No question about it. Talk to your doctor about chantix. Welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. We are live in washington from 7 00 to 9 00 eastern. Tonight the president lashes out against Robert Mueller claiming Conflicts Of Interest. Plus russia gate travels to the Worst Airport gate in america. Don junior and Robert Mueller treated to the lucid nightmare that is gate 35 x at Reagan National airport. At the same time the president s inner circle is fighting it out in federal court and the court of public opinion. Later well talk to senator Chris Van Hollen about matters
foreign and domestic. He floetsz new sanctions for months could you as tariffs start to turn politically toxic at home. But we begin with a series of tweets from the president late today including a Greatest Hits of grievances against special counsel Robert Mueller. Quote, is Robert Mueller ever going to release his Conflicts Of Interest with respect to president trump, including the fact that we had a very nasty and
that. republicans will look for political gain. there may be reasons to investigate the larger questions of money further, but this was a fundamental lawyering with a lot of political implicationisimpli. don t expect republicans to have to the fact of the case over the narrative they re trying to pursue. they would say the facts of the case haven t been fully given to the public. republicans on capitol hill think there s a lot of information being hidden from the public. that s why they had the whistle-blowers come to ko congress. joseph ziegler will be here in the 8:00 a.m. hour. for as long as this has been going on republicans have believed a lot of things are being hidden from the public to are protect joe biden and so more facts are coming out, and that s a good thing. transparency here for joe biden. he s the president. it s deserved. can you talked to mitch mcconnell yesterday, even is worried because he froze for 23 seconds at the podium, and this
when he was an assistant coach on the ohio state university wrestling team, he was alleged to have heard about tales of i want impropriety, sexual molestation from the head coach from the doctor. from the doctor. sorry. and allegedly did nothing. we can t fully digest this move to be speaker without understanding that. he obviously had designs in this on the other hand the timing of spectacular. it s more of a bait and switch. c he, kevin mccarthy says basically i am the back channel between the president and congress. i think paul ryan all of a sudden basically, i think to your point, was basically being kind of flippant. it s more of almost an ins e insider game of we get you re basically trying to do the bait and switch, the smoke and mirrors, look at me over here because i have serious problems as home. kevin mccarthy didn t have the votes last time to become speaker. does he have them this time? he has definitely worked to
interfere in our elections again. midterms are less than 100 days away. this bill is very straightforward. it says that if after the election, the director of national intelligence finds that the russians have interfered in our election, there will be automatic very tough sanctions. would require no action from the president or from congress after that. that s right. i mean, we re in the process of negotiations right now, but that is the whole idea to deter interference. you think mitch mcconnell would be willing to let this come to the floor? mitch mcconnell has indicated this is one of the measures he s looking at but you raised a big question, this is kind of the test over the next three weeks about whether or not the republican leadership in the senate and the house is serious about protecting the 2018 elections and serious about protecting our democracy. we re going to have some hearings coming up, but if those hearings are not followed by real action, then they ll be sayi
it s the same argument. paul butler, what do you think? if donald trump knew in advance about this meeting where allegedly the russians were going to provide dirt on hillary, three other crimes in addition to the campaign finance ones, obstruction of justice because he dictated a memo about this meeting are that was a lie. it was obviously an intent to throw people off, including the prosecutors. if he knew that the dirt was coming from hacked e-mail, he would also be guilty of computer fraud under federal laws. no. no. no. conspiracy to defraud the united states. none of that is true. jared kushner jared kushner said under oath in congress that the president did not know about this meeting. so what mueller does with that is possibly i m not sure kushner was under oath. i m sorry, don junior. lying to congress is a crime. don junior testified under oath the president did not know about this meeting.