Right now protesters are gathering to march in boston against the free speech rally scheduled for noon on Boston Common. Rally organizers say it has nothing to do with what happened last week in charlottesville, when White Supremacists shouted nazi slogans, physically attacked people and one of them allegedly killed in antiracist counter protester. Counter protesters in boston say they arent backing down and are marching against hate speech and bigotry. Heavy Police Presence is expected and we will keep an eye on that all morning. But first, to the latest news out of washington, d. C. , or bedminster, as the case may be. Steve bannon has left the white house, and returned to the extent he ever really left to b breitbart which he built into the selfproclaimed platform of the alt right. Bannon was also the resident economic nationalist at the white house, the driving force behind efforts toe dismantle trade deals and launch an economic war with china. Bannon allies have called him the li
Account. Its unclear who made it and how it first appeared on social media cnn has fired back with its own statement saying it is a sad day when the president of the United States encourages violence against reporters. Clearly Sarah Huckabee sanders lied when she said the president had never done so and instead of preparing for his over seas trip his first meeting with Vladimir Putin dealing with north korea, and working on his Health Care Bill, he is involved in juvenile behavior blowing the dignity of his office. We will keep doing our jobs. He should start doing his. Meanwhile, the senate is weighing in on its Health Care Battle including senators land pal and ben sasse calling for repealing obamacare now and replacing it at a later date. That would be a proposal President Trump supports. I dont think were getting anywhere with the bill we have. Were at an impasse. Every time you add more federal money, more spending for the Big Government republicans it offends the conservatives so
Msnbc and kristen, good to have you back on the show. Its really something. Theyre going to have to work with democrats. What a horrible idea, they might have to work with democrats. Theyre going to find its easier to work with democrats than their own president who undermines them, slams them and says bad things about them, just for fun, to bully them, throw them under the bus, make up new plans, have rose garden ceremonies, mumiliate them. I mean, could it be worse . Why dont you work with democrats. No, seriously. Youre working with someone who literally cant function. Okay, mika. And he also doesnt understand any of the policy. No clue. Mika. What was the question . The biggest problem is he doesnt understand the policy. All he has been telling people all along, it doesnt line up with anything he promised on the campaign trail and he just doesnt understand the most basic concepts. Not a policy wonk. No. And his lack of specificity with the members is frustrating to some republican
Ive learned so much in your hour. First of all that people in phoenix are called phonicians. Which the mayor of phoenix said on your show. I did not know that. Nor did i. Inspector generals report, rachel, i remember when this story first came out, the second secretary in effect, picks up the phone, threaten et Lisa Murkowski over the Health Care Vote with resources in his department. Immediately i started saying, wait a minute, there are legal issues around that. I know everyone thinks thats wait it works, but it is not the way it works and there are legal prohibitions against doing that kind of thing and here we have tonight Inspector General of that department looking into exactly that. Yeah. And it is a very interesting legal question and political question, because ryan zinke is in the cabinet and what he did is not really contested. Just a matter of whether or not it is policeable. We had Barbara Mcquaid here who brought up that incident saying thats an example of, not of a crimi
Rachel, i remember when this story first came out, the second secretary in effect, picks up the phone, threaten et Lisa Murkowski over the Health Care Vote with resources in his department. Immediately i started saying, wait a minute, there are legal issues around that. I know everyone thinks thats wait it works, but it is not the way it works and there are legal prohibitions against doing that kind of thing and here we have tonight Inspector General of that department looking into exactly that. Yeah. And it is a very interesting legal question and political question, because ryan zinke is in the cabinet and what he did is not really contested. Just a matter of whether or not it is policeable. We had Barbara Mcquaid here who brought up that incident saying thats an example of, not of a criminal obstruction of justice or something. Thats an example of what we call log rolling. Thats the sort of thing that happens in politics. That said, Inspector General is looking at it as an edge lick