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producer and my executive producer, phillip, the people that write things that come out of my mouth, the things that make sense. susan is great and other senior producer alyssa welldon. i just have really wonderful people who know me. its like a mind meld. but i was presented with an opportunity that i cant pass up at this network, and we have a new boss, who is a morning show e exmpreario. and he wants a show to kick off things every day. and saying he moved me -- he asked me and i sa...

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Kamala harris in what looks like a cynical competition to outdo each other and fly migrants across the country. >> any about the governor of florida, one of the largest states in the nation, spending his time hatching a secret plot to ship up 50 immigrants here, families, children as young as four, and use them as political pawns just so he could get on tucker carlson and on how he is tough on immigration. he is a coward. >> more to come on all of that. so stay tuned. but i want to get right to ...

Touch with white house officials and his lawyer. >> all right. thank you very much. i appreciate your time. of course, this is a major turning point, this report from the washington post. john avelon joins you can, gloria borger and jeffrey toobin. david sanger also here. gloria, let me start with you. this will be a major turning point. this. was not under personal investigation, that is, until he fired the fbi director and he now is under personal investigation, the washington post reports. >>...

With these special counsel investigations and has broadened it to look into this question of obstruction and whether the president was involved in that. so i do think, erin, that it is quite significant. >> john? >> no question significant. what i think it does is it cod fiez the firing of comey seems to have triggered a broader investigation. the president had not been a target but the firing of comey seems to have expanded the investigation, refrigerators the fbi and now from the washington po...

Executive privilege. only the president can invoke it in trying to stop them from testifying, but what we know from the supreme courts decision in united states versus nixon in 1974 is that they are -- the courts are not going to stop a criminal investigation and are not going to limit the questioning of potential witnesses. so i think executive privilege, even if the trump administration invoked -- is not going to be able to stop it. >> today, john, we have video. mueller had a meeting where se...

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Opinions as to whats best for the country but hes the one the american public elected. hes the one who has to make the decision. >> up front front david gergen, john avelon, and jason miller former senior communications advisor for the trump campaign. this was a landmark global agreement, right? there were only two countries today that were not privy to its. now the united states joins that group. is this an unpress dented decision? >> yes. and im sorry to say this, but erin, listen, some 70 yea...

Al gores jet is going to take off just fine tomorrow. whether it may have been a binary choice to stay or leave, its not a binary choice. erin, theres one bigger thing i vnlts seen anyone talking about a all. thats the political impact of this move today. i think that the lack of advertising efforts and lack of a political push we saw from the left and from the democrats on this simply because their base is split -- >> ok. but -- >> and the way the president -- >> the politics -- politics import...

good morning to you. it is thursday, september 1st. can you believe it? this is your a.m. "wake-up call." this is carol costello joining you live from new york. its a big day. the presidents big speech on economy will be a week from tonight. he wanted to speak a day earlier but house speaker john boehner said there wouldnt be enough time to do a security sweep of the house chamber. others complained it was on the very night of the republican presidential debate. he could go head to hea...