John brennan. Says, number one, he has no regrets about revoking the former cia directors security clearance. Number two, brennan will the no be his last target. Three, his motivation for taking that action is without a doubt the russia investigation. Just consider who is now in his crosshairs. I think bruce ohr is a disgrace. I suspect ill be taking it away very quickly. I think that bruce ohr is a disgray with his wife nelly. For him to be in the Justice Department and to be doing what he did, that is a disgrace. That is disqualifying for mueller. Who is bruce ohr . He is a current doj employee who reportedly had meetings with christopher steele, the author of the dossier. Though its not clear what the two men discussed or whether that information was passed on to the doj. O hrs name was included in the house intel report on the russia probe. All of the people donald trump is threatening have some tie or another to the russia investigation and that includes those who have been witnes
Plus the president bets the farm on his growing trade war. Just be a little patient. And crisis at the border. Can the feds reunite families after hundreds of migrant parents have already been deported . This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening, im katy tur in new york in for chuck todd. Welcome to mtp daily. More fallout from the trump putin summit. Yes, were still talking about this. Were getting a look at one of the first reputable polls taken entirely after the president s Disastrous Press Conference with Vladimir Putin. The results are not very good. Quinnipiac has the president s Approval Rating dropping to 38 and his disApproval Rating rising to 58 . Aprove is down two, disapprove is up three. Donald trumps numbers didnt really change in the gallup poll. Still more from this poll in a moment. The president is being criticized for acting like a dictator or the leader of a Banana Republic, seemingly to distract you from, you guess it can, russia. That criticism isnt
Directed Michael Cohen to break the law. Cohen is guilty on many charng said unrelated to me, the president writes, then falsely claims cohens campaign fnls offenses which do relate to him are not crimes at all. They stem from sixfigure payoffs to women whose claims they had affairs with trump could have impacted the president ial campaign. The payments coming just weeks before the election. Prosecutors do not just have cohens word that the future president was involved. They also have among other things audio recordings of trump and cohen speaking about buying off Karen Mcdougals story from the National Enquirer. Have a listen. Correct. So im all over that. And i spoke to allen about it, when it comes time to the financing which will be what financing . Well have to pay. No. No, no, i got it. No, no, no. All right. Lets get to Kaitlan Collins at the white house this morning. The president is making a number of legal arguments here, and one we havent heard before, but were hearing this
Trying to get him to do that he doesnt want to do, in order to really figure it out, you got to go back and look at the history of, like, Harriet Myers as white House Counsel or janet reno for bill clinton and the eric holder contempt controversy in the barack obama presidency. I mean, you have to go back to George Washington and the whole idea of executive privilege in the first place. I mean, its it is the exact kind of rabbit hole that i fit perfectly inside. I could live the rest of my life plumbing the depths of this kind of political confrontation, right. If you are a constitution nerd, if you are a civics nerd, confrontations like this, votes like this today, this drama around this in the house today, its like christmas, birthday, first day of school and first day of Summer Vacation all wrapped up into one. Its exciting. Its exciting thing to cover. Its an exciting thing to unfold. There is so much uncertainty in terms of how its going to, you know, proceed through all the vario
Right now with money that we already have. I dont want to see a shutdown. Shutdown would be a terrible thing. Regardless of what i do, we already have as you know a lot of money where were building existing wall with existing funds, but i have a lot of opgsz. A border deal. The president would need to declare a national emergency. It wont be a perfect deal but it will be a good deal. I say to people ill support the deal for what is in it, dont judge it for what isness in it. The president is inclined to accept the agreement, move on, try to find money elsewhere and most likely declare an emergency. And that is where we start today. Breaking news on funding the government. President trump, the man behind the art of the deal, could be ready to settle for a deal, one he says hes not actually happy about. The president said just moments ago he does not want to see another shutdown, will review the latest bipartisan spending proposal from congress. This with just two days left before we cou