ads on its network. they will start labeling ads that have political angle or advocating a political candidate. they will also start disclosing the amount political campaigns are spending on their platform, and this comes after they were heavily criticized going into the u.s. presidential election last year as some russian accounts managed to use their platform to place certain political ads. that s all for me for today. a clang in the rules at twitter, thanks so much. all right, coming up next on morning joe, much more on the surprising announcement by senator flake to not seek re-election, senator flake discusses his decision with joe and mika and flake s fellow republican for mike lee talks about what his colleague s choice will mean for their party in congress moving forward. democrat chris murphy and elijah couplings, weighs in on dnc s alleged involvement in that
has openly claimed at a dinner at the white house, he and james comey talked about whether he will get to stay on as fbi director and at the same time at the same dinner, he pressed james comey as to whether or not he was under investigation be i the fbi. and that very much sound like potential obstruction of justice and if there is a tape of that, then they may open up a whole set of legal liables, obstruction of justice is a real thing. today dianne feinstein and elijah couplings wrote letters demanding to know if such a tape exists. they refer to the president s tweets. that i wrote, quote, it is a crime to intimidate or threaten any witness to delay or prevent their testimony. we are in new legal territory here. but you know what, we have just the person to help explain what s important about it. that s next.
get it done. i think dr. king was at the able to. congressman cummings has harsh things to say about the president and about other people and elijah couplings has said he is willing to work with this white house. that s true. the democrats that showed up at the inauguration. it s not like he is unwilling to work with president trump. he is giving his assessment, he is very outspoken, you are talking about dr. king here. right, i don t know if congressman cummings ever met steve bannon. i don t know if he knows him personally, to go to the level of calling him a white supremist-like, i think is beyond the pail, can you say you don t like him, you don t like breitbart, that s fair, to go across the line and go into somebody s personal character when you don t know that for sure on a public stage like that is a line too far. let me bring some numbers in here for you, according to a new survey by the city of chicago, there is a huge partisan divide between republicans and
was less angry and demeanized less. i believe in hate the sin and love the sinner. more news for you. reck perry could be staffing up for a possible run. the new york times says he is starting to start a superpack. and it might be the second biggest race in 2016 the contest to replace barbara mccloskey. some big names could step forward fins martin o malley who s been brought up as a president shlg candidate. others in congress like elijah couplings and donna edwards as well. aaron shock s office says she has reimbursed $1200 for his trip to chicago bear s football game last year. that is on top of another 40,000 they say he repaid after
hunt. and then, i would use my skills and there are some very skilled lawyers that nancy pelosi has put on that committee, to point out the flaws in what they tried to do and to lead our witnesses in the right direction. that is very important. so, joy, he is making this point about, okay, bring up this issue of embassy funding for embassy securities and ham they re point at these hearings with all the media watchingsome there something to it? hammer it. hammer it. the governor, who i have great success for, mutual admiration society, just gave a brilliant case for the delauro solution, send elijah couplings in there, brilliant on the house oversight committee. absolutely. you send one guy in there your all-star in there and you have him do what governor ed rendell just said. but maybe you have now made five people on that committee a part of the process. by the way, having done a negotiation with john boehner? which democrats got exactly nothing they can went in and