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judge kavanaugh is confirmed to be a justice in the spring court, he doesn t have a recusal obligation just because he was nominated by the president at issue. the law doesn t support that. look, this is a constant fight between special counsels and presidents. president clinton. they fought back hard and ultimately got a very constrained interview. that interview did blow up in the president s face. it s a cautionary tale for any president going before a special counsel. the supreme court has weighed in on these issues a number of times. they have not come down on the side of the president. in two nixon cases, one case they determine the president was immune from civil litigation. prior to that, they decided the president was subject to a criminal subpoena which richard nixon the tapes. it s not clear the president is going to enact the battle. this is going to be an interesting battle if it comes down to
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unleashing a nerve agent in the uk. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. republican chris collins of new york first sitting member of the congress to back the president trump s bid in february 2016. he was such a strong supporter of mr. trump collins at the republican national convention was asked to formally second mr. trump s nomination to be his party s nominee. i have the honor of seconding the nomination of donald j. trump as the next president of the united states of america! but today the congressman was arrested by the fbi. moments ago the congressman walked out of federal court in new york city where he was arraigned. prosecutors this afternoon detailing the grand jury indictments of the new york republican, his son and his son s fiancee s father for 13
counts of securities fraud, wire fraud and false statements. all stemming from an alleged i
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elections? when we re picking who s going to be running the house and the senate? i think right track/wrong track is a very important indicator. that and there s often polling numbers of, does this guy or this person, this candidate fight for people like you? those are the type of polls i find a little more credible. astonishing to me is that it can be down at 35% when the economy on its surface and in its aggregate numbers is doing so well. i d ask an expert like john heilemann or somebody, have you ever seen right track being 35% when unemployment is below 4%? and since i think the economic numbers won t always be as good, this could really tumble down if there s if there starts to be any blips in the economy.
especially from this continued china trade dispute, which could, you know, start bringing down the economy a little bit. so, joe, si
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also on this, just breaking tonight, minutes ago, the associated press is reporting that the national enquirer kept a safe with documents on hush money payments and other killed stories that were damaging specifically to trump. a safe. do you know anything about that? i actually don t know anything about it. i haven t been at the company for quite a while. but then again, it wouldn t surprise me. because when you have ammunition, it gives you a lot more ability to get to people who you want david pecker owns a stable of publications. it s not just the national enquirer. and there s actually been stories of him using killing a story in the enquirer to get someone to do something with his other publications. so. all right. so carrie, let s talk about the law here. at the same time the national enquirer was catching and killing these stories about trump, it was also taking on hi
while. that does it for us this morning. morning joe starts right now. good morning and welcome to morning joe. on an extremely busy wednesday, october 10th, we re following a number of fast-paced developing stories this morning. chilling new reporting from the washington post and the new york times on the disappearance of washington post columnist jim malkashogi. we ll talk to david ignatius about that and get the very latest. we ll have him about the political and foreign policy implications of the sudden resignation of u.n. ambassador nikki haley. plus, the audience at president trump s rally last night, again, breaks out in a lock her up chant, this time for someone other than hillary clinton. steve kornacki will be here to make sense of a slew of new polling out this morning. but first, we are just hours away from hurricane michael making landfall in the florida panhandle, bringing with it life threatening storm surge as high
as 13 feet in some areas. the storm stre