and has done since before he became president. he definitely likes to sort of address some anger towards jeff base owes and the fact that he brought in the washington post suggests that he is trying again to use the media, in this case the post in particular as a little bit of a foil when he s not happy with their reporting. sung min is right to say that s an independent newspaper and it s part of a pattern when he is upset by something. owned by jeff bezos but not by amazon. just to clarify. great discussion. thank you both. have a great holiday weekend. new video on story we have been following here on msnbc. cameras capturing the scene. buses full of russian diplomats leaving their embassy in washington a short time ago that followed the u.s. expulsion of russian diplomats over the alleged poisoning of an russian exspy in england. the latest move coming just hours after moscow kicked out 60 u.s. diplomats and shut down the
a nerve agent of a russian exspy widely believed to be sanctioned and possibly done by the russian government. and the president was given written briefings before this call and he did not follow them. he talked about syria, north korea for our sources did not mention these two topics. so that s what happened yesterday. he was given this information and also given an oral briefing and in the call with vladimir putin, did the call his way and did not follow what his national security advisers had put in writing. obviously that s the president s choice to do. he can say whatever he wants in any call. he s president of the united states. but he did not follow what many of the professionals in the white house wanted them to do. chris, you wrote this morning that this feels like a purposeful leak at the highest levels designed to publicly embarrass the president. why? publicly embarrass/communicate with them. why? because brianna,
coming up, alarming new developments in the poisoning of a russian exspy and his daughter. how were dme posed to a military grade nerve agent? plus, another russian the focus of a murder investigation.