One of the trump scandals ive been obsessed with for a long time. Its 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 thats 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 . Shes been accused of taping her friend, and then she explains, well, at that point, im 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 fa
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 thats 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 . Shes been accused of taping her friend, and then she explains, well, at that point, im 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 missing dollars there. And a
Scrambling to figure out how much highly Sensitive Information has been compromised after malicious actors roamed undetected across Government Agencies for months. Welcome to tuesday. Its meet the press daily. Im chuck todd. The Electoral College has spoken and this morning Mitch Mcconnell finally decided to congratulate joe biden as the next president of the United States. Yesterday, electors met in all 50 states. So as of this morning, our country has officially a president elect and a Vice President elect. The Electoral College has spoken. So today i want to congratulate president elect joe biden, the president elect is no stranger to the senate. Hes devoted himself to Public Service for many years. I also want to congratulate the Vice President elect, our colleague from california, senator harris. For what its worth, its the first time anybody in that leadership position has used the Electoral College as somehow the bar before acknowledging a victory, especially one that was not ev
Present the case against the president. And just in, brand new reporting. Lev parnas wants to go to the impeachment trial, whether hes a witness or not. Were going to start with the devastating breaking news out of california. Kobe bryant, the longtime los angeles laker, fivetime 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 13yearold daughter, gianna. They were on their way to a travel basketball game when the Helicopter Crashed. The teammate of giannas and the team malt teammates 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 dont feel like working, youre too tired
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. Thats one of the many questions we have this morning. Welcome to morning joe. Its wednesday, may 10th. With us veteran columnist and msnbc contributor Mike Barnicle, senior politics reporterality usa today heidi priz bella, and msnbcs 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. Its 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 challenge it poses to our constitutional system