coming up, jonathan swan with one big thing and on morning joe, merkel intelligence chiefs a standing warning to the nation. the threat they say russia is posing to the upcoming midterm elections, and moscows latest bid to meddle in democracy. plus president trump yet again contradicting his own advisers on what he calls the russian hoax renewing questions over where he stands whith america s intelligence agencies. morning joe, moments away. - anncr: thankfully, prevagen helps your brain and improves memory. - dad s got all the answers. - anncr: prevagen is now the number-one-selling brain health supplement in drug stores nationwide. - she outsmarts me every single time. - checkmate! you wanna play again? - anncr: prevagen. healthier brain. better life.
documents that the information steele was gathering is likely going to be used to credit the campaign. referring to the trump campaign. the new necessary memo suggests the fbi used a 2016 yahoo! news article to corroborate the steele dossier but it shows the fbi cited that article to allege that page had falsely denied having meetings in moscows in july 2016. page on sunday insisted he did nothing wrong. jake, this is so ridiculous it is just beyond words. reporter: now, one other thing that the memo did not disclose the fact that the fbi warrant was approved by four different judges who are actually appointed by republican presidents. that was not included in the initial new necessary memo. new necessary did tweet about it after the release of that carter page warrant application saying that those heavily redacted documents should be unredacting
now the host team has racked up more goals than anyone in the tournament. this bleacher report brought to you by ford. going further so you can. russia was expected to do so poorly the team was the butt of jokes but russia has proven much more than just a formidable host beating egypt in convincing style 3-1. scoring three goals in the first 16 minutes of the second half. they ve scored eight goals in the first two games and listen to the fan reaction. whoa! it s not official yet but russia will likely advance as long as saudi arabia does not beat europe later today and get this, some bars in moscows are already running out of beer. according to reports, some locations near the kremlin and red square are struggling to meet the demand. vodka for everyone. they re the home team. they have an advantage there.
you can do it. thank you, thank you. how can you believe in politics when you watch this crapola, dana, you re the best. you don t need to be a sar tirist to do this. up next, the roundtable tries to make sense of trump s obsession with helping moscow. right now in canada, he s moscows man up in quebec. what s he owe russia? that s an open question. plus the trump justice department cracks down on obamacare. could that be a gift to democrats. apparently democrats and voter who s want to vote this fall like obamacare. you re watching hardball. (burke) at farmers, we ve seen almost everything so we know how to cover almost anything. even a cactus calamity . (man 1) i read that the saguaro can live to be two hundred years old. (woman) how old do you think that one is? (man 1) my guess would be, about. (man 2) i d say about two hundred. (man 1) yeah. (burke) gives houseplant a whole new meaning. and we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we ve seen a thing
be out in full force during the world cup. according to dmocuments, moscows administration paid to train cossacks in how to ensure public safety. having cossack fighters out in the streets with whips taking on protesters seems bad, giving them a municipal contract and putting them in charge of public safety at an international event like the world cup, that seems even worse. vladimir putin s last term as president was marked by his decision to invade and take over part of another country, also invading syria, also, of course, monkey wrenching the american presidential election to the benefit of donald trump. but it seems at the start of his next term, it seems like things are getting worse. it just i mean, it seems like that the more attention you pay, the worse it seems. if you re somebody who takes a wider view, though, a longer view, a better informed view of putin and his place in russia right now, are things worse? or have they always been this