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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day's top political news stories.

Good morning, everyone. it is monday, august 6th. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian and louis bergdorf. president trump reignited the controversy around his campaign's 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 post's" ...

You're going to have crime all over the place. you're going to have people pouring across the border. why would that be a blue wave. i think it could be a red wave. really, it should be a red wave. [ cheers and applause ] >> welcome back to "morning joe". it's monday, august 6th. >> by the way, again, so many things -- >> where do you begin? >> you have to say it. things going well out there. this isn't the greatest economy ever. this isn't close to the greatest economy ever. barack obama had more people getting jobs his last 16 or 18 months than they had jobs during donald trump's first 16 or...

Background of iran's declining economy. the national currency has lost over 80% of its value in the last year. take your bank account and just deduct 80%. that's what happened to iran, to the purchasing power of iranians here in this country because of mismanagement by iran's leaders but also because of the threats of sanctions. sanctions that will be implem t implemented in first round of u.s. sanctions from august 6th. these people are saying why don't we talk to united states. the north koreans are talking to the united states. the taliban wants to talk to united states. why can't iran do t...

Iran's declining economy, the iranian national currency lost over 80% of its value, fa reed, in the last hour. take your bank account and just deduct 80%. that's the -- that's what happened to iran's -- to the purchasing power of iranians here in this country because of mismanagement by iran's leaders but also because of the threats of sanctions, sanctions that will be implemented in a first round u.s. sanctions from august 6th. these people are saying why don't we talk to the united states and why do we have an idealogical obstacle to talk to the united states. north koreans are talking to th...