moral equivalence on the issue of meddling. to the congress is point, just before me, for this president to decouple russian interference in the election and him winning, and not challenging that win. that is very difficult for him to do. rhetorically. and thereby, he kind of tiptoed through the answers in a way that is going to, i think, and flame a lot of response. let s pause there for a second because i think that is worth leaning in on, if you will come a breath. the president does have a complicated fact in all of that. the more that the russia investigation inclusion and everything, just talked about it is difficult to separate that from his win. then, you get to the word illegitimate. that is a sore point. how does the president go forth? fine, let the investigation go forth, let me do my job. that s fair.
in open testimony, i asked him, you know, what he thought about bob mueller. he said he was a man of great integrity. this is a guy that was uniformly given accolades by everyone when he was first named. i think he s going about this in a thorough way, and we ought to let his investigation go forth. i also want to ask you about the health care bill. the vote is now delayed. the senate majority leader doing that, saying democrats weren t going to talk to him. the president of the united states tweeting out, with zero democrats to help, and a failed and dangerous obamacare as the dem s legacy, the republican senators are working hard. do you share part of the burden for a failure to improve obamacare? erin, i m viewed as one of the most bipartisan guys in the united states senate. every bill i work on, i have a republican partner. there has been no outreach by the republicans to the democrats. they decided they re use thing
age 20-year-old uva member martese johnson was arrested after trying to enter a bar. hids forehead was bloodied as he was taken to the ground. he was charged with public intoxication swearing and obstruction of justice is my belief. we re asking the state police to gather all the relevant facts. virginia state police have launched a criminal investigation into the bloody altercation, along with an independent review requested by the governor. to see the photos i can tell you as a parent i have a son about the same age in college. i have a daughter in college. i was disturbed about the pictures i saw yesterday. let s let the investigation go forth. i moved very quickly, i wanted an independent investigation and want to know what happened. officers involved in his arrest remain on administrative
let s let the investigation go forth. i want an independent investigation. i want to know exactly what happened. state police have now launched the investigation called for by governor terry mcauliffe, looking into the bloody arrest of a 20-year-old black university of virginia student wednesday. that allegedly left him needing ten stitches in his head. more than a thousand protesters turned out to demand justice at a campus march last night. nbc s willie geist has more. yo his head is bleeding! yo, his head is bleeding! this video obtained by student newspaper, the cavalier daily, shows officers with the state s department of alcohol beverage control arresting university of virginia student martese johnson, outside an irish pub early wednesday morning. i go to uva! i go to uva. johnson is seen on the ground yelling as officers handcuff him. i go to uva.
investigation late this morning. just to see the photos i can tell you as a parent you know, i have a son about the same age in college. i have a daughter in college. so i was very disturbed by the pictures i saw yesterday. let s let the investigation go forth, but obviously i want an independent investigation, and i want to know exactly what s happened. so david culver is a reporter with our nbc station wrc in d.c. he joins me on the telephone from charlottesville. explain what we know that the abc agent and their agency is saying about the threat from the student and what the student is saying about the force from the officers. as far as what the agency is saying, they say that johnson, 20 years old, was rejected for some reason from going into the trinity irish pub. then it s not clear what then caused them to intervene and put him into custody. but during that incident is when they had to take him to the