Joining us as Hillary Clintons former spokesman, suggesting we worked for Vladimir Putin for daring to ask about nato and montenegro. Its a serious question because Defense Guarantees or serious promises. Why would the United States promise to defend montenegro . Speak out the nato treaty has kept the peace since world war. I dont want your son to fight and montenegro. I dont want him to fight in germany or any of other of the9 nato countries but you are presenting nato as something likely to trigger a war when nato is in fact what has avoided war. While the soviet union has fallen, the russians are incredible tucker the reason i thought of montenegro and suggested there was some putin reason why you did, there was a much more prosaic reason because it just joined nato. Are you suggesting we owe them a Defense Guarantee . Im not looking at montenegro im looking at the full 29 countries. Tucker thats how bad decisions get made, one people to look at the statistics. How many times as the
Unprecedented step further in what critics call an effort to is distract the white house now threatening to revoke security clearance from six former Top National Security officials, all of whom are fierce critics of trumps actions or inactions. These officials have served both democrats and republicans and have decades of experience in intelligence, law or diplomacy. For context, the heads of the Intelligence Agencies usually keep the Security Clearances unless theres reason to revoke them. It allows them mpay attentio to this it allows them to speak openly about matter the. They keep the clearance so if the Current Administration needs some advice or help, they can talk to them. I want to point out something. Sarah sanders was very proud to get up and change the topic because she didnt want to talk about the president s walkback, disaster in helsinki, all the
messes. Certainly didnt want to talk about migrant children. But the people she listed, so proud they want to revehicle the cl
If confirmed by the senate, i will keep an open mind in every case and i will always strive to preserve the constitution of the United States and the american rule of law. So kavanaugh is a graduate of Yale Law School and clerked for Justice Kennedy. In 1993 he met ken starr during a Justice Department fellowship and became a key staff member when starr was the independent counsel investigating the white water and clinton lieu ensky scandals. Kavanaugh helped write the final report to congress that laid out 11 possible grounds for impeaching president bill clinton. He served as george w. Bushs white House Counsel and Staff Secretary before he was nominated to be a federal judge in 2006. He was confirmed at that time by a vote of 5736. Now, Brett Kavanaughs nomination sets up an extremely
consequential confirmation battle. Within minutes of trumps announcement, several Top Democrats voicing their intention to vote against him. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer put out a saying that b
Rudy Giuliani, the attorney to President Donald Trump, is interviewed. Panelists include Jonah Goldberg National Review ; reporter Gillian Turner Fox News ;. President has a concern. But he absolutely respects the independence of the fed. The market expects Interest Rates to keep going up, the only question is how far and for how long we think the fed will be very careful in managing the economy. Chris in fact, isnt it responsible as the Economy Heats up. When weve had these artificially low Interest Rates when the economy was chugging along at 12 percent. Isnt it responsible for the fed to increase Interest Rates . I think it is in the market expects it. Its been targeting two Percent Inflation and with two Percent Inflation, we have to have slightly higher Interest Rates to manage through that. Chris i want to ask you about another potential drag on the economy and that is the drop in some tech stocks. Facebook dropped 19 percent on thursday. Twitter fell 20 percent friday. Intel and
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Chairman, Paul Manafort. He has pleaded not guilty, but heres why this really matters. The first trial to come out of the Mueller Investigation will give us the most detailed snapshot yet of what cards Robert Mueller really has. And as soon as this week, the president s lawyer says he could decide whether to sit for an interview with the mueller team, although weve heard that one before. Right now the president s not happy with mueller. Donald trump firing off a whole bunch of tweets, trashing the investigation, offering up new details, too about his previous claims of mueller conflicts of interest, claims the Justice Department has shot down. Lets go to the white house with nbcs kristen welker, here to get us started. Rudy guiliani had more to say about all of this, just a couple of hours ago, including what seemed to be a shifting of the goalpost, no . Reporter it was striking, hallie, to hear Rudy Guiliani, yes