Bipartisan effort to protect the special counsel. Later, tuesday was a long night and its still going. The president tries to put his thumb on the scale as recounts are under way. And well talk about Lessons Learned from the midterms as naturally the curtain rises on 2020. Were going to start here in washington where President Trump has just arrived after another memorable trip overseas that highlighted tensions with leaders of americas longest standing allies and showcased his embrace of America First nationalism. Trump joined more than six dozen World Leaders at a ceremony in paris commemorating the end of world war i. It was during that ceremony that Emmanuel Macron delivered a searing rebuke of the rising nationalism around the globe. Translator this vision of france as a generous nation, of france as a project, as france, the bearer of universal values was displayed during these dark hours as the very opposite of the selfishness of a nation which only looks after its own interests
Couple of years but the person walked away. And rage and revolution. The streets of paris consumed by smoke and tear gas as thousands protest their president saying hes more worried about the rich. Reporter theyve been firing tear gas and stone grenades for a couple of hours now. They cant contain this crowd but they can stop their anger. And good day, everyone, im Andrea Mitchell in washington where President Trump is dismissing prosecutors games he directed Michael Cohen to make illegal payments just before the election to two women with whom the president allegedly had affairs. The president and the white house claiming he had no involvement in russia despite the claims on friday. White house correspondent kristen welker, National Security analyst, frank, and msnbc contributor jill, wat Watergate Special prosecutor. Kristen, lets talk about the president. Denial, denial on twitter today. No collusion, weve heard that before but it does seem from these filings on friday that both on
Largely alone holed up in the white house tweeting out his grievances as the government remains partially shut down over funding over the border wall. Joining us from the white house, nbcs hans nichols, kevin barron, ned price, former nfc spokesperson and sam stein, politics editor for the daily beast and noah rothman, for commentary magazine. Ned, lets start out with you. Are you surprised that donald trump finally made a trip to a combat zone, and can you talk a little bit about the preparations that go into this kind of trip . Yeah, elise. I cant say im surprised and primarily for one reason. Its now nearly two years into the trump presidency. This is something that the past two president s, president s george w. Bush, as you know, president barack obama, as i well know, did routinely. Several times during their presidencies, much earlier in their presidencies. And certainly well before it became a political liability for their administrations. But as you note, this is not something
Governments watchdog calls the situation at the border a ticking time bomb. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with our politics lead and growing fallout over the President Trumps july fourth extravaganza what he called today the show of a lifetime. A source telling cnn military leaders are concerned about militarize is including tanks and bombers and elite vehicles for all of the world to see. The pentagon said some members of the joint chief of staff and top military officials will not be in attendance citing prior commitments but the president will be flanked tomorrow night by acting defense secretary mark esper and marine general james dunn ford before delivering what is unprecedented in the modern era, a president ial address on the national prompting concerns inside of the pentagon. What should top military officials do if President Trump during his speech starts serving up a fourth of july sized helping of partisan red meat. The Trump Administration refuses to say in
House. The president has invoked executive privilege over the entire Mueller Report and its underlying evidence and that triggers jerry nadler to a accuse the executive branch of sabotaging any negotiations over the report. By invoking executive privilege on all of the materials subject to our subpoena, that process has come to a screeching halt. The administration has announced loud and clear that it does not recognize congress as a coequal branch of government with n independent constitutional oversight authority. But republicans speaking up showing opposition to Holding Bill Barr in contempt. This is a first step. What a cynical meanspirited counter productive irresponsible step is meanwhile economy is surging and unemployment is low and the democrats have no plans, no purpose and no viable legislative agenda beyond attacking this administration. The house is more than four months into a democratic majority. How many bills passed by this committee have been signed into law . Lets go