Oh, yeah. President trump heads to europe this morning after selecting his nominee last night to the u. S. Supreme court. He leaves the senate to battle over judge Brett Kavanaugh, while nato allies brace for their own confrontations with the american commander in chief, and what a history they already have in such a short time. Welcome to morning joe. Its tuesday, july 10th. With us we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, former chairman. Republican National Committee Michael Steele and nbc News National plit reporter Heidi Przbyla is with us. A lot to talk about. Quite a late night for everybody watching the big announcement. Well get to the president S Supreme Court pick and his nato trip in a moment. First, the gallup pool shows President Trumps Approval Rating slipped into double digit negative territory as 56 disapprove and 41 approve. This just three weeks after trump received the best marks since the first days of his presidency in midjune only to have his ratings turned back
It was such a like lowrent bad action movie juvenile plot that it was hard to square with the sort of seriousness with which it was presented. I mean, the scheme that they laid out was this. There was a drug cartel, a drug gang in mexico called los zetas, zetas, zetas, and the dea, Drug Enforcement administration, to a certain extent had infiltrated this gang, the zetas. The dea at least had informants working for them who were living and working as members of this gang. But secretly reporting back to the dea what was going on inside the gang which is interesting in terms of a Law Enforcement drama prospect, right . But one day in may of 2011 one of these guys who was secretly working for the dea as an informant inside this drug gang, he made arrangements to talk to his dea handler. And he hold his handler in the dea something that felt like it was like visiting from a different planet, it was a plot from a totally different movie, something that seemed totally off the wall for what wa
Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 862 of the Trump Administration and just quickly here, well update this at the bottom of the hour, we have 12 dead now in Virginia Beach after a mass shooting by a longtime coworker. Four people hospitalized including a Police Officer. The gunman is also dead. First off, lets begin our broadcast here tonight with those new developments that are still on this friday evening emerging from the Mueller Investigation. This week, we heard Robert Mueller say he closed down his office but his investigation launched several others which are still ongoing including the one involving mike flynn who was briefly trumps First National security adviser. Youll recall he took a plea and copped to lying to investigators about his conversations with a former Russian Ambassador to the u. S. , sergey kislyak. Those conversations took place december 2016 during the transition. Earlier this month, a federal judge ordered the J
Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 862 of the Trump Administration and just quickly here, well update this at the bottom of the hour, we have 12 dead now in Virginia Beach after a mass shooting by a longtime coworker. Four people hospitalized including a Police Officer. The gunman is also dead. First off, lets begin our broadcast here tonight with those new developments that are still on this friday evening emerging from the Mueller Investigation. This week, we heard Robert Mueller say he closed down his office but his investigation launched several others which are still ongoing including the one involving mike flynn who was briefly trumps First National security adviser. Youll recall he took a plea and copped to lying to investigators about his conversations with a former Russian Ambassador to the u. S. , sergey kislyak. Those conversations took place december 2016 during the transition. Earlier this month, a federal judge ordered the J
About her allegation. Also its the dinner that helped make barack obama a star. Many consider iowas liberty and justice celebration as the place where obama had his break out moment in the 2007 president ial race. Tonight 14 democrats candidates are trying to have their own break out moments at that very same event on the same night that beto orourke dropped out of the race. Theres a lot to talk about in the 2020 race. But first House Democrats are preparing to take the impeachment investigation public. Speaker nancy pelosi told Bloomberg News that public hearings from key witnesses could start later this month. But she cautioned there was no deadline to finish the investigation and that any case to impeach the president , quote, has to be iron clad. The investigating committees have already heard testimony from 13 witnesses who have provided roughly 100 hours of testimony behind closed doors. Next week House Democrats have 11 more witnesses on their deposition calendar, and their test