Those guys in pennsylvania and West Virginia will not help him. The kids are coming to washington in two weeks. Maybe a million of them demanding something be done. He cant hide in the white house bunker when kids and teachers say you have to do something. At that 340e789 it, hope hicks, his most loyal person walks. Theres a lot there. Youve seen the unraveling of the power structure. Veteran republican operatives, seasoned Military Figures and the family and inner circle. Hope hicks, if josh rafael. Jared kushner is supposed to carry on our most secret sensitive negotiations . Hope hicks leaving, josh leaving. On guns, republican feeling the heat. Rick gates turning on him, flynn already turning on him. Manafort about to. On guns the republicans are feeling the heat. Suburban voters in places like philadelphia want to see gun control. Republicans know the nra gets base voters to come out. They need to show some movement. Thats why you saw the president today trying to show movement. H
revealed in the in the e-mail cache that we ve had been able to get some familiarity with is that there was an argument of sorts going on within the white house and within the executive branch over the legal justification for withholding congressionally-authorized and appropriated funds to go to the military aid of ukraine.pr and the president made a decision, apparently without underlying rationale at least conveyed to others, to to withhold or delay that aid. and what the e-mails that we reviewed showed was a a discussion, even awa scramble going on inside the white house to i try to justify that decisi. almostst retroactively doing sog and while omb said and has clearly said in public statements to us as well through their spokespersons, that withholding the aid temporarily was legal and we consulted lawyers all the time. one of the things that the
e-mail cache reveals is that the executive branch was deeply unsettled by this decision.br and the national security council, the state department, defense department were raising questions, as were folks on capitol hill.on what happened to the aid that is congressionally-mandated for ukraine? thank you for your reporting this, tom. hans nichols for us at the white house. thanks u guys. up nektsz, president trump fires the secretary of the navy for trying to punish navy seal eddie gallagher who trump reinstated after gallagher was acquitted of murder. plus,te later in the hour, m joined by west virginia attorney general who is suing two opioid manufacturers for misrepresenting theird product and down playing the risks known to be associated with opioid ust and abuse. bringing the total number of lawsuits he s filed against the opiate industry to five. you are watching msnbc.e we made usaa insurance for members like martin.
tonight. come up, as if the chaos inside the white house wasn t enough, trump s feeling heat from two big sources right now. nbc news is reporting tonight the special counsel robert mueller is zeroing in on whether trump knew about that stolen democratic e-mail cache before they were released by wikileaks and reports mueller is he digging into trump s business dealings with russia right now. on the home front, trump s also under pressure on guns. today he seems ready to get behind a bill that strengthens background checks and raising the minimum age to buy an assault rifle. he s got to do something in the wake of the deadly shooting in florida with all the young people coming to washington in march. another stein he s under pressure, he s back at war with jeff sessions. he called him disgraceful today. his own attorney general after the attorney general opened an investigation into surveilance abuse and now sessions is hitting back. finally, i ll finish with trump
should or should not be prosecuted. that was something for the attorney general or her designee and i think he went way out of his lane. in the second instance, it was 11 days and it was the whole anthony weiner e-mail cache, he wrote to the congress notifying there was newly developed information. was that also beyond the line, over the line for what he did? i think part of the problem is that when he held a press conference and remember that secretary clinton s campaign billed that as a clean bill of health, he then felt he had to correct the record, there might be more and then recorrect the record. it s like watching a car gradually go out of control. focusing on that is missing the investigation here. there was no grand jury empanelled. the records of cheryl mills and heather samuelsson, their