Then that altered intro ending up with a ripped up speech. There was no love lost last night between the president and the House Speaker. Good morning and welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday, february 5th. Along with joe, willie and me we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, White House Reporter for the Associated Press jonathan lemire, former chief of staff to the dccc Adrienne Elrod and historian, author of the soul of america jon meachum. He is an nbc news and msnbc contributor. Just an overview of this thing, willie, its very interesting there were some people last night who were saying that, well, you know, donald trump, this is whether you like him or not, this was a really great speech for him. I mean, thats like me giving a speech this morning to red sox nation saying not only did we keep mookie betts, but we got manny machado, he will be coming in a couple months and aaron judge has decided to be a red sox and the yang yeast arent going to be playing. How do you qualify s
Russian interference . Im going to ask general michael hayden, formally the head of the nsa and cia what the white house could and should have done. And Green Party Candidate jill stein back in the news this week with a round of finger pointing over Hillary Clintons loss. Shes here to respond. Plus, in wisconsin, the partisan voting map let the gop win 48 of the votes, but they got 60 of the seats. Will this be the Supreme Court case that finally ends gerrymandering . Bill cosbys case ended in mistrial, and the prosecutor immediately declared hed retry it, but isnt he forgoting all the costs . Financial, human, and otherwise . But, first, did we all misread a critical tweet about taping from President Trump . Lets review. Tuesday, may 9, President Trump fired fbi director james comey, and then, three days later, friday, the 12th, the president tweeted this, james comey better hope theres no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. The tweet seemed to be a react
Look at who else is being mentioned and some history of private or government travel. But we start off with chief White House Correspondent john roberts and the president tonight with another job opening to fill. Good evening, john. Good evening, bret. Its been known as firing friday here in the white house. A lot of cabinet members, and ministries and officials often use private charters or government just to get where they need to be. In the case of hhs secretary tom price, he appeared to fly too close to the sun. It was two days ago that the fate of hhs secretary tom price seemed to hang in the balance. When asked if he would fire price for excessive use of private air cap, President Trump said, we will see. By the time President Trump left the white house down to bed mr. , the writing was on the wall. Very fine man. We will make a decision sometime tonight. President said reports that price spent more than a Million Dollars on private charters was out of step with the image and pra
We have team coverage, we have a look at who else is being mentioned and some history of private or government travel. But we start off with chief White House Correspondent john roberts and the president tonight with another job opening to fill. Good evening, john. Good evening, bret. Its been known as firing friday here in the white house. A lot of cabinet members, and ministries and officials often use private charters or government just to get where they need to be. In the case of hhs secretary tom price, he appeared to fly too close to the sun. It was two days ago that the fate of hhs secretary tom price seemed to hang in the balance. When asked if he would fire price for excessive use of private air cap, President Trump said, we will see. By the time President Trump left the white house down to bed mr. , the writing was on the wall. Very fine man. We will make a decision sometime tonight. President said reports that price spent more than a Million Dollars on private charters was o
Administration and today another chapter of this administration played out as we watched live on cable television. In fact, into the night. A former Trump Campaign aide, as weve been saying, sam nunberg, today announced very publicly and repeatedly he plans to defy a subpoena from Robert Mueller. Katie tur says sam nunberg said hell probably cooperate with muler in the end. But the day played out this way. Without informing his lawyer, nunberg talked to his lawyer, appearing on cable news networks, including this one, repeatedly and in a matter of hours, it all started this afternoon as katie tur conducted a live telephone interview. Reporter why are you saying no . Because what they said to me was absolutely ridiculous. They wanted every email i had with roger stone and with steve bannon. Why should i hand them emails from november 1st, 2015 . I was thinking about this today, katie, i was preparing it. Should i spend 50 hours going over all my emails with roger and with steve bannon .