Remarkable. They were concerned by it. The guest list. Nbc news identifies the eighth participant in that don junior meeting held last summer. You now have another person in this who has a history of Opening Bank Accounts that the Auditor General thought might have been used for money laundering. If thats not enough, let it fail. The republican plan to simply repeal obamacare appears doomed as three female senators come out against it. I can tell you the republicans are not going to own it. Well let obamacare fail. That was our president saying let obamacare fail. Were going to begin this morning with new reporting about that extended sitdown between President Trump and russian president Vladimir Putin nearly two weeks ago. With no media in the room and no mention from the white house, this is the first were hearing about it. So was it just small chitchat or something more . Your luck, ive got quite the team to break it down starting with Kristen Welker at the white house. Kristen, pre
Kellyanne conway, Newt Gingrich banging on about Robert Mueller, people hes hired and the fact theyve given money to Hillary Clinton forgetting the fact that the president was a democrat until 2009 and jared and ivanka giving money to democrats and gary cohn is a democrat. Reporter thats right. This is consistent with what we have heard from top officials here and even the president himself. He said that he thinks there may be some conflicts of interest so the New York Times Washington Post reporting now that the president s legal team actually looking into that possibility effectively trying to discredit Robert Mueller, even saying that theyre looking into the possibility of what are the president s pardoning powers. Now, john dowd, who is part of the president s legal team firing back, pushing back against that reporting. Heres what he has to say. He says the story is not true. It is nonsense. The president s lawyers are cooperating with the special counsel, Robert Mueller, on behalf
Can he Donny Deutsche. Best dressed is never me when donny is here. Author of the book a world in disarray richard haas, and columnist for Time Magazine eddie glod. Senior columnist at usa today heidi, Michael Schmidt with a bunch of whoppers out this week. He is the coauthor of one of those pieces we referenced this morning about the white house looking for leverage on muellers investigation. President trump eights Approval Rating is at 36 . The president is said to be laying the ground work to undermine special counsel tasked to investigate any links between the russian government and the Trump Campaign and any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation and any crimes committed in response to the investigation. According to the Washington Post, President Trump has told aides that he was essentially especially disturbed after learning that special counsel bob mueller would be able to access several years of his tax returns. His lawyers are sending a message with j
Perspective, according to him. With the exception of the late great abraham lincoln, i can be more president ial than any president thats ever held this office. That i can tell you. Thats a wow. All right. We begin today with the senate gaggling in 30 minutes from now but thats pretty much the only sure thing on the schedule today. Republicans think they have a plan to get rid of obamacare, but as always, the devil is in the details. Youre in luck, weve got a great team here to break all of it down, starting with msnbcs Garrett Haake live on the hill. Garrett, nobody knows honestly. Nobody knew how complicated it was. Nobody knows how this thing is going to ends. Where exactly do we stand right now . Its going to get more complicated before it gets less complicated. There was a big vote that happened last night on the better care reconciliation act. This was the repeal and replace combo plan that weve been talking about for weeks. Last night that died on the senate floor. Nine republic
President wants it tied to raising the debt ceiling. If congress proepts the money but i dont have the ability to borrow more money and pay for it, were not going to be able to get that money to the state. And we expect a decision this morning on what to do about the d. R. E. A. M. Ers, the people brought here illegally by their parents, protected by an obamaera rule that President Trump promised to end. Its tough. It really is. Yesterday i did nothing but cry with everyone around me, but you kind of have to. Todays a new day. Yeah. No joke, big week, beginning with that jampacked agenda in d. C. The president himself calling it a big week. And this week its not only his legacy thats going to be tested on issues like the d. R. E. A. M. Ers program and north korea, but congress, theyre certainly about to get tested, too, and we have the best team in the business here to break it down. I want to start with Nbcs Kristen Welker live at the white house. Kristen, now we are hearing that this