money here, billions of dollars in claims, and, you know, this is the first of many lawsuits that dominion has put forward. they also said they re suing the conservative right wing networks, oan and news max media yesterday. politico s meredith mcgraw we always appreciate it. thank you so much. still ahead, a $2,500 slice of cake you won t want to test. plus what is the totally different plan for the future of jeopardy s hosting duties? i didn t get the gig. way too early is right back as we look at light terrific in times square this morning.
he is not committed to the renew annual of chip, the children s health insurance program. doug jones wants chip renewed. these are families that don t make enough for medicaid but make too much to get their own plans. both sides need to come together to address the high pwraeremiumd out of pocket costs. there are many other issues out there. you have two men with very different positions. one of them is going to be chosen today as the next senator from the yellow hammer state of alabama. let s discuss what is important on this with the ceo and president of news max media and a friend of president trump. thank you for having me on. you are not an alabama voter and you are not voting today but if you were would roy moore have
guy but doesn t have a good system. he doesn t know how the communications flow. reporter: the speculation that ruddy was speaking for trump since he d just had drinks with the president at trump s mar-a-lago club. i m a member of the club. reporter: where ruddy has been a member for decades. with all this power, why doesn t he join the white house? i run a fairly large media company, news max media, so it would be hard for me to leave it. i feel i can be more helpful to this president by speaking on shows like yours to give people the other side of the story. he said he wants to be helpful to the president. they re friends. he s a member at mar-a-lago. you say he has close ties to the clintons. even fueling conspiracy theories. they went on a trip together in
considering firing the special counsel appointed to lead the fbi s you russia investigation. chris ready is the president of news max media and was at the white house yesterday. i think he is considering perhaps terminating the special counsel. i think he s weighing that option. chris ready is going to be sitting down with kristen welker in about an hour. white house press secretary sean spicer tells nbc in response, mr. ruddy never spoke to the president regarding this issue, to which ruddy responded this morning, spicer issued i love he calls him spicer. spicer issued a bizarre late night press release that, a, does not deny my claim that the president can considering firing mueller and, b, says i didn t speak to the president about the matter, when i never claimed to have done so. it concludes, quote, don t waste time trying to undermine one of your few allies.
i think the president s frustrated as are a lot of white house people that there s constant increases in investigations when there s no underlying evidence of any crime and they keep saying there s no evidence. i think the president is frustrated. this is my view. that these things keep growing and the media keep focusing on these stories. news max media ceo chris ruddy defending president trump. let s get the inside scoop from jeremy from the new york times reporter and msnbc contributor and susan page washington bureau chief. jeremy, i want to start with you and what we heard from chris ruddy. he has sort of joined the chorus of voices trying to undermine the russia investigation. you ve written about this and something that right wing conspiracy theorists are doing as well. talk about what you have found and how you think it s playing into and potentially fueling