Doing, a new high according to the recent poll by the Washington Post. And that be poll also Shows Nearly Half of americans favor impeachment proceedings. The president is reacting the way he knows best, with a flurry of unbalanced tweets attacking the russia investigation, the Justice Department, and the news media. And thats where we start this morning. Joining me now is erin delawamo and katy fang. Let me ask you, erin. What do you feel in the mid of the of all of this, labor day, usually as i said, is last stretch. Big elections in this midterm and we are unlike any other Labor Day Weekend dealing with will the Mueller Investigation release some bombshell . Will there be something that goes down in these trade battles, negotiations, nafta . The president disinvited from a senior republican statesmans funeral, as well as not having to deal with so many other issues. This is a different kind of labor day kickoff for the midterms than weve probably seen in our lifetime, certainly in a
Bonnie and clyde of collusion. So far every indictment is unrelated to the president. Reporter foreign money traced to the Trump Inauguration fund and another guilty plea produced by the mueller probe, and Donald Trumps emergency visit to texas to help ted cruz. I call him lying ted. All in starts right now. Donald, youre a sniveling coward. Good evening, im chris says. Theres a reason the president of the United States has been waging an all out public war against an obscure career Civil Servant because that Civil Servant reportedly had information in the summer of 2016 that russian intelligence believed they had trump over a barrel. Unless you watch fox news, you probably dont know anything about him. Ohr spent a decades long career at doj prosecuting violent gangs and organized crime, developing a special focus on russian organized crime. And for those years since he first became a prosecutor 27 years ago, ohr was basically just a guy who went to work everyday doing his job investig
Now it is time for the last word. Good evening. The day that Aretha Franklin passed away was right before my 11 00 a. M. Show started. We managed to get through the whole hour celebrating her life and getting through the day without talking about that other day we talk about it. Possibly the best hour i have had in the last two ways is because she passed away and we got to talk about her for an hour. And the Memorial Service needs to be preserved for all time in terms of that cultural moment. It was an incredible thing. Thanks my friend. All right. Im in for lawrence odonnell. The president of the United States loves to talk about breaking records. But he will not be bragging about the record that he broke today. President trumps disapproval is now the highest it has ever been in the Washington Post abc news poll. For the first time 60 of americans disapprove of the job that donald trump is doing as president and more than half of americans, 53 , strongly disapprove of the job donald t
Fallout stands after the bombshell. What does this mean for other witnesses . Paul manafort had to conclude, watching the whole Michael Cohen saga, that trust and loyalty with trump run in one direction only. Today new reaction on a former white house official whether manaforts actions equate to collusion. And in the carolinas, historic flooding is expected to get worse. The death toll is on the rise as the remnants of florence linger. The latest in live reports. Hello, everyone. Im Chris Jansing in new york for alex witt at the new york headquarters. Its 1 00 outeast. President trump is hailing the administrations response to the storm so far. We got a new tweet, the president saying, fema, First Responders and Law Enforcement are working really hard on Hurricane Florence. As the storm begins to finally recede, they will kick into an even higher gear. Very professional. Lets go to Nbcs Kelly Odonnell at the white house, and kelly, tfema also respondin to the president s tweet. What ar
Particularly in the courts. Just tonight, for example, after close of business, the u. S. Attorney in washington, d. C. Filed this motion in federal court in washington asking for a gag order to be imposed by the court on the Legal Defense team court on the Legal Defense team representing maria buttina. To try on influence the 2016 election on behalf of the russian government. Maria butinas lawyer has done lots of interviews and made lots of appearances. Prosecutors are asking for the judge to put a gag order on her lawyer so he will be restricted to only pleading her case in court rather than on tv. She of course remains in jail tonight awaiting trial. The judge in her case refused to allow her out on bail after prosecutors argued that she was a severe flight risk. They argued that her extensive alleged ties to the russian government would create too strong a possibility that she would take refuge in the Russian Embassy in washington or otherwise find a way to flee country to avoid th