A look at the latest news and headlines of the day features discussions of politics and culture, analysis of Political Correctness in Campus Craziness and. The out set, this will come as a surprise to clinton defenders its a crime we ought to take seriously if anyone lies under oath. We believe in punishing crimes. And donald trump jr. Lied. Tucker i dont know that. I dont know if cohen is telling the truth. I dont know why cohen would hire trump in the first place. The Core Accusation that its immoral to meet with the russian source to get dirt on your opponent is what Hillary Clinton did. But its treason when trump does. Explain how that works. What the email to don jr. Said it is how the russian government hopes to aid your father. That was in the email. If that email had gone to barack obama or Hillary Clinton the same people in congress who
spent 3 years investigating who wrote the Talking Points would have hearing after hearing. Congress needs to do its job and have a hearing. Tu
That and whether he can help prove it, thats an open question. We also know on the day that donald trump junior formally accepted that meeting, candidate trump touted the big upcoming speech about hillary clinton. I am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week, and were going to be discussing all the things that have taken place with the clintons. I think you will find it very informative and very, very interesting. Candidate trump did not make that monday speech. As trump now repeats his denials about any advance knowledge of the meeting, it is critical to note this is a meeting that team trump already lied about. His own lawyers often admitting to mueller trump dictated that misleading statement about the meeting originally. First they lied about what happened in the meeting. Then they lied about the defense of the meeting. Which he was choosing to offer,
even though he also claimed he didnt know anything about the meeting. Now the question is whether trump lied ab
For quite some time. The girls and sister followed behind, joined in on the embrace. A surprise. They posted a video to facebook saying we only have him for a few weeks but we are really excited. Home on leave. I could play those all day. Thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. Thats it for this special report, fair, balanced and unafraid. Heres martha. Martha it making me misty at the start of my show. Thank you so much. Breaking tonight, on the heels of the leaked Michael Cohen tape President Trump called A Hastily Convened Press Conference in the rose garden saying this. The European Union is doing to us is incredible, how bad. They made 151 billion last year, our trade deficit. I said you have to change. They didnt want to change. I said we will tariff your cars. They said when can we show up . Would tomorrow be okay . Martha and tomorrow was. They showed up today and all of that happened during the grilling of secretary mike pompeo, democrats asking incredulously how the pr
Thats it for me. Im gigi stone woods. The news continues right now with my colleague, david, whos been tweeting this whole hour constantly. Thank you very much. Great to see you. Good afternoon, im david gura at msnbc headquarters in new york. We start this hour with President Trump who is spending the weekend at his golf resort in bedminster, new jersey. The president ending his week touting fridays economic numbers. Secondquarter gdp growth of 4. 1 , that is the fastest pace since 2014. Hes not been able to change the subject, avoiding all questions about the latest revelations from his former personal Attorney Michael Cohen who nbc news reports is prepared to tell investigators that President Trump had prior knowledge of that nowinfamous june, 2016,
view that meeting differently perhaps in light of what we heard on that tape, in light of what weve learned this week. Cnn reporting, other outlets following here, that Michael Cohen is willing to testify that donald trump did know about
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Chairman, Paul Manafort. He has pleaded not guilty, but heres why this really matters. The first trial to come out of the Mueller Investigation will give us the most detailed snapshot yet of what cards Robert Mueller really has. And as soon as this week, the president s lawyer says he could decide whether to sit for an interview with the mueller team, although weve heard that one before. Right now the president s not happy with mueller. Donald trump firing off a whole bunch of tweets, trashing the investigation, offering up new details, too about his previous claims of mueller conflicts of interest, claims the Justice Department has shot down. Lets go to the white house with nbcs kristen welker, here to get us started. Rudy guiliani had more to say about all of this, just a couple of hours ago, including what seemed to be a shifting of the goalpost, no . Reporter it was striking, hallie, to hear Rudy Guiliani, yes