals to the department of justice. can you provide any specific examples of illegal wrongdoing, what the department believes is illegal wrongdoing at usaid? >> my first chance to say -- what i cannot comment on, which in general is certainly any possible litigation, the nature of negotiations or contemplations regarding action that the government might take. certainly not only because i have not been in the room, but because you have got, whether it is diplomatic conversations or issues of determining what one might or might not do. it also goes in the hypotheticals. so i can't answer that. what i can say is that the level of what we have di

the nation that his cuts instituted by doge the department of government efficiency, his tariffs and his ukraine policy will make the united states stronger. jeff zeleny starts us off at the white house. and, jeff, what is the white house saying about what we should expect to hear from the president tonight? >> well, jake, we know that the president has been spending most of the afternoon putting some of the finishing touches in his own language and edits into the speech. it's the first time he will return to the capital to give a primetime address. of course, he had his inauguration speech there just 43 days ago. so the actions of those 43 days, i'm told, are going to be a bit of a bridge of an outline of this speech. he's going to be talking a lot about the government efficiency. he's going to be talking a lot about elon, musk told elon musk will be on hand in the chamber. and that, of course, has been the really focus of the first few weeks of the administration. but the action of just the last 24 hours, or certainly shining a brighter light on the actual policies of this administration. and i am told that the white house has been fielding calls all day long from republicans who a

i would refer you to the department of state for further details, but i'm not going to get into those talks here. the island official has more from the white house. if there's an indication that the pump is going to approach things differently and rip up the playbook that has been used in the past, it is this, this is a huge look significant from us was a group that was designated by the united states as a terrorist organization back in 1997 and the us has a long standing. busy but it does not negotiate or meet with terrorist organizations. now we find that item bowler, who is the president's invoice for hostage affairs, as health discussions with senior home us biggers in do ha, over the last few weeks now were told that the israelis had been informed of those discussions, but not told about all the details they've been talking about the release of 59 captive still in guys a. it's believe $22.00 of them may still be alive, but it's also so the talks of brought in into a white a piece deal. we know that, steve, what cost is the mind? the donald trump cost with the idea of extending the c spot and gaza and also seeing if there was prospect for th

the campaign trail. >> you know, i'm going to take the department of education, close it in washington, let the states run their own education. >> all right, let's go live now to cnn white houseorter kevin liptak. kevin, is this even legal? >> well, democrats say it's not an even linda mcmahon. the president's new education secretary said during her confirmation hearings that this would require an act of congress. they would need 60 votes in the senate to break a filibuster. they don't have that right now. so what the plan appears to be is to dismantle this department piece by piece, to move some of its essential functions, like enforcing civil rights laws, managing student loans like pell grants, moving those to other areas of the federal government. but at the end of the day, no president before has tried to unilaterally dismantle an entire federal agency. so i think it's clear that this is going to end up in court like so many other of the president's executive orders. >> for example. >> all right, kevin liptak, thank you so much for the latest there, wolf. >> the next government agency, pamela, on the chopping block right now, veterans affairs, hard to believe. according

the joint session of congress last night. also with us, msnbc political analyst elise jordan. with us still. she's former aide to the george w bush white house and state department your reaction to the president's speech last night? your senator's democratic response? and how do democrats drive this message moving forward? well, it was 100 minutes, as we've all discussed, of a lot of drama and theater and two minutes of economics. so but i also am going to be very honest with you. it was one of the tensest nights. i can't count how many state of the unions i've attended over the years, both as a member and a spouse, and it was it was like nothing that i had ever seen. i will say this, i think elissa slotkin did an excellent job. she, by the way, wound up michigan's the down river, as you all hear me talk about the area that made me say to you in 2016, hillary clinton wasn't going to win. i think she delivered a very direct message about the issues that are facing us, and are the issues that we've got to work on, and democrats have got to do a better job of listening to working people, talking to them in ways that they see and understand, and lifting up the human

the joint session. >> of congress. >> last night. >> also with us, msnbc. >> political analyst. >> elise jordan. >> with us still. she's former aide. >> to. >> the george w. >> bush white house. >> and state departmentman, your reaction to the president's speech last night? your senator's democratic response? and how do democrats drive this message. moving forward? well, it. >> was 100. >> minutes. >> as we've all discussed, of a lot of drama and theater and two minutes of economics. so but also, i'm going to be very honest with. >> you. >> it was one of the tensest nights. >> i can't. >> count how many state of the unions i've attended over the years, both as a member and a spouse. and it was it was. >> like nothing that i had ever seen. >> i will. >> say this. i think elissa. >> slotkin did. >> an. >> excellent job. >> she. >> by the way. >> wound up. >> michigan's the down river, as you all hear me talk about the area that made me say to you in 2016, hillary clinton wasn't going to win. i think she delivered a very direct message about the issues that are facing us and are the issues that we've got to work on, and democrats have got to do a better job of listening to. >> working people. >> talkin

white house. officials as washington is reviewing, with a billions of dollars given to keep helping you especially invoice the with cost is expected to visit the middle east and the coming days. being state department sense . you're welcome to options to extend the 1st phase of a ceasefire, which is well, has insisted on how much has refused for the rest of the 2nd phase of the agreement on you as president donald trump is announced that the 25 percent of the cars will be imposed on canada and mexico will take effect in the next hour, the finding of the canadian dollar. we can tell one months low against the us. seller has been used for donald trump also says the taiwan semi conduct and manufacturing company would invest a $100000000000.00 in additional manufacturing plants in the us to yes, m c makes most of the wells and bonds chips. the announcement comes off to the us president threatened to impose tasks on tie $170.00 conduct the industry last week . so i have to pull what i've done truly, i guess from this center for international governance innovation. and this is trump's announcement luck. substance g s s e, sorry to go this 1st plant and united states about 5 years ago and just recently ma

the united states of america in its cherished oval office. he can come back when he's ready for peace, end quote. trump took it even further when talking to reporters outside the white house before departing for mar a lago. >> i'm not looking to get into anything protracted. >> i want immediate peace. president putin is going to want to make and he wants to make. he wants to end it. and you saw what i saw today. this is a man that wants to get us signed up and keep fighting. and we're not doing that, not for this country. >> when you start talking. >> he's got to say, i want to make peace. he doesn't have to stand there and say about putin, this putin, that all negative things he's got to say, i want to make peace. i don't want to fight a war any longer. his people are dying. he doesn't have the cards. >> much of this monumental shift in american foreign policy has flown under the radar because of the sheer amount of anti-democratic rhetoric coming out of the trump white house. but it began in earnest, at least in public, two and a half weeks ago, when trump held a one on one phone call with vladimir putin. immediately after that, trump administration officials began publicly parroting se

white house having worked with the state department, the short answer is no. this was supposed to be a very straightforward, you know, diplomatic initiative. you know, to sure up us ukrainian relations prior to the beginning of the goal. she ations and obviously what we're seeing now is the relationship in adult spiral adults on clear if for the leaders can the can pull it out before it actually crashes. yeah. even on the inside, as he said at the white house at the state department, what do you think happened here? what was the lensky ambushed? was this old premeditated? it's a very good question. i don't we, we know the answer yet. you know, clearly the truck, the administration has been signaling a dramatic shift in us policy towards ukraine. you know, but this was mismanaged by the white house. this was mismanaged by the cranium side . we know these were very blunt words. they are not surprising and of themselves. what's shocking is that they occurred in the public domain. all right, but the bottom line is, this was a very bad day for ukraine, a bad day for the united states and to very, very good day for russia. so what's, what, what's the white house going to do now? you think, are they going to stop s

white house, officials as washington, just reviewing whether billions of dollars given to key of helping to end the war with the russia. us special envoy, steve witt cops, expected to visit mid least in the coming days. the state department says we call for work on 2 options to extend the 1st phase, which is relevant to sedona and the masters refused in progress to the 2nd phase. us present, donald trump is announced of 25 percent types will be imposed on canada and mexico starting from tuesday, the value of the canadian dollar. we can to a one month flow against the us dollar as the news broke. well don't shop also says the taiwan semi conduct a manufacturing company will invest a $100000000.00 an additional manufacturing bonds in the us. t s m. c makes most of the wells advanced chips announcement comes off to the us president present to impose terrace on the tie one semi conductor industry last week, down to react as a senior fellow in the global economy program at the center of international governance innovation. he says trump's announcement lacks substance. yes, i see. sorry to go this 1st plant in 96 about 5 years ago and just recently managed to finally get it up and running there some chips. uh and uh, and that

the outlet reporting the white house has directed the state and treasury departments to draft a list ofanctions that can be lifted for upcoming discussions with russian officials. that reportedly includes removing restrictions on select entities and individuals like those russian oligarchs. joe. so there's when you put all these pieces together, pausing the aid, talking about easing sanctions on russia. and we're having reporting now out of the defense department that pete hegseth has told people there to stop offensive cyber against russia. there are many questions we could ask and questions that have been asked over the years. why, why, why is he leaning so hard in the direction of vladimir putin? >> yeah, the. >> question is why? but right now, to the ukrainians fighting for their very lives, for their freedom, for their country. oh my gosh, we're going to work on your. >> sorry to interrupt you. we're going to work on your mic for one second. we're not picking you up peter baker, let's let's go to you on this. we're going to hear at this address tonight, the joint session of congres

of whom have complained directly to the president. a spokesperson for the state department didn't request for comment from nbc news, but a white house official said, quote, there was no complaining. there was open and positive discussion on the best ways to implement those recommendations. it was fascinating and productive. sure, it was fascinating. >> then on. >> friday, nbc's gabe gutierrez asked the president about this reported clash from the day before. >> mr. president, since you last spoke about it yesterday. >> some details have come out. >> about your. >> cabinet meeting. with elon musk and some. >> clashes potentially between secretary. >> rubio and secretary. >> no clash. >> i was there. >> you're just a troublemaker. and you're not supposed to be asking. >> that. >> question because we're talking. about the world cup. but elon gets along great with. >> marco and they're both. >> doing a fantastic job. there is no clash. >> mr. president who bottom. >> line, who are you with? >> who are you with? nbc. no wonder, mr. president. nbc who has more authority. elon musk. >> or your. >> cabinet secretary? >> any other questions? they're

of minerals in western areas. greenland is a fantastic country. i've been operating there now with my partner for 22 years. we've got the massive resource. we've already been to the white house, we've already seen the state departmentt is going to get its supply from for the next -- charlie: tony, this is such great stuff, and i hope you'll come back and join us again and we can talk more about it. thank you, tony sage. >> no por -- worries. thank you. peter: coming up, president trump's senior add advisor, jason miller, will be here. charlie: but first, abby hornacek is live from st. petersburg, florida, ahead of the indycar series on fox.muci ♪ -- you've been creeping arouni a onme me ♪ your system fast. by the time you wake up, you're ready to take on the day. try it and feel the difference. mucinex nightshift, it's comeback season. [background sounds] charlie: today the indycar series officially launching on fox. the season opener getting underway in st. petersburg, the first stop on the road to the indy 500. rachel: let's head back to st. petersburg, florida, where abby hornacek is live along with today's starting lineup drierveg alexander rossi. good morning, abby. >> reporter: that's right, rachel. good morn

white house. the speaker pro tempore: referre d to the department of foreign affairs and the judiciary and ordered printed. the chair lays before the house a message. the clerk: to the congress of the united states, consistent with applicable law, including the national emergencies act 50 united states code 1621 and the international emergency economic powers act 50 united states code 1701, i am providing notice of certain actions i have taken to address the synthetic opioid supply chain in the peoples republic of china and the flow of illicit drugs across our northern and southern borders, as reflected in executive orders described below, the sustained influx of opioids and other drugs have a profound impact on our nation and endangering lives and putting a strain on our health care system, public services and communities. these actions are an expansion of the national emergency i proclaimed in proclamation 10886 of january 20, 2025, declaring a national emergency of the southern border of the united states, executive order 14193 as amended by executive orders 14197 and 14226 and executive order 14194 as amended by executive orders 14198 and 14227, expand the scope of the aforementioned nationa

white house meeting yesterday where behind the scenes, elon musk clashed with several members of trump's cabinet. at one point, according to the times, musk attacked secretary of state marco rubio for firing, quote, nobody at the state department telling him that he was good on tv, with the new york times reporters noting, quote, the clear subtext being that he wasn't good for much else, unquote. joining us on the phone, the new york times, maggie haberman, who along with jonathan mann jonathan swan broke the story. maggie, what led to the blowups between elon musk and these cabinet secretaries? >> so, jake. >> this meeting. >> was called. >> this cabinet. >> meeting was. >> called abruptly. >> on wednesday evening. >> not all. >> of the cabinet was. >> there because of that. >> scott bessent the treasury secretary, who is. >> among the. >> people who has had. >> tensions with musk's effort, was. >> giving a speech. >> in new. >> york and wasn't present. >> but a number of cabinet officials have been. >> frustrated with the approach that doge is taking. musk's cost. >> cutting initiative not that they. >> disagree with the idea. >> or. >> the concept behind it, but just with the chainsaw. you know, across. >> the. >> board.. >