elise jordan. reverend mark thompson. elise, you tweeted, quote, i love nikki haley. good for her. >> i'm glad that she stood up for herself. this was a ridiculous episode. a leader who, as you said, is always prepared, always does her homework, wouldn't be out in front of the official white house talking points. and this was in fact the policy. you look at the rnc distributing talking points that said that sanctions were part of the hit on russia and syria, part of the package that we were undertaking in response to the chemical weapons attack that assad committed. it just is unbelievable to me that this white house either lacks the coordination to know what their policy is, which is scary enough, or donald trump is so scared to actually take tough measures against the russians. >> you buy that though? the white house says it's a communications snafu. i don't buy that. how about you? >> no, i don't. we've seen how erratic and bipolar he's been when it comes to russia. i applaud nikki haley for standing up for are herself, but also reading what she did say. she says i

>> as elise mentioned, it is money.ignificant amount of capability in the region as well. the united arab emirates, saudis, qataris have tremendous ability and aircraft. there's no reason they shouldn't be participating in these raids against isis targets as well. they can relieve a lot of the sorties that our own people are flying. >> putting you on the spot, but if you were advising the president, what would you tell him? >> i would say the rs would thing we could do is make the mistake the obama administration did. we think the vacuum is going to be filled by people on our side. quite the contrary. wet don't want the russians to succeed. we don't want the iranians to succeed. for that matter, we don't want to see the turks succeed. let's stay in there, get the job done and take the time we need. >> brigadier general mark kimmett, always appreciate your insight. thank you ps. five service members killed in 24 hours. none of them in combat. the latest on the military investigation into deadly aircraft crashes next. you

so first to you, elise. first, the inference coming from the vice president that there may be sarin use and now we're hearing from the senior official saying a combination of chlorine and sarin. why is that significant? >> well, it's a couple of things. significant because what they do is they mix it. it's mostly chlorine which is kind of weaponize and they mix in sarin to make it more deadly. that's a nerve agent banned by the treaty on chemical weapons. >> chlorine is not? >> chlorine is not, however, the weaponization of chlorine is banned under this convention. the u.s. is being very fuzzy. they say we assess. vice president pence said we may come to. they're making a determination based on the evidence they have right now. >> meaning the visual? >> meaning the visual. the video they see. the frothy mouths. the horrible images we saw. symptoms consistent with an attack. these people have to be hosed off. they're coming from helicopters and the opposition doesn't have helicopters. >> no direct chemical ev

cnn's elise labott is joining me with much more on this. elise, what is going on here?nikki haley has been one of the most ardent supporters of president trump. clearly, he gives her a lot of leeway to speak her mind, but she doesn't give out policy pronouncements that aren't true, and i think when she said that she had every expectation leaving a meeting on friday at the white house. that sanctions were to be announced against russia and particularly companies that were supplying syrians with helicopters or other ammunition that could be used for chemical weapons that they would be announced monday or even sooner and it seems as if there was a miscommunication within the administration and when larry kudlow said that, he said that she was confused, she said wait a minute, you know, this is basically what she was saying in that statement and my understanding is that those sanctions will be released and interestingly enough, larry kudlow made a mea culpa. he called and apologized to nikki haley, but what did he say? no matter what, where does that leave things? >> well,

elise, this is pretty interesting. it gives you a sense of what happened in this meeting. you're not normally privy to. what can you tell us about what happened? the president was clearly irritated. you have a lot of juicy details. >> he was going on about how much this is costing the u.s. people. he, and his campaign, since then promised supporters he wants to bring all that money back home and he said, you know, i don't -- looking at the hundreds of millions of dollars being spent in syria, he said the u.s. isn't getting anything for it. and he wants to know why the job against isis is not done and said to his military advisers, i want troops home in four to six months and you have his top military advisers like the joint chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general dunford, defense secretary mattis saying, look, the job is not done, you said you want an enduring victory defense isis and we can't get the job done in four to six months and president trump said, you know what, you have four to six months to defeat isis, get it done, and, you know, he's also wants as the w

thanks to eli and anna, elise. i'm nicollewallace, "mtday" starts rightow.> we've gone a long way from facebook saying there is no way any fake news happened here to 83 million -- >> they remind me of old-fashioned republicans. like, oh, we don't have to talk to the press. nothing to see her. hyper defensive until they want to show you something that is a mirage. i'm unimpressed. >> when you keep having to fill in the blanks it makes you wonder how much more blanks do we not know

. >> elise, you have been inside government. take us through this.u have any sense looking at this from the outside what haley says sunday, what the administration then does, back and forth with kudlow. how in an decision something like that could happen. >> within the trump administration, chaos rules the day. sometimes the staffing process doesn't seem like the normal process that would be implemented from the national security council and across inner agencies of government. however, nikki haley is very careful and anybody rat when she speaks publicly. i have no doubt this was discussed and agreed upon as part of the toolbox that president trump was using to attack syria. she came out. these the rnc distributed talking points that said new sanctions were part of this response as reported by ileana johnson in politico. it shows the confusion of the trump administration if they send out a cabinet official, ambassador to the u.n. with incorrect information. >> i don't mean to interrupt. i just want to take -- live quickly the president having dinner.

. >> okay, elise. i've got you now. two notes. i was going to ask you about the meeting with kim jong un. it's noteworthy the president is talking about this secret meeting which his cia head, goes to north korea, bheemeets with jong un, he needs the confirmation from the committee and one of the no votes is from rand paul. you hear the president saying he hasn't let me down in the past. there's that. and, number two, with the prime minister of japan the news emerges in the last 48 hours that pompeo pops over to north korea, i'm wondering if japan feels at all sidelined. would they have any say when kim is in the room with trump? >> let's unpack the pompeo stuff first, brooke. one of the reasons that rand paul says he doesn't want to vote for mike pompeo is because a lot of his previous record which is considered kind of hawkish. he supported a president trump that was elected on promising to get the u.s. out of entitlements abroad. rand paul is not interested in u.s. military overseas, was against the iraq war, is against any kin

elise jordan, former aide in the george w. bush white house and state department, now an msnbc contributor. and journalist eli stokols, an msnbc analyst who also covers the trump white house. >>> phil rucker, let's start with you. 24 hours ago we marvelled at the president's statements alongside the french president where he said, eh, what does ronny need this for, all the haggling? run a hospital. today the white house digging in standing by their man, not only has he been vetted, he's been vetted better than anyone else in the history of vetting. what is up with their swerving and inconsistent messaging in this nomination? >> well, it has been inconsistent, nicolle. yesterday right after you were off the air, ronny jackson was at the white house meeting with president trump talking about all of this. there was a decision that they made to go forward, to fight back. jackson wants a chance to defend himself. he wants to be able to appear before the senate and answer these questions and talk about his own history and background

elise, to you first, at the very least, the pictures, the images, they're extraordinary. what's your take? >> i'm cautiously optimistic. i think it's always better when we're talking. and i think we're starting to see the beginning of a process. while there's nothing concrete, it's at least a step in the right direction. so i don't want to be too excited, but i am feeling way more optimistic than i felt over the past year, that perhaps a peaceful outcome is possible. >> ron, how does this set the stage for president trump's planned meeting with kim jong up just a few weeks from now? >> it raises the question whether or not he's going to be the closer on this. certainly you have to give the trump administration some credit if indeed the maximum sanctions approach taken against north korea actually brought kim jong-un to the table. but whether or not they could close this deal, again, in the absence of understanding what denuclearization means to north korea versus what it means to the rest of the world that is the probably thorniest question this entire negotiation. euro y

it's an embarrassment if i was an arab leader i would and i would be forced to come maybe but i would elise cover my face while attending the meeting for yemen for example three years we're entering we entered a fourth year of war all of this because to return president hadi back to power and and till today he still living in saudi arabia after three plus years he still living in saudi yes he has an easy trip to the summit but it's an embarrassment that all these prices are not being solved whether it's in yemen and palestine and syria all of these countries will face last pieces division from within so i don't have no idea why the arabs are even meeting just to ensure to the world that we are more divided that you then you think that's the message that's ok and i hope they let me that we are divided we're very much divided ok let me put that to sammy sammy do you agree with a. pretty gloomy picture that came this painting of. the lack of unity at the arab summit and the fact that he says that the palestinian cause is a lost cause. the lack of unity is not a new scene really. got a unified

lease a shortly after those reports of their strikes earlier today on saturday morning now in that elise a it was very clear that the french president felt that he had no choice than to order these airstrikes alongside his u.k. and u.s. partners for him he said a red line had been crossed and what he meant by that was the fact that since he came to the presidency last may he has talked about the use of chemical weapons in syria being a red line for him a red line that france would have to retaliate afterwards and this is what we've seen today with these airstrikes he has said that the use of chemical weapons is not acceptable he said for him it was clear that the syrian regime was behind the attack in do marty said the chlorine was used there a couple of days ago in an interview he pointed the fact that france had proof that chemical weapons had been used and proof that the syrian regime was behind it so all of these aspects really have come together in effect to really well in a sense you might say it was almost inevitable that the french president would be involved in some sort of mili

i want to bring in cnn's global affairs correspondent elise labbot. was there any tension over the strikes? >> i think there was debate you saw over the last couple of days among the national security council, the president and advisers. you have the new national security adviser john bolton who is looking for a much more robust, as was nikki haley as well, but i think general mattis, defense secretary mattis and general dunford, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, are really trying to get the president to look at the bigger picture that they don't want to escalate with russia. because, you know, you can hit and make your point, but they also wanted to make sure and mattis even said they didn't want this to escalate. that was the message they were saying to russia. we're not trying for regime change. we're not trying to change the trajectory of the civil war. but the chemical weapons use has to be responded to and, you know, you just need to stand back. >> mattis saying this is limited in scope. the president had said he wanted it to be sustain

as elise said we're talking about how china is threatening to respond to the u.s.nd that is with sanctionors tariffs on soy beans. look at those states right in the middle of the country there. those are soy bean producing states, mostly republican, red states but some blue states. what they all also have in common is that they have about a dozen, all told, very competitive house races, david. this is important when you're talking about the democrats having only 23 states -- >> districts. >> districts, thank you. when you have a dozen that have concerned farmers/voters, that's not good for the president or the white house. >> part of the trump base, farmers and in a lot of these states that he won, i saw washington post analysis. he sort of won by 12 percentage points in counties that have soy beans. >> he's also talking about car. >> it goes beyond soy beans. you are right to point out it is much more acute and imminent for house members who are running in this very tough environment. so it's not just a president trump 2020 problem where there's time to improve th

with me now, elise labott and samantha vinograd. great to see both of you. elise, your reporting is that donald trump is the one who decided to hold back on sanctions. it was his decision. but are you hearing when he decided and why nikki haley wasn't informed? >> i think he decided over the weekend, we're not really clear whether it was before nikki haley went out on those sunday talk shows or afterwards. i think that, you know, essentially she was on the understanding that sanctions were coming. it is usually treasury that lays out those kind of sanctions, maybe nobody expected from my understanding that she would kind of preview that the sanctions were going to be announced. so, you know, possibly no one thought, you know, to tell her about the actual day. i think it is really, kate, a note to self for nikki haley and any other member of the trump administration. you know, don't preview exact dates or exact times or exact policies because president trump can change his mind in an instant. >> previews are a challenge and risk. for sure. another part of thi

elise jordan, former white house aide. dan, still with me. elise, can scott pruitt survive this? hugh hewitt says this is about the media and left, they don't like pruitt's policyings. you can put the policy aside. this is about conduct, ethics. >> i would ask hugh how he would have felt in an obama administration cabinet official had behaved this way. if they'd been accepting room for $50 a night in a rental that's market value of $5,000. if they'd been shopping around for net jets to fly around the countries. is that fiscal conservativism? is it fiscal conservativism not being involved in the free market when you are accepting that room that end you approve the lobbyist deal? i think it's incredibly hypocritical of conservatives to ignore the clear corruption. >> jeremy, take me inside the white house. because politico has reported that john kelly has considered firing pruitt in the coming months but this one is very tricky for the president. he doesn't have a lot of people he likes around him. he likes pruitt. people have told me pruitt is a guy he has considered to get sessio

pantists here, george will, elise jordan. danielle, you are an international affairs expert.we are talking about policy with russia, i will give you the first shot at this. it was interesting to hear ron johnson call him an unfriendly adversary. you have made the case that the administration is tough. what about the president? does that matter? >> so one of the things that troubles me about the whole discussion on russia is that when someone in the administration does something bad, we all say, the president owns that. his administration. this is the trump administration. when the administration does something good on russia, all of a sudden it's trump probably disagrees with this. no. that doesn't happen in an administration. you do not expel 60 diplomats, impose sanctions, you do not do the things the administration has done if the president isn't okay with it. what he thinks in his heart of hearts, i have honestly no idea. but i think the administration has represented a stronger line on russia policy than the obama administration did. >> joshua, the argument some will mak

elise jordan, former aide in the george bush white house. former press secretary for president obama, and chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney and former senior fbi official, all lucky us, are now msnbc analysts and contributors. >>> let me start with you, frank figliuzzi. what does this look like from someone inside the fbi that the people around the president who are sort of living proof of loose lips sinking ships won't even, you know -- they lie about the most audacious things, the size of an inauguration crowd, the size of, you know, this and that. no one is pretending that cohen isn't a live downed wire. >> well, think about this. let's say you or i have our home or office raided by the fbi. and think about a scenario in which all we and our friends can talk about is whether i'm going to flip on them. this simply is extraordinary. and the assumption here, of course, is that this guy has got something. he's got something he's guilty of and more importantly he's got something to share that is going to point toward the president. that's

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let's go zrat to our global affairs correspondent elise lavin. elise, what are you learning?re about president trump's meeting with his top military and national security advisors yesterday on syria in which he talked about his wishes for the u.s. to get out of syria, to pull troops out. we understand it was a very testy meeting. president trump going on about the amount of money it is taking for u.s. to have this commitment. he wants troops to come home. he wants to end the u.s. commitment there. essentially, all his military advisors, chief, joint chiefs of staff, general joseph dunford, defense secretary mattis and others, saying that the job against isis is not done. isis is not defeated. president trump telling his military advisors he wants u.s. troops out within six months. finish the job within six months so that u.s. troops can go home. we understand that, you know, general dunford did explain to president trump that taking troops out too hastily would allow russia, iran, turkey to advance their own interests in syria, but at the same time president trump saying he p

as a cause of a straight away to our correspondent elise is in paris lisa how much disruption is this strike causing. well a lot rainy it crossed france and also at this train station behind me very few trains are running on certain train lines only one out of ten trains that is circulating and obviously the people that want to want to go to work are trying to get on the strain as we could see on the pictures this morning that you wishing earlier there was one train here at the train station behind me that was canceled at the last minute by many people who are hoping to get on that train and then get down get down on the tracks to crap cross over to another platform actually to get another train so it's grab a celtic although overall one must say the situation is rather calm lots of train stations across the country are rather deserted and those who can pass saying at home and taking the car or taking the car to work of course which of course then leads to major traffic jams should imagine this is french president manuel merkel's first big challenge to his reform plans how much suppor

perhaps devote more resources on the ground to stopping these horrific attacks. >> what about that elise? the president said days ago that the u.s. will soon be out of it, let the others take care of syria. is that what he's talking about? >> i think that still stands, i'm not sure you're going to have a wholesale change in the policy in syria. and i'm sure in the days and weeks to come, there will be a lot of discussion about that. i'm sure tomorrow there will be a very narrow discussion on the type of response, i'm sure there's going to be some type of response. the administration is talking to it's allies in europe. the french are talking about what they would do if they were faced with chemical weapons. i think you'll see some kind of action, i couldn't imagine the time frame, but it would have to be pretty soon. but in terms of russia, yes, the u.s. doesn't want to get into a war with russia, if you remember, when president trump took that action last year, he also said it was a message to russia in terms of its approasu of assad. >> parallel to the trade dispute with china here, th

. >> joining us now cnn political analyst josh rogan and cnn global affairs continue elise labbot. the difference between last year and now, michael bolton is now national security advisor. >> it could affect the strategy going forward, a lot of people are saying that this attack could have a direct correlation to president trump's comments earlier this week that the u.s. was going to get out of syria. john bolton has written about how the u.s. has to have a strong international presence in syria and elsewhere in the region to make sure that russia and iran do not get a foothold. i think you might see john bolton look for some kind of strong response, i think the discussions right now, though, the immediate discussions, a small group of national security advisors meeting tomorrow will be limited to this attack. >> i went back and look, it was march 29, so a week ago thursday, president trump said he wanted u.s. troops out of syria soon, josh, republicans have said that is possible that may have triggered this attack. john mccain saying last week's signal to the world that the unite

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elise, a, that was quite a statement from the ambassador., b, larry kudlow has apologized to her. yes? >> he has, brooke. let's start with b. larry kudlow called up and told nikki haley, you're right, when you made that statement, that was the policy. but the policy has as soon sinc changed. there was a meeting at the white house. she thought that was the policy. the policy changed over the weekend. nobody bothered to tell nikki haley about that. layrry kudlow called her up, th policy changed, we're sorry we left you out of the loop. she doesn't want to pick a fight with the president but she was definitely fighting back about that disrespectful comment against larry kudlow. and i have to ask would larry kudlow have said that about a man and it was a demeaning statement and i think nikki haley stood up for herself. >> david, first, good to see you. first off of this whole nikki haley/larry kudlow, the fact of kudlow's own phrase, she was boxed out, she's going on all these sunday talk shows and they don't keep her in the loom, do y buy their

cnn's global affairs correspondent elise labbot joining me live right now.icial diplomatic ties between the two countries so exactly how do preparations like this happen? >> well, fred, there's been this existi ining channel between tha and the north korean what's called the general reconnaissance bureau. that's really the north korean intelligence equivalent. we understand that officials from those agencies have been speaking. they even met in a third country. cia director mike pompeo has been involved in this channel. we understand that they've been working on setting up a location and also kind of setting the scene for a meeting between mike pompeo and his north korean counterpart in the near future to prepare for those talks. and, you know, we haven't heard anything from the north koreans yet officially about, you know, their confirming that president trump accepted their invite. we do understand that, you know, now that they're in these preparatory talks, it's giving the u.s. a lot more confidence that the north koreans are serious about talking. we und

and our last panelist is miss elise sabina elise is the national program director for foundation responsible for directing foundations national and international program supporting the federal foundation building health communities including four cities and healthy counties challenge. prior to this position she served as a program officer and managed portfolios of international grants in the digital health and integrated healthcare with a focus on ordination and quality. she has four authored a number of articles and review journals including the general public health, predictive medicine and archived internal medicine. she's a 2012 fellow and in the grantmakers and health insurance institute for emergingleaders . and she earned her masters from the university of north carolina chapel hill and the university of rochester. we are going to do with our panel is we're going to start off in a general question. the panelists have 34 minutes to answer the question. our first question is this. for the second year in a row, in the united states is dropping. so can you speak briefly about your work an

elise, where are we? >> i can't help but to think today that the tide is pushing donald trump closer than ever to actually moving to fire bob mueller. the impression that sarah sanders gave today that he believes it is -- when she sa stated she believes it is within his power, it shows they are publicly addressing that they have discussed these scenarios. >> i agree he's going to fire him. it's how he's going to do its that i think there's a question. i think he's going to go after sessions and fire sessions, because the new attorney general can then go after rosenstein and go after mueller and trump says, i didn't do it, that was the attorney general. sarah has pretty much admitted, we talked about it, we think we can do it. i don't think they can do it. i think this is an untested part of the constitution. did the founding fathers foresee an independent counsel? by the way, you can't bring someone under control who's independent. lou dobbs and others are out of control. >> i think that the president him

elise labott or cnn global affairs correspondent.reporting, an inside look at this meeting where the president was meeting with his top national and military advisers. what can you tell us? >> sources tell me and cnn white house producer kevin lch liptak that this was a contentious meeting. president trump made clear to his military advisers that he wants troops out of syria. he is very upset about the money that is being expended. he looks at the money and says the americans have gotten nothing for it, particularly looking at gulf states and why they're not stepping up more. and he said i want u.s. troops out. and he told them, you know, let's try to get them out between four and six months. our understanding is that the joint chiefs of staff, general joseph dunford and jim mattis said the job is not done. you want an enduring victory. it's going to take more time to make sure that isis does not return, that russia, iran, turkey, other countries don't use a u.s. withdrawal to kind of fill a vacuum there and president trump was prett

. >>> we're going to break this down with tonight's panel, we have elise jordan, msnbc political analyst, former rand paul adviser. jonathan la mere, msnbc analyst, and before i get to all three of you, we were talking about the response from the white house, we now have this, this is from sarah huckabee sanders passing along this statement about john kelly. these are john kelly's words, i spend more time with mr. kelly than anyone else and we have a very candid relationship. he and i both know this story is b.s., this is another pathetic attempt to smear someone close to president trump. that is a statement being given to us from the white house by the chief of jaf jostaff john ko this reporting. jonathan la mere, seeing this response from john kelly, the chief of staff saying, still, there's no distance between me and the president, is that likely what's going on behind the scenes there? >> it's an aggressive push back, no doubt about it. but you remember that kelly also went to bat for h.r. mcmaster, about a week before he was dismissed. that doesn't mean that john kelly is going to b

>> elise, you mentioned this emergency u.n. security council meeting that was called. should we expect a different outcome this time around? >> i don't think so, ana. i mean, look, the russians are a permanent member of the u.n. security council with a veto, and not only have they not accepted resolutions criticizing the assad regime all along, they are certainly not going to take something that criticized themselves. you might see some kind of watered down statement, a presidential statement coming out. i think that there is more really of a way for, you know, countries to speak out tomorrow. you'll have u.n. ambassador, u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley in the chair who hasn't pulled her punches on the assad regime or russia, so i think that that will be a very kind of tough moment on behalf of the administration, but, you know, in addition to the u.n. security council, you also have the u.s. working with its allies, talking to the brits today, talking to the french. i think if you see some action, i don't know if you'll see something by the u.s. alone. could y

. >> and elise jordan in washington. we have eugene robinson and associate editor for the washington post as well. >> this amazon story again, i can't say it too much. the president goes into the white house yesterday and he's talking to reporters and everything he's saying is not wrong. it's a flatout lie. >> look, it's extraordinary and there are a couple of other points, but i think you guys covered it pretty well. first oaf all, if amazon were not paying enough to the post office the post office can raise their rates. amazon doesn't decide what it pays to the post office. the post office decides what to charge amazon. amazon is actually helping the post office because the post office is declining in first class mail. so their package business is their big business and one last point, the other thing going on in trump's mind i think from what you read and hear, his real estate buddies aren't happy about amazon because of what it's doing to retailers and malls and things like that and so you have a situation where trum

cnn's elise labott says the meeting was turbulent.any immediate withdrawal of american troops would be unwise. the president, sources tell cnn, asked why other countries, american allies, have not stepped in. he also complained about the cost. overall the president's demeanor was described as testy. joining us right now for more is retired lieutenant general mark hertling and retired rear admiral john kirby. general hertling, when you hear the president was at odds with all of his top military and national security advisers on syria on basically was a result of his off the cuff remarks that started last week, i'm wondering what you make of that. >> it didn't surprise me, anderson. i read the article that's now posted regarding what was said in the room. in fact, we were talking a little bit about that last night. you've got national security advisers, people who have spent a lot of time doing this kind of thing and soldiers and marines who have spent a lot of time on the battlefield trying to sp persuade someone who hasn't had those k

bush elise jordan. former treasury official, steve rattner, along with willie, joe and me, there are a number of stories this morning on the trump cabinet. we'll get to. but first after week of mourning and celebrating the life of first lady barbara bush, the bush family is praying for its patriarch today. george h.w. bush, the 41st president of the united states is in critical condition in houston. hospitalized sunday for a blood infection. last night a spokesman said the 93-year-old former commander-in-chief was responding to treemgatments. bush is the longest living president in american history. surpassing gerald ford last november. on friday bush saw mourners from the public attending his wife's viewing at houston's st. maarten's episcopal church. greeting families from his wheelchair for 20 minutes. george h.w. bush in critical condition this morning. >> yeah. obviously such a class act going out there. shaking hands with so many people that came by to bid farewell to the love of his life. for ove

elise, as we look at this, though, dana is right, probably not a surprise to many people that in fact she was still maintaining those close ties the kremlin. is this in some ways the kremlin controlling president trump? >> certainly that's something that they've tried to do. this is certainly as this plays out, there's been in tug of war between president trump's rhetoric on russia and his policy on russia. so the tougher he gets on russia -- >> elise, i'm going to pause you there because we see them coming out. let's take a listen. >> thank you very much. today i'm honored to welcome chancellor angela merkel back to the white house. over the past year i have enjoyed getting to know the chancellor very well through many productive calls, discussions and meetings. we have a great relationship. chancellor, i want to congratulate you once again on your election victory, fourth term in office. it's really something. congratulations. we're also pleased to have our newly confirmed united states ambassador to germany, richard grannel, an outstanding man. he's with us today. richard, congratu

elise is the national program director for aetna foundation. responsible for directing the foundation's national and international program supporting the federal foundation's mission of building healthy communities, including healthy cities and healthy counties challenge. prior to this position she served as a program officer and managed portfolios of national and international grants and digital health and enat that greated health care with focus on coordination and quality. she has coauthored a number of articles having been published in peer review journals. american public health, preventative medicine and archives of internal medicine. she is 2012 fellow in the grant makers keenan institute for emerging leaders and health philanthropy, sorry, and she earned her masters in public health from the university of north carolina chapel hill and bachelor of arts from the of the ever rochester. what we are going to do with our panel is we're going to start it off with a general question. the panelists each have three to four minutes to answer the

mother unfortunately passed away, and his father couldn't care for him and he was adopted by james and elise and brought to live in bethel. his grandmother, maggie lynn, was a well-known storyteller, and john's childhood was filled with stories about yupic legend and wisdom and culture. john's experiences growing up lid him to an incredibly important vocation -- translathing his native language into english. now, mr. president, you might be asking translathing. well, yes, that's actually very important in alaska. you see, we have about 20 different indigenous languages still spoken by the native peoples of my great state throughout the state. thousands of alaskans literally speaking these languages. during john's senior year of high school, he worked for the bureau of indian affairs where he was able to travel to different villages, translathing the yupik language and helping applicants fill out paperwork for housing, which was great training for the rest of his life. he also became passionate about the news and spreading the news. so in the 1970's, k.y.u.k., bethel's new local public radio

elise has more on preparations underway. >> it's the first time we've had a legal in 24 years in staternia. >> reporter: a cannabis college in oakland is organizing can-a-crawl. >> decriminalized it, that gives the people and the community an opportunity to have events such as this. >> reporter: justice january, california legalized adult use of marijuana without a medical card. but back in 2012, dea agents raided oakster dam and temporarily shut it down. can-a-crawl is a way to celebrate progress. now all kinds of businesses around telegraph avenue are getting involved. >> i think it is really awesome that the restaurants and other businesses are starting to get involved because it shows their support. >> reporter: these bracelets offer can-a-crawl attendees discounts at participating businesses. here at harbor side dispensary this place is already packed and on 4-20 they'll offer even deeper discounts. >> it's going to be a fun time along with everybody getting a little, you know, high in a sense. so, it's not going to be like everybody is getting drunk and crazy. >> it's not a dange

were used in syria france would retaliate and that's what we're seeing now and as you pointed out elise a is saying that these airstrikes were targeted at the syrian regime's ability to produce and use chemical weapons it also is very interesting the communique says again that france has proof and the has no doubt that the syrian regime bears responsibility for that chemical attack in duma and simply that's a violation of international law that could not be tolerated by france and that is why france has decided to stand side by side with the u.s. and the u.k. and carry out these airstrikes so will these strikes on the french and what were the was the french involvement rather in these strikes inevitable. well i think for the french president his credibility was really at stake here you know since he became president nearly a year ago now he's never had a very clear policy on syria he has talked a lot in the past about the fact that president assad should be part of the diplomatic solution he's talked a lot less about that in recent months is also always said that chemical weapons use wo

as that even extended to james' mother and one of the principal questions why did elise carry so much about human rights? as part of her activism she sent countless letters about human rights violations i kept encountering them weather in idaho members of congress she was just a machine to turn out those letters. in the last person i want to talk about today one of the one of the longtime leaders several years before the 1973 coup. and to begin in segregated tennessee with that growing consciousness and it manifested with the war on vietnam. it was those government influences and without seminarians with whom he had worked and left the country back in the united states by his opposition by the administration with those victims of the oppression personally but his role was to influence policy in latin america and to this end he remembers regularly with generals trying to influence to introduce them in the chair leads with them and also monitor congressional hearings to collect information and in addition to organize a trip to chile for members of congress and those that were democrats

arab countries are witnessing today and living today yemen for example before in the previous summits elise the arabs were trying to solve their problems in the last couple of years if not solve the game or is just trying to find a scapegoat or fingers to blame the who is the reason for for example iran they are being blamed for yemen i have no doubt that they're involved in supporting the who the some way or the other but again what three years of war three plus years of war and there has been no advancements over the last nineteen to twenty months they hasn't the president himself is still living in riyadh there's no success story in any of the cities that. i have been controlled by the coalition so people were hopeful that the coalition might come and help yemen but there hasn't been that in yemen and that's why people are losing hope that this war is supposed to take long the international community or the international powers including nation with the gulf countries mainly saudi and the u.a.e. are purposely trying to make yemen work continue longer longer the him anyway right he doesn'

the medical examiner identifies him as elise yolo pez, but he said he went by elias perez. police say mark dennis drove his van into him and four other people last week. robe led doe was around the corner. he and his partner had been fishing in the bay. perez died in his arms. >> he was just laying down right here with his face all swollen, and i was crying. i was devastated. his fingers were purple. >> reporter: valentin bennett i cruise says he saw dennis drive the van down the sidewalk. he says the suspect first tried to attack him and his friends with a hatchet. >> translator: the guy started calling them names like foul names, mexican names. he got into the truck, made a u-turn, got into the sidewalk and just hit all of them. when he turned around to scream to the rest of the guys t was too late. >> reporter: knew a community is saying good-bye to a man they say was gentle and kind. another victim is in critical condition at san francisco general hospital. dennis is facing a long list of charges, including murder. jean elle, nbc bay area news. >>> demonstrators are dem

know not everyone on the far left like james comey based twenty six seem to even hope really clinton elise reads those parts of the book because i think she will walk away saying you know what i still think the guy's idiot but you know he's kind of an honest idiot. also coming up scientists in the u.k. and the u.s. say the. i'm that eats plastic a biological birth that comes not a second too soon. we have been sleepwalking through convenience into a culture where we want what we want when we want it and we're not really thinking about the impact and the consequences. oh we begin the day with the latest tell all book about the trump white house a higher loyalty by james komi went on sale today it is not written by a journalist with unprecedented access to the president the title is not similar to michael waltz fire in theory but it is already drawing plenty of both not only from president trump james komi was f.b.i. director one year ago when he writes that he had no idea that the newly elected president would shoot him down at the pinnacle of his career as top law enforcement officer of th

visit is ahead of a trilateral summit along with turkey and iran later on wednesday our correspondent elise is in ankara for us and to is live on the line what's on the agenda then for the two presidents the day early. hi again yes as you've said it's the turkish president and top aired on is welcoming vladimir putin at his own presidential palace and it was totally visible previously and you can see it on the leader's faces today now there is absolutely no doubt that they put behind the conflict over the downing of the russian army jet from a couple of years ago turkey and russia are genuinely very close now and i have a perfect example to prove that sources and the diplomatic community suggested that there was a lot of pressure on ankara from the west to make them expel the russian diplomats as a result of the script all poisoning scandals just like the european countries did but despite being allied with the likes of america and britain ankara said no way and here is going to quote from time period on just because some countries took some steps based on allegations we shouldn't just foll

bush white house and state department elise jordan. and steve ratner is with us. and former nato supreme allied commander now the dean of the fletcher school of law and diplomacy at tufts university, retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. so on top of this major story on syria that we're already talking about this morning, there are several big developments in washington as well. today, john bolton takes over as national security adviser with new signs that north korea is ready to sit down at the negotiating table. meanwhile, reports say scott pruitt was flying coach but only when he had to pay for it himself. it was first class when the taxpayers were picking up the tab. >> the guy is also flipping houses for dummy corporations. >> strange stuff going on there. >> it's his cattle's future. there's a different story for this guy everyday. he's got an entourage and a security detail greater than world leaders. >> lobbyists kicked him out of his apartment. oh well. >>> also this, john kelly is still on the job, but the question is this morning for how long?