Vote. He is set to speak. He is accusing democrats of moving the goalposts. Also this morning, the first lady landing in africa, her first major solo trip abroad. We are with her in ghana. We are set up and ready to go this morning. We are going to start with with new details about the fbis reopened background check on Brett Kavanaugh. We know four people have been interviewed so far, at least. Two High School Friends of kavanaughs, including mark judge. A friend of Christine Blasey ford and the second woman who accused kavanaugh of misconduct, deborah ramirez. The post says the fbi will not conduct and unfettered review of his youthful drinking or examine statements he made about Alcohol Consumption during a hearing to see if those answers are accurate or misleading. Thats according to to folks familiar with the matter. Lets go to garrett. Mitch mcconnell seems to be digging in saying there will be a vote this week. He is about to talk on the senate floor. You just spoke to senator mu
First, Rudy Giuliani is not the most precise speaker. It is certainly possible that he is very diplomatic of you. It is certainly possible that he misspoke here. Its not necessarily the bomb shell that just happened. It certainly points to a problematic issue. During the campaign, we know this, there was a pursuit by the Trump Organization to have a trump tower in moscow. It is going to raise questions of if not collusion, per se, or conspiracy, at least some sort of mutual beneficial relationship. If donald trump could be making money from influential russians, even the russian government if this tower were to go through. And i think what we saw from Rudy Giuliani yesterday, its a bigger picture. Sort of their new defense. Theyre overall strategy is like when weve seen the president shift his explanation whether its about the hush money payments or episodes of collusion, first it was complete denial, and now its just well, if it happened, it wouldnt be a crime. Right. Youve covered th
His tax cuts, but the very, very large amount of unpredictability. Welcome the morning joe we have mike barnacle, alesse jordan, yamish alsendor, matt miller and speaking of, by the way, 1931. Oh, john meachum is with us. Its was a good year. Really . It was a good year for whom . For fascists moving towards power . If you were making bowls for soup kitchens and stuff, it was big. It was a great year. I dont like depression humor at 6 00 in the morning. Mika, do you know what else 1931 was a good year for . Who . St. Louis cardinal fans. Dont go thats weird. Dont. So let me ask you, its december 18th. Have you finished your christmas shopping, mika . Yes. Oh, that is such a lie. No. Willie, im going to move to you. Im done. Are you, really . Yes. Because, willie, thats funny. I havent even started. I did yours. You know, amazon prime makes that all okay. You can start on the 23rd if you like, maybe even the 24th. Youre going to be just fine. I had a big day at best buy yesterday. Ill l
For its murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. And a bomb shell story david peck against jeff bezos of the Washington Post. On thursday, bezos, who also owns amazon, accuses the parent can company of the National Enquirer of extortion and blackmail. This after the enquirer had a frontpage expose including pursesinal Text Messages and photographs. Shortly after publication, he hired a team to find out how the tabloid got hold off those Text Messages and photographs. Onblog post yesterday, bezos writes that tabloids editor threatened to publish additional photos unless bezos called off his investigation and made specific false Public Statement to the press that there was no basis for claiming that ami had a political agenda. This can be seen as yet another battle between trump ally and his critics. Ami says it was merely involved in good faith negotiations. They are using the practice of catch and kill to keep two women from publicizing their claims they had affairs with the president. Th
Considered him a threat to National Security. They discussed the number of cabinet officials that might important support proving him from office. To negatively impact or shut down our investigation because of russias activity. You have to ask yourself why would the president of the United States do that. Are you saying the president is in league with the russians. Im saying the fbi had reason to investigate that. All of this on the president s mind as we goes to miami tomorrow to give a teach warning venezuelas leaders to work towards democracy or lose everything. Jeff, this is weighing heavily on the president , he has been tweeting about it since this morning. You undercut the credibility of the under lying claim. What in this case is the under lying claim. According to andy mccabe, its that the president s affinity for russia and for rupt was so unsettling that he launched an investigation, two the Deputy Attorney general, rod ros rosenstein, and three that they at least broached t