The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. There is nothing at the Department Of Justice that indicates that they didnt do overt acts and these investigation investigations 60 days before elections. Its customary, usually around the time of an election they wont do what is called overt acts, that i wont bring indictments or subpoena people or do anything publicly as to try to not sway the election. The idea that we here in that time frame or approaching it is simply not true. I think what we know, poppy is that we expect mueller will continue in september and there may be a quiet period come octob october, a month before the election. As we saw from james comey in the Hillary Clinton email probe, things can be reopened days before an election. That is something that mueller and his team would be conscious of. Mueller was i mean, comey was in trouble for that. That is something they are considering. For sure in their minds. Dana bash got the scoop from Rudy Giuliani and he told her that republicans could benefit from this dragging on past the midterms. Even though hes saying wrap it up, he says if it goes longer it would benefit. Let me read it to you. Now i am thinking the contin iif the investigation would help. What do you think. Well, the president s nonstop assault, Rudy Giulianis frequent attacks, off declining faith among republicans in the Mueller Probe. Youve seen the poll numbers go down and if the prospect of impeachment of him, youll see
more democrats to come after the president. It could lead republicans to say we think this is unfair. Now i dont know that many Swing Districts and suburbs and states like michigan and virginia, that the Mueller Probe will be topofmind to voters. Its hard to believe it would be but you could see the president s allies with ads saying hey, vote for republicans or theyre coming after your president. I want your take on devin nunes who has been such an Ardent Supporter of the president. Rachel maddow on her show played this tape that was taken inside a private fundraiser of devin nunes. We have the audio. He said a lot. But heres what he said about the president s statements on twitter as it applies to the Mueller Probe. They know its ridiculous to go after the president for Obstruction Of Justice but if they tell a lie often enough and put it out there and say oh, look at the tweets, youve got a
lot of tweets, sometimes we love the president s tweets, sometimes we cringe on the president s tweets but theyre trying to make a political hes saying you have to keep republicans in control of congress because well see an impeachment. Its not that different than what he said publicly but what is the significance here . I think the idea that any of this is politically motivated by mueller is probe ridiculous. The Obstruction Issue is very real and something the president s lawyers are concerned about. I think its on the top of their mind and what theyre trying to get mueller not to ask the president about. Two things are constant, one being that mueller wants a sit
down. The other being that giuliani says they want this wrapped up by september so presumably in the next few weeks we could have some answers here. The next step is whether or not mueller goes to the extreme step of subpoenaing the president but its obvious to all of us the lawyers dont want the president to be asked questions about obstruction. They said fine ask about collusions. But what is it about the Obstruction Matter that concerns the lawyers so much . Huge questions about obstruction, intent. When you fired james comey what were you thinking . When you had the conversation about michael flynn, what were you thinking . All right, josh stick around. We have a lot of biline in the Washington Post this morning so lets start with the front page on the dilemma you argue and report out that the gop is having right now after the
tuesday election. When you look at the ohio 12, still a tossup, Kathy Mcmorris rodgers not getting 50 of the vote. The huge Turnout Records since 1978 for democrats in michigan. What are the lackluster results for republican this is week doing to the party Conversational Roell . Were 90 days out. The president saying he wants to have an aggressive stance going forward. He wants the campaign three, four, five days a week. He wants to go into dozens of districts and talk about the economy, talk about immigration, talk about trade. To republicans that cuts both ways, the president s energizes his base but in many places his numbers are below 50 , including key districts where republicans need to win to keep the house and senate as well. But particularly the House Republicans are very concerned about. I thought it was telling the quote you had from kevin mccarthy, the republican
congressman who said you cant half embrace the president s agenda. This is the dilemma the candidates are dealing with. On russia, people should know that the white house has is drafting an Executive Order and what it would do as it pertains to russia is that it would call for more sanctions, it would give the President Authority to do that. My question is is this something with thooet or discelt their and an optics play . Its an eight page peckive the order and something the president s staff, Kirstjen Nielsen and dhs, the intel community, all of these agencies have been sounding alarm bells about interference in the past few weeks. You heard in the cross hairs, the lights are blinking red and you have a president who continued to say this is a hoax and question his Intelligence Community so youre seeing many
vocational in his administration are pushing him to take drastic steps and show hes doing something and you have a president who has been reticent to do that even as his aides say he authorized a briefing on interference on the podium, that he know this is Executive Order is being written, he still have to see will he sign it and put teeth on it . When the president gets fixate head puts teeth on it and goes after folks for doing things he doesnt like them to. We have not seen him do that with russian interference. So interesting the reporting that you have that he is telling white house aides to continue to talk publicly about Election Interference as he continues to talk about it being a hoax so great pieces, josh, thanks. Thanks for having me. Still to come, new york congressman Chris Collins under indictment for securities fraud, insider trading. He is fighting on, staying in the race for november and offering a glimpse of what his defense will be. Also, in that compound in new mexico were learning more about the cruelty that unfolded
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company, his supporters called the ethics probe in the house a witchhunt. He himself called media reports that anything he did would be a violation of the stock act fake news. Its exactly the language the president uses. And thats by design, pop py. He know this is district, he knows what resonates with people and thats why youll hear trump, trump, trump throughout this whole campaign. Phil, i wonder what you think about the white house is going to do. Mum on it now but this is the first member of congress to endorse the president. Last october when the Ethics Committee found there was reason to believe he violated ethics rules at a minimum, mike pence the same month traveled to buffalo to help him fund raise. Does the white house stand by their guy, phil . Good question. I think youll see many white house officials traveling to
help him any time soon. The wild card is the president. The president knows his supporters and who his most vocal supporters have been. As bob notes the president knows whos been on tv supporting him so you cant calculate what hes going to do in his 280 character platform. I think the white house Political Operation is keenly aware of the map and that they dont have the money or resources to put into a plus 26 plus 27 republican district even if they wanted to so theyll try to stay away but you never know if the president decides he wants to wade into it. Bob, before we go, it seemed to me like you were seeing the Crafting Of The Defense By Collins and this is hey, i lost money, theres nothing to see. Whats your read . Throughout this entire thing hes insisted he has played by
the rules and abided by every possible rule even when the Congressional Ethics Office mounted their first investigation and said theres reason for concern here so he has led this slide away and say this is not a problem, nothing to see here, folks, keep going on and thats kind of what its been. Something tells me you two and your colleagues will keep doing your reporting so thank you for being here. New york city is cracking down on uber and lyft, those taxilike vehicles and we all take them but there are new rules. Its significant. It has to do how many can be on the road and how much the drivers have to be paid. Christine romans is here. This is fascinating. This is the first city and a big city for them to do. This it was a Congestion Concern and a wage concern with this new
package of bills that passed. A 17 minimum wage assured for the drivers. There are a lot on the roads, poppy. 80,000 juno, lyft, uber and via drivers and 14,000 taxes so you can see the boom and the city wants to pause the new for Hire Licenses for a year. No new ones for a year while they figure out congestion and patterns and whether they can lift the wages. Taxi drivers have complained for a long time that they have seen the value of a medallion go down from a million to 200,000 and there are a lot of drivers competing out there. Uber and lyft need as many drivers as they can. Lyft said these sweeping cuts to transportation will bring new yorkers back to an era of struggling to get a ride for communities of color and in the outer boroughs so the ride share
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