Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Sources tell cnn he is concerned that his son don junior may be caught up in the mueller investigation. The white house ready to put sanctions back on iran. That countrys leader is set to speak out as the deadline approaches. Breaking overnight. A second meeting between north korea us kim jongun and President Trump could take place some time later this year. We have reports from tehran and hong kong. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im Christine Romans. Nice to see you. Im phil mattingly. She is putting up with me all week. It is monday, august 6th. 5 00 a. M. In the east. President trump admitting during the 2016 president ial race his son don junior met to get information on an opponent. On sunday, the president called the Trump Tower Meeting totally legal and done in politics all the time. Adding i did not know about it. That tweet directly contradicting the earlier statements. The president acknowledging for
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The latest news from around the world with host Fredricka Whitfield. And then actually never really does do it. Like release his taxes, right. Then theres other cases where it overrides all common sense, all of his advice and everybody else and does do it. The big question is, is he going to do it in this case . We dont know what donald trump were fog to get on that particular day. Although his staff does say and his attorneys do say that his tweets, in effect, and his public statements amount to his own testimony so far and you can just read his tweets and read his mind and thats something muler is doing, to see if theres any condemning statements hes made in those tweets. Hes been warned about that for a very long time. The president continues, you know, to tweet. Whether he is saying disparaging things about the process, his own intel community, all of that. How will mueller use these tweets to his advantage . Even if they never get direct q a from the president . Yes, well, the twe
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Wild card . Why . He picked his pal, kris kobach, over the partys choice, who has a slim lead in polls over kobach even though trump is backing him. The proposition is this. Could trump put this governors seat in play by picking the controversial kobach . Youll remember him of gu dayzy voter fraud fame. Remember that commission to find fraud that found none . Thats him. Trump remembers the loyalty. The gop would like to forget he exists. Its also a crucial test for the other side. Democratic centrists are fighting the growing progressive wing for the future of the party. Then theres something im calling the x growth factor. What can democrats do to peel off trump voters . What do i mean by trump voters . Voters who are disaffected and who picked trump for being an antipolitician. What can they do for that . Lets get after all of this right now with chief National Correspondent john king monitoring it
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. It looks very hinky to me. Heres why i ask you about what this is about because lets say you win. Lets say the democrats win. You get the house. Probably not the senate, but you get the house. Theres a call for impeachment among progressives like yourself. Yes. Two things happen. Well, i dont think its just progressives, chris. There will be a call for impeachment from all those not heard, who are the majority in america. Okay. I give you that fact. Ill stipulate to it for the point of this argument. Okay. So everybody calls out. You dont have the votes. It doesnt happen. You galvanize support for the president , and we are torn more apart in this country. Are you worried about that outcome . No, i am not. I am believing in the american people. I believe in this country. I believe in what it was founded on. I believe in the constitution. I think that on election day, were going to show up in a huge w
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. You know, i think it is like that red herring where the more time we spend kind of debating any one individual person or figure is less time that we spend talking about medicare for all, tuitionfree public college, and a great new deal. I think what we really need to do is have discipline on winning back the house. We need to spend more time talking about the issues that Americans Care about and the issues that are going to get more money in the average americans pocketbook and less money spent on totally Expensive Health care and education. So you go from the organizational structure of who are our bosses to the substantive. Now, emilys list, which youre very well aware of, they put out an organization that said we want to promote women being in politics. Theyve done very well. And in fact, some of their candidate