Meet the woman who started it all. Lucas is the first baby with down syndrome to represent gerber. This picture courtesy of cooks we agree. Saying thats really. Im heading to the white house where see you later this afternoon. Appreciate you joining us for this packed hour. Tuing it over to ali velshi and s ruhle. Who doesnt love a gerber baby . Love that baby lucas. Sweet pea. Morning, everyone. Im ali velshi. Im stephanie ruhle. Its wednesday, june 6th. Mexico firing the latest shot in the escalating trade war between the United States and the allies. How is this goingo play when the president sits down with the leaders of those countries on friday . How many people are in on forming this Tariff Policy and who is in charge . Thats a great question. In fact, what you see right now is a big split inside the
guns. We begin with the latest escalating trade war between the United States and the top trading partners including some of the closest allies and this one comes from mexico. The m
Right now. Its not an order, the president s opinion. Are President Trumps tweets considered official white house statements . The president is the president of the United States, theyre considered official statements by the president of the United States. Wow. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. Im confused. So confused. What is that line from the office . Universe, you win. Its thursday, august 2nd. And what a way to start the day. What a way. So, is it the official policy of the president or not . I think the most telling thing of the whole story is how much his lawyers freaked out immediately and started calling around immediately. He was just venting. Just like a baseball game. When hes actually doing what talking about what would start a constitutional crisis. Or Obstruction Of Justice. As brian clause pointed out yesterday is exactly what he did in turkey back 2013, 2014. Talk about fake news. You talk about deep state conspiracies. You fire prosecutors and you have a were
I havent heard mueller say a word in a year. The lead starts right now twitter, pressure, President Trump calling on his Attorney General to quote stop the investigation into himself and his team. He may have given the Special Counsel all new evidence in the property sechlts a lead exclusive, something that may have been unthinkable the tsa considering ending security screening at 150 airports in this country to save money. Is this what President Trump meant by make america safe again . Plus from the target corners of the web to the trump rally who are the fringe theorists who call themselves qanon. Hello, im jake tapper, President Trump escalating the russia version going each further in his calls to shut down a Law Enforcement investigation into his team, far
before from this president or any president since richard nixon. Trump tweeting quote Attorney General jeff session should stop this witch hunt right now bist continues to stain our country any further, this is now official whit
A look at the days top news and headlines. Returned to the u. S. After learning they were deported while still in the process of appealing their removal. Lets go live to doug mcelway with a. This is a federal judge with a reputation for mistrusting Government Lawyers. Yes, he sure does. In fact he was instrumental in overturning the conviction of senator ted stevens after discovering that Government Prosecutors concealed important evidence from the defense. He also hinted that special prosecutor Robert Muellers team may have withheld exculpatory evidence with security advisor michael flynn. Yesterday, he tore in to Government Lawyers for prematurely deporting an illegal immigrant, carmen, and her daughter while the appeal was underway, while the plane was in mid flight. Quote, its outrageous. Im also directing the government to turn that plane around either now or when it lands, turn that plane around and bring those people back to the United States. He also threatened Attorney General
Have a professional history. He didnt need to mention everyone agrees. Mueller in the letter the way he the manner in which theyre in a did. Box is they have to decide if mueller finished tonight. Did you see any evidence, clues, the crime of Obstruction Of Justice and Witness Tampering anything like that because youve been on the ground . And others, if thats still illegal. If they still think its a crime. I think the letter codified the Personality Traits we have already seen from this new Attorney General as weve been waiting for this report to be has donald trump given them a delivered here to him. He stayed calm. Taken way in congress. We saw him around the Justice Department. He eats lunch with the staff and cafeteria, the Justice Department which is not normally so we have mtp beat. Anything you recommend if you have a nice lunch. He eats with staff every day around noon. He seems to stick to a schedule. Actually thought you were he sees reporters in the leaving. Hallway. He may