department is being undermined and tillerson relegated to a sideshow in many respects. who do they listen to, who do they talk to, when they want to call washington, who do they call? steve bannon? or who? if it s trump, he may tell them one thing, as long as he s face-to-face, and then tweet something quite different. if he really meant he had a great relationship with merkel, they had a great meeting, why was he tweeting about nato when he felt people didn t get his point about past deuce? christopher dickey, always a pleasure. world news editor for the daily beast there in paris. thank you so much, sir. the justice department provides the house and senate intelligence committees with documents on president trump s wiretapping claim. just days before fbi director, james comey, testifies on capitol hill. got a preview of that potential explosive testimony after this. are your allergies holding you back
the first four years of this fight was a very lonely one. on the side of calling a lie a lie. when donald trump officially became a presidential candidate, the first reinforcements arrived but we were still a small group, and now every journalist is awake to the threat and that is very good news. the right thing to say is reinforcements are always welcome but the right thing to say isn t always easy to say. especially when you have to say it a year too late. joining us now, josh marshall, founder and editor of talking points memo. christopher dickey, world news editor for the daily beast and msnbc contributor. christopher, explosion out of mar-a-lago on saturday, once again, calls into question everything about the trump presidency, from competence to madness, to where is the staff that should be protecting america from this wildness?
christopher dickey, world news editor for the daily beast and msnbc contributor. christopher, explosion out of mar-a-lago on saturday, once again, calls into question everything about the trump presidency, from competence to madness, to where is the staff that should be protecting america from this wildness? to how does the cabinet work in a presidency with this kind of madness in it? i mean, this tweet goes to the jurisdiction of the attorney general. this tweet goes to the jurisdiction of the director of the cia. it goes to the direction of people who ve already been confirmed into their jobs and they are all completely silent about this tweet. for the moment, they are. i mean, we know that the fbi director, mr. comey, decided that he wanted the justice department to push back on this which it hasn t done yet, of course. but i think it may not be quite as complicated as all that where trump is concerned. he s doing what a lot of liars
lucy, you navigated the technical difficulties well. lucy cavanaugh in munich. with us from paris, christopher dickey msnbc contribute and world news editor for the daily beast. and in baltimore, steve clemens, msnbc contributor and editor at large for the atlantic. steve, you have the vice president saying he and the president are on the same page on nato yet the president keeps using the word obsolete to describe nato. are they on the same page? how do you know? how can they tell? reporte newell, mike pence s job is go out and try his best to channel donald trump and try to tell the world things aren t nearly as bad as they think they are. i think general of the maddis was trying to do the same thing in japan recently. but the bottom line is all we
it and say he never made the promise in the first place, which we ve often heard about him. if he builds that wall o the southern tier, what s going to happen? we re going to start to see problems on the canadian frontier. canada has a very open immigration policy. if we re worried about muslim, gosh, there are a lot going to canada now. canada has been regarded by current terrorism forces as a potential security threat. that s a longwall. christopher, we can talk about this for hours. world news editor for daily beast. chrkriskchris dickey, always a to get your insights. we continue to monitor the executive order of president trump to ban muslims and refugees. we re going to have a lot more. stay with us.