Mcconnells expertise in getting the votes. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. We want to welcome our viewers. It is monday july 17, chris is off, john berman joining us. Happy monday. Here is our on starting line. New poll shows the president s Approval Rating hitting a record low. The abc News Washington post poll finds just 36 approve of the president s job performance. That is the lowest six month Approval Rating of any president in seven decades. President trump remains defiant in the face of the latest russia revelations s unleashing tweets defending his son and attacking the media. And now the secret service is refuting one of the claims made by the trump team. And the white house trying to get everyones attention back to the president s agenda. They are announcing new theme weeks beginning this week with made in america week. That is what they are calling it. Will any of this change the political situation for them however. One of the president s key promises
York. Thanks for being with me. The president is spending much of this Holiday Weekend tweeting, and he says his tweets are not president ial. In fact, his words, they are modern president ial. Today cnn, this network, responds to trumps latest tweet this morning of a doctored video from his wwwe days suggesting pummeling cnn is what he would rather be doing. Slamming an opponent with the cnn logo there. Superimposed on the persons head. This is old video, but hes made it new again in his tweet. This comes three days before the president of the United States heads to europe ahead of the g20 summit. The president is at his golf club in new jersey. He took time out to honor veterans last night in washington, d. C. Before heading back to new jersey, but he also used that moment in d. C. To say this the fake media is trying to silence us. But we will not let them. Because the people know the truth. The fake media tried to stop us from going to the white house, but im president and theyre n
And showed us whats in his heart and mind. What about the alt left came charges as you say the altright, do they have any semblance of guilt . Let me ask you this, what about the fact they came charging with clubs in their hands swinging clubs, do they have any problem . I think they do. Usually in america were all on the same side when it cams to nazis, usually, but not today. There were people in that rally, and i looked the night before, if you look there were people protesting very quietly, the taking down of the statue of robert e. Lee. Im sure in that group there were some bad ones. The following day look like they had some rough bad people. Neonazis, White Nationalist whatever you want to call them, but you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest, legally protest. Because as you know they had a permit, the other group didnt. There are two sides to a story. I thought what took place was a horrible moment for our country, a horrible moment but there
Quote as cohen has now admitted with respect to both payments he acted in coordination and at the direction of individual one. As a result of cohens actions neither woman spoke to the press. Prior to the election. Okay, lets be clear. Individual one is donald trump. Federal prosecutors, not Robert Muellers team, the sdny, are saying that donald trump committed a serious felony, that he was intimately involved in the illegal scheme to pay the hush money. Actually, he was more than intimately involved, no pun intended, trump directed the hush money scheme. Think about that. Faced with this reality, trump decided to create his own, the president tweeted. Totally clears the president , thank you. No. Thats not just a lie. Thats the actual opposite of the truth. Federal prosecutors are saying in black and white that donald trump broke the law, that he directed his fixer to make an illegal payment, which is a felony. And thats not even close to how much we have to cover tonight, including th
Bars for years. But the fate of Michael Cohen is not the biggest news tonight. Not by a longshot. For starters the memo from the Southern District of new york includes this passage concerning cohens illegal hush money payments to two women who had affairs with trump. As cohen has now admitted with respect to both payments he acted in coordination and at the direction of individual one. As a result of cohens actions neither woman spoke to the press. Prior to the election. Okay, lets be clear. Individual one is donald trump. Federal prosecutors, not Robert Muellers team, the sdny, are saying that donald trump committed a serious felony, that he was intimately involved in the illegal scheme to pay the hush money. Actually, he was more than intimately involved, no pun intended, trump directed the hush money scheme. Think about that. Faced with this reality, trump decided to create his own, the president tweeted. Totally clears the president , thank you. No. Thats not just a lie. Thats the