President trump, i just saw your press conference with president putin and it was embarrassing. You stood there like a little wet noodle, like a little fan boy. I mean i was asking myself, when are you going to ask him for an autograph or a selfie or Something Like that. We begin there with the president back here in washington and the mounting negative summit fallout. The president , again, said to be angry, unconvinced of what is plain to most lawmakers on capitol hill, that the commander in chief folded in front of Vladimir Putin and embarrassed himself, his Political Party and the United States on the global stage. This is the republican speaker of the house about 90 minutes ago leading the chorus of republicans saying the president s embrace of putin and the president s assault on the u. S. Intelligence agencies was dead wrong. We just conducted a yearlong investigation into russias interference in our elections. They did interfere in our elections. Its really clear. President tru
Only interpreters were present and lawmakers now want the american aide to testify. And pricey parade. President trump says the joint military exercises with south korea were simply too expensive. But cnn has learned his plans for a u. S. Military parade here in washington this fall could be just as costly. Is this the best way to spend american taxpayer dollars . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news. When asked if russia is still actively t actively targeting the United States, President Trump said, no. The intelligence chief said u. S. Is under attack. Now the white house is once again forced to step in with yet another version of what the president meant to say. Ill speak with congressman castro of the intelligence and Foreign Affairs committees and then correspondents and specialists are also standing by with full coverage. First, lets get to our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. Can you sort this out for us . Reporter the white house is doing anoth
Agree on, we shouldnt shut down the government over a dispute. And you want to shut it down. You keep talking about it. The last time, chuck, you shut it down. Oh, no. 20 times. I dont want to do what you did. 20 times you called for i will shut down the government if i dont get my wall. You want to know something . You want to put that on me. Ill take it. You know what ill say . Yes. If we dont get what we want, one way or the other, whether through you, through military, through anything you want to call, i will shut down the government. I am proud to shut down the government for Border Security, chuck, because the people of this country dont want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country, so i will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. Im not going to blame you for it. Last time you shut it down, it didnt work. I will take the mantle of shutting it down. New york new york, two guys fighting it out on the corner. The televised sp
Deal. What she did to win over dissident democrats. Her challenger last time, tim ryan, will join me to talk about his 180. Alleged Foreign Agent maria butina in court to plead guilty, but to what . We have a team out this morning. First our new msnbc reporting, donald trump telling those close to him that he is alarmed by the possibility of impeachment as the seriousness of whats been going down starts to sink in. An ally of the president is telling nbc news, quote, the entire question of whether he committed an Impeachable Offense hinges on david pecker and alan weisenberg, both cooperating witnesses. Who are those guys . David pecker publishes the nation nationalenquirer. They have admitted to buying the silence of women. Alan weisselberg, another person believed to be involved in those hush money payments. He has been given immunity by prosecutors. One day after his former personal fixer was sentenced to three years in prison, the president is on a twitter tirade about Michael Cohe
Investigation break during your hour. And then we had the wall street journal report. So we had great luck. May the news gods smile on you, too. It is one of these things. You think youre going one way, were going to need a lot of score cards to keep track of the investigations. Have a good show. If its thursday in the room where it happened. Good evening, im chuck todd in washington. Welcome to mpt daily. Its been ten minutes since we learned of a new criminal investigation. More evidence that potentially puts the president at the center of a campaign conspiracy. Nbc news confirmed mr. Trump was in the room when Michael Cohen and the publisher of the national enquirer, david pecker, discussed ways to catch and kill negative stories about him in the early stories of the campaign, august, 2015. The meeting happened two months after he declared his candidacy. Yesterday, federal prosecutors in new york disclosed a statement of facts noting that in august, 2015, the chairman of ami had a m