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
the police movement or propelling it, i should say. but we will see. we see this is a two decade high of concern for crime and people cities and so a two decade high of concern, we hope the media s lens, it was a year or two today and rather than getting questions about the death and slaughter in our streets which also have been less fourth of july, i got questions about the flag. i ended the briefing saying, where were the questions about the children dying in the streets? where were the questions about sequoia turners, an 8-year-old girl in atlanta who was slaughtered in the car with her mother. her dad says this, you say black lives matter, you killed a child and she didn t do nothing to nobody. where was the questioning about her life that was propelled for a year? we now know more than 149 kids have been shot in new york
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sort of keep their heads down, they do their jobs, they try to get policy done, they try to get work done, and that s really what they re proud of and what they want, they wish the world would focus on. then there s this other level where they re sort of swimming at the deep part of the ocean, and at the top of the ocean, you have these waves that are really violent and there is a big storm at the top and that s really donald trump on twitter, which is so in contrast to what they say is what s actually going on inside the administration. so you see people getting up and doing this white house briefing saying, yes, there is incontroversial evidence that there is tampering or attempt by russia to tamper with the 2018 elections, and then you see the president completely going 180 on twitter and saying something completely different. that s really been the way the administration has worked from the get-go where the president seems to be dealing with his own sort of alternative reality fiel
they explained that it had to be done. he was clearly reluctant. i think it was responding to mark meadows and the freedom caucus, the house conservative republicans, who are urging him on. urging him on. they say this adds to the deficit. mick mulvaney himself getting a lot of pressure, the omb director. of course, he is a former member of congress. he got a lot of questions yesterday during his briefing saying would you have signed this bill if you were still an elected member, as opposed to here at the white house? you re right, there was that emergency meeting here in the middle of a snow day, andrea, when the federal government was shut down. the house speaker huddling with the president speaking with leader mcconnell by phone trying to get him on board with this spending bill. and at the end of that meeting, it seemed like he was on board. there was no indication that he would issue this threat. so this is taking people off guard on both sides of pennsylvania avenue, andrea, an