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Meetings without donald trump being cued in by it. certainly, willie, paul manafort, jared kushner, don junior, all the people at the meeting. it is that is no more possible than alex deciding that he was going to bring a juggler on the top of morning joe and you, mika and me not knowing about it. that s coming up at 8:00, by the way. i know. i said at the top of the 6:00, and we ve been informed now. it s strange. it strains all credulity for anybody who suggest that would ever happen in that campaign. it was a mom and pop operation, nothing ever happened without donald trump knowing about it. and j.d. gordan s accounting of the meeting with papadopoulos suggests trump was interested. ....
Went into the pitch right away. said he had a friend in london, a russian ambassador who could help set up a meeting with putin. gordan recalled sessions opposing the idea telling him no one should talk about it because sessions thought it was a bad idea that he did not want associated with the campaign. thai cobb responded by saying the media s electricalness to inflate papadopoulos into an important thought leader into the campaign is lludicrous. the evidence shows he attended one meeting, mentioned russia and was shut down. he is not a criminal now because of anything he did for the campaign. he s a criminal because he initially lied to the fbi. we ll play the sound bites of attorney general sessions speaking before the senate judiciary committee saying he knows of no one with links ....
What tie cobb is saying is contradicting that. he said everyone in the meeting immediately shot the idea down. that s not true according to j.d. gordan which suggests trump was at least interested in that idea which would then suggest if manafort had a meeting, it makes it even less likely trump would not have been told about it. and the white house lawyer in the statement, he acknowledges russia was raised inside that meeting by papadopoulos. here jeff sessions you saw in the photograph was a couple seats over from papadopoulos, reportedly shut down the idea of a meeting between the campaign and putin. here is jeff sessions in sworn testimony three times. here s what he said before congress. if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you ....
The u.s. military and gordan and general know better than me, the u.s. military treats this as something they have to assume to be a north korean capability and makes preparations as such. do you agree, general, again with what jim said? this is a direct response to the president s, fire and fury, never seen before, do you think this is a response from north korea? yes. you do? so where are we at this point then? i think you re at the point where the president s not going to say anything else and we re going to have to work this thing through. china and directly with diplomacy. what we have to do is stabilize the korean peninsula. and with this kind of rhetoric it looks unstable and that s very dangerous. can you go back though general, after fire and fury, can you go back to trying to negotiate or de-escalate the situation of course you can. ....
Thing we need to be considering. but we also feed to be clear with them in terms of what we want them to do. that feeds to be based on a realistic understanding of the chinese/north korea relationship. i also agree with gordan, we need to understand the chinese have their own limitations and how far their going to be willing to go. our interest is not their interest and it s important that president trump understand that. i want to ask you quickly laura here. we ve been talking so much about this twitter diplomacy. you say the north korean if you believes will look for clear signals within the president s tweets but is there intention there? is any possible intention in harmony with his national security team has been saying? that s the problem i think. the north korea yaps will be looking for intention whether there s intention there owner. and they ll read things into hi word that he may or may not have intended. we part the north korean s wort ....