Destruction. This is threatening a feud between the top agencies and the President Elect white house. Were getting phew reaction from moscow. Well get to that in a moment. Lets bring in eugene scott and tom lobianco. Good morning. The strategy behind this statement. Just three sentences. Unsigned. What what is the the calculation here from the trump folks . Its a continuation of Donald Trumps message during the campaign that he believes he knows more than the Intelligence Community. Thats a hard sell to make at this point, given that we know he only is getting about once a week president Daily Briefs Gnat would give him more information about National Security globally. That statement is inaccurate. These are not the same people that were heading the departments when the Bush Administration was in place. This is new information and new revelations about what is happening abroad. Tom, i talk t about the
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The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Does not change even as this Story Changes dramatically. We know there could be legal consequences. That aside, are there political . Well, thats one of the interesting things because weve weve seen these tweets over the past couple of days. This tweet about Jeff Sessions which a lot of legal analysts and experts have said, boy, that could really do you damage in a court of law, that could be obstruction, that could contradict the other statements. But in the court of Public Opinion and what President Trump believes and what his advisers believe is that attacking this investigation is really the best way to succeed in that court of Public Opinion. And there was definitely a shift after the Michael Cohen raid and weve seen in recent months about the president racheting up his attacks on this Mueller Investigation and im told that is because he very much believes and his lawyers advised him that this as a sitt
63 people were shot in the city of chicago. 10 of those victims at this point have died. One of them a 17yearold boy who was just riding his bike. 34 of the 63 were shot between saturday and Sunday Morning alone. And 25 people were wounded within a two and a half hour period over the weekend. We are the ones who can stop the violence in our own neighborhood. Whatever the police does, you know, what they do good. God bless them. Thats their job. At the same time we cannot keep tying these police hands. Will be rob Chicago Police say most of the shootings were targeted and related to Gang Violence with gunmen opening fire large crowds. Most of it happening in the south side of the city. President trump predicted chicago violence would get worse more than two years ago. Tweeting in july of 2016 crime is out of control and rapidly getting worse. Look at what is happening in chicago and our inner cities
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Haystack. Did the issue of adoption, its near and dear to my heart because i have two adopt edisons. Did that come up . Yes. In the meeting . Like i said, it was the primary thing we had spoken about in the meeting. You know, thats not the premise that got them in the room, and then they started it was essentially a baitandswitch to talk about that, and everyone has basically said that in testimony already. So this is nothing new, but, you know, like i said, im now understanding it is an important issue to you and near and dear to many peoples hearts, but this was nothing that was a Campaign Issue to us. This wasnt relevant to us, and it wasnt something we were going to do anything with. Except thats not what the president said over the weekend. Trump jr. Was not pushed to explain the shifting explanations behind the story. Meanwhile, vanity fair has reporting on former Communications Director hope hicks reappearance at the president s side over the weekend, just hours before he tweete
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. In the white house. The first lady if President Trump would hammer his successes and tweet less about lebron and this off stuff, it would allow people to focus on what hes done and his administration have done well. Thats called an unforced error. The president is once again putting focus on that Trump Tower Meeting, potentially complicating legal matters for his son over the high level sitdown donald trump junior, jared kushner, and then Campaign Chair in his second week of his trial, Paul Manafort had with a kremlin linked lawyer and alleged Russian Intelligence Agency an oligarchs representative and an interpreter. Whats wrong with that . Well, lets look at the shifting story from the white house and the campaign. The New York Times first broke the news of the Trump Tower Meeting more than a year after it happened. Donald trump then released a
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