Were following breaking news in the russia investigation. The wall street journal reporting tonight that the special counsel, robert mueller, is looking into a claim by trump ally, roger stone, that he met in 2016 with Julian Assange, the founder of wikileaks that released dnc emails hacked by russia. The journal reports that during grand jury testimony, muellers team has specifically asked about an email in which stone said he had dinner with Julian Assange. Ill get reaction from the former cia director, leon panetta. And our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First, lets go to our justice correspondent, evan perez. Evan, why would the this alleged stone assange meeting be significant . Well, wolf, it would be a big piece of information for the special counsel, simply because this lies at the center of what the special counsel, robert mueller, is supposed to be investigating, which is whether or not there was any illegal coordination between People Associated with the D
That was the part that was slightly pretty. He also continued to lie about amazon. Apparently angry that the man who runs it also owns the Washington Post. Meanwhile just this morning china strikes back hard in a brewing trade war which the President Trump claimed would be easy to win. Yeah, but the future is looking very grim right now because you know what, trade wars lead to bad things happening. The Dow Jones Futures down almost 450 points. And its again, theres nothing easy about it. What is easy though is calling out the lies the president s lies and theres no other word for it. I know that journalists and headline writers have been trying to figure out exactly what to call what hes doing, but willie, lets talk about amazon for a second and john roberts and the good people over at fox news in the afternoon went through this yesterday, a lot of other reporters did too. But shepp really broke it down. Donald trump lying about amazon by saying that the post office is losing money. W
Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. So richie neal is going for the tax returns, as we knew he would. It will take awhile, but there is no question how this ends. There is just there is just no possible legal question here. Well, the lawsuit itself is actually pretty entertaining reading. In part because they go through everything the president has ever said about his various reasons why he cant release his tax returns and theyre all selfcontradictory and they all have nothing to do with the statute. Theyre using his own words against him, like so many of these lawsuits have. But i also think that the democrats are sort of, i dont know, we will see once it gets assigned to a judge and they start going through motions on this and everything, but the democrats do seem to just be standing right there on the statute without having to argue much else as to why they should get those returns. Yeah, they dont have to. The statute couldnt be more clear and now its just a timing thing.
Investigations with donald trump jr. Subpoenaed by the Senate Intelligence committee, its become personal for the president. If he fails to answer, he ought to be put in jail. He has no privilege, prison is the only answer. And call me maybe. President trumps hangup with the former secretary of state who brokered the Iran Nuclear Deal. John kerry tells them not to call, thats a violation of the logan act. And frankly, he should be prosecuted on that. It is the 12th of may, happy mothers day, everybody. Just like a perfect mother. No, i wasnt. Yes, you were. You were always so calm and sweet with me. Thats because every moment was a joy. [ crying ] why wont you [ bleep ] sleep . Up with me, tim obrien, executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion and contributor. Ali vitaly, an msnbc political reporter, lisa green, author of on your case. And chris lui, he was cabinet secretary in the white house and before that chief deputy in the House Oversight committee. We begin with President Trump launc
Given my experience working for mr. Trump i fear that if he loses the election in 2020 that there will never be a peaceful transition of power. Good morning and welcome to a. M. Joy. When trumps former lawyer and fixer gave dramatic daylong testimony before congress in february thats just one of the alarming lines that stood out. Cohen who heads to prison tomorrow also said that trump whom he served loyally for ten years was becoming an auto democra autocrat. Now the speaker of house has announced the same concern. Speaker nancy pelosi gave an interview to the New York Times saying she doesnt trust the president of the United States to step down if he loses reelection next year. Facing immense pressure to begin impeachment proceedings Speaker Pelosi told the New York Times that she does not believe the president can be removed through impeachment. The only way to do it, she said, is to defeat him in 2020 by a margin so big he cannot challenge the legitimacy of a democratic victory. She