sometimes on this show, we get lucky on live tv. on october, we were puzzling over the news that the president had been personally interviewing candidates for federal prosecutor jobs, u.s. attorney positions in new york. that seemed like the kind of thing presidents don t usually do, since u.s. attorneys in the justice department and the attorney general are all supposed to operate independent of the white house. just a few days after those reports, as luck would have it, we got former attorney general eric holder to be here on the show for an interview. and he fired off basically an emergency flare, a big warning about the president interviewing those potential u.s. attorneys. the way it was done in the obama administration, the clinton administration, and i think the bush administrations, the highest level person that you spoke to as an incoming attorney general, as an incoming u.s. attorney was the attorney general. that was it. nobody went to talk to the white
sometimes on this show we get lucky on live tv. in october, we were puzzling over the news that the president had been personally interviewing potential candidates for federal prosecutor jobs, u.s. attorney positions in new york. seemed like kind of thing presidents don t usually do. u.s. attorneys, justice department and attorney general all supposed to operate independent of the white house. few days after that report, eric holder was on the show for interview. he fired off basically emergency flare, warning about the president interviewing those potential u.s. attorneys. the way it was done in the obama administration and clinton administration as well and think in the bush administrations, the highest level person that you spoke to as incoming attorney general u.s. attorney, was in fact the attorney general. that was it. nobody went to talk to the white house. and why is that?
this lays out how he may have used his position in the trump administration to drive down costs of his company and drive the stock price of his company up. the white house defense was to deny that karl icon had ever had this job in the first place. he was just a private citizen, nothing to do with us. if you re thinking this whole thing smacks of banana republic corruption, it s because it does. he s been sending up what he called an emergency flare asking questions about that icahn case. who is going to police this in this kind of situation is why we have a public integrity section at the department of justice. but in this particular part of the department of justice doesn t pursue it, there san
daughter. when they went into the water, they collected a number of scallops. my understanding is the daughter returned to the boat and the father returned to get more scallops, he did not return to the surface. at that point, the daughter became concerned. an official told reporters she went down and saw a large shark attacking her father. she return to the surface herself and shot off an emergency flare but her father did not survive. there s only one other fatal unprovoked shark attack in the last 100 years in tasmania. 14 regions across peru have declared a state of emergency in preparation for abnormal weather. our meteorologist is at the weather center. this is following this year s strong el nino event. it s already causing some significant problems into the country of peru.
early yesterday s crash of malaysian flight 17 came years after the day after twa flight 800 exploded after takeoff crashing into long island sound. investigators concluded an electrical spark in the fuel tank was to blame. but witnesses say they saw rising streak of light in the sky, similar to a missile, sparking endless conspiracy theories. at first, i saw what appeared to be an emergency flare and then as i looked at it, i realized it was a lot more than a flare. it was actually a fireball in the sky. reporter: for all of the confirmed shootdowns of passenger planes, there are still other downed flights whose fates have never been fully solved. still ahead in four months time, malaysia airlines has had two flight disasters. unprecedented in aviation history. but where does this put the troubled airline? can they survive this? we will be right back with much more morning joe. spokesperson: get a $1,000 turbocharged reward card