Will revise his travel ban executive order after the chaotic rollout of the first version. On tuesday, the president went to the Smithsonians National museum of africanamerican history, where he couldnt help himself from bragging about the margin of his election win in former slave states. Wednesday, trump repealed the transgender bathroom laws put in by the Obama Administration. Then on friday, he took a victory lap as he delivered a speech to his supporters at the annual conservative Political Action conference. And just last night, trump announces that he will not take part in this years white house Correspondents Dinner, a move that comes amid increasingly hostile relations between the media and the white house. And thats where we start this morning. Joining me now to make sense of all that, former chairman of the rnc and now an msnbc analyst, Michael Steele, and liz plank, Senior Correspondent for vox. Com. Thank you both for being here. Thank you. Good morning. Let me start with
President s attempts to ban muslims from entering the United States. The New York Times reports mr. Sessions had flown to florida because mr. Trump was refusing to take his calls about a pressing decision on his travel ban. When they met, mr. Trump was ready to talk, but not about the travel ban. His grievance was with mr. Sessions. The president objected to his decision two days earlier to recuse himself from the russia investigation. Mr. Trump, who had told aides that he needed a loyalist overseeing the inquiry berated mr. Sessions and told him he should reverse his decision, an unusual and potentially unappropriate request. Mr. Sessions refused the invitation is being investigated by the special counsel robert s. Mueller iii as are the president s private and public attacks on mr. Sessions and efforts to get him to resign. The New York Times says that the special prosecutors interest in Jeff Sessions encounters with the president , quote, suggest that the obstruction investigation i
2016 election. The New York Times is reporting that attorney general sessions flew to florida in march of 2017 to discuss the president s attempts to ban muslims from entering the United States. The New York Times reports mr. Sessions had flown to florida because mr. Trump was refusing to take his calls about a pressing decision on his travel ban. When they met, mr. Trump was ready to talk, but not about the travel ban. His grievance was with mr. Sessions. The president objected to his decision two days earlier to recuse himself from the russia investigation. Mr. Trump, who had told aides that he needed a loyalist overseeing the inquiry berated mr. Sessions and told him he should reverse his decision, an unusual and potentially unappropriate request. Mr. Sessions refused the invitation is being investigated by the special counsel robert s. Mueller iii as are the president s private and public attacks on mr. Sessions and efforts to get him to resign. The New York Times says that the spe
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In the early 1980s. Judge kavanaugh is forcefully denying all these accusations. We have team fox coverage. Mike emanuel standing by with reaction from lawmakers. We are joined by peter doocy live on capitol hill. What do we know about this third accuser . Julie, we know that julie sweat dbnic would have been 19 and kavanaugh 17 years old when she alleges that she went to roughly 10 house parties with him and his friend mark judge who sweatnic said were joined at the hip. Alleges kavanaugh was a mean drunk and says he was among a group that she claims tried to take advantage of young women disoriented from drugs or alcohol. Sweatnic also alleges and this is a quote in approximately 1982, i became the victim of one of these gang or train rapes where mark judge or Brett Kavanaugh were present. Shortly after the incident i had shared what had transpired with at least two other people. During the incident i was incapacitated without my consent and unable to fight off the boys raping me. I