Population. Three of those explosions out of eight went off in christian places of worship government officials in sri lanka are calling it terrorism. Sam kylie is there in the capitol of colombo. Great to have you there in the wake of these horrific attacks. Its after 4 00 in the morning where you are. The island is under curfew until the morning, what has the reaction been . Authorities as you sigh, have imposed a nationwide curfew, the hotels, one of which is just down about half a mile down the road from where im standing. That is the shangrila hotel. Devastating blasts, did huge amounts of damage, 560 people injured at least, 207 killed. Thats the death poll so far. Two of those dead were policemen who were attacked reportedly biage improposed explosive device when thery were tracking down some initial subjects. Startling discovers, on the 11th of this month police put out a memo, referring to warnings that were put out by the Deputy Inspector general across the country. Let me re
President ial adviser should do the same. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is friday june 14th. We have National Analyst john heilema heilemann, host of saturday night politics, donny deutsch, susan del percio is with us and associate editor of the Washington Post Eugene Robinson and Senior Writer at politico and coauthor of the play book, joe sherman. Joe, republicans are really avoiding things yesterday, except for one, but must of them were tippy, tippy, tippy, tippy toe around something so obviously abominable. Republicans have a choice to choose loyalty to their country or loyalty to donald trump and sadly, most of those republicans chose loyalty to donald trump and some of the things that were said and well get to it in a minute but by Mitch Mcconnell were just absolutely extraordinarily would be extraordinary but Mitch Mcconnell has proven proved long ago hes so cynical that what most of us consider what most conservatives have long considered to be in the best intere
One 2020 candidate who now supports starting an impeachment inquiry. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with our politics lead and a shocking admission by President Trump that he and some of his allies are now working hard to pretend he did not say or mean. After years of insisting there was no collusion, that he and his campaign did not receive any damaging information about Hillary Clinton from an american adversary, the russian government, the president stunned the political world last night by saying he would be perfectly willing to collude in 2020. Mr. Trump directly saying, yes, if a Foreign National or Foreign Government wants to share dirt with him about a political opponent, he wants to hear it. Your campaign this time around, if foreigners, if russia, if china, if someone else offers you information on an opponent, should they accept it or call the fbi . I think you do both. You might want to listen. Theres nothing wrong with listening. If somebody called from a co
President says and i threw my whole show out tonight because of that, i cant believe it. Lets remember this is in the middle of a president ial campaign. Yeah. Middle of a president ial campaign. Donald trump is the worst president ial campaign weve ever seen. Now that doesnt mean the worst president ial campaigner cant squeak out the Electoral College with fewer votes than the actual winner of the vote in in peculiar format we have with the Electoral College. Hes a terrible if you look at this in terms of youre running the trump reelection campaign, how did my candidate handle himself today. Well, he said hes willing to commit federal crimes to get reelected. And if in fact this next time around he once again accepts help from a foreign adversary, this time well have his full complete confession of criminal intent on tape in advance for any prosecutor who needs to look at it. Al, i know you have to work on questions for the debate. This one tonight gives you something to think about t
Most. And what really happened in the persian gulf. President trump said iran is to blame for the tanker attacks and claims there is video to prove it but u. S. Allies are raising doubts about the evidence. And this i want to know how my mom died. I truly believe in some way, shape or form, the Dominican Republic is responsible. Another american dies while on vacation in the Dominican Republic. The mystery surrounding deaths and the questions it raises about alcohol consumed in that country. Were 11 days out from the first democratic president ial debate. The stage practically set for 20 candidates divided over two nights. You see them all there. As it turns out, the luck of the draw means four of the five top polling contenders will appear on the second night together. Now before they can focus on that, their attention now is on black voters. We have Team Coverage on this busy saturday in the race for the white house. We begin in charleston, South Carolina, Garrett Haake is there in t