'Knew what she was doing.' White House does damage control after Susie Wiles' shocking interview
MSNBC· 2025-12-17 05:02
We are now 321 days away from the midterms and we are tracking the fallout for the White House tonight after an explosive report in Vanity Fair. In a shocking interview with journalist Chris Whipple, White House chief of staff Susie Wilds unleashed a blunt assessment of President Trump and his cabinet, describing Vice President Vance as a quote conspiracy theorist, OM head Russell Vote as quote a right-wing absolute zealot and the president himself as having quote an alcoholic's personality. You heard that ...
Bitcoin Market Decline a 'Healthy Retracement,' Says MARA's Thiel
Bloomberg Television· 2025-12-17 05:01
The decline in the asset price this year is certainly, you know, $126,000. That was a major high earlier this year. That was a big moment for the cryptocurrency, but down close to 30 or more than 30% from that.How much lower does Bitcoin go. I think, you know, Bitcoin at this level is finding support in the kind of 84,000 range, which is just about where the break even point is on most ETF purchases. Bitcoin ETF purchases and that seems to be a level of support where essentially people, large investors who ...
Lawrence: ‘Immoral’ is Donald Trump’s brand, and his chief of staff just proved it
MSNBC· 2025-12-17 04:49
I was not here last night because I couldn't bring myself to talk on TV about the murders of my friends Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle and I couldn't talk about anything else on TV. And so Ali Veli stepped in and allowed me to turn off the news of the world for a day. I might have something to say at some point about the wonderful experiences I had at Robin Michelle's home, which is now a crime scene, but right now I still don't have the mental or emotional clarity to form even a single sentence about tha ...
Trump orders blockade of oil tankers in Venezuela
NBC News· 2025-12-17 04:49
Tensions with Venezuela continue to escalate with President Trump now saying he is ordering a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers both leaving and entering Venezuela. Melanie, I this post is sending a lot of people scrambling. I imagine this is going to be hotly debated in in Congress, right? >> Yeah, and it comes already as there was this heated debate on Capitol Hill about congressional war powers and whether Congress needs to approve any additional strikes or escalations in Venezuela. something that the T ...
Kristof: 700,000 lives lost because Trump White House treated aid as a game
MSNBC· 2025-12-17 04:48
Nick, you have been uh to Africa since Elon Musk uh crushed USID. You have seen what he has done. Uh in Chris Whipple's reporting, Marco Rubio tells him something that Rubio has been saying publicly that no, no people have suffered because of these quotes. That's the official Rubio because of these cuts. Uh that's the Rubio position.>> And it's completely false. Of course, you know, as I was reading the Susie Wilds article, I kept thinking of the Shakespeare quote in King Lear where he says, um, you know, a ...
Trump orders blockade of oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela
NBC News· 2025-12-17 04:13
>> NBC'S SARAH JAMES, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING THERE FOR US. MEANWHILE, TENSIONS WITH VENEZUELA CONTINUE TO ESCALATE, WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP NOW SAYING HE IS ORDERING A BLOCKADE OF SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS BOTH LEAVING AND ENTERING VENEZUELA. WE'RE GOING TO BREAK THAT DOWN IN JUST A SECOND.BUT FIRST, NEW VIDEO FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. JUST THIS WEEK, THE U.S. STRUCK THREE MORE BOATS IN THE EASTERN PACIFIC, KILLING EIGHT PEOPLE. THAT BRINGS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM THESE STRIKES ALL THE WAY TO A ...
Safety concerns grow after reported midair close call
NBC News· 2025-12-17 04:08
It happened over the Caribbean at 38,000 ft. >> Unidentified traffic 12:00 closing 10 miles level not known. >> Air traffic control on the Dutch island of Kurissau notified a private US business jet headed to Fort Lauderdale of an aircraft in the same airspace.Seconds later, the business jet reported a close call. >> We just got that traffic. I don't know how we didn't get an RA for that, but they were really close.An RA is a resolution advisory, an automated cockpit warning to take evasive action to avoid ...
Second doctor charged after the death of Matthew Perry
NBC News· 2025-12-17 04:07
Accountability for another former doctor charged after the death of beloved Friends actor Matthew Perry. My heart goes out to the Perry family. Former California doctor Mark Chavez sentenced to eight months of home detention and three years of supervised release.Last year, he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to distribute ketamine to Perry, who was found dead from an accidental overdose in 2023. Chavez admitted to selling ketamine from his former clinic to another doctor, Salvador Plasencia, who su ...
Trump chief of staff makes disastrous miscalculation in talks with reporter
MSNBC· 2025-12-17 03:56
There is a little known tradition in Washington. Whenever a new administration takes office, the new president's incoming chief of staff has dinner with all the previous chiefs of staff. Usually, one of them hosts it at their house or at a restaurant or whatever, whatever it may be, and chiefs of staff from both parties attend. And they all do this so that they can offer advice to the new incoming chief of staff on how to prepare for the role. It's kind of a nice tradition through through multiple different ...
LIVE: Fed Governor Waller speaks to CNBC's Steve Liesman at the Yale CEO Summit — 12/16/2025
CNBC Television· 2025-12-17 03:37
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller participates in a Q&A with CNBC's Steve Liesman at the Yale CEO Summit on Wednesday to discuss the new financial order. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC subscribe to CNBC PRO: https://cnb.cx/42d859g » Subscribe to CNBC TV: https://cnb.cx/SubscribeCNBCtelevision » Subscribe to CNBC: https://cnb.cx/SubscribeCNBC » Watch CNBC on the go with CNBC+: https://www.cnbc.com/WatchCNBCPlus Turn to CNBC TV for the latest stock market news and analysis. From ma ...