Breeze. Today is one of the three hottest days in the forecast. Mid 50s to 60s, 80s to mid 90s, even a few triple digits possible near brent wood. Looking at the bay bridge toll plaza. Car pool lanes are open as we can see. A lot of folks taking advantage of that. Cash lanes stacked up on either side. Fast track lanes moving through without any issues. We should have the metering lights flipped on closer to 5 20. Nice and light with no major blocking problems. Westbound 580 tracy to dublin now in the yellow at 40 minutes. Westbound 4 antioch to concord in the green. We are just minutes away from Robert Mueller beginning his highly anticipated testimony before congress. Lets take a live look at capitol hill. Democrats are hoping mueller will reveal whether he would have charged President Trump with a crime if it werent for the Justice Department rule against prosecuting a sitting president. Both parties have been preparing for this testimony with mock hearings. Sources tell abc news the
Dramafree weekend. No such luck. This morning, a Major Development in the controversy over President Trumps firing of james comey. A memo from former fbi director claims the president asked him to drop an investigation into Michael Flynn the day after flynn was fired. The big question this morning, is this obstruction of justice among other things . The chaos continues. This feels like a defining moment. With us we have New York Times reporter who broke this comey memo story, Michael Schmidt, senior political analyst for nbc news and msnbc, mark halperin. Veteran columnist and msnbc contributor Mike Barnicle and former democratic congressman harold ford, junior. Also, joe ahead with new reporting on all of this. First lets lay it out for you. Less than a week after President Trump fired and then warned fbi director james comey about tapes of their conversations, there looks to be a paper trail inside the bureau of investigation. Multiple sources firsthand knowledge of all of this tell
Tried to derail an investigation into his National Security adviser and preetdly lied in its aftermath. This morning well talk to two members of the Intel Committee who led that line of questioning, democrat joe manchin and republican Susan Collins. Good morning everyone. Its friday, june 9th, welcome to morning joe on capitol hill. With us we have columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post David Ignatius. Senior political analyst Mark Halperin and New York Times reporter michael schmidt. Good to have you all on board. What a fascinating day. It was fascinating. It seems like a bad day for the president , and the spinning by his lawyer and his press secretary or one of them was stunning to me, absolutely stunning. I said it all day yesterday. Ill say it all day today. If you want obstruction of justice you can look at what donald trump himself said to lester holt and what his spokesperson said, what he said to the russians, and then you can build around that if you want to
We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is new day. It is thursday, july 27th, 6 00 here in new york. Were going to get to all of the big political stories today in a moment. First, we begin with breaking news for you. One person has been killed and at least seven hurt after this ride breaks at the Ohio State Fair, tossing passengers into the air and crashing to the ground. Weve all seen rides like this. We keep freezing the video because some of its disturbing. You just have to take a look at it to appreciate what this apparent malfunction wound up doing. People got flung 20 to 30 feet from being that high at speed on to the ground. Investigators have shut down all the rides at the fair. Theyre trying to figure out what went wrong. We have cnns ryan young live in columbus, ohio, with the breaking details. This ride combines all the risk factors, right . You got a bunch of people, you got it swinging fast, and its at elevation. Reporter absolutely