so we haven t had a chance to digest it. but the attorney general in his confirmation hearings was very clear with a one-word answer when asked by a senator whether he had contact with the russians in any way, shape, or form. he said no, period. no condition, no modification. so obviously that turns out to not be accurate there is no reason to believe that jeff sessions in the confirmation hearing was trying to hide something. he may simply have forgotten. but it does mean two things. number one, it adds to the incredible weight of evidence that the administration is not credible on these issues. remember a couple of weeks ago when we heard that michael flynn was talking to the russian ambassador simply to wish him merry christmas. and of course that turns out not to be true. and michael flynn is no longer national security adviser. so this white house has a very, very significant credibility problem. and it s with respect to attorney general sessions, what this means, and again, it
i have recused myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. that statement by the attorney general on thursday came after the washington post revealed that sessions met twice last year with russian ambassador sergei kislyak. sessions scrambled to clarify. in retrospect i should have slowed down, but i did meet one russian official a couple of times and that would be the ambassador. sessions met with kislyak on july 18th, after speaking with a group of ambassadors in the republican convention and he met again with the russian ambassador at his office on september 8th, just three days after president obama took a hard line on russian sanctions in a g-20 meeting with vladimir putin. since the election, trump and his surrogates have repeatedly denied any contacted between the campaign and russian officials. i m telling you it s all phony, baloney garbage. all of the contact by the trump campaign and the associates was with the american people. you are not aware
altogether, the industry supports over 9 million jobs nationwide. these are jobs that natural gas is helping make happen, all while reducing america s emissions. energy lives here. as you know, alongside the first public trump russia hearings in the house monday morning, in the senate monday morning will be the first supreme court nomination hearings for neil gorsuch. to get ready for those gorsuch hearings, sunday night 5:00 p.m. eastern, a special look at go such and those hearings hosted by ari melbur. you should watch this. he s sitting in for lawrence because he works too much. thank you. thank you for the plug. as for working too much, the old saying, look who s talking. i feel it. thanks. have a great weekend. donald trump has doubled down on his unsubstantiated accusation that president obama
done in this office, in 50 days. trump has done more in office the way a toddler helps out in the kitchen. health care! health care for all! health care for all! it s ha
compared hitler to bashar al assad. is that enough to stop calls for him being fired? in the driver s seat. my one on one sit down with ford s ceo mark fields. his message to the president and his vision for the future of the auto industry. good morning, everybody. i m ali velshi at msnbc headquarters in new york. rex tillerson and sergey lavrov have ended a high stakes meeting in moscow. the two are scheduled to emerge at the top of the next hour and hold a news conference. we know that there has been tense talk over syria. today s meeting comes on the heels of a newly declassified white house intelligence report that accuses russia of helping cover up that chemical attack in syria last week. president vladimir putin saying in an interview today, quote, where s the proof of syrian forces using chemical weapons?
there is none. end quote. putin also says relations with the u.s. have, quote, degraded since president trump took office. president trump had his own criticisms of vladim
happy easter to those of you celebrating. we have a lot of politics to get to. but first, the growing tension between the united states and north korea. north korea last night launched a ballistic missile from the submarine base in sinpo, but the missile exploded minutes after launch. this happened as mike pence landed in south korea for talks on how to counter the growing nuclear ambitions and he spoke to american troops at a breakfast there this morning. i m joined by senior national security analyst juan duarte, the failure, the new york times this morning leans hard into the idea that the failure wasn t necessarily a north korean failure, but maybe sabotage and possibly sabotage from the united states. what can you say? this is a missile program that s been replete with failures. and the challenge is we don t know yet. it could be sabotage. it could be poor engineering or bad luck. it s the nature of the missile programs but it s clear that
many trump voters though are forgi
media, if people don t believe us. one of the reasons they don t believe us is because of the way the last election was covered, which was overwhelmingly in favor of one candidate over another. that is not surprising given that there is no politically diversity in the press corps. politico did a study on this. how many registered republicans in the white house press corps? zero. that s a huge problem, don t you think? i m a registered independent. i think it is important to be neutral when you are covering politics in the white house. tucker: do you i agree with you. you think of the people covering the white house are objective? i do. we went to read their twitter feeds? i can t speak for every member of the association. s i think it is very important to be neutral. i think it is important to report the facts, it is important to report robustly with the president is doing. i think you should do that regardless of whether the president is a republican or a democrat. tucker
we will see you back here in an hour. outnumbered search right now sandra: a big test for republicans on capitol hill today where the house right now is debating. the revamped bill to repeal and replace obamacare, i have a vote, expected in the next hour. this may be a nail-biter, but republicans believe they can pull out a win and deliver on a top priority for president trump. this is outnumbered. i m sandra smith. here today, harris faulkner, meghan mccain, former deputy spokesperson for the state department under president obama, marie harper, and today s #oneluckyguy, the opinion page editor for the washington times, charlie hurt is here and he is outnumbered on a seriously busy news day. let s get started. the magic number, 216. that s how many votes republicans need to send the replacement for obamacare to the
yes, it s gone through. that doesn t mean when the bill gets to the senate it s going to be complete they gutted. sandra: republicans could claim victory here.
dastardly enemy, and anyone who questions that, is probably a tool of vladimir putin and therefore, a traitor to our country. one current member of the house intelligence committee put it this way. why were the russians in the white house? and i mean that seriously. they had just attacked our democracy. they are being there is exactly what we have all feared all along, is that donald trump would say something to them that is not really in line with u.s. policy. they are not our friends. we should share nothing more than pleasantries, certainly not national security secrets. tucker: congresswoman stephanie murphy, a democrat from florida, went a step further than this. she demanded the u.s. government stop speaking to russia at all in any way. there is no such thing as appropriate contact with a hostile foreign government. no word on whether she applied that same standard to barack obama recent deal with communist cuba. nobody is arguing here, even a
trump administration, that
hallie jackson, thank you. right now on msnbc, tale of the tapes. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle call for president trump to turn over any recordings he may have of his krfrgconversati with ousted fbi director james comey. plus, recording history. new reports say president trump has for a long time secretly recorded phone conversations when he was in private business. the reporter who broke the story will tell us what the president s former associates say and what it could mean for staffers now. and breaking right now, cyber chaos. the largest cyber attack ever is spreading by the minute, stealing information and demanding ransom from hundreds of thousands of users across more than 150 countries. what you need to do to protect yourself. good morning, everyone. i m chris jansing in beautiful washington, d.c. this morning, democrats are ratcheting up their pressure on president trump on not one but two fronts. for starters, demanding any takes the president may have of
was actually dictated by president trump himself, saying this, we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. with no mention of dirt on hillary clinton. it wasn t until the new york times was going to break the story that trump junior was promised damaging information on clinton back in july of last year. that was the new york times reporting. at the time, trump junior and the trump team started changing their tune, saying the promise of damaging information turned into mainly an adoption conversation. they get into the meeting, and it quickly turns a pretext for russian adoption, according to his statement. the comments are about any type of information on hillary clinton were vague, meaningless. as you can see from the e-mails, the pretext of the meeting was, hey, we have information. there was some small talk. i don t even remember what it was. it was sort of nonsensical.
then it quickly went on to, you know, a story about russian adoption and h