Front row seat to Cabinet Meeting after criticized his treatment of journalists. If you like you can statement or if you like can you also leave. Dont forget freedom of the press. The pentagon postponing President Trumps military parade according to new reports it would have cost 92 million. Whoever told that you is probably smoking something thats legal in my state but not in most states. Steve live from new york city, it is friday, august 17th. Come on in to the mezzanine level here in studio f as if fox friends on a friday. Look who is here. Ed freedom friday. We are ready. Ainsley we are free in this wonderful country we live. In Twisted Sister to wake you this up morning. They will always do that. Steve wee have Scotty Mccreery because it is a friday in the summer. That means the allamerican summer Concert Series brought tour friends at keurig. Ainsley thank you, keurig, you make your life easier. Worry coffee pots . Ed no. Ainsley thats a thing in the past. Steve complicated you
Today that White House Council don mcgahn has given three voluntary interviews. To help put that in into perspective a former white water investigator said its like having keys to the kingdom. Ryan nobles is near at the president s golf resort in new jersey. This cooperation is incredibly unusual, so why is mcgahn cooperating and what could he know . Theres a bunch of reasons why hes involved in this situation at the level hes involved in it. But essentially it started because Donald Trumps former criminal lawyers, those that were representing him in the special counsel probe decided it was a good idea for mcgann to voluntary cooperate and the special counsel and not invone Attorney Client privilege. But when that happened according to the New York Times, mcgahn and his lawyer decided there was a concern that mcgahn was being set up to become the fall guy for donald trump when it comes to obstruction of justice. So he decided to fully cooperate. There are few people in the Trump White
On thursday he will head to montana to stump for matt rosendale. He is cha epging jon tester. That race is personal for President Trump because tester is the top democrat on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and helped kill the nomination for jackson earlier this year. Then on friday he will head to north dakota for a Campaign Event for kevin kramer, running against senator heidi heitkamp. She is considered one of the most vulnerable democrats running this november. Then he will head down to south dakota where he will be raising money for a gop goosh governorial candidate. He has has the kavanaugh hearings and nafta negotiations this week. As republicans are getting more and more nervous about the elections they are turning more and more to trump for support. While he is not popular in every state in the country, certainly in the three states he is visiting this weekend he could give those candidates a boost. Those are the trips this week. Lets focus on what is happening tomorrow.
Up next, alex witt has the latest. I do. And how fun to get you device on twice on the weekend. On sunday, i love that. But this time thank you for the gospel according to aretha. That was beautiful. Im alex witt here in new york. High noon here in the east. 9 00 a. M. Out west. And here is what is happening. John brennan speaking on camera for the First Time Since his security clearance was revoked. New reaction this hour to the implications of what the president did. He is drunk on power. He really is. And i think he is abusing the power he is of that office. To take away the clearance, it is just punishment. This is not the deep state. These are the team thinkers. And we should not be pulling these clearances for political purpose. And steve bannon on what to expect in november and the one word he says that, quote, will get all the gdeplorables out to vote. And the special counsel recommends six months in jail for a Trump Campaign adviser. The message Robert Mueller might be trying
Nbc news president ial historian michael beshlos, jonathan alther, and author of the gatekeeper, chris whipple. Both jonathan and chris are msnbc analysts and contributors. Michael, lets start with you. John mccains the third person to lie in state in arizona. Obviously, a very big honor. He is going to go through the whole processional through the capitol and in washington he is going to be treated like he was a president. He wanted to be president. He never got that tight. Just put this into performance for us. How big of a deal is it to give all of this pomp and circumstance to somebody like senator john mccain . Well, it shows his place in American Society and i think in American Life for years to come because this is a figure whose legacy will live on. This whole thing about having ceremonies that last virtually a week after the person passes, thats a pretty recent development in modern times. It goes back to ronald reagan, who died in june of 2004, and there were various ceremoni