World news, katy kay. An msnbc political contributor. Senior Political Editor at the white house and correspondent for the Huffington Post sam stein. Chair of africanamerican studies and in washington columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post. Good morning everybody. Thanks for interrupt urge wild fourth of july weekend to come in here at 4 00 a. M. And sit down with us and talk about fortunates tweets. President donald trump continued to focus his attention on the news media over the weekend tweeting a video of himself from wrestlemania 23 in 2007. Cnn logo superimposed over the face of the person hes fight. Its now his second most shared tweet of all time behind the one he scene after he was elected. Cnn released a statement that read in part quote its a sad day when the president of the United States encourages violence against reporters. Hes involved in juvenile behavior far below the dignity of the office. Well keep doing our jobs. He should start doing his. Thats a s
But the top story is health care. Congress beginning its recess without acting on trump care, which was Mitch Mcconnells promise. That is bad news for the white house. When you think about it, it may be why the president is trying to change the news itself, picking fights with morning joe and now this morning posting a bizarre, crudely edited clip of a time he acted out in a wrestling video, pretending that he was attacking and punching another person, only now as you see, cnn is photo shopped onto the pretend victims face. Cnn responded by focusing on what they call violent imagery saying trump tweeted this weekend, my use of social media is not president ial. Its modern day president ial. Make America Great again. You see it there in caps. One once came from lisa lucas who said, im not embarrassed. Im modern day embarrassed. Now consider yourself updated on the twitter drama. Were going to move on to the real news on health care. Heres health care secretary tom price today, insisting
A video of him from wrestlemania with the cnn logo superimposed over the person hes fight. The twitter handle shared the video making it part of the archived official record. Cnn released a statement that read in part its a sad day when the president of the United States encourages violence against reporters. Hes involved in juvenile behavior far lowe the dignity of his office. Despite President Trumps previous comments including how he would like to punch a protester at a rally the White House Deputy secretary made they comments just on thursday. The president in no way form or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence of anything. Quite the contrary. Speaking at President Trumps surrogate, he had this to say. My first reaction is the same as any of president s tweets. Theres many cable shows that reach to viewers and they are not always fair to the president. Im proud of the president for developing a twitter and social platform where he can talk direct try to the american peo
Working their considerable republican Political Networks to try to help sew up the nomination for good old jeb. Jeb also started running very early, in the fall of 2014 he was already signaling that he was going to run for 2016. He very quickly built up the largest financial war chest in the republican primary. He stacked up 100 million right off the bat. And now, looking back on that effort, we remember of course how badly it ended for jeb bush. The first contest in the republican primary was in iowa. He didnt break 3 in iowa. Next up was new hampshire. He came in fourth place in new hampshire. South carolina was next, members of the bush family running for president almost always win in south carolina. The only exception i think was george h. W. Bush losing there to Ronald Reagan in 1980. Other than that, all bushes win in south carolina. This year, not only did jeb bush not win in south carolina. He didnt crack double digits in south carolina. So then he was out. Usually when somebo
Ties to the kremlin. As the times points out this is the first confirmed private meeting between a Russia National and members of mr. Trumps inner circle during the campaign. The russian lawyer is known for fighting the u. S. Which allows the u. S. To seize the assets of and deny visas to suspected human rights abusers from russia. In realitation, Vladimir Putin banned american adoption of russian children. Don jr. And kushner both confirmed the meeting had taken place. They primary discussed the Adoption Program, but meanwhile the president s outside legal team is suggesting the meeting was a setup by democrats. The participants in the meeting misrepresented who they were and who they worked for. Specifically we have learned that the person who sought the meeting is associated with a firm, which according to public reports, was obtained by democratic operatives to develop Opposition Research on the president and which commissioned the phony dossier. Who authorized and participated in