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
Pickles are good. Friday pickles with ranch. This is surprising the new england lobster roll i would have thought was terrible is delicious. Deep dish pizza is so good. Todd were going to eat chips and you are going to watch fox friends. It starts right now. Shut down showdown. President trump says he is ready to turn the lights out on Congress Unless they fund the border wall. The president issuing this threat treating i would be willing to shut down government if the democrats do not give us Border Security. This president is a bully. Is he not going to shut down anything. We are not going to be intimidated. Wrapping up President Trumps attorney. The man i is a pathological minuter. Manipulator. The President Tweeting we have a very nasty and contentious business relationship. Democrats take aim at the booming economy. President trump is going to take a lot of credit for these good numbers. Dont believe him. The democrats, all they have is Trump Derangement syndrome and they dont wan
Lockstep, all major markets are down. But the dow and s p 500 are down 6 10 of a percent. The nasdaq tech stocks which populate the nasdaq are down a lot more. The nasdaq is down 1. 4 . That wraps up this hour for me. Ill see you tomorrow at 11 00 a. M. Eastern with stephanie ruhle, then 3 00 p. M. Thanks for watching. Deadline white house with Nicolle Wallace starts now. Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york. In a single round of media appearances Rudy Giuliani today torched two years of Donald Trumps collusion denials. Muddying the waters to a near unrecognizable condition as he spirals deeper into incoherent scenarios about what the president did and didnt know about the trump tower meeting. That meeting is now at the heart of the Obstruction Of Justice investigation and is perhaps also being investigated as part of a conspiracy to coordinate with a known american adversary. Here are two of the president s closest allies and advisors debuting the new line on russian
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Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Confused, one goal of mr. Giuliani was pretty evident. 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. Okay. You start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. That certainly is the origin of the the president didnt hack. Of course not. Thats the he didnt pay them for hacking. As you know, it has led the meeting with the russians. If you got the hacked information from the russians here at cnn and you played it would you be in jeopardy of going to jail . Of course not. Okay. The president didnt hack and he didnt pay for the hacking. So thats an interesting thing to say. That, though, you that see there, is an idea that trumps allies have trotted out before. It doesnt hold up to legal scrutiny at all, particularly when you consider that mueller has already charged more than a dozen russians with conspiring a
The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. Election process a top priority. Reporter if the president has done so it has not been in public. Standing along side russian president Vladimir Putin last month mr. Trump said this. He said it is not russia. I dont see any reason why it would be. Reporter ever since that moment at the Helsinki Summit The White House has been trying to clean up his words. National security adviser job bolten trying to do so today. When the two got together President Putin said the first issue that President Trump raised was Election Meddling. Reporter the comments from all officials were a far cry from what the president has repeatedly said. Is russia still targeting the u. S. , mr. President . Lets go. We are finished here. Thank you very much. Make your way out. Reporter so the question is
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