Charlottesville. And what new polling says about Race Relations in america. Good morning. Its monday, august 13th, and with us we have National Affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc john heilemann. Professor at Princeton University and author of the book democracy in black eddie glove jr. Host of k. C. D. C. On msnbc kasie hunt. Listen to that. Its getting longer everyday. I like it gets longer every time. Nothing but the Dave Matthews band from now on. No. I object. Dear lord. Nonstop. We also have with us Pulitzer Prize winning columnist, historian, jon meacham will join us in a moment when he actually wakes up. But we have a lot to talk about today. John heilemann, first of all, couple quick things. First of all, i dont know how stupid rudy or perhaps maybe the fault lies with rudy, that he said, oh, mueller gave us a guarantee that this would be done by september 1st and all rudy has been doing and all donald trump been doing dragging their feet, saying what theyre going to do, sa
Good choice. Good morning, everyone. Smart, smart candidate. Love her. We welcome to morning joe. We have joe, willie and me, National Affairs analyst, executive producer of showtimes the circus, john highly maeil. He doesnt watch morning even when hes on morning joe. Rick tyler is with us. Washington bureau chief for usa today, sharon page and Glenn Kirschner back on the show this morning. And what a day to have you on. What a day to have him on. Also, mickey, yesterday you had Kristin Welker asking donald trump a question, are you an agent of russia, have you ever worked for russia . The president finally after two days of brushing that question aside answered the question. But, my fwogosh, even more concs arising, especially in the National Security community and some people working with donald trump about why he basis tehave way he does toward Vladimir Putin and now word coming out he was trying to pressure aides to give Vladimir Putin what he wanted, a way out of nato. The u. S. I
In the cemetery. I think shes a disgrace. I actually dont think shes a talented person. Ive tried to be nice to her because i would have liked to have gotten some deals done. Shes incapable of doing deals. Shes a nasty, vindictive horrible person. Ask nancy why is her district drugs and needles all over the place. Its disgusting what shes allowed to happen to her district with drugs and People Living all over the streets. She made a statement when you were overseas. It was a horrible, nasty vicious statement when im overseas. If i made a statement about anybody, why would he do that when hes overseas. Shes a terrible, nasty person. Her name is nervous nancy because shes a nervous wreck. When youre overseas . Youre still overseas. Heres the original story that sent trump into a tail spin, this is the reporting, i dont want to see him impeached, i want to see him in prison, nancy pelosi said. Instead of impeachment, pelosi still prefers to see him lose at the ballot box and then prosecut
Evidence. Democrats say they need that evidence to decide, quote, whether to approve articles of impeachment with respect to the president or any other administration official. Chairman nadler says if the Justice Department acts in good faith to provide access to muellers full report, he could still postpone contempt proceedings. So far theres been no indication the attorney general will be reversing course. Up til now, the president has been relentless on twitter, attacking democrats and their investigations, repeating no collusion, no conspiracy, no obstruction. Now hes also reversing course on supporting the idea of Robert Mueller answering questions from congress. Remember, just friday he said that would be up to ag barr. Now he says he is against it, setting up what could be a very tense confrontation with democrats over separation of powers and just how far president ial authority can go. To talk about this, we start with hans nichols at the white house and politico reporter mela
White house coverups. In all of of our investigations, the white house has not turned over one single shred of paper in response to any of our requests. The hurricanes in puerto rico, the white house has produced nothing. Security clearance abuses, the white house has produced nothing. Efforts to transfer Nuclear Technology to saudi array bee ya, nothing. Hush money payments, nothing. It doesnt matter what the matter is, the tactics are the same. This begs the question, what are they hiding. As the president s poll numbers show him behind joe biden and half a dozen over democrats his thoughts are increasingly on impeachment. The Washington Post out with tremendous new reporting on the president s post mueller obsession, his own removal from office by congress. The posts Ashley Parker reports he has peppered confidants and advisers with questions of how an impeachment inquiry might unfold. And he has coined his own cheeky term, the iword, that threatens to overshadow his presidency as h