Im eric shawn and for bill hemmer on Martin Luther king day. This explosive report ended up getting seized on by midi outlets to be knocked down by the special counsels office. You know mueller causing buzzfeed story inaccurate and Vice President mike pence calling off the media frenzy that surrounded the article. This Administration Fully cooperated with special counsel. I think the American People saw the hyper partisanship among citizenship to assume the worst for the president and many in the National Media to assume the worst about the president. Sandra will you still investigate the claims . Absolutely congress with a fundamentalist and getting why this came before us and also knowledgeable that this was a lie. Is that a coincidence . In two days after attorney general nominee said for the first time, im going to grade the special counsels homework, and im going to get to the bottom of all of this. Sandra kevin life at the white house, kevin, what are you hearing today . Im heari
They have the vacation because they dont have to use their say caVacation Days. No paycheck . No apparent problem says an sxhik advi economic adviser, but the pain is growing. Women will not see cuts to Birth Control coverage thanks to a ruling from a federal judge. And the field of 2020 democrats expands by two. Already one of them facing harsh backlash for positions uncovered from the past. This is clearly going to be an enormous democratic field as we approach 2020. Good morning, everyone. Happy monday. Welcome to early start. And it is monday, january 14th, it is 5 00 a. M. In the east. A trio of big stories about President Trump breaking over the weekend. Two of them new revelations connected to the russia investigation. The Washington Post reporting that the president went to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with russia president Vladimir Putin. Among the unusual steps he took, confiscating his own interpr interpreters notes after the meeting in germa
On the ground, those defending cobanny. There are funerals for the fallen every day. Theyre burying the defenders here on the turkish side of the border. Its too dangerous to hold any funerals now. But as soon as its free, theyre going to dig them up and send them home. A look at the front lines in the height of the isis onslaught. Turkish leaders considers those cu kurds an enemy. Were going to be covering that throughout the morning. Many people across the world see it as a terrible move. Very allies that remained steadfast with us and played such a big role in pushing isis back and supporting the United States now being betrayed by donald trump, now being betrayed by his administration. David ignatius said, and davids been over in syria and knows so much about the battle against isis. President trump is about to make pay major consequential mistake. Hes informing that Syrian Kurdish allies that u. S. Is withdrawing from positions on the border abandoning security mechanism to allow
Biden. Earlier today, the president suggested he did mention former Vice President joe biden and his son hunter biden to the leader of ukraine in a phone call in july. The president insisted he did nothing wrong there and defended the behavior of his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, as well. The conversation i had was largely congratulatory and largely the corruption taking place and largely the fact that we dont want our people like Vice President biden and his son creating to the corruption already in the ukraine. Pi would have no problem. Rudy is a very straight shooter. Rudy wants to see the same thing as a lot of other people. Ukraine has had a tremendous corruption problem. Democrats took to the morning shows to voice their alarm as well as the need for congress to take action. I think if an american president is asking another foreign leader to interfere in an american election, then there has to be consequences. If the president of the United States is brown beating a foreign l
Eventually back east to pa, all states that donald trump won in 2016. Which says something about hit strategy. But its orourkes money moves making headlines this morning. 6. 1 million in his first 24 hours according to campaign. We dont know who these people are. The campaign, rather, declining to get specific on for example average donations or number of new donors, the candidate, himself, is cleaning up a few clumsy comments as the potential competitor get some buzz with his own freudian slip of the the ung. I am the most progressist party of anybody who would run. Whoops, nbc warrior, orourke wrapped up on set, elly vitale is off the campaign trail and joining me and White House Correspondent for npr and jake sherman msnbc political contributor and Senior Writer for split colorado friends of this show all. Let me start with you. You have been with orourke, did he answer some of the questions related to those specific donations . Reporter yes. And no, halle. Look. This is not somethi