Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. They will appear before lawmakers just, at that point, less than two months before the election again, i understand theyre going to ask some more questions, some more hearings. What is congress prepared to do to stop this, to say were do everything you possibly can to make sure there is not outside influence in our elections . Well, Lindsey Graham told me this shows we need an olive government approach. Introducing this legislation in part. Trying to get the president to joinest. He wants to see more pressure being put on russia. Were also hearing that some of these pages have been identified, and russia is an equal opportunity offender here. That our Political Leadership not to necessarily follow the rabl trail that the russians are
from the white house on this issue. Donald trump had his First Ever National security meeting the other day devoted to this subject. Didnt make any statements, didnt give any orders a
Right now. Its not an order, the president s opinion. Are President Trumps tweets considered official white house statements . The president is the president of the United States, theyre considered official statements by the president of the United States. Wow. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. Im confused. So confused. What is that line from the office . Universe, you win. Its 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 hes 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 prosecutors and you have a were
Updates of the days news. Directly intersects with the news of the day about there being potentially a second premeeting for the russia trump tower meeting. Rick gates is one of the names that Rudy Guilliani slipped and revealed in the series of interviews yesterday. What is the significance of Paul Manafort dropping his case against robert mueller. He was trying to have this case dismissed in court, saying that Robert Muellers jurisdiction did not extend to what he is actually charging Paul Manafort with . As i understand, he dropped those charges yesterday. It just seems he is increasingly finding himself to be more cornered and he doesnt have a lot of options to fight back at this point, and this is all getting back to that original goal of trying to squeeze manafort and get as. Information as possible out of him as they move closer hopefully to doing an interview of the president himself. That is still very much on the table. Also, heidi, why is it that Paul Manafort you think hasn
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