[ ] howie top newspapers quoting unnamed sources saying President Trump is suggesting the infamous access Hollywood Tape may have been doctored. Pundits are calling it crazy talk. The president of the United States seems to be losing his grip on reality. Did he at some point start believing in the fake reality that he creates . Questioning President Trumps Mental Fitness for office has become a vicious obsession of the left. Howie also the New York Post saying the president still questions Barack Obamas birth certificate. What do you make of this intensified media chatter. Mollie we heard this in january and we heard it a few months later. It seems to be a campaign to undermine the president rather than analysis. Its a Campaign Based on anonymous leaks. In general its people who havent accepted the reality of donald trump wishing the election who are make this claim. Nobody should be he central waiting other peoples Mental Health. Howie if the president is saying things privately that
Nbc dumps matt lauer, their biggest star, over allegations of sexual misconduct. Im heartbroken. Hes my dear dear friend and partner. Fan im heartbroken for the brave colleague who came forward and told her story. The stories we heard is that matt was a philanderer. I never heard a story that he was a predator. Howie did the nbc executives know about the numerous rumors. An important journalism story as the Washington Post expose a sting. How an undercover plot to trick the paper into running phoney allegations of race and sexual allegations against roy moore was foiled. Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. Abcs chief correspondent brian ross quoting an unnamed confidant said this about flynn. Hes prepared to testify that candidate trump told him to make contact with the russians. Howie that was flat wrong. Ross admit the conversation happened during the transition. Shelby holshelby holliday, and e hemingway. Brian ross says he holds people accountable so he should be held accountabl
He has been such a staple of morning news and morning tv throughout most of our lives. I have a sickening feeling of deja vu. It sends the message you are not too big to fall. You almost dont wake up anymore and put on the news and not go wow. Pressure is mounting on john conyers to resign from Congress Amid new accusations of Sexual Harassment. He just sat there. Didnt say anything. Just took off his clothes. Down to his not naked. His skivvies. Most of us have walked in on him accidentally without knocking and have seen him in his underwear. Big deal. I have no idea. I think it is a personal decision. Newest missile launch. It was the longest and highest yet. It went higher, frankly, than any previous shot theyve taken. Kim jongun boasted about it claiming they are a power. Claiming the entire u. S. Mainland is within its range. Ballistic missiles that can threaten everywhere in the world, basically. I will only tell you that we will take care of pit. It is a situation we will handle
Going on with the cfpb. Reporter congratulations, david, good to be with you today. Welcome to msnbc, and to answer your question, this has a backdrop that is familiar in the era of the Trump Administration, where there is a difference on an agency that really had its start during the obama years, with a very different sort of political direction, and Richard Cordray, who was leading that agency, has stepped down to run for governor of ohio, as a democrat. So theres a lot of political overtones to this. Because of the charter of the agency, he named his own deputy to be the acting director, and the white house, which has a very different view of the effectiveness and the role of this kind of a bureau, named its own Mick Mulvaney who runs the office of management and budget, who has been a sharp critic over the years. So there is a disagreement about who has the authority here under the law. The white house pushes back and says that there is a vacancy filling statute in the code that al
I think in the end well get the votes. Its a process. A legislative process takes time to move it across the finish line. I think well get a bill to the president. The Economic Growth is in there, tax cuts are in there. An opportunity for us to fix the broken tax code. Failure is not an option when it comes to the Republican Party and cutting taxes. The fate of the party is in our hands as well as that of the economy. The economy needs a tax cut and the Republican Party needs to deliver. I think well get there. Sandra new controversy this morning over President Trumps pick to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after a lawsuit is filed by the departing director an obamaera appointee. Bill all that now. Kristin fisher, good morning to you. Who is in charge at the bureau this morning . Depends on who you ask, bill. You could have two people showing up for work for the same job fighting for the same office. Just a little bit of a back story here. The cfpb was established during