Kellyanne conway, Newt Gingrich banging on about Robert Mueller, people hes hired and the fact theyve given money to Hillary Clinton forgetting the fact that the president was a democrat until 2009 and jared and ivanka giving money to democrats and gary cohn is a democrat. Reporter thats right. This is consistent with what we have heard from top officials here and even the president himself. He said that he thinks there may be some conflicts of interest so the New York Times Washington Post reporting now that the president s legal team actually looking into that possibility effectively trying to discredit Robert Mueller, even saying that theyre looking into the possibility of what are the president s pardoning powers. Now, john dowd, who is part of the president s legal team firing back, pushing back against that reporting. Heres what he has to say. He says the story is not true. It is nonsense. The president s lawyers are cooperating with the special counsel, Robert Mueller, on behalf
That was House Minority leader nancy pelosi on friday running down a list of laws she believes may have been broken when donald trump jr. , Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort met with russians after an email offer of information from the russian government designed to damage Hillary Clintons campaign. Of all those Trump Campaign officials who could be in legal jeopardy because of that meeting only Jared Kushner is currently a white house official with a high level security cleernls of the and he now is under increased scrutiny for obtaining that clearance without notifying the fbi of all of his foreign contacts. In fact, kushner changed the disclosure form detailing his contacts with foreign officials three times. According to reporting from yahoos ills acough kushners original application filed on january 18th mentioned no meetings with Foreign Government officials. A mistake his lawyer pend on a staff member who supposedly hit the send button before the form was complete. When he finall
The Senate Judiciary committee. Now a new push for the transcript of that testimony to be released publicly. Ly vote to make them public. They should be made public. We begin with the riveting new details on the rapidly escalating battle between President Trump and his own party, the gop. We have the best team here to break it all down for you starting with i do have Kristen Welker but were going to Peter Alexander at the white house. Peter, this battle is only getting nastier and its extraordinary. It is President Trump versus his own party. What gives . We gave welker a fiveminute break. The latest flashpoint between the president and republicans is this threat of shutting down the government. As he said tuesday night in arizona, frankly, if they dont get funding for the border wall, he will shut down the government. A white house official telling me overnight that the president is serious about this threat, this warning, something he campaigned on, something he promised he would del
One that President Trump surprised a lot of folks with this morning. His ban on tratransgender peopl the armed forces. At this hour, senators debating republican ideas to repeal obamacare. A live look there. A vote that was supposed to happen a short time ago is now expected to happen roughly twoandahalf hours from now. Republicans still looking for a bill that can get enough votes to pass. If this latest plan fails, all eyes on a vote perhaps tomorrow on what is being called the skinny repeal. More on that in just a moment. Because the president , be again, surprising a lot of people today when he decided to relitigate yet another obamaera policy. This one on transgender troops. This is what he wrote on twitter this morning. Quote, after consultation with my generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u. S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overw
Hi, everybody, im thomas roberts. Welcome back to msnbc. Coming up this hour, tying the president s hands. Congress reaching a deal on russian sanctions that may keep donald trump from making any kind of deal for plaunt. But will the president sign on to it . Really depends on who you ask at the white house. Crossing a line. President issuing a warning to special counsel roll mubert mue dont look into my finances. What is it really all about . Is it all about Donald Trumps neverreleased tax returns . Well tell you about the new democratic slogan and why so many are saying is that really all you got . The house and senate agreed saturday to a sweeping bipartisan sanctions package on russia for meddling in the u. S. Election for 2016. This floor could be on the floor by tuesday and the president s desk before the august recess. The question facing President Trump is will he sign it. Remember, the president has consistently downplayed russian hacking or interference in the election and re