Obamas fight on the campaign. And Sarah Huckabee sanders only an hour ago briefing for the First Time Since monday. The president knows that there was no collusion in the campaign. And he has been quite clear about this. Its gone on for over a year. They have found no evidence of collusion, and still strongly believe that it is a witchhunt. So this you have trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani marking this anniversary with yet another round of media tours, this time the blitz is centering on this question. Can special Counsel Robert Mueller actually indict a sitting president . Well, according to giuliani, muellers own team told him the answer is no. Lets start this hour at white house with msnbc hans nichols. There is a lot of Foreign Policy The Middle East news we will get to in a little bit about what the president had to say today. But here we go again. You have those major events, a north korea summit, china, all the things the president talked
about today. And yet hes tweeting, his lawyer,
Anderson, this is an extraordinary order from the acting attorney general sally yates. Shes ordering the Justice Department lawyers not to defend this executive order that the president the new President Donald Trump issued on friday with regard to refugees and immigration. She says in her order to the Justice Department lawyers that she does not believe that this order is lawful. Thats a big deal for the government, because now theyre facing challenges in at least five jurisdictions, five states right now, anderson, where judges are hearing challenges to whether this lay, this executive order from the president is legal. What she had, and ill read you a little piece i am responsible for ensuring that the positions we take in court remain consist arent with this institutions solemn obligation to always seek justice and stand for what is right. At present i am not convinced that the defense of the executive order is consistent with these responsibilities, nor am i convinced that the exe
What sean spicer said is that, by grandstanding and politicizing this, james comey created unnecessary pressure on our ability to negotiate with russia. Do you buy that . Theres some other Administration Official who mirrored that language saying you have to understand what the president was doing in that meeting with the russians was he was trying to extract concessions from the russians by saying im under pressure, so give me some concessions. Which jeffrey lord brought up, president obama said to inform putin that after the elections i will have a little bit more freedom. Here is why thats illogical. Think it through. The argument would be that donald trump would say to the russians, im under a lot of pressure here. You need to make a concession for me. What he says in the meeting is i was under pressure. I fired comey. Now im not under any more pressure. He doesnt all of a sudden he is saying, im now free to do whatever i want. You would be telling the russians the opposite if the
To talk to me about was how the senate worked. She didnt want to talk about campaign stuff, poll, how youre going to do it. She was looking forward to when she got the job, what is the best way to do that job. And i have to say when i do meet politicians who are on the way to running or who are running and thats what they want to talk about, thats what impresses me the most. A, its rare, b, its impressive, and c, it tells you to like keep your eyes open because theyre going to get stuff done. And she just proved which actually is most senators most senators do not think of running for president. Its just that dozen on each side that were always keeping our eyes on. But most of them happen pale go through their lives without ever thinking about it. Yeah, this year its three dozen. All right, this year. Thank you, rachel. Well, the thing that republicans fear the most they fear it the most, that is catching up with roger stone tonight. Roger stone appears to be in more legal trouble toni
And i have to say when i do meet politicians who are on the way to running or who are running and thats what they want to talk about, thats what impresses me the most. A, its rare, b, its impressive, and c, it tells you to like keep your eyes open because theyre going to get stuff done. And she just proved which actually is most senators most senators do not think of running for president. Its just that dozen on each side that were always keeping our eyes on. But most of them happen pale go through their lives without ever thinking about it. Yeah, this year its three dozen. All right, this year. Thank you, rachel. Well, the thing that republicans fear the most they fear it the most, that is catching up with roger stone tonight. Roger stone appears to be in more legal trouble tonight because of democracy. Not all republicans fear democracy but enough Republican Party officials and enough Republican Party elected officials around the country feared democracy enough that they have done ev