about sources and methods and how you acquire these things. the house has been littered with leaks from the very beginning of the intel investigation. the senate has been run much better but at the same point you don t know where the information is going. almost everything we ve heard has come from the hill. let s talk asht the direction of the investigation. does it say something that robert mueller and his team are meeting with steele at all? at the very least couldn t they be crossing their t s and dotting their i s? i think they re trying to verify where the information came from. he was out in front of this. in terms of human sources, he had actual people who were aware of what was going on insides the kremlin and it matches the influence campaign you can see going on in the united states. how about the fact that we haven t even talked about chief of staff john kelly s cell phone being compromised. that s how much news is out there. thank you for this conversation. we have t
line, we re going to take care of this. this is a guy who tosses paper towels at surffering peope in puerto rico. what is this guy s problem? this story line that we re discussing, it is not going away anytime soon but we have to leaf it there. it is time for you to get your morning primer. your mind is going to be blown with the amount of news out there today beginning with tropical storm nate. hurricane and tropical storm warnings have been issued from louisiana to the florida panhandle as they brace for heavy rain and strong winds by late saturday. the inspector general says steve mnuchin s use of government planes cost the american taxpayer more than $800,000. a report found all flights were legal but poorly justified. flying private to miami? you can fly there all day every day commercial. harvey weinstein is taking a leave of absence from his company after a bombshell the
post today, you could read it. all right. that does it for us. that s your final thought? yeah. we hope that you guys have a great weekend. thanks so much for being with us and as always we thank you for your patience. see you monday. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage now. hi there, i m stephanie ruhle. this morning we re talking about the calm before the storm. president trump delivers an ominous warning but with reports he plans to decertify the iran nuclear deal, the growing russian investigation, chaos in north korea and late breaking news on birth control. what in the world was he talking about? what storm, mr. president? you ll find out. president trump reportedly furious after the nbc report that his secretary of state called him a moron and in sense pence holds a hastily planned call with tillerson while kelly abruptly cancels plans to travel
our sources telling us the president is expected to dese decertify the deal. this is a destabilizing force beyond the nuclear program. reverse and kick it to congress. i want to talk about russia because we re learn new details about the investigation. robert mueller s team interviewed the author behind that infamous dossier. i thought that dossier was out of our life. i was hoping it would be. now it s back. reporter: yeah, rearing its salacious head. members of robert mueller s team traveling to interview christopher steele who authored the dossier. this is according to a source close to the exspy speaking to our team at the nbc investigative unit. the white house not saying anything yet. of course mueller s interest is
said i think secretary tillerson, secretary mattis and chief of staff kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos. and i support them very much. strong words from senator corker. reporter: that s right. you don t typically hear remarks from someone speaking of high profile people in administration. but we heard recently is that senator corker is retiring and not running for re-election. so being very open with his thoughts here, wolf. yeah, direct swipe at the president of the united states. all right. thanks very much. kaitlin collins over at the white house. coming up more on the breaking news, more details emerging indian the las vegas massacre investigation as the fbi questions the girlfriend of the shooter. can she provide them with a motive? and the senate intelligence committee warning moscow is meddling with america s democracy. cnn learns that thousands of facebook ads targeted key election battleground states.