Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Summit was less than an hour and didnt have any follow through and that match is reporting the Trump Administration has no central policy for Election Security and no one is in charge. While were running through the facts, note that another appointee flagged that they dont have a key person minding the store in Cyber Security because the Trump Administration eliminated the job of Cyber Security coordinator. So thats a lot of facts. That is the current policy baseline. Experts noting the trump approach looks more like cyber lackadaisical than cyber secure. That is the framework for what happened today. A list of intelligence vips, marching into the White House Briefing room. And you can see it there. They were rolling deep. You see the leaders of intel announcing that contrary to what their boss says, the recent reports in the news of russian midterm meddling are true. That russian interference and u. S. Politics continu
So we know she met with muellers team. Do we have any idea what they asked her . We dont right now, anderson. What was asked by muellers team to davis. But we know this woman, as you said, known as the manhattan madam voluntarily spoke with investigators. And what she knows and how she fits isnt exactly clear. But sources tell cnn muellers team would like her to testify in front of a grand jury. This really points to the fact that the Special Counsel seems to be focusing on stone as they continue this Overarching Investigation into russias interference in the 2016 election. And davis really has a very close relationship with stone. Theyve known each other for a decade. Stone is the godfather to davis 2yearold son. Stone put davis on his payroll. And conversely, when davis made a new york gubernatorial run, stone worked on her campaign. Perhaps she has information on his finances, his connections, his friendships, any other personal life matters. We should mentioned, anderson, that ston
Rick gates says he broke the law for Paul Manafort and also stole money from him. We are going to put all of the sanctions back in as they were before and more. Economic sanctions on iran now back in effect as of midnight. Will the pressure on tehran force a further split . Two fast moving fires merging into one inferno becoming the largest ever wildfire in california history. Plus, why is facebook reportedly asking banks for your Financial Information . Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im phil mattingly. Coffee straight to the veins. Paul manaforts right hand man rick gates. Back on the Witness Stand in the onetime Trump Campaign chairman trial on tax and fraud charges. The stakes are high for the white house. Manafort and his deputy know a great deal of what went on Behind Closed Doors during key months of the 2016 campaign. Yesterday, gates admitted under a grant of immunity he committed crimes alongside his former boss and against him as well. Cnn has more
The latest news from around the world with host Fredricka Whitfield. Speak out on the stuff that you know . And they have shifted gears so much on that, i think that its interesting to say its from that investigation that develops, but at best, he spoke too soon. So the president has said he wants this russia thing to go away, he wants people to stop talking about it, stop asking about it, but hes the one whos bringing it up. So here we are a couple of months away from the midterm elections, so how important is it to get out in front, change the narrative, when the president keeps bringing it up. Every day, the news of the day is dictated by what the president tweets. One thing we can all appreciate about the president s twitter account, is that we dont not know what hes thinking in the more. I think as we were talking about in the previous segment, republicans want to talk about the economy, they want to talk
about jobs, the Unemployment Rate and yet the president is talk about other
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Democrats favor, but does suggest theres a larger issue that would be playing nout the fall midterm elections on the democrats be. In this case, youve got democrat plus seven. Likely he may be able to put balderson over the top. But youre right, i think you have to look at the numbers on the final result as well, but not just the wl outcome. Kevin, when youre looking at the numbers and you heard what people are saying, youve got to watch the numbers. Not just the w and the l. What are you watching in this because both sides are saying were going to extract something from this. One district to the National Conversation and of course the midterms i agree with everything that was said. Two additional points is specifically looking at the Democratic Party, even the fact this is just just the come so close to begin with in such a typically conservative leaning district really does speak to something that i hear from re