The report first. He will decide what Congress Gets to see, but before Congress Gets even that version, the white house wants to scrub it down with claims of executive privilege. So in the end you may get nothing. The process is a new laser sharp focus this morning because the special counsels office just dropped what could be a major clue bomb in a new legal filing. Robert muellers lawyer said they face a press of work this week, a press of work. Could that press be the actual report this week in the one we might never actually get to see. Well, with the cloud of the russia investigation and frankly a lot more looming large over his president vcy, mr. Trump is doubling down on his grievances bringing them off twitter and into the real world once again attacking the late senator john mccain saying he never was and never will be a fan. Those come as he sat next to his new friend on the global stage. The socalled trump of the tropics. Mr. Trump taking aim at social Media Companies accusi
About a week and a half ago the Washington Post filed a motion with the federal court in washington, d. C. That was handling a criminal case of president s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. And that motion from the Washington Post called on the judge in the manafort case in d. C. To release unredacted filings and transcripts from manaforts case. So that the Washington Post and by extension the American People could get a gander at those documents. Specifically the post motion called for unredacting a whole bunch of materials from manaforts case related to how he broke his plea deal when he repeatedly and the judge ruled intentionally lied to prosecutors. The motion also called for the release of an unredacted version of the sentencing motion on manafort that was filed with the court. Large parts of it looked like that. So the post filed to have all that stuff unsealed. And this is actually an important dynamic to watch. You know, today we got the public release of all these hundreds of
Single greatest witchhunt in political history . Isnt this the same Mueller Investigation that he has publicly attacked 361 times by one count . With so many attempts to discredit this investigation, why would he now want all of us to see it . Lets start with abby phillip. Shes in lima, ohio, where the president will soon be speaking. Just last month the president wouldnt commit to making the Mueller Report public telling cbs, quote, it depends. I have no idea what its going to say. So whats up with the switch . Reporter its not clear whats behind that switch, brooke. It doesnt seem that he knows any more today about whats in the Mueller Report than what he knew several weeks ago, but the president said today that he thinks that his 63 million voters want to see whats in it, they want to see what this is all about and so hes encouraged the House Republicans who had a vote on this just about a week ago and voted unanimously to release it to go ahead and vote their conscience, vote for t
Oh, wow. Thats pretty good, guys. I like it. Im very calm, man. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Along with joe, willie and me we have Political Writer to the New York Times and msnbc political analyst nick confessore. National political reporter hei Heidi Pryzbyla, donny deutsch, chairman of the Democratic National economy Michael Steele is with us and anchor for bbc America Katty Kay joins us. We pulled you in because of the breaking news across the pond, the news that theresa may will be stepping down on june 7th. That is just like one or two days after trump visits. So interesting timing and well talk about all the ramifications and impacts of that coming up in just a moment. But first, whoa, what a day yesterday. President trump continued to erupt last night because the House Speaker said that he threw a, quote, temper tantrum, tweeting after 9 p. M. Last night the president shared a video edited to show nancy pelosi stammering during a News Conference with anchors suggesting