the media are not the enemy of the people. that comment was followed by a but. but i have been the victim of a false reporting, et cetera. we need her to say the media is not the enemy of the people. full stop. period. check her father when he says that. she can t have it both ways. too many times she and the family have been extended a mulligan that is grossly undeserved. if you follow john lamire on twitter, and you should, you saw this photo last night. it says spotted at the morristown, new jersey, ahead of air force one departure from trump s ohio rally. hope hicks. we talk about the president s biological family, the role they are playing in the administration. he had a family of close confy daun daunt / confidants. what do you make of her presence at the rally last night? first and foremost, thank you for the twitter plug. secondly, hope hicks also almost resembled a family member here for president trump over the last few years. she used to work for ivanka
dougherty, thank you both very much. ahead in our next hour, much more on the fallout from president trump s morning tweet storm, and the implications about that one tweet in particular about the meeting that took place trump tower back in 2016. plus, two races to watch this coming week that could tell us a whole lot about the midterm elections in november. sfx: [cell phone dialing] no. no, no, no, no, no. cancel. cancel. please. aaagh! being in the know is a good thing. that s why discover will alert you if your social security number is found
donald trump jr. i am sure in consultation with his lawyers. the president wasn t involved. i had bad information. i made a mistake. in a situation like this you have, over time, facts develop. i got that one wrong. to give you a sense of the importance of those 278 characters, a former congresswoman who voted on richard nixon s impeachment. this is the news tightening very, very, very much around donald trump s neck and the neck of his son. all right. we will get more legal analysis here in a moment. i want to start with geoff bennett who covers the white house for us at msnbc. jeff, as the washington post put it today, president trump has yet again tweeted about his personal legal issues in way he perhaps shouldn t have? it s a great point because, look, the president s position is one that s on its face really only leading to more questions. the president is asserting that the 2016 trump tower meeting with the russians was part of the normal course of politics. he says n
troy balderson lost a lead. but after special election defeats in pennsylvania and alabama, can the president throw a hail mary pass like he used to? joining me now is henley gomez, a political reporter for buzzfeed news. owen doherty with the columbus dispatch. i want to start with you. i was following your coverage last night on twitter and something stood out to me. you said you spoke with dozens of folks there at the rally. you ducked into an arby s and talked to a few more. this stood out to me. very few actually lived in the 12th district. many out-of-towners, you wrote on twitter. turnout is so important here, so important when you look at the calculus for the president making this visit there, you ve got a pretty moderate democratic candidate going up against this republican. what is that, the turnout you saw anecdotally tell you about the prospects for the republican candidate looking ahead to this special election on tuesday? yeah, exactly, david. i mean, trump s rallies ar
went to certain foreign countries and i had to check my calendars and everybody who does this and seriously looks at this has to do it because the application makes it clear that the failure to do it properly is a crime. all right. you had to do this as an attorney. think about all the attorneys the outside attorneys that are now in the mix, donald trump, donald trump jr., jared kushner. president trump s outside attorney. does he have to get this kind of clearance? we re talking about a guy who two nights ago responds to an anonymous e-mail, you know, what does he say? watch your back and i m going to move on you, bro. this guy needs to get that kind of security clearance? i would think so. but will he get it. that s the question. it doesn t matter how much money they spend on lawyers because he s still out tweeting and don jr. is giving interviews to hannity. they re not following their lawyers advice. it s as much as they lawyer up, they re not listening. because their base