The New York Times reports this afternoon, was approved by Trump Appointee Rod Rosenstein. Quote, in addition to mr. Rosenstein, all of the top Law Enforcement officials involved in the raid are republicans. The times also offering more details this afternoon about what the fbi was looking for in that raid. Quote, the search arent carried out by The Public Corruption Unit of the manhattan federal Attorneys Office seeks information about Karen Mcdougal an ex Playboy Model. She was paid 150,000 by American Media inc. , the enquirers parent company, whose Chief Executive is a friend of mr. Trumps. Our friend joyce vance described the raid as a, quote, bomb, on trumps front porch. Been in agreement that if the president wanted to Fire Bob Mueller, if he wanted to change course here, then he had to essentially get somebody to do it for him. That somebody would have had to have been Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney general and for all intents and purposes, the Acting Attorney General in t
Traffic. Well show you how traffic responded. The president provides some explanation with a new treat. And hes the one actor that doctor Anthony Fauci wants him to play on snl. I guess you can see who it is. It is sunday. Its april 26th. Im kendis gibson. And im lindsey reiser. Its a quiet, eerie time square. Were supposed to get some rain. And theres a Beautiful Day outside. It was right thing a lot of people in the new york area and the northeast. These areas are still shut down. This week, several states will begin reopening. Movie theaters will be open in georgia and tennessee. And restaurants will open in minnesota and colorado will start lifting the stayathome regulations there. Andrew cuomo says that the state is expanding testing try r c criteria. Four of the hardesthit hospitals will be tested for antibodice. Lets go to california, newport beach. Looks like a normal day over the weekend. 40,000 people packed the beach there, despite a statewide stay at home order. There was a
For a key role. Reporter so, controversial, but i would say not totally unexpected. We know that for so long in his campaign, from the very beginning, Jared Kushner, who is a v a v ivanka trumps husband and Donald Trumps soninlaw. One of his inner sishlg leading him on his campaign and Strategic Moves during his candidacy. We expect it will be a similar role when donald trump ends up in the white house on january 20th. Kushner, according to a senior transition official, expected to be named a Senior Adviser. What does that mean . Think of Valerie Jarrett right now in the obama administration, that kind of a confidante, someone, for example, Kellyanne Conway serves in a very similar role now for president elect trump. The reason why you might call it controversial is, obviously, because Jared Kushner is related to donald trump. There have been antinepotism laws put in place but there are certain loopholes that can be figured out to place a Family Member in a position such as this. That
This has been building. Just one more thing that he is doing to try to obstruct the justice in this investigation. Im very concerned about the d. O. J. And fbi deep state or what are off the rails. Questioning of andy mccade. Remember, the russia probe was launched to figure out how russia medalled into the 2016 election so officials could figure out how to keep it from happening again. While the investigation has expanded to determine what if any role the Trump Campaign played there are still glari glaring the Washington Post is out with a sweeping report with how american officials going back decades failed to take russian cyber war fare seriously and how internet trolls are using free flow of information within our society against us. In just a few moments we will speak with Congress Woman jackie spear. Lets start with our reporters. With the president in west palm beach. And matt apuzo from washington. The president is going after the fbi. If youre backwards this morning the presid
With us, msnbc contributor mike barnicle, president of the council on Foreign Relations and author of the book a world in disarray Richard Haass who has some nice things to say about john bolton today. Great to get to that. Especially on his input on north korea, the situation there. Former assistant director of the fbis Counterintelligence Division, frank biglusi. Former chief of staff at the c. I. A. And department of defense, Nbc News National Security analyst jeremy bash is with us and nbc News National political reporter heidi przybilla. Joe is off this morning. Willie and i have got it here. Theres a lot to get to. President trumps lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, went on television again last night and seemed to indicate that the Trump Campaign did get dirt on Hillary Clinton from the russians. I dont think he meant to do that, did he . Yesterday the Senate Judiciary committee opened up their books on their interyous of the top Campaign Officials on the june 2016 trump tower meeting betwe