The president clearly not happy with the saturday start for his legal team. So where do we start . With cnn congressional reporter lauren fox here on capitol hill this morning. And this is a crucial day for democrats. Their last day to make the case, not just to the American Public but their colleagues on the removal of office of the president unlikely but still calling witnesses. And thats been the democrats focus this entire time. They have to convince those four moderate republicans to cross the aisle and vote with them on witnesses. And that is getting more and more difficult. What weve heard from some of those moderates is that, look, if the House Democrats didnt want to go to court and fight for these witnesses, why should we as part of the senate trial . And thats the argument that Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell is making to his conference behind closed doors. I also know that republicans are struggling a little bit with the fact that this has been walltowall democratic coverag
Hillary clinton with rachel maddow. That wraps things up for me. Ali velshi, sorry to have taken 50 seconds of your time. A great conversation. Happy to you have take some of the show for a great conversation. Good to see you and have a great rest of your day, katy. Thanks. And im ali velshi. And speed dating bipartisanshipstyle suddenly overshadowed. Exclusive from nbc news and the late nest Robert Muellers ongoing russia investigation. Hey, remember Michael Flynn . President trumps former National Security adviser . A man fired for misleading Vice President mike pence about conversations with the Russian Ambassador to the United States . Well, now Michael Flynns son probably known to you by a first controversial social media post is a subject of Robert Muellers investigation. Why, you ask . Ill get back to you about that in a few minutes. As i said, tough to match an worse time than this. President trump cap hill cred for a meeting on taxes. Even now meeting way group of lawmakers fr
A long stomach churning expose describing eight women making allegations of Sexual Misconduct against longtime pbs and cbs news anchor charlie rose. Charlie rose is accused by more than a half dozen women that worked for him in various capacities of unwanted sexual advances and groping and lewd calls and frequently figuring out ways to take off all his clothes around a series of his female subordinates. Once he found ways to get them alone, even though they thought it was a Work Environment. Charlie rose hosts his own longrunning tv show on pbs and on bloomberg tv. That has now been suspended. Hes also a highprofile cohost of the daily morning show cbs this morning. Hes also a contributing correspondent for 60 minutes. Cbs has now suspended him from both of those programs as well. That news breaking today in the Washington Post and that news about charlie rose comes immediately on the heels of news from the New York Times that they have suspended their highprofile White House Reporter
You need to release it. Absolutely. 100 . You heard that. Covering National Security for the Washington Post, devon, thank you for joining me. Adding to it this real concern privately, now a Public Statement from the fbi, what do you make of it . What do your sources tell you . This disagreement that was private as of semi private, i should say, as of two days ago, is now fully out in the open and you have the amazing situation of the fbi publicly at odds with the white house, with the Trump Administration over an issue of National Security. Thats pretty unusual. And thats why this is a fairly intense time for the Justice Department and the fbi. If your reporting, when youre talking about this lastditch effort on behalf of wray and rosenstein, you have written that rosenstein did most of the talking. What are his deepest concerns if this memo went public . First order of concern is that it would reveal some classified information and thald that could make future collection of classifie
Director Christopher Wray and Rod Rosenstein. They spoke to the white house chief of staff, john kelly. However, after those meetings, the president was overheard saying this at his sioux state of the union speech. You need to release that document. Dont worry. 100 100 . I have with me jeff zeleny, shimon, over grave concerns over not just accuracy but several issues. Can you talk to me about that . Very rare Public Statement. Their sish the accuracy of this memo. The only person thats seen this memo has been the fbi director, Christopher Wray, clearly at odds with the president s decision to release this memo. What he saw in this memo has given him concern in that they have sort of picked information, put information into this memo that favors their message, what congressman nunes wants to say, placed it in this mmemo that is inaccurate. Theyre saying a lot of this information does not give a full picture of what was going on at the time that the intelligence officials, that the fbi w