Trump incompetent. Ross perot is dead at 89. The texas businessman twice ran as a thirdparty candidate for president , warning that jobs being lost to mexico and the threat of ballooning federal red in ink. Im the only guy that talks numbers. Nobody else will talk about it. Its like a crazy aunt in the basement. Everybody knows shes there but nobody talks about her. Im talking about it. Back to that a bit later. The president meeting with the emir of qatar about rewarding the emir, a serial violator, with an oval office visit. Well keep an eye on that to see if reporters ask the president about the middle east and about his labor secretary, whose past life as a prosecutor is creating present questions about if he should keep his job. The top two democrats in congress, nancy pelosi and the Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer say alex acosta must resign. Schumer heading to the senate floor to make that demand this morning. I am calling on secretary acosta to resign. It is now impossib
Him eight years in the white house, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation. What could be a 2020 preview, the president is also in iowa, and he will likely hit back at biden. You know he will. As the two fight for turf in this key battleground state. Joining us now, senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny joins us, also Kaitlan Collins is live in des moines. Jeff, let me begin with you. What is most striking from the remarks biden will give . Poppy, good morning. No question joe biden is trying to make this a race between him and President Trump. He wants democrats to see him as the strongest democratic candidate to take on the president. And to unseat the president. So he is going after him on, with an economic argument about restoring civility to the white house, but what joe biden is also trying to do is distract from his primary race at hand. He has had a very rocky week, the past seven days or so, in his campaign. Flipflopping on the Hyde Amendmen
Is prepared to roll over and play dead. Congress shouldnt be calling peoples tacks ju taxes just to if they can get dirt on the person. Announcer this is new day wday with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. Could contempt be the work of the week . No certainly seems to be the word of the morning. Steve mnuchin, treasury secretary, is saying no to an official request from the ways and Means Committee to turn over the president s tax returns, saying it lacks a legitimate legislative purpose. For what it is worth, there is a law that says the irs shall furnish the returns on requests from congress. Mnuchins move sets the stage for a legal battle, one that could be a long legal battle over the president s taxes. Justice Department Officials and House Judiciary Committee staff will meet today to try to work out a deal for a congressional access to the Mueller Report. This comes ahead of a planned vote tomorrow on whether to hold attorney general william barr in contempt for defying that subpo
But first we begin with the house formally condemning President Trumps racist tweets about four congress wim of color. The vote was mostly down party lines. The debate itself on the house floor turning chaotic after republicans objected to these words from speaker nancy pelosi. These comments from the white house are disgraceful and disgusting and these comments are racist. How shameful to theyve continued to hear those offensive words, words we have all heard them repeat not only about our members, but about countless others. Gop lawmakers say Speaker Pelosi broke house decorum rules by disparaging the president. Emmanuel cleaver so frustrated, he actually dropped the gavel and walked off. All this as the president continues to deny and defend himself insisting he does not in his words have a racist bone in his body. All right. Joining us now to discuss everything that happened is david axelroaxelrod, abby phill and charlie dent. Great to have you all here to talk about these wild hou
School. Nothing. Three years since nearly 50 people were killed at a nightclub. Nothing. Seven years since first graders, first graders were killed inside their classroom. Nothing. Six days and nothing at the federal level except for a ban on bump stocks has been done to take on this problem. Today the president is going on vacation. Congress is on vacation. They wont come back to deal with the nation in crisis. Mitch mcconnell says well talk about it in september. In a month. So in a span of 14 hours, two Mass Shootings in two American Cities and Congress Wants to wait until september . Despite americans demanding change seems nothing ever does when it comes to the work for people who actually work for americans. And now once again, just like yesterday was and seven years ago was, september may be too late. To the white house now where before departing for the hamptons for a fundraiser the president admitted the country, quote, needs intelligent background checks, but he didnt offer a