Okay. Welcome to the new age of morning joe. How you doing today, willie . Doing great. Yesterday was a hell of a day, i mean, you started with the payroll tax, but there are about 15 different stories that in any other administration would be a scandal that lasted for weeks and months. It was incredible and i think were about to lay them out. And i think the most incredible part is, for me at least, you adopt trump saying, you know what, lets get russia back into the ga. Never mind the fact that the guy i pointed to run the fbi, the one to run the cia, dni, everybody involved. History. Kirstjen nielsen, everybody, pompeo, everybody said russias trying to undermine american democracy. Lets get them into ga, and blame it on obama that they left, in fact when it was because they were shooting down commercial aircrafts and inkr invading sovereign countries. The president of the United States said i think were going to leave afghanistan and let the russians go back in there. It didnt work
Chance to read the Mueller Report. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. So we have considerably more information today than we had friday about what exactly the Mueller Report concludes, though crucially it is far less than we need. You have probably seen the top line conclusions as filtered through the president s chosen attorney general who quotes only three sentences, two of them partial, from the actual report itself, a report whose length like nearly Everything Else about it remains a mystery. But before getting further into what william barr says the principle conclusions are, it is probably worth taking a step back to ask the question, what exactly was the goal of this undertaking . Here is how i have seen it and still see it. For a million reasons having to do with polarization, the internet mono culture as a social media and a Widespread Campaign as sustained foreign intervention, the 2016 election was, i think, a uniquely disorienting mome
It was bluster, and the wall was a farce. But you know what . Look. I dont have any problem with them building physical barriers. Its just not a panacea. Theres already a physical barrier in a lot of place. There is, but, look, they need more. If they had more, they wouldnt have the flow problems they have right now. I believe that. But they needed more than just that. And you know, tripp, roy, cicilline says we gave them that stuff too. It obviously wasnt enough. Now im going to go down there, and theyi guarantee you theyr going to say, we need, we need, we need. Everybody here is talking about longterm fixes and we have to have a deal and conservative this and longterm that. Deal with it now. Give them what they need. But i dont understand. Why cant he just be honest about it . Why does he have to lie about were already building the new sections of the wall . It is completely, 100 not true. It is a lie. Theres no new wall thats being built. There will be. If he keeps saying it long e
Buttigieg who is still exploring a run. Athena jones is with us live. What are you hearing . Good morning to you. Reporter good morning to you. Thats right. Kirsten gillibrand the senator from new york making it official and formally announcing she is throwing her hat in the ring to become a democratic nominee in 2020. Deb a major part for her candidacy in the opening weeks of her campaign week, she announced an Exploratory Committee in january and been in there exploratory phase. Part of her major argument has been that she beat the odds back in 2006 when she first ran for congress. She won a reliably red district, a district where republicans outnumber democrats 21. So they tells that story to show that she can appeal to voters across the aisle and that she is going to try to win voters everywhere. She is also touted her record as the strongest antitrump voting record of Anyone Running and its clear from her video that she this next phase she is going to be taking this fight directly
Christine romans. Huge news today. We start in the nations capital. The question everyone was asking after attorney general barr released his summary of the mueller report. Would bob mueller support your conclusion . I dont know whether he supported my conclusion. We now know the answer. He expressed concern barrs fourpage letter to congress did not fully capture the findings of the 448page report. Barr said he didnt know if mueller supported the conclusion, that was two weeks after the special counsel expressed his concerns to barr. They also vented frustration about the way the findings were s summarized. Its sure to come up when barr testifies this morning. Special Counsel Robert Mueller expressed concerns in a letter to william barr that his fourpage letter summarizing the conclusions of the findings didnt fully capture the report. Later, barr and mueller spoke by phone. The initial letter to congress, to special counsel said it was more knew wansnuanced on the ob of justice. Muell