A news show featuring the top headlines of the day from pop culture to politics, which are discussed by a rotating panel of four women and one man. A news show featuring the top headlines of the day from pop culture to politics, which are discussed by a rotating panel of four women and one man. Lets go to doug mcelway, live with the news with a. Great to see you. Brittian had long ago come to the conclusion that russia used a nerf agent to poison the two. It was only yesterday that the State Department officially concurred, promising to impose new sanctions. The sanctions will take effect later this month and are believed to include denying russian licenses for the purposes of exports among other things. The any sanctions follow the Trump Administration order last march to expand 60 russian diplomats, the largest expulsion in history and close the russian consulate in washington. Russia vehemently denied the poisoning. Connecting new sanctions to these events in salisbury is unacceptable and these restrictions as well as those imposed by the american side
before are absolutely unlawful. We believe and dont conform to international law. Russia is promising yet unnamed retaliatory sanctions of its own, Ult May Times against russia are useless. It asks the u. S. To make public any evidence that russia is responsible for the poisoning. The u. S. Wont do that, citing classified information. The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says the sanctions send an important message. The last time we engaged on this was when kim jongun had his own halfbrother assassinated with a nerve agent. If you recall, this law, this 91 law, was used to put additional sanction sanctions on north korea. Those Sanctions Ales with as sanctions passed in congress, and i was the author of that legislation, helped bring north korea to the table. The caselation in tensions follow last months summit in helsinki where the leaders of both countries agreed to work toward better relations. Harris, gak to you. Harris thank you. Governor, i guess its like a clap b. C. Sanctions. Do we use enough russian products, whats that going to look like. It hurts rush kwa a rot more than us. When the russians talk about draconian, whats more draconian than killing somebody on the streets of a foreign country. Thats pretty draconian. Russia is in trouble economically. Its very important this administration has made. I wish the president got more credit for what hes done, to punish russia, hes been virtually brutal to them. Anything but a puppet of them. I dont know why people are not recognizing that his toughness is having an impact on russia. Harris reuters is reporting in just the last few minutes the
creme wlin spokesperson is now saying that their Economic Life over there is completely, their finances completely stable according to the kremlin. One way to say it. You know stable . They have a long history of always telling the truth and never exaggerating anything. Take it at face value. They have said the poisoning was a hoax f thats the case explain where the nerve agent same came from. If this is something you are supposed to have such tight lock over, then explain how it got out instead of just trying to dismiss it with this digital propaganda. Theyre doing the same thing with the nonexplanations. Theyre not going to come out and say, yep, we poisoned the guy, we dont like him. And Vladimir Putin has a way of fatally dismissing his political enemies. When Chris Wallace confronted him in the interview here on fox news, he pointed to jfk and Martin Luther king. Harris i remember. Katie, i want to ask you, its the political component of all of this. Democrats of course go after the president for not being tough enough based on the rhetoric that they see. I dont know if theyre choosing passion over policy but the policy wouldnt lead to us believe hes not tough. Again, its interesting how democrats all of a sudden are concerned about russia. Republicans have been concerned about russia consistently since the 1980s. Now that President Trump is in office they seem to be thinking russia is the top concern. Their economy is smaller, half the size of california, its smaller than italy. This will affect 70 of their economy. When it comes to the last couple of months, harris, in terms of the politics here the president has been criticized for being too tough on nato, not standing up to nato, for daring to say that they need to contribute more in order to go after russia. This situation shows that nato is working together with the United States, making this decision to now implement these sanctions. It took a while, they could have done it faster, but the french
are with us, the germans, the brigts are with us. This is a coordinated effort to go after russia, the president standing up for nato rather than going after them as hes been accused of doing. Harris further down the road, democrats say the only reason, some of them not all, the only reason the president is doing this he legally has to do this. As you pointed out, theres been a journey to get to this point. In fact its been an aboutface from the obama administration, president obama abandoned those Missile Defense shields that were going in to poland and into the czech republic. He took real action to strengthen and help russia. On the flip side of that, you watch the president follow the exact same path that he did with kim jongun, you remember they also had a nerve agent attack. He retaliated as a result of that, the president doing it with russia. Not to mention he parked at nato about Buying Energy from russia which is how they were going to
get money. Putting l and g terminals in russia, rather than have europe dependent on natural gas from russia. He put a ton of economic and social pressure on them when in fact the last administration did very of the opposite. The president talking in detail about the relationship of energy between germany and russia. Im glad you brought up the energy part of this. The ability of the u. S. To be Energy Independent is not only energy, its National Security issue. By us now being at a place where we no longer have to go hat in hand to the saudis or anyone else to get energy, because of Technology Like tracking and because of exploration, we put ourselves in a very strong position where we can put the squeeze on putin, we can really make it difficult for him. The only thing he really has in
terms of a great commodity is energy. When we take that away from him, these sanctions, i mean theyre a gut punch to the russians right now. And it doesnt make for noncorrupt regimes. Look at the Energy Producers around the world. What happens there. Look at saudi arabia, russia, venezuela, look at the oilrich countries. I long for the day when we get off that dependency completely. I do think its going to be the United States that leads the way technologically. And it will be the free market. I have one question, i think its odd that i have a great deal of respect for senator rand paul, but i dont understand why hes acting as this mail carrier. I wonder where is John Huntsman . We have so many discussions about russia, and you never hear his name. Lets settle on that for a second, governor, this is a great opportunity to talk with you. Harris you make so many trips around the world to different places. The white house pushed back pretty hard on this idea that
senator rand paul had been sent directly to do this. They said no, he came to the white house and said write an introductory letter. I dont know how often thatsnesses. He has traveled all over the world. Do you need introductory letters, Whats Going On there . Its somewhat of a normal procedure to get a letter of introduction. Makes the visit a little more official. It doesnt really mean anything, you dont get a diplomatic passport, you say is that good guy, you might ought to meet with him. Thats all. I think the white house was a little miffed that the senator tried to present it as if hes an envoy, emissary negotiating with putin. He had a courtesy meeting. Where is John Huntsman . We have a very good ambassador in John Huntsman. Secretary pompeo, peoples jobs they are to do this. Harris i was curious, with the governor here probably some peach many, the names people, the names of which we dont have as Household Names the folks that do the back
channel stuff, pretty normal in any type of situation that were fating. The bigger picture, this is dealing with the poisoning, on british soil. When it comes to the russians there are high stakes in a larger negotiation. The president talked to president putin about the situation and the United States implementing the sanctions knowing they have to deal with that negotiation in the future which tells you a lot about where we think our leverage is. Harris i started by saying the reverse sanctions on us, they havent hurt, you said no, governor. I didnt think we were buying that much russia stuff. No. Vodka. [laughing] allegedly. No comment. Harris is daca seeing its final days . The legal action brought by the Texas Attorney general that could halt applications and possibly end it for good. Plus, new developments in the showdown between President Trump and Robert Mueller and his Russia Investigation, what the president s legal team
reportedly wants off the table and any possible sitdown as they unleash some of the harshest attacks yet. This is an investigation that at its outset has been corrupt. Theres no question about that. It continues every single day. There seems to be a new revelation. No matter who rides point,
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a totally illegitimate investigation. Based on a report, a dossier, that was paid for by Hillary Clinton and the democrats. Probably the biggest illegality so far, the biggest collusion so far. Melissa guiliani hitting on the electoral politics, saying now i think the continuance of the investigation would actually help. People are getting tired of it. The president needs something to energize his voters because the democrats look like theyre energized. Nothing would energize republicans more than lets save the president. Katie, what do you think . Katie thats a fair point, you see the president repeatedly and just as we started the Show Tweeting about how Russia Investigation is a witch hunt, hes gone after Robert Mueller directly, republicans do need something to Energize Voters to go into the mid terms, the base to turn out, mid terms are all about turnout. Its true that people are sick of this investigation when it comes to polling, its at the
bottom of the list what people are concerned about. Public opinion about the Russia Investigation shows they believe its politically motivated. The president with himself and his team, his personal counsel or the white house counsel, have done a very good job at turning the page on this and making it so people are motivated rather than the other way around. Melissa heres the tweet, this is an illegally brought rigged witch hunt brought by people dontly corrupt or conflicted. Started and paid for by Crooked Hillary and the democrats, phony dossier, so many lying and dishonest people fired, 17 angry dems, stay tuned. Governor . I wish President Trump could be clearer about how he feels. The fact hes lacking the transparency to share his emotions is very troubling. Yes, yes. Two things most americans need to see. One is that the federal agencies
were weaponized against the president before he was president. Melissa correct. Nompblts doubt about that. That ought to trouble every american. If the federal government can go after some one running for and becoming president they can go after them. And they will and they will end up winning. Most people dont have the resources of a president. And the second thing, is that what ought to trouble americans is that when the Congress Asks for information and gets stone walled, that is a serious problem, i cant stonewall the fbi if they come after me, why should the fbi or doj or any agency be able to stonewall the Proper Authority to ask questions about this on behalf of the american people. Were a dpochlt of the people and were being run over by Government Agencies supposed to work for us not the other way around. Harris while you make those points senator Lindsay Graham went golfing with the president and the president wanted to talk
believed there was some one corrupt within the trump campaign, how do they defend the notion that they didnt warn him, brief limb, tell him brief him, tell him. Rather decided to exploit it, almost seems like, and see how far they can take it. Kennedy this guy had a 5050 shot of running the free world. You would hope that these agencies with their spy poer that was codified by kong gres would forewarn the potential future president he has people inside doing a great deal of damage to his campaign and to the country. But they didnt do. That it wasnt a serious enough problem. We spoke about president obama, and the fact he was so unserious in regards to russia. As he crafted his Foreign Policy over two terms. There is way too much government abuse of power, there is not enough transparency, and as far as the president , i understand his frustration, i agree that this investigation has to end on its own terms. But i think the president should either sit for an interview or wait for a subpoena. If they impeach him, its such a weird presidency, such an intense time, i dont think it politically damages him. Melissa i dont they are. The nailbiter in ohio now an even closer contest with the discovery of Hundreds Of Uncounted votes in the house Special Election race. Hmm. Democrats winning only 2 of the 10 Special Elections since the president took office. But the Democratic Party chairman sounding pretty upbeat. Should he be . Well debate. This gives me optimism, not only about this seat but about other house seats. The u. S. Senate, and governors races. Thats your family. Which is why you didnt grab just any cheese. You picked up new kraft expertly paired mozzarella and parmesan for pizzahyeah kraft. Family gr