To speak with the president about, the firing of james comey and firing of Michael Flynn. Explain. We did some digging to figure out when thisnterview with the president is going to happen. We learned investigations with bob muellers team are expected to begin soon. What they want to know, two pivotal points. Why did President Trump fire mike flynn and how did he explain the firing . And why did he fire jim comey . What were the precipitating factors around that . Who was involved in the decision . How did the president explain it privately . Weve been able to discern investigators are interested in the numerous repeated efforts to oust Jeff Sessions as attorney general on at least two different occasions he asked for his resignation and why did he do that . It seems to us that the investigators are looking for a pattern of behavior to try to figure out what was the president thinking at all of these things, they want what are you going to ask him . Can some of the questions be done in
People over the last year. I have gotten to know great people, so there will always be change, but very little. Under attack. Russian hackers ten trait the american energy, water and power plants, getting close enough to shut them down as the British Government blames the kremlin itself with with a nerve agent in england. It was not long ago that Vladimir Putin was, himself, on television in moscow announcing such people should be poisoned and it is overwhelmingly clear that this was directed by russia. Good darks everyone, im Andrea Mitchell in washington with more on the allegation from Stormy Daniels lawyer today on morning joe. Was she threatened in any way . Yes. Was she threatened physical harm . Yes. Oh, wow. Keep going, mika. I mean, we started the tease. Was her life threatened . Again, im not going answer this. Theres obviously so much more here. What can you tell us about the threats, the physical threats . I cant tell you anything beyond what i have said. Can you tell us wh
From work, this beard thing happens. And rachel, its been out there on twitter for or against the beard. Got an overwhelming response. I think it was like two trillion in favor of the beard and amazingly two trillion opposed to it. So its a tie that you have a to break right here and now. You can tell me what to do. And this will either be here tomorrow or not. Its completely up to you. I well, i was going to say im 100 in favor of the beard. I am 98 in favor of the beard be, i am 2 curious as to how it would look if it was just here. The mustache down to the jaw line. Rachel, youre never going to know but listen, lets get back to the story you broke earlier in the hour, the fusion gps story. Yeah. Here it is, theyre just asking for full transparency about what they have worked on and what they have revealed to the committee. Yeah. And weve sort of knew that was going to be an issue. Because the first time that glen simpson from fusion testified, it was 10 hours before the Senate Judic
President prutrump, if you a listening, it is almost as if you want a shutdown. They are feeling proud of themselves. Their very own Government Shutdown. And the president blaming democrats, tweeting this. This is the one Year Anniversary of my presidency and the democrats wanted to give me a nice present. Hashtag democrat shutdown. All of this as activists across the nation are participating in the womens march. Marking the anniversary of that historic turnout one year ago. Lets begin our special live coverage with these crucial meetings on capitol hill. Cnn senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju is live. So are you hearing anything about what these house lawmakers are discussing right now. They are just getting into the closed door meeting in the house conference and this House Democrats also are having a separate meeting at the same time. There is not a whole lot these lawmakers can do to break this stalemate. This is expected to be a pep rally of sorts. Each side saying that
Trump is poor theyred as unserious and only semiliterate. And steve bannon accuses the president s son of treason. That is a ridiculous accusation. Fighting back, President Trump says bannon has lost his mind. Plus the president s bigger button insult to kim jongun is raising questions about mr. Trumps judgment. Its a taunting tweet to say he has a larger nuclear button. But its just a fact. And weapon of mass distraction. After the president s big button tweet we talked to about expert on the brain and language about whats really behind President Trumps serial tweeting. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd here in washington. Real nonfiction washington, i swear. Welcome to mtp daily and welcome to a fivealarm Dumpster Fire for the white house. Or should we call it bannons rebellion . The russia investigation blown nope dramatic fashion. Not by the fake news media. Not by the deep state justice department, but by steve bannon. And in response, the pres