Going on with the cfpb. Reporter congratulations, david, good to be with you today. Welcome to msnbc, and to answer your question, this has a backdrop that is familiar in the era of the Trump Administration, where there is a difference on an agency that really had its start during the obama years, with a very different sort of political direction, and Richard Cordray, who was leading that agency, has stepped down to run for governor of ohio, as a democrat. So theres a lot of political overtones to this. Because of the charter of the agency, he named his own deputy to be the acting director, and the white house, which has a very different view of the effectiveness and the role of this kind of a bureau, named its own Mick Mulvaney who runs the office of management and budget, who has been a sharp critic over the years. So there is a disagreement about who has the authority here under the law. The white house pushes back and says that there is a vacancy filling statute in the code that al
Number is too many. Jeffrey brooks is the washington correspondent from the Minneapolis Star Tribune and spoke with senator franken today and joins us by phone. Give us a look at senator frankens state of mind. He said, im a warm person. I hug people. Some women found my greeting or my embrace or hug for a photo inappropriate and i respect their feelings about that. In recent days, ive been thinking about how i need to be much more thoughtful about those situations. What has that intraspection been like . The senator has emerged to let us know that hes very, very sorry and very, very much wants to get back to work this week. So well see whether minnesota accepts his apology. His expectation is to get back to capitol hill and get back to work. How challenging is that likely to be while members of the house and senate have been out of town . Whats the reception likely to be once he gets back to the capital tomorrow . Its going to be interesting. He is a voice who would have been first ou
Poses any threat, and he has resisted or attempted to roll back efforts to hold moscow to account. So heres the president just a month ago not exactly Holding Moscow to account. I believe that president putin really feels, and he feels strongly, that he did not meddle in our election. What he believes is what he believes. What i believe is that we have to get to work. Having russia in a friendly posture as opposed to always fighting them is an asset to our country, not a liability. Well, today Vladimir Putin is returning the favor. This morning in his yearly press conference backing up President Trumps position that reports of potential russian collusion are pure fiction. All of this has been invented, made up by people who are in opposition to President Trump with a view to shedding a negative light on what hes doing. With us from the Washington Post, White House Bureau chief philip rucker. One of the reporters that as a byline in that bombshell piece. In moscow, keir simmons and jona
What, steel is coming back. But almost a year into his presidency, americanmade steel is on the decline as imports rise. Have the president s actions actually hastened the demise of the American Steel worker . We begin with a failure to report. Three cities suing the department of defense. New york city, philadelphia and San Francisco argue Many Service Members disqualified from owning guns were not reported to the National Background check system. Ive got 18 Credible Team of reporters and guests to break this down. Lets start with hans nichols. Hans, what can you tell us about this lawsuit . Its a pretty basic lawsuit. It seeks to force the department of defense, the pentagon, to comply with their own law. By their own admission many service are not in compliance with the law. It and from 2015 to 2016 about 2,500 cases and roughly a third across all the services werent in compliance. The law requires them if someone in the military is convicted, basically the equivalent of a felony se
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