Rev. Al Sharpton reviews the days top political and humaninterest stories and interviews newsmakers from across the political spectrum. Might be shrinking a little bit, but that base is going to stay the same. The Republican Party hasnt changed. It remains free trade, doesnt like his tariffs, remains very solidly behind brett kavanaugh, they like neil gorsuch, they like the military buildup, they love 4 gdp. If the president were not dragged down by the scandals and the russian investigation, 55 , the generic ballot right now is 7 if you look, about 5 of them, but it is about 7 , i dont think there is a blue wave, i think that Heidi Heitkamp will lose in north dakota. I think that joe manchin will lose in west virginia, joe donnelly in indiana will lose, bill nelson will lose in florida. I think the republican to pick up four or five seats in the senate and theyre going to hold the house because you do not have outside of the core msnbc audience, outside of your core support, al, there
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Reporter well, poppy, probably the headline at this point is, out of the earshot of the jury this morning, judge t. S. Ellis who is a veteran of these sometimes complex and controversial criminal cases in Eastern Virginia advised attorneys on both sides in an attempt obviously to avoid any prejudicial inferences being drawn by the jury, told attorneys on both sides to avoid, if they can, the use of the word oligarch. And thats important because some of the bosses and people in power in ukraine have been referred to as oligarchs. Obviously the meaning of oligarch is a member of a Power Structure in which the power rests with the few, as opposed to suggestion or inference that an oligarch might be a criminal. This case is the Defense Strategy and the Defense Strategy here, susan, is my client, Paul Manafort, knew nothing, did nothing wrong, hands are clean. It was all his deputy, rick gates. Thats a bold move,
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Jeopardy for the president. Were learning more about the trumpmueller relationship. The day after he interviewed Robert Mueller to be the director of the fbi, trump was in an Oval Office Meeting when an aid announced that mueller had been appointed the Special Counsel to investigate the Trump Campaign. Trump and Attorney General jeff session, who attended both meetings were blind sided according to a person familiar with both meetings. The president immediately blasted sessions for not knowing the announcement was coming and challenged how the person he just interviewed for the fbi job and who trump had said he had a past dispute with over Golf Club Fees could now be investigating him, the person said. Now, we dont know if trump had turned down mueller for the fbi job at this point. But we do know that Christopher Wrey wasnt named until a month after. Read on the man, he knew he would also be
Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, Breaking News and international stories. Night that he found out some Bad Information about the company. And then proceeded to tip off his son who also invested in the company. So take a look at this timeline. This was on june 22nd of 2017, summer of last year. At 6 55 p. M. , the indictment says he received an email from the ceo of the company saying that a drug trial had been a failure. Now 16 minutes later, at 7 11 p. M. , he starts calling his son. He tries to make that call four times before he is successful. And at 7 16, he speaks to his son and informs him about this information that he had learned. And it is the next day, 7 42 a. M. , in the morning, that his son starts putting in orders to sell off his shares of his stock in this company. N ultimately, the indictment says that he was able to avoid some 570,000 in losses. Now a lot of congressional reporters are actually already familiar with this company Innate Immunotherapeutics
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David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Intelligence community is coming forth with. And to pull up, the headline in a piece you wrote about ivanka trumps comments to mike allen. Are journalists the enemy of the people, thats the question she was asked. She said they are not. Jane newton small, i want to ask you about whats characterized as two administrations. You have members of the president s team of advisers on this issue, electoral interference differing widely in total opposition to the president of the United States. Help me understand how thats shaping up and how stark that contrast is between the two opposing institutions . David, i talked to people in the white house. They talk about living on a notion, right . They tried to do most work on the bottom part of the ocean, trying to go underneath the waves, trying to not be railed by surface tension. They view what the president s tweets are as surface tension. They view it as t