C Culpability News Today

Good morning, welcome to morning joe. Its wednesday, march 13th. We have so much more to get to with that hearing yesterday on capitol hill. Democrats pressed the former Special Counsel on his language about President Bidens memory while republicans wanted to know why the president wasnt charged. Meanwhile, also on capitol hill, today the who house is expected to vote on a bill that could lead to a ban on one of the most popular apps in america. Well explain that legislation. Well also get analy...

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Against trump, it left over whether there is a broader c culpability to enable his efforts. >> its a great point. it was clearly, we know from our reporting, there was some disagreement about whether to do this. it was clearly a khreub choice to focus on trump and make it a point to lay the blame squarely at his feet. you write in your piece, quote, it would be naive to assume that the committee has extinguished or fully mapped a threat that has spread far beyond trump. so how much influence cou...

That that precipitated a lot of lack of planning as to the next step because iran was going to respond and it would escalate. but this is kinetic accident. we had a u.n. national security council meeting. this could escalate. >> no doubt about it. we didnt need to be here. i think if the president had stayed in the nuclear deal, he would have been in a better place today. if indeed we can assign c culpability for these attacks, the united states needs to decide how to respond. the president and ...

Over the weekend that they were prepared to release oil from that sterategic oil reserve if needed. we have not yet heard from the president about this notion of c culpability. i did speak earlier today with a senior administration official who said that it is very difficult to see how these attacks could have come from anywhere other than iran or iraq. that, of course, follows secretary pompeos statement just yesterday that iran is responsible for these attacks and saying theres no evidence tha...

And attribution were not so difficult. the implication being that putin may have wanted us to know what he had done seeking only a level of plausible liability and official rejection of c culpability. >> and president-elect donal trump s also a topic of discussion. >> you know, i have served in intelligence for every president since president kennedy. i have served as a political appointee in both the republican and democratic administrations. >> would you say -- >> i am a-political. >> who actu...