And later, my conversation with senator Kiersten Gillibrand. But first we are following a wave of breaking news. Rudy giuliani tells the New York Times and nbc news Robert Mueller will seek to conclude his investigation into collusion with russia by September 1st. So far we have not heard anything from the Special Counsel ourselves. Robert costa from the Washington Post reports an important asterisk. That deadline might hold true if the president sits for an interview. At the same time, President Trump ordering the Justice Department to investigate an if in Fib Informant who was used in the early stages of the russia probe. The president tweeting, quote, i here by demand and will do so officially tomorrow that the department of justice look into whether or not the fbi doj infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for political purposes. As for the president using the power of his office to intervene in an ongoing Justice Department
investigation, maybe we shouldnt be too surprised.
remaining significantly behind the ex-president in public opinion polls. this weekend reporting finds this his advisers are promising to reorient the desantis candidacy as an insurgent run, remake it into a leaner, meaner operation. okay. a look at dangerous, life-threatening covid decisions made by ron desantis as he hopes to stay alive in the republican presidential primary. it s where we begin the hour with some of our favorite reporters and friends. pulmonologist, global health policy expert msnbc medical contributor dr. vin gupta s back with us. dave errenberg is also back with us. and our friend the former renl congressman from florida david jolly is back with us. this is at its core a really heartbreaking piece of reporting to get through. and this is at its core about why we cover politics in these times, because politicians words impact the actions that
main stream media. the push, to make desantis appear more of an insurging id an income governor. the campaign report says spend less, bring in more. joining us now is politics reporter at axios steph kite. thank you for joining us. so when you usually advertise like this that you re doing a reboot, it doesn t tend to go so well, but tell us a little bit about what the internal campaign thinking is behind this need to reboot and why they think it might actually work in improving his poll numbers? certainly comes across almost an admission that something is not going well for the campaign, and obviously we ve been watching desantis poll numbers start to tick down. he s been losing ground against former president donald trump, who s obviously the lead candidate for the gop nomination at this point in the game and, of course, over the weekend reporting that staffers were
bill: let s make this point. something has changed in the last week. dana and i have sat here for two years reporting on this story every day with our reporters up and down the border. we have a monitor to our right called a quad box watching the other networks. no one is down there or even reporting from down there except in the last week. you saw a lot of the networks over the weekend reporting on this story. do you think on its face that could have a difference for policy in this white house? i do. in this business there are a lot of times there are stories a lot of people like to ignore for whatever reason. eventually they have to stop ignoring it because the problem is so manifest. i think what you are seeing in those polling results, this is across the board a dissatisfaction with the status quo. you are seeing it in other networks having to pay attention and seeing it in democrats, including the mayor of this city. dana: i was going to bring
that there s a backlash playing out in school politics. it s going to be shaping the conversations to some extent inside the white house about what to emphasize in this speech. russia, as a new element, into what needs to get tackled in this address. biden s ability to position himself as a world leader, not just a domestic leader. then i think like covid is still the big cloud that s hanging over everything. both on the health front and the economic front. and biden has to find a way to set expectations without repeating all the pitfalls of jimmy carter and malaise and it s going to be a very complicated speech. some of our reporting, my colleagues, hans nichols and jonathan swan over the weekend reporting on the discussions inside both the white house and the outside circle of advisers a about whether he needs a republican foil and who that foil could be. can t be trump. can t only be trump. we know that from the virginia race. can it be ron desantis or would that backfire?