i don't know why wilber ross is there. he appears to have no idea what is going on around him at that moment. i have a little bit of tape to play for you. this is just audio. a reporter asked commerce secretary what it was like to be right there with the president and to be in that make shift mar-a-lago situation room. we know from the photo that wilber ross was there in the middle of it. it's not clear to us as observers why he would have been there and he is making clear that he -- he seems to have misunderstood some key details about what was going on around him in that moment. listen. >> in terms of the strikes themselves, it's my understanding that they took out something like 20% of the entire syrian air force. so it was huge not just in terms of number of planes but relative to the scale of their air force. >> commerce secretary wilber ross under the impression that 20% of the entire syrian air force was destroyed last night on this one u.s. strike. i don't think that is what happened. secretary of state rex tillers

top advisors all there, jared kushner, ivanka trump, members of his cab net, wilber ross. other members of his cabinet obviously were dealing with what was happening with the air strike. secretary tillerson and general mcmaftder about ten minutes up the road from mar-a-lago. this is the area where the traveling press, the traveling white house, if you will, spends our time as the president is holed up at mar-a-lago as he will be tomorrow as well with the summit with president xi. no word on what the discussion was with xi around the syria air strike, but we do know there was no discussion formally with the kremlin between president trump and president putin. although there was that deacon flicks line discussion that did occur. >> halle jackson down in mar-a-la mar-a-lago. thanks for that. >>> andrea mitchell among our team members who have been following this all night. andrea a lot of people said it so far tonight. tonight proves the difference between having a twitter account and having the job. >> yeah. >> and how the view changes. and how the job changes people. then t

wilber ross called it a bad week.aid in a statement, this is not our idea of a properly functioning trade agreement. this sets a tense tone as the u.s., canada and mexico renegotiate nafta. trump has criticized the terms of that deal. a lot of attention paid this morning that it's canada the target of the first tariffs of the trump administration. >>> new frustration among senate democrats, of russia's election meddling. why things aren't moving fast enough. that's next. i can box out any muscle or joint pain immediately. blue-emu continuous pain relief spray, it works fast and you won't stink. >>> role reversal. the investigation into russia's election meddling. sources tell the house overnight and government relations committee will look at documents relating to michael flynn's contacts. while the white house gets back on track, there's squabbling on the senate side, weeks after they claimed to be the more unified investigation. let's get more from manu raju. the senate committee was supposed to conduct on a biparti

terms of this battle between jared and steven bannon -- other members of that room, dina connell wilber ross, people who worked in finance, in new york, none of them people came to the white house to work for jared kushner. they came to join the administration. is jared kushner coopting them because they have got similar views -- a guy like gary cohen for example, he worked at goldman sachs over 25 years. he is a registered democrat, but he is there to work on the economy work on tax reform, if there was a shakeup could he take on a bhiger job? he could. he has the skill set. do you think people within goldman sachs got along with each other? not so much. >> robert costa, having said all that and it's been an interesting week just in the life of jared kushner who i guess started his week in iraq, came back to prep the boss for the visit of the chinese leader and oh, by the way was there for a cruise missile strike. what is it you know that you can share with our audience tonight robert? >> his father ran a family business, speaking of the president. president trump ran a family business for

terms of this battle between jared and steven bannon -- other members of that room, dina connell wilber ross people who worked in finance, in new york, none of them people came to the white house to work for jared kushner. they came to join the administration. is jared kushner coopting them because they have got similar views -- a guy like gary cohen for example, he worked at goldman sachs over 25 years. he is a registered democrat, but he is there to work on the economy work on tax reform, if there was a shakeup could he take on a bigger job, he corks he has the skill set. is it do you think people within goldman sachs got along with each other? not so much. >> robert costa, having said all that and it's been an interesting week just in the life of jared kushner who i guess started his week in iraq, came back to prep the boss for the visit of the chinese leader and oh, by the way was there for a cruise missile strike. what is it you know that you can share with our audience tonight robert? >> his father ran a family business, speaking of the president. president trump ran a family business

wilber ross, taking questions from the press today, said he preferred to keep those things separate, because as we discuss admin ago, this lumber dispute is a very old dispute that almost follows a dynamic entirely of its own somewhat independent of the issues that are bothering the president with nafta. unfortunately, because they could not get an agreement within the legislative window, it will end up getting sucked into that agreement. and it's very hard the say exactly how it turns out. we know, for example, drafts of the administration has circulated on capitol hill, there are a few things they would like the change about nafta. they would like the ability to impose tariffs just becauseism ports are surging from canada or mexico, not because they're being sold unfairly. they want the ability to not have... they want more freedom to use our countervailing subsidy laws against canada and mexico will. the canadians and mexicans accept that as a price to preserve the special agreement or will they say, no, we'd rather have no agreement? all those things remain to be seen. >> brangha