Michael Smerconish tackles the American political and news stories of the week, offering only one kind of talking points his own. The times, by the way, standing by her hire saying they understood her twitter past and understand it for what it was. We had candid conversations with sarah as part of the thorough vetting process which included a review of her social media history. She understands this rhetoric is not acceptable at the times and we are confident she will be an important voice for the Editorial Board moving forward. Interestingly, the fact that the times already knew about her tweets is significant due to another hire in february, quinn norton. When some of miss nortons old tweets surfaced which included racial slurs and an Internet Troll which works for a neonazi website she ended stepping down that same day. In that case, it had not been aware of her tweets before it hired her. We reached out to miss jeong, but we were told she was unavailable. Go to smerconish. Com and a
Program ended. That was in 2011. The seven men and two women all have military experience and are seasoned veterans of space. They will fly in tap seouls developed by spacex and boeing, both companies are slated to launch their missions next year. Nasa ended the Shuttle Program after 135 missions. Since it ended, nasa is paying russia about 70 million per seat to carry astronauts to and from the International Space station. [ music playing [ music playing ] we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and divide the united states. In helsinki, i had a great meeting with putin. As i have said consistently, russia attempted to enter fear with the last election. Now were being hindered by the election hoax. The president is taking Decisive Action to defend our
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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. So that was the answer. Thats the tension on the intelligence. Then there is a separate tension about how do you investigate, indict and punish the people identified by that very intelligence for Attacking American Democracy . We all know, there is a busy Special Counsel that trump has denigrated and at sometimes lied about. So a question on that was posed to the fbi director who of course, lets not forget has this job because his predecessor was fired because of the same russia probe and that firing is now part of the obstruction inquiry. I have a question for director wray. Thank you. The special Counsel Robert Mueller has indicted more than 20 russian officials based on work by the fbi for med ding in the 2016 election. The president has tweeted that that investigation by the Special Counsel is a hoax and should be shut down. I know youve said you dont believe it is a hoax. Why would the American People
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A precursor to Fox Newss morning show, featuring the news and first looks at the other stories of the day. The streets of portland. We saw the mayor turn his back on the citizens of portland for his political ambitions. I dont know who is worse, that mayor or oakland or philadelphia or new york. There are a whole bunch of them and never accepted this president and will put out of the Public Safety of their citizens. Ireland the portland mayor because he will hear about this, ice employees are taxpayers and citizens, he has a duty to protect them. Portlands mayor ted wheeler responding to reports he ordered police to ignore 911 calls from ice agents calling them, quote, inaccurate and inflammatory. Todd donald trump sanctioning officials for refusing to release an american pastor. The white house is turkeys determined of Pastor Andrew Brunson is unfair and unjust. He has been behind bars for two used accused of spying and terrorism. He was placed under house arrest last week due to heal
Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Finish line. And one of the president s first congressional supporters now faces criminal charges. Congressman collins cheated our markets and our justice system. Is a wider Culture Of Corruption Story Unraveling around the white house . This is mtp daily an it starts right now. Good evening, im chuck todd here on a very busy washington, d. C. Welcome to mtp daily. Is it really august . Once again welcome to a wild day of legal and Political Developments surrounding, who else, but the president. One of his top loyalists in the house was just arrested on Insider Trading charges on a plot that was so brazen, it includes the white house south lawn, by the way. As it was described by federal prosecutors today that you have got to see it to believe it. Weve have much more on this story and this Culture Of Corruption Stench thats starting to grow around the president coming up. But were also going to talk about the polit