rick tyler and steve rattner back with us as well. how are things going?g about the crime rate going down. >> did you hear that? >> i did hear that. the crime rate is going down. you mentioned facts earlier. mayor bloomberg and i can agree on the facts. that's a good and healthy thing. crime continues to go down in new york city. nypd doing an extraordinary job and working more closely with communities. >> a lot of people are driving in and listening on the radio. crime rate in 1990 versus 2016 down 85.4%. crime 2016, murder rate -- murder -- >> murder rate. >> murder rate 2016 versus 2001, down 50%. >> yep. and it's been remarkable. listen, this is because the nypd has focused on building a better relationship with communities. we now have a neighborhood policing initiative started by our commissioner, jimmy o'neill, which is about people actually communicating at the neighborhood level and folks in the community sharing information with police so police can do their job. this is part of what's driving crime down. a lot of those people helping the police

have the president on council of foreign relations richard haass, "morning joe" economic analyst steve rattner. >> ching ching. >> money. >> and former director for ted cruz's campaign and now msnbc political director rick tyler joins us as wealth. >> so great to have richard haass with us today, i want to talk about yesterday before we came on the air we were talking about whiplash. but if these policy shifts yesterday were whiplash, our neck was over here and now it's upright. whether it was on nato, tillerson was tough as nails according to william cohen and other trump critics, had a good tough meeting with putin and with the foreign minister ther:. china, normalcy in that chinese relationship where we're actually lined up where we with work with them as a partner on north korea. a lot of shifts yesterday. i can't think of one thing that went in the wrong direction. these are all things over the past two years that have scared us and now a shift. it's quite a shift. >> >> a lot of stuff happened yesterday, you're right. china not being a currency manipulator, nato having a role, a fairly b

do the little things right and the big things will come after that. >> admiral, steve rattner, i too,atch it. didn't help them make their bed but i hope they got something else out of the speech. can we turn to current events? you said you thought what the president did in syria was exactly the right thing to do. i think there's a lot of agreement about that. where there's less agreement or less clarity is what do they do now? you've had different members of the administration articating different visions of how this proceeds and what our role would be and what the sir yanz' role would be and if assad is going or not going. how do you see that movie ending? >> i know as part of the planning process, jim mattis, and joe dunford, when they made the presentation to the president, they said, mr. president, here's the action we think you need to take. oh, by the way, here is how we think the russians or syrians will react. here are our next steps. as part of the process, there should have been an understanding of the second and third order of effects of this particular strike. one strike a

katty kay and economic analyst steve rattner. in washington former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele and senior political analyst for nbc news and msnbc mark halperin. good morning everybody. a few house and a lot to talk about. before we get into these details, mark, let me go to you first. on the laundry list, tax reform, health care, government shutdown looming, the odd north korea meeting, the potential and maybe not the potential that president trump wants to withdraw from nafta and he said he's looking closely at breaking up the ninth circuit court. what are you looking at right now? >> it's been a huge "newsweek," parly by design and partly by this device the media created of the 100 days. the next 72 hours is going to be monstrous. on particularly the government shutdown, particularly on whether there will be a health care vote, we'll see a real test whether the president can work with democrats, whether he can simultaneously work with democrats and republicans in the house, and the question of

. >> and steve rattner? >> 100 days notion is a little artificial but it's not at all artificial to say we've now had him as president for several months, how's he doing and it's been a pretty rocky start. i'm quite -- continue to be struck by these polls that show on the with one hand his base is solid but once you get past that the negative ratings on every other character trait is extraordinary. >> another sports analogy, if you chop it up we're about almost through the first inning. it's a nine-inning game. we'll see how it goes. >> all right. that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. >> thanks, mika. thank you, joe. good morning. i'm stephanie ruhle. this morning, off the wall, president obama backs down. he is now open to delaying his border wall in order to avoid a government shutdown. as the white house floats a huge tax cut for corporations, but who exactly will pay for it? >> the tax plan will pay for itself with economic growth. >> on the world stage, ivank