You have been watching an extraordinary press briefing, im Brooke Baldwin, youre watching cnn. That was a true show of force right before the president begins his ten day summer vacation. You have these different federal intelligence chiefs stand he at the podium warning of russian interference both about past and upcoming u. S. Elections. To assure americans that the Trump Administration is actively confronting those Cyber Security threats. We have subsequently made the determination to make this a top priority that it doesnt happen again. Were throwing everything at it and we will have and will be discussing that here today. Relative to my discussions with the president on whatever issue it is, those i do noted go public with that. I dont think thats the right,
proper thing to do. Our focus here today is to tell the American People we acknowledge the threat. It is real. It is continuing. And were doing everything we can to have a legitimate election that the American People can have
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Whether a person is too close to the subject of the probe, whether Jeff Sessions would beak be more of a Trump Campaign surrogate who happened to be Attorney General rather than acting as an independent Law Enforcement officer. If sessions didnt recuse after that statement, it would have made him look even more like he was doing trumps bidding. And trump apparently didnt know that making that statement would also as just a general matter of embarrassment, make him look weak and out of the loop about a decision that was already done. Because there were reports that show the Internal Doj Process had already resulted in sessions accepting that nonpartisan Recusal Recommendation from the career staff earlier that week and that Jeff Sessions was already working with doj officials op writing the very rationale they would soon release to the public. In fact, it was barely an hour after trump put that public pressure on session
Tantrum. Hes contradicting his sons original story about the Trump Tower Meeting with russians saying the purpose was to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. Well, if trumps lied about the purpose of the meeting once it became public, and just over a year ago the president himself dictated the statement to his son saying we primarily discussed the program of adoption of russian children that was popular and active with American Families years ago. But emails from donald trump, jr. Show the premises of the meeting from the get go was to get dirt on clinton. Now, the president admits the meeting was for Opposition Research and admits its no big deal. Hes wrong. Its a violation of federal law. Dana bash reporting that trumps advisers want him to stop tweeting about the meeting. Lots to discuss now. Cnn contributor frank bruiny and Global Affairs analyst max booth, a senior fellow on the affairs of foreign relations. A recap of the days news. Took the stand today incriminating really his former bo
This kind of behavior, thats why we punish tax evasion, and also to protect the public, to make sure that someone who was a threat to the rest of us is no longer walking free. In this case, the prosecution didnt even explain how he defrauded the banks. After the banks lose money . I dont think they did. They didnt explain how much he should have paid in federal taxes but didnt, and i dont think theres a Single Person in america feels a physical threat or even a moral threat from 69yearold Paul Manafort. They are not even pretending this isnt political. They are not. If they are, they are doing a really poor job and it really begs the question, talker, if the federal government and all the Taxpayer Assets that support it thought Paul Manafort was such a threat to the republic, why didnt they warn the trump team . Barack obama was the president of the United States, not the democrat party. Why didnt they warn the trauma team that this dangerous threat
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Former Westchester County, N. Y. , D. A. Jeanine Pirro discusses the weeks biggest legal stories. Former Westchester County, N. Y. , D. A. Jeanine Pirro discusses the weeks biggest legal stories. Woman subject to online harassment. Hating wietds or cops is oh hating wise or cops is okay if you say you have been harassed. But she says her comments were not aimed at the general audience. Pray tell if saying f the police is about as general an audience as you can get. And someone who has a job at the New York Times as a wordsmith should know the difference between a specific and a general audience its specific when its against one police officer. Its general if its against all Law Enforcement and the whole group of them. You know, the bigotry is alarming. A few weeks ago the New York Times goaded its readers in an editorial to fight the nomination of the latest Supreme Court nominee great kavanaugh. Quote to take a line from the god father. Its time to go to the mattresses. Really . The g