Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day. This is a threat we need to take extremely seriously and to tackle and respond to with fierce determination and focus. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders told nbc news today that President Trump instructed his team to speak at todays news conference. Asked when the president made the request, sanders didnt respond. And its important to point out, just last friday the president met with his National Security council on Election Security for less than one hour. After the meeting, the white house released a statement that said the administration would not tolerate foreign interference in elections. But it did not mention russia by name. Lets bring in our leadoff panel. Jeremy bash, former Chief Of Staff at the cia and the pentagon
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Should is, thats rudys latest talking point. Was this Performance Today something long in the works, they were asked to submit their remarks, or were they asked to change the topic from the mess the president created yesterday with his Early Morning tweet about getting sessions to end the russia investigation . I think this has been building for some time. We saw dan coats a week or two ago raise some alarm in that interview with Andrea Mitchell in aspen. Weve seen alarm is a good way to put it. Let me show you his answer about helsinki. Lets watch that. In the runup to the helsinki summit, u. S. Officials, ambassadors to nato, ambassadors to russia, said the president would raise the issue of malign activity with president putin. He didnt discuss that, at least at the press conference. Youre saying today that the president has directed you to make the issue of election
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I think that would be a great thing for our country. I would love to see it come even sooner. I think it would be a beautiful timeline. Howie joining us now to analyze the coverage, guy benson, host of foxs guy benson show, lisa desjardins, correspondent for the pbs news hour and richard fowler, radio talk show host and fox news contributor. The president said the lame stream media, his words, want the economic calamity to continue because it increases the chances he would be defeated in november. Do even the most antitrump pundits want to see the economy continue to be virtually shut down. I think they want to see him fail. I think that part of it is true. I wouldnt use phrases like lame stream media. I think some of the coverage is critical and completely deserved. And i think the media has an Important Role to play here on accountability but the tone, the tenor, the story selection, does seem to be stacked unsurprisingly unfortunately against President Trump and i think he feels lik
If yall want to translate that political speak into plain english. What jeb bush is saying is we need to hide our conservative ideals. The truth is if we go down that road again, we will lose again. Okay. Here we go president good morning, everybody. Welcome to morning joe. Joining us onset managing editor of Bloomberg Politics mika what was going on up at that prison . New developments on the prison break. Theres another arrest. Theres a dude putting stuff in meat . Who amongst us does not put power tools in meat. Yeah. But you know what i do that as a way to spark conversation. Now were getting closer to what happened. Willie, nobody did this for us when we were in turkey. Im not laughing yet. The oldfashioned way. Two guys on the run. We can laugh imus is cheering for the killers . He said theyre so crafty they deserve to go free. Thats just sick. Thank you. Youre laughing about it. I know. Seriously, whats with these people . This lady is like in this camp thats sad. Love triangle.
He was describing some mad max america. This wasnt the shining city on the hill, this wasnt morning in america. He sounded like a war time president last night. Very dark. The Republican Party that i worked for, for two decades, died in this room tonight. We are now represented as a party by a man who believes in protectionism, isolationism, and nativeism. That was his as impassioned as ive seen him period and focus. He had a message and it got across. Did you think it was dark . I thought it was an optimistic speech to me. What makes it optimistic . Because were going to solve the problems. The big story today, wikileaks has dumped nearly 20,000 hack emails from the dnc. They show Party Officials trying to spin journalists and how some treated Bernie Sanders with utter disdain. Cfo Brad Marshall writing in may talking about Bernie Sanders can we get someone to ask his belief . Does he believe in a god . He skated on saying he has a jewish heritage. I think i read he is an atheist. Joi