Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. His son to cancel the meeting. He did not tell the fbi about the meeting. And if anything, he further encouraged and emboldened the russians to hack. Because he went out just about a month and a half after the meeting and said, russia if youre listening which is two years ago from today as you pointed out you would be rewarded for hacking Hillary Clintons emails. Lets go to Kelly Oconnell in new jersey also joining us u. S. Congressman Danny Heck Of Washington and glenn kushner. First to you, kelly in berkeley heights, new jersey not too far where the president is spending the weekend at the bedminster resort. I want to talk about the ten different ways weve counted that the president has refused to answer questions on camera regarding cohen in that 2016 Trump Tower Meeting in the month of june. Are we hearing any feedback from
the white house on this . And all of this Radio Silence on this matter,
the man who is the president s right-hand man for a decade. he s called his fixer. are both sides fuelling out of emotion now? is there a clear strategy that you can see? it is ironic, if you think about giuliani just a few months ago saying that cohen is an honorable honest layer and nwyew saying he s a liar repeatedly. in one sense, saying the other person is the liar is one of the only real strategies they have. someone has to be lying. and both have incentive to lie. okay. we re going to switch now to yesterday s both non-cohen big news. the new gdp numbers. just after these numbers were released. donald trump, jr. tweeted, incredible numbers. i remember when the experts laughed about breaking 3% just because obama never broke 2% doesn t mean someone with great policies can t let s keep it going. it seems john harwood plies with