sort of happy friday morning. welcome to early start. i m dave briggs. i m christine romans. the pictures under-play how terrible it was yesterday. accidents on the bridge. port authority was slammed. people were furious. we hope it is better this morning. it is friday, november 16th. 5:00 a.m. in the east. we begin with references to wikileaks founder julian assange in an unsealed court filing suggesting he might be criminally charged. developments could have significant implications for the mueller investigation. assange made a name for himself leaking government secrets, including on the wars in afghanistan and iraq. prosecutors referenced assange by accident in a filing last week. joining us is our political
he was very unhappy. we knew this storm was coming. he needed a bourbon. welcome to early start. i m christine romans. i m dave briggs. it is friday, november 16th. for the tenth day we are waking up wondering when the midterms end. we will get to that shortly and we start with references to wikileaks founder over court filings which he may be criminally charged. it could have significant implications for the mueller investigation. assange leaked government secrets on the wars on iraq and afghanistan. federal prosecutors referenced assange by accident in a filing last week while arguing to keep an unrelated case sealed. they wrote, quote, no other procedure is likely to keep confidential in the fact that assange has been charged. a spokesman for the eastern
it s friday november 16th, i m ayman mohyeldin alongside alex witt. we almost didn t make it because of the weather. where is bill karins when we need him? so speculation is growing over what has inspired president trump s two days of public tirades against special counsel robert mueller s probe into russian interference in the 2016 election. yesterday trump tweeted universities will someday study what highly conflicted and not senate approved bob mueller and his gang of democrat thugs have done to destroy people. why he is protecting crooked hillary, mccabe, comey and peter s. and all of his friends on the other side. this hours after the president claimed to know the inner workings of the mueller investigation, alleging they have found no collusion. this just as the president s lawyer said they were preparing trump s final responses to mueller s written questions,
morning joe. it is friday, november 16th. joe, what a week of recounts, temper tantrums and political turbulence. what a week. look what s happening in florida. broward missed the deadline by two minutes. that didn t get counted. but they re going to a hand recount there. caseo in the state of georgia. maine, my goodness, maine, too, goes democratic. a lot of people didn t expect that. you know what i always say, as goes northeast harbor, so goes france. and so was the case in maine, too. jared golden squeaks out a win for the democrats in a district that went for donald trump by double digits. and you know how he did it? he focused in on the affordable care act. that bought democrats yet another seat. you look out at orange county, my gosh, as tom nichols said, congratulations, republicans, you just lost leggan county. it looks like it s going to be a complete wipeout.
i think it s legitimate the bill be brought up. i don t think it s going to do any good or any harm and if it satisfies, it satisfies me if it became law because i voted for it. i m not going to be in the forefront with flake advocating that the leader do so-and-so, but i wouldn t do anything to stop it. as to the ledge allocation, actually support it because i wrote it. i think it would be good for the country. we ll leave it up to mitch and the leadership how to take that vote if we take it. i do hope we take that vote. senator judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley and fellow committee member lindsey graham showing that even the president s staunchest defenders are thinking it might be a good idea to proterms special counsel robert mueller. welcome back to morning joe . it s friday, november 16th.