On those press conferences. Would you seriously consider stopping these press conferences . No. We do it in a different way. How . We do it with a piece of paper with a perfect, accurate, beautiful answer. In writing . They ask 100 questions or write in questions or 20 questions, if they get 1 out of 50, just a little bit off, 5 , 10 , 20 , its the next day its a frontpage story on every newspaper. Right. Right. So . Press conferences werent even covered for obama practically. They were on cspan and cspan 2 and there was nothing going on. Will you put an end to that . Just a second. These press conferences are like the biggest thing on daytime television. They are. You see the ratings. Theyre blowing away everything on just about, i think, everything, on daytime television. What id love to do is stop th them. Jesse kimberly, you know what i love about this . Hes still bragging about the ratings kimberly hes right. I mean, its the new bold the beautiful jesse daytime television. Kimberl
Tried to derail an investigation into his National Security adviser and preetdly lied in its aftermath. This morning well talk to two members of the Intel Committee who led that line of questioning, democrat joe manchin and republican Susan Collins. Good morning everyone. Its friday, june 9th, welcome to morning joe on capitol hill. With us we have columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post David Ignatius. Senior political analyst Mark Halperin and New York Times reporter michael schmidt. Good to have you all on board. What a fascinating day. It was fascinating. It seems like a bad day for the president , and the spinning by his lawyer and his press secretary or one of them was stunning to me, absolutely stunning. I said it all day yesterday. Ill say it all day today. If you want obstruction of justice you can look at what donald trump himself said to lester holt and what his spokesperson said, what he said to the russians, and then you can build around that if you want to
The russia investigation, something about the way i was conducting it, the president felt created pressure on him that he wanted to relieve. And its my judgment that i was fired because of the russia investigation. I was fired in some way to change or the endeavor was to change the way the russia investigation was being conducted. That is a that is a very big deal and not just because it involves me. It involves the president. Comey said President Trump made clear that he wanted him to drop the investigation of general michael flynn. He quoted the president as telling him, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. Do you know of any case where a persons had been charged for obstruction of justice or, for that matter, any other criminal offense where this they said or thought they hoped for an outcome . I dont know well enough to answer, and the reason i keep saying his words is i took it as a direction. Right. I mean this is the president of the United
Veteran ralph nadally says he would do can. He says america should not refuse his offer. Americas news headquarters starts right now. Arthel and we begin with a fox news alert. Three u. S. Army rangers are killed and one wound inside an attack in eastern afghanistan. The taliban claiming credit after an afghan soldier reportedly targeted the u. S. Service members in the shooting. John huddy is live from our Mideast Bureau with more. John . Reporter yeah. And, arthel, this is just another attack in which u. S. Troops were targeted. In this case, an afghan soldier that turned his gun on the troops that he was training with, and so far we havent heard anything from President Trump about it, but we know that he has been briefed about this situation. Now, it happened as we take a look at a map during a joint afghan u. S. Military operation in the achin district in eastern afghanistan, thats east of kabul. Its close to the pakistan border. And afghan Officials Say the shooter was a member of
Nbcses Kelly Cobiella has been following the story since it started unfolding. Chris dickey from the daily beast is live on scene in paris. Kelly, let me start with you, at this point what more do we know about the man and the circumstances that unfolded outside notre dame . Well, craig, let me take you through how this played out this morning your time in the afternoon, paris time. It started about 2 1 2 hours ago, 10 30 eastern time, about 3 30, 4 00 in the afternoon in paris. Police tweeted out that there was a security operation at Notre Dame Cathedral and told people to remain inside the cathedral. As you see there, they were bringing people who were outside the cathedral and in the vicinity off where the cathedral is getting people out of the ea and closing down roads. They had reports that a man had attacked a Police Officer with a hammer and the Police Response very swift. Witnesses reported hearing at least two gunshots outside notre dame and then this incredible Police Respon