Kept from washington. What is it that the russian have on donald trump . Our sources are fot telling us. They are not discussing what the material is they are saying its personally damaging information that presented in the briefing materials as a way of making sure that president elect was aware it was out there. They are not saying fbi is not investigating this information or thats its active or verified or proven, its damage information gathered that the russian as aware of that passed on u. S. Intelligence agencies and presented in the briefing materials. Andrea, let me ask you about this. Is it personal, financial or how can we describe it . Its unverified raw material that been leaked to the president and president elect. The underlying allegation have not been confirmed by u. S. Intelligence. I have talk to the officials who have read the dose ya its been floating around washington for number of weeks. It was raised oe bleakly at a number of hearings including today. Its not con
Thing is not going to go away and for donald trump the way out of this is war. Is anyone else worried that hes itching for a war . Good morning and welcome to a. M. Joy coming to you from los angeles. That was bill mahers big question when we joined him on hbos realtime on friday night. For donald trump it seems that the worlds most powerful military isnt powerful enough. Hes looking for less talk and more military action. With a proposal that would slash budgets for the state department and the u. S. Agency for International Development by up to 37 . Meanwhile hes proposing a 54 billion spending spree on the u. S. Military. This week trump, ever the showman, appeared on an Aircraft Carrier while playing the serviceman role he evaded by getting five draft deferments during the vietnam war. We will give the men and women of Americas Armed services the resources you need to keep us safe. We will have the finest equipment in the world, planes, ships and everything else. We will give our m
Comey. He has let the country down for partisan purposes and thats why calling him the new j. Edgar hoover. Do you believe that james comey should resign, senator reid . Of course, yes. He wont. He has a term there, and im sure hes going to keep the new administration they should like him. He helped them get elected. Wow, welcome to am joy. In a moment were going to update you on Donald Trumps latest attack, this time on a civil rights icon, representative john lewis. But first, harry reid calling fbi director james comey to resign last month on this show. At the time senator reid alleged that the footbabi deliberately withheld information to help donald trump win. Prohibiting partisan politicking when the fbi disclosed the Anthony Weiner related development in the Hillary Clinton email probe 11 days before the election. Now months later the Justice Department Inspector General says that he will review the fbis email investigation, especially during those vital days leading up to novem
Barack obama of wire tapping his phones during the campaign. Nbc news reports there is currently no evidence to back up those claims. In one of the six tweets he fired off at around 6 30 this morning, thats 3 00 a. M. Pacific time, trump wrote, terrible, just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is mccarthyism, exclamation point. How low has president obama gone to wiretap my phones . Trump has also tried to redirect the fallout from his attorney generals meetings with the Russian Ambassador. He tweeted, the first meeting Jeff Sessions had with the Russian Ambassador was set up under the Obama Administration. And just out, the same Russian Ambassador that met Jeff Sessions visited the obama white house. The political fallout continues over sessions misleading answers to the Senate Judiciary committee about his meetings with the top russian diplomat in washington. He said this week he would recuse himself from potential inv
States senate. Whens the last time the audio live stream of a threejudge panel reviewing a temporary restraining order was not only live streamed on the internet machine but also broadcast live on television on national news. You are a civics dork between rule 19 and this, this is like a high holy day right now. There is a kid in your life who dreams about ever becoming a lawmaker or a lawyer or judge, the fact they got to listen in tonight to this incredibly tense dense, no nonsense cuts like a knife argument involving these three federal judges and the lawyers for the federal government and the lawyers for the state suing the federal government over the muslim ban, dont call it a muslim ban. Mean you know, you can see arguments like that. Can hear arguments like that as a citizen if you know theyre happening and you get up and take yourself to a federal courtroom and listen in but most of us dont do that. Of us dont watch these things happen ever but tonight millions of americans hea