Good morning, everyone. It is monday, july 30th. Im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside Yasmin Vossoughian and louis bergdorf. President trump spent part of his Weekend Lashing out and questioning the credibility of Robert Muellers ongoing investigation. In a series of tweets yesterday, trump claimed there was no collusion and called muellers probe a witchhunt and an illegal school. He went on to right, is Robert Mueller ever going to release his Conflict Of Interest with respect to President Trump, including the fact that we had a very nasty and contentious Business Relationship. I turned him down to head the fbi one day before appointment as Special Counsel, and comey is his close friend. Also, why is mueller only appointing angry dems, some of whom have worked for crooked hillary, others including himself have worked for obama. And why isnt mueller looking at all of the Criminal Activity and real russian collusion on the
democrat side, positive december au dossier. We. This is best thing that happened all weekend, politico playbook spotting bob mueller and donald trump jr. As you see in the circle waiting for their flights at Reagan National airport friday morning. A spokesperson for the Special Counsels office says, quote, thats him waiting to board a flight. If it is ak Wrurt Tccurate the person was don trump jr. , mr. Mueller was not aware of him and had no interaction with him. The chances of these two individuals at the Airport Waiting at this gate, unbelievable. Do you think he was gathering evidence . I dont know, looks like he was reading a newspaper, likely a story about himself. I would like to have thought bubbles. To be the woman on the phone in front of Robert Mueller. Look at him, the guy doesnt
look like he knows who is around him. President trumps lawyer Rudy Guilliani is dismissing the claim that donald trump knew in advance of the Trump Tower Meeting with russians. Here is what he had to say yesterday morning. Now i listened unfortunately, fortunately to my clients point of view, to many hours of tapes and the man is a pathological manipulator, liar. I didnt know that. I didnt know him well. I didnt know anything bad about Michael Cohen until all of this started to happen in the last couple of weeks. If he taped Everything Else, why didnt he tape this . It is not on tape. Hes capable, i think, unfortunately of doctoring tapes. Hasnt done that, would be hard to do it now since we have an expert all over it. It is just flatout untrue. Seems to me his default position is to lie. One of the allies, congressman darrell issa,
doesnt think they will pay the price in the fall if the president is proved to have lied about the Trump Tower Meeting. If he is proven to have not told the truth, nobody is going to be surprised. There are some things in politics you just take for granted. You dont think it has any longterm impact, and he wouldnt be the first politician or president for that matter maybe to misrepresent things and gets over it . You know, businessmen listen to almost everyone that might be helpful. By the way, they make pragmatic decisions about how the make bad stories go away. Late last week the attorney for Stormy Daniels said hes representing three additional women who claim to have been paid to keep their relationships with donald trump quiet. According to Michael Avenatti, those payments were made before the 2016 election. Here is the president s attorney, Rudy Guilliani being pressed on that issue yesterday. It is beyond Stormy Daniels, were other payments made to
asyet unnamed women around the time of the 2016 campaign . There is there is a conversation about that on one of the tapes in which i think chris cuomo asked him that, and cohen says no, denies it. Said there were no other situations like this. Was that an accurate statement by cohen . As far as i know, yeah. I have no evidence to disprove that. And weve searched the records. So Michael Avenatti tweeted at guilliani, are you denying there were other Hush Payments made to asyet unnamed women in connection with the 2016 campaign . Asking for some friends. You better buckle up, buttercup, because mr. Trumps stupidity and disloyalty is about to catch up to him, quote i mean in paren they size. American consumers are beginning to feel the impact of the tariffs. U. S. Steel and Aluminum Prices are up 33 and 11 respectively
from iowa to poland. Thats echoing a move announced by harleydavidson last month. Now, per the labor department, Consumer Prices rose 2. 9 in june compared to last year. Thats the highest rate in more than six years, guys. Lets talk about some of the stuff. Swroining us from washington, politicos daniel lippman. Good to see you on the show this morning. Good to see you. Lets talk about the continued pressure on President Trump, Rudy Guilliani trying to take down basically Michael Cohens credibility in light of the tapes that came out last week. Do their claims have any merritt and who do you think holds more credibility in washington right now from what you have been hearing . Is it the president or is it Michael Cohen . I think it probably is Michael Cohen because trump is the one whos out there on a daytoday basis telling things to the American People that are flatout not true. So you saw that yesterday when
Updates of the days news. Fire near redding where at least six are dead, the latest victim 70yearold melody bledsoe and her gradegrandchildren, and seven are still missing. I have been a lifelong resident of this community. I have never seen a fire with such destruction here in this area ever before. Reporter more than 500 structures in northern ra California Kra Alo california alone reduced to rubble and rash. Extreme is not the adjective to use anymore because the fire is so explosive in california. Reporter fire teams from across the country continue to move in, digging out cutoff lines and setting backfires on the ground, dropping water from the air. Those folks, 48plushour shifts. They were going on pure adrenaline, they were doing everything they could to save structures. Those stories and a check on your weather when we come back. We have got a problem. Still ahead, the publisher of push for their projects. Msing r, aging power grids,. Aging everything. We also have the ageold problem of bias in the workplace. Really. Never heard of it. The question is. Whos going to fix all of this . An actor . Probably not. But you know who can solve it . Business. Because solving big problems is what business does best. So lets take on the wage gap, the opportunity gap, the achievement gap. Whatever the problem,
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president invited sulzberger to the oval office and the white house requested the meeting be kept off the record. Sulz berger stating in part, my main purpose for accepting the meeting was to raise concerns about the president s deeply troubling antipress rhetoric. I told the president directly that i thought his language was divisive and dang rules. I warnld that it is contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and would lead to violence. It was undermining the democratic ideals of our nation and eroding one of our countrys greatest exports, a commitment to free speech and a free press. So theres more. Following the statements by the times and sulzberger, the president fired off a series of tweets. Quote, when the media driven insane by trump derangement
syndrome, it puts the lives of many, not just journalists, at risk. Very unpatriotic. Freedom of the press also comes with a responsibility to report the news accurately. 90 of Media Coverage of my administration is negative despite the tremendously positive results we are achieving. It is no surprise that confidence in the media is at an alltime low. I will not allow our great country to be sold out by antitrump haters in the dying newspaper industry, no matter how much they try to distract and cover it up. Our country is making great progress under my leadership and i will never stop fighting for the American People. As an example, the failing New York Times and the amazon washington ton post washingtont write bad stories even on positive achievements and they will never change. Switching gears for a moment, the Trump Administration has been ordered to provide information to locate hundreds of missing parents to reunite them with their children. A federal judge overseeing the
courtordered reunification about 2500 immigrant children has ordered the administration to turn over a list of all parents deemed ineligible for reunification by wednesday. This list includes parents who have been deported, those who have been released into the United States and those who were not reunited because of a criminal history. 650 children remain separated because their parents had been deemed ineligible by the government. Now, before the ruling, the department of Homeland Security claimed it had reunited around 1,440 children with their parents. The department has now yet committed to reuniting those with parents deemed ineligible, citing red flags in their background, waivers signed to be deported without their children, leaving i. C. E. Custody or awaiting hearings inside the United States. Lets get a check on the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. Bill, youre going to give us a look at the west coast. It is so critical, that weather out there, to contain the wild fires sweeping california right now. It has been bone dry and hot. When you think of seattle, you dont think of like hot and dry conditions. Seattle will have their seventh 90degree day this july. Seattle of all places. Today we have 6 Million People still under Heat Advisories and heat watches. Here is how it is going to feel today. Pendleton, oregon 96. Thats hot. They will be happy to get to august and it looks like today is the end of the extreme heat there in areas of the i5 corridor. It will begin to cool off. This is the pattern this week. We will call it the logjam. Last week we had the endless rains on the east coast. Unfortunately we are setting up for this again. It will be very hot in the rockies throughout the week. Thats not going to help the Firefighting Efforts at all. A storm system stuck in the
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