Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Was obvious the meeting was to get information from foreign nationals which is a crime. Lawyers running around collusion is not a crime. Anybody knows a low he ranking congressman like i was in my first year understood you cant get an in kind contribution from mullahs in iran or Vladimir Putin in russia. Thats right, joe. The president is concerned. Hes anxious, fearful about where this is all headed. His legal team is focused on that Trump Tower Meeting as they have been for some time. Thats a key moment in the mueller investigation. Our reporting, despite what the president tweeted in response to it very much is that hes worried about don junior, expressed that worry to people hes been talking to on the phone, privately brouting about this. Mueller seems to be inching
closer and closer to the oval office, to the people in the president s circle. That
mueller probe could destroy the lives of innocent and decent people namely trump jr. who is under scrutiny by mueller for organizing a june 16th meeting with russians promising dirt on hillary clinton. notice the president at the end says i didn t know about it to make sure he saves himself mostly. as one adviser described the president s thinking, he does not believe his son purposely broke the law, but is fearful nonetheless that trump jr. may have inadvertently wandered into legal jeopardy. on saturday former communications director hope hicks was spotted on the tarmac joining the president on his trip to ohio. according to trump, trump jr. senate testimony hicks was in the middle of the president dictating his son s misleading statement about adoptions to the new york times, followed by explanation that quickly unravelled.
a truly great person i will miss having her by my side. the twenty nine year old former fashion model worked with a trump on her clothing line six years ago but she had no experience in politics when donald trump tapped her to serve on his campaign hicks was trump s fourth communications director but unlike her predecessors she kept a very low profile. her sudden exit comes just a day after she testified before a congressional panel probing russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election during the nine hour testimony hicks refused to answer certain questions and reportedly admitted that she did kasia only told white lies for president trump . for there is more of the story to unpack and to do that i m joined by aaron blakey senior political editor at the washington post he s been following the story surrounding her pics and it s good to have you back on the day talks or talks with the house intelligence committee admitted to telling white lawyers for the president
predecessors she kept a very low profile. her sudden exit comes just a day after she testified before a congressional panel probing russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election during the nine hour testimony hicks refused to answer certain questions and reportedly admitted that she did kasia only told white lies for president trump . it s to slovakia now where the murder of a young investigative journalist has sparked protests in the capital brought us law about a thousand people turning out for a march organized by the conservative opposition party to honor a reporter young. and protest against the nation s political corruption the twenty seven year old was shot dead in his home last week alongside his fiance. or shortly after his murder the news website he worked for published his last unfinished article it s explosive claims quickly triggered fall out of the highest levels of