Gillian turner outside the hearing room. Good morning. Good morning. Lots of excitement and tension awaiting the arrival of googles ceo. Many thought this would never happen on this committee. Google first declined to participate in a hearing along with his contemporaries in september. Those were the ceos of twitter and facebook and this hearing got scheduled for last week but because of the passing of george h. W. Bush that hearing got postponed. Speaking to folks on capitol hill a lot of them think he is starting out on the wrong foot. There is no other company that has a greater control over the internet on searches than google. Google has not been coming to our hearings. Twitter, facebook and others. 90 of all internet searches goes through google. On the agenda data privacy and googles mega project with china called project dragonfly building a tailored Search Engine that conforms to chinas censorship. Democrats plant to grill him about fake news and inaccurate information on the
It is a crisis. One way he can help solve it. It is hard to make a rational case for an Emergency Declaration. The border has never been as safe and secure as it is now. Bill where to next . Reaction from the hill and the white house. Kevin, lets begin with the white house. One hour from now what will we hear . Expect the president to recognize that there is Political Risk from both ends of the political spectrum. As he has shown previously he is willing to accept that risk and tell the American People why now is the act to do something about the Ongoing National security and humanitarian crisis along our southern border. The president tries to lay out not just the reason for doing this but how he intends to secure our border. 8 billion is what he hopes to claim. This money is listed in order from least likely to be contested in the courts to most likely. 601 million from the drug for tour fund. 2. 5 p billion from the dod drug interdiction program. 2. 2 billion reprogrammed from dod20
The report will be made public. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called for transparency from the attorney general, setting up a potential fight with the doj and or the white house over what information will eventually be made public. Joining me now Nbc News National Security and intelligence reporter ken dlinian. Msnbc contributor Jill Winebanks and chief operations officer, former assistant for counterintelligence at the fbi and msnbc National Security analyst, frank fegluzi. There were a few questions we didnt get to last hour that i think are still open. Number one, the president wasnt compelled for inperson testimony. There was some question that they would go back at him with more written questions and would accept written answers. That didnt happen either. Can you wrap up an investigation without talking to the person in charge of the campaign that you were looking into . So the answer is yes, you can, but there is a sense that theres something incomplete about that. So reading th
All right, good morning, everyone. Welcome to your new day. It is thursday 8 00, in the east. And even by mr. Trumps standards the latest bizarre statements are outrageous. Yesterday when asked about his trade war with china the president dropped this doozy. I am the chosen one. All right, that wasnt the only time yesterday he suggested he is the savior. Right before that he praised and retweeted a right wing conspiracy theorist who called mr. Trump the king of israel. The president again questioned the loyalty of American Jews repeating the same antisemitic trope hes criticized democrats for, and there was much more yesterday but this is only a three hour program. Again the New York Times reports this morning there is fear within the president s larger political world about whats going on here. The times writes some former Trump Administration Officials Say they were increasingly worried about the president s behavior suggesting it stems from rising pressure on mr. Trump as the econom
What were not going to see. Is barr the president s new fixer . The answer to that seems to be yes. Democrats are furious, but what can they do . We have a key lawmaker here on what they plan to do to push back. And we have a potential 2020 contender. Hes going to announce which way hes going to go on our watch. Former Virginia Governor Terry Mcauliffe in or out . Lets find out and lets get after it. All right. This news just came out. Its being reported by the Washington Post, all right . We know that the attorney general plans to hold a press conference at 9 30 a. M. Eastern tomorrow to talk about the report. Thats very problematic. But lets just get to what the breaking news is, okay . They say that this report is going to be lightly redacted, all right . That is a new report from the Washington Post. What will that mean . I dont know. Look, the good spin on it is if there is only what needs to be out of there for National Security reasons and that Congress Gets to see even that, so