Explosive story from steve bannon in alabama. Well talk more about the mitt romney tirade. And new details on the president s overnight call with romney. Talk about timing as we wait for the president s sign to show up on capitol hill. He left the trump hotel minutes ago. Hes talking with the House Intelligence Committee there as part of the russia investigation. So youre going to want to hear about the exclusive nbc news reporting on his trump tower meeting with the russian lawyer. Went to start here in washington with our team of reporters spread out. Kristen welker is over at the white house. When we talk about the jerusalem argument, this boils down to the president saying the status quo has not worked so far. This was a key campaign promise. I just spoke with a senior official who underscored that point, but also those who made the point that you just raised which is what we have been doing has not worked. So why not take this step, which by the way past president s said they were
Official. These allegations pertain to democratic senator al franken of minnesota. They come from a woman who performed on a uso tour with franken for u. S. Service members overseas. Leeann tweeden says while they were rehearsing a sketch, that the former sketch comic turned senator wrote that featured a kiss, franken forcibly kissed her. He put his hand on my head and came in and it was so fast and aggressive that obviously i wasnt going to have time to react at all. And he came in and he just sort of mashed because it was, you know, it wasnt finessed at all. He mashed his mouth against mine and stuck his tongue in my mouth. It happened so fast and was so just i was so unaware it was going to happen, and i just remember i mean, in my mind, i was so shocked that it happened, right, when youre not expecting something, right . Youre shocked. I remember pushing him off me. And i clenched my hand into a fist, and i remember thinking, if you ever do that to me again, and i was just going to
In pittsburgh later this afternoon. But we must begin with barr. Now, threatening to bail on House Democrats, lets bring in am, i National Political reporter from bloomberg news. And Vice President for social justice at the new school and with me for the entire hour Jonathan Lamir the White House Reporter for the Associated Press and msnbc political analyst and amy parmes Senior Correspondent for the hill. Ken, we will start with you. Walk me through the objectives. What is this so unusual about the committees request and i take you to last year who appeared before a committee and was asked questions by a lawyer. That is the best logic for being the most recent one. The most famous congressional hearingscontra and watergate. That is always almost the most effective way to get information out of a witness. Fiveminute round for members often leads to a chaotic approach that prevents good followup questions. So, i think what is really unprecedented here is that the doj is trying to dictat
Mark zuckerberg and his harshest critics. What lawmakers want to know now. As gun reform legislation hits another wall, activists and 2020 democrats arent slowing down. Msnbc is teaming up with two prominent gun safety groups for a president ial forum on gun safety reform. Our big announcement coming up in just a few moments. Right now, behind closed doors on the hill, a laerg on an urgent concern about a conversation that the president had with a foreign leader. That conversation was so troubling, apparently torques an intelligence official that they filed a whistleblower complaint. Here is where things stand at this hour. Former u. S. Intelligence official familiar with the matter told nbc news President Trump spoke by phone to a world leader over the summer and made a promise. We do not know what the promise was. We do not know who the foreign leader is. By law congress is supposed to be notified of a complaint like this one. But the acting director of National Intelligence didnt do