Oh, yeah. President trump heads to europe this morning after selecting his nominee last night to the u. S. Supreme court. He leaves the senate to battle over judge Brett Kavanaugh, while nato allies brace for their own confrontations with the american commander in chief, and what a history they already have in such a short time. Welcome to morning joe. Its tuesday, july 10th. With us we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, former chairman. Republican National Committee Michael Steele and nbc News National plit reporter Heidi Przbyla is with us. A lot to talk about. Quite a late night for everybody watching the big announcement. Well get to the president S Supreme Court pick and his nato trip in a moment. First, the gallup pool shows President Trumps Approval Rating slipped into double digit negative territory as 56 disapprove and 41 approve. This just three weeks after trump received the best marks since the first days of his presidency in midjune only to have his ratings turned back
Weapons were withdrawn from europe and today top secret bases in Storage Facilities lie abandoned. These bunkers in a former american missile base in germany once housed Cruise Missiles this site now hosts a popular open air electronic Music Festival. The danger of Nuclear Conflict appears to have passed. But now new Nuclear Weapons destined for europe are being tested in the u. S. Nuclear war is more likely now was at the height of the current. Nuclear problem has not gone away its that strange to become something new and different some analysts call this the Second Nuclear age. We need to do this was all were facing the. Most dangerous military and especially Nuclear Security situation in europe today since the collapse of the soviet union in the desert we had to. Escape woman tartly there is talk of both the german and of a European Nuclear weapon if you ask me a german bomb would be dangerous nonsense but we may find ourselves discussing a european one in the next few years usually
Didnt see anything wrong with what theyve been doing over the last several years, so they decided to stick with it. It was the same old story. The same old song and dance. The same grievances the president has aired over the last two and a half, three years. Including some of his favorite themes that hes picked up along me way. Robert mueller, border security, fake news, immigration. Our immigration laws are a disgrace. We went through the greatest witch hunt in political history. No collusion, no obstruction. Many times i said we would drain the swamp. We are building the wall. Our radical democrat opponents are driven by hatred, prejudice, and rage. Tell sleepy joe we found the magic wand. Sleepy guy. More than 120 democrats in congress have also signed up to support crazy Bernie Sanders socialist government takeover of health care. Reporter the president starts his day at his doral resort here in the miami area. Hes going to have a fund raiser, then back to washington by midafternoo
[ inaudible ] reporter attorneys are saying that in a letter citing that let are saying that she does not have to respond to questions during her time in the white house. [ inaudible ] yeah, manu, apologies. The audio there, but just to summarize, the white house lawyer who is present there is claiming executive privilege as expected here. And well see if that continues. Representative karen bass telling manu that this is ridiculous that this is happening. Well keep watching as the hearing continues. Correspond to sources telling kaitlan collins, the relationship between the president and hope hicks has changed recently. One of the president s most trusted and closed confidants now were hearing that the two rarely speak. Lets get to kaitlan collins. So what changed and does that raise concerns in the white house that hicks might provide damaging testimony . Reporter what were seeing, it is a pretty dramatic shift from what their relationship used to be. Essentially people described the
Building in dallas and how he may fit a new frightening pattern. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We begin with breaking news. Any moment President Trump is going to be departing the white house and heading to his official Reelection Campaign launch in orlando, florida. But he will be leaving behind some upheaval here in washington. He announced his acting secretary of defense is pulling out of the Senate Confirmation of congress process and his final day at the pentagon will be friday. Yet another example of the quite turbulent Trump Administration eclipsing what Campaign Advisers hoped to be a blemishfree day for trump. His combative divorce and his exwife kimberly was arrested and charged for assault that left shanahan with a black eye and bloody nose and the charges were dropped and shanahan was accused of hitting her in the stoma stomach and he vehemently denies. It is unfortunate that a painful and deeply personal family situation from lon