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do it. as you said, he defended his summit with putin in helsinki and said the russians are unhappy he s the president of the united states when vladamir putin admitted at the summit he wanted donald trump to win. there s this huge disconnect. we could all feel it in the briefing room earlier today and why you saw so many reporters asking that question. yes, i m sure it was very assuring to a lot of americans out there to hear the director of national intelligence, fbi director, of homeland security to say they re on the case. looming over everything in the room is the fact the president has said all sorts of things to diminish the russian threat in the past. he just said it could be other countries, not just russia. that s so opposite what we heard from his top officials at that briefing. and it was just yesterday sarah palin called the investigation into russia a hoax, wasn t it? tha
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
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russia investigation because we now know special counsel robert mueller s team has just interviewed a woman who once ran a high prized new york call girl ring, a woman who went to jail as part of this whole scandal surrounding former new york democratic governor elliott spitzer, a woman othersquies known as the manhattan madam. investigators appear to be interested in kristin davis ties to long time trump adviser roger stone who she knew for years and years. so to sara murray we go, our cnn political correspondent on this breaking news. so, sara, we know that she voluntarily sat down with mueller s team. what was the focus of the interview? well, brook, we are not sure exactly what mueller s interest is in kristin davis. as you pointed out she s had a checkered past when it comes to law enforcement, this is someone who ran a high-end prostitution ring, but it s also someone who has been close to roger stone both pers
newsroom. great to have you with us this weekend, i m ana cabrera in new york. president trump making good on his promise to hit the road full throttle for republicans this summer. in just a few hours, he ll be pumping up gop voters in ohio in a deep red district that he won easily on election day. but now, a republican win there is by no means a given. these two are fighting for a congressional seat in tuesday s special election. on the left is the democrat, can danny o connor, suddenly surging, making it a toss-up against republican troy balderson. the president s visit is last minute push to keep that seat republican. boris sanchez is on site. if this district flips, what does this mean for midterms? reporter: hey there, ana. well, it could be a signal of that blue wave that commentators have long been prognosticating for the 2018 midterm elections. this could be a referendum on
where president trump stands with midwestern voters as well. the fact is, we wouldn t be talking ab
he says the meeting totally legal done all the time in politics but according to the e-mail that special counsel robert mueller has, this was a meeting to get information from the prosecutor of russia on hillary clin hillary clinton s campaign. how is that legal? the question is how is it illegal? a meeting of that nature constitute a violation of the law? now critics have pounced on this, anna, suggesting that the president and his legal team are moving the goal posts despite calls for this investigation to wrap up by the president and his attorneys. we did get an indication last week that special counsel robert mueller is trying to zero in and get an interview with one of the key figures that was involved in that june 2016 meeting at trump tower. he s a russian pop star.
his father is actually an oligarch with deep ties to putin. sources indicate that for more than a year now the special counsel is working to secure that interview. unclear if it actually does take place. it
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finish line. and one of the president s first congressional supporters now faces criminal charges. congressman collins cheated our markets and our justice system. is a wider culture of corruption story unraveling around the white house? this is mtp daily an it starts right now. good evening, i m chuck todd here on a very busy washington, d.c. welcome to mtp daily. is it really august? once again welcome to a wild day of legal and political developments surrounding, who else, but the president. one of his top loyalists in the house was just arrested on insider trading charges on a plot that was so brazen, it includes the white house south lawn, by the way. as it was described by federal prosecutors today that you have got to see it to believe it.
we ve have much more on this story and this culture of corruption stench that s starting to grow around the president coming up. but we re also going to talk a
probably the biggest illegality so far, the biggest collusion so far. or conspiracy. completely made up, completely made up. led to nothing. except several fraudulent fisa wires. and now we have mueller who doesn t seem to care that he s sitting on top of a totally illegitimate investigation. but the thing about the dossier that she paid for and the fact that the fbi paid steele, it was designed to misinform the american people with russian lies, to influence the election. yes. there is a great irony here if it wasn t maybe if mueller and his band of whatever they are, democrats, right? were fair minded, maybe they d investigate maybe that s the collusion. maybe that s the collusion. oh, my god. rudy needs to check his carbon monoxide monitors. the sure sign team trump knows there are problems. look over there, the collusion, the obstruction, they re
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philadelphia s. we begin tonight with the new details of the contact between officials at the highest level of the obama era justice department and that former british spy. long after the fbi cut ties with this christopher steele character and the trump dossier author well what happened? bruce ohr, who was at the time a senior justice department official continued to maintain extensive contact with steele. he wasn t supposed to. this according to new emails fox news has obtained. bruce ohr s new connection to this whole sword i did affair is made worse when you consider his wife nellie. fox news has confirmed she worked for the outfit fusion gps during the 2016 election. explicitly hired to help investigate trump and russia related subjects. if you think the trump legal team isn t following all of
information. christopher steele was not to have contact with the fbi after they had to disassociate themselves from him when he, against policy, was leaking information to the press. rig
that he has planned a bigger terrorist attack somewhere in germany already in two thousand and sixteen this man apparently had big amounts of the highly explosive t. a.t.p. in his flat now the man called model met was not alone he had planned as a tech together with the second suspect called claim or be now this second man flew already in two thousand and seventeen to france because he probably was afraid that they could be arrested in germany and in france the second man was arrested already in april two thousand and seventeen and in the course of these french investigations on clean won t be more was found out on the burden suspect and that led to the arrest today. five been a funded mark thank you very much for that update. and of course we ll keep an eye on that story and bring you more details when they come in meanwhile let s take a look at some other stories making news around the world clashes have broken out
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recovery success. i think puerto rico was incredibly successful. and i actually think it was one of the best jobs that s ever been done with respect to what this is all about. i think the puerto rico was an incredible, unsung success. no one s saying that success because it s not true. billionaire president versus a trillion dollar company, we ve also got that in sight, apple set to unveil a new slate of iphones today, but with the president s trade wars threatening higher price, will the company be forced to think different? and ten years ago this week, i remember it well, lehman brothers collapsed, setting off a chain of events leading to the worst financial crisis since the great depression. so after a decade, have we learned any lessons? you know, we have got to begin with the the storm of a lifetime.
max, thinking, am i going to have a home to come back to? god spare us, spare myrtle beach, spare everybody who s in line with this. because this looks like it s going to