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According to the eye fortin nit. the white house would have access to knowing that because of the military aircraft and they found an opportunity and thayer thay they exercised it and whether the republicans think it is appropriate for tic-or-tac. back in 2017 covering donald trump, there was a lot of talk that no way he would win. if he did win, it would be complete and utter chaos. the government would not work. donald trump has no idea what he s doing. we are living through that. i would add another point is that i long thought the goals of the russians, the goal of the russians, if you read malcolm ....
President. to i was not at all surprised that that s the position they are taking. malcolm, i want to ask you about this a bit as well an argument you see time and time again in the 20 pages, what a burden this is on the presidency, to have to be wrestling with the special counsel investigation to face the prospect of a sitting president doing something unprecedented, that is being subpoenaed by a grand jury. what did you make of how this overlays on bob mueller s investigation? i think it s a very clever ploy. i would like to use a fire fighting phrase that would explain what they are trying to do right now. and that s flash over. what they drk y you open the and first burst of flame comes out there. this is the greatest trial balloon every floated in presidential history. they are trying to see how much people care about this and to get the initial anger out right away. so at some point in the future, ....
the president of the united states pardoning himself would be unthinkable. and it would it would lead to probably impeach xt. that s rudy giuliani on whether the president has the power to pardon himself. the question being raised after we got a look at the confidential letter sent to robert mueller back in january. it was drafted before rudy giuliani joined the president s legal time, the new york times argues the president can stop robert mueller s investigation whenever he wants and for whatever reason. i want to bring in the editor in chief, also referenced in that 20-page letter. malcolm nans is with me and executive director of terror, asymmetrics project. let s get into the citation that s in the weeds, the sense of executive power, authority outlined in the memo, how outside the norm is that? for many years we ve talked ....
A hydrogen bomb that could be placed on an intercontinental missile capable of reaching the u.s. this would be the sixth and largest test since 2006. and it would be the isolated country s first nuclear test since donald trump took office. the president was up early this morning going right to twitter to give his response. he called north korea s words and actions very hostile and dangerous to the united states. he also tweeted that north korea is quote a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to china, which is trying to help but with little success. he finished off by calling out south korea saying its talk of appeasement will not work and they only understand one thing. joining me now is gordon chang. msnbc contributor malcolm nans and joe i m going to start ....
Obviously if there are any new developments let s continue this conversation. i want to just bring you secretary tillerson was speaking a little earlier about the attack in barcelona. let s listen to what he had to say. i d like to start by acknowledging the incident in barcelona which has the hallmarks, it appears, of yet another terrorist attack. we offer our condolences to the loss of life and the injuries that have occurred to so many innocent people yet again. we will continue to monitor the situation. we stand ready to assist law enforcement, national security authorities in spain. our consulates in barcelona and our entire mission spain team are currently assisting americans in spain. all right. i want to bring in malcolm nans. he s an msnbc terrorism analyst and executive director of the terror asemiet riks project. we were talking a few hours ago when news of this first broke, and you were describing the ....