Thats it for me. Im gigi stone woods. The news continues right now with my colleague, david, whos been tweeting this whole hour constantly. Thank you very much. Great to see you. Good afternoon, im david gura at msnbc headquarters in new york. We start this hour with President Trump who is spending the weekend at his golf resort in bedminster, new jersey. The president ending his week touting fridays economic numbers. Secondquarter gdp growth of 4. 1 , that is the fastest pace since 2014. Hes not been able to change the subject, avoiding all questions about the latest revelations from his former personal Attorney Michael Cohen who nbc news reports is prepared to tell investigators that President Trump had prior knowledge of that nowinfamous june, 2016,
view that meeting differently perhaps in light of what we heard on that tape, in light of what weve learned this week. Cnn reporting, other outlets following here, that Michael Cohen is willing to testify that donald trump did know about
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Mentioned about him maybe offering a job running the u. S. Army to a Bank President who approved these loans for him. Thats the only other reference to the Trump Campaign in the trial thus far. But two days ago, Out Of The Blue on crossexamination, the manafort Defense Lawyer asks rick gates, hey, did muellers prosecutors talk to you about your time working on the Trump Campaign . Did you talk to them about that . Prosecutor from the Special Counsels office gets up and objects. The judge summons both lawyers to come to the bench. He flips on the White Noise Machine which is a real thing so the jury and spectators hear the sound of like crashing waves instead of the conversation. The jury, the reporters in the room, spectators none of them can hear whats being said at the bench. The lawyers on both side stay up there and they have this long prust communication. We know its long because we know it takes six pages to trans
she was taking with her, it was democrats. i have never heard of a trip like that before. i was on speaker ryan s first trip to the middle east. it was a bipartisan delegation. she loaded this up with a partisan group and you think that s why the president decided to tell the u.s. military no u.s. military aircraft? i think certainly that should be looked at. my understanding most members understand that if the speaker is pulling out a plane and going to afghanistan, it should be bipartisan. she should be working to reopen the government and end this bypass. was it a blunder on the part of the president which was made public a half hour before the delegation was supposed to head over to capitol hill for the flight to brussels and then continuing on to afghanistan, was it a mistake for the president to tell the world that these the leaders the democratic leaders of the house of representatives, including
border wall in there, right, and the administration decided to take it out because if probably would have blown up the deal at the end of the day. they didn t want to the scuttle this important peeves legislation. my point is there are other vehicles the president could try to attach this to. they will be moving down and moving in the future as well. you talked about president trump being all over the map and giving mixed signals. not clear from speaker ryan s statement whether the president sin sifting the money be spent on a big concrete wall or for broader, quote, border security. neither ryan nor the incoming house minority leader kevin mccarthy used the word wall when he delivered the news. the president, he first tweeted today that the democrats who know steel slats/wall are putting politics over country and 11 minutes later he tweeted with so much talk about the wall people are losing sight of the great job that s being done on the border. the border is tight. you might unders
increasing military expenses, a soaring deficit has them at odds. robert costa joins me from cost cost, congressman costello and brown are back with me. i want to look at the deficit. when he came into office it was $438 billion. i think we have a graphic of shows how it went up according to the federal reserve, they re saying it could be a trillion next year. what s the legacy of paul ryan? the cloud over speaker ryan s legacy, before he even bay speaker, he mounted an ideological project to try to contain the deficit, back in 2008. he promised reps if they took power, he would do his best to get the reforms through. he was on the gop ticket in 2012, but he was never able to convince a lot of his party to