Revolutionary war era statute that is so obscure, not a Single Person has ever been convicted under it under the entire span of American History. So its a safe bet that no one reading the paper that morning had ever heard of the logan act much less understood what it actually says, but it didnt matter. The Washington Post story spurred an instant scandal. Within hours, reporters were yelling about flynn and kislyak in the White House Briefing room and that was the beginning of it all. Three full years of hysterics over russia followed from there. Lost in the noise and the gesticulating for several vital questions. How exactly did the Washington Post know who mike flynn was talking to on the phone . Where did the details of his conversation come from . And the logan act of 1799 . Who came up with that . These are not small questions. Government agencies clearly had been spying on the Incoming National security advisor. That is unethical and its scary, its a terrible precedent. Leaking d
The World Health Organization just endorsed the swedish approach. So what does that say, but the very nonswedish lockdown is currently paralyzing her country and it says a lot. We will explain in a minute. But for us tonight and update on the side of general Michael Flynn. Like so much else it has happened recently in america out the flynn story lays bare the architecture of control that has been present just beneath the surface of this country for a long time. For reasons we still dont fully understand, Michael Flynn deeply offended permanent washington somehow so they destroyed decided destroy them. They pretended to believe he was a secret agent and then they trapped him on a bogus perjury charge. When he resisted they threatened to hurt his son until he signed a confession. It sound like something that happened in china, but it happened here in our capital city of washington. Weve known that for a long time. But we didnt know is that there was an extensive written record that prove
Revolutionary war era statute that is so obscure, not a Single Person has ever been convicted under it under the entire span of American History. So its a safe bet that no one had ever heard of the logan act much less understood what it actually says, but it didnt matter. The Washington Post story spurred an instant scandal. Within hours, reporters were yelling about flynn and kislyak in the White House Briefing room and that was the beginning of it all. Three full years of hysterics over russia followed from there. Lost in the noise and the gesticulating for several vital questions. How exactly did the Washington Post know who mike flynn was talking to on the phone . Where did the details of his conversation come from . In the logan act of 1799 . Who came up with that . These are not small questions. Government agencies clearly had been spying on the Incoming National security advisor. That is unethical and its scary, its a terrible precedent. Leaking details of those calls for politi
A good friday morning to you. Craig melvin coming to you live from msnbc headquarters in new york city. Im back from minneapolis, minnesota. Weve seen a full range of emotions over the last week and a half. Anger, sadness. Now some hope after that Memorial Service in honor of george floyd, you cant help but get a sense that there is some new optimism for change in our country. We are still seeing thousands of americans peacefully protest. This is the scene in washington, d. C. A short time ago. Theyre even painting the streets there. Thats 16th, by the way, 16th street goes straight to the white house. Black lives matter. Takes up several blocks. Americans also grappling with another reality, coronavirus. Weve lost more than 108,000 lives to the virus. Amid all of this, President Trump is still speaking right now. Hes addressing the nation from the rose garden. Hes talking about a jobs report that just came out. The president saying, quote, this is a great day for everybody. To be clea
It is meet the press daily. Im chuck todd. You are looking at live pictures as we enter the 11th night of demonstrations in this country and more are planned for this weekend as some cities take action in response to protesters demand. The Minneapolis Police Department Today announced a ban on choke holds. Washington, d. C. Mayor had the words black lives mattered painted on the streets leading to the white house. A number of cities including our second largest los angeles have announced plans to scale back Police Funding. We are going to speak to the mayor of los angeles, aEric Garcetti in a moment on that one. The big headline is the economy appears to have been pulled back from the brink at least for now. 2. 5 million jobs were added last month but still tens of millions of americans are unemployed. You can see in this charting, joblessness is still at the historically high levels. One good month does not make a recovery. That said, today President Trump held an event in the rose ga