Putin summit. The 11th hour begins now. The fundamental question of our time is whether the west has the willing to survive. The line may sound like churchill or fdrp but it was the question the president posed on this the 156th day of the Trump Administration. In for ari mel burn and while trump used the some ber tone in the remarks today, the literal survive was not exactly the issue that dominated, though the health and perhaps survival of american democracy was on the minds of many as trump prepares for the big showdown meeting tomorrow with Vladimir Putin. So at this joint press conference in war saw Halle Jackson again asked if President Trump accepted that russia was behind the hacks. The president did not cite the authority of the u. S. Intelligence assessment. That would be the easiest way for any president to handle the question. No, instead, he went out of his way to cast more doubt and nonloop back to the man who held office before him. I think it was russia. But i think it
But you heard there, his veiled reference to it, willie. And it seems that hes keeping a pretty good attitude about the chaos thats going on all around him. Hes right in the middle of it. Perhaps a reference to the president yesterday morning tweeting about a quote criminal deep state. Good morning, its thursday, may 24th, welcome to morning joe, weve got msnbc contributor, Mike Barnicle, the chair of the africanamerican studies at princeton university, eddie glaube junior, former treasury director and economic analyst, Steve Rattner, columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post and Washington Capitals fan, a very happy fan this morning. Huge game seven win and nbc news capitol hill correspondent, host of kasie d. C. On msnbc, kasie hunt. I want to chime in that every time i hear this kasie d. C. ac dc thing. I think about the battle between westi westinghouse battle between when we should have ac current or d. C. Current. Holy moly, ladies and gentlemen, playing the role of
Not one fact or piece of evidence to support his insind yar allegation. All you have to do is look at the basics and youll see. It looks like a very serious event. But well find out. When they look at the documents, i think people are going to see a will the of bad things happen. I hope its not so. Because if it is, theres never been anything like it. I hope its not true, but it looks like it is. Of course it looks like it is. Well see what the documents say. Hes seen no documents or evidence, but he has no problem b throwing out there something so serious. Even his own lawyer admitted President Trump doesnt know if there was a spy in his campaign. So lets start with the facts because here the facts as we know them this evening. The fbi used a confidential source to speak with members of trumps team. Cnn is reporting that person was not embed ded in the campaign a the president alsos and the New York Times reports and this is really important, so maier hear out. They report the fbi onl
To the millions of americans watching Robert Mueller said this. Director mueller, the president has repeatedly claimed that your report found there was no obstruction and that it completely and totally exonerated him. But thats not what your report said, is it. Correct thats not what the report said. So the report did not conclude that he did not commit obstruction of justice. Is that correct. That is correct. And what about total exoneration . Did you actually totally exonerate the president . No. Now fantastic the report expressly states it does not exonerate the president . It does. And your investigation actually found, quote, multiple acts by the president capable of exerting undue influence over Law Enforcement investigations, including the russian interference and obstruction investigations. Is that correct . Correct. Did the president refuse a request to be interviewed by you and your team . Yes. Yes. And is it trued true you tried more than a year to secure an interview with t
Nas President Trumps attitude tonight, according to a Senior Administration official. And its all about the growing calls for trumps embattled hand picked labor secretary to resign for not prosecuting jeffrey epstein. Epstein is accused of raping younger girls. The president sending alex acosta before cameras for an hour to defend himself. And acosta performed a audience everyone. He was unapologyist fiercely defending his role in securing the sweetheart deal in 2008 for epstein. A state grand jury brought that single, completely unacceptable charge. A state official allowed epstein to selfsurrender. I wanted to help him. That is why we intervened. We did what we did because we wanted to see epstein go to jail. He needed to go to jail. There was value to getting a guilty plea. You can always look at a play after the fact and say should it have been the safe play or gone for the big score . Well acosta certainly went for the safe play. Despite authorities having evidence that epstein sk