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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 ....
I m yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin and louis bergdorf. it is the bottom of the hour. let s start with the morning s top stories. while the rhetorical back and forth between the trump administration and iran appeared to cool down in recent days, things may be about to heat back up. at midnight tonight the first set of sanctions waived under the landmark iran nuclear deal are set to be reimposed. part of the u.s. s withdrawal that president trump announced back in may. let s cross over live to tehran. nbc news bureau chief joins us from there. ali, give us a sense how iran is expected to respond. reporter: well, ayman, as you know, initially the iranians didn t react well to the sanctions being reimposed. it was one of outrage and anger. they called them illegal and tried their best to get the other signatories of the nuclear deal on their side, but that hasn t gotten much traction. now they re trying to counter the tangible effects of what they describe as an all-out w ....
But it seems unlikely it is going to work. for now, rouhani, iran s president, will address the nation to talk about the economic crisis and respond to trump. but the general feeling here is tensions still will go up as long as the economy is in bad shape. ayman. ali, let s talk about the people here. iran has seen a rash of recent protests, mainly about the state of the economy there as you have been talking about. how is that playing into all of this? reporter: well, yasmin, it is a very pertinent question, and the protests are a major source of concern for the ruling establishment, as they mainly stem from bread-and-butter issues. people are concerned about the economic well-being of the country. protests have taken place in a few cities, including tehran, over the past week, driven by concern over the economy but as well a wider anger towards the political system. however, they re still far from the scale of the protests that took place in december and ....
What he should be doing with his time. do you think this, eugene, adds more fuel to the fueler investigation here, which obviously we know trump is demanding be wrapped up and we know mueller is looking at trump s tweets for evidence. absolutely because it certainly brings up the question what about trump know, what did he know beforehand and what role did he play in it. i think one thing that people are doing that seems to lose focus and context about this meeting, it wasn t trump s son at the meeting. it was donald trump jr. who was a senior adviser for the campaign along with jared kushner along with paul manna port. this was not a personal family gathering. this was something that the involved some high and senior officials of a leading presidential campaign, involved in something nefarious. eugene scott for us. we will talk to you again in a little bit. thanks, eugene. sure. and president trump spent a good part of his weekend embroiled in a war of worlds, ....
Good morning, everyone. it is monday, august 6th. i m ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian and louis bergdorf. president trump reignited the controversy around his campaign s 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 post s 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 ....