Watching shes like them too. Actually all of you guys, phil rucker, reverend al, jess, john, you guys are all goats of a way and my goat we mean the greatest of all time. That does it for this hour. I was in for nicolle wallace. She will be back next week and you all will be glad. Speaking of g. O. A. T. S, mtp daily starts now. Heilemann, you got me to quickly google the men who stare at goats. Do you remember that movie . I thought it was going to be extraordinarily funny and, well, i cant quote a single line from it other than the title. I cant believe you actually that is what this made you think of but im glad that it did and thats the kind of movie that you are the ultimate netflix customer. John heilemann, i think of you as one of the men who stare at goats. Have a great weekend, chuck. Thank you, sir. If its friday, is the president feeling the heat . Tonight, President Trumps theater of the absurd of the. Now were being hindered by the russian hoax. Its a hoax, okay . Is manaf
that he was going to act more conventionally most of the time he would be able to keep all of the voters he has and he might have really good opportunity to expand his base of support and reach voters. that like a lot of his policies, but simply cannot accept the way he behaves. the president doesn t like that. i don t think that he believes that. the president, i think, believes that if he were to act conventionally and to act like a normal politician it simply wouldn t work for him. so i don t expect any of this to change. this is what the president enjoys so much. one of the reasons he s running for re-election. he won t pass up an opportunity to go on tour again in 2020. we see him with the prompter. it s not the same president. everything is different. david drucker thank you very much. we ll talk to you again in just a little bit. we re learning more details this morning about the so-called second trump tower meeting
during 2016 campaign. this one also involving donald trump jr. other participants for that august 3rd, 2016 meeting including a israeli social media essentiallyist, republican donor with controversial ties to the middle east and emissary who led the saudi arabia and united arab emirates. last year the new york times reported that george nader said that included saudi arabia s crown prince mbs they were eager to help donald trump win the election. the paper reported another participant was erik prince who arranged that meeting. in an interview last friday prince admitted to participating in that trump tower meeting, however before the house intelligence committee in 2017 prince failed to mention that he was actually involved saying he had no formal communication with
you? an israeli dude, a back channel to the emirates, stephen miller. we re here to talk about iran policy. here to talk about iran policy? that s something to disclose on house intelligence committee under oath. i did. there s no mention of the trump tower meeting august 16. they got the transcript wrong. they didn t get it wrong. the transcript is what it is. he did not zdisclose this interesting, to say nothing of suspicious second trump tower meeting. and material fact. under the law it was a lie knowing and willful. here s the thing. when you are bickering about whether the transcript is correct, you have a credibility problem and that s what he s got. maybe we ll find out, maybe it was an honest mistake. but i doubt it. erik prince is part of this very wealthy family. his sister betsy devos is the secretary of education, and he
disclose. i did. you didn t. we just went through the testimony. there s no mention of the trump tower meeting. i don t know if they got the transcript wrong. certainly not telling the truth. there s nothing wrong with the transcript or reporter who transcribed his testimony. he did not disclose that meeting to our committee. bob mueller has that testimony already. and bob mueller will have to make the decision about whether that rises to the level of deliberate falsehood. a florida entrepreneur who found a chain of spas and massage parlors where new england patriots robert kraft was recently arrested for soliciting prostitution has become the latest donald trump donor to draw controversy. 45-year-old lee yang runs a consulting service that sells chinese clients access to the president. they founded their company in 2017 and it is described online as an international business consulting firm that provides