President on miss johnsons behalf and yesterday he the commuted her sentence, citing her Good Behavior and rehabilitati rehabilitation. Nothing which would be especially controversial, except its part of a pardons and proposed pardons thats raising questions on a number of fronts, including just how is the president using one of the absolutely powers that the president shares with kings. The current Time Magazine cover story raising the specter of an imperial presidency, something well touch on later. But first, the case of Alice Marie Johnson and Kim Kardashian west who spoke earlier today with van jones. You spoke with Kim Kardashian west, what did she have to say . She was super happy about getting this woman her freedom. She was passionate about the cause. She made a little bit of news. She said donald trump called her directly, personally, on her cell phone. And then she then got a chance to call Alice Johnson in prison and let her know that she was going to be coming home. And sh
Place . Do other msnbc contributors have security clearances . What National Interest is served by that . How does someone he so obviously limited get to be cia director in the first place. Those are all valid questions, no one on the left bothered to try to explain any of those things. They yelled about how his rights were being violated. He knows the russia collusion angle and thats what trump is trying to silence. Nixonian type practices of trying to silence anyone who is criticizing the president. The larger implication is our First Amendment rights and by extension others. S. Tucker here that . The First Amendment. You dont have freedom of speech unless you also have a topsecret Government Security clearance. He agreed with that, to try to silence anyone who would dare challengee them. Where was his essay about being silenced published . In the New York Times, a new paper with 3 million subscribers and that is what it looks like to be muzzled. Senator Richard Blumenthal who not on
They havent had a load on them like this since 1986 and at that time, 33 years ago, the load was for about 12 hours. What were looking at in this situation is a heavy load on our levy network for over 140 hours and that presents an increased level of risk. Arthel we have Fox Team Coverage. Meteorologist adam klotz is tracking the dangerous weather. We begin with matt fin live in Jefferson City. Matt. Reporter we are just a few blocks from the Capitol Building here and people are going through the painful process of assessing what can be sal salvad here. The buildings have exposed walls and interiors. The mayor tells us these are some of the most cherished structures in all of the state of missouri, some of the oldest and most historic. The area was being revitalized. Instead of finishing touches, its demolition and recovery and we also have a live look right now at flooding here in Jefferson City. Really a stunning situation here. On one side of the capitol you have tornado damage. And
Embassy and not just the embassy in baghdad. Did he large scale attacks if other embassies and if those were planned why cant we reveal that to the American People . I can reveal that i believe it would have been four embassi embassies. For those that have been following along did you catch pompeos attempt to make it sound like its all business as usual . It was revealed in a classified setting as per the norm. Last night the president said it was a threat to em bah sis why can you say that here and a president could say it at a rally in toledo but no one said it behind closed doors as multiple senators have since said. We did. Except they didnt. Intermike lee who usually falls right in line with whatever trump wants and says but who walked out of the classified briefing with lawmakers, you know, the one where the administration can pay everything to the people who pay the bills, lee walked out of that meeting and said his feelings. We never got to the details. Every time we got close
And our position as to how to handle this. And good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Shock waves from the impeachment earthquake on capitol hill rippling through the white house as President Trumps attention turns from twitter to the oval office, railing against House Democrats taking the next step. Joining me now, Nbcs Kristen Welker at the white house. Chris matthews, host of hardball. John brennan, former cia director for president obama, and kimberly atkins. Welcome, all. Kristen, the president has been speaking at the oval office, meeting with the paraguyan leader. His reaction at this hour . Not surprisingly, andrea, the president defiant once again as he responds to the vote democrats held earlier today on those two impeachment articles. Let me read you a little bit of what he said and of course well play the tape as soon as we get it. He says, its a sham process, democrats are trivializing impeachment. He also says that its a really bad thing to use impeachment for nothin