numbers interesting. those seem modest to me considering the profits that facebook makes. coming up, everybody, axios s jonathan swan has a look at this morning s one big thing. and bob mueller prepares to face lawmakers. we are two hours away from the former special counsel being sworn in to testify on the findings of his russia report. morning joe will have extensive coverage leading to today s hearings, including house judiciary member joe neguse on what he wants to hear from mueller, and andrew mccabe and neil katia will join the conversation. the conversation when i was diagnosed with breast cancer,
axios a.m., national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan. good morning to you. good morning. a big day ahead. talk to us about axios one big thing today. today is very simple. it is jerry nadler s last best opportunity to open an impeachment inquiry into donald trump to force nancy pelosi to do this. and you can see this from the preparation that the democrats have put in. they did a mock hearing yesterday. they want to create we have spoken to a number of democrats on the committee, jackie spear, telling my colleague that she fantasizes, i think she uses that word about robert mueller reading out sections of this report. they are obviously based on what we have been reporting and also just plain common sense going to try to get robert mueller to at least creep up to the point where he says he probably won t do this, but the word but for
criticisms of management s ability and dysfunction has haunted him. axios says the president s current acting chief of staff mick mulvaney had a striking assortment of red flags including the assessment that trump is not a very good person. when it comes to the president s lawyer rudy giuliani who was considered as a potential secretary of state nominee, axios says that the trump administration, the transition team rather was so worried about him that they created a separate 25-page document titled rudy giuliani, business ties, research dossier with reporting of his foreign entanglements and one red flag for david petraeus who was under consideration for secretary of state and national secured advice is that he is opposed to torture. axios s jonathan swan will have more on the reporting coming up in a few minutes. still ahead, the trump administration reportedly looks to keep critical information on climate change under wraps. details on the steps that the white house has allegedly
and president trump is flip-flopping over whether or not he has read the full 448 page mueller report despite being a constant source of ire for his administration, he divulged in an interview with nbc news that he in fact has not read the report s complete findings. did you not read the mueller report? let me tell you i read much of it. unredacted version or no? no, i didn t. i didn t. okay. but let me so you know if he was subpoenaed you wouldn t know? i read the conclusion. i read the conclusion. and the president s latest reaction is a far cry from what he claimed in a separate conversation with abc news less than two weeks ago. he said there is no collusion. he didn t he didn t say he said there was no collusion. he said the report said no collusion. did you read the report? yes, i did. and you should read it too. coming up, axios jonathan swan has a look at the one big
the transition, they fired him. this is before the election, they fired him just after the election. so they effectively started from scratch the week after the election and there s not enough time to this do this properly. so they outsourced this giant task of political vetting to a group of about two dozen researchers at the republican national committee, almost all of whom were in their 20s. so they re frantically searching google, lexus nexus, you know, news clips, et cetera. look, they did the best they could under these trying circumstances but they did miss some things. and andrew they vetted him, missed the fact that his wife had accused him of domestic abuse, violence. so he his nomination was withdrawn the day before his confirmation hearing. wow. another great scoop by jonathan swan. they were hammered for it because of the record number of people that left the administration in the two years. since he s been president. right, thanks for your time. good talking to