A recap of the days headlines and a look at whats in store for tomorrow. Judge kavanaugh is confirmed to be a justice in the spring court, he doesnt have a recusal obligation just because he was nominated by the president at issue. The law doesnt support that. Look, this is a constant fight between Special Counsels and president s. President clinton. They fought back hard and ultimately got a very constrained interview. That interview did blow up in the president s face. Its a cautionary tale for any president going before a Special Counsel. The Supreme Court has weighed in on these issues a number of times. They have not come down on the side of the president. In two nixon cases, one case they determine the president was immune from civil litigation. Prior to that, they decided the president was subject to a criminal subpoena which Richard Nixon the tapes. Its not clear the president is going to enact the battle. This is going to be an interesting battle if it comes down to it and i t
Good morning, everyone. It is monday, august 6th. Im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside Yasmin Vossoughian and louis bergdorf. President trump reignited the controversy around his campaigns june 2016 Trump Tower Meeting with russian. The president tweeted on sunday, fake news reporting, a complete fabrication, that i am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, donald, had in trump tower. This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics, and it went nowhere. I did not know about it. Well, he appears to be referring to the Washington Posts reporting, quote, trump has confided to friends and advisers that he is worried about Mueller Probe could destroy the lives of what he calls innocent and decent people, namely trump jr. , who is under scrutiny by mueller for his role organizing a
june 2016 meeting at trump tower with russians promising dirt on hillary clinton. As one adviser described the president s thinking, he does not think his son b
Erin Burnett stays ahead of the headlines, delivering a show that is indepth and informative. Also on this, just breaking tonight, minutes ago, the Associated Press is reporting that the National Enquirer kept a safe with documents on hush money payments and other killed stories that were damaging specifically to trump. A safe. Do you know anything about that . I actually dont know anything about it. I havent been at the company for quite a while. But then again, it wouldnt surprise me. Because when you have ammunition, it gives you a lot more ability to get to people who you want david pecker owns a stable of publications. Its not just the National Enquirer. And theres actually been stories of him using killing a story in the enquirer to get someone to do something with his other publications. So. All right. So carrie, lets talk about the law here. At the same time the National Enquirer was catching and killing these stories about trump, it was also taking on his opponents, hillary cl
While. That does it for us this morning. Morning joe starts right now. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. On an extremely busy wednesday, october 10th, were following a number of fastpaced developing stories this morning. Chilling new reporting from the Washington Post and the New York Times on the disappearance of Washington Post columnist jim malkashogi. Well talk to David Ignatius about that and get the very latest. Well have him about the political and Foreign Policy implications of the sudden resignation of u. N. Ambassador nikki haley. Plus, the audience at president trumps rally last night, again, breaks out in a lock her up chant, this time for someone other than hillary clinton. Steve kornacki will be here to make sense of a slew of new polling out this morning. But first, we are just hours away from Hurricane Michael making landfall in the Florida Panhandle, bringing with it life threatening storm surge as high
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playing. For millions is on the ballot. Box you up thats an invitation thats. For Working Families is on the path. To speak up for the. You know. The most important election. For the. Also coming up tonight brazil has a president elect who is openly homophobic now that wont play well on the soccer pitch in sao paolo a new Soccer League has kicked off with the message if youre gay you can play. Ok delish they said i went two years without playing soccer because i couldnt f