Disclosure, make it complete. What we have here is a slow bleed. Tipping point . Opponents of the republican healthcare bill need to peel off one more republican vote. And the bill goes down. Can Mitch Mcconnell hold his line . Do you think the new version is better than the old version . I think its worse. It does not make sense to do a major rewrite of a vital Entitlement Program without having any hearings or consideration of the implications. So thats something that is a major reason that i find myself unable to support the bill. And odd couple, two former president s and their unlikely friendship. The best thing can happen to you in politics, is to be consistently underestimated. I was pretty good at that. And good day, im Andrea Mitchell in washington. We have a lot of breaking news today. What donald trump jr. Left out of his account of that controversial june 2016 meeting with a russian lawyer at the height of the campaign. Nbc news has learned the lawyer in that meeting was ac
Will like this. Nums are not dead. Living proof of that. Great to see you. Put down your phone. All right. Have a great afternoon. And a happy friday afternoon to you. This is everything. You remember that phrase. Its what donald trump jr. Told the world the day he released are the email exchange dealing with a meeting with that russian lawyer. That statement ended up being less than completely forthcoming. Just like his previous accounts of that day. There is a pattern of half truths developing here. Alice of today we now know there were two more people in that election season meeting than we first thought. Nbc news has learned one of them is a russian american lobbyist and former soviet counterintelligence officer who is suspected by some u. S. Officials of having ongoing ties to russian intelligence. That person denies any current ties to russian spy agencies. Lets take a step back, though, and retell this story as donald trump jr. Himself has told it. There are cure os tiz, parts t
Today spent time sucking up to a dangerous adversary, the one who ordered the cyberattack on american democracy, which continues at this moment, according to the president s own top intelligence official. Today during this ongoing attack, the president of the United States sided with the leader of a hostile foreign power, a near dictator over the men and women of his own intelligence and Law Enforcement community. And in the hours that followed his own intelligence chief publicly contradicted him, the house and Senate Leadership lined up against his position, the state department went dark, utterly silent, according to our own michelle kosinski, no comment at all. And the white house . Well, official theres openly saying theyre at a loss for words, and frankly, they are not alone. What happened at the summit today has never happened at any super power summit ever before, and it apparently comes down to a choice by the president himself. A u. S. Official telling us that what the preside
President trump did here today at his summit with russias president Vladimir Putin, what he said and what he refused to say to the face of a tyrant. And its hard to downplay the damage he may already be doing to American Power and prestige around the world along with the president s credibility at home. After a week that began with the president trashing americas closest allies, donald trump today spent time sucking up to a dangerous adversary, the one who ordered the cyberattack on american democracy, which continues at this moment, according to the president s own top intelligence official. Today during this ongoing attack, the president of the United States sided with the leader of a hostile foreign power, a near dictator over the men and women of his own intelligence and Law Enforcement community. And in the hours that followed his own intelligence chief publicly contradicted him, the house and Senate Leadership lined up against his position, the state department went dark, utterly