this was locker room banter, a private conversation that took place many years ago. bill clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course, not even close. i apologize if anybody was offended. in a tweet concerning the audio, hillary clinton said this is horrific. we cannot allow this man to become president. billy bush also released a statement, obviously i m embarrassed and ashamed, that s no excuse. this happened 11 years ago, i was younger and less mature and acted foolishly in playing along. i m very sorry. tomorrow is trump s meeting with paul ryan signing a bill to protect the rights of sexual assault survivors. the chair of the national committee reince priebus said, no woman should ever be discussed about in these terms or talked about in this manner ever. joining me charlie sykes, linda chavez, and ms. chavez, i guess i ll just begin with you in
responding to this. well, i have said from the moment he announced that this man can be described in one word, and that one w
i m for keeping them up. and what to make of the president s opioid announcement. if we can teach young people and people generally not to start, it s really, really easy not to take them. when all in starts now. good evening from new york. i m joy reid in for chris hayes. tonight amid signs that robert mueller s investigation could be closing in, the white house is scrambling to discredit the messenger with a big assist from his partners on fox news. there s no way the american people can trust robert mueller to investigate anything russian related. what really stinks here is mueller, rosenstein, andrew wiesman and james comey appear to have covered it all up, the uranium one deal. we have to have mueller fired. yes, robert mueller, i hope you re watching. oh robert mueller, are you awake tonight? robert mueller is now investigating anything involved with russia, how is that possible? to be fair and impartial, it s impossible because of his past role in this. he s
right now. it s not an order, the president s opinion. are president trump s tweets considered official white house statements? the president is the president of the united states, they re considered official statements by the president of the united states. wow. good morning. and welcome to morning joe. i m confused. so confused. what is that line from the office ? universe, you win. it s thursday, august 2nd. and what a way to start the day. what a way. so, is it the official policy of the president or not? i think the most telling thing of the whole story is how much his lawyers freaked out immediately and started calling around immediately. he was just venting. just like a baseball game. when he s actually doing what talking about what would start a constitutional crisis. or obstruction of justice. as brian clause pointed out yesterday is exactly what he did in turkey back 2013, 2014. talk about fake news. you talk about deep state conspiracies. you fire p
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they re speaking from the same playbook. but this is a tough line to walk, andrea. ken dilanian, you had dan coats, head of national intelligence, questioned about the dissonance there. let s watch. in the run-up to the helsinki summit, u.s. officials, ambassadors to nato, ambassadors to russia, said that the president would raise the issue of malign activity with the president. i m not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened at helsinki. ken, it does seem that dan coats and the rest of the team have still not been briefed on what happened during that private one on one. and that s remarkable, andrea. dan coats is the nation s top intelligence official. he needs to know these things, he needs to understand where the russians are coming from, and what potential negotiations took place between the president and the russian leader. this news conference was such a fascinating mixture of cynical
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that he had been he had testified behind closed doors with the house intelligence committee and apparently forgot about that meeting. i think it strains credulity to believe he forgot about that meeting. so what might bob mueller s investigators be doing now? because miss davis is close to him personally and professionally, there s been some reporting that, for example, she would keep his schedule. of course, the investigators are going to want to deal with her to see what kind of meetings roger stone was taking. even more importantly, to see if before his testimony to the house intelligence committee he had been speaking with her about the meetings he had taken. when you uncover evidence like that, it significantly undercuts a claim that i just forgot about meeting with that particular russian. so there are all sorts of reasons for mueller s investigative team to want to
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