[national anthem] hey, friends, good morning. it s saturday, the 18th 6 june, 2016. i m anna kooiman, this is fox & friends. brand new pressure on the family of omar mateen, including his wife as new details reveal what really went down in the weeks leading down that dreadful attack. donald trump says it s easy to stop the next terror attack. if some of those wonderful people had guns strapped right here, right to their waist and this son of a [bleep] comes out and starts shooting. [cheers and applause] and one of the people in that room happen to have it and goes boom, boom, you know what? that would have been have a
beautiful, beautiful sight, folks. boom! right between the eyes. we will tell you how those comments are going down this morning. and netflix expanding its children programming with this. we got to do something for boom box. and is under siege. i m going to build a wall. what will kids think about that? what are adult tots think we will find out bec
alt-right movement within which anti-semitism and racist troeps are pervasive. bannon s appointment drawing sharp condemnation. the spokesman for harry reid saying quote it is easy to see why the kkk views trump as their champ when trump appoints one of the foremost peddlers of white supremacist themes and rhetoric as his top aide. the ceo of the anti-defamation league calling it a quote, sad day. the executive director of the council on american islamic relations says the appointment of bannon sends the disturbing message that the anti-muslim conspiracy theories and white nationalist ideology will be welcome in the white house. as thousands across the country protest against trump for the fifth straight day, trump addressing his supporters who have harassed minorities in his first tv interview. post-election. i say stop it.
allen silly is a former communications director for ted cruz and hilary rosen is a cnn political commentator. brian stelter is the cnn senior media correspond
Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell.
things that are not truthful for donald trump. we don t have a lot of on the record lies or falsehoods if you want to use that word, from michael cohen. the only one that i can think of is that he told chris cuomo that he wasn t recording him when he actually was. so in the credibility fight, ruth, who do you think is going to have the upper hand? well, in the credibility fight you have to ask a few questions. one is who has the greater motive to lie here? one of the things we ve learned, say, from robert mueller is if you go to him or his investigators with a false story and lie to them, you are going to get in a lot of trouble. so if michael cohen is not telling the truth here because he is looking for a deal from robert mueller and he peddles an untrue story, he s going to get himself into a heap of trouble. on the other hand, president trump has some motive here to lie because it wo
that and whether he can help prove it, that s an open question. we also know on the day that donald trump junior formally accepted that meeting, candidate trump touted the big upcoming speech about hillary clinton. i am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week, and we re going to be discussing all the things that have taken place with the clintons. i think you will find it very informative and very, very interesting. candidate trump did not make that monday speech. as trump now repeats his denials about any advance knowledge of the meeting, it is critical to note this is a meeting that team trump already lied about. his own lawyers often admitting to mueller trump dictated that misleading statement about the meeting originally. first they lied about what happened in the meeting. then they lied about the defense of the meeting. which he was choosing to offer,
even though he also claimed he didn t know anything about the meeting. now the question is whether tru
that was president trump taking a victory lap on the news that the u.s. economy grew at a robust rate at 4.1 percent in the second quarter. the fastest pace in almost 4 years. here with a look at what s behind that acceleration is - - chair of the white house council of economic advisory. nice to see you. 4.1 percent. economists predicted 4.4, as you look at the details of the report. what do you like in it? it goes back to a piece i wrote a while back that corporate tax cuts would cause a capital spending boom. if you look at the average of the first half of the year, we got a capital spending boom in the average growth is 3.1 percent. it s not often that economists can nail it that tightly and it showed its working exactly as we thought. paul: capital spending in the first quarter was more robust than in the second quarter.
do you have an explanation for that? one of the things that happened is for equipment spending you were allowed to expense it retroactive to october. in t
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s top political news stories.
it is now under way. the director of national intelligence said in a recent speech that the warning lights are blinking red and the digital infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack. and here we see the incursions coming. russian hackers have now already targeted at least three candidates in this year s 2018 midterms. reports one of the targets is missouri democratic senator claire mccaskill. so highway donald trump doubts much of this is even occurring, his pentagon chief does say there are secret actions now underway to combat it. what is the government doing to halt russian interference in the next elections? yeah, i m not at liberty to explain what we re doing in that regard. just rest assured there are actions under way to protect our elections or to exposeness
now the question is whether trump lied about the worst possible thing, not the pr afterward, but whether donald trump too
Chris Hayes discusses the day s top news.
Chris Hayes discusses the day s top news.
of the house judiciary committee. congressman, let me start with you. do you think michael cohen is credible? i do. and if michael cohen is telling the truth, it means there s at least three felonies in what he s about to say. first, donald trump conspired with a foreign power to influence the election. second, donald trump went ahead and lied about the meeting, which could be potential obstruction of justice. and third, trump junior lied to congress when he said his father did not know about this meeting. we re way beyond not normalizing what shouldn t be normalized. these are potential criminal felonies. that s why the robert mueller investigation needs to proceed without any more political interference. you know, there was always a striking thing that happened on the house side, the house intelligence committee in your investigation into these matters, which it sort of said, well, we wrapped
Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell.
actually was. so in the credibility fight, ruth, who do you think is going to have the upper hand? well, in the credibility fight you have to ask a few questions. one is who has the greater motive to lie here? one of the things we ve learned, say, from robert mueller is if you go to him or his investigators with a false story and lie to them, you are going to get in a lot of trouble. so if michael cohen is not telling the truth here because he is looking for a deal from robert mueller and he peddles an untrue story, he s going to get himself into a heap of trouble. on the other hand, president trump has some motive here to lie because it would be a very big deal, in fact, if, a, he knew about this meeting and if he had been lying to the american people about it all along. the second thing, and dan can speak to this, is if you ve got a witness who or somebody who may have some credibil
trump got updates on the whole of government approach his administration is implementing to safeguard our nation s elections. the president has made it clear that his administration will not tolerate foreign interference in our elections from any nation state or other malicious actors. that kind of paper statement is a contrast to trump s actual words in helsinki where trump sided with the russian president over his own intelligence agencies on the question of whether russia interfered in the u.s. election. that was the press conference where putin brought back an idea these two leaders had apparently talked about, a joint u.s./russian cyber security group to investigate russian election meddling. sort of like having el chapo join up with the dea to fight drug trafficking. now this quite absurd plan to team up with the only country whose own agents have been charged for 2016 interference first came up you may remember all the way last summer when trump wrote that he and putin discuss
meeting. that trump s own son took it explicitly being promised damaging information on clinton and then the times gave the actual information. the meeting, if it is what you say, i love it. if you did that, you might need a wider defense than denial. in october came the multiple denials. october 30, the special counsel announcing the indictments against paul manafort who goes on trial tomorrow, plus his deputy, campaign manager rick gates. mueller also announced guilty pleas of george papadopoulos who admitted contacts with who? russian nationals. who he thought were tied to the russian government. who offered him what? yes. information about the possible release of hillary clinton s e-mails. so following those indictments we then saw allies of the president including now and this is key, the president s own lawyers, picking up the argument like go pro camera, collusion is
it went away for a few months. the president was focusing on just the straight up no collusion point. you se