Continues to demonstrate his contempt for the nomination process. Rnc Communications Director will join me this hour and respond to trumps accusations that the system is, quote, rigged and well have his reaction to the breaking news from capitol hill. This afternoon, House Speaker paul ryan will speak to the press pouring ice water on weeks of speculation that he might be gearing up to join the president ial race. We have a lot to unpack this hour. Our msnbc Political Team is covering this jam packed political calendar on the ground and across the state. I want to begin with the breaking news. The House Speaker, paul ryan announcement, luke, that hes officially not going to be making a run for the white house. The white house with fallout from the Panama Papers and sort of the cameron let up from the discussion. Im wondering if you can just tell me whether or not the white house is following that and what we should expect the president to defend . Josherne ernest saying he wi leave it
Because as mr. Gowdy was saying earlier, speaking on condition of anonymity, that really should be interpreted because im breaking the law, and i dont want to be outed. Is that a fair statement . Sometimes. I think there are other motives behind people requesting anonymity. That can be one of them. So its your statement to us that the fbi was consistent in his assessment that it denigr e denigrated the u. S. Electoral process, hurt hillary and her o candidacy, and cross all of that this they intended to help trump. Thats your testimony this morning . Correct. All right. Yield back. Mr. King. Ladies and gentlemen, if if ill just start with this and make the comment. First of all, let me thank director comey for being here today and for what i believe is the cooperation youve always given this committee. Thank you for your service. You cant comment on the investigation, and yet we can have various scenarios laid out which can go on for months and months and months without being able to d
We learned a lot about loyalty. Inside politics, biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. Welcome to inside politics. Im john king. Thanks for sharing your sunday morning. If youre President Trump and looking for a silver link you have to think that this week cant be worse than last week. With respect to the president s tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration, i have no information that supports those tweets, and we have looked carefully inside the fbi. And this was friday. I smoke to the president just a little while ago, and i told him that the best thing i think to do is to pull this bill and he agreed with that decision. Trademark to say the least that after the new republican president failed at his first big legislative test a republicanonly effort to repeal obamacare he blamed the democrats. I think the losers are nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer because now they own obamacare, they own it, 100 own it. With us this sunday to share the
Judiciary committee will off a multiday affair. Each senator will give an Opening Statement and well hear from neil gorsuch himself. In an hour james comey and mike rodgers will testify before the House Intelligence Committee on alleged russian interference in the election and President Trumps claim which is still unsubstantiated on the wiretapping of president obama. Well have more on that in just a moment. First, lets go back to shannon in the senate skybox for what we can expect when the gorsuch confirmation hearing starts this morning. Shannon. Shannon judge neil gorsuch comes in with a sterling resume but democrats are vowing to be tough on the president s pick for the nations highest court. Hes a graduate of columbia, Harvard Law School and got a ph. D. At oxford and where hes his wife and the American Bar Association has unanimously given him the highest ranking. Gorsuch knows hes heading into potentially rough waters today. Way back in 2005 he wrote an article that touched on h
Both making that decision on the same night. Rachel, i just need to warn you of something. Its important. You should know this. I feel i should have told you before now. Okay. But i am wearing a wire. And i know that some people in the workplace now worry about colleagues wearing a wire when talking to them. My wire is right here on the lapel. Mine too. Completely open about that. Because, rachel, imagine like working in a workplace where youre worried that your colleagues are wearing a wire and maybe, you know, investigators are listening to what youre saying. When your colleagues start saying we will have shirtless Staff Meetings now, thats when you have to worry about this. My wires right there, rachel. You are warned. Roger that. Bye, lawrence. This this is more consistent with howd you go after an organized Crime Syndicate so says a former federal investigator that prosecutors told paul man afort they plan to indict him. Not a threat. It was a plan to indict him. That was after th