This document that was newly unredacted really goes to show that there was this big effort to try to get flynn perhaps to change his testimony or to not cooperate fully with the special counsel. It does raise the question as to why no one got in trouble with that, perhaps that still could happen, but the Mueller Investigation has wrapped up and no one was charged with this. You know, you really get a sense from these documents that flynn was a very valuable witness to the special counsel, thats one reason why they recommended no jail time for him as a result of pleading guilty to false statements to the fbi. As you said, you know, there was somebody connected to the administration, somebody connected to the to congress who was doing this outreach and trying to get flynn to essentially withhold some cooperation according to this document. So tell us about this voicemail because if theres a taped conversation, far harder for the president and his allies to dismiss. What do we know about
Maybe that is why you like it so much. Before the 14 hour flight, the president took another shot at House Speaker nancy pelosi. Look, you think nantz cityyo sheegs not. And he announced the plan to move 1500 troops to the middle east. We want to have protection, the middle east well be sending a relatively small number of troops mostly protective. Irans foreign minister calls that move extremely dangerous. It is saturday, may 25th, the beginning of a holiday weekend. We just learned that trump plans to formally launch his Reelection Campaign on june 16th, fathers day. Evidently he thinks hes americas father which explains why he only loves a third of us. Up with me, professor at the department of social and cultural an d an analysis at ny. And also fellow at new america and regular contributor to the New York Times opinion section. And President Trump as i mentioned is in tokyo. He landed there just a few hours ago after a combative week to say the least in washington, d. C. Where a c
China, not the u. S. , will suffer if a deal doesnt happen. Earlier, he warned beijing not to retaliate for the sharply higher u. S. Tariffs he imposed on chinese goods last friday. Lets begin with christine romans. Were in the middle of a selloff here. As were in the middle of a game of chicken really when it comes to u. S. china trade. Youre absolutely right. A 2 move, i get interested when its a 2 move. We saw losses last week. The worst week last week for stocks in months, really, and then a 2 loss again this morning. Investors are sending a message that they realize consumers are going to pay the prices for higher tariffs. It could hurt company profits. It hurts u. S. china relations and they dont see what the end game is here. The friday tariffs were talking about set this whole ball really rolling. Youre talking about all kinds of different products. Network routers, seafood, metals, fruits. There are further tariffs the president can do. Were told hes preparing more tariffs, up
Harris accused biden of working with segregationist senators to oppose bussing. The l. A. Times noted, quote, the ambush seems carefully planned. It was photographed with a Young Kamala Harris that was added to the tshirt of a commercial merchandise store. Biden responded saying in part he did not oppose bussing in america but did oppose bussing ordered in the department of education. Its a complicated issue to address in short sound bites. But in his 2007 memoir promises to keep. Biden took five full pages to complain has past role righting in part, the following, bug was a liberal train wreck and it was tearing people apart. The quality of the schools in and around washington were already suffering and they would never be the same. Teachers were going to be transferred without consultation to new School Districts. In some instances they would be forced to take a pay cut. New castle county had about two thirds of the schoolage population of the state and now every one of them children
If they cannot reach an agreement democrats are planning to vote tomorrow to hold attorney general william barr in contempt. Former White House Counsel Don Mcgahn could also face a contempt citation if he doesnt turn over documents related to the Mueller Investigation by 10 00 this morning. So contempt on mcgahn, contempt on barr, it could all happen this week. Joining us now is maggie haberman, cnn political analyst. Maggie, thanks for being with us. Do you get the sense that the administration cares about being held in contempt if thats a stick being held up by congress, is it one that the administration is afraid of . Not particularly. I mean, i think you have to remember that unless you use the most exotic form of trying to hold someone in criminal contempt through congress, that this would then end up as a referral back to the department of justice and where do you think bill barr is going to end up on this . I dont think that they care particularly, i think we have seen the presi