Right about that. Earlier this morning the president of the United States publicly hounded natos secretarygeneral, repeatedly disparaged germany and wondered aloud why america should be responsible for protecting europe against russia. Vladimir putin wants donald trump to break from American Allies. A few hours ago, that is exactly what he got. Wow. Welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, july 11th. With us, msnbc contributor mike ba ba ba barniccal. And David Ignatius, nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kasie d. C. On msnbc, kasie hunt and former u. S. Ambassador to nato and former state Department Spokesman nicholas burns, professor of diplomacy and International Relations at the Harvard Kennedy school of government. Great group to start with this morning, and, wow, what a start to the trip. What a start to the trip. And lets just play the clip. Heres donald trump actually doing exactly what Vladimir Putin would want him to do. Good morning. In many countries, they owe
Thanks for watching. And to keep the conversation going, like us at facebook. Com politics nation and follow us on twitter at politics nation. Ill see you back here next sunday. Now to my colleague kasie hunt. Welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. We are live every sunday from washington from 7 00 to 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Tonight, brandnew nbc polling just out about the president and his handling of all things russia in light of the historic summit. And senator Richard Blumenthal joins us as Paul Manaforts trial gets ready to start and Michael Cohen drops his first mix tape. Plus this time last sunday we were talking to bill broader about the summit with putin. Hes going to join us live tonight after the russian president name chikd him on the
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Interview. We have a lot of questions for her. Thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. Thats it for this special report. Fair, balanced and unafraid. The story hosted by Martha Maccallum starts right now. Did you see that video . Martha i love that video. You might see it again and this hour i love it so much. Thank you, good to see you tonight. Breaking tonight, an exclusive interview with the man urging the president to strip topsecret Security Clearances from formal officials who are now some of his largest, loudest critics on tv. I use the terms that this is nothing sort of treasonous. I really question his fitness to be in this office. I know we are not nazi germany but theres a commonality. They have assumed Vladimir Putin interest. Lies, person not fit to be president of the United States. Martha six officials who wants held highranking postat the fbi, the cia, the nsa. They politicize and in some cases monetize their Public Service and Security Clearances, making baseles
The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Charge of an investigation and a guy who is the subject of an investigation that just got more profound. We have to preface everything, ari, with if the account from Michael Cohen is true, blah, blah, blah. So if the account is true, it is a tremendous change in the landscape. What it does is show us two things. One, that donald trump, from the very beginning, was in on an attempt at collusion, an attempt to conspire with a plot that was described to donald trump jr. As a secret operation by the kremlin to help trump. So if trump knows about that from the very beginning, and is in on it, i think that has a lot of legal, but even more so, political implications. Plus if hes told about this, and even if nothing came out of the meeting, remember throughout the whole campaign and up to now he keeps denying or dismissing the russian operation. Could have been a 400pound guy in a basement. The
North korea for the first time. Jesse let me get your reaction to james comey. Spspygate has blown into the atmosphere. As far as i can tell its made up. I dont know where hes getting that from. Do you find that to be possible or probable that there was a spy inserted into his campaign by an Intelligence Agency . I dont find it possible and i know it not to be true. Jesse maybe James Clapper had different take on this. Lets hear what he had to say. Was the fbi spying on trumps campaign. No, they were not. They were spying on a term i dont particularly like, wont russians were doing. Were the russians trying gain access and leverage and influence. This is what they do. Why doesnt he like that. He should be happy. Each should be. Jesse who do you believe, the liar or the leaker . Wait comes down to is james comey lied before congress so many times. His Deputy Andrew mccabe lied to the fbi on three different occasions. Clapper and brennan probably perpetuated the worst crime in political