for the record starts with greta right now. it's all yours. >> chuck, big sunday, i never miss meet the press. tonight president obama resurfaces. we'll tell you about that. meanwhile, president trump denies it, but it sure looks like he's put himself in a race against the clock. president trump today signing three new executive orders and then dropping this bomb about what he is doing this coming wednesday. >> we'll be having big announcement on wednesday having to do wouith tax reform. the process has begun long ago, but it really formally begins on wednesday. >> and next week shaping up to be a big one for president trump. nbc news reporting we could see any day now that a boarded vote to repeal and replace obamacare. today we learned there will be a private meeting set for next week with senators on north korea and that meeting is now moving to the white house. plus, it does appear, although he denies it, that the president is on a mad dash ahead of that symbolic 100 day mark coming in eight days. president trump writing th

for the record with greta starts right now. greta, what happens' your ring tone? >> i'm not telling. thank you, chuck. and we have breaking news tonight. president trump just dealt another legal blow. a federal judge in san francisco blocking nationwide president trump's executive order threatening to stop federal funding to so-called sanctuary cities. now, those are the cities that refuse to cooperate with immigration authorities. the federal judge in issuing the nationwide preliminary injunction held that president trump's executive order could cause immediate irreparable harm if not blocked now. the san francisco city attorney saying, this is why we have courts, to halt the overreach of a president and an attorney general who either does not understand the constitution or chose to ignore it. and as americans, we all have uh duty to confront injustice even when it i am nats from the white house. as of now, no comment from the white house. >>> dwrojoining me, nbc correspondent pete williams. pete, any word at the justice department? >> no, they say they'll have a

greta? >> well, kelly, it's easy for the white house and the united states to not be too unnerved by this. short range puts you right in range. it puts 11 to 13 million people in south korea at range if this were successful. how are the people of south korea taking it? realizing just waking up to this news. but i imagine they feel a lot different than we do here in the united states. >> reporter: well, this is yet another in a long series of test launches, as you mentioned at the top of the show here. this is something that happens with relative frequency in this region. south koreans are aware this kind of thing happens. that's why the south korean military is often watching it. i have to say, greta, i've been here for a couple of weeks now, and the feeling here is really not one necessarily of nervousness among the general population. of course you have a different perspective, slightly different perspective when it comes to the governments. the south koreans are constantly keeping an eye

for the record with greta zarts right now. hey, greta. >> hey, chris. thank you, chris. and warning shots fired. are assad and bannon both on the way out? secretary of state tillerson today saying this. >> to an end, and they have again brought this on themselves. >> and nbc news reporting president trump has issued a warning shot to chief strategist steve bannon warning him, cut the brawling with trump's son-in-law jared kushner, or he, trump, is getting involved. more on that ahead. we begin with president trump holding nothing back, talking about the state of relations with russia. >> it would be wonderful as we were discussing just a little while ago if nato and our country could get along with russia. right now we're not getting along with russia at all. we may be at an all-time low in terms of relationship with russia. this is built for a long period of time. but we're going to see what happens. putin set leader of russia. russia is a strong country. we're a very, very strong country. >> president trump also very suspicious of putin, questioning if russia knew abou

for the record with greta starts right now. greta, there are so many places you can go today. good luck. >> i don't even know -- you're right. where do you go today? thank you, chuck. >> you got it. >> in a surprise news conference, secretary of state rex tillerson slamming iran including explicit comparisons to north korea. >> an unchecked iran has the potential to travel the same path as north korea and take the world along with it. united states is keen to avoid a second piece of evidence that strategic patience is a failed approach. the jcpoa fails to achieve the objective of a nonnuclear iran. it only delays their goal of becoming a nuclear state. this deal represents the same failed approach of the past that brought us to the current imminent threat we face from north korea. >> secretary tillerson stating that the iran nuclear deal negotiated under president obama's, quote, failed approach. but his own state department just confirmed that iran is complying with the terms of the obama negotiated deal. nbc's andrea mitchell asked the secretary about that today. >> mr. secr

greta? >> all right. just as side, we're looking at live pictures now, president trump greeting president xi. they're down at mar-a-lago for this very important summit. it's the summit that is taking place. general, if the option -- let me go to the extreme option because i still think of the lawyers, i look at worst case scenarios. if regime change is the option, you know, what happens next? we've seen in libya when gaddafi was gone, things got a lot messier. mubarak in egypt. saddam hussein in iraq. there is the post-regime change, you know. your thoughts about that. >> well, you know, we don't consider you as a secretary of state. the end result of all this is assad will never again regain the trust of the syrian people. the majority are sunni muslim. he's a minor shi'ite sect. ey're allied with christians d otrs. at the end of the day,hat faction thinks if assad loses they all get killed which may well be the outcome. so you have to have a score card to watch what's going on inside syria. kurdish inte

for the record with greta starts right now. greta, take it away. hope you didn't metro in. i'm very excited about it. i'm very excited about it, thank you. >> i won't miss it. anyway, thank you. in a cover up, well, that's the blistering accusation directed tonight at the white house, a prominent democrat is alleging the white house is covering up for fired national security advisor michael flynn. >> i honestly do not understand why the white house is covering up for michael flynn. i don't get it. after the president fired him for lying. >> covering up for general michael flynn, a strong accusation from the top democrat on the house oversight committee. congressman elijah cummings. and this accusation came after the pentagon opens its own investigation into payments flynn received from foreign governments. now, to be clear, foreign military officers can't accept payment from foreign governments, but only after, only after the department of defense authorized it. congressman cummings releasing this letter given to him earlier in the month from the defense department saying i

morning, greta. i would like to echo the lives justf john who down the road to the south of me on the social security issue, real issue was we have to overall, talk about tax reform, look at how taxes have been reformed. the republicans have used taxpayer about e th say, priorhat i would to 2002, george bush started borrowing for the war effort and theupplemental budgets that average taxpayer and person in the united states only owed 25,000 per person. 61,000now it is up around and what is going on here is werewith all the jobs that outsourced, leaving 2.6 trillion not of assets that have been taxed from american corporations and all the jobs base s lost, that is tax that is gone. the corporations are only paying of the nine percent taxes in the united states, using but yet they are free trade and the interstate money.to make this and a port. so when we talk about tax reform cutting the corporate tax of from 35 to 15%, when some them aren't paying anything, i hink it's just deficit building, it is de

and it is not, greta. it is of concern and it should be of concern to us in the united states, notnly becau venezuela is an porter ooil, but also because iis a country that is very important for latin america. and the fact that you have a country that is in turmoil and with no easy way out of it leads one to believe that maybe we're going to have to be focused more on that, you know. the fact is that you have a government that just told the opposition, including a governor of one of the states, that they could no longer be involved in politics. so, from one day to the other, opposition leader enrique who is a governor, sitting governor, was told that he no longer is a governor, and that he can't run for office or participate in office for the next 15 years. so, when you have a government telling the opposition that, number one, in congress they don't exist, they can't legislate. they're telling politicians and governors that they are no longer governors. what can we expect to happen in a country like venez

nicole, greta and nira. greta, i want to start with you. ivanka trump now in official capacity, she is addressing ceos today and put out a tweet saying #equalpayday is a reminder women deserve equal pay for equal work. we must work to close the gender pay gap. this is a great sentiment. sarah huckabee said we should celebrate ivanka is in the white house. is this the moment where she becomes accountable? she called herself a champion for women, she gave an inspiring speech that many criticized saying the things she talk about have nothing to do with her father's platform. here we are days after president trump revoked the safe pay order put in place by president obama. how does this make sense and does ivanka have to take this. >> if she's pushing equal pay, i'm all for it. they need that voice inside the white house. i'm all for it. i would right turner have her working on it than ignoring it. this business about equal pay dogged white houses. if you go back in history, other white house's didn't have equal pay for equal work whether it's

for the record with greta starts right now. hi, greta. >> thank you, katie. it's getting hot in washington because house minority leader nancy pelosi is demanding president trump fire white hou press secretary sean spicer for this comment. >> we didn't use chemical weapons in world war ii. you know, you had a -- someone who is difficult spencer christianable as hitler who didn't sink to using chemical weapons. i think when you come to sarin gas, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that assad is doing. >> pelosi says he must go and we have a lot more on this exploding controversy later in the er. but we begin with this breaking news. secretary of state rex tillerson is in moscow tonight and the burning question, will he meet with russian president vladimir putin or not? tillerson said he would meet, but will putin? meanwhile, more trouble with putin, usa today accusing russia meaning putin on covering up the gruesome attack. blasting support for bashar al-assad. >> i think it is clear to all of us that the reign of the assad family is comin

greta: i will leave it at that. assuming he were to meet with pigeon, hypothetically, if you were to meet with pigeon -- putin, hypothetically, if he were to meet with putin, what is the mission? sean: he will meet with mr. lavrov and communicate the same message. there is a shared interest in defeating isis in the region, that we have a national security concern that should align with their national security concern. and we have all been party to an international agreement on the use of chemical weapons. and that russia should live up to its obligations. russia right now is an island. it is russia on north korea, syria, and iran. that is not something you want to be

we'll hear from him live this hour talking to our own greta van susteren. >>> face to face, secretary of state rex tillerson meeting with his russian counterpart right now, pressing him to pull their support for syria's leader, as the president ramps up his tough talk. >> putin is backing a person that's truly an evil person, and i think it's very bad for russia. >>> plus, a stunning new report that the fbi did request a secret warrant to monitor the communications of a trump campaign aide. >>> and too little too late? united's ceo breaks his silence this morning after that passenger was dragged off a plane. >> that is not who our family at united is. this can never -- will never happen again on a united airlines flight. >> a lot to get to this morning, but we begin today with the firestorm swirling around the white house. take a look live at the museum in washington, d.c. that's where press secretary sean spicer will take the stage just a few minutes from now to answer questions about his highly controversial comments. lawmakers around the world among those who have been calling for

now, hey, greta. >> hey there. the united arab of emirates arranged a secret meeting with someone close. he had no formal role in the transition but his sisters, betsy devos. prince himself a major trump donor. he visited trump transition offices back in december. one of the journalists who broke this story joins us. tell me, where was this meeting and why was this meeting? >> so this meeting happened in a set of islands in the middle of the indian ocean weeks before trump's inauguration. it was arranged with the help of united arab of emirates as back channel communication between the trump team and russia. erik prince has deep contacts with the trump white house and met with a russian, a wealthy russian individual with close ties to putin. the agenda is not completely clear. one of the things we're told they discussed was try to find ways to drive a wedge between russia and iran. >> why did it have to be a back channel meeting? we're learning and know during that time, general flynn who had then been named as nat

for the record with greta starts right now. go ahead, greta. >> thanks, chuck. president trump wrote the art of the deal, but can he get one deal done in washington? well, so far the answer is no. his new effort hot off the press on taxes. >> this is going to be the biggest tax cut and the largest tax reform in the history of our country. >> we have a once in a generation opportunity to do something really big. president trump has made tax reform a priority and we have a republican congress that wants to get it done. >> the biggest tax cut in the history of our country is outlined on this. one piece of paper, that's this. here's what it does. cuts the corporate tax rate, cuts taxes for individuals. in fact, according to trump, everyone who pays taxes, high income, low income, everybody gets a cut. the plan eliminates most deductions which i like since deductions are usually just loopholes, special deals for those who had lobbyists to get them for them. and i bet you don't have a lobbyist. trump's plan does keep deduction for home mortgage interest and charitable

>> well, let me say this up front, greta. i could have used adam schiff's help two years ago getting documents from a different white house. so, i applaud him for finally coming to the full realization that you need documents to be able to conduct an investigation. i fully expect this white house to provide all documents that are not otherwise legally protected. i have no reason to believe they will not. and i think those documents will be provided in time for us to conduct the most folsom interviews necessary. i smile a little bit at the irony of congressman schiff complaining about a white house that won't produce documents. i swear i could have used his help over the last six years. >> at this point with all that's gone on in the house intelligence committee and -- i'm sure you've seen the criticism of both democrats and republicans. do you think there is a way to sort of get it on track that you can sort of restore the confidence that this investigation be done with integrity in the house or is this one that we should pas

for the record with greta starts right now. take it away, greta. >> thanks, chuck. see you sunday. ielt be watching. tonight exclusive nbc breaking news, president trump thinking about putting american nukes on south korean soil. now this breaking news is just this minute coming into our newsroom and we will have the full report for you just as soon as it's ready. in the meantime, we start with syria and the question, is president trump about to strike again? less than 22 hours ago, the president unloaded that first strike on the syrian air base. for assad's vicious chemical attack murdering innocent civilians including children. there are more questions than answers. what is the u.s. military mission? is it to remove president assad? and if assad goes, who replaces him? could it be more catastrophic for the syrians? >> and if trump decides more air strikes, does he need approval from congress? and if there are no further airstrikes, is the message to assad that it is tolerable for him to murder children with conventional weapons but just not with chemical weapons? president trump

for the record starts now, greta. >> thank you very much. we begin tonight with an update on former president h.w. bush, hospitalized tonight in houston, his spokesperson says president bush will be okay and was admitted as a precaution. the 41st president was admitted to the hospital in january. he did the coin toss at this year's super bowl in houston. just last week he got a visit from his old friend, president clinton who said they talked about kids, grand kids, old times d new times, and even socks. we will be monitoring thestory. of course, we wish president bush well. >>> and tonight, democrats all fired up, but is it enough to felipe red seat in georgia? this could be a new measure of how much democrats have gotten energized by opposing president trump. polls close in less than an hour in georgia special election to replace h.h.s. secretary tom price in congress. young democrat john ossa leading in the polls. but there is a catch. he needs to get 50% of the vote to avoid a june 20 runoff. ossof has taken direct aim at president trump

"for the record with greta" starts right now. hey there, greta. >> we have breaking news. a governor booked at the county jail. you heard right. a governor. alabama governor robert bentley expected to resign any moment now. the montgomery county sheriff's office just released a mugshot of the governor after he was booked on two misdemeanor charges. the governor faced imachment proceedings today. he was accused of abusing power and using state resources, state money, to cover up his alleged affair with an adviser. those allegations include trying to block the release of steamy phone calls. lieutenant governor cay ivy is expected to be sworn in later this hour. >> turning to syria and the critical question, did the russians know about the chemical weapons attack on those innocent syrians? the associated press reporting late today that u.s. officials believe russia knew in advance about syria's vicious and cruel attack on those innocent people, including children. national security adviser h.r. mcmaster raising that question in an interview yesterday. >> what would she do is

caller: greta, i saw that dress go, wow. four points from cleveland, we facebook, the stevens killer, you know, anthony snow, professionally as i drove the bus, he's been in prison 10 or 12 years, does prison. got prison art, i almost got on e-bay, a sterling silver table spoon with the say n -- i want to fayetteville. greta. host: we'll move o. lou, fort florida. good morning. caller: i would say i'm 180 egrees out of step with jessica's points. one, i think she talks about all problems and cases, what do the lawyers pay? taxpayer, do the lawyers get fined, did the lawyers get disbarred? they get a free ride and they are creating the problem in area.eath penalty this nation didn't get to be the mamby p is by being 1800s and 1900s, why should i pay to put somebody 50 years that doesn't help the family of and soy they have killed forth. i think restitution, you do the the fine. pay ahead.jessica, go guest: sure, a lot to unpack for that. one, it is actually important, the re not paying for defense in a lot of cases and that i

for the record with greta starts right now. greta, take it away. >> thank you, chuck. and tonight president trump blaming president obama again. this time for a shocking atrocity happening halfway around the world. i must warn you, this video is gruesome and heart wrenching. strongly suspected gas attack, chemical weapon sending death and destruction throughout syria killing innocent civilians including children. the death toll is rising by the minute. one syrian medical relief group reporting so far 1 14u7b dead, 400 injured and it gets worse. there are 25 children murdered in this horrific attack. tnesses describe an explosives drop from e sky and immediately people began choking,truggling to breathe, and foaming at the mouth. president trump issuing a statement saying it was reprehensible, but he also said it was, quote, a consequence of the past administration's weakness and irresolution. president obama said in 2012 that he would establish a red line against the use of chemical weapons and then did nothing. however, and this is significant, a few years ago in the

caller: good morning, greta. i want to comment on some of your previous callers about how laxatives called -- about how laxative how they make it all s. lives not be american lost, but millions of south , and if thereese is any kind of counterstrike, you know, innocent north koreans. we may not suffer nearly as bad as a lot of our allies. but there is still a huge price to be paid, and the president ought to realize that words matter. and he has to be careful in what he says. that is really all i wanted to say, greta. thank you. interested inbe this discussion taking place at the united nations this morning. it is at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. we will hear more of the secretary of state and we will have live coverage on c-span3, c-span.org, or get that c-span radio app to you can listen in and he with the secretary of state has to say. the argument he will make for more sanctions and the threat posed by north korea and their nuclear powers. to thisay, before i go next call, we have been covering hearings on capitol

guest: it is always interesting, greta. host: the house is gaveling in any minute for an update him legislative session because they have work to do before they leave washington. we will bring you to the floor right now right on c-span.

for the record with greta starts right now. greta. >> thank you, chris. tonight, do you remember him? >> what's been going onhile i've been gone? >> president obama today making his first public appearance since leaving office. this happens as president trump races to undo the obama legacy before the symbolic 100 day mark, that would be this saturday. president obama back in chicago today. he did not mention president trump but wanted to motivate young folks to get involved in politics. >> the single most important thing i can do is help in any way i can to prepare the next generation of leadership to take up the baton and take their own crack at changing the world. because the one thing that i'm absolutely convinced of is that, yes, we confront a whole range of challenges from economic inequality and lack of opportunity to a criminal justice system that too often is skewed in ways that are unproductive, to climate change to issues related to violence. all those problems are serious, they're daunting but they're not insoluble. >> president obama's event w

greta, bill o'reilly, no longer here. what that tells me is when you look at the ratings, for the last 15 weeks fox has been number one not only over its cable competition, but all newcomers. that shows there is an exceptional brand of news. it avalanches an op-ed and conservative side other networks won't go near. that shows me, i said it once and i'll say it again, it doesn't rebuild, it simply reloads. i think fox can survive this, but this will be their biggest challenge yet. howie: fox news has a loyal audience that doesn't trust the mainstream media. susan: "the five" is very popular. moving to the 6:00 p.m. slot is not risky. the pattern has been people will stick to fox news as long as fox sticks to what it's doing. as the liberal activists try to target conservative voices, i think the hosts can be interchangeable. howie: i'll take exception to that with my own point of view. joe concha, susan ferrechio, anti-trump stories? earning your cash back shouldn't be this complicated. yet some cards limit where you earn

good morning, greta. and i hope you have a great day. i was just calling, i heard something from a caller earlier about harley-davidsons, how he got screwed by them because he went in for a tune-up and it costs $600. then if you listen in, he said that he had it done. ok. well, you don't have to have your motorcycle done. that's an extra $400 or $500. i know tune-ups aren't cheap, but harley-davidson does not make you buy their motorcycles. if you don't want it, don't buy it. that's what freedom is. host: well, so stephen, should that caller have bought a foreign made motorcycle? caller: pardon me? host: should he have bought a foreign made motorcycle instead of harleys? caller: if he had? that's fine. he can do whatever he wants to. it's america. can do whatever he wants. this is freedom. that's what we love about it. host: do you believe that being american and freedom is being able to buy a product from whatever country? caller: you can do anything you want in this country because you are american and you have the freedom because the

i want to start fm the news from just a couple of minutes ago, right here in washington nbc's greta van susteren. spicer apologizing for hitler remark during yesterday's white house briefing. >> i made a mistake. there's no other way to say it. i got into a topic that i shouldn't have and i screwed up. i mean you know, and i hope people understand that we all make mistakes. i hope i showed that i understand that i did that and that i sought people's forgiveness because i screwed up. and you know, i hope each person can understand that part of existing is understanding that when you do something wrong, if you own up to it, you do it. you let people know. and i did. so for me, obviously there's two takeaways. one is it's a very holy week for both the jewish people and the christian people and this is not to take a gaffe and a mistake like this is inexcusable and ref hen reprehensible. of all weeks, this compounds that kind of mistake. but second of all -- so first of all, it's obviously -- it's -- it really is painful to myself to know that i did something like that. because that obviousl

for the record with greta starts right now. greta, take it away. >> thank you, chuck. and tonight president trump blaming president obama again. this time for a shocking atrocity happening halfway around the world. i must warn you, this video is gruesome and heart wrenching. strongly suspected gas attack, chemical weapon sending death and destruction throughout syria killing innocent civilians including children. the death toll is rising by the minute. one syrian medical relief group reporting so far 1 14u7b dead, 400 injured and it gets worse. there are 25 children murdered in this horrific attack. tnesses describe an exp

congratulations to greta on her new, show "for the record." if you remember, for years, her old show on fox news was called "on the record." because "for" the record, she no longer believes anything she said that was "on" the record. i look forward to seeing her future cnn show, "please erase the record." as a political outsider, it's taking donald trump a little while to get a handle on how stuff works in the nation's capital. but there's one piece of white house protocol that trump has mastered, because according to the associated press, with the push of a red button placed on the resolute desk... oh, god! what happens when he pushes the button? a white house butler arrives with a coke for the president. ( laughter ) ( applause ) ( cheers and applause ) thank god. i was worried there. he's just turning the oval office into an 8-year-old's drawing of a dream treehouse. "there'd be a button where i get coke wherever i want, and a slide into a ball pit, and bigfoot sleeps over and he teaches me karate." ( cheers and applause ) that's nice. good

also greta van susteren will interview current white house press secretary sean spicer this is expected to start in just a moment. life coverage here on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] while we wait for things to get started at the newseum will show a conversation we had recently with a new member of congress. >> congressman, you are from west point georgia, born and raised. what's west point georgia like? >> it's a remarkable community and its my hometown, something i'm very proud of. the progress that it's made. we were a community that lost really are manufacturing backbone. we was all but one of the largest tech stock companies in the world and we watched some pretty bad policy out of washington d.c. force those jobs overseas. so we lived for a decade and a half in a pretty tough economy. saw generation fall into poverty for the first time in the communities history. it was very refreshing to see our community pull together and lead an effort to bring advanced manufacturing back in a form of the automotive industry. we landed the kia motors manufacturing plant in north america. i

., and he's discussing his comments and it's a live look with an interview with greta. he said a few moments ago, he said, quote, let the president down. he said it was not a good moment for him personally or professionally, and so spicer speaking candidly this morning, and he's showing a lot of remorse in the interview. i will keep listening in for you. our team is working on turning around the comments for you on tape and i will have that for you in just a few moments. matt, back to you. >>> this morning the red cross is helping 60 people forced out of their apartments by a fire in san francisco. firefighters evacuated the building after the fire broke out around 9:00. it started in a basement in a storage area. there's a massage parlor on the bottom floor and residential units above. >>> and support is pouring in for a child killed at a san bernardino school. a gofundme page has raised more than $9,000. both victims were honored at the school last night. mourners sang and burned candles in honor of martinez and smith who was killed by her husband. and smith was a spe

for the record with greta starts right now. hi, greta. >> thank you, katie. it's getting hot in washington because house minority leader nancy pelosi is demanding president trump fire white hou press secretary sean spicer for this comment. >> we didn't use chemical weapons in world war ii. you know, you had a -- someone who is difficult spencer christianable as hitler who didn't sink to using chemical weapons. i think when you come to sarin gas, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that assad is doing. >> pelosi says he must go and we have a lot more on this exploding

for the record with greta starts right now. greta, what happens' your ring tone? >> i'm not telling. thank you, chuck. and we have breaking news tonight. president trump just dealt another legal blow. a federal judge in san francisco blocking nationwide president trump's executive order threatening to stop federal funding to so-called sanctuary cities. now, those are the cities that refuse to cooperate with immigration authorities. the federal judge in issuing the nationwide preliminary injunction held that president trump's executive order could cause immediate irreparable harm if not blocked now. the san francisco city attorney saying, this is why we have courts, to halt the overreach of a president and an attorney general who either does not understand the constit

for the record with greta starts right now. greta, there are so many places you can go today. good luck. >> i don't even know -- you're right. where do you go today? thank you, chuck. >> you got it. >> in a surprise news conference, secretary of state rex tillerson slamming iran including explicit comparisons to north korea. >> an unchecked iran has the potential to travel the same path as north korea and take the world along with it. united states is keen to avoid a second piece of evidence that strategic patience is a failed approach. the jcpoa fails to achieve the objective of a nonnuclear iran. it only delays their goal of becoming a

for the record with greta starts right now. greta. >> thank you, chris. tonight, do you remember him? >> what's been going onhile i've been gone? >> president obama today making his first public appearance since leaving office. this happens as president trump races to undo the obama legacy before the symbolic 100 day mark, that would be this saturday. president obama back in chicago today. he did not mention president trump but wanted to motivate young folks to get involved in politics. >> the single most important thing i can do is help in any way i can to prepare the next generation of leadership to take up the baton and take their own crack at changing the world.

for the record with greta starts right now. greta, take it away. hope you didn't metro in. i'm very excited about it. i'm very excited about it, thank you. >> i won't miss it. anyway, thank you. in a cover up, well, that's the blistering accusation directed tonight at the white house, a prominent democrat is alleging the white house is covering up for fired national security advisor michael flynn. >> i honestly do not understand why the white house is covering up for michael flynn. i don't get it. after the president fired him for lying. >> covering up for general michael flynn, a strong accusation from the top democrat on the house oversight committee. congressman elijah cummings. and this accusation came after the pentagon opens its own investigation into payments flynn received from foreign governments. now, to be clear, foreign military officers can't accept payment from foreign gove

for the record with greta starts right now. go ahead, greta. >> thanks, chuck. president trump wrote the art of the deal, but can he get one deal done in washington? well, so far the answer is no. his new effort hot off the press on taxes. >> this is going to be the biggest tax cut and the largest tax reform in the history of our country. >> we have a once in a generation opportunity to do something really big. president trump has made tax reform a priority and we have a republican congress that wants to get it done. >> the biggest tax cut in the history of our country is outlined on this. one piece of pap,

i'm chris sitting in for greta. we begin with the mother of all bombs, the second largest nonnuclear bomb in the u.s. arsenal dropped today in afghanistan. it's the first time ever this bomb has been used in combat and the largest ever to be dropped. it's a nearly 22,000 pound explosive that military officials say targeted an isis complex. the bomb was dropped in an isolated area and no word yet on isis casualties. the pentagon says it did take precautions to avoid civilian casualties. now, at the white house today president trump didn't say whether he authorized

i am chris in for greta. will the u.s. strike north korea? the country is preparing to celebrate the day of the sun, the 105th day of the country's founder and current leader kim jong-un's grandfather. those celebrations are traditionally marked with a show of force, and in a new interview, north korea's vice foreign minister warning president trump, telling the a.p., we will go to war if they choose. those comments after nbc news exclusively reported the u.s. is prepared to launch a strike agnsno

for the record with greta starts right now. take it away, greta. >> thanks, chuck. see you sunday. ielt be watching. tonight exclusive nbc breaking news, president trump thinking about putting american nukes on south korean soil. now this breaking news is just this minute coming into our newsroom and we will have the full report for you just as soon as it's ready. in the meantime, we start with syria and the question, is president trump about to strike again?

for the record with greta zarts right now. hey, greta. >> hey, chris. thank you, chris. and warning shots fired. are assad and bannon both on the way out? secretary of state tillerson today saying this. >> to an end, and they have again brought this on themselves. >> and nbc news reporting president trump has issued a warning shot to chief strategist steve bannon warning him, cut the brawling with trump's son-in-law jared kushner, or he, trump, is getting involved. more on that ahead. we begin with president trump holding nothing back, talking about the state of relations with russia. >> it would be wonderful as we were discussing just a little while ago if nato and

amy walter, my newest colleague, greta van susteren, not so new anymore. and good to see you. gene robinson, column -- eugene robinson, columnist for "the washington post." let's start with the trump presidency. where are we in this? and at 70 days in it may seem extreme to be passing judgment about how concern folks are, but where are we? >> if i were a house republican, i'd be nervous. i'd be thinking what does it mean for me in the midterm election. chuck, and i have covered a lot of midterm elections and they all start the same way. or they all end the same way which is a president who has a decent approval rating among his party but not energized. in this case we have a party that's fighting amongst itself. that depresses enthusiasm from the party. independents abandoned the president and his party. the president right now has a 33% approval rating with independents. that's the same place where bush, clinton and obama were when they lost the house. and the other side is fired up. when you look at the strong disapproval versus the strong approval rating it's a two to one a

for the record with greta starts right now. greta will not miss meet the press. she promises me. >> i promise. especially with vice-president pence, it's going to be a great interview. i'm dying to see that. >> thank you. >> have a great weekend, chuck. we have breaking news. north korea doing it again, launching yet another ballistic missile north of pyonyang. officials say the missile explode the soon after launch. it is the 9th missile launched since president trump took office. this comes hours after north korea broadcasting a propaganda video. artillery exercises and this. after the stern warning from secretary of state rex tillerson. >> it is likely a matter of time before north korea develops the capability to strike the u.s. main

"for the record with greta" starts right now. hey there, greta. >> we have breaking news. a governor booked at the county jail. you heard right. a governor. alabama governor robert bentley expected to resign any moment now. the montgomery county sheriff's office just released a mugshot of the governor after he was booked on two misdemeanor charges. the governor faced imachment proceedings today. he was accused of abusing power and using state resources, state money, to cover up his alleged affair with an adviser. those allegations include trying to block the release of steamy phone calls. lieutenant governor cay ivy is expected to be sworn in later this hour. >> turning to syria and the critical question, did the russians know about the chemical weapons attack on those innocent syrians? the associated press reporting late today that u.s. officials believe russia k