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MSNBCW MSNBC Live With Stephanie Ruhle April 26, 2019

Payout . Facebook says it expects to be fined 5 billion by the federal trade commission over Consumer Privacy violations. 5 billion sounds like a lot. For facebook its pennies, a parking ticket. The United States announces a monster number for First Quarter gdp. Despite the Government Shutdown they are defying expectations to the upside. Well begin with the stunning new attack President Trump is unleashing in his first tv interview since the release of of the redacted Mueller Report. Hes now claiming special counsel Robert Muellers investigation into russian interference in the 2016 president ial campaign was an attempted overthrow of the United States government. Heres what he told fox news last night. I really say now we have to get down because this was a coup. This was an attempted overthrow of the United States government. These are sick people. These are sick, sick people. Lets see what happens with mccabe and comey and brennan and clapper. They were in on the act. And lets see what happens and lets see how high it goes up because its inconceivable when it goes to clapper, brennan, comey, these people, i would imagine that some other people maybe a little higher up also knew about it and maybe a lot higher up. Hes talking robert mueller, whos none of those people. He said the Mueller Report completely exonerated him. Lets go to the white house and Peter Alexander. We know the president had a very busy night, which means you did, too. Hes in fullblown attack mode. Is he offering any sort of evidence for this incredible claim of a of a potential government overthrow . Reporter not surprisingly he is not, but as is familiar with President Trump, there is plenty of hyperbole to the comments you played moments ago. The president saying this scandal is, in his words, far bigger than watergate. Possibly the biggest political scandal in u. S. History, he indicated here. In is just the latest in a series of angry comments and posts. More than 50 of them attacking the investigation and the days, now more than a week since the Mueller Report became public. The president s had counselless retweets on this issue as well. It goes against the advice of his own allies who told the. The to move on from this. This is the strategy of the president who is dictating the way things will take place Going Forward with his efforts to fight back against those congressional democrats, basically putting up the stop sign to a series of subpoenas being cast against his business, iz had financial records, including his aides and white House Counsel don mcgahn. To the heart of your question, has he provided evidence . He has not. He has, however, lit into his attorney general william barr, as it were, saying hopefully he will do whats right. I believe he will. Again, trying to get a little help from his Justice Department. Peter, i heard the same thing. I spoke to one of President Trumps most senior advisers earlier this week who said its just a couple more days but the president is absolutely moving on. Were not going to hear much more about this come friday, saturday. Based on a 45minute interview with sean hannity, im thinking that adviser is wrong. President trump also going after Hillary Clinton. Tell me how he believes she hurt people on their team, ruined their lives. Reporter the president is explaining how he changed his view referring to Hillary Clinton. You know the lock her up phrase that was the refrain of the campaign. And in 2016 the president said he would not ask the department of justice to investigate Hillary Clinton. He changed his tune on that, of course. He explained it yesterday in part of his consideration, blaming her, in effect, for the Russian Investigation and suggesting other people in the obama administration, people that were much higher up, a lot higher up, in his words, may have been responsible as well. Heres part of what the president said to sean hannity last night. When i won, they were all saying, lock her up, lock her up. I said, no, no, lets get on with life. That was different. It was like right after the election you want to get a new page and turn turn over a new leaf. But now what happened is fairly shortly after that great evening, they started coming at us with the insurance policy and everything they did was so dishonest. Then we really started looking into a lot of things like her deleted emails and acid washed emails, which is unheard of because of the expense of doing it. And how she got away with it, how her lawyer got away with it. In the meantime, look what shes done, how she destroyed the lives of people on our campaign. Shes destroyed their lives. Reporter a little contrast here. In november of 2016 the president had said he would not ask the department of justice to investigate. Contrast that to what we saw in the Mueller Report suggesting that on multiple occasions, public and private, the president did attempt to get his thenattorney general Jeff Sessions to look into his former opponent, Hillary Clinton. Stephanie, this appears to be in some way a response to clintons comments earlier this week claiming that President Trump would be indicted if he were not a sitting president. Robert muellers team was not able to get all of the information they wanted to get because of, in fact, deleted emails. Thank you so much, nbcs Peter Alexander. Also happening here in d. C. Where i am this morning, maria will be sentenced after pleading guilty to conspireing against the u. S. As a russian agent. Lets get the details from nbc news intelligence and National Security reporter, ken delaney. Whats going to happen in court, i guess, at 10 00 a. M. . Reporter good morning, stephanie. This is a timely hearing as we digest the Mueller Report and the description of all the russian contacts with the Trump Campaign. Whats going to happen in that courtroom behind me is a clash of views about this case. The government says maria butina was not a spy in the traditional sense but shes pleaded guilty to acting as access of russia, failing to register. She say she was trying to influence wealthy americans through the nra and Republican Party to try to create a positive view of the russian federation, particularly in the Incoming Trump administration. Now, her legal team argues that the government has misunderstood her activities. While she did violate the law, they say she was a naive College Student trying to improve relations between russia and the United States. The government has filed an affidavit from the former head of fbi counterintelligence who said this was a classic spot and assess operation. Meaning she was looking for people who could later be recruited by russian intelligence officers. People look at this case and say, this is exactly what the russians were trying to do with the Trump Campaign both before and after the election. So, the bottom line, stephanie, the government is asking for a substantial sentence of 18 months, even though theyre giving her credit for cooperation. Shes already served nine months in jail awaiting trial, including three months in solitary. The defense is asking for time served so that she can go back to russia. Stephan stephanie. We should always remind our audience, maria butina was preselected to ask the first question at a trump event during the campaign. Thank you so much. I want to go now to Tammy Leitner in west palm beach, florida, with another big court hearing. Very, very different from maria butina. Its all about robert kraft. Whats going on and where are we in this situation . Reporter good morning, steph. Today is all about the video. Most likely robert kraft will not appear in court today but his attorneys will fight to have this video suppressed. This is video that allegedly shows robert kraft engaged in a sex act and paying cash in a florida massage parlor. Let me cover the points that will most likely be covered today in court. The Defense Attorneys are going to argue that the warrant was too broad. Also that this warrant likely did not allow for video recording, only for the police to observe what was going on inside the massage parlor. Finally, that police overstated the facts that there was Human Trafficking going on. Now, as far as the prosecution goes, prosecutors will likely argue that investigators watched this massage parlor for weeks before making the decision to use video surveillance. Also that they stopped a customer leaving the massage parlor for a traffic stop and that customer admitted to purchasing a sex act inside the massage parlor for 40. Finally, Police Suspected there was Human Trafficking going on there, they just didnt have the evidence to prove it. Back outside were expecting court to get under way in about 20 minutes. Theres a possibility it could stretch even beyond today into monday. Goodness. Thank you so much. Nbcs Tammy Leitner. A video. Lets head straight to the west coast where nbcs molly hunter is in l. A. Youre not going to believe this. Hundreds of people are now under quarantine amid this measles outbreak. What triggered officials to implement a quarantine . Who exactly is it affecting . That sounds major. Reporter stephanie, it is major. Its unbelievable its 2019 and nearly 300 people, mostly College Students here at ucla and a nearby state, cal state l. A. , are quarantined for 24 to 48 hours. Theyre looking at two exposures. One of the students was actually in france hall, who was exposed. They know he was here. They know he was at a nearby building. The numbers are staggering. For ucla its 76 students, 6 faculty members. Theyre looking at april 9th quarantine. For cal state its 71 students and 127 employees. Thats from an april 11th exposure. That is extraordinary. Now, University Officials are saying they need everyone inside who cant prove theyve been vaccinated. The vaccinations we all got, you got, i got, was a onetwo punch. Its a twostep process we got very young. When people couldnt actually provide proof of that, they were told to stay inside. Now, here at ucla theyre putting all of the students inside, saying, well care for them while here at cal state theyre saying, stay in your apartments until you can actually provide proof or until that 21day incubation period that measles has expires. All right. My gosh, this measles outbreak, its extraordinary. Thank you so much, molly hunter. And welcome to the nbc family. One of our newest members. Great to meet you. Hope to have you back soon. Weve got breaking news. My favorite kind. Economic news just in. First quarter gdp numbers have just been released showing 3. 2 growth for the First Quarter. That is a beautiful number. Better than estimates. A strong start to the fiscal year. Joining me to break it down, my dearest friend, u. S. Editor of the financial times, brendan greelly. Lets remind our audience, the gdp number is different from the stock market. We often say the stock market is not a clear reflection of the economy. Lots of people dont own stocks. Gdp is a much closer picture. Yeah. Can you thing of stocks as hope for the future. Gdp is data about the present. Were looking back over actual purchases made over the last quarter. So were shopping. Yes. Businesses are shopping, governments are shopping, people are shopping. The first thing about this number is that for a First Quarter number its incredible. I checked the First Quarters for the last several years. 1. 5 , 2. 2 . This one was 3. 2 . So, we have a lot of what they call, apologize for the jargon, seasonal. Theyre having a hard time figuring out how to take bad weather out of the First Quarter data. This number is so good, we dont even need to have that conversation. Its an extraordinary number for a First Quarter. We have to remember the Government Shutdown. We had a prolonged Government Shutdown in the First Quarter. We had Business Leaders like jamie dimon worried the shutdown could wipe out the First Quarter and theres no sign of any negative impact. Theres a little bit of a sign. It did not not enough to affect the overall number. Consumer spending was surprisingly weak. Its positive but weak. The number that jumped out at me when you look at actual people buying stuff, durable goods. This is cars, dish washers, things like that. Thats way down. Thats down 5 . That could mean nothing. That could just be a oneoff from this quarter or that means people are feeling more cautious. I dont want to pour water on this number. Its a really good number. Fed policymakers meet next week. The president wants Interest Rates cut, jerry kudlow wants that. How can they do that . Its good news bad news. We havent seen any reason for them to change their policy. I think the fed is carefully watching the data. I dont think theres any reason given this number to do what larry kudlow and donald trump so desperately want them to do, lower rates. Theres one thing you and i have had this conversation for two years, talking about the consequences of the tax cuts. I think sometimes when we talk about policy, were talking about the wrong policy. What we see in this report is continued strong federal defense spending. Right at the end of 2017 we got a massive tax cut where we also got a massive bump in defense spending. It looks like the defense spending is having a much more durable consistent effect. This is a very keynesian fact from the government is writing checkings, buying airplanes. If we were going to say this was coming from the tax cuts, we should see continued strong, fixed business investment. We dont see it. When you say keynesian effect. You know what cut comes next . I cut you off. Thank you so much. Perfect person to have here with those gdp numbers. Coming up up in second now, the president will depart the white house. Im going to take a guess here. Hes most likely going to stop to speak to reporters on his way out. Well bring you his comments as soon as we get them. Plus, we briefly dipped a toe into that vast ocean. President trumps phone interview on fox last night. No surprise he attacked robert mueller. You might be surprised with what Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein had to say about the special counsel. Well dig into that. Later, biden is in, but could his 40 years of Public Service actually hurt his campaign to be president . One thing people have always enjoyed about joe biden is that he commuted via train from delaware every day during his time in senate and the daily show drew the comparison to our current commander in chief. Its nice to see a politician riding public transportation. It is a weird thing to think about. Amtrak makes sense but imagine running into trump in your uber pool. Do you have an iphone charger . If i dont tweet for 15 minutes, i die. Check out my uber rating. 2. 1 stars, the highest of any passenger in this tree. Some say it only goes to two stars but i got 0. 1 extra. Woman this is your wakeup call. If you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, month after month, the clock is ticking on irreversible joint damage. Ongoing pain and stiffness are signs of joint erosion. Humira can help stop the clock. 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This time calling the probe an attempted overthrow of the United States government. In a 45minute sprawling phone interview, really a venting session with foxs sean hannity, the president called for an investigation into the investigation. Said he believes attorney general bill barr will, quote, do the right thing and look into the other side. The biggest problem with the Mueller Report, he didnt mention any of this. He didnt mention strzok and page and mccabe and comey and the lies and the leaks and the overthr

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