Immunity that means youve probably committed a crime. Probably committed a crime. I mean my god. Today the president s personal lawyer has stopped talking about his involvement in a hush money deal involving porn star Stormy Daniels and donald trump. The president actually, yeah, when he was campaigning, right there, he was saying, the mob takes the fifth, right . He takes the fifth when he needs to take the fifth. Can i ask you something . Have you guys noticed, do you feel it . Willie and i have it . Very few people have it . Whats wrong . The president has it. What . Kanye has it. What are you talking about . Dragon energy. No, stop, gross. Were going to be joined live is that like tiger blood from the Charlie Sheen days. Well be joined live by Stormy Daniels attorney. Stop, im going to blame you. 50 of the time it works. Stormy daniels attorney, Michael Avenatti will be joining us at 8 00 a. M. For his reaction to cohens legal strategy and Mandy Patinkin will be here. So welcome to
Country are standing up to the president s attacks. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Freedom, freedom freedom, oh freedom not bad theme music today. Good evening, im katy tur in new york in for chuck todd. Welcome to mtp daily. Just like that, the president pretty much blows up his own cover story and potentially exposes himself to further legal jeopardy. Folks, before the ink was barely dry on the white houses stated reason for revoking John Brennans security clearance and threatening to revoke the clearances of other trump critics, the president said he did it because of, you guessed it, the russia investigation. The white house said the president was acting to protect the nations classified information. Then the president told us that he was basically settling scores with people connected to bob muellers investigation, an investigation in which he is a subject. Here is what he told the wall street journal about his actions. Quote, i call it the rigged witch hunt. It is a s
Home to run for senate. And a third sounds just like donald trump, as the 11th hour gets underway on a tuesday night. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 936 of the trump administration. And as the headline writers put it tonight, the president blinked. He has apparently yielded to the markets and just about all members of the Business Community and hes backing off his threat on tariffs on imports from china. They were to take effect in just three weeks, but would be delayed now until december 15th. Were doing this for Christmas Season just in case some of the tariffs would have an impact on u. S. Customers. So far theyve had virtually none. The only impact, weve collected almost 60 billion from china, compliments of china. But just in case they might have an impact on people, what weve done is weve delayed it so that they wont be relevant to the Christmas Shopping season. Trumps own trade rep filled in the details. The products affected i
In his New Washington post column, delivering the state of the union against a grim political back drop, that includes low expectations and even lower approval ratings, a Political Class that no longer fears him and an investigation of all things trump as federal prosecutors zero in on the president s inauguration and investigate foreign donors. There have been times, some of us maybe can remember, maybe bill clinton going to congress for his state of the Union Address, perhaps in as bad of a situation, perhaps maybe a little worse. But clinton had the ability to actually move the country with him when he spoke. Its something that donald trump has not proven himself capable to do yet outside of like hockey arenas. The word from the white house is its going to be about comity, comit comitomityc. It might be a little late for that. Republicans now, when hes going to go up there and perhaps talk about the possibility of a National Emergency, a declaration of a National Emergency, Senate R
Accuses of trying to blackmail hmm into shutting down an investigation of the tabloids political motivations. Good morning and welcome to morning joe ou, it is friday, february 8th. We have mike barnicle, donny deuts deutsch, susan del percio and Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and associate editor of the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst Eugene Robinson. We have a lot to get to this morning, including the Mueller Probe. New Court Transcripts suggests Paul Manafort had a pardon on his mind. Plus the acting a. G. , Matthew Whitaker, will testify today after a public showdown with democrats, the newly empowered house majority. And the latest from virginia as a Top Republican official is now also involved in the controversy involving blackface. And the Supreme Court has ruled that louisiana cannot enforce a lot that womens groups say would leave the state with only one doctor allowed to perform aworses. Chief Justice John Roberts broke with the courts conservatives to place the