Are volunteering to come to work without pay. They are not volunteering. The Trump Administration is requiring them to come to work without pay or they will lose their jobs. The president s commerce secretary today said he is absolutely confounded as to why federal employees might be starting to go to food pantries and soup kitchens to feed themselves and their families now that theyre going into a second month with zerodollar paychecks. Billionaire commerce secretary wilbur ross said today when he was asked if he understood that federal workers were doing that. He was asked about that today and he replied, quote, i dont really quite understand why. Why are they doing that . Then the president himself commented that as far as he understands, local people, that was his phrase, local people and specifically local Grocery Stores are undoubtedly happy to help people out in circumstances like this. If people are working for free now and they cant pay for groceries, dont Grocery Stores just
Robert mueller henceforth shall speak for himself. At least we sort of got that word. Now this is only a Single Source report thus far, and you should consider that, but nbc news is reporting, according to one source dollar with the matter, that the Judiciary Committee in the house led by new york city congressman jerry nadler, according to nbc news that committee has begun discussions directly with Robert Muellers team about mueller himself coming to testify to congress. According to nbcs reporting previously, the committee has been trying to arrange muellers testimony and they had been discussing that matter with the Justice Department, assuming that the Justice Department could speak for Robert Mueller and would facilitate his testimony. There have been multiple reports and some scathing allegations from democratic members of congress recently that the Justice Department has been blocking that, that theyve been refusing to set a date for muellers testimony, theyve been slowwalking t
In just a few hours, President Trumps former fixer and lawyer becomes a federal inmate. Michael cohen will serve a threeyear sentence after admitting he made or directed payments to silence women who claimed affairs with then candidate donald trump. Hes expected to give a press conference before reporting to prison. We ha what will he have to say before heading to a few years behind bars. The opening bell on wall street, signs point to a rough start after President Trump threatened china with a new more severe round of tariffs. The president continues to criticize china ahead of what was scheduled to be the final round of negotiations. We begin in new york. What do we expect, cara if. Michael cohen always said he would take a bullet for donald trump. Today hes going to prison. Were waiting outside his apartment in midtown manhattan to see if hell say anything. Michael cohen pleaded guilty to fraud charges, Campaign Finance violations and lying to congress. Cohen is the only person in t
I want to be absolutely clear about my record of position on racial justice, including bussing. I never, never, never ever opposed voluntary bussing. And as a program that senator harris participated in and it made a difference in her life. I did support federal action to address root causes of segregation in our schools and our communities including taking on the banks and redlining and trying to change the way in which neighborhoods were segregated. Ive always been a favorite of using federal authority to overcome stateinitiated segregation. Former Vice President joe biden defending himself in chicago today fending off criticism about an anecdote that he told about working with segregationist senators in the 1970s, uing it to highlight his ability to work with views who says he morally opposed. Im going to talk to new jersey senator cory booker, the first president ial candidate to criticize the Vice President s remarks. Between biden and california senator Kamala Harris who said bid
Russian election interference. Seriously. Welcome to friday. Its meet the press daily. Im chuck todd after a whirlwind couple of days in miami which included a night which may have fundamentally changed the race. After last night, the frontrunner joe biden looks vulnerable. The headlines were, well, pretty ugly. Just look at some of them. The campaign and the candidate himself have spent today trying to clean up some of that mess. Still, they are facing some tough questions about what happened last night and what happens next. In just a moment i will be joined here on set by bidens Deputy Campaign manager, who will be here to answer some of those tough questions we hope. Folks, bidens performance last night was uneven at best. And Kamala Harris had the breakout moment that her campaigns been looking for by assailing him with campaigns he made about working with segregationist lawmakers. It was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their