Campaign. All as part of an effort to undermine that investigation. Hes pardononing people, perhaps sending a message to witnesses who might testify against him that they, too, could be pardoned. So stay strong. If an effort to prop up the dying Coal Industry his administration is reportedly weighing an unprecedented intervention in the u. S. Energy grid which would basically order some folks to get their lick trits from coal plants. He tipped off wall street this morning about confidential employment numbers more than an hour before they were officially released. Possibly to give himself some cover from last nights decision to slap steep tariffs on our closest allies in europe, canada, and mexico, renewing fears that he is leading us into a trade war. When given a chance to denounce a racist comment he instead attacks the press. He suggested one of his criminalityics should be fired for using offensive language
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David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Believes the now released tape that Michael Cohen captured between himself and the president was tampered with. Giuliani offering really no evidence to back that up. He also said that there are some 183 such cohen tapes, but that the one that we have now heard is the only one that the president , trump, can be heard on. Really what he is doing is keeping up his rapidfire Character Attacks on Michael Cohen. It would seep that this is all really designed to remove the sting of cohens latest assertion that President Trump knew about this june 2016 trump tower meeting between members of his own campaign and the russian lawyer and russian advocates with this promise of the ex change of damaging information on hillary clinton. Caitlyn, let me turn to you and ask you about this latest attack Casting Doubt on the recording. You feel a bit whipsawed after that recording was out. We heard it. We had reactio
Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. You cant on its face determine whether its unlawful or its within the law. Thats for prosecutors and factgatherers to decide, but, boy, it is something people will be looking at seriously. David . Kelly, very quickly. Youve been in contact with Rudy Guiliani over these last many weeks, talking to him about the grounds by which he might agree to have the president sit down for an interview. And we saw Rudy Guiliani. We saw the president s legal team and the White House Communications team this week talking about the president s tweets. What they signify to them. They talked about them as opinions versus orders when we got that extraordinary tweet earlier this week. It seemed to address the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, directly. Lets take that and apply it to this. I am sure that we will hear from the president s legal team. This is the president spouting off. Its him offering an opinion. Over th
Secretary clinton, you are not in the white house yet. Lets not in any way imply here that either president obama or myself would in any way not take on any vested interest. Why in gods name does wall street make Huge Campaign contributions . I guess just for the fun of it. They want to throw money around. The kind of criticism that weve heard from senator sanders about our president i expect from republicans i do not expect from someone running for the democratic nomination. Madam secretary, that is a low blow. Nbcs Kristen Welker is in milwaukee, the site of last nights debate, the rest of our team fanned out across South Carolina, Peter Alexander in columbia, Hallie Jackson and Gabe Gutierrez are in greenville, thats where republican candidates will be gathering for a faith and family forum later today. For more on how that debate unfolded im joined by Kristen Welker. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders traded jabs over everything from healthcare
Reporter this all got started on monday as the president was lavishing praise on his new chief of staff. He had just been sworn in. They were at his first Cabinet Meeting as the chief of staff. Lets listen to what trump had to say about john kelly during that meeting. You know, the border was a tremendous problem. Now close to 80 stoppage. Even the president of mexico called me. They said their southern border few people are coming because they know theyre not going to get through our border, which is the ultimate compliment. Reporter while that might have been the ultimate compliment for President Trump, it might not have happened. Mexico issued a statement after trump made that comment during the Cabinet Meeting saying that he hasnt spoken to the president in recent weeks during that meeting. The last time they spoke was july 7, during the summit in germany when they had a meeting together. They did discuss illegal immigration during that meeting. Mexico is saying that they havent ta