Tried to derail an investigation into his National Security adviser and preetdly lied in its aftermath. This morning well talk to two members of the Intel Committee who led that line of questioning, democrat joe manchin and republican Susan Collins. Good morning everyone. Its friday, june 9th, welcome to morning joe on capitol hill. With us we have columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post David Ignatius. Senior political analyst Mark Halperin and New York Times reporter michael schmidt. Good to have you all on board. What a fascinating day. It was fascinating. It seems like a bad day for the president , and the spinning by his lawyer and his press secretary or one of them was stunning to me, absolutely stunning. I said it all day yesterday. Ill say it all day today. If you want obstruction of justice you can look at what donald trump himself said to lester holt and what his spokesperson said, what he said to the russians, and then you can build around that if you want to
North korea does the world have in good options to stop the Nuclear Program . Want to know why respects cant agree yet . Ask senator pat toomey. Theyre in the situation now, can the repeal and replace plan be saved . Ill ask the two Party Leaders tom perez and Ronald Mcdaniel on their first appearance together. Joining me is robert costa, kristen welker, and ruth marcus, columnist for the washington post. From nbc news in washington, the longest running thousand in television history, this is meet the press with chuck todd President Trump and Vladimir Putin took place behind closed doors which is for the people present, including two translators. The question is how much did trump press Vladimir Putin on hacking Russian Elections . The competing accounts from mr. Lavrov and later mr. Putin has done little to erase doubts about mr. Trumps eagerness to pursue the issue, neither that they requested sanctions on putins denial and instead insisted its time to move on. President trump tweete
republican party has shamefully aligned itself with him. this was supposed to be the law and order party, and now they re comparing donald trump to mother teresa nelson mandela and jesus christ, even because supposedly donald trump is a victim in a martyr, but they never have the same concern for black and brown people would we are wrongly incarcerated or the central park five, we down trump is still never apologize, too. so i think there s a lot of hypocrisy for republicans to live align themselves with trump. and it indicates, once again, if they re no longer a governing party, but they have instead become a grievance party. all about dental trump in his statement where you hear donald trump saying they could reach a breaking point. his supporters, there are some people who see that and see there is the hint of the threat of violence although some people are hearing what they want to hear. i think it is crystal clear what former president donald trump meant in those comments. and t
so he will have other support from senators as well. i think that s a key point. trump is a grievance party. can you pull it back to a policy or optimistic party. that s one of the challenges. look at the polling. it s trump at 43. then the rest. these are national polls. you can change these numbers by winning iowa or surprising in iowa or new hampshire or south carolina. scott from south carolina. nikki haley also from south carolina. the former governmor and u.n. ambassador. let s listen to here. she got in the race. she says i m the all the ty to trump. she s trying to figure out her place. this is about january 6th. donald trump call it is a beautiful day. nikki haley says no. what i will say about january 6th, i will continue to say it was a terrible day. it was not a beautiful day. it was a terrible day. and we don t ever want that to happen. you break the law, you pay the price. on the question she s come
is a grievance party right now. vaughan, clearly, donald trump is looking at the opponents in a potential primary and doesn t fear any of them. the only one getting some of his attention is ron desantis who, again, isn t in the race yet. as mo says, we don t know how he ll perform if he steps outside tallahassee, florida, onto a national stage. you covered these campaigns. you ve been on the ground. you ve been in arizona. you spent all the time. you know the energy of the republican party. should donald trump fear any of these opponents or potential opponents? tim scott, interesting potential candidate. i didn t hear his name mentioned one time at cpac over the course of the weekend. it s a fundamental base, grassroots base of this republican party. any candidate is going to need it. there is one potential candidate who is already down, and that is larry hogan, announcing yesterday he, the former maryland governor, he is not going to jump into this