Is not afraid. Tonights other news, President Trump described statues of confederate slavery as useful. We have an update on the police chief. While we get to that, lets go to catherine harrison. Catherine the mouthpiece for the isis terrorist group has claimed responsibility for barcelona. There are a couple of options, the suspects were radicalized online or that isis had a more direct role by engineering the plot and pulling the trigger on the timing, or the second, isis is being opportunistic trying to take credit for the violence in barcelona. We have seen the Intelligence Agency and Law Enforcement ramp up and get focused on barcelona. Elaine duke has been briefed on the attack and is monitoring the situation. Also, her old boss john kelly chief of staff at the white house has been briefing President Trump. The fbi is engaged and offering help. In barcelona, offering direct assistance to the american in the city. Spanish authorities began sharing information with identities of th
Records everything he did was, quote, 100 proper when asked about reports that he asked the white House Counsel to persuade Jeff Sessions not to recuse himself from the ongoing russia investigation. President also said that he wants border wall funding in exchange for a protections for d. R. E. A. M. Ers, the 700,000 or so young people brought to the country illegally. But the biggest topic that dominated the media gathering that frankly has dominated the latter half of this week is the fallout from the book fire and fury. The white house and the president both joining forces to discredit the books author and push back on the narratives that paint the president as being mentally, emotionally and intellectually unfit for the office. You heard the president say that because he went to a good college, a good university, made a lot of money in business and won the presidency, that is all the proof you need to show that he is fit for the job. The president giving voice to tweets sent earlie
Old friend Rudy Giuliani completely Donald Trumps Previous Story about porn star Stormy Daniels. Which he contradicted himself, actually as well before that. Not to stop there, he also undercut the White House Position on jim comey, and Michael Cohen. Go get in there, kid stay in, stay in Rudy Rudy Rudy welcome to morning joe. Its thursday, may 3rd, willies birthday. Hey happy birthday. We get it over it. Rudy gave awe gift for your birthday. Actually multiple gifts. You open the box and you go wait, theres one more in the bottom. But wait, theres more, joes favorite phrase. We have Mike Barnicle and msnbc political contributor rick tyler. Chair of the department of africanamerican studies as princeton university. Eddie glaude junior and former chief of staff at the c. I. A. And nbc news capitol hill correspondent oh yeah host of kasie d. C. On msnbc, kasie hunt. Were never going to stop doing that, okay . And cofounder and ceo of axios, jim vandehei. I think well start right there, we
Said no. Yes, we know that special counsel mueller removed him from the case, but what did special counsel mueller do to determine whether or how the actions taken, the decisions made and the evidence gathered by a donald trumphating lead investigator, how that may have influenced donald trump as a subject. It wasunequivocally stated by the council and became evidence that was used by the special counsel team. If special counsel mueller was here, i know what i would ask him. Hes not, but his supervisor is. So mr. Deputy attorney general, what, if anything, has special counsel mueller done to determine whether the actions taken, the decisions made and the evidence collected by special agent peter strzok was impacted by his very clear hatred and bias of President Trump . As i know youre aware, director mueller has vast experience both as a prosecutor and a supervisor of the fbi, so i can assure you that he understands the importance of considering any credibility issues in determining wh