Expanding to hundreds of flights a day to the United States from europe. Hope you enjoyed todays inflate option Green Lantern two. Welcome to tthe lead. The white house story on why former fbi director comey was fired by President Trump and how that decision was made changed once again today. President trump sat down with nbc news and was asked about his decision to fire the man in charge of investigating trumps own campaign and alleged contacts with russia in the 2016 election. The president said he was going to fire comey regardless of what was recommended by attorney general sessions and Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. I was going to fire raurl regardless of recommendation. This is now official will i be the third version of events that the white house has told the public about the firing. At first they maintained that all of this was done because Deputy Attorney general rosensteins memo outlining the ways in which rosenstein thought comey had messed up during the 2016 inves
There a cat 5 crisis and tomorrow the president will see it for himself. This is one of, if not the biggest, crisis this country has faced in a decade. We are now treating it like a massive cat 5 hurricane disaster. Regarding the Economic Impact of closing the border, one area weve explored is to try to keep the freight lanes open. That is possible. I dont buy the b. S. That women and children and families coming to our southern border pose a National Security threat to the United States of america. I dont believe that they are criminals. All i can say is somebody better get in the room pretty quickly and fix this before it blows the entire border apart. Sandra senator James Lankford standing by with reaction. The past couple days President Trump he says he believes trade is important but what is most important to him is Border Security. That remark raised a lot of eyebrows amid pushback from lawmakers on the left and right. The white house is tampering down the president s threat to c
Paso and in dayton this morning are trying to figure out where the president s head was all day while meeting with people affected by this tragedy. Now, he is back in washington this morning. Were going to have much more on the strange moments over the last 24 hours, but we also have important new information about the white house pushing back on an effort to put a greater emphasis on domestic terror and White Supremacy. Also new reporting this morning on the efforts to battle gun violence, erica. Part of that, support for stronger background checks is growing. President trump expressing his support. The question though this morning is whether that lasts. We spoke with nra president Wayne Lapierre on tuesday on with that call came a warning. Lapierre told the president the idea will alienate his base. So far, of course, there has been no action on gun control, john, here in washington. So true. Were going to begin though with exclusive new cnn reporting on a possible missed signal here
Dozens of hours of closed door and new testimony from a former congressional testimony that trumps phone call was just one Trump Campaign official seems to moment in a far reaching contradict the president on operation involving the president s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, two Giuliani Associates who have since been indicted partially for their role in the scheme. White house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, the attorney general, the secretary of energy, the secretary of state, the Vice President of the United States, and of course President Trump himself. Tomorrow two opening witnesses are expected to describe the scope of the scheme to extort ukraine. That includes bill taylor who was the acting u. S. Ambassador of ukraine at this very moment. West point grad who was awarded the bronze star for service in vietnam. Hes a career diplomat and worked in republican and democratic administrations since all the way back in 1985. He served in afghanistan shortly after the u. S. Invaded that
Trump Campaign Official seems to contradict the president on wikileaks. I know nothing about wikileaks. Its not my thing. When all in starts right now. Good evening from chicago. Im chris hayes. And we are now less than 14 hours away from public impeachment hearings of the president of the United States for just the fourth time in all of american history. Those hearings will be broadcast live across every major broadcast and Cable News Network for americans to watch. That coverage starts right here on msnbc at 9 00 in the morning. But even before the hearings we have known from the getgo, from the very first piece of publicly released evidence, the notes of President Trumps call with the president of ukraine, the president tried to coerce the leader of a foreign occupied country to manufacture dirt on a political opponent. The ukrainian president told President Trump he was ready to buy more american weapons he responded infamously, quote, i would like you to do us a favor, though. He