Porter in the wake of Domestic Violence allegations against him . Why wont the president release a democratic memo responding to gop charges of antitrump bias in the russia investigation . What doesnt he want you to see . Plus former president barack obama unveils his official portrait and he apparently had feedback for the artist. His initial impulse maybe in the work was to also elevate me and put me in these settings with partridges a s and drones schiffer robes. Mounting me on horses. And i had to explain that ive got enough political problems without you making me look like napoleon. Weve got to bring it down just a touch. I want to bring in cnn contributor frank bruni of the New York Times. Nicholas kristof, also a New York Times columnist. Lets talk about all these problems at the white house. As we talk about all the problems there, the white house handling of the porter story, there are bigpicture implications here. This is in the New York Times tonight, a paper you both work
Children back. Well go to the boarder rder ina moment. Kristen welker is standing by for us with more on the first ladys visit. What more can you tell us, kristen . This is the second visit by the first lady, this is something shes spoken to the president about privately, youll recall when that zero follow rans policy first went into place, when we saw all those images of children separated at the border, she spoke to her husband behind the scenes and said that needs to be reversed and ultimately it was. She will be talking to those trying to bring those families back together. She is in arizona making several stops including the customs and border facility in tucson. Youll recall her first trip was met with some controversy. Because she wore that jacket, and on the back of the jacket it said, i believe, i dont care, do you . A got a lot of attention, and it overshadowed her trip which was really focused on kids and really aimed at focusing on bringing these kids back together. Hhs has
Multiple calls between roger stone and then candidate trump in 2016. Stone claims this list is not comprehensive since trump at times called him from other peoples phones. Were learning more about a joint Defense Agreement between the president s lawyers and notorious conspiracy theorist jerome corsi. Agreement allows them to share information with each other. Corsi recently rejected a plea agreement with the special counsel which would have required him to admit that he lied to federal investigators. Hes known for pushing conspiracy theories from birtherism to claiming explosives brought down the World Trade Center on 9 11. Cnn has exclusive reporting tonight about the written answers from President Trump he provided to the special counsel. Trump claims that he had no knowledge of any contacts with wikileaks. He also says he knew nothing about the 2016 trump tower meeting with donald trump jr. , senior members of the campaign and russians promising dirt on Hillary Clinton. Lots to dis
Robinson. You went to the game . Didnt you richard . Good to see you do investigative journalism, mr. Scarborough. I love people that root for the underdog and youre a yankees fan. Only in new york is a team thats 31 games above. 500 the underdog. Willie, you tweeted something out last night, which is pretty astounding, about just how well the yankees are doing and what do you say . Yankees would be in first place by four, five games in most divisions . Yeah. I think four out of the other five divisions up by at least six games and in some divisions seven or eight games. Yankees, 31 games over. 500 and ten games out of first place because red sox after winning last night are 51 games over. 500. Michael kay said in the yankees broadcast only the second time in baseball history a team has been at least 35 games over. 500 and trailed by ten games or more. Go back to 1906 or something to find another situation like this. Fact of the matter is, the red sox of a historically great team on pa
Protections away from americans. Its about distraction. Nothing more. That does it for us this morning. Stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage. Thanks, mika. Good evenimorning, everyone, i stephanie ruhle. Closing argument. The president plans a massive midterm push, visiting 11 cities in six days. Whats his message . It is not about women. We have to take care of our country at the border. A lot of bad people, a lot of bad people in there. People in gangs. We dont want them in this country. Thats called an invasion of our country. The president railing against the Migrant Caravan which is still weeks away, mobilizing 5,000 troops to the border. Setting up tent cities. And now a new report. Hes looking to end birth right citizenship. Were the only country in the world where a person comes in, has a baby and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 8 an ye5 year all of those benefits. Its ridiculous. New developments. The suspect in the synagogue massacre and in the mai