World. They explode the new york time times, are seemingly racist tweets inexcusable as it claims. Are they claiming the hoax, the lawyer says this is Freedom Of Speech is that going to work. Plus the boston globe uncovers a tsa program call quiet skies that been spying on thousands of ordinary americans. Is that good post9 11 police work neighborhood, several primaries not yet old enough to vote for themself, ill ask when navigating controversial issues in our political process. First, are tweets making fun of white the people necessarily racist . And are attacks on police to be taken at face value . Those questions arose this week regarding the New York Times new hire sarah john a 30yearold technology writer
hired for their prestigious Editorial Board. Typically for a conversation like this id go to the times, today there was nothing in the Print Version for hatred of white the people, police, et cetera, et set ramp thats something i noted on twitter, which prompted somebody else to
These are the slicers. They slice people up. They wanted me to walk up and go like this. Some of the president at his rally in Pennsylvania Last Night and much, much more of that. Good morning, everyone. Its friday, august 3rd. Welcome to morning joe. We have a number of important developments to get through this morning, including a stark warning from the intel community. Russia is at it again. Theyve got the publics attention, but what about the president s . Does he care . Whats going on . Plus, dan coats speaks truth to power, again. The director of National Intelligence admits he still does not know what the president told Vladimir Putin last month in helsinki. Think about it. The director of National Intelligence. And ivanka trump says that it was a low point for her when the separations of children from their family were happening
Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Barletta or ca
Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. Chicanery. The president said putin was unhappy he won. Ill tell you what, russia is very unhappy that trump won, that i can tell you. Well thats a far cry from what putin himself said in helsinki. Did you direct any of your officials help him do that. Translator yes, i did. Because he talked about using the u. S. russia relationship back to normal. Joining us now. And malcolm nance, msnbc analyst. First to the reporters, michael and then john. Isnt that what is going on, this split screen . They had to show they were doing something and it left them exposed to critics who said you are not doing anything. You are not taking this threat seriously. You laid it out well in the beginning of the show. He charts its own path. He is going to say what he feels whether it is on twitter or at a rally. And in terms of collusion, the idea of interference, he cant separate the idea between the Mueller P
Michael Smerconish tackles the American political and news stories of the week, offering only one kind of talking points his own. The times, by the way, standing by her hire saying they understood her twitter past and understand it for what it was. We had candid conversations with sarah as part of the thorough vetting process which included a review of her social media history. She understands this rhetoric is not acceptable at the times and we are confident she will be an important voice for the Editorial Board moving forward. Interestingly, the fact that the times already knew about her tweets is significant due to another hire in february, quinn norton. When some of miss nortons old tweets surfaced which included racial slurs and an Internet Troll which works for a neonazi website she ended stepping down that same day. In that case, it had not been aware of her tweets before it hired her. We reached out to miss jeong, but we were told she was unavailable. Go to smerconish. Com and a
Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Was obvious the meeting was to get information from foreign nationals which is a crime. Lawyers running around collusion is not a crime. Anybody knows a low he ranking congressman like i was in my first year understood you cant get an in kind contribution from mullahs in iran or Vladimir Putin in russia. Thats right, joe. The president is concerned. Hes anxious, fearful about where this is all headed. His legal team is focused on that Trump Tower Meeting as they have been for some time. Thats a key moment in the mueller investigation. Our reporting, despite what the president tweeted in response to it very much is that hes worried about don junior, expressed that worry to people hes been talking to on the phone, privately brouting about this. Mueller seems to be inching
closer and closer to the oval office, to the people in the president s circle. That