Virginia Lieutenant Governor ralph northam. Democratic candidate for governor. Well be watching next week to see how you do. Thank you for joining us, sir. Thanks so much, katy. That wraps things up for me this hour. Ali velshi, my friend it is friday. Are you done . The president is overseas. Right. I think were going to have a quiet weekend. I dont know. Just say it. Might have a quiet weekend. Theres always one. I have property to sell you in florida. Katy have a great afternoon and i hope you do have a quiet weekend. I hope we all do. Im ali val shi, as katy alluded to, President Trump will arrive in hawaii, the one stop before he kicks off his highstakes visit to asia. The longer overseas trip of any president since 1991, but the president is traveling with some hefty political baggage as the russia investigation looms. Mr. President , do you remember George Papadopolos during that march meeting i dont remember much about that meeting. It was a very unimportant meeting that took p
questions from members of the house intelligence committee today for about three hours. according to florida congressman tom rooney yates was asked about collusion and whether she leaked classified information about michael flynn s ongoing foreign ties to the press. but it s the march 2016 meeting, this one, attended by president trump and jeff sessions and george papadopolos that s making headlines. like this headline from the new york times. trump and sessions denied knowing about russian contacts. records suggest otherwise. joining me now, one of those reporters from the new york times. he s an msnbc contributor and contributed to that story. matt, quite simply, there are two narratives here. one is that both the president and jeff sessions said clearly on numerous occasions they had no contact with anybody who knew anything about russia, and both of them were in that meeting where we re now getting more and more information. the concept, not just of russia, but of george papado