Lot more than that. Now were threatening war with iran. I mean, the man has no foreign policy. Back to the future. The attorney general ordering a to prosecutor to look into how the russia investigation began. Now that we have a prosecutor in place, well take a different approach and back off. Good day, every one fits a busy day where trump is escalating trade war with china. Were having a little squabble with china because weve been treated very unfairly for many, many decades. The relationship i have with president xi is extraordinary. Its very good. Hes for china and im for the usa. Its very simple. They want ta make a deal. It could absolutely happen but in the meantime a lot of money is being made by the United States. These remarks followed 15 tweets in two days. Ten this morning alone. A mix against china and tariffs. Joining me kirsten welker. Msnbc contributor and former director of the National Economic council for president s clinton and obama. First to you, the president th
Mueller and of course to testify. Yesterday he was a noshow on capitol hill. Reporter youre right about that. Great to see you. Democrats, House Democrats anyway, many of them have moved beyond wanting barr to testify and dont see him as an honest broker in any of this and think he is running interference for President Trump and what they want more than ever perhaps is what theyve been demanding for months is full unredacted Mueller Report and the everyday. Heres the truth, democrats dont really have a good range of options when it comes to this because this fragile system of checks and balances really only works when both sides are acting in good faith and right now neither side sees the other as doing that so we heard from jerry nadler yesterday. He says that hell continue to negotiate with the doj over the next few days and if by monday or tlabhereabouts he doesnt th the attorney general is acting in good faith hell move to hold barr in contempt and then up to a u. S. Attorney who w
Security analyst, Michael Schmidt who will be with us in just a moment. Were miccing him up. Nbc news and name law analyst and editor and chief of law fair Benjamin Wittes is with us this morning, as well as julia ainslie. At 9 00 a. M. This morning, House Democrats are expected to hold a News Conference to announce articles of impeachment against the president. Five sources familiar with the discussions tell nbc news democrats will bring two charges, abuse of power and obstruction of congress. Two people familiar with the matter tell the Washington Post that under the current plan, the Judiciary Committee would vote on the articles on thursday setting up a floor vote next week. This comes a day after the release of the 434page ig report that found the fbi was justified in opening the 2016 trump russia investigation. Also today, the president meets with russias foreign minister in the oval office. Quite some timing, joe. What a day yesterday, my gosh. Incredible. You saw at some point
Supreme court to make abortion a crime in this country again. But in missouri in addition to their governor signing a new statelevel abortion ban, that state has also been doing Something Else. They have also been moving aggressively to take away the license from the last Abortion Clinic in that state. This is the last clinic that missouris republican controlled State Government hasnt already been able to put out of business. And the reason that effort in missouri has been the subject of National Focus is because if the state succeeds in closing down that clinic, if the state succeeds in yanking the license from the last clinic in the state, missouri will become the First American state to go completely dark in terms of legal abortion providers since the Supreme Court ruled in roe v. Wade in 1973 that states could not make the procedure illegal. That women in all 50 states must be allowed access to abortion. Missouri is trying to make itself the first state where it is not possible to
Administration and quickly here well update this at the bottom of the hour. We have 12 dead now in Virginia Beach after a mass shooting by a longtime coworker. Four people hospitalized including a Police Officer. The gunman is also dead. First off, lets begin our broadcast here tonight with those new developments that are still on this friday evening emerging from the Mueller Investigation. This week we heard Robert Mueller say he closed down his office, but his investigation launched several others which are still ongoing, including the one involving mike flynn who was briefly trumps First National security adviser. Youll recall he took a plea and copped to lying to investigators about his conversations with a former Russian Ambassador to the u. S. , sergei kizlyak. Those conversations took place december 2016 during the transition. Earlier this month, a frarj ordered the Justice Department to make public various materials related to that case. That including transcripts of any audio