Reporter the white house defending the governments response. The federal response has been anything but slow. In fact, theres been an unprecedented push through of billions of dollars of federal assistance. Reporter but the president has spent the last three days tweeting repeatedly about nfl players who kneel during the national anthem. Mr. Trump, continuing to fan the flames on twitter monday night. Sources tell cnn that the president appears pleased with the firestorm he has created, telling a private dinner of conservative leaders its really caught on. I said what millions of americans were thinking. Administration officials tell cnn that Chief Of Staff john kelly is not happy with the public feud but the retired military general, who lost a son in the afghanistan war, agrees with the president on the substance of the debate. Meanwhile, nfl teams continue to show solidarity against President Trumps comments. The entire Dallas Cowboys team and team owner, jerry jones, taking a knee
Haunting. As always, you can find me on facebook, twitter, snapchat and instagram. Im around on social media all day long. I will also, just as a quick programming note not be seeing you for the next week. My colleagues will be stepping in for me as i take a little time. Wont be heading to jersey, stef. I know thats your favorite place. Clearly its not a vacation. I cant imagine what youre going to be doing. What else would one want to do . Take it away. All right, my friend. Enjoy. Thank you. Good morning everyone. Im back. Stephanie ruhle here, my partner off today. Friday, august 2018. It is the 10th. Some parts of the country, it does seem like the america we know and love doesnt exist anymore. Massive demographic changes have been put on the american people. Much is related to illegal and
legal immigration which some love. Laura ingram and her White Supremacist speech. Im still at a loss as to how that made it to air. Yesterday, melania trumps parents became u. S. Citizens and wer
Doesnt stop there. Cohens attorney tells msnbc he has information that bob mueller would want to know and is more than happy to Start Talking to the Special Counsel. Meanwhile, Paul Manafort who two years ago literally ran Donald Trumps campaign is now a felon. He is facing serious prison time and like Michael Cohen sits atop this list of Trump Associates who are indicted or convicted criminals. That is a lot of witches. Good morning, and welcome to morning joe on this wednesday, august 22nd. Joe is off. Hes tweeting. Hell be filing for the Washington Post. Weve put together an allstar lineup for this mornings incredible amount of news. A Small Law Firm of legal experts, msnbc legal analyst danny savalas, John Thnathan Tu and Barbara Mcquade and two experts or the cohen stories
i do not think theres a parallel. Well see what you come up with. A legal landslide like none other in the history of the presidency. What the Conservative Drudge Report described as trump hell hour. His 2016 Ca
Decision, we are told, to draw down troops in afghanistan leaving Afghan Forces that the u. S. Had promised to support to the hands of the taliban and isis in afghanistan had to be two issues that were troubling jim mast t jim mattis significantly. His Code Of Ethics is you do not walk away from your friends on the battlefield. Mattis tonight simply may have run out of runway room ahead of him that he felt he could use in dealing with the president. He had been sidelined. He had been his advice on these matters had been rejected clearly. And mattis had had a strategy that simply wasnt working. He was trying to keep a low Public Profile and never say anything that would be contradictory to the president of the United States. He knew that this would infuriate trump. He knows that President Trump doesnt like to see other people
out there in public speaking. That it is all reserved for the president. So mattis over the last two years had had a strategy. You dont see him on camera holding p
What we found out he is come i there would have been a new cant remember if it is zero or that never happened with me and they are. Round of massive sanctions near 0 from any european county to the larger point of the against turkey. And you will see in the meeting one of the things you missed the president didnt want for lee legal aid. Meet you for the president say to take the meeting. Agreement that on the basis of we gave them tanks and they give he didnt want the phone call. Them pillows. The pause of 120 hours, a that is absolutely right. That was rick perry was as vocal as the europeans are pushing for that. Mick at the end, he has ceasefire over the next five about supporting ukraine, they are really, really stingy when a courtesy extended at the time. It comes to legal aid. Days, that we will not be they were not helping ukraine implementing additional he was never realistically sanctions during that period of and that is still to this day are not in the president did not time