The threat that russia poses. Here he is. What i think mr. Trump has to understand, this is more than being about him. It is about the United States and the National Security. And he has to make sure that now thathe is going to have the opportunity to do something for National Security as opposed to talking and tweeting, he will be tremendous responsibility to make sure u. S. Security interests are protected and advanced. Bill now trump is making more news. Peter doocy begins our coverage by trump tower this morning. He said he is lumping putin in with german chancellor merkel saying he will start out his first term at the end of this week trusting both of them, putin and merkel but not sure how long it will last. He said he is willing to drop sanctions the u. S. Placed on russia after they annexed crimea if moscow is willing to sign on to a Nuclear Reduction arms deal. Not just getting ready to be blindly nice to world leaders. He still thinks putins intervention in syria has been ter
Department held by the politically embattled Jeff Sessions quite a few times. To reporters before departing on a 12day asia trip complained on the radio, on twitter again on twitter and a few more times because he wants sessions and the doj to stop special counsel bob mueller from investigating him and start investigating, you guessed it, Hillary Clinton. Lock her up lock her up . The undemocratic zeal to jail his opponent havent stopped the investigation into russia involvement into our election. The moving right along. It appears theyre zeroing in on Jeff Sessions, too. Mueller unveiled documents that said sessions testimony under oath, that he was not aware of any Trump Campaign surrogates communicating with russians was something other than accurate. By the way, this is a crime, lying to the senate. One this in particular call the veracity into question. This. We know donald trump tweeted it out in march of 2016 as way to brag about his campaigns National Security and Foreign Polic
Going on with the cfpb. Reporter congratulations, david, good to be with you today. Welcome to msnbc, and to answer your question, this has a backdrop that is familiar in the era of the Trump Administration, where there is a difference on an agency that really had its start during the obama years, with a very different sort of political direction, and Richard Cordray, who was leading that agency, has stepped down to run for governor of ohio, as a democrat. So theres a lot of political overtones to this. Because of the charter of the agency, he named his own deputy to be the acting director, and the white house, which has a very different view of the effectiveness and the role of this kind of a bureau, named its own Mick Mulvaney who runs the office of management and budget, who has been a sharp critic over the years. So there is a disagreement about who has the authority here under the law. The white house pushes back and says that there is a vacancy filling statute in the code that al
Ready to defy trump and talk to the impeachment probe that is trying to end trumps presidency. The new testimony coming in tonight from a Top State Department official, george kent, recalling trumps specific demands that ukraine carry out the political investigations he wanted. Recounting how another nowfamous witness, ambassador sondland, said trump wanted nothing less than president zelensky to go to the microphone and say, investigations, biden, and clinton. Kent also telling congress that the facts showed the entire effort was to initiate politically motivated prosecutions that were ininjuries to the rule of law. Now, is zelensky going to step up to the mic and announce that . The New York Times is now reporting that he was two days away from doing it on tv, then the u. S. Aid money started flowing and they canceled the interview. A key aide to mike pence also testifying behind closed doors. This is the person who should have been responsible for ensuring that pence knew what happe