And then there is this, the sign of once again at the white house, with the announcement that the chief economic adviser gary cohn is stepping down. You could do that job. Melissa i could, i am busy right now. I would think about it. Spilling good morning to you, welcome to happening now, i am jon scott. Melissa and i am melissa francis. Not seeing eye to eye with the president on his plan of tariffs and imports of steel and aluminum. His resignation is the latest in a series of departures from the Trump Administration. Meanwhile President Trump is insisting that there is no chaos at the white house, only great energy. Here is treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin talking about his exit. Ive known gary for a long time, a terrific partner working on tax reform and other things. There was a lot of speculation after tax reform whether he would stay or not, and he decided to move on. We have a great Economic Team and we will consistently execute the present strategy. Melissa chief White House
But you heard there, his veiled reference to it, willie. And it seems that hes keeping a pretty good attitude about the chaos thats going on all around him. Hes right in the middle of it. Perhaps a reference to the president yesterday morning tweeting about a quote criminal deep state. Good morning, its thursday, may 24th, welcome to morning joe, weve got msnbc contributor, Mike Barnicle, the chair of the africanamerican studies at princeton university, eddie glaube junior, former treasury director and economic analyst, Steve Rattner, columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post and Washington Capitals fan, a very happy fan this morning. Huge game seven win and nbc news capitol hill correspondent, host of kasie d. C. On msnbc, kasie hunt. I want to chime in that every time i hear this kasie d. C. ac dc thing. I think about the battle between westi westinghouse battle between when we should have ac current or d. C. Current. Holy moly, ladies and gentlemen, playing the role of
They will always come back and say its not enough. Its not enough. All right. And so no ones surprise the attorney general rebuffed the democrats request that he produce the Mueller Report by yesterday and said promising an edited version in a week or two. In some of their starkest criticism yet two Committee Chairs tell cnn they are not repaired at this point at least to give william barr the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the special counsel. Lets going to manu raju he is on the hill. We heard james comey said, look, barr should get the benefit of the doubt until he proves otherwise, but we are not hearing that from schiff and nadler. Tell us how that plays into what were about to see. Reporter jerry nadler made very clear that he could serve these subpoenas before bill barr even releases the redacted Mueller Report. Thats something that he has been saying for the last several days. Now, the question is going to be exactly when they do serve these subpoenas because just in a m
My favorite part was hearing star wars through the wall. Well be digging into a white house dealing with extreme stress. Well cross live to teheran and later in the show well look at potential strategies at the iran thinks it could use in war to outlast the United States. And on the impeachment front, senator Mitch Mcconnell may be saying he doesnt care how long the delay lasts but with every passing day the case against President Trump grows. The last 48 hours has seen important new evidence. And well have an Important Note of thanks from lawrence. But first, the surprise of iranian general Qassim Suleimanis killing has left the world on edge. In baghdad the u. S. Government urged americans to flee the country as iraqi law makers worked on legislation asking u. S. Troops to leave. In fort brag, North Carolina members prepare to deploy to detroit. President trump says he does not want regime change in iran and quote, we did not take action to start a war. The United States has the best
Cnns pamela brown starts us off tonight. What are you learning first of all about this resignation . Reporter weve learned the white house, the resignation of volker sorry, is that what youre asking me about . Actually, lets start with how the conversations themselves were handled. Reporter the conversations, okay. Theres a lot of news, anderson. Conversations because we have learned that efforts to limit access to President Trumps conversations with foreign leaders extended to phone calls with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and russian leader Vladimir Putin, according to people familiar with the matter. Now, those calls were among the president ial conversations that aides took remarkable steps to keep from becoming public. In the case of trumps calls with Prince Mohammed, officials who ordinarily would have been given access to a rough transcript of the conversation never saw one according to one of the sources. Instead, anderson, a transcript was never even circulated at all, whic