Cohen prosecution team, he today if they detail more of the russia. Syria and the middle east, the evidence that they also say they iran is around the edges of this detailed last week there were president s decisions, how have ten search warrants, over 50 have. I know youll be all over thing. Im unclear what the president they affected that . Is going to say they have diminished our that when this starts. Tom winter from new york. Influence to zero. Thanks to him, thanks to all of we no longer have a seat at the you for watching this hour of table. I see our very good ambassador, msnbc live. Krig melvin in new york, im heading to the white house as Jeff Jeffreys who is working on the president is getting ready this. To speak. Frankly, this is a low point for thats our top story, hallie. U. S. Influence in the region. Busy news day. Look, i get it, everyone gets msnbc news headquarters in new york city. It. As hallie mentioned, any moment we want to, quote, get out of now President Trum
Heres the picture of the white house. Were watching and waiting for president barack obama to speak from the south lawn. We dont have specifics but we do know hell be talking about ukraine, ukraine thus far today has denied that their military has been firing these short range missiles at the pro russian rebels in the eastern part of the same country and those pro russian rebels the group suspected of taking down that plane Malaysian Air flight 17. As soon as we see the president well bring thut live. First lets go the middle east. A top israeli official tells cnn israel is prepared for a ceasefire. But nothing has been agreed upon as to yet. But there are no sure things. We all know when it comes to middle east peace earlier today hamas reject ad truce proposed by palestinian leaders. People in gaza spent the day recovering from the most intense israeli bombardment in this three week conflict. Youll see that the smoke, the flames, this is a fuel storage tank at gazas only power plant
Says has been negotiating in back channels. And this is after a failed negotiation for custody of a jordanian prisoner. This after a group who says they have not reveled in taking hostages and celebrating it. So what is the latest on the ultimatum ultimatum . Well, this is tweeted out, and this is the latest audio recording which purports to with be the surviving hostage voice of kenji who says that by 9 30 a. M. Tomorrow mosul time that if they are not at the Turkish Border with the jordanian hostage, they will not release the hostage. For jordan, this is a hard prisoner to give up, because she is a prisoner, and attempted to give part of the terrorist attack and the vest did not go off. Yes shgs, and this was devastating in iman,r and the capital of jor dap and this is an operation ordered by the then leader of iraq al zarquawi and the only reason she did not kill anybody is because the suicide vest didnt go off and the jordanian view is twofold, it is a Prisoner Exchange and she is
Fired after she refused his sexual advances. Troubling allegations. Welcome to the lead. Our politics lead today, donald trump revealing how much cash his campaign raised in june and it is much more than any previous month. He called in a combined 51 million last month, 48 million more than in may, still 17 million less than Hillary Clintons campaign raised in june. Meanwhile, one of his top Vice President candidates announced today he is no longer interested in the job. Jason carroll is here with me do you remember anyone who has been in the middle of a vp vet, submitted the documents, and then said im not interested . No but this has been an unusual campaign. We can tell you that trump says he is looking at ten potential vp candidates including two generals. For corker there could be a number of reasons that he is pulling out. That does not mean she still not interested in a position in the trump administration. The field of Vice President ial candidates appears to be narrowing. Joan
Campaign rhetoric and that of a private citizen when he promised to pull out of afghanistan. Keeping with the America First theme, saying the days of nationbuild regular over. The vat gee, light on strategy, light on specifics by design. The president reaffirmed he does not want the enemy to know his plans. And a hasty withdrawal like the one in iraq is not an option. The vacuum we created by leaving too soon gave safe haven for isis to spread, to grow, recruit, and launch attacks. We cannot repeat in afghanistan the mistake our leaders made in iraq. The president signaled the u. S. Would increase troop levels in afghanistan but offered no numbers. The president also put no end date on americas longest war. Lets bring in retired air force colonel cedric leighton, former head of the joint chiefs. Good to see you. Lets start about what the speech was light on. Again, by design. Light on specifics. Heres what President Trump said about just that we will not talk about numbers of troops or