A look at the latest news and headlines of the day features discussions of politics and culture, analysis of Political Correctness in Campus Craziness and. Be intimidated into accepting your fraudulent promise. It w often works and thats exactly why they do it but it only works when the rest of us play alongng with it so lets sp playing along with it. So, can you explain to me why if its wrong to meet with russians in the hope of getting dirt on your political opponent, its okay to pay for a national toor get dirt from russians about your political opponents which the dnc in the Hillary Campaign both did . Its very different for a campaign to spend money to do Opposition Research in a foreign country then for a Foreign Government like the russians to actually invest in disarming our Election Security to benefit one candidate, thats the big difference here. Theres nothing wrong in paying
if there is perjury, convicted for perjury and see if you can convict but lets stop pretending that
Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. Comes from giuliani, who attempted to downplay the criminal aspect of collusion with the russians. Rather than deny that collusion took place, he now today argued that collusion isnt illegal. Lets watch. Ive been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime. Its not. Collusion is not a crime. I dont even know if thats a crime, colluding about russians. You start analyzing the crime. The hacking is the crime. The hacking that certainly is the original the president didnt hack. Of course not. Thats he didnt pay them for hacking. Its so much fun. An apparent shift in strategy. Giuliani now appears to be saying that collusion is not so bad after all. You saw him there chuckling about it. And also 150e78d to undermined the credibility, however, of President Trumps frequent and categorical denials that there was no collusion. Which has been a familiar refrain from
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. After his ukraine work dried up. And that is important because thats when he went to one of trumps closest friends and said i really need to get to trump. And then offered to work for trump for free. How and yes became the Campaign Chair is still a weird so far unexplained thing. Today in Court Prosecutors began laying out the evidence for the Dire Straits Manafort was in when he joined one Trumps Campaign for free. Thats something to keep an eye on as the trial goes forward. Joining me, senior white house political reporter, a close observer of the manafort case cynic it began. He was in the courtroom today. And i get to announce that as of today, he is an msnbc contributor. Ive seen some of the early reporting that there were audible gasps. Take us through some of the more audible moments. Well, this reference as having embezzled from manafort was something that grabbed my
was there a sense in the courtroom today that
Hillarys lawyer. I wonder if they made him help the choice. T the president steered clear of this topic during his event at the white house today designed to highlight economic numbers. As trump wrapped up Kristen Welker asked him about Michael Cohen. Is Michael Cohen telling the truth . Is Michael Cohen telling the truth . Is Michael Cohen telling the truth . As we say its been ten times now the president has ignored reporters questions since the Cohen Audio First aired tuesday evening. Theres only been three White House Press briefings in the entire month of july. On the cohen front politico reports the president advisors have been taken aback by cohens no holds barred approach and his willingness to publicly reveal potentially devastating details of his private conversations
with the president. Asked to describe the mood among trumps close confidants, one person close to the president replied simply not good. Trump is enranged over the cohen revelations. Emily jane fox who is standi
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Absolute positive proof of identity on social media, otherwise youll get bchblg of people to leave because its unsayre. So whats the middle ground here . How do you keep Facebook Free while not u allowing it to be b rebust platform . Thats the conflict youre seeing play out with the executives. If you hear Mark Suctizuckerber interview, they are really trying to come to religion on this particular issue. How do they on the one hand shut down obvious Patent Misinformation that is designed to mislead while still allowing people in Mark Zuckerbergs words to be b wrong on the internet sometimes. This is something youll see members of congress probing facebook out consistently. I think youve seen change in exactly where the company feels like that line is going to be
drawn. Theyre under a lot of political pressure, trying to bring down outlets tha