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Before they came i was going to fire comey. Theres no good time to do it, by the way. Because in your letter you said i accepted their recommendations. You had already made the decision. I was going to fire regardless of recommendation. In one stunning interview with nbc news, President Trump kneecaped his resignation, completely contradicting his communication staff and raising the real possibility that the russia investigation was top of mind when he abruptly fired the man in charge of carryin...

It started on the white house lawn where the president stopped to talk to reporters. He trashed the fbi and refused to rule out a pardon of mike flynn, who lied to the fbi. Where was trump going on marine one you might ask, the fbi. But wait, theres more. When he got to quantico he addressed a graduating class at the fbis National Academy for Law Enforcement managers. He did have a prompter and at first he did stick to it, praising police. But then you look at whats going on in chicago, what the...

Is the narrowest in a generation and it came as protesters descended on capitol hill. Donald trump praised kavanaugh before heading to a rally tonight in kansas. He will be a great justice of the Supreme Court. People have thought that for ten years. They thought hes just an extraordinary person, a great, great talent. And i think hes going to make us all very proud. Trump tweeted that kavanaugh will officially be sworn in tonight though not in public. Instead it will be done by chief Justice Jo...

Pam bondi and more, team coverage, Trace Gallagher with how muellers report feeds into the 2020 campaign trail, Kristin Fisher with latebreaking reaction and Katherine Herridge with what is in the report and what is not. Lets start with big headlines of the day, he said this is the end of my presidency. What was that about . That was in may 2017 and Robert Mueller had just been appointed and Jeff Sessions was delivering the news. That was the response from the president , this is the end of my p...

Federal food inspectors sounding alarm, unsafe pork could make it to your dinner table under the new inspection rules. What they are saying 24 hours on the big day of capitol hill. House democrats are preparing for their next step in the impeachment fight. The House Rules Committee will meet to set the parameters for the debate process and finalize any proposed changes which lays out two articles of impeachment, abusive of power and obstruction of congress. On wednesday, it is the big day. The h...

Militarys investigation into possible white power signs flashed by students at this weekends army navy game. Well get to that in just a moment. But lets start in washington on this weeks historic vote. Msnbcs Garrett Haake is on capitol hill. Nbcs hans nichols is at the white house. Mr. Hake, ill start with you there on the hill. This justreleased, 658page impeachment report, it came out overnight ahead of this possible house vote on wednesday. What are the top lines in this report . A little Li...

There are districts that the president carried who are skeptical about moving forward. And then later embraced moving forward. Are you concerned at all that some democrats may face a backlash if they vote for articles of impeachment that could ultimately hurt them in their races come next year . Thank you for your question. But this has absolutely nothing to do with politics. It isnt about politics, partisanship, democrats and republicans. That is totally insignificant. It is about the constitut...

Historical record which we can extrapolate that tells us the public exactly how we can expect these things to proceed. These things are so rare that pretty much each one of them is unique. But now we know for this one according to Speaker Pelosi, the way this ones going to proceed is that shes going to ask the chairman and chairwoman of the various committees that have been involved in the impeachment investigation, shes going to ask those chairs to start drawing up articles of impeachment again...

But now we know for this one according to Speaker Pelosi, the way this ones going to proceed is that shes going to ask the chairman and chairwomen of the various committees that have been involved in the impeachment investigation, shes going to ask those chairs to start drawing up articles of impeachment against the president now. And multiple news sources are reporting tonight that the first votes on articles of impeachment against President Trump could come within a couple of weeks. Could come...

If i want to make it. Its not if they want to make it, its if i want to make it. In some ways i like the idea of waiting until after the election for the china deal. But they want to make a deal now and well see whether or not the deal will be ripe. Joining us now, zack ri caravelli who is president at river twice research. Lets start with this, zack, what would the rational be if youre President Trump for wanting to wait to get a trade deal done until after the election. First, how we manage th...