state of tennessee, afte representatives justin pearson was reinstated to a seat in th state house. justin pearson, of course, one of the so-called tennessee three, who led the protests on gun reform in the tennesse house last month, just in th aftermath of a brutal mass shooting state republicans expelled justin pearson and legislato justin jones from the hous last week over, frankly, tenuous, to say the least, decorum rules violations stemming from that protest representative jones was bac to work on monday after a loca national council voted unanimously to appoint him t fill his own vacancy and today, a memphis board o commissioners filed suit, doin the same thing for justi pearson. he was also unanimously vote back to the tennessee house. speaking to a crowd of protesters after the vote, pearson framed his reinstatement as one step in a larger fight for justice we do not speak alone we speak together. we fight together. and so the message for all the people in nashville
Trump. Its very sad. Jen is here, joe is here, a few of the guys, but just me and donald trump in the lobby of the plaza. Go to the plaza, maybe youll see the donald there. Maybe Michael Jackson will wander around, all of your friends. Anyway, the white house is so bad at what theyre doing everybody is trying to think theres a grand conspiracy, there may be. Just on the surface, theyre so bad that donald trump in his press conference yesterday says, first of all, and throughout the day, well, i understand why theyre doing what theyre doing and i have Great Respect for it. But its the greatest witch hunt in history and its terrible and will divide the United States. And theyre also doing the same thing about mike pence, denying that the white house had any knowledge of the investigation, and then statement leaking, well, were very troubled that mike pence is being kept out in the dark about all of the Flynn Investigation. They have two or three story lines going. Theyre just not consist
Bbc anchor katty kay. From the Washington Post euGene Robinson, New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters and in new york veteran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnicle. Good to have everyone with us this morning. We begin with this, former state department speaking out the Trump Administration planning to roll back punitive measures against russia almost as soon as he took office. Dan frooed who served until late february said colleagues asked them to appeal to congress after they were directed to develop a sanctions lifting package and to arrange a summit between trump and russian president Vladimir Putin as part of a grand bargain with moscows. To these officials it felt like a winwin for putin who said they were unclear what america got out of the deal. Quote, weve ben reviewing all the sanctions and this is not exclusive to russia. The administration backed down after senators made clear they would pass a law to enforce obamas punitive measures. But a Washington Post report we
are the people that work at th courthouse, they r unbelievable people. many of them were in tears o close to them. many apologies, we re sorry, sir. i swear to god, if i didn t know donald trump better and his lack of a sense of irony, would think he was doing a donald trump bit i don t know which is more cringe inducing, trump has don the same tough guys had tear in their eyes for a story like 100 times, or that tucker ha to sit there and just be enthralled by it of course, the great reporter, michael itzkoff with a law enforcement source, who told him the source was, absolutely yes. there was zero truth to trump account. quote, there were zero peopl crying, therefore, zero people saying i m sorry now watch tucker carlson, go again, we know from internal emails, he despises trump. only plays along because he terrified of losing hi audience to newsmax what tha will do to the fox stock price pretend to hang on every wor of the ex president s continue nonsense a big problem is nucl
small gestures and larger gestures. i think this may be a sense that the president has that he has acceptance among a european leader. ron brownstein, what did the president know and when did he know it? it s a cliche question. it s really in play right now because of the new reporting from cnn overnight that says a lot of the white house aides might be in jeopardy of being investigated by the special counsel because how this unfolded. michael itzkoff told yahoo news alan garten, chief legal officer of the trump organization were informed about the e-mails in the third week of june after they were discovered by lawyers for kushner. we know because of the reporting from the new york times that white house aides were part of the initial very misleading response from donald trump jr., and now they ll have to answer for this, maybe under oath, ron. that is why, you can see in