Steve rattner. Ching ching. Money. And former director for ted cruzs campaign and now msnbc political director rick tyler joins us as wealth. So great to have Richard Haass with us today, i want to talk about yesterday before we came on the air we were talking about whiplash. But if these policy shifts yesterday were whiplash, our neck was over here and now its upright. Whether it was on nato, tillerson was tough as nails according to William Cohen and other trump critics, had a good tough meeting with putin and with the foreign minister ther . China, normalcy in that chinese relationship where were actually lined up where we with work with them as a partner on north korea. A lot of shifts yesterday. I cant think of one thing that went in the wrong direction. These are all things over the past two years that have scared us and now a shift. Its quite a shift. A lot of stuff happened yesterday, youre right. China not being a currency manipulator, nato having a role, a fairly blunt talk w
I wonder if the president knew he was seeking to establish back Channel Communications at the Russian Embassy to the russian government and if he didnt know, when did he find out . That assumes a lot and the attorney said that mr. Kushner volunteered to share what he knows about the meetings and will do the same if he is contacted with any other inquiry. Did the president discussed . I wont get into it, but what your question assumes is a lot of facts that are not substantiated by anything but Anonymous Sources that are so far being leaked out . Does he approve of the action . You are asking if he approves of an action that is not confirmed. Secretary kelly and general mcmaster discussed that back channels are an appropriate part of diplomacy. The rush why investigation includes President Trumps long time personal lawyer and confidant Michael Cohen who confirmed that he has received request for information from the senate and house intel committees. He told nbc news he finds it irrespo
It. Back with me, my panel. Good to have all of you on. Well start of the with mark preston. Mark, i want to talk about the number of people on the president s team who have become caught up in this russian probe. Michael flynn, paul manafort, roger stone, carter page, j. K. Goran. Tonight we learned that his attorney will cooperate if subpoenaed and weve learn the House Intelligence Committee is asking for asking for information from former White House Press official boris epstein. All of this before you get to Jared Kushner, the president s soninlaw. Put this in perspective for us. Lets look at President Trumps orbit from the campaign to where we are right now. Michael flynn was a surrogate for him on the Campaign Trial a trusted ally and somebody he put into a key position in the federal government. That is as National Security adviser. However he had to resign only weeks after taking it don because of his discussions, contacts, with the russians. Then you have paul manafort, who wa
Was part of a russian effort to aid his fathers candidacy. Good morning, its tuesday, july 11th. Welcome to morning joe. With us, we have columnist mike barnicle, former fbi special agent clint watt, katty kay and author of a world in disarray, and from msnbc news, Mark Halperin. Last night the New York Times reported before arranging a meeting with a russian lawyer he believed would offer him compromising information about Hillary Clinton, donald trump jr. Was informed in an email the material was part of a russian government effort to aide his fathers candidacy, according to three people with knowledge of the email. The author of the reported email was Rob Goldstone, a publicist which helped set up the meeting, which took place in june of 2016, before trump became the nominee. The russian lawyer said she had information about purported Illegal Campaign contributions to the Democratic National convention that she thought donald trump jr. Might find helpful. The source doesnt go deeper
Quickly. Critics say its an inexperienced white house scrambling to find its footing in washington. Fox team coverage. Chief washington correspondent james rosen joins us. How general kelly will discharge his duties. We begin with john roberts and the changing white house staff on a monday. Good evening. Ten days ago press Secretary Sean Spicer stepped down in order to clear the decks for Anthony Scaramucci to build a new communications team. Today the white house cleared the decks again. It ranks among the shortest ten years and white house history after ten days on the job, Anthony Scaramucci is out as White House Communications director. General john kelly, new white house chief of staff, asked for scaramucci to go after an interview scaramucci thought was off the record. The president felt anthonys comments were inappropriate for a person that position. And he didnt want to burden general kelly also with that line of succession. Scaramuccis removal sharp indicator of how much power