Good morning, everyone. It is monday, july 30th. Im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside Yasmin Vossoughian and louis bergdorf. President trump spent part of his Weekend Lashing out and questioning the credibility of Robert Muellers ongoing investigation. In a series of tweets yesterday, trump claimed there was no collusion and called muellers probe a witchhunt and an illegal school. He went on to right, is Robert Mueller ever going to release his Conflict Of Interest with respect to President Trump, including the fact that we had a very nasty and contentious Business Relationship. I turned him down to head the fbi one day before appointment as Special Counsel, and comey is his close friend. Also, why is mueller only appointing angry dems, some of whom have worked for crooked hillary, others including himself have worked for obama. And why isnt mueller looking at all of the Criminal Activity and real russian collusion on the
democrat side, positive december au dossier. We. This is best thing that happened all weekend, politico playbook spotting bob mueller and donald trump jr. As you see in the circle waiting for their flights at Reagan National airport friday morning. A spokesperson for the Special Counsels office says, quote, thats him waiting to board a flight. If it is ak Wrurt Tccurate the person was don trump jr. , mr. Mueller was not aware of him and had no interaction with him. The chances of these two individuals at the Airport Waiting at this gate, unbelievable. Do you think he was gathering evidence . I dont know, looks like he was reading a newspaper, likely a story about himself. I would like to have thought bubbles. To be the woman on the phone in front of Robert Mueller. Look at him, the guy doesnt
look like he knows who is around him. President trumps lawyer Rudy Guilliani is dismissing the claim that donald trump knew in advance of the Trump Tower Meeting with russians. Here is what he had to say yesterday morning. Now i listened unfortunately, fortunately to my clients point of view, to many hours of tapes and the man is a pathological manipulator, liar. I didnt know that. I didnt know him well. I didnt know anything bad about Michael Cohen until all of this started to happen in the last couple of weeks. If he taped Everything Else, why didnt he tape this . It is not on tape. Hes capable, i think, unfortunately of doctoring tapes. Hasnt done that, would be hard to do it now since we have an expert all over it. It is just flatout untrue. Seems to me his default position is to lie. One of the allies, congressman darrell issa,
doesnt think they will pay the price in the fall if the president is proved to have lied about the Trump Tower Meeting. If he is proven to have not told the truth, nobody is going to be surprised. There are some things in politics you just take for granted. You dont think it has any longterm impact, and he wouldnt be the first politician or president for that matter maybe to misrepresent things and gets over it . You know, businessmen listen to almost everyone that might be helpful. By the way, they make pragmatic decisions about how the make bad stories go away. Late last week the attorney for Stormy Daniels said hes representing three additional women who claim to have been paid to keep their relationships with donald trump quiet. According to Michael Avenatti, those payments were made before the 2016 election. Here is the president s attorney, Rudy Guilliani being pressed on that issue yesterday. It is beyond Stormy Daniels, were other payments made to
asyet unnamed women around the time of the 2016 campaign . There is there is a conversation about that on one of the tapes in which i think chris cuomo asked him that, and cohen says no, denies it. Said there were no other situations like this. Was that an accurate statement by cohen . As far as i know, yeah. I have no evidence to disprove that. And weve searched the records. So Michael Avenatti tweeted at guilliani, are you denying there were other Hush Payments made to asyet unnamed women in connection with the 2016 campaign . Asking for some friends. You better buckle up, buttercup, because mr. Trumps stupidity and disloyalty is about to catch up to him, quote i mean in paren they size. American consumers are beginning to feel the impact of the tariffs. U. S. Steel and Aluminum Prices are up 33 and 11 respectively
from iowa to poland. Thats echoing a move announced by harleydavidson last month. Now, per the labor department, Consumer Prices rose 2. 9 in june compared to last year. Thats the highest rate in more than six years, guys. Lets talk about some of the stuff. Swroining us from washington, politicos daniel lippman. Good to see you on the show this morning. Good to see you. Lets talk about the continued pressure on President Trump, Rudy Guilliani trying to take down basically Michael Cohens credibility in light of the tapes that came out last week. Do their claims have any merritt and who do you think holds more credibility in washington right now from what you have been hearing . Is it the president or is it Michael Cohen . I think it probably is Michael Cohen because trump is the one whos out there on a daytoday basis telling things to the American People that are flatout not true. So you saw that yesterday when
Updates of the days news. Fire near redding where at least six are dead, the latest victim 70yearold melody bledsoe and her gradegrandchildren, and seven are still missing. I have been a lifelong resident of this community. I have never seen a fire with such destruction here in this area ever before. Reporter more than 500 structures in northern ra California Kra Alo california alone reduced to rubble and rash. Extreme is not the adjective to use anymore because the fire is so explosive in california. Reporter fire teams from across the country continue to move in, digging out cutoff lines and setting backfires on the ground, dropping water from the air. Those folks, 48plushour shifts. They were going on pure adrenaline, they were doing everything they could to save structures. Those stories and a check on your weather when we come back. We have got a problem. Still ahead, the publisher of push for their projects. Msing r, aging power grids,. Aging everything. We also have the ageold problem of bias in the workplace. Really. Never heard of it. The question is. Whos going to fix all of this . An actor . Probably not. But you know who can solve it . Business. Because solving big problems is what business does best. So lets take on the wage gap, the opportunity gap, the achievement gap. Whatever the problem,
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president invited sulzberger to the oval office and the white house requested the meeting be kept off the record. Sulz berger stating in part, my main purpose for accepting the meeting was to raise concerns about the president s deeply troubling antipress rhetoric. I told the president directly that i thought his language was divisive and dang rules. I warnld that it is contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and would lead to violence. It was undermining the democratic ideals of our nation and eroding one of our countrys greatest exports, a commitment to free speech and a free press. So theres more. Following the statements by the times and sulzberger, the president fired off a series of tweets. Quote, when the media driven insane by trump derangement
syndrome, it puts the lives of many, not just journalists, at risk. Very unpatriotic. Freedom of the press also comes with a responsibility to report the news accurately. 90 of Media Coverage of my administration is negative despite the tremendously positive results we are achieving. It is no surprise that confidence in the media is at an alltime low. I will not allow our great country to be sold out by antitrump haters in the dying newspaper industry, no matter how much they try to distract and cover it up. Our country is making great progress under my leadership and i will never stop fighting for the American People. As an example, the failing New York Times and the amazon washington ton post washingtont write bad stories even on positive achievements and they will never change. Switching gears for a moment, the Trump Administration has been ordered to provide information to locate hundreds of missing parents to reunite them with their children. A federal judge overseeing the
courtordered reunification about 2500 immigrant children has ordered the administration to turn over a list of all parents deemed ineligible for reunification by wednesday. This list includes parents who have been deported, those who have been released into the United States and those who were not reunited because of a criminal history. 650 children remain separated because their parents had been deemed ineligible by the government. Now, before the ruling, the department of Homeland Security claimed it had reunited around 1,440 children with their parents. The department has now yet committed to reuniting those with parents deemed ineligible, citing red flags in their background, waivers signed to be deported without their children, leaving i. C. E. Custody or awaiting hearings inside the United States. Lets get a check on the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. Bill, youre going to give us a look at the west coast. It is so critical, that weather out there, to contain the wild fires sweeping california right now. It has been bone dry and hot. When you think of seattle, you dont think of like hot and dry conditions. Seattle will have their seventh 90degree day this july. Seattle of all places. Today we have 6 Million People still under Heat Advisories and heat watches. Here is how it is going to feel today. Pendleton, oregon 96. Thats hot. They will be happy to get to august and it looks like today is the end of the extreme heat there in areas of the i5 corridor. It will begin to cool off. This is the pattern this week. We will call it the logjam. Last week we had the endless rains on the east coast. Unfortunately we are setting up for this again. It will be very hot in the rockies throughout the week. Thats not going to help the Firefighting Efforts at all. A storm system stuck in the
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possibility of a showdown 37 days before midterm elections. The Funding Battle would come amid efforts by republicans to confirm the president S Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh by october 1st. Speaking yesterday, republican senator ron johnson of wisconsin, weighing in on weather to expect a shutdown come september. Listen to this. I think hopefully most of the Appropriations Bill will actually be passed a little more a little prioritization of spending. So i lont like playing shutdown politics. How damaging would it be for republicans ahead of the november race . I dont think it would be helpful, so lets try to avoid it. Put itting it lightly, not helpful. Following his meeting on wednesday with Mitch Mcconnell and paul ryan, President Trump trump signalled he was on board to fund the government with smaller packages of spending bills. He said talks over funding the border wall would probably have
to wait until after the mid terms. Speaking of the mid terms, President Trump announced he will hit the Campaign Trail this fall. Ill go six or seven days a week when were 60 days out, and i will be campaigning for all of these great people that do have a difficult race, and we think were going to bring them over the line. All right. So the president went on to say hes instructed the white house to compile a list of about two dozen mostly hotlycontested races so he can rally for vulnerable republicans across the country. However, trump had a different opinion about how president s should spend their time when it was barack obama in the white house. I mean why is obama campaigning . He ought to be out working. He ought to be out but every time i look at him hes campaigning. In this years highlycontested mid terms are on track to be the most expensive in history. According to a Running Tally by the center for responsive
politics, federal campaigns have spent more than 1. 6 billion owe far this year, over 1 billion is being shelled out for tv ads by democrats and republicans vying for house and senate spots. Neither of those figures include heated dub that torl races which do not have to release their Financial Reports to the same commission. They also do not account for sizable cash donations from outside billionaires. President trump is touting his high poll numbers among republicans. He tweeted yesterday morning, wow, highest poll numbers in the history of the Republican Party. That includes honest abe lincoln and ronald reagan. There must be something wrong. Please recheck that poll. Well, good news, we did. According to gallop presumes Approval Rating among republicans is 88 , not the highest in the history of the gop. At the same point in their presidencies, Dwight Eisenhowers Approval Rating was 92 among republicans. In fact, george w. Bushs Approval Rating was 93 . Thats five points higher than President Trumps. Really doing your research, ayman. Yeah, i was up early. Me and daniel were cranking the numbers. All right. Joining us from washington once again, politicos daniel lippman, coauthor of the political playbook. Lets talk about the president s threat to shutdown the government over immigration again, on the heels of the Immigration Debacle with parents separated if their children. Still a lot of these children left wondering where their parents are. It seems at if 500 or so children left separated from their parents. What kind of reaction is that getting from washington . So speaker ryan and Mitch Mcconnell, they thought they had an agreement with trump not to have these types of antics because for the republicans to control all parts of the government and yet trump is saying, well, maybe we should shut down the government, that does not send the best message
to midterm voters because, you know, there is this process to pay for the border wall and there are just not the votes there in terms of, you know, getting democrats and moderate republicans on board for 25 billion for this border wall. To go back to your earlier point about, you know, trumps poll numbers, he mentions honest abe. I dont think that there was polling back in 1860. Gallop was not calling everyone around the country. It was by telegram then, come on, daniel. Get your history right. You have to telegram your poll results back. That would take some time. Russia really hacked into the 1860 election. Still awaiting results. Well get back to you. Lets switch gears and talk about the mid terms. I want to ask you about money being injected into the midterm elections. We put up a figure, there it is, earlier, about 1. 6 billion spent on federal campaigns, another
billion or so in television ads. Is there a correlation between higher Spending Allowance equating a win . Is it guaranteed the more you spend, the more likely youre going to win . I dont think thats a onetoone equation. Mitt romney spent a ton of money, including some of his own money from his fortune, and he did not win. So you need a base level of spending to be able to be competitive, but it really comes down to Candidate Quality and also just the atmospherics of whether people are more interested in voting for democrats or republicans. I think it speaks to the broader issue with the political system in terms of the vast amounts of money. Those donors, were remember, congressmen who get money from donors next time when theyre elect, a donor asks for a favor, they will give it a high priority often. That is Campaign Finance reform is not a sexy topic, but if you talk to people around
town they think it is very important. Those congressmen also dont want to be spending three hours a day raising money. I think of the congressional upset here in new york with Alexandria Cortez and she did it on a grassroots campaign. Absolutely. Money does not always talk. Thanks, daniel. Thanks, guys. President trump took time over the weekend to question the credibility of Robert Mueller by name again and muellers ongoing investigation. In a series of tweets, trump hit his old tropes and added new ones saying there was no collusion and calling it a witchhunt and illegal scam. Trump hinted at a nasty and con ten shul Business Relationship he had with mueller without elaborating on that. Joining us onset, nbc news correspondent making his firstlook debut. Welcome to new york. Hey, i too get the high five. Keir simmons, ladies and gentlemen. How do you like waking up this
early . I love it. Actually, it is 10 00 in my world. Lets talk about the trump Mueller Investigation. He seems to be ramping up his attacks against mueller, using words like illegal scam, obviously he has used witchhunt for some time. Is this a sign you think the president is beginning to get nervous about the Mueller Investigation or how do you explain the sudden escalation in language . Beginning to get nervous . Of course hes nervous. Hes furious. He doesnt know, like all of us, what is happening behind the closed doors of that investigation, and that is driving him crazy. But what hes doing is what anyone would do in a kind of sense politically and just throw mud, throw mud, see what sticks, accuse him of being democrats. Thats a strategy born of the fact that what we have is a vacuum thats fuelling this story of speculation and what could mueller have, and in the end, of course, whatever comes out trump will say President Trump will say that it is wrong,
that it doesnt stick. So hes kind of getting his rebuttal in early. It seems as if the president is taking a page out of putins book, about deflection. What is the russian view on this . Look, i talked to the russians all the time. I talk to do you now . Yeah. And what do they say . By phone . Youre not doing it deliberately, talking to them. Somebody call bob mueller. Sometimes it feels as though youre getting involved in a domestic dispute. They talk about American Foreign policy can only really have to see it through domestic policy and it never has been more true than with the russia investigation. But the russians are watching. They are paying close attention. You know, i think one of the things that is missed is that this is all about money. Yes. This is about rich people figuring out how they can make more money together. So when it comes to president putin, for example, his
overarching strategy is can we get rid of those sanctions. Let me tell you a story. I spoke with a Russian Oligarch this year who is wrapped up in these accusations. I said, why dont you do an interview with me, set the record straight. He said to me, you know, i just sat down with a Bunch Of Guyness a bunch of guys worth billions of dollars, so why do i need to. All of this is happening behind the scenes that the russians are pleased with, theyre still pushing. I think the fascinating thing about the 2016 meeting so many questions about the meeting still unanswered. Yeah. The fascinating thing about that, of course, is that has less to do with what did the russians have and what to they intend and everything to do with what did President Trump think was happening. Yes. Again, back to it is all about the domestic. Yes, and what did he actually know before the meeting. Keir simmons, mixing it up with the Russian Oligarchs. All about the money. I wish i had that money. A pleasure to see you, thanks. The president s soninlaw falling back into where he stands in President Trumps or bit. After suggestions he may be close to exiting the white house. Plus, bill karins back with a check on the forecast including the potential for some severe weather. Stay with us. Oh, look. Another antiwrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happen. Neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair® works in just one week. With the fastest Retinol Formula available. Its clinically proven to work
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president himself from telling aides to talk to jared to saying that jared hasnt been good for me. He told friends and john kelly that he wished jared and ivanka would head back to new york. I have a question as to why you guys make me read this part of a script. Trump has joked about his daughters choice of a husband, saying he could have had tom brady as a soninlaw but he got jared kushner. Thats fact checking, folks. Kushner who spoke about clearing the Republican Party from resistance to trump has many detractors saying that it steps from kushner being involved in areas out of his depth. Kushner has reportedly feuded and or undercut a long list of aides he views as not loyal. In a statement to the times kushner says through a spokesman, i have greatly enjoyed working collaboratively with so many extraordinarily devoted and competent people,
but those who tried to undermine the president found me to be an obstacle. Im waiting for his middle east peace proposal. Thats what has my attention. Weve been waiting for that one. Hopefully well get it before the four years are over. Lets get a check on the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. What have you got for snus. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. A lot of people in oklahoma were awakend in the middle of the night. This line of thunderstorms rolled through with 40 to 60milesperhour wints. It went through Oklahoma Zand now is pushing for the red river here and may make it down stored dallas going through the morning commute. It should weeken shortly, but we will continue to watch that. Other areas of the east are getting drenched. We are seeing heavy rains setting up in areas of eastern north carolina, virginia, around richmond, towards Virginia Beach and a little bit of rain in Central Illinois and indiana. The humidity will skyrocket again in the northeast. It will feel like last week. As we go through today, be prepared for downpours from d. C. South ward through the carolina. On wednesday we are stuck in this weather pattern, guys, just like last week, the moisture up the east coast. We had all of the floodings in areas around d. C. , baltimore and, of course, harrisburg. We have to watch it again for the flood risk on the eastern sea board. We start august as july was, humid on the eastern seaboard. The upside of having rain like that sometimes though is you dont actually have to water your plants. Or mow either because you cant. Thanks. You got to find the upside in things, you know. Thanks, bill and yasmin. Appreciate that insight. All right. Still ahead, stocks in the u. S. Point to a lower open ahead of a busy week, including a slew of major earnings reports. Plus, cbss Board Of Directors prepares to meet amid investigations against chairman and ceo. Details of those stories and others driving your business day coming up next. En vengeful ver
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a big Real Estate Deal happening in Downtown Washington about the fbi headquarters. This is an old 40yearold building on Pennsylvania Avenue that has a very distinct style. Many tourists thinks it looks a little out of place. Count President Trump among them. He thinks that building looks ugly. He hates it and wants it torn down and replaced. Theres an on going process to get the fbi new headquarters. The deal to get them to maryland fell through. He wants them in prime real estate on Pennsylvania Avenue. Brutalist is the architecture. What are your sources telling you about the reasoning for the president s intense focus on overhauling a Federal Building . Of course hes a real estate investor. He has been very fascinated about. His hotel is on that same street. This is a really big piece of
land. This is a huge Real Estate Deal that the federal government is working on. If the president doesnt like something, hell get involved in a real estate scheming to get it fixed. I wonder if he wants to rename the building to trump fbi building. Thats a stretch. Just putting that out there. I dont see that happening any time soon. Now that we talked about real estate and washington and the renaming of the Fbi Building To Trump Tower fbi, lets talk about the midterms. We have about 99 days left to go. Can you believe it . We also know whos counting . President trump wants to get on the road six to seven days a week to stump for people that need it. What are you finding with regards to President Trumps involvement with the midterms and how people feel about it . Both sides are looking to make this about trump. The president is looking forward to get out after labor day six or seven days a week. Hes been tweeting his Approval Rating very high among republicans. Putting him out on the Campaign Trail is a great way to get
republicans out to the polls. On the flip side, his disapproval is super high. Democrats hope that such as hell get republicans out to the poll, his disapproval will get democrats to vote. President trump appears to be doing more harm than good for their campaigns. What is the biggest liability for some republicans to take on the trump train . Thats true. There is very much a double edged sword here. For republicans in swing states where maybe Hillary Clinton had won, chasing a falling behind a democratic opponent, President Trump can be a huge liability. We talked to some republicans introducing bills, out of the mainstream on the conservative side and not interested in President Trump showing up and making these much more about local races. If they feel its a referendum on trump, theyll lose their jobs. What are you watching this week . Congress is out of session. The senate is still around. Remember what people forget is we have a Supreme Court justice working his way through the process. We also cover technology, big week for tech earnings well Pay Attention to it. Seems like we forgot entirely about Supreme Court and Everything Else that happened in the past week. Thank you for that reminder. To all of our viewers out there, you can sign up for the newsletter signup. Axios. Com. That does it for us on this monday morning. Morning joe, everybody, starts right now. I mean, why is obama campaigning . He ought to be out work. He ought to be out but every time i look at him, hes campaigning. Ill go six or seven days a week when were 60 days out and i will be campaigning for all of these great people that do have a difficult race and we think
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