fbi text messages became public. last night the senate released a criminal referral to the justice department against christopher steele. he s the shadowy author of the trump dossier. so there is an awful lot going on. here s some of the most significant developments in the last 24 hours. now, you remember in the spring of 2016, president obama was asked if the public could have confidence that his administration would never tamper with the criminal investigation. he responded unequivocallably quote, i guarantee that there no political influence in any investigation conducted by the justice department or the fbi in any case, full stop, period. that sounded definitive. and, yet, newly released fbi texts suggest that may be false. just five months after obama made that claim, fbi attorney lisa page texted senior agent peter strzok with whom she was having an affair to say, this quote: potus wants to know everything we re doing. now, keep in mind at the time that page wrote the
last night the senate released a criminal referral to the justice department against christopher steele. he s the shadowy author of the trump dossier. so there is an awful lot going on. here s some of the most significant developments in the last 24 hours. now, you remember in the spring of 2016, presidentn obama was asked if the public could have confidence that his administration would never tamper with the criminal investigation. he responded unequivocallably quote, i guarantee that there no political influence in any investigation conducted by the justice department or the fbi in any case, full stop, period. that sounded definitive. and, yet, newly released fbi texts suggest that may be false. just five months after obama made that claim, fbi attorney lisa page texted senior agent peter strzok with whom she was having an affair to say, this quote: potus wants to know everything we re doing. now, keep in mind at the time that page wrote the hillary clinton investigation ha
that does it for me. i m alex witt. am joy is next. i m a big fan of the nra. these are great people, great patriots. they love our country. but that doesn t mean we have to agree on everything. it doesn t make sense that i have to wait until i m 21 to get a handgun, wu i have to waget ts at 58. we didn t address it. because you re afraid of the nra. good morning and welcome to am joy. on saturday the florida state senate briefly voted yes only to ultimately say no to a school safety bill that would have required a two-year moratorium on the sale of assault rifles and high capacity magazines. the bill is the florida legislature s response to the mass shooting at marjory stoneman douglas high school last month. the amendments pitched by democrats were part of a push to enact some of the common sense measures, parkland survivors an families have asked for, some in person from the state capitol. the bill would raise the minimum age for a firearm purchase from 18 to 2
ex-british spy who wrote the infamous dossier about the president. attorneys for the president s former campaign chairman paul manafort in court for a pretrial hearing for his second trial set to begin next month. his attorneys were in talks with special counsel robert mueller s team for a possible plea deal to avoid that second trial. there s no plea deal right now. what happened? also happening right now, james mattis and joseph dunford holding a briefing at the pentagon. we begin with jessica schneider. conservatives on capitol hill, they are saying this morning that they want, quote, the truth from bruce ohr. of course, they have been digging in on the official for more than a year now. the president has been helping to bolster their condemnation with his tweets and comments. really, what s the issue here? bruce ohr met multiple times with christopher steele. steele is the former british spy who drafted that dossier with unverified details about donald trump during the