I think yesterday we talked about the president s unf unfortunate statement coming out of the white house talking about president obama. Yesterday he righted himself, said what he needed to say, saying its my problem now, its on my shoulders. I think he heard the criticism attacking obama and how tone deaf it wasality the time. There are a lot of people, not only across the world, but a lot of people in america who im sure were heartened by the fact that this president wasnt going to say what every politician has said for the last five years, theres been a genocide in syria. That is, oh, its just too hard and thats really were sad and its a shame, and we cant help them over there, we cant do anything. I think the president said that his mind was changed and he was going to seek action. It can only lead us to hope that he will work in other arab country ts and work with our european allies and figure out some way to bring relief to the Syrian People. We in the west have ignored them for
That every man and woman in this conference is now motivated more than ever to step up our game, promises. Our eric meanwhile, President Trump remained optimistic. I work as a team player and would have loved to have seen it passed, but i think you know, very clear, wasnt a speech i made where this deal wasnt mentioned, that perhaps the best thing that could happen was exactly what happened today because we will end up with a truly Great Health Care bill in the future after this mess known as obamacare explodes. So i want to thank everybody for being here. It will go very smoothly, i really believe. I think this is something that is certainly interesting. We all learned a lot. Eric President Trump was also pressed on the impact of the House Freedom caucus on the Health Care Bills failure. Do you feel betrayed by the House Freedom caucus at all . They seem to be the most difficult no, theyre friends of f min. Im disappointed. We couldve had it. Im a little surprised, to be honest with y
Names of members of President Trumps transition, including the president elect himself was showing up in intelligence documents. That information was brought to the attention of the White House Counsels Office which alerted the Intelligence Committee chairman in the house, devin nunes, who have been charged with heading up the investigation. Fox news has confirmed that two white house staffers, ezra cohenwatnick, and michael ellis, aided congressman devin nunes in his search for intelligence. The disclosure raised more questions about connections between the house Intelligence Committee chairman and the administration. At the daily briefing, press Secretary Sean Spicer stressed whats important is the substance, not the process. Your obsession with who talk to home when it is not the answer. It should be the substance. Seems you continue to look at it from a backwards prism. Who drove in watergate, who did they meet with . As opposed to the underlying substance. Did something happen in
Lies, and we will go through each and every one of them for you. Good morning, everyone. Its thursday, june 22nd. Welcome to morning joe. With us we have veteran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnicle, senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent for the huffington post, sam stein, former aide to the george w. Bush white house and state department, solis jordan, jon meacham, and capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt. And joe will be back tomorrow. Were going to get to the fact check of the president s rally in a moment. Theres a lot of work to do to get all of those facts checked, willie. Yes. There were quite a few doozies in there. Its kind of uncomfortable. Well its so uncomfortable to see a president i mean, can you remember having to go through lies after lies after lies from the president of the United States . Well, i know were going to talk about this in a second, but the one interesting thing is the one piece of legislation he can tout, which is the Health Care
Of tomorrow, can they find a compromise they can all get behind . We have a compromised bill right now and were trying to turn the dials to get to 50 votes. So well see. So far there has not been too much give because im not willing to go back home and say this program is not going to work for you, but im going to vote for it anyway. Were not there, we will continue our conversations. There will be more meetings today. Well see how they play out. Lets debrief before that brief i briefing begins. We have kristen welker, aiesha is joining us as well. Does it look likely that republicans will have a second draft by friday . No, some of that sound is from interviews that i did. I was there. Dean heller, rob portman, some of the modern lawmakers opposed to this bill in the last hour or two tell us they are still opposed to this bill. They have been meeting with Mitch Mcconnell off and on. There are ongoing conversations going on. We have mike pence meeting with rand paul. There is a lot of