a point by point rebuttal. still, though, this isn t over. the attorney general in arizona says he will use everything within his legal power to continue pursuing this and obviously oh states now across the country have started to pick this up as part of their own strategy. okay. thank you for that. appreciate that, steve. let s bring in hayes brown now to discuss further. of course, hayes is columnist and editor for msnbc daily. your reaction to what steve was just reporting and the overall results of the arizona audit. how do you see it? i mean, he s completely right in that on the one hand, i m a little relieved, because there was a fear in my mind that they would just sort of make up a claim that trump had actually won maricopa county. that s not what happened here. they did say that, well, actually, biden got more votes and that sort of put some people at ease or makes them feel a little vindicated in the fact that, oh, well, see, the biden got more votes in the long run. but
china s own belt and road initiative, coming about eight years too late. robyn? also, i understand you have a fresh response from china. what did they say to you? that s right. china is now celebrating a national holiday but the chinese embassy in london has an embassy, and it first put out a statement with a dig at the g7 summit saying the days when global decisions were dictated by a small group of countries are long gone, and it s not advocated by a handful of countries. the embassy has gone on to issue a statement with a point by point rebuttal defending its record saying that its initiatives there, beijing has been anti-deradicalization,
even if the charge is kept under seal and hidden from public view, that too is prohibited. the special counsel s office is part of the department of justice and by regulation it was bound by that department policy. charging the president with a crime was therefore not an option we could consider. so matt miller, robert mueller saying yesterday the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrong doing passing the ball over to congress as we ve been discussing this morning. what did you hear from your trained ear at the justice department in those eight minutes from robert mueller. i thought i herd a delve take point by point rebuttal of what the president and the attorney general and the president s attorneys have been saying since mueller s report was released over a month ago. if you go down everything the attorney general s been saying. the president has been say, starting with the collusion
we are just pointing out what it is. nobody s making it out. i also thought for stacey abrams, you know my rule, always say no to giving the response to the state of the union. you will never have the stage the president has. as those things go, she got out pretty well. greg: yeah. she didn t watch the speech. she can t. no, she could. dana: it s not a point by point rebuttal. you already have a response. greg: you are crawling with good points today. anyway, jesse. what struck you? jesse: i was impressed with the president was able to get democrats to chant usa. i ve never heard the democrats chant usa, usa, juan. that was a nice moment. i thought he successfully took unifying historical achievements in america like landing on the moon and landing on the beaches of normandy and made people focus on that towards the future and say these are the kind of patriotic things we should rally
testify under oath to a grand jury? there could be several other reasons why the special prosecutor s office is in new discussions with the president s lawyers. the atlantic is reporting tonight that the president s lawyers and the white house actually have no organized plan for responding to any report robert mueller might issue on his investigation. in the past donald trump s tv lawyer rudy giuliani has repeatedly said that they are working on a point by point rebuttal of whatever it is robert mueller is going to come up with. giuliani has called what they are working on or supposed to be working on a counter report to the mueller report. but now the atlantic elena plott is reporting according to a half-dozen current and former white house officials, the administration has no plans in place for responding to the special counsel s findings save for expecting a twitter spree. the atlantic report that some in the white house believe preparing an organized response is pointless because t