Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Said i know my client is charged in conspiracy but he really colluded. Thats different. Thats a different word. It is nonsense people focusing on the Dictionary Definition when crimes do not care about how we define them. Betsy, Rudy Giuliani is not the only one saying collusions does not matter. Clearly there is a message and strategy is going on here. Let me play what the congressman had to say. If hes proven to have not told the whole truth of the fact the campaign looking for dirt and someone offers it, you listen to them, nobody is going to be surprised. There is something in politics that you take for granted. What is it politics that we are expected to take for granted now Betsy Woodrow . Thats certainly a question. The reality is Cyber Security experts and Law Enforcement experts and political operatives across the spectrum all agree
A report he is worried about son don jr. And that Infamous Trump tower meeting. Backlash continuing over the president s targeting of lebron james. The latest example of what appears to be trumps war against black athletes. Plus, im going to talk to a potentially Ground Breaking congressional candidate in michigan hoping to be the latest democrat to show that going left is the key to victory for democrats in 2018. All of that straight ahead. We begin with the russia investigation. A tale of father and son. Its been more than two years since the Trump Tower Meeting and it still a major source of concern on the part of the president and his legal team. To date president admitting any tweet that the meeting was in fact about getting dirt on hillary clinton. Thats a correct contradiction to the statement we now know was dictated by trump himself when the meeting first game public
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Elections. Even after top u. S. Security Officials Say this our adversaries are trying to undermine our country on a persistent and regular basis. Our democracy itself is in the cross hairs. President trump says this. Now, were being hindered by the russian hoax. So hoax or threat, what does the Trump Administration want us to believe . My guests this morning, republican senator roy blunt of missouri. Democratic senator Amy Klobuchar of minnesota and Nbc News National Security analyst clint watts. Also, the trump loyalty test. Hugging President Trump has become the republican goto strategy. Then mr. Trump said youre fired. I love that part. It works great in the primaries, but will candidates pay a price in november . Ill ask long time republican adman mike murphy. Joining me for insight and analysis are robert costa, moderator of Washington Week on pbs. Helene cooper, pentagon correspondent for the new york
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Weather, to understand fuels better. So there are things that can be done at the federal level. But you know what, when you look at what happened at redding, when you look at what happened at santa rosa, when you look at what happened in ventura, where fires have gone from the wild land urban interface right into the suburbs, right into towns, thats at the state level. We have to look at our zoning. We have to look at our construction materials. We basically have to look at where we have people on the land and how we protect them. Right now we just have to thank those 14,000 firefighters that are on the ground. Incredible. Glen, thank you. Thank you for watching this hour of velshi ruhle. Ill see you tomorrow at 8 00 a. M. I turn you over to Andrea Mitchell for Andrea Mitchell reports. Former Paul Manafort deputy rick gates back on the witness
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Good morning, everyone. It is monday, august 6th. Im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside Yasmin Vossoughian and louis bergdorf. President trump reignited the controversy around his campaigns june 2016 Trump Tower Meeting with russian. The president tweeted on sunday, fake news reporting, a complete fabrication, that i am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, donald, had in trump tower. This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics, and it went nowhere. I did not know about it. Well, he appears to be referring to the Washington Posts reporting, quote, trump has confided to friends and advisers that he is worried about Mueller Probe could destroy the lives of what he calls innocent and decent people, namely trump jr. , who is under scrutiny by mueller for his role organizing a
june 2016 meeting at trump tower with russians promising dirt on hillary clinton. As one adviser described the president s thinking, he does not think his son b