Go through this. And hopefully, somebodys going to be looking at the other side. Poor president. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. It is monday, march 25th. With us on the set here in washington we have columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post, David Ignatius. Nbc news and msnbc law analyst and editorinchief of Lawfare Benjamin wittes. And host of the beat on msnbc, ari melber. New york times reporter michael schmidt. Taking a break from book writing to come in on this big news morning. Mike barnicle joining us from new york city and former u. S. Attorney and an msnbc contributor, Barbara Mcquaid is with us as well. Well get right to the big news this morning. The president and his allies are celebrating Robert Muellers report on russias interference in the 2016 election. Attorney general william barr writes in his fourpage summary of the report that the special counsel did not find that any u. S. Person or Trump Campaign official or associate conspired or knowing
Nbc news has also learned the identity of the suspect from a federal Law Enforcement source but the police chief says that once they are ready to release formally name for Virginia Beach, he said they will mention it once and once only. He also described what he said was a long moving running gun battle between four Police Officers and the gunman than ultimately resulted in the gunman being shot and killed. He said Police Officers rendered first aid to the gunman after they had shot him. But he nevertheless died from his wounds. At this point there are four people injured and in hospital and again, 12 people victims of the shooting in Virginia Beach. In terms of the gun, he wouldnt answer detailed questions in terms of whether there were multiple guns but he did describe a. 45 caliber handgun which he said was fitted with a silencer, and he described magazines at the scene. We expect well get more information from local authorities. Thats the latest from Virginia Beach. Well see you ag
We wont because were going to talk about whats actually developing, what we know in the news, but william barr himself, the what was he thinking . Yeah. Thats an hour of tv right there, what was he thinking . He knew he knew that we were at some point going to know about this letter. Yeah. And in government, when you when someone in government writes a letter to someone else in government, its not because theyre trying to communicate with that person who is receiving the letter, okay . Never. Right. Its i need this letter to live after this moment. And so Robert Mueller knew what the life of this letter was going to be. Robert mueller knew it was going to be a night like this that was about this letter. But most importantly, william barr knew and he still went out there and said all of the things that he said and actually gave these answers in house and Senate Testimony about, i dont know if muellers okay. I dont know what mueller thinks. Yeah. You know . He knew exactly what mueller t
The suspect. Nbc news has also learned the identity of the suspect from a federal Law Enforcement source but the police chief says that once they are ready to release formally name for Virginia Beach, he said they will mention it once and once only. He also described what he said was a long moving running gun battle between four Police Officers and the gunman than ultimately resulted in the gunman being shot and killed. He said Police Officers rendered first aid to the gunman after they had shot him. But he nevertheless died from his wounds. At this point there are four people injured and in hospital and again, 12 people victims of the shooting in Virginia Beach. In terms of the gun, he wouldnt answer detailed questions in terms of whether there were multiple guns but he did describe a. 45 caliber handgun which he said was fitted with a silencer, and he described magazines at the scene. Weigh expect well get more information from local authorities. Thats the latest from Virginia Beach.
Behind them and the promise that more details are going to be coming out within the next 12 hours, which means the overnight, its just heres heres what i could spend an hour talking about that we wont because were going to talk about whats actually developing, what we know in the news, but william barr himself, the what was he thinking . Yeah. Thats an hour of tv right there, what was he thinking . He knew he knew that we were at some point going to know about this letter. Yeah. And in government, when you when someone in government writes a letter to someone else in government, its not because theyre trying to communicate with that person who is receiving the letter, okay . Never. Right. Its i need this letter to live after this moment. And so Robert Mueller knew what the life of this letter was going to be. Robert mueller knew it was going to be a night like this that was about this letter. But most importantly, william barr knew and he still went out there and said all of the things