nikki is a terrific spokesperson for the administration. situations change. you shouldn't read too much into this. there are classified issues, i'm not prepared to go through all these as the president said we're prepared to be very tough on russia. we've been very tough, as you've said. these russian sanctions were more impactful than anything before and whether we use military tools or whether we use economic tools we will constantly adjust these strateg ies based upon things that maybe going on behind the scenes that we don't want to

that nikki haley isn't to be trifled with. when rex tillerson and his advisors insulted her and there was some reporting about the vice-president and rex talking about her, sort of evaluating her job performance, she stood up for herself. so, she does have a record internally for standing up for herself and prevailing. >> i also think it's fascinating this is happening now that rex is gone -- i should say mr. tillerson, mr. tillerson is gone. she played him effectively as a nial foil to some extent. nikki haley was able to stay close to president trump in part by positioning herself in contrast -- >> there are words that are going to stick with us. 2020, 2024, remember those words, i don't get confused. every ad she does, they're confused. let's say trump is out of office. she can own the me, too clarity, a southern woman pointing, i don't get confused. >> remember i told you that. >> let me bring phil rucker back in. it seems if there is an achilles heel other than what your colleague ashley parker had to tweet out over the w

he it this when nikki haley announced sanctions on russia. to rex tillerson when he said the u.s. had a long-term plan to stay in syria and two months later the president said we were pulling out. both of those things were things the president had signed off on and then he reversed course suddenly, but it really puts his advisers and cabinet members in a tenuous position when they know they could be undermined by the commander-in-chief at any point days, weeks or months later. >> all right. thank you so much for being with us. appreciate it. >>> james comey will sit down for a live interview with jake tapper tomorrow on "the lead" 4:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. >>> absolute horror in the sky. passengers now describing how they pulled a woman back into a plane after the engine broke apart, shattered a window. the heroic efforts and what investigators just discovered about that plane next. let's take a look at some numbers: 4 out of 5 people who have a stroke, their first symptom... is a stroke. 80 percent of all strokes and heart disease

blaming nikki haley, that task fell to larry kudlow today, saying, quote, nikki haley got ahead of the job. she's a very effective ambassador, but there might have been some momentary confusion about that. which i guess is one way to explain it, unless you're nikki haley. she responded to mr. kudlow tonight by saying tonight, with all due respect, i don't get confused. larry kudlow know says he's apologized to haley. he now says it was he who was confused in this matter. the national investigator reporter at the washington post," a newly minted pulitzer prize yesterday. carol and colleagues broke the news yesterday about the president's reversal on nikki haley's sanctions announcement. carol also broke the news tonight about mike pompeo making a covert trip to north korea to meet personally with kim jong-un. and because she doesn't have enough to do, carol also has a brand new fresh scoop tonight about the president's legal team in the mueller investigation and the question of whether the president will sit for an interview with the special counsel. carol, you are a very busy person. t

he called and apologized to nikki haley, but what did he say?matter what, where does that leave things? >> well, he called neck i haley and apologized and he also told her and told media outlets that the plans were changed and that sanctions were to be announced and the plan was changed and haley was not caught in the loop. clearly, this goes to the larger issue about whether sanctions are going to be announced on russia. the president has been reluctant to do things to escalate these tensions with russia and it seems to be what kudlow was saying and this is our understanding from talking to other officials that the president is, you know, putting a slow roll on this. there are some reports coming out of russia from the state news agency task that the white house even called the russians and said sanctions are not coming. we haven't gotten confirmation from the white house. officially the administration says sanctions are being considered but where does that leave nikki with the administration? every day it's something else and things will proba

nikki haley at the u.n.as been a hawkish voice on russia going after them for their support for syrian leader bashar al-assad, presence in ukraine, and their meddling in the 2016 election. president trump has been more muted on that front. is nikki haley seen as a loose cannon when it comes to this type of policy? guest: some people in the white house see her that way, seeing her as try to use her perch in the u.n. to advance her political career. she is getting attention for what she is saying on russia. -- some people suspect she is taking the stance on russia, going further than the president, in order to further her own career. host: your story this morning -- i will just read the headline -- fuels -- t was a risinghaley star. she earned a lot of credit for how she handled the racially motivated killing in charleston, south carolina. she took down the confederate flag. she is rumored to want to run for president one day. people think that, again, she is using this position to advance her political career

ambassador of the united nations, nikki haley.trong words against the russian and the syrians the last several days. standby for that. i want to bring in brendan boyle of pennsylvania, thank you so much for being with us. let me start with the basic question. do you believe assad's use of chemical weapons one week ago demanded a military response? >> yes, i do. i called for that in the after math and one week after the latest chemical attack, i wrote a letter along with a colleague saying this administration needed to do far more and formulate a policy and consider any sort of strikes that would take away the ability of this regime to deliver those sort of chemical attacks. keep in mind even though this is -- this latest attack by assad is one that got a lot of media attention. this is the eighth chemical attack this year. >> right. >> under taken by the assad regime. >> military officials and pentagon officials say this blow cripple the ability of syria to produce these chemical weapons, mary how do you assess what you heard? >>

ambassador nikki haley said the opposite on national television. we'll talk about that and more with senator ben cardin of the foreign relations committee just announced he's voting against mike pompeo's nomination and our specialists are also standing by. but let's begin with the chief white house correspondent jim acosta, covering the president down in florida. jim, the president is meeting with the japanese prime minister and we expect to hear from him later tonight. >> reporter: that is right, wolf. and a senior administration official as you just said confirmed to cnn the trump administration informed the russian embassy on sunday that there would not be an additional round of sanctions aimed at moscow, part of the reason for that call we're told is some of the confusion that was created by the u.n. ambassador nikki haley on sunday when she said another round of sanctions against russia were on the way. that confusion comes as the white house is trying to make preparations for a high-level meeting between the president and kim jong-un. all of

nikki haley did not go rogue.nd i think that the fact that the white house wasn't communicating with all of the people about the message was a problem with the white house. it wasn't a problem with nikki haley. >>> coming up on "morning joe," mike pompeo has not been confirmed as secretary of state but he sure seems to be playing the part. new details on his secret meeting with north korea's dictator. . >>> plus, his twitter feed is always a great resource but particularly during moments like these. presidential historian michael beschloss joins us with his reflections on barbara bush. "morning joe's" coming right back. alright, i brought in high protein to help get us moving. ...and help you feel more strength and energy in just two weeks! i'll take that. -yeeeeeah! ensure high protein. with 16 grams of protein and 4 grams of sugar. ensure. always be you. overwhelming air fresheners can send you running... so try febreze one. with no aerosols and no heavy perfumes. so you can spray and stay. febreze one. if your

ambassador nikki haley officially announced them.eff bennett is traveling with the president. jeff, what is the white house saying? nikki haley was very clear on sunday. sanctions coming. how'd they hit the brakes? >> well, the reason there won't be at least for now a fresh round of sanctions is we're told president trump in consultation with his national security team is not comfortable with executing of them. remember just a couple days ago, president trump said russia would pay a big price for enabling syria's use of chemical weapons against civilians. it appears for now big price will not include a fresh round of sanctions. >> great, can you just pause one second? if they weren't -- if trump and his advisers weren't comfortable with it, nikki haley, why would they let her go out there and tell the world on sunday what the government was about to do if they hadn't approved it? they're making her look like a chump and it's not her fault. >> i would say you're right about that. we're working right now to get some more reporting on t

this is -- nikki haley is going to do for the u.n.t scott pruitt is going at the epa, sort of reduce the role of the u.s. government. she hasn't done that. she's been remarkably engaged. she's been forward-leaning with respect to russia and north korea. and with respect to syria. does this damage that standing that she's worked to so hard to build up when people at the u.n. say you can call the meetings but apparently you don't speak for the president of the united states? >> right. in a sense here, nikki haley had to clap back in this situation. it's not just about her personal reputation. it's actually about the legitimacy of the u.s. negotiating position. she is the point person who when we're talking about sanctions against north korea or russia is the one who is out there. if you undermine her legitimacy and her authority, we're actually harming our own negotiating strategy. >> all right. thank you to both of you. lindsey ford and jane harmon. great conversation. thank you. >>> yesterday i saw steve schmidt said nikki haley hurt

if we can rewind to nikki haley's conclusion, the final takedown in this spat between nikki haily andte house after larry kudlow said she was confused about the timing of sanctions and whether it happened, she says i don't get confused. as someone who is in communication, you have to be impressed by that communication. >> absolutely. loud and clear, john. i suspect mr. kudlow has the burn marks to prove it. i've trained a lot of cabinet officers and spokespeople to go on sunday shows when i was in the white house. she, believe me, she was carefully scripted to go on sunday and say new sanks are coming, and then apparently, according to the reporting of "the new york times" the president saw that and became outraged and said no, we're going to kill sanctio sanctions. this happens again and again and again. we have nikki haley taking on the united nation, general mattis arming ukrainians to take on the russian invasion and yet our president time after time after time seems to side with putin against the government that he leads and i just wonder why. >> and it was interesting to see, do

nikki haley is not being quiet.she's not confused here. >> nikki haley very well prepared, very bright woman, yes and has political experience unlike a lot of people in the white house. nikki haley, very well prepared, very bright woman. and has political experience unlike a lot of people in the white house. her butting heads with people in the white house, could her days be numbered? >> i think everybody's days in this white house are pretty numbered. it's amazing she lasted as long as she has. it's clear she does not speak for the white house. this gets to the problem with rex tillerson. we'll see if it's a problem with mike pompeo. you can have people supposed to represent the united states and the administration, they say stuff and trump contradicts them. the only person who speaks for the u.s. government is donald trump. his aides keep saying and embarrassed republicans keep saying don't pay attention to his tweet. in fact, it turns out that is pretty much it the only thing you should pay attention to is what i

ambassador nikki haley.sident trump's economic adviser larry kudlow apologized to the ambassador for suggesting tuesday she was "confused" when she announced additional sanctions would be coming four russia. ambassador haley fired back in a statement writing, "with all due respect, i don't get confused." and indeed she wasn't. larry kudlow telling the netanyahu i was totally wrong to say that. turns out she was basically following what she thought was policy. the policy was change and she wasn't told about it and in a box. natasha bertrand from the "atlantic," msnbc contributor joins me now and so does ann gearan, white house reporter for the "washington post" traveling with president trump there at mar-a-lago. natasha, turning to you. took 24 hours for the white house to walk back the comments. kudlow admitting it was policy. haley just didn't know about it. out of the loop. how can that be? she is the u.n. ambassador to the united nations. >> we still don't know exactly what happened here. administration o

nikki haley is not being quiet. here. >> nikki haley very well prepared, very bright woman, yes and has political experience unlike a lot of people in the white house. her butting heads with people in the white house, could her days be numbered? >> i think everybody's days in this white house are pretty numbered. it's pretty clear she does not speak for the white house. again, this gets to the problem we've seen repeatedly with rex tillerson. we'll see if it's a problem with mike pompeo. they say stuff and then trump contradicts them. so what's pretty clear here is the only person who speaks for the u.s. government is donald trump. and his aides keep saying and embarrassed republicans keep saying don't pay attention to his tweets, his deranged crazy tweets. but in fact that turns out that is pretty much the only thing you should pay attention because that's what's coming directly out of trump's mouth are his tweets. >> someone said at the podium, i don't know if it was sean spicer or sarah sanders who said it is pos

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but nikki wants more than just that.fact, nikki's baby fever intensified after we're told she fell head over heels for her 11-month-old niece. john was up front. >> i don't want to have kids. >> after john's over the top proposal. >> will you marry me. >> and his movie role playing a father, nikki may have thought there was a shift. >> between this film, hosting the kid's choice awards, do you feel prepared if and when the time comes? >> i do. >> he dodged the the kids question in november. >> all about being a dad. how soon are you going to, you know, get the ball rolling on that? >> this is certainly going to be great night at the movies. >> let's go get some popcorn, right? >> yesterday, he wrote about hardship and loss. today, he tweeted sometimes we must bear the burden of shame and judgment to protect and give to the ones we love. very interesting tweet. um, this is interesting news. people still very much together, khloe kardashian and tristan thompson. >> we told you yesterday, they named their baby true. it's a

only 24 hours later, the white house reversed course and senior administration officials blamed nikki haley for being, quote, confused. the word confusion may in fact define this administration's foreign policy. does anyone at the white house talk to each other? is there a coordinated strategy? or is our foreign policy completely subject to the president's fleeting whims, changing as they do day to day, moment to moment, often guided by what some commentator say says on television? unfortunately, that's what it looks like from the outside. and it's going to put america and our interests abroad in danger. predictability, consistency is not boring. it lets our allies know that we'll support them and our adversaries know that we cannot get away with violating international norms. the erratic nature of this administration's foreign policy exemplified by the abrupt reversal of nikki haley's announcement is something all americans should be worried about. all americans should be concerned about president trump's disturbing decision to pull back from sanctioning russia, for its support of as

haley began making interesting historical parallels this is nikki haley speaking before the u.n. security council. chemical weapons didn't produce the most casualties in world war one but they were the most feared in world war two chemical weapons were employed on an industrial scale against civilians resulting in the worst genocide in human history which we recalled just yesterday on holocaust remembrance day now it's important to note that following russia and the united states we also heard from the representative of the people's republic of china and china urged the world to respect syria's territorial integrity and sovereignty as a country now at this point the meeting is continuing various countries are speaking of the syrian government is expected to speak as u.n. rules allow them to speak as you know potential resolutions on the topic of the meeting is in relation to syria so all eyes are on the security council people are wondering what will happen next as so many questions continue to be raised about the allegations related to chemical weapons in the city of duma ok we'

david: is nikki haley gone rogue -- has nikki haley gone rogue? particularly aggressive?x: i do not think she is. she and donald trump are on the same page i think with syria. reporting by us and others that nikki haley and john bolton and donald trump are on the side of a much more expansive attack on syria. james mattis, who is more cautious, worried a great deal about revoking the russians, urged a narrower attack. they ended up with a narrow set of airstrikes on probably buildings that did not have a lot in them. they avoided a russian provocation. i think nikki haley is one of donald trump's favorite in the administration. fair to say she has pretty obvious political ambitions. shery: president trump tweeted about the relationship of the u.s. and russia being worse than the cold war. have you heard anything about communication between the onsident and vladimir putin a personal level or behind the scenes? alex: they have not reported the conversations between the leaders since i believe march 20. the kremlin did say their hotline between u.s. and russian forces in syr

poor nikki haley. she's going to have to decide whether. diplomacy, good alliance building and donald trump for some unknown reason decided to kill it, and that's why we have the mueller investigation. >>> thank you for coming on for us tonight. when the business is good and when the president's win . >>> are you comfortable? everyone okay? we're having a big meeting at mar-a-lago. we call it the southern white house, which is actually is. it was actually built as a southern white house, a lot of people don't know, but kind of strange how it got there. everyone wants to go to the southern white house. are you going to be at that meeting? you heard about it, right? it's going to be great. >> former cabinet members there, former secretary of -- what was he -- v.a., david shulkin. the president has spent 126 days of his presidency at trump properties. it is clear his favorite is mar-a-lago in florida where he has spent 68 days, fully 15% of his presidency. and when he is on-site, he talks up the amenities of the mar-a-lago as if he is vp of sa

but nikki haley stood her ground, right?n she had the right information at that time, and the white house put out talking points to surrogates, potential surrogates, saying the exact same thing. so she had the right information on sunday. it's that the president or the administration changed their mind, but what larry kudlow did today is what you don't do in your first two weeks or ever at the white house, which is you make this argument, you make this fight public. right now people looking at what's going on in the white house don't know who is speaking for the white house. this is the problem they've had for the last 15 months. so, you know, they're contradicting each other, and they're having these policy fights in public. so none of that was very good, but you were right. nikki haley ended up on the right end. she stood her ground, and he apologized. but still not a good look for the white house. >> jonathan, i agree with katy tur who came out today in defense of retiring the phrase got out over one ski. so let's put tha

-sammy: nikki. lemonis: who is that right there? sammy: that's nikki's dad.onis: how you doing, joe? is your daughter nikki? -joe: yeah. lemonis: this is a sensitive situation, and i need to talk to this guy in private by myself and find out what's really going on here. well, that's what my partner was just confronting him about. is he dating your daughter? lemonis: hey, listen, man -- joe t.: i'm really not comfortable not being part of the conversation. joe: well, i'm really not comfortable with you seeing my [bleep] daughter, number one, and then firing her today telling her what a [bleep] worker she is. joe t.: first of all, your daughter was under evaluation -- joe: don't come up with corporate crap to me. joe t.: i'm not coming up with corporate anything. joe: why'd you fire my daughter? 'cause she's a [bleep] worker? because she's not on your list? joe t.: hey, hey. listen -- joe: [bleep] check. [bleep] check. joe t.: first of all, she didn't do her job well. second of all, her and i didn't get along together. joe: she worked here for three years. you

last night, nikki released this breakup statement.ter six years together. while this dethe six was a difficult one, we continue to have a great deal of love and respect for one another. the first inkling of trouble was when john co-hosted on "today" and was asked about this promo from "total bellas." >> do we really want to call this off? >> that was an extreme low. and -- you have two choices. you either jump ship and start a new relationship or move forward and try to work through it. >> in late march, john admitted to "e.t." they went through a rough patch. but their may 5th wedding was still on. >> i love her. i don't want to live without her. i would rather a hard s conversation and us get through it together. >> we went wedding dress shopping. >> i feel like i'm dwaun towards lace. i don't want anything too big like princess. i'm so bad with it all. >> last season, nikki competed on "dancing with the stars" with john cheering her on. less than two weeks ago at the premier of his film, blockers, the couple said they were looking

near me between which two lines of this resolution nikki haley identified our. our our scheming scheming perhaps the permanent representative of the u.k. they said it best she said that. basically we couldn't adopt the russian resolution simply because it was the right a russian resolution that makes everything clear. you says say that we're playing games that's what you say but. i don't know i am not sure what i am sure is that i am sure of the threat. you are very well it threatening and the threats that you are. and that you are proffering that you're stating syria. should. should make us seriously worried all of us because we could find ourselves on the threshold of some very sad and serious events i would once again ask you once again. to refrain from the plans that you are currently currently developing for syria. the fact that you didn't approve this resolution means that unfortunately our american partners and colleagues and do not need any real investigation we stated that already today earlier and we regret that this resolution was not adopted although

did nikki haley speak out of turn or was she thrown under the be us? and backing hannity, fox news says it's standing by its high profile host despite to learn he's a client of michael cohen. has hannity come clean about his connection? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you are in the "situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> we're following breaking news on the terrifying engine failure of a southwest jet in mid-flight. one passenger has died after a passenger was sucked through a window broken by engine shrapnel. standing by for harrowing accounts including new cockpit communication, also tonight, new finger pointing as the trump administration pulls back from slapping more sanctions on russia. a top trump aid suggesting the president's u.n. ambassador nikki haley was confused when she said additional sanctions were coming. we'll talk about that and more with house intelligence member jim hines. >>> and the former director of national intelligence, claims clapper and our co

chris: nikki haley, u.s.mbassador to the united nations live only on fox news sunday. ♪ ♪ chris: then the fbi raids the president's personal lawyer michael cohen raising questions whether mr. trump will fire robert mueller. >> well, i think it's a disgrace what's going on, we will see what happens. chris: we will discuss the latest developments with congressman trey gowdy, chair of the oversight committee. plus, former fbi director james comey's new book lashes out at president trump and the white house responds. >> the intelligence community does intelligence, the white house does pr and spin. >> comey will be forever known as disgraced hack that broke trust with the president of the united states. chris: we will ask sunday panel if there are bombshells in the new book or just a political food fight all right now on fox news sunday. ♪ ♪ chris: and hello again from fox news in washington, strikes on syria by u.s., france and britain are a show of western resolve meant to punish bashar al-assad for his latest

echoing what we just heard from nikki haley, the u.n. ambassador at the united nations, saying something very similar. kind of different from what we heard from the secretary of defense james mattis who called this a one-time shot. there are still many questions about what kind of capability to use chemical weapons bashar al assad still has and whether this kind of action will deter him from using them. it hasn't in the past. the president though taking to twitter again to sort of tout his record on the military and supporting the american military. he writes, quote, so proud of our great military, which will soon be after the spending of billions of fully a propproved dollars the finest our country has had. there won't be anything or anyone even close. of course now the question is what comes next. is the united states ready to respond if assad does something like this? that's the indication we're getting from the white house. let's not forget that just a few weeks ago the president surprised allies and even administration officials whe

it is certainly not on nikki haley. and larry kudlow can spin it all he wants but nikki haley doesn't have to spin it. the truth is the truth. 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

poor nikki haley. she's going to have to decide wheth whether.e building and donald trump for some unknown reason decided to kill it, and that's why we have the mueller investigation. >>> thank you for coming on for us tonight. when the business is good and when the president's win david. what's going on? oh hey! ♪ that's it? yeah. that's it? everybody two seconds! "dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure that we offer our congratulations on your acceptance..." through the tuition assistance program, every day mcdonald's helps more people go to college. it's part of our commitment to being america's best first job. >>> are you comfortable? everyone okay? we're having a meeting, big meeting at mar-a-lago. call it the southern white house, which it actually is. it was originally built as the southern white house. sort of strange how it got there. everybody always wants to go to the southern white house. it's going to be great. >> former cabinet secretary there, former secretary of va, david shulkin

nikki haley. by saying you know, she had it all wrong. >> which we are going to have a lot more on that. there's been big developments on that. but this is all coming in, when you talk about the criminal investigation into michael cohen, the president's personal attorney and fixer, the new york attorney general did something today that could change the game. he's asking new york state to basically change the law in new york state. so if someone is quicked and pardoned by the president of the united states, they can still be tried in new york. and therefore, still go to prison if they are convicted in new york. that could change the game for michael cohen because if he's think iing oh, i'll just stick d be loyal to the president because i know he'll pardon me, maybe you say, wait, maybe not. >> right. there's something behind door number two at this point. and it could be an investigation. either by the new york attorney general or potential lly by a district attorney in new york, the manhattan dis

we have nikki haley, i wish i was hearing this from the president, but nikki haley saying we're going to keep your troops in eastern syria for some long while. our goals there are complicated. we need to defeat isis. we need to enforce the norm on chemical weapons and we need to stabilize parts of the country. i'm told that the president's decision to suddenly cut the 200 million for stabilization

leaders specifically nikki haley the representative of the united states before the u.n. security council we heard her coming out and saying in the aftermath of this this allegation of an attack without any investigation having been done saying what she believes had taken place this is nikki haley speaking at the u.n. security council did a chemical weapons attack happened yes the u.s. has analyzed yes it has happened the u.k. has analyzed it get it it's happened france had to enlight yesterday that three separate analysis all coming back with the same thing there is proof that it's happening. now there has been some criticism of trump's actions from critics in the democratic party we saw that nancy pelosi came forward and said that these airstrikes were not a substitute for a real strategy in syria and we also heard from tim kaine a democratic congressman who and he came out and he said that these airstrikes were illegal they've also been some republicans who have said that and argued that the u.s. constitution does not allow the president to engage in military actions w

that is nikki haley. this raises questions again why isn't the president more serious dealing with the problems we know that exist from russia to syria and the elections. he is walking it back. we have seen it before. he does not seem as determined as he does in other areas like north korea. >> expect that to be one of the things that james comey talks about. the relationship with russia. whether the president is or is not compromised when the media tour kicks off. julian, we will check in with you in 30 minutes. >>> thank you. the u.s. cracking down on the china tech companies. the clash showing with washington and beijing. commerce department with a ban on zte. forbidding u.s. companies from selling parts to the phone maker. this is punishment for zte breaking the terms of the deal after zte violated sanctions. they were caught illegally shipping u.s. goods to iran and north korea. a big no-no. this is a potentially devastating deal for zte. american brands provide 30% of the parts up to zte. it escalat

this is what she had to say about it nikki haley. the resolution puts russia and the assad regime itself in the driver's seat for making arrangements for the fact finding mission investigators were just supposed to trust with the same government who says everything about the duma attack was fake will work in good faith with the o.p.c. deputy now russia's medical experts and chemical experts have visited the site of the alleged chemical attack in duma and they are saying they just don't see the evidence they're not finding traces of the chemical they're not finding victims in hospitals or dead bodies and there furthermore they're not finding any eyewitnesses that say they saw an attack take place now interestingly we have heard from heather nauert the spokesperson for the u.s. state department and unlike nikki haley and some of the other forces she is not ready to say who is to blame for this attack she says that the state department united states does not know who carried out this chemical attack this is heather nauert of the u.s. st

you've got larry kudlow saying sorry to nikki haley but what about the reason for the apology in the first place? the apparent flip flop on sanctions in russia. we'll get into that in a minute and we will celebrate the life of barbara bush. for the first time since her death, her son is sharing his favorite mem rifs his mom and that famous sense of humor. >> the doctor came in and she turned to the doctor and said do you want to know why george w. is the way he is? and the doctor looked somewhat surprised and is he said because i drank and smoked when i was pregnant with him. >> we'll have much more on barbara bush but right now we have our team set up and ready to go. i want to start with jeff bennett who is here in florida with me. let's just review the president's morning so far. remember, it's only 10:00 a.m. eastern as he's getting ready for his abe summit. so far he's tweeted by stormy daniels. he did not fire james comey over russia. he called sanctuary cities a breeding concept, and then the story we're starting with, he confirmed this very secret meeting with kim jong-un and

that is one way to explain it unless your nikki haley. respect i don't get confused. larry kudlow now says it was he who was confused in this matter. carroll is a national investigative reporter. she is a newly prize winner as of yesterday. they broke the news about the president's reversal on haley -- to meet personally with kim jong un. she also has a brand new fresh scoop tonight about the president's legal team and the question of whether the president will sit for an interview with the special council. carroll, you're a very busy person. thank you for making time to be with us tonight. congratulations. >> thank you. i enjoy your questions. i'm willing to come here late at night and do this over and over again. >> i will put that in a bottle and keep it next to my bed. thank you very much for saying that. >> of course. >> let me ask you about this nikki haley reporting. first the reporting that the president appeared to misunderstand. he department know the united states was going to be far out ahead of other countries in terms of num

good for you, nikki! yeah! you hear that. nikki haley does not get confused! except for that time she joined the trump administration. not sure what she was thinking, then. trump may be angry because he accidentally appointed someone competent, and there are ramblings that trump has grown suspicious of halley's ambitions, and republicans are whispering about the prospect of an alliance between haley and vice president mike pence, possibly to run as a ticket in 2020. that's absurd. mike pence can't be on a ticket with a woman who's not his wife. ( cheers and applause ) he can't do it. it's not right. he can't-- if he ever runs, it will have to be pence/mother, 2020. "does salt come in mild?" salt is a little spicy for him. salt is spicy. now, the white house is acting tough on russia. after the sanctions were pulled back, sarah huck-a-sanders told reporters, "the president has been clear that he's going to be tough on russia, but at the same time, he'd still like to have a good relationship with them." yes, it's just like winston churchill so famously said: >>

and you know, nikki haley had great instincts.hat you're seeing is the same thing. there are a lot of people in general who are going to enjoy seeing someone stand up to that white house. >> gabe, isn't the ball in the air? if the president gets in trouble with the house next year, if it goes democratic and they impeach him and vote all the first spring with nothing but impeachment hearings and vote in the summer, it's going to be a miserable first term. he may say no mas. that brings pence up. pence needs a running mate. pence may be beatable in the primaries. >> if we're going to look forward to the 2020 race. >> if you're nikki haley, you're looking forward. >> certainly forward to something else. no one thinks this will be her final job in politics. one of the things she's done very well is skate under the radar of a lot of drama in washington. she's up here in new york. she every day have to get in front of the president and disagree with him. this moment touched two of the president's points that he doesn't like. one he does

ambassador nikki haley announced sanctions against rush nay the wake of u.s. strikes. >> you will see that russia sanctions will be coming down, secretary mnuchin will be announcing those on monday if he hasn't already. howie: air strikes against syria but turned tout president was not approving new sanctions against moscow and new economic adviser larry kudlow try today explainthe snafu. >> i was able to get in touch with nikki haley and she said, quote, with all due respect, i don't get confused. howie: the press kind of playing this as personality, is it overplayed or questions about how they work with foreign policy? >> by definition she did get ahead of the curb because she announced sanctions that didn't take place. he said there was momentary confusion. i think he was poorly served, it's true that the policy changed at some point. she did announce something that didn't happen. there'sing in -- i wish we could be more substantive about what happened there as opposed to make it about a war between kudlow. howie: nicky was sent out with inaccurate informat

now from there we heard from nikki haley representing the united states as the u.n. ambassador and in her remarks you accused russia of killing the joint investigative mechanism and glossed over and did not mention the fact that the united states had actually vetoed a resolution by russia which would have allowed the o.p.c. w. and mandated that they go to the site of the chemical attack that russia has provided and offered to provide military protection for the o.p.c. w. to make sure they can get to the bottom of what happened and from there we are nikki haley go into an interesting historical parallels she wanted to make history this is nikki haley speaking before the u.n. security council. chemical weapons didn't produce the most casualties and more a war won but they were the most feared in world war two chemical weapons were employed on an industrial scale against civilians resulting in the worst genocide in human history which we recall just yesterday on holocaust remembrance day. now from there we did hear from the people's republic of china and china emphasize

as we said nikki haley the u.n. ambassador does not go out on her own and make statements about u.s. policy. at what point did president trump hear them and become annoyed by them? >> this has been the most bizarre little story, to me, because, you're right, willie, nikki haley does not -- she does her homework and she confers with the president directly. she's not somebody who's going to say something on national television that she doesn't believe to be the case. and what we understood was that essentially behind the scenes the president was more than annoyed, really quite angry, almost confused that his team had prepared him for a set of -- a menu of sanctions as he had asked for in march and that was on the menu and that is what was coming down the pike and then he said, i'm not so hot on this idea. why is it that we are continually bashing this country? there's a deeper story behind this, but it looks to me like such a strange episode because there's been such a series of changing stories. first, the white hous

because nikki haley who has had a good aggressive stance on u.s.oreign policy at the u.n., by the way, which is a big voice, in a forum where people didn't think she yould play that much of role. she's been doing it there. when that is undermined, what's left? what can -- what can our allies expect from us and what can russia expect from us? >> they're not certain at all. if you really stretch your imagination, and you really have to stretch, you could argue that perhaps what the president is trying to do is to keep the russians guessing. that he's trying to play within a single administration both good cop and bad cop. as i said, you really have to stretch the imagination. that's not the way the russians are looking at it. that's not how anybody is looking at this. maybe that works in children's games. maybe that works in the real estate business. it does not work in international diplomacy. >> thank you very much. >> ali, the thing that blows my mind is the position this puts nikki haley in. larry kudlow apologized for saying she was confused, bu

really square with what we've heard over the last few days here we have you know nikki haley going off the rail i mean you know i thought samantha power was off the you know had wandered off the road reservation but you know nikki haley haley takes the cake there and then we also in and i joe mentioned we really have the drums of war in the media it seems to me that they really want to box trump in even if he does nothing that he's bluster if he does something it's against international law and he may get in and maybe the law of unintended consequences by getting involved in this war you never know because if you look over the last eighteen years you know these military adventures never end the way they expect to go ahead michael now i think you're right i think that even though president trump wanted to get out. i think that other people who are surrounding him are much more determined that that that he stay and actually. the fact that he that he's you that. john bolton is now the national security adviser who was the fellow who who really really wanted us to go into iraq on the premi

how did nikki handle being blamed for the muddled message? the ambassador made clear she'd be no one's scapegoat. in a stunning statement of her own that put the rift with the white house on full display, she said, "with all due robert, i don't get confused." kudlow has since apologized for those remarks saying the policy was changed and she wasn't told about it so she was in a box. that dust-in and pompeo's secret diplomatic efforts raise a big question today -- who exactly speaks for this white house on foreign policy? >>> let's dive right in with our team of reporters. nbc's geoff bennett is in west palm beach, florida. peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times" and an msnbc political analyst. and ashley parker, a white house reporter for "the washington post," and an msnbc political analyst -- and a pulitzer prize winner! congratulations. >> thank you. >> geoff, start with you. the president is out today with shinzo abe. he's supposed to be focused on this summit with abe, a relationship with one of our -- or ou