The president and his top advisers insist he is ready to declare an emergency or to close the government again if he does not get his wall yeah. I think he actually is keep in mind hes willing to do whatever it takes to secure the border and the contender, democrats are jolted by starbucks exceo Howard Schultz considering an independent run that could help reelect donald trump they fear as Kamala Harris stuns the competition with a mega hometown rally. We are here at this moment in time because we must answer a fundamental question who are we who are we as americans . America, we are better than this and good day, everyone im Andrea Mitchell in washington rogestone will be here tomorrow to be formally arraigned before a federal judge on those seven criminal counts brought by Robert Mueller. Mr. Stone says he is open to having a conversation with the special counsel and other individuals who served in the Trump Campaign, but right now hes not willing to deal. Are you willing to cut a de
Consulting with congress and without a sentence. And you cannot ununleash it. It did not conclude that they conspired with the rush shap government and the investigation it not make a determination about whether or not he committed a crime for obstruction of justice. Barr, however, did. And he determines that there determined that it was clear that muellers findings did not exonerate the president. Mueller specifically said he ris port did not do that according to barr. There is so many legitimate questions toward the general summary. But the challenge facing democrats and some of us in the press, too, is that barrs s summary made it easy as sour grates. The partisans can do what they do and duo whwe do what we do. Chuck rosenberg was a u. S. Attorney. He knows mr. Mueller pretty well. He is also an msnbc legal contributor. Nice to see you were sir. Bill barr is a principaled man, but it is that old reagan saying, isnt it . Trust but verify. There is stuff that we may not be able to se
Juan, its probably your best quality. [laughter] juan thank you. After your music, i set i wanted to party with you because i like that music. Jesse democrats going for further off the deep end. Lets start with socialist 2020 candidate Bernie Sanders unveiling a new medicare for all bill. The plan being cosponsored by fellow 2020 conductors liz warren, cory booker, Kamala Harris and kirsten gillibrand. Sanders joking that it will put private Insurance Companies out of business. What our system does is get rid of Insurance Companies and Drug Companies making billions of dollars in profit every single year. What happens to those Insurance Companies after your plan is implemented . If you want cosmetic surgery, under medicare for all, we cover all basic health care needs. I suppose if you want to look more beautiful, work on the nose, they can do that. Blue cross blue shield would be reduced to nose jobs . Something like that. Jesse bernie not mentioning how hes going to pay for but sever
Started. The president s hand picked attorney general who was confirmed weeks before Robert Muellers ended took to the doj Briefing Room and stressed at least five times that there was no collusion. The special counsel found no collusion by any americans in iras illegal activities. There was no evidence of the Trump Campaign collusion with the russian governments hacking. The special counsel confirmed that the russian government sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 president ial election but did not find that the Trump Campaign or other americans inclucollude those efforts. No underlying collusion with russian. There was no collusion. We showed you that for a reason. Donald trump usually utters the no collusion refrain on twitter every day. It took over an hour for the Justice Department to release the redacted Mueller Report which never uses the term no collusion in it at all, except when quoting the president and his allies. Also not included in the Mueller Report i
Though they dropped charges against him and the education secretary says she needs to make cuts, but on her list, the special olympics. Hear her reason and the backlash. We start with a warning on north korea. In a capitol hill hearing today the top u. S. General in south korea said that theres been little or no change in the norths military capabilities and that activity there is, quote, inconsistent with denuclearization, but what he said after that may have raised even more eyebrows. We have our Barbara Starr who is at the pentagon, and this was general robert abrams. What else did he say, barbara . Well, general abrams, one of the most plain spoken you will find out there and this hearing wrapped up just a short time ago. After he said that what is being observed is inconsistent with a denuclearization by the kim jongun regime, general abrams went on to talk about his concerns that while tensions may be lowered right now, if things were to turn around and if there was to be conflic