Right now. Its not an order, the president s opinion. Are President Trumps tweets considered official white house statements . The president is the president of the United States, theyre considered official statements by the president of the United States. Wow. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. Im confused. So confused. What is that line from the office . Universe, you win. Its thursday, august 2nd. And what a way to start the day. What a way. So, is it the official policy of the president or not . I think the most telling thing of the whole story is how much his lawyers freaked out immediately and started calling around immediately. He was just venting. Just like a baseball game. When hes actually doing what talking about what would start a constitutional crisis. Or Obstruction Of Justice. As brian clause pointed out yesterday is exactly what he did in turkey back 2013, 2014. Talk about fake news. You talk about deep state conspiracies. You fire prosecutors and you have a were
So this may be investors saying, oh, maybe you are okay with ending some of these trade wars. Well talk about this trade deal and what it means. Lets get to the white house where right now the president and first lady are wrapping up a meeting with the president of kenya and his wife. Geoff bennett joins me. I want to get back to senator mccain and the controversy over flags that are at half staff in congress and many other places in the country but not at the white house. They were at half staff and are now back to full staff. Reporter flags are lowered by president ial proclamation so its the president who decides who receives that honor and the recent tradition for senators who die in office have been to have flags lowered in their honor from the day of death until their burial. So during president obamas time in office, he had four Sitting Senators die. There was ted kennedy, robert byrd, daniel inouhe. John mccain under President Trump did not receive that
honor. He appears to be
If you look at the fact that. This is date over the news live from the land south africa swears in its president Cyril Ramaphosa pledges to battle corruption as he takes office in a lavish no ration ceremony we hear from our correspondent about the challenges he faces also coming up. U. S. President donald trump arrives in japan for a special state visit as the new emperor is 1st foreign guest. And celebrities gather on the Red Carpet One Last Time as the Cannes Film Festival proles to its climax our film critic scott ross broke the final downfall and gives us his
prediction for who will take home the competition pompadour. Thanks. Im Rebecca Ritters welcome to the program cyril ram opposed has been sworn in as president of south africa after being returned to office in elections earlier this month has promised a new dawn for the country which suffers from high crime slumping Economic Growth and high unemployment from opposes presidency follows a Corruption Scandal that brought down hi
Deepening the trade relationship for raw materials between Germany and Chile is a strategically important step to reduce Germany's dependence on China, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said at a meeting with her Chilean counterpart in Berlin on Thursday. "In these turbulent global times, foreign economic policy is also security policy," said Baerbock. Chilean Foreign Minister Alberto van Klaveren said that there were great opportunities for closer cooperation with Germany and Europe in the fie