a plan was then created according to that person who would not provide specification. a second person familiar with the talks, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity said the february february discussed preserving evidence that it would outlast any effort to stymie the investigation. a borough spokesperson declined to comment on this world news editor for axios. dave waller, thank you so much for joining us this morning. good morning. what does it elicit about some republicans true loyalty to president trump if they reportedly did not object tot the investigation. it s a remarkable conversation the acting director of the fbi comes to you and says we are going to be launching a counterintelligence investigation into the president because we think there is a possibility he was acting on behalf of the russian government. to then turn around and say stop, don t do that i don t know.
jesse helms from north carolina who was a very, very tough guy and a bit of a racist, no, for real. he made no bones about it. he was like when i first got there, there were a bunch of racists, james o east. strom thurman and so on. biden slammed general motors after they received tax breaks and still laid off thousands of workers. look, i don t begrudge anybody making a million or hundreds of millions of dollars, i really don t but i do think there is some shared responsibility and it s not being shared fairly for hard working middle class and working class people. joining us once again from washington, d.c., world news editor for actionio, dave
u.s. aid packages being offered to help the country of more than 30 million people. on the venezuela side troops and trucks are blocking traffic in and out of the country. joining me is world news editor with the daily beast and msnbc contributor. christopher, thank you for being here with us this morning and for bearing with us. we understand there s a bit of a delay. no question that ordinary people in venezuela could use humanitarian aid. is the u.s. taking the right approach here? it s a confrontational approach and a little bit complicated. what s been happening for the last few years in venezuela is that as the economy has collapsed the venezuelan government, the maduro regime has been in control of distributing food, basic necessities of life to people it favors because basically those are the people who voted for him and supported or say they do. this is a direct attempt not only to feed starving people, but to take that power away from
russians. joining us from washington, world news editor for axios. dave, good morning to you. hope you re staying warm this morning to say the least. as we well know the president has repeatedly said moscow is not a s threat to the u.s. but know now mueller s findings yesterday appear to prove otherwise. what is russia hoping to gain from meddling in this ongoing investigation? forg russia this is all abo muddying the waters, spreading confusion and division. i do think we have a situation here where when mueller comes back with something there will be a big chunk of the country f that says it s fake news or it was a witch00 or the democrats do worse. i think that s the kind of thing that the russians are trying to encourage here. theyo don t want this to be viewed as an impartial investigation. they want to it be viewed as something that s drummed up against president trump and against russia and spreading this kind of fear of russia and so this information kind of further that ca
claims that they need to pay up as if nato is a protection racket. after the firestorm that the times report created this week trump tried to reassure the alliance and quiet his critics sort of. we re going to be with nato 100%, but as i told the countries you have to step up and you have to pay. we have very good relationships but countries are now stepping up. joining me is an msnbc contributor and world news editor at daily beast, and sara kendzoir and malcolm nance. you wrote in the daily beast tuesday donald trump doesn t want alliances like nato he wants u.s. soldiers to be guns for hire, trump insists the countries pay more for the u.s. troops and putin, xi jinping and kim jong-un enjoy the spectacle of shattering alliances. new york times added and wrote on monday that vladimir putin i m sorry that washington post sorry, washington post wrote