Good morning, everyone. It is monday, august 6th. Im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside Yasmin Vossoughian and louis bergdorf. President trump reignited the controversy around his campaigns june 2016 Trump Tower Meeting with russian. The president tweeted on sunday, fake news reporting, a complete fabrication, that i am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, donald, had in trump tower. This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics, and it went nowhere. I did not know about it. Well, he appears to be referring to the Washington Posts reporting, quote, trump has confided to friends and advisers that he is worried about Mueller Probe could destroy the lives of what he calls innocent and decent people, namely trump jr. , who is under scrutiny by mueller for his role organizing a
june 2016 meeting at trump tower with russians promising dirt on hillary clinton. As one adviser described the president s thinking, he does not think his son b
himself. crab the popcorn. that should be interesting to say the least. mike allen, live for us in washington. see you on the tivo. yes, see you on the tivo. we will be reading axios am in a bit. sign up for the newsletter. that does it on this monday morning. i m yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin and louis borg dov. morning joe starts now. i think it is important to point out in a situation like this, you have over time facts develop. alternative facts. facts develop. alternative facts. facts develop. yeah, when donald trump is your boss facts can be stubborn things. his lawyer was on tv yesterday, forced to completely reverse something he had said publicly just a year earlier. he blamed bad information for the original lie without saying where exactly, joe, that bad information came from.