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one of the trump scandals i ve been obsessed with for a long time. it s never good, even in a sober presidency, for there to be tens of millions washing around in a slush fund. but the personal stuff involved these long, very detailed, in detailed quotes from the first lady that feel like they are verbatim. and it just reading them in such a way makes you think they must have been based on a recording. and i did not expect her to confirm that tonight, that in fact, there are tapes, including of the first lady saying the disturbing stuff about kids on the border. but that s what she just confirmed. yes. and then it was so fascinating to hear her explanation, when you asked her about what did it feel like for a friend to be taping a friend? she s been accused of taping her friend, and then she explains, well, at that point, i m not her friend anymore, and i was under investigation. and in that situation, you should press record. if you are under investigation the wa ....
these long, very detailed, quotes from the first lady that feel like they are verbatim. and it just reading them in such a way makes you think they must have been based on a recording. and i did not expect her to confirm that tonight, that in fact, there are tapes, including of the first lady saying the disturbing stuff about kids on the border. but that s what she just confirmed. yes. and then it was so fascinating to hear her explanation, when you asked her about, what did it feel like for a friend to be taping a friend? she s been accused of taping her friend, and then she explains, well, at that point, i m not her friend anymore, and i was under investigation. and in that situation, you should press record. if you are under investigation the way she was. that was, in fact, that was definitely the right thing to do. yeah. and in this case, i mean, what the book is about when it comes to the inaugural is that there really does seem to be tens of millions of miss ....
present the case against the president. and just in, brand new reporting. lev parnas wants to go to the impeachment trial, whether he s a witness or not. we re going to start with the devastating breaking news out of california. kobe bryant, the long-time los angeles laker, five-time nba champion and one of the greatest players of all time by any measure died today in a fatal helicopter crash that killed eight others. among those, his 13-year-old daughter, gianna. they were on their way to a travel basketball game when the helicopter crashed. the teammate of gianna s and the team malt teammate s parents were on board. and lastly, our daughters, natalia, gianna and blanka, you guys know that if you work hard enough, dreams come true, you know that, we all know that, but hopefully what you get from tonight is the understanding that those times when you get up early and you work hard, those times when you stay up late and you work hard, those times when you don t fee ....
wider department of justice nor apparently a heads up to the president s own communications team. were the reasons behind the firing different from the reasons given for the firing. that s one of the many questions we have this morning. welcome to morning joe. it s wednesday, may 10th. with us veteran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnicle, senior politics reporterality usa today heidi priz bella, and msnbc s mark halperin. new york times reporter michael schmitt and columnist and associate editor for the washington post david ignatius. looking at some of the headlines, this is just the washington post, trump fires fbi director, the new york times trump fires comey amid russian inquiry. the boston globe, trump fires comey in the midst of the russian probe. usa today, trump fires fbi director comey. it s one of those days we all will remember for a very long time. you cannot overste, fst of all, the seriousness of what he has done, the chal ....
thanks for joining us, we ll get to that but we begin keeping them honest with the unraveling of a conspiracy theory not created and promoted by a fringe radio huckster, no, this was created and promoted by elected officials on capitol hill and part of it by the president of the united states himself. there were two aspects to the theory, one revolving around a phrase in a single text message some republican lawmakers claimed was evidence of a dangerous secret society in the fbi and the other revolved that high level officials in the fbi were trying to undermine president trump, today both parts of this conspiracy theory crumbled as they often do in the bright light of facts. let s take a look at what happened because it tell as story of lawmakers attempting to undermine the premiere law enforcement agency in the country, the fbi. the secret society text message was part of an exchange between two fbi officials, peter strzok and lisa page. they were romantically involve ....