President trump is trying to set the record straight about the expanding investigations into special counsel with not transitioning his investigation into a criminal approach. Yesterday morning he tweeted, fighting back against, quote, the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in american history. Later wrote, with all of the illegal acts that took place in the Clinton Campaign and obama administration, there was never a special counsel appointed. In a joint News Conference with colombias president , trump spoke about the appointment of Robert Mueller to lead that investigation. Was this the right move or is this part of a witch hunt . Well, i respect the move but the entire thing has been a witch hunt. There is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign, but i can always speak for myself and the russians. Zero. I think it divides the country. I think we have a very divided country because of that and many other things. So, i can tell you that we want to bring this grea
Down syrian warplane. The action was taken after the proAssad Military jet dropped bombs. Congress trying to get work done ahead of the fourth of july reset. Unless change the way operate. You will continue to see this kind of dead long. This for the u. S. Open. Koepka, a major champion. Steve we start this monday morning with a fox news alert. Another deadly attack rocking london overnight. Brian so far we have one person dead, 10 others injured after police say a man filled with rage used a van to mow down worshipers, leaving a mosque. Ainsley the man 48 years old. Hes the suspect. He is now in custody. Authorities are now hunting for possible accomplices. Benjamin hall is live there on the scene in london with breaking details this hour. Good morning to you, benjamin. Whats the latest . Good morning, brian, steve, and ainsley. Its attack after attack here at the moment. Of course, we have seen this vehicle born type of attack used various times. What stands this one out today is tha
Good morning, everyone. Im john berman. Im poppy harlow. Were following major developments this morning on capitol hill. Take a look whats going on right now on your left. Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein is going to appear before the House Judiciary Committee for a hearing that might have been routine, except for, well, except for a lot of things. Except for the mueller investigation, that more and more republicans are seeing as, well, not totally independent. So theyll pose some tough questions to him. On the right of your screen, at any moment, a News Conference from top senate democrat, chuck schumer. What schumer is going to do is suggest that the senate push back the final vote on the republican tax plan. Why . He wants to see the freshly elected or the next democratic senator from the state of alabama, doug jones, he wants him seated. Which would reduce the republican majority to one. So were waiting on those two live events. While we wait, lets go down to alabama right no
Like secretary kerry who was also an immediate past secretary of state, let alone one with 28 years of experience in the u. S. Senate. So it is always exciting to have the chance to talk with, to ask questions of someone with that kind of experience. But after a day in the news like today, man, take your pick of the number of things would you like to talk to somebody like john kerry about. Hell be joining us in a moment. Even if you start with the small stuff today, today ended up, what would usually be like relative small bore news, right . That an indicted sitting congressman and his wife had to appear in federal court today in california to face a federal judge. The judge will be hearing a massive Corruption Case against that sitting congressman. Today was a hearing ahead of that trial. So weve seen members of congress indicted before in this country. Part of the reason this Duncan Hunter in court today story ends up being a Big National News story with ongoing ramifications is beca
Im ali velshi sitting in for lawrence odonnell. Nbc news has obtained a new court filing, where robert muthe cour revoke Paul Manaforts release. Saying he attempted to tamper with potential witnesses. It say gs Paul Manafort called, texted and sent messages to two witnesses in february, quote, in an effort to secure materially false testimony. This outreach apparently occurred following the disclosure of an indictment of manafort. Theyre calling for a hearing brought forth by the fbi tonight and to see if the release order should be revoked or revised. Joining us now mimi rocah and harry litman. Im grateful that youre both here to help make sense of this. Mimi lets start with you. What does this all mean . It likely means manafort is i would be surprised iw. Judge did not revoke his bail based on this. You know, when prosecutors find out that someone is trying to tamper with a witness, which is what happened here, often its kind of youre dealing with subtle attempts and you have to sor