tantrum. he s contradicting his son s original story about the trump tower meeting with russians saying the purpose was to get dirt on hillary clinton. well, if trump s lied about the purpose of the meeting once it became public, and just over a year ago the president himself dictated the statement to his son saying we primarily discussed the program of adoption of russian children that was popular and active with american families years ago. but e-mails from donald trump, jr. show the premises of the meeting from the get go was to get dirt on clinton. now, the president admits the meeting was for opposition research and admits it s no big deal. he s wrong. it s a violation of federal law. dana bash reporting that trump s advisers want him to stop tweeting about the meeting. lots to discuss now. cnn contributor frank bruiny and global affairs analyst max booth, a senior fellow on the affairs of foreign relations.
A recap of the day s news.
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the russia investigation, but i think in terms of optics as people watch all of this, it doesn t paint a picture of a group of men and donald trump is among them in the broader sense who play outside the rules, who bend rules when it comes to the financial stuff. who are playing with players, oligarchs, that word that s been banned from the courtroom. and i do think it lends a general impression from the general public of people who have secrets to hide and those secrets coming out. what i think what was so interesting today is that rick gates also admitted that he s a liar, that he cheated paul manafort. hundreds of thousands of dollars. right, so how do you figure out that testimony which is very damning because defense attorneys are going to get up and say have you not admitted you re a liar? and unreliable. and is it all the best people i hired all the best people.
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with senator pat roberts on why and how he hopes to hang on to his job. with former jack wells of what he makes of hillary clinton saying businesses don t create jobs. she s dialed that back. let s say that jack has not. and we have democratic congressman cleaver on his party scrambling. indications that in georgia and iowa, it has managed to do that. it comes down to this, turning the numbers around. for republicans, they need a gain of six new seats. the construction that is going on outside the united states capitol will be as much a metaphor for what is going on inside that capitol. with the six seats, republicans would get control of senate and change the way the government is run, period. democrats doing their best to make sure that doesn t happen. we are looking at a candidate in iowa who will be speaking with us very, very shortly. that poll is tight. that s the case with 80 contests that could decide the future of the united states senate. first, we have carl cameron
millions of amazing, hard-working people. mike pence reacted a short time ago, as well, at the valiant voter summit in washington. the bottom of my heart, hillary, they are not a basket of anything. they are americans and they deserve your respect. so that is where we start this day with those three words. basket of deplorables. secretary hillary clinton describing half of trump s supporters in a speech last night like that. the sharpest words yet this cycle from the democratic nominee toward her opponent. ly clinton was at a lgbt event in new york city where barbara streisand performed. you can put half of trump s supporters into a basket of deplorables. homophobic, islam phobic, you name it. unfortunately there are people like that. and he has lifted them up. some of those folks, they arer redeemable. thankfully they are not america. msnbc s kasie hunt covering the clinton campaign joins us. as was said some of the sharpest words we have heard from the democratic no
all i heard was former fbi agents telling me that there is a revolution going on inside the fbi and it s now at a boiling point. good morning and welcome to a.m. joy. we re three days away from election day. that friday admission from rudy giuliani is raising new questions about the fbi s unprecedented involvement in the presidential race. that s following director james comey s defiance of justice department policy against intervening in presidential politics before election day. giuliani s comments come after the guardian reported the deep antipathy within the fbi is the motive for the recent leaks that are potentially damaging to her campaign. with one current agent going so far to say that, quote is trumpland. and that the, why they re leaking is they re pro trump. the fbi s link to the trump campaign was implicated in the bureau s 2015 decision to begin an investigation into the clinton foundation. as the wall street journal reported this week, that investigati