under elections. the foreign policy of the u.s., vis-a-vis russia is not going to be changing from one secretary to another. putin, letting him work his will in syria, in ukraine, and elsewhere. that s because the commander in chief has decreed that that s going to be the foreign policy of the united states. with regards to secretary tillerson, though, i want to make one point which is the substantive issues like iran, north korea, there s also the process issues which is the president did this via twitter. he did this in a very cowardly way. he did this in a way that only really a small man would do. someone who doesn t actually want to deal with the consequences of telling someone that their employment arrangement is not working out. i wonder what signal it sends to our add vversaries that the president is so petrified to fire someone in person, how we re going to have him negotiate with the north koreans on our behalf. i don t think it s going to work out very well, nicolle. i wan
resigned. rather than fire him. and the country, i don t think and the congress specifically in the republican party, won t snap to attention until and unless something really critical happens. like the resignation of the fbi director, or the resignation of the joint resignation of the deputy attorney general of the united states. still ahead on morning joe, one of matt apuzo s colleagues at the new york times is here with his reporting on the real target of the republican memo. none other than bob mueller. yeah. everybody two seconds! s blnchts on your acceptance. through the tuition assistance program, every day mcdonald s helps more people go to college. it s part of our commitment to being america s best first job.
more reckless. at one point according to corralo she says don t worry about the emails, those will never see the light of day. he s going to tell mueller, i was concerned that was a hint of obstruction. that they were going to try to somehow keep those emails or destroy those emails or conceal those emails. is there any interpretation, matt, based on your reporting, that s not obstruction of justice? that the concocting a story and cooking this up to cover the meeting and say it s about something that it wasn t by the way, having the president of the united states dictate the letter that made up the story? well that s one of the things that s really interesting here is we know that, that the statement, is one of roughly a dozen things that bob mueller and his team want to talk to president trump about as part of their interview that s being negotiated right now. and there s a school of thought in the trump adviser world, that, that mueller doesn t have the right to come in and as
mccabe. matt, it falls upon you to explain this memo to our audience, what we know about what it includes, and what kind of fix might be in. why all the hubbub surrounding this memo and why the rush to get it out? well, this memo concerns surveillance a warrant for a surveillance sorry, an application for a surveillance warrant that was approved by a surveillance court to listen and eavesdrop on carter page, who at the time was a former campaign aide to donald trump. and the republicans have seized on this to say this was a political democratic driven, you know, overreach of surveillance power by the obama administration to go after political rivals. and this report is apparently going to make that case. and it s going to make the case that some of this information in the application for a warrant came from the dossier, the trump
this much peril. numerous reports say lawyers are actively negotiating back and forth what form trump s interview with prosecutors might take. trump will also be addressing a body that has multiple active investigations under way into russian interference in this past election and possible obstruction of justice. our friends at the washington post put it this way. it will be an incongrus picture the american public sees tuesday night, performing one of the most traditional of presidential rituals, an hour or so during which uninterrupted and unfiltered he can claim ownership for his accomplishments and set an agenda for the year ahead. we are fortunate tonight to be joined by three of our favorites. robert acosta, moderator of washington week on pbs and an msnbc political contributor. and john heilemann back with us.