This weekend detailing the placement of potentially crippling malware in russian systems. The malware has been placed as a depth that has never been attempted before, and it was reportedly done without President Trump being briefed about it in detail out of concern that the president might end the operation or discuss it with other foreign officials, including russian president vladimir putin. I spoke with the New York Times david sanger who broke this story. What makes this particularly interesting is we know from other reporting in other cases that the chairman of the joint chiefs, the intelligence officials and others are reluctant to give very indepth briefings to the president on issues related to russia for the uncertainty about how hell react. Boris sanchez joins us from the white house. Why is the president reacting so strongly to this New York Times report calling it treasonous, even though top officials knew about the plan before the story hit . Thats a great question. He sai
Elrod and associate editor of the Washington Post Eugene Robinson will be joining us in just a moment. Weve got a lot to get to. Wow. New poll numbers in virginia. What it means more the states leadership. It looks like the governor might stay but fairfax might go. Plus saudi arabia denies any involvement in a blackmail attempt. And President Trump sends a glowing tweet about north korea. No mention of that countrys nuclear arsenal. Well get to all of that. First, joe, another busy weekend for the president ial field of democrats. Another busy weekend. It continues. Michael bennett on meet the press yesterday suggesting he may jump into the race, a colorado senator who recently took on ted cruz on the showdown of the Government Shutdown, with the showdown on the senate floor would be a very impress of candidate, certainly occupying a more centrist vision of what the Democratic Party should be going up against donald trump. But im just curious, Nick Confessore, why go with the Washingto
Things, i said i wanted to fire him, number one, he wasnt fired. Article 2 allows me to do whatever i want. Article 2 would have allowed me to fire him. I wasnt going to fire him. You know why . I watched Richard Nixon go around firing everybody and that didnt work out too well. So very simply article 2 would allow me to do it. So this comes as new polling Shows Growing support for the launch of impeachment hearings. The new nbc news wall street journal poll says 27 of americans say there is enough evidence to move forward with hearings. Thats up ten points from last month. Lets check in with boris sanchez. Boris, the president seems unmoved about that. Reporter yeah, thats right, fred. The president with a bit of revisionist history too in that interview with abc news. Its interesting to hear him reference the saturday night massacre as his reasoning for not firing special counsel Robert Mueller. If you look closely at the report there are at least ten different instances in which the