Our leaders are dame. yesterday, i caught up with secretary mike pompeo as well, who also came under scrutiny when he referred to vladimir putin as savvy, and said he had enormous respect for the russian leader here. yesterday, he was quite clear in his repudiation of the russian dictator as well. of course, these images we are all burying witnessed you are now undeniable. lindsey? van, thank you. now joining, me miles taylor, former chief of staff of the department of homeland security during the trump administration, and executive director of the new america movement, also with me msnbc political analyst and democratic pollster. so, good morning to both of you. miles, we have trump condemning the assault. but why do you think he continues to praise putin when the rest of the world is trying to isolate him? well, lindsay, his backpedalling is simply not believable. this is the same donald trump, who during this administration refused to punish putin when we bring him options to
Deliver. let s turn to reporters covering all angles. heidi, my nbc news colleague. she s on capitol hill. she s been talking to judiciary members there. hallie jackson, nbc news chief white house coordinator. ken delaney, national security and intelligence correspondent and bob acosta at washington post and msnbc political analyst. heidi, let me start with you where the action is on capitol hill. we mentioned democrats on the judiciary committee. they are huddling. house democratic leadership, a meeting due there, the intelligence committee, democrats and republicans alike, they are going to be meeting tonight. a lot going on. you hear adam schiff kind of setting the expectations low for this. is this how democrats are looking at this or are democrats looking at this and say there s going to be a breakthrough tomorrow. there s always hope but you don t want to set the expectations there s going to be a breakthrough. that s what we hear over and over again from the members of
No collusion, no obstruction. that s not good enough. let s go more. $40 million. interviewed 500 people, they got nothing. they did everything. their collusion, no collusion. they have no collusion. welcome back. that was president trump prebudding robert mueller s testimony. probably safe to say tomorrow s hearings will not change the mind on the russia probe but will mueller s testimony change anyone s mind. joining me msnbc political analyst, heather mcghee, msnbc contributor and columnist and msnbc contributor. starting with you, we were running through the numbers with trump. this is a president who had had
Members of the commission can t explain why the request for data is needed. we re only left to turn to what the president himself 140 characters at a time has tweeted. it s his insecurity with lewding the popular vote, and if you look nationally this year, 2017 alone, it s 89 bills and over 30 states that seek to restrict voter access to the ballot box. that s not something i ll be a part of as secretary of state and my colleagues across the aisle both republicans and democrats are joining in this effort. i am proud that we ve led the way. kentucky secretary of state, allison grimes, thank you for your time. thank you, thomas. i want to bring in the professor at loyola law school and joan walsh remains with me msnbc political analyst. hearing the secretary of state from kentucky, grimes, there from your point of view, do you agree with her about the danger of providing this information to
I think an important question is will things change? will they change for the better? or will we simply replace mr. boehner with somebody who will do the same things? joining me msnbc political analyst and former rnc chair michael steele and jess mcintosh, spokesman for emily s list. michael, let me start with you. thesis, the republican party as an organization, as an institution with an institutional center of gravity and power over its members to kind of set the debate and pull the lever, is as weak as it has been in a very long time. true. it s basically rudderless right now. there s no leadership off the hill. there s no leadership among the presidential candidates. and one does not expect the political arm to be the lead because you ve got folks in place to do the policy and to do the big picture dynamic that the country needs and quite frankly is looking for. so you do have this internal struggle which is now bubbling up even more to the surface. john boehner unhinged, as we