King iii will join me to share our personal experiences with the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin, who died this week at the age of 76. But first, the white house is escalating its attacks against special counsel robert mueller. This following a report this morning by the New York Times that the white house top lawyer don mcgahn has cooperated extensively with the Mueller Investigation and has met with the special counsels team at least three times. The white house is pushing back saying they are simply trying to be cooperative. The best analysis would be that the mueller team is panicking. They know they dont have a case. There was no collusion. There was no obstruction. They cant prove it. And they are trying to get the president to testify. And theyre hoping that if they put out a story like this in which they suggest that mcgahn is cooperating against him, but dont say it, they dont say that, that hell want to come in and explain himself. Thats where well start today. Joining me now
Roger stones media tour, what he said about the possibility of cooperating with Robert Mueller plus, why a dozen employees at the Trump National golf course were shown the door. And open for now it is less than three weeks, though, from the next deadline to keep the government open. Whether a deal is really possible coming up, you will hear the new and curious spin from the white house. A very good day to all of you from msnbc World Headquarters here in new york. Welcome to weekends with alex witt we begin with Donald Trumps long time friend and adviser roger stone. He is now shifting his tone on whether he will cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller his indictment goes further in trying to answer muellers core question did donald trump or his campaign attempt to clued with russia quote, a Senior Campaign official was directed to contact stone about future releases from wikileaks and dirt on the Hillary Clinton campaign stone said he wont testify against the president on friday.
The president tweets about alabamas new abortion law. The questions about the timing of his response. Plus, joe bidens message to america, and whether hes on message with the concerns of his party. New, today, breaking with his party, the first republican member of congress to declare that President Trump committed impeachable conduct. Republican congressman justin amash wrote on twitter that he reached that conclusion after reading the Mueller Report. Amash wrote that impeachment does not require probable cause that a crime has been committed. But it requires that an official has behaved in abusive or dishonorable congress. Amash siding with democrats in criticizing the attorney general. Writing, quote, contrary to barrs portrayal, muellers report reveals that pmp engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment. Rashida tlaib is inviting her to cosponsor her impeachment resolution. And the chair of the Republican National committee is crit
Trump quoted a right wing christian conspiracy theorist who said trump was, quote, like the king of israel and that jewish people and israel, quote, love him like hes the Second Coming of god. And then later that day in front of the cameras in broad daylight trump made another god comparison saying this while looking to the heavens and telling reporters how amazingly his trade war with china was going. Somebody had to do it. I am the chosen one. Somebody had to do it, so im taking on china. Yes, this actually did happen. You saw it, you heard it. But when the backlash ensued the suggestion that the donald thinks hes comparable to the lord, well, trump backpedaled and then he blamed the media for simply reporting what he had said. You know exactly what i meant. It was sarcasm, it was joking. We were all smiling. And a question like that is just fake news. He doubled down on his denial on saturday after arriving in france if the g7 by tweeting he was simply being sarcastic and having fun
domestic planes stuck on the ground for three hours or more but not allowing passengers a chance to get off. this is the largest of its kind since these rules went into effect a decade ago. that s going to do it for us. our coverage continues with alex whit. good to be with you. in less than 24 hours, hurricane idalia could be the most powerful storm to hit florida s big bend since 1950. intensifying in the warm waters off florida s gulf coast, the national weather service projects idalia could strengthen to a powerful category 3 or 4 hurricane before it makes landfall tomorrow. now this time lapse of fort myers showed idalia s 90 mile an hour winds and rain. they have begun to arrive.