Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Don jr. And it goes on to say this was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics. It is done frequently in politics when everyone involved is an american citizen. It is much more treacherous if there are any foreign nationals who are part of a meeting like that because there are violations of the law if foreign nationals contribute anything of value to a campaign. Money, information, anything of value. So thats where it gets a bit tricky. Now, one of the issues, we know, is that donald trump jr. , through his testimony and the emails that he released, did acknowledge that it was a meeting to get information, dirt as it was described on Hillary Clinton. We also know that another attendee of that meeting, jared kushner, who is the president s soninlaw and senior
announce was imminent and that the white house may be jumped the gun by a hair or somebody at the white house did or not the white house. i understand why, because they have a lot of work to do. you have to get everybody in line, now what do we in this morning on america s newsroom ? that joe biden is losing in the polls, even with democrats. so what is one thing that they can focus on and that is a supreme court nomination. because the filibuster rules change and you can get to a supreme court vote with 51 votes now. it is not as big a deal, but they only have to do. the white house is also said that it is going to be a judge, the president had said on the campaign trail that is gonna be a black woman. so you can look at how many judges there are, i would imagine he probably pick out their names pretty quickly. that list will narrow down. dana: he might not be the majority leader after november midterms, so they had to do this right away. if they wait until the end of the term whic
tom, how big a deal, howen usual is this letter? well, it s quite unusual. experts that we ve spoken with, people that have worked used to head up sec-type of investigations, regulators, my colleague gretchen morganson talking with them yesterday. they said this is highly unusual, that the trump organization was a public company, a google, a gm, picking random companies out of the air, and somebody filed this, you d be looking at stocks that were down 50%, 60%, 80% this morning. so it s significant in that it says, look, the information that and this pertains directly to the former president s financial health and picture the information that s been represented over the last ten years effectively, you can t rely upon that information. let me stop you for a second because i think a question a lot of people have had that has been raised repeatedly about the trump organization and donald trump himself is whether or not his net worth, the value of his company was real.
in the jungles near phuket. everything was going just fine until he got lost. this barefoot explorer is survival expert dave williams. four years he has been teaching trekkers basic survival skills that could mean the difference between life and death. dave, i am lost and i need your help. what is the first thing i should do? just relax. it s not that big a deal, you cannot be that lost. i have a mobile phone but battery is very low. 0ne bar left and hardly any signal. what is my priority, do i use it now or do i save it? we have one hour of light and one bar, i would wait. the chance of getting rescued now are pretty slim. let s accept our fate, enjoy the night. we have a a night in thejungle to enjoy. let s do this and then tomorrow we will figure out, we will walk around a little bit find two bars and make the call.
we sent him to trek in the jungles near phuket. and everything was going just fine until he got lost. this barefoot explorer is survival expert dave williams. four years he has been teaching trekkers basic survival skills that could mean the difference between life and death. dave, i am lost and i need your help. what is the first thing i should do? just relax. it s not that big a deal, you cannot be that lost. i have a mobile phone but the battery is very low. one bar left and hardly any signal. what are my priorities, do i use it now or do i save it? we have one hour of light and one bar, i would wait. the chance of us getting rescued now are pretty slim. let s accept our fate, enjoy the night. we have a a night in thejungle to spend. let s do this and then tomorrow we will figure out, we will walk around a little bit, find two bars and make the call. dave s most important tip