nbc news characterizing that race for governor as too early to call with the polls closed. democrats are bracing themselves for a comforting victory, where, of course, another devastating defeat. recent polling has shown northam with a slight edge but within the margin of error. gillespie, an aid to george b. push, is trying to help his establishment bonifides. if he wins, he can provide fellow republicans how to campaign in theably of trump. let s get the very latest from the race from our own steve kornacki. steve what do we know? well, it was 7:00. the polls closed in new jersey. we were an hour away. as you just showed. we have no actual votes in just yet. what can we show you from the exit polls? let s look at a few of the key questions, we can tackle there. first of all, see if we can call up the areas. okay. that should call it up. here we go, the trump factors,
starting in virginia, the president, his approval rating, clocks in at 43%, by comparison, last time they had a
peace process, but leaving the specifics up in the air. why does it matter? think back to how this year has unfolded. powell positioned herself, when she came in, part of that wing or faction in the white house. jared kushner, ivanka trump, but since then working to build rips with people like h.r. mcmaster is someone that the president trusts and looks to in some of these big settings and high profile moments. and she has influence here in the west wing. that said there have also been questions about her own sort of positioning or the rumors or speculation of where she wanted to end up. she was widely rumored to have wanted to get back to new york. her family is still there. which is obviously potentially part of what plays into this. but i would note just a couple things here. number one this may be just the start of what we re now seeing
year book calling every day in twitter. calling into that yearbook specifically. there is room to question the voracity of beverly young nelson
. about how. these women in new delhi demonstrating against discrimination and sexual violence. the. philippine president marjorie go to temp table with a bunch of protests in manila activists that branding him a much a fascist for his treatment of women. to have a leader of the country leave in this manner that says that somehow here early on by women sexy as they call it might be to use that not much new stuff and it s not how we remember what see when we re not people i mean that discrimination against women you know so we can deal with that right that s the only way there is to go. that route so taken up in pakistan to violence against women the focus here will be mob today and i said they all resistance to all that you know seeing that is
a lot to get it appeared after the french finance minister apparently grabbed a journalist underwear her underwear when she bent down to retrieve a pen and later we saw. or out your pig it pointed the finger right back at the harassers and in
obama s fight on the campaign. and sarah huckabee sanders only an hour ago briefing for the first time since monday. the president knows that there was no collusion in the campaign. and he has been quite clear about this. it s gone on for over a year. they have found no evidence of collusion, and still strongly believe that it is a witch-hunt. so this you have trump lawyer rudy giuliani marking this anniversary with yet another round of media tours, this time the blitz is centering on this question. can special counsel robert mueller actually indict a sitting president? well, according to giuliani, mueller s own team told him the answer is no. let s start this hour at white house with msnbc hans nichols. there is a lot of foreign policy the middle east news we will get to in a little bit about what the president had to say today. but here we go again. you have those major events, a north korea summit, china, all the things the president talked
about today. and yet he s tweeting,
unprecedented step further in what critics call an effort to is distract the white house now threatening to revoke security clearance from six former top national security officials, all of whom are fierce critics of trump s actions or inactions. these officials have served both democrats and republicans and have decades of experience in intelligence, law or diplomacy. for context, the heads of the intelligence agencies usually keep the security clearances unless there s reason to revoke them. it allows them mpay attentio to this: it allows them to speak openly about matter the. they keep the clearance so if the current administration needs some advice or help, they can talk to them. i want to point out something. sarah sanders was very proud to get up and change the topic because she didn t want to talk about the president s walk-back, disaster in helsinki, all the
messes. certainly didn t want to talk about migrant children. but the people she listed, so proud they want to rev
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if this is a he said she said situation like hallie just put it who has more credibility? president trump or michael cohen? well it depends on who you support, but look, i think in terms of credibility for the purposes of the investigation, bob mueller isn t going to look at that. he s going to look at what the facts are. and what s interesting here about this is that there is no recording of this particular incident like there was with other incidents. now, michael cohen s attorney, a former clintonite has really pushed out that michael cohen is now fully cooperating with with the investigation and with investigators. what s interesting is that yesterday at the white house, and all week at the white house has hallie just alluded to, the president has not issued any type of direct comment on these latest allegations. that s unique. and until he does about whether or not he did in fact, have knowledge of tha
that and whether he can help prove it, that s an open question. we also know on the day that donald trump junior formally accepted that meeting, candidate trump touted the big upcoming speech about hillary clinton. i am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week, and we re going to be discussing all the things that have taken place with the clintons. i think you will find it very informative and very, very interesting. candidate trump did not make that monday speech. as trump now repeats his denials about any advance knowledge of the meeting, it is critical to note this is a meeting that team trump already lied about. his own lawyers often admitting to mueller trump dictated that misleading statement about the meeting originally. first they lied about what happened in the meeting. then they lied about the defense of the meeting. which he was choosing to offer,
even though he also claimed he didn t know anything about the meeting. now the question is whether tru
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mueller outlining their defenses of the president on obstruction of justice. the key element of their defense was that president trump did not know that his national security adviser michael flynn was being investigated by the fbi when the president talked to fbi director james comey about letting flynn go. james comey quotes the president as having told him, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. he is a good guy. i hope you can let it go. the trump defense team has said that it is impossible for that conversation to constitute obstruction of justice because the president did not know that the fbi was then investigating michael flynn. but murray waas s reporting that the white house memo that he read is a timeline prepared by white house counsel don mcg
2:00 p.m. in washington where today the president s lawyers are scrambling to clarify his tweets. it is unusual since the president s lawyers don t respond so quickly to clarify anything, he says, which makes you wonder if the tweet in question got them worried. in a series of official presidential statements, remember the white house has called his tweets official statements, trump called the russia probe a disgrace to the usa and seemed to demand his attorney general put an end to it. quote, attorney general jeff sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now before it continues to stain our country any further. as reported in the new york times last week, special counsel rocky mountain is keepi m / rob robert mueller is keeping an eye on the president s twitter. no, say the president s lawyers.
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absolute positive proof of identity on social media, otherwise you ll get bchblg of people to leave because it s unsayre. so what s the middle ground here? how do you keep facebook free while not u allowing it to be b rebust platform? that s the conflict you re seeing play out with the executives. if you hear mark suctizuckerber interview, they are really trying to come to religion on this particular issue. how do they on the one hand shut down obvious patent misinformation that is designed to mislead while still allowing people in mark zuckerberg s words to be b wrong on the internet sometimes. this is something you ll see members of congress probing facebook out consistently. i think you ve seen change in exactly where the company feels like that line is going to be
drawn. they re under a lot of political pressure, trying to bring do