Donald trump signed a russians sanctions bill into law. Unlike other pieces of legislation, there was no elaborate signing ceremony. The president signed the sanctions legislation, which was passed overwhelmingly by congress in private, out of the public eye. Prior to the signing russian president Vladimir Putin announced that russia would retaliate for the sanctions by ordering the u. S. To cut its staff in russia by 175 people. And on the day that trump signed the legislation, the Prime Minister went on a tweet storm including this, quote, the Trump Administration has shown its total weakness by handing over executive pow tore congress in the most humiliating way. That was five days ago and we were looking at how the administration would react to this latest move from russia and until today the response had been basically today. Not even a patented donald trump twitter. In fact theres been no response from the administration at all, that is until today. When following a weekend meeti
Michael wolff defending his bomb shell book about President Trump insisting and bringing now christopher ruddy, personal friend of the president , you saw the president over the holidays, right. Quite a few times. And its always fiery when you come. And he remembered my face. Remembered who i was. Its like a fantasy world. Hes a psychiatrist, Michael Wolff, i call him now dr. Michael wolff. Youre being sarcastic. Don, you have to ask yourself, what is his expertise to declare the president s psychologically unfit . There is probably 100 highpowered journalists that cover the white house, talked to all the same sources he supposedly talked to, no one has ever reported the president psychologically unfit. Im not here to defend Michael Wolff, what i will tell you youre going to promote it. Im not here to promote you just gave him a half hour on your show. I gave him 18 minutes as a matter of fact. And i think its very newsworthy. Most journalists and most people dont get that much access
The fbi from doing its job . Did he throw his official influence behind efforts to bend justice from the truth . This is the quest that Robert Mueller per sues to see if the president obstructed justice. We start with breaking news from the the New York Times that reveals new details about the materials that the special counsel has requested from the white house, requests that shed new light on the direction of the ongoing probe. We also tonight are following two natural disasters, of course in puerto rico, Hurricane Maria made landfall as a category 4 store, knocking out power already to the entire island. It may be months before its back on. In mexico, more than 200 people are dead after a 7. 1 magnitude earthquake. The death toll is expected to rise of course as the rescue crews continue to search the rubble in the countrys capital city. Well have live reports coming up. First, to the russia investigation and the document request special counsel Robert Mueller has made of the white
Working din wer the senate and House Minority leaders to discuss policy and legislative priorities. 15 minutes later pelosi and schumers offices put out a statement of their own, that the president agreed to enshrine the protections of daca into law with a Border Security excluding the wall thats acceptable to both sides. Shortly thereafter according to politico, the white house legislative office was in damage control, saying the president only agreed to work on fixing daca soon, conceding he wouldnt insist that wall funding be part of this particular deal. Early this Morning Hours after the initial dinner, the president was doing his own corrective tweeting. No deal was made last night on da daca. Massive Border Security would have to be agreed to in exchange for consent. Would be subject to vote. But he added, does anybody really want to throw out good, educated and accomplished young people who have jobs, some serve in the military . Really . Congressional republicans were blindsid
Interview. And when it comes to special counsel bob mueller and his russia investigation, trump repeatedly gave some version of this quote. It doesnt bother me, because, i hope hes going to be fair. I think hes going to be fair. Its a tonal shift for trump, until now, has been clearly been bothered enough to join his ally of questioning the fbi. But perhaps, trumps new attitude comes from the comfort he takes in this statement he gave about his authority over the department running the investigation. Quote, i have absolute right to do what i want to do with the justice department. Joining me now are msnbc contributor malcolm nance and Washington Post opinion writer Jennifer Rubin and richard paint paint painter. Thank you all for being here. I want to go to so, i just read what President Trump said in that interview with the New York Times. Now, about the justice department. Lets take a look at what eric holder, the former attorney general of the United States under president obama had