Leakers last night saying it appears that some staffers are using the press to settle scores among other reasons. Some leaks exist i guess to hurt colleagues and they disagree with the policies being put forth. None of them are helpful. Do you expect personnel changes as a result . I do actually, yes, i do. Bill john roberts picking up on this. Good day to you. I guess some reporters like some leaks but maybe not so much from the inside. Good morning. When youre on the outside doing what were doing you love a leak. When youre in the inside trying to run a tight ship you dont like it at all. Indications there will be fallout from the leak and what Kelly Stadler said about senator john mccain in a staff meeting last week, the president tweeting last night the socalled leaks coming out of the white house are a massive over exaggeration put out by the Fake News Media in order to make us look as bad as possible. With that being said leakers are traitors and cowards and well find out who the
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, doubling down on a slam against Justice Roberts this evening. After the chief justice defended the u. S. Judiciary to the president in an unprecedented public statement. Let me show you exactly what happened. It all began when trump was asked about a federal court ruling which was against his new policy that would bar migrants who come into the United States illegally from seeking asylum. Heres what the president said about the ruling. Well, you go to the ninth circuit and its a disgrace, and im going to put in a major complaint. This was an obama judge, and ill tell you what. Its not going to happen like this anymore. Okay, that sure sounds like a threat against the Judicial Branch by the president. Well, the chief justice of the Supreme Court who has never done anything like this so publicly felt it had finally gone too far and issued a statement. Chief Justice Roberts responds, we do not have obama judges or trump judges. What we ha
David ignatius, sam stein, matt miller and heidi prisbelli. Good to have you all with us this morning. And mika, that was quite a list of all the things that are coming at the president. I know he had to be shocked yesterday with the vote, the United States senate condemning the president over the khashoggi murder as it pertained, of course, to yemen. So now that problem is manifesting itself in policy. Very real policy matters and, of course, as the wall street journal editorializing this morning, it only gets worse with democrats taking over the house in a month. Its all shocking and theres a lot going on. I was off yesterday for a family matter, as you mentioned, but i wanted to address a term that i used on this show on wednesday that was vulgar. I knew it right away and i tweeted that it was a terrible choice of words and that i was sorry. But please allow me to say this facetoface. The term is crass and offensive and i apologize to everyone, especially the Lgbtq Community and to
Today has been a more ridiculous than most day in the news. We have a busy show. The single most perfectly stormed story of the day and the single most sparkly story of the entire day is this scoop from reporter kevin pollson at the daily beast who said trumps favorite more trumpier than pucks tv network that the president has been promoting and telling everyone they should watch and is better than fox, turns out that network has a full time on air reporter who covers u. S. Politics who is simultaneously on the payroll of the kremlin. What . At the same time he works for trumps favorite one america news team, he is being paid by the russian government to produce government funded pro putin propaganda for a russian government funded propaganda outfit called sputnik that had a key in the intervention in the 2016 election to help trump according to the assessment of that attack. They are formally registered as an agent of a foreign power. There is a lot of news today, but among the jiblet
Under way on a wednesday night. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 811 of the Trump Administration. Ar its a charge we have heard from the president , and from several people on fox news that the Trump Campaign was somehow spied upon by our government in a way that circumvented due process in this country. Today we heard our attorney general william barr make that same charge. It came during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations committee. One of the things i want to do is pull together all the information from the various investigations that have gone on, including on the hill and in the department, and see if there are any remaining questions to e be addressed. We want to make sure that during i think spying on a Political Campaign is a big deal. Im not talking about the fbi, necessarily, but intelligence agencies more broadly. So youre not suggesting, though, that spying occurred . I dont well, i guess you could i think spying did occ