Editorial board in 2020 after covering politics and the social movements for the national desk. She previously spent 16 years at the boston globe nearly half of that time as the papers Foreign Policy reporter in washington, d. C. She also served as a columnist and Editorial Board member of the globe winning a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2016. The author of a forthcoming book americanmade what happens to people when work disappears. Here to talk about peters new book the great dissenter the story of John Marshall americas judicial hero. Sarah and peter, welcome. Thank you. I love seeing where everyone is tuning in for him so thats great. Keep it coming. Its a delight to be here tonight. Peter is an old journalism mind. I worked for the boston globe for 16 years and think i spent 14 of them under peter and in the recent years hes talked with such enthusiasm about this book hes been working on the great defender, so this is a pleasure for me to interview him tonight about his book. I
House has been moving more toward, taking cameras outside of the Briefing Room, something thats traditionally been done on camera. And no longer having to answer questions to the American Public. Really gives these Administration Officials an opportunity not to have to have their faces on camera while theyre questioned about things like why the president would float the notion of tapes that dont exist in the first place, or really any questions about russia which weve seen this administration dodge over and over again. Of course, it is a blow to transparency. Its a blow to those viewers out there who fund this white house, who fund these peoples salaries with their own taxpayer dollars for these folks not even to answer questions on camera. Especially on an important day like today. The president s announcement now on twitter that there are no tapes or recordings of any of his conversations with the fired fbi director, james comey. Also the senate the Senate Republican leadership has f
Despite the president s exact opposite comments yesterday about pulling them out of the wartorn country. And the wh and the white house is remaining mum on a new report from the Washington Post that mueller was preparing a report about the president s action in office and potential obstruction of justice. I want to talk about the tariffs with china. Let me walk over here and i could show you what were talking about. China has said that it is going to slap about tariffs on about 50 billion worth of American Goods to match trumps tariffs. Now trump said hes doing it because of the trade deficit. But again, i cannot emphasize this enough, trump and his administration claim that the u. S. Holds a trade deficit with china of 500 billion. It is just dishonest. China does export 500 billion worth of goods and Serve Services to the United States. That is the not trade de and there are Details Behind the number that matter. Im going to explain more on that a little later. But first lets take a
We now know from multiple sources that Robert Mueller is zeroing in on the president s firing of james comey. Michael flynn who talked to the fbi one year ago today tried to keep the entire thing secret from the white house. That one day a year ago today really set into motion a lot of things were seeing now in terms of the obstruction of justice. There is now a incredible case of obstruction of justice against donald trump. Im not going to sit here and say there was clearly obstruction. Indicting a president of the United States on obstruction of justice isnt like going after you or me. Prosecutors will call this a head shot. You cant miss. Were waiting on a White House Press briefing, Sarah Huckabee sanders will likely face questions about the russia timeline and why president ial felt it was okay to ask who a career Civil Servant voted for. Not to mention news again but nbc news that mueller questioned firing acting attorney general sally yates, mike pompeo and mike rogers all with
Thats going to do it for this hour. Katy tur picking things up right now. 11 00 a. M. Out west. Welcome back. The president is back at the white house and any minute now we will see Sarah Huckabee sanders hold the first briefing of the year. The west wing ended 2017 with a victory. 2018, well that could get complicated. It is back to work at the white house for President Trump after his holiday break in florida. There is a lot on the president s plate. Critical issues overseas and home. Immigration and infrastructure and other potential Government Shutdown. The challenge will be not just going after the government funding which expires on january 19 but can they come up with anything else that is a large legislative item. The government will run out of money in about three weeks how to avert a Government Shutdown and the thorniest issue, immigration. Haping up to be a tough year already. Key items left unresolved in december are now back on the to do list for january. That list is not