President s mindset. With us to share reporting and insights, laura meckler, wall street journal, Michael Bender of the wall street journal and cnns m. J. Lee. To capitol hill in a moment and todays important questioning of president ial soninlaw Jared Kushner. Also keep our eyes out for that Public Statement were told hell make after finishes his interview with the Senate Intelligence committee. First, though, the president s own attack of his attorney general and what this tells us. In an angry tweet the president asks Congress Special counsel and of course our beleaguered attorney general arent investigating Hillary Clinton. Imagine if your boss publicly called you beleaguered and hardly the first public review. Remember . The president twice in an interview with the New York Times last week said sessions had been unfair to the president , and the president said he never would have appointed sessions attorney general if he knew he would go on to recuse himself from decisions related
Senate republicans finally got something done. They should thank steve bannon. And the National Conversation on Sexual Harassment and assault. We all need to be part of the solution. Women of the senate are speaking out. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. And good evening. Im Steve Kornacki in new york in for chuck todd. Welcome to mtp daily. We just got new information in the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff about the ambush in niger that killed four American Service members and will get to those highlights and details in just a moment. We begin tonight, though, with three Big Questions stemming from this incident. Number one what are the political consequences of this deadly ambush . Number two what are the consequences stemming from the president s handling of the incident, especially how he has handled the dispute with a grieving military family . And number three what if there arent any political consequences . Today we heard from myeshia johnson, whose family has bee
Snyder men may try to prosecute. Trump associates, if mueller gets fired, could get prosecute prosecuted. Mark steyn is an author and columnist, great contributor on fox friends. To mark, why is it a big deal that the attorney general of new york has an interest in this investigation and is providing documents . Schneiderman is a political attorney general. Brian a declared democrat. When i testified to ted cruzs committee in the senate a couple of years ago, i cited schneiderman for essentially doing an end run around the First Amendment and using them Securities Law to go on exxonmobil for not agreeing with the democrats on climate change. This is a sleazy guy who likes politically driven prosecutions and investigations. And that is exactly what he did with exxonmobil, now what he is doing with trump. As you say, he has written a a blog post claiming that what all these acts he has taken as attorney general have in common is that they all go after trump. The attorney general in any s
Z is here. And is reforming medicaid the next target for republicans, congresswoman Marsha Blackburn is live as we look ahead on new years eve on sunday morning futures. The head of the House Intelligence Committee is blasting the department of justice and the fbi for failing to turn over documents tied to the largely discredited anti trump dossier. Fox news obtaining a letter congressman devon nunes sent to Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein suggesting the fbi and Justice Department should be investigating themselves and demanding all records by this wednesday. Joining me right now is Florida Republican congressman ron desantis a member of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committee happy new years eve so good to see you congressman. Let me ask you about this letter here from representative nunes. Putting that deadline on things how does that change the equation right now . Will they need it . Well i think the letter was great and i applaud chairman nun es for doing that. I think
If the federal level cant appear to and associates if mueller gets fired could get prosecuted by snyderman, perhaps, that could happen if he attempts to pardon individuals who have been indicted, maybe it will go the state way. He is an author and columnist, on the program last night, great contributor on fox friends, one of our great guests. Why it is a big deal that the attorney general of new york has an interest in the investigation as a somatic and is providing documents . For start he is an exclusively political attorney general. Brian declared democrat. When i testified to ted cruz is committee and the senate a couple of years ago, i cited him for essentially doing an interim round around the First Amendment and using the security flaw to go on exxonmobil for not agreeing with the democrats on climate change, this is a sleazy guy who likes politically driven prosecution and investigations. And that is exactly what he did with exxonmobil, now what he is doing with trump. As you s