Even stronger. As were keeping our eyes on 2020. Poll after poll shows joe biden with a clear lead. Steve kornacki is here to dig in to what the numbers mean now. We must begin this morning with the stunning new revelation first reported by the Washington Post and confirmed by nbc news. Special Counsel Robert Mueller expressing frustration. In a letter and phone call to attorney general william barr shortly after barr released his initial fourpage summary of the Mueller Report march 24th. This was the same memo which barr cleared President Trump of obstruction, mueller expressing frustration, specifically over the lack of context and substance in that memo, saying it caused public confusion. And this new development is now shining a light on barrs backtoback congressional testimony last month. Let me jog your memory. Take a look. Reports have emerged recently, general, members of the special counsels team are frustrated at some level with the limited information included in your march
Garret, Bernie Sanders, hes spending the day there in north carolina. Its a place where he did pretty well the last go around. It appears hes trying to recreate some of his 2016 magic. How does he do that in the south . Especially since hes been struggling to win over black voters. Reporter this stop in ashville can serve as a springboard for sanders where he did do well in 2016, getting that base of supporters fired up. There are 20 other candidates in the field that would love to have a committed base of 20 of the vote, which was what sanders has been able to command across the country as hes brought his 2016 campaign into 2020. That does raise questions about if and how he can tweak his message to more to africanAmerican Voters who were so decisive in the 2016 primaries. The next several stops will be in charlotte, orangeburg, south carolina. Sanders does not change a lot of his message. Its part of the reason his supporters like him so much because he has been so consistent. He wil
Dowd and flynns lawyer. The Washington Post writes a federal judge on thursday ordered that prosecutors make public a transcript of a phone call that former National Security adviser Michael Flynn tried hard to hide with a lie. His conversation with the Russian Ambassador in late 2016. U. S. District judge emmitt g. Sullivan in washington ordered the government also to provide a public transcript of a 2017 voicemail involving flynn. In that call President Trumps attorney left a message for flynns attorney reminding him of the president s fondness for flynn at a time when flynn was considering cooperating with federal investigators. Together those two pieces of evidence which may leigh lead to the release of the audio tapes of those calls could lead to the publics understanding of the 488 page Mueller Report which describes how the president s most senior National Security advisor discussed deals with russians he would later lie about. Also a call in which the president s lawyer is prob
Peter alexander and road warrior alley vitaly have made their way to miami. Ashley parker and white house nbc senior analysts joins me and so does edgdy. Mr. Alexander, ill start with you, sir. Set the scene for us. Well, well set the scene for one, its 102 degree heat index, so the heat index is on. Certainly heat is on for these candidates as they break into these two debate stages over the course of the next two nights. The bottom line is long winded this is obviously the tradition of politicians. Theyre going to have to be brief in their remarks when they get here. Obviously each answer just about 60 seconds, 30 seconds to follow up, two hours each night, five segments for commercial breaks so have to be pithny their comments. Right now they are converging on miami. Some of them behind closed doors prepping for this big debate. Among those is joe biden whos expected to come down here on thursday exchanging fire with the president of the United States where hes been trying to direct
Post democratic president ial debate live from atlanta, georgia, and the tyler perry studios. Here is Rachel Maddow. Hello and welcome to the msnbc the Washington Post Democratic Candidates debate. At least some of us are very, very happy to be here tonight. Im Rachel Maddow here in atlanta, georgia, tonight with my fellow moderators. Andrea mitchell host of Andrea Mitchell reports on msnbc. Ashley parker White House Reporter for the Washington Post. And Kristen Welker is nbc News White House correspondent. Well be covering a wide range of topics tonight including National Security, race, and climate. Each candidate will have 1 minute, 15 seconds to answer our questions and 45 seconds if we need to followup. And we ask the audience to respect the candidates and please dont interrupt. Theres ten candidates here tonight. No time to waste. Lets get right to it. Were in the middle of the fourth president ial impeachment proceedings in our nations history. Ambassador Gordon Sondland deliver