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One of the trump scandals ive been obsessed with for a long time. Its never good, even in a sober presidency, for there to be tens of millions washing around in a slush fund. But the personal stuff involved these long, very detailed, in detailed quotes from the first lady that feel like they are verbatim. And it just reading them in such a way makes you think they must have been based on a recording. And i did not expect her to confirm that tonight, that in fact, there are tapes, including of th...

These long, very detailed, quotes from the first lady that feel like they are verbatim. And it just reading them in such a way makes you think they must have been based on a recording. And i did not expect her to confirm that tonight, that in fact, there are tapes, including of the first lady saying the disturbing stuff about kids on the border. But thats what she just confirmed. Yes. And then it was so fascinating to hear her explanation, when you asked her about, what did it feel like for a fr...

Scrambling to figure out how much highly Sensitive Information has been compromised after malicious actors roamed undetected across Government Agencies for months. Welcome to tuesday. Its meet the press daily. Im chuck todd. The Electoral College has spoken and this morning Mitch Mcconnell finally decided to congratulate joe biden as the next president of the United States. Yesterday, electors met in all 50 states. So as of this morning, our country has officially a president elect and a Vice Pr...

Present the case against the president. And just in, brand new reporting. Lev parnas wants to go to the impeachment trial, whether hes a witness or not. Were going to start with the devastating breaking news out of california. Kobe bryant, the longtime los angeles laker, fivetime nba champion and one of the greatest players of all time by any measure died today in a fatal Helicopter Crash that killed eight others. Among those, his 13yearold daughter, gianna. They were on their way to a travel ba...

Wider department of justice nor apparently a heads up to the president s own communications team. Were the reasons behind the firing different from the reasons given for the firing. Thats one of the many questions we have this morning. Welcome to morning joe. Its wednesday, may 10th. With us veteran columnist and msnbc contributor Mike Barnicle, senior politics reporterality usa today heidi priz bella, and msnbcs mark halperin. New york times reporter Michael Schmitt and columnist and associate ...

Partner in crime writing, quote, not withstanding that rick gates pled today, i continue to maintain my innocence. I had hoped and expected my business colleague would have had the strength to continue the battle to innocence. For reasons yet to surface he chose do otherwise. This does not alter my commitment to defend myself in the charges piled up against me. Gates becomes the Third Trump Campaign official to join what one ally describes as team america. Gates, along with former National Secur...

The topic of his future agenda. During the meeting with the president pruitt laid out his case for why he should continue in his job. Pruitt spent millions of dollars for a 20 member fulltime security detail that is three times the size of his predecessors. Its urged trump to fire pruitt but trump has been resistance. The morning the president sent out a tweet of support and said he was doing a great job while being totally under siege. The white house backed that up at todays briefing. No one o...

Thanks for joining us, well get to that but we begin keeping them honest with the unraveling of a Conspiracy Theory not created and promoted by a fringe radio huckster, no, this was created and promoted by elected officials on capitol hill and part of it by the president of the United States himself. There were two aspects to the theory, one revolving around a phrase in a single text message some republican lawmakers claimed was evidence of a dangerous secret society in the fbi and the other rev...

Was evidence of a dangerous secret society in the fbi. The other revolve around missing Text Messages that show that highlevel officials were trying to undermine President Trump. Today both parts of this theory crumbled spectacularly as they often do in the bright light of facts. Lets take a look at what happened, because it tells the store eve lawmakers attempting to undermine the fbi. The secret society text message was part of an exchange between two fbi officials, peter strzok and lisa page....

The political director for the white house and the top economic adviser at the white house and guy that does the personnel for the white house and Sarah Huckabee and the steven miller. Everybody you have ever heard of associated with the administration who has not already been fired or indicted, and a bunch of people you havent heard of they are all going to spend a frigid weekend together in camp david. But not Jeff Sessions. And this is not like some official event. Its not like a state of the...