With Vladimir Putin to the Washington Post. Quote, President Trump did not follow specific warnings from his National Security advisors tuesday when he congratulated russian president Vladimir Putin on his reelection, including a section in his briefing materials in all capital letters stating, do not congratulate, according to officials familiar with the call. Trump also chose not to heed talking points about the poisoning with the nerve agent, a case u. S. And britain has blamed on moscow. The report stunning, more stunning someone took it before the state. Axios calling it, quote, one of the most startling leaks of this whole administration that could only have come from a small group of people, each of whom is trusted with Sensitive National secrets. That left john kelly feeling frustrate and had deeply disappointed one source tells nbc news today. What could have alerted them to leak such a damaging story about the president . Axios concerned about how trump is handling putin, fru
Tape secret. And then once the public knew the tapes existed, they fought to keep them private and never release them. Ultimately, the Nixon White House came up with a ridiculous offer that would make it look like they were releasing the tapes without them ever actually having to do so. Weve talked about this on the show before. It was called the stennis compromise. To avoid releasing the tapes, nixon offered the special prosecutor in watergate a deal. The white house would not hand over the tapes but they would listen to the tapes themselves, type up written summaries of what they said was on the tapes and then they would cross your heart, pinky swear that those tapes were absolutely accurate and there was nothing else damning on the tapes at all. And in case you were a coldhearted scenical jerk and wouldnt take president nixons word for it, well, for you cynics there would be a a verification process, a pronixon dixiecrat senator named john stennis would personally individually liste
To do that, thats the beginning and end of his presidency. We are a rule of law nation. In talking to colleagues all along within once he goes after mueller, then we will take action. I think that people see that as a massive red line that cant be crossed. So i hope that thats the case. And i would just hope that enough people would prevail on the president now. Dont go there. Dont go there. We have confidence in mueller. I certainly do. And then i think my colleagues do as well. So i hope that the push back is now to keep the president from going there. And this just a few minutes ago from arizonas republican senator john mccain. He tweets, special counsel mueller has served our country with honesty and integrity. It is critical he be allowed to complete a thorough investigation into russias interference in 2016 election unimpeded. Lets go now to our White House Correspondent boris sanchez. Boris, the president had no Public Events this weekend. Just return together white house after
Trump coming from the highest levels and as he tries to learn the source of the leak, President Trump is getting hit with three lawsuits that could open up more private details in a very public way, all from women in his past. Well get to that in a moment. First to the white house, kaitlyn collins. Kaitlyn . Reporter we have heard from the president. Oval Office Yesterday that he did, in fact, congratulate Vladimir Putin on that recent election victory. He wrote on twitter and said i called president putin of russia to congratulate him on his election victory. He noted in the past that president obama also called him as well. Getting along with russia. That kind of mirrors the defense that press secretary Sarah Sanders used at the press briefing that the president did call having a relationship with russia or having dialogue with russia but senator john mccain did specifically criticize the president for congratulating a dictator on a sham victory. In all capital letters do not con fwr
Happens saturday, because stormy is on sunday. March 23rd. With us here in washington we have Republican Communications strategist and msnbc political contributor rick tyler. National political recorder for nbc news, carol lee. New york times reporter and willie geist is in new york along with National Affairs analyst for nbc news and former chief of staff at the cia and department of defense Nbc News National Security analyst jeremy bash. Wow. H. R. Mcmaster becomes the sixth close advisor or aide to announce a departure from the white house in just six turbulent weeks at the white house. According to the ap mcmaster showed up to work yesterday as usual. Hours later in a phone call with the president , was he down the hall . It was clear that his time was up. He was fired. Joe scarborough has been off with his kids last week but he filed a piece on this big story of the week. He calls the appointment of john bolton a fitting conclusion to the failures of conservatism. Joe writes in pa