Kc d. C. On msnbc, where was it . It was so good last night. Thank you. New york times reporter mata is with us and mike barn kal and National Affairs analyst John Heilemann is with us as well. Joe is off this morning. Were going to start with the firing of former fbi Deputy Director Andrew Mccabe. And President Trump now raising doubts about whether mccabe kept personal notes about their oval office meetings. Two people familiar with the case tell the Washington Post that mccabe memorialized his interactions with the president in memos which, if true, could become key pieces of evidence in Robert Muellers russia probe. On sunday morning, the president lashed out at the report, tweeting, spent very little time with Andrew Mccabe, but he never took notes when he was with me. I dont believe he made memos except to help his own agenda, probably at a later date. Same with lying james comey. Can we call them fake memos . Hours later a lawyer for Andrew Mccabe tweeted, we will not be respond
Government through february 8th. The deal extends the Childrens Health Insurance Program for six years, but it did nothing on daca. For that, democrats got Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell to commit to a vote on the issue next month. But House Speaker paul ryan is making no such promises. Welcome to morning joe. Its tuesday, january 23rd, with us we have veteran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnicle, associate editor of commentary magazine noah rothman and editor of the Washington Post, Eugene Robinson and nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host kasie dc on msnbc, kasie hunt. Joe, what was the president , the president s part in this way forward . And what is the way forward . It sounds like his part was to get out of the way. Most everybody says the reason they were able to get a deal at the end was the president and steven miller, who is obviously running the president s business were kept out of the way. And so the two sides could come together. Listen, there are a lot o
This date 29 years ago. And how amaiding that that was a nice that your father and some other people spend their entire life working for and fighting for that freedom, the freewaying of over 100 million people. Your parents fled poland and czechoslovakia in the 1930s. That night on this day so many people were freed. So this news keeps coming at us every day. I got a call from some people i know in florida going, this race is not over. Bill nelson is picking up votes. By night, you had a full on freak out by mark roub o. Rick scott is freaking out, too, alleging unlawful behavior when it doesnt go his way. When i was part of the republican effort back in 2000, our fight was to count all the votes. The Republican Party then, we were fighting to make sure that all the military votes got counted. If you want to see where the Republican Party is in 2018, 18 years after we were fighting to count all the votes, now its marco rubio and donald trump the and rick scott that are freaked out that
First tweeted today is ending considerably better than it started. One, postponement of putin visit, two, possible u. S. eu trade truce, three secretary pompeo declaring u. S. Richard tweeted this. I tweeted today ended better than it gan ignoring yogis wisdom that it aint over till its over. Now some congressmen claiming to be conservatives have move to impeach the Deputy Attorney general. Well start right there. A group of republicans in the house have introduced articles of impeachment against Rod Rosenstein in connection to special counsel Robert Muellers probe. The resolution introduced by House Freedom caucus and nine other cosponsors accuses rosenstein of blocking oversight. They claim he withheld documents and made misleading statements on the matter. A spokesman tells nbc news it is not considered a privileged motion whether it comes up for a floor vote is in the hands of the republican leadership. Last week House Speaker paul ryan said rosenstein should be allowed to feninish
Former chief of staff as c. I. A. And department of defense now an Nbc News National Security analyst jeremy bash. And washington anchor for bbc world news America Katty Kay who cheers for england who will win the world cup four years from now and host of Andrea Mitchell reports, Andrea Mitchell. Congratulations to france for their victory in the world cup. We are coming up on some big news events the next 15, 20 minutes. Vladimir putin is arriving right now from russia where he was the host of the world cup. And hes arriving in helsinki. Hes going to be meeting with donald trump. We will see him and the president of the United States over the next 15 to 20 minutes. But before we go there, lets try to put into context what exactly has happened this weekend and what the backdrop is for this meeting that has caused him a great deal of concern across washington, d. C. And the world. David ignatius, i want to start with you, how do you put into context weekend where the president of the Un