Questions on a number of issues at todays briefing which hasnt begun yet. The Inspector General report on the investigation into Hillary Clintons private email server is out. It found no indication, no indication of political bias with one possible exception on a questionable text message. But the investigator generals report is being overshadowed by two controversies surrounding the president this hour. The administration is taking serious heat from both sides of the aisle over trumps new policy of separating parents from their children at the u. S. mexico border. Today, on Donald Trumps 72nd birthday we learned that the new York Attorney general is suing the Trump Foundation. The suit alleges the president and his Adult Children illegally used money from the private foundation for personal, business, and political expenses. The lawsuit alleges it has been happening more than a decade. The president sprung into action with his twitter fingers saying witchhunt, no collusion, no crime,
So we will. Day 482 of the trump administration, and we are tracking breaking news concerning the Trump White House on multiple fronts, as we say. President trumps lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani is speaking out again on the russia investigation. Were trying to get him to end this. This is not good for the american people. And the special counsels office doesnt seem to have that sort of understanding that theyre interfering with things that are much bigger than them. More on mr. Giuliani in just a moment. We know President Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for over 100,000 for what certainly appears to be that payment to Stormy Daniels. We got a firsthand look at thousands of panls of congressional testimony today about the now infamous 2016 trump tower meeting. The Senate Intelligence Committee Said today that russia did favor trump in 2016. The New York Times has a new report on the secret origins of the fbis russia investigation. The leaker who revealed Michael Cohens financial payments said
And good evening once again from our msnbc news headquarters here in new york. Err fair warning right here at the top of the broadcast, we have an unusually high volume of news to get through together in the course of this broadcast and so we will. Day 482 of the trump administration, and we are tracking breaking news concerning the Trump White House on multiple fronts, as we say. President trumps lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani is speaking out again on the russia investigation. Were trying to get him to end this. This is not good for the american people. And the special counsels office doesnt seem to have that sort of understanding that theyre interfering with things that are much bigger than them. More on mr. Giuliani in just a moment. We know President Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for over 100,000 for what certainly appears to be that payment to Stormy Daniels. We got a firsthand look at thousands of panls of congressional testimony today about the now infamous 2016 trump tower meeting.
On multiple fronts, as we say. President trumps lawyer, rudolph giuliani, is speaking out again on the russia investigation. Were trying to get him to end this. This is not good for the american people. And the special counsels office doesnt seem to have that sort of understanding that theyre interfering with things that are much bigger than them. More on mr. Giuliani in just a moment. We know President Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for over 100,000 for what certainly appears to be that payment to Stormy Daniels. We got a firsthand look at thousands of pages of congressional testimony today about the now infamous 2016 trump tower meeting. The Senate Intelligence Committee Said today that russia did favor trump in 2016. The New York Times has a new report on the secret origins of the fbis russia investigation. The leaker who revealed Michael Cohens financial payments said they were prompted to leak because of a troubling discovery that they made. All this as we are just minutes away, a
Our msnbc studios here in new york as we begin a new week. Our lead story has to do with two people that gained fame in the Reality Television business, it would be a grave mistake to dismiss what we are witnessing right now as a tabloid dust up between the former host of the apprentice and a former contestant. The host went on to become president. The contestant was in his administration. Her departure was sudden and ugly and now she has a book out and it turns out she has recordings from the inner sanctum of the Trump White House in the situation room in the white house of her own firing by chief of staff john kelly. I think it is important to understand that if we make this a friendly departure, you can look at your time here in the white house as a year of service to the nation and then you can go on without any type of difficulty in the future relative to your reputation. And then there is this, the recording she released today of the phone call she said she had with the president