Unanswered question here. Why was the event cancelled in the first place . Trump says it was fear of violence. Chicago pd denied they suggested that, and say, in fact, they told the campaign they had more than enough resources to handle it. Now, this morning, trump denies he is in any way responsible for what happened. Tweeting, the organized group of people, many of them thugs who shut down our First Amendment rights in chicago, have totally energized america. But as republican rivals blame him for the escalating tensions at his events. It tells you that in many ways, he doesnt want to say anything to his supporters, because he doesnt want to turn them off, because he understands that the reach why they are voting for him is because he has tapped into this anger. The problem is latership has never been about taking peoples anger and using it to get them to vote for you. If it is, its a dangerous style leadership. Donald trump has created a toxic environment, and a toxic environment ha
Good afternoon. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Well, president obama has made his choice, judge Merrick Garland nominated today for the Supreme Court. And now the pressure is on senate republicans, many of them still saying they wont even consider a nomination or a confirmation, with less than a year left in the obama presidency. I have fulfilled my constitutional duty. Now its time for the senate to do theirs. Its the senates constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent. Action on a Supreme Court nomination must be put off until after the Election Campaign is over. Well, joining me now is nbc news justice correspondent, pete williams. Pete, thank you. Let me just ask you this, can you answer the political question, maybe its procedural, why are they not going ahead, at least with meeting all the majority members, and especially judiciary members, meeting with the nominee, perhaps holding some hearings and perhaps even holding a vote. The chances of
Again . It keeps happening. In this case its kim jong un moving that football. And President Trump, not Charlie Brown, left swinging in the air. So many times before. As it has happened, sometimes before. North korea has done a 180. Pulling the plug on meetings with the south and threatening to scuttle a planned sitdown with President Trump. Welcome to morning joe, its wednesday, may 16, we have National Affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc and executive producer and cohost of showtimes the circus jon heilemann. It seems a little unfair to compare kim jong un to lucy. I didnt really like lucy. And Heidi Przybilla and Nbc News National Security analyst jeremy bash. I think its not like they had history to look at, right . How would they know . Let us hope that something good comes out of this. But yesterday for anybody that has spent any time how north korea plays the United States and the west yesterday wasnt a surprise at all. Weve always been concerned here. That theres been a beli
This was an attempted take down of a president. We beat them. What im most interested in is Getting Started hopefully the attorney general, he mentioned it yesterday. Hes doing a great job. Getting started on going back to the origins of exactly where this all started. This was an illegal witch hunt. What they did was treason. What they did was herible. What they did was against our constitution and everything we stand for. Hopefully that will happen. Now it appears that william barr is supposed to deliver on the president s wishes. He said he intends to review the conduct of the investigators who opened the investigation and according to bloomberg news, he assembled a team to do just that. In the senate subcommittee, barr appeared to endorse the widespread republican and trumpian allegation that they were improperly surveilled or to use the trumpian term, spied upon. Heres the attorney general using that very term. We want to make sure that during i think spying on a Political Campaig
Ryans return. He is running on the promise that he hopes will win back democratic voters. He will take questions from you in the audience, democrats and independents who say they plan to participate in the democratic primary and caucuses. Please welcome tim ryan. [ cheers and applause ] hello. Good evening. Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. Welcome. We have a great audience, thank you. Very energetic crowd tonight. Thank you for spending your sunday night with us. I want to get to the news, which is tragic news that we have to talk about. Fridays shooting in virginia beach, 12 innocent lives taken, murdered. Four people wounded seriously, the deadliest shooting in this country this year. What authorities are saying is that two 45 caliber pistols were found at the scene. Both legally purchased by the gunmen. One of those pistols had a suppresser. Several magazines were found near the shooter. You wrote, we need real good reform and we need it now. Is there any law that cou