Point overnight. As antihate dimmen straighters took to the streets. Protests around trump tower with the president s half hearted denunciation of the white supremacist march in charlottesville. Is the bar so low that were now celebrating giving a standing ovation to a president that condemns naziism . Can you stand for hatred or you can stand against it. You cant do both. Trump attacked the first ceo, ken frazier, the africanamerican head of merck on twitter yesterday. He did not call out the other three by name, underarmor, intel and scott paul, all of whom are white. This morning he tweeted, for every ceo that drops out of the manufacturing council, i have many to take their place. Grandstanders should not have gone on. Before that, he retweeted the man who pushed the pizza gate conspiracy theory. Then a fox news report about how he is seriously considering pardoning joe arpaio. And at one point an image of a trump train running over a cnn reporter. He deleted that tweet and an anon
Conduct. Investigate al franken and the allegations made by his accuser, is it also fair to investigate the accusations against him . This was covered extensively during the campaign. We addressed it then. The American People spoke very loud and clear when they elected this president. How is this different . Senator franken has admitted wrongdoing and the president hasnt. Heres a president s tweet about franken. The al frankenstipe pictuein pi really bad. Speaks a thousand words. Where do his hand goes in pictures two, three, four, five and six while she sleeps . Silence from trump and the nine women who have recounted sexual encounters with roy moore. Since trump has used his bully pulpit, well look at how it stacks up to Donald Trumps description of his own conduct. It happened so fast and he just mashed his lips against my face and stuck his tongue in my mouth so fast. Automatically attracted to i just start kissing them. Its like a magnet. Al doing his, you know this on my breast l
Out to tillerson himself, trump spoke to reporters and made clear he wanted someone in the state department who the wouldnt disagree with him. He found his man in cia direct ker mike pompeo. Lets watch. Rex and i have been talking about this for a long time. We got along actually quite well. But we disagreed on things. When you look at the iran deal, i think its terrible. I guess he thought it was okay. I wanted to either break it or do something. And he felt a little bit differently. So we were not really thinking the same. With mike pompeo, we have a very similar thought process. I think its going to go very well. I got along well with rex. But it was a different mindset. It was a different thinking. I wish wretch a lot of good things. I think hes going to be very happy. I think rex will be much happier now but i really appreciate his service. But with mike, weve had a very Good Chemistry right from the beginning. Actually, rex is not the name of a dog. Its the name of the secretary
Inaugural campaign and what did they get for their money . This is the president who was prepared to roll out the staff, and the goal he had in the inauguration was to raise his hand and take the oath. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. And Michael Cohen sending a clear message to donald trump, and in an abc news interview of what he told special investigator mueller. Why should we believe you you now . Because the special counsel believed the information i gave them was credible, and there is a substantial amount of evidence that proves i am telling the tru truth. And a joining us is msnbc contributor Kristen Welker and attorney barbara quaid, and also matt miller who was former chief spokesman for attorney general eric holder. And so lets talk about the conflicting stories, and Michael Cohen, a key witness against the president , and he says that there is more backup, and we obviously think that there are tapes because we have heard some of them. And we have heard
Virginia as Hurricane Michael moves off of the atlantic coast, and while in florida, an entire coastline is being swept away. We thought that it was a cat 4 with a direct hit, it never would have stayed. We have no communication about the outside world and nobody knows about me. And how long will it take to clean all of this up . I dont know. I havent any idea. And the first family, the first lady is answer iing questions about her husbands alleged infidelity and if she loves him . Yes, it is fine. It is what the media speculates and it is gossip and it is not always correct stuff. And goodday, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. A shocking new report revealing horrific details about what may have happened to Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, and the turkish government has told the u. S. Officials they that have audio and video of what happened inside of the ko consulate. One said that you can hear how he was interrogated and tortured and then murdered. And then it sho