Funding. Was that your experience too and if so is that something thats on going or petered out by now . Senator shut off funding i dont know. I mean, hes a more prolific fundraiser than i am, so he may have felt more of a difference than i did. Youd have to ask him. Im not aware of any conspiracy to shut us out of anything and im not aware of any one person or one group of people who has the ability to do that. Senator paul has this legislation that lets states implement their own medical marijuana laws and make these states no longer breaking law. Is that something you support on the Judiciary Committee . What is your stance on that . Senator is this the one that hes running with senator and had a long conversation with senator the other day. As i recall it would move marijuana from a schedule one to a schedule two; is that right . Right. It has some medical benefit and allows states that legalize it to regulate it. Senator one of the reasons for doing that that senator told me about
The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Hes an msnbc and msnbc National Affairs analyst. Im like madonna at this point. I gave you one name. Some day youll thank me. Well talk about that later. Daily beast politics editor sam stein is here and my friend steve schmidt. Were going to boil you down to one name, too. Take us through the significance of this sort of i think its just a side show. People have told me that from emmet flood to don mcgahn to Rudy Giuliani to everyone who is now departed the president s team, no one thinks the president can survive an interview with the special counsel. The president cant survive twitter. Thats right, special counsel is now looking at his tweets. Every tweet has a misstatement or a lie, so theyre absolutely right to be concerned that if the president were to go into an interview with incredibly well prepared prosecutors who have not just the president s tweets and his own statements, as Rudy G
Of supplies with people on the island still waiting to actually get them. The head of u. S. Homeland security heads down today as the white house explains what they are doing now to help. We have a lot to get to over the next 60 minutes. But i want to start with Kristen Welker over at the white house. Because, kristen, we saw this, you could call it kind of apology tour for tom price, the for the first time coming out publicly to talk about his payback, reimbursing taxpayers for some of the cost of the charter flights he took. Is that enough for President Trump to forgive and forget . Reporter that is the big question here, hallie, that we have been trying to drilldown on all week. And the president being very tightlipped earlier this week. Obviously, telling you well see when he plans to fire secretary price, but then yesterday, of course, our own monica alba asked if he still has confidence in secretary price. And he declined to answer. Sarah huckabee sanders, by the way, note giving
Opposed to saying we dont need them, we stand alone. I dont think this is something he did or the administration did with enormous enthusiasm. According to general Michael Hayden it was done in coordination with European Union which is a heartening sign. Hayes shown contempt with the European Union. He is working with them. That is good for us. I want to play this exchange. This is White House Press secretary raj shah. He was asked about the white houses credibility. Watch this. Can you speak to the white houses credibility, why should we in this room, more importantly the American People trust anything this administration is telling us . Well, our job as a press office and as an administration is to give you the best Information Available to us, most Accurate Information in a timely fashion. Sometimes the dynamics of fluid in any given situation. You mentioned some personnel matters. Facts and circumstances change. We continue to give you guys the best information that we can as quick
Consistent with his stand away from russia attitude to date. But i think he had to do something. So, this is inconsistent. This doesnt match with tough words about putin. He felt compelled to do t. Are you surprised we didnt her directly from the president . He didnt bring this issue up about meddling when he spoke directly with putin last week on the telephone. He advertises the things he wants to draw attention to and hes not drawing attention to this. He is falling in line with what is correct, with whats expected. For once hes acting in concert with allies if a little bit kind of later than some of them as opposed to saying we dont need them, we stand alone. I dont think this is something he did or the administration did with enormous enthusiasm. According to general Michael Hayden it was done in coordination with European Union which is a heartening sign. Hayes shown contempt with the European Union. He is working with them. That is good for us. I want to play this exchange. This