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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 preside...

A former colleague of your, carlos cobello. youve heard people in the republican party appears to move the goal post from know collusion, and no lose is bad. whats your view of where were at and where the party needs to be? >> thats right, ari. i think rudy giuliani a couple weeks ago was the first to give the signal that the last line of defense for the administration is to say the position did not personally ll lly collude. we not reasonable are stone. hes live here for a while. hes known for ...

Reporters, i dont know if you heard this, but sarah sanders said not him. there was no collusion involving the president. which to a number of folks seemingly have opened the possibility that perhaps at some point the administrations approach was -- is going to be, well, there may have been some collusion, but the president wasnt involved in it. >> yeah, and thats a line of argument you saw previewed by rudy guiliani a week and a half ago where he came out and said it seemed to be, you know, a m...

That was the president just a few months ago tweeting his support of roger stone, saying he would never testify against him. stone has said the same thing on this network before, that he would not flip on the president. president trump tweeting a few moments ago about todays news calling it, again, unsurprisingly the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. now collusion, all caps. border coyotes and human traffickers are treated better. who alerted cnn to be there? that reference abou...

A and if they had found collusion they would have found it. big picture though, this indictment is as much about the president as it is his longtime confidant. its about how corrected the campaign was to stone and how connected stone was to those hacked e-mails and russia. a big panel for you here on this mueller friday. our nbc reporters kerry sanders at the federal courthouse in ft. lauderdale. julia ainsley who broke the news for msnbc this morning. jeff bennett. for some analysis, the former...

Charged for lying to investigators. rick gates, lying to the fbi. michael flynn charged for lying with the fbi. 13 russian nationals, three related companies as well charged with conspiracy to defraud the united states. conspiracy to commit bank fraud. and identity theft as well. 12 russian intelligence officers. i think weve gotten everyone. are you looking at those two full screens there. some of the folks you probably have forgotten about. and the president continues to insist no collusion, t...

Probe in his view is something thats based on a lot of false statements. cases about false statements. his quote to me was another false statement case, god almighty. his point there was that he doesnt see any collusion on the part of the president or the trump campaign. i asked rudy guiliani did he speak with the president about this indictment of stone, the presidents longtime confidant. guiliani said he did, declined to describe the conversation other than to say the president was not nervous...

The noose is tightening around the trump campaign. the noose is tightening around the trump campaign, its activities, according to this evidence its attempts to get inside information. according to one e-mail from mr. stone to direct the type of material information it wanted to get from weeky leaikileaks w alleged to be from russia. thats a big deal. it doesnt tell you how many people were involved. it tells you -- i want to be fair and clear about this -- it tells you zero about the asserted e...

Public about his conversations with wikileaks and then his public denials of collusion. how much of this did he bring on himself? >> he brought a lot on himself. its hard for me to believe anybody who thinks -- who has lawyer thinks its a good idea to -- when you know full well you had all these conversations. because we have proof of it now in the indictment. and then go on "meet the press" and say i had no contact. its obvious he had contact and he was lying that whole time. to the extent that...

Jury. hes put himself at great legal risk. so if you put yourself in his shoes, you have to ask yourself the question, why would you put yourself at legal risk? it is just to cover out outreach to wikileaks you had already publicly bragged about during the campaign? thats what he did. he told the world he was communicating with weeky leaiki. is it to cover up conversations with the then candidate, now president, which he was reported to be having frequently in the fall of the campaign. we dont k...