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June 12, 2021
Next week, vladimir putin sat down with nbc news correspondent keir simmons. it is the russian presidents first american interview in nearly three years. here is more from their exclusive conversation. >> we sat down for a 90 minute interview inside the kremlin, where i pressed him on accusations he is ordered assassinations of his adversaries. >> the late john mccain, in congress, called you a killer. when president trump asked, was told that you are killer, he didnt deny. when president biden ...
June 12, 2021
As we mentioned, days before his summit with president biden next week vladimir putin sat down with nbc news correspondent keir simmons. it is the russian presidents first american television interview in nearly three year just heres more from their conversation. >> we sat down for an interview inside the kremlin where i pressed him on accusations hes ordered assassinations. late john mccain in congress called you a killer. when president trump was asked -- told that you are a killer he didnt de...
June 12, 2021
We can all agree we dont want people to be leaking classified information. we know that there are national-security risks. but the notion here, that you can conflate the idea of a legitimate pursuit, with one thats pretextual, thats really the crux of the issue here. and so, benefit of doubt, of course. is it -- is it odd that a prosecutor goes and gets a subpoena? is it odd that you go and get documents? absolutely not. whats odd is the overlapping coincidences out of thin air that suggest, you...
June 12, 2021
Into giftgiving to a private school. gift giving to pay tuition payment. the supreme court really has opened up a can of worms, hasnt it? the d.a. is all over this country, you have attorneys general and state throughout this country and if its the position of the supreme court that these local elected prosecutors, free to look into a president pack under pretext of looking for something or middle, i think weve done a horrible way here. >> the truth is, if a prosecutor decides to go after you, t...
June 11, 2021
Should investigate, but congress as well should dig into this. i mean, the bottom line here is if this was just a pretext, and was done for political purposes to try and undermine two individuals that trump perceived as his enemies, somebodys going to go to jail. >> cnns senior political analyst davidger gergan is to our conversation. you worked under nixon who had his own enemies list, of course, is this worse than watergate? >> it has the potential for being worse than watergate. but i do thin...
June 11, 2021
Laugher. father of supply side economics, recipient of the medal of honor from donald trump, who was recently in the news for saying that many of the people who would take $15 an hour jobs dont deserve $15 an hour if you want to talk about people who are sort of undeserving of the riches bestowed on them. >> yeah. this is that thing where he would celebrate supply side, trickle down -- >> it doesnt work. >> go ahead. >> its been a monumental failure. its the reason that republican presidencies t...
June 11, 2021
Comcast business securityedge. plus, for a limited time, ask how to get a $500 prepaid card when you upgrade. call today. mr. president, when is your message to putin? >> ill tell you after i deliver it. >> president biden pushing off reporters as he gets ready to face vladimir putin. nbc news just landed an exclusive with the russian president. asked putin about how he feels about biden condemning him as a killer. were airing this now on msnbc for the first time. >> when president biden was a...
June 11, 2021
Down his demands as evidence against trump. he didnt know then he would be fired. but we were learning about those requests and trumps follow-up in 2018. after comey was fired for several reasons, of course, including his follow-up with trump over resisting these demands, the world learned how trump was actually secretly hatching quite detailed plots to use leak investigations as the pretext to intimidate reporters, to try to jail them. and tonight with everything we now know about what we were ...
June 11, 2021
Whenever he thought it was appropriate to basically direct them to do things that were politically in his interests, whether it was dumping the case on his national security adviser or whether it was trying to get the director of the fbi to drop the case on that same national security virus. and we know from the recent testimony of don mcgahn that just was released yesterday by congress that donald trump was extremely persistent in trying to get the department of justice to go his way to get the...
June 9, 2021
Laura: they want new americans. they dont want to stop this, 2 million people by the end of the year. senator klobuchar, blunt, peterson portland released a report investigative january 6th ryan and it contains a list of recommendations that struck me as somewhat concerning. among them in power the chief of the capital police to request assistance from the dc national guard an emergency situations and establish civil disturbance units as a formal permanent component of the us capitol police. you...