Briefing. Wait, no. He literally refuted himself in real time, less than a minute. Willie, maybe i need to stop calling him a day trader. Maybe moment trader. He is a second trader. Well, he is definitely daytoday. He changes his positions. But he changed his position in the course of one sentence right there. Clearly, he is not quite clear on when he was told and what he was told. We are pretty clear, and well walk through it here. Yeah. Well, it was the president there confirming and denying within a minutes time the Washington Post reporting from this week, that he was repeatedly briefed on the coronavirus early this year. Theres reporting to back that up, even when he says he wasnt, but he was. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is friday, may 1st. Among with joe, willie, and me, we have republican strategist and msnbc political analyst susan del persio. And host of politics nation and president of the National Action network, reverend al sharpton joining us on this friday. G
Its just poetic. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. Fixing the defective part would have cost General Motors less than a dollar; failing to fix it cost at least 13 people their lives. Today, members of Congress Demanded answers as the new c. E. O. Of g. M. Testified to explain why the company waited a decade to recall cars that it knew were dangerous. G. M. Is in mary barras dna. She is the daughter of a g. M. Factory worker and has worked for the car maker since she was an 18yearold intern. But as jeff glor tells us, she tried to distance herself today from the actions of previous management. From the actions of previous management. Do you swear that the testimony you are about to give. . Reporter shortly after mary barra took the oath, congresswoman Diana Degette displayed a g. M. Ignition switch and said it would have cost the company 57 cents to fix it. G. M. Knew about this problem in 2001.
Get ready for some shouting. Good morning from washington, its friday, august 1st, 2014. This is the daily rundown. Its no ordinary august friday. The latest on the continuing clashes in the middle east as a 72hour ceasefire fails to take hold. But lets start quickly with the july jobs report. It showed a bit of a weaker than expected jobs number, still over 200,000. 209,000 to be exact were added lat month. Sixth straight month weve had 200 plus jobs and the Unemployment Rate ticked up from 6 up to 6. 2 from 6. 1 . The report does include upward revisions. June jobs came in just shy of 300,000, up from a preliminary 288. Mays gain was revised to 229, up from 224. This marks six months of gains above 200,000. Thats the first time thats happened since, ready for this, 1997. As for individual sectors, Business Services jobs grew by 47,000, retail up 27,000, construction 22,000, manufacturing up 28,000, so a good report across the board. This comes after a very strong gdp report showing t
Around the world. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. Were following breaking news on President Trump lawyering up right now to try to keep his tax records under wraps. His new attorney just sent a letter to the Treasury Department responding to a Top Democrats demand for the irs to hand over six years worth of mr. Trumps tax returns. The lawyer arguing the request amounts to president ial harassment. A white house official says the trump team is willing to take this fight all the way to the u. S. Supreme court. Also breaking, President Trump visits the southern border with mexico after days of confusing comments about whether hed schett shut down traffic and trade out of mexico. The border is still hope after mr. Trump backed off the threat to close it as early as this week. Eye talki ill talk to a member of the house ways and means thats seeking the tax returns. And our correspondents and analysts are standing by. First to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. Ji
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