Hi, everybody. Im Thomas Roberts. Here at msnbc World Headquarters in new york. It is 1 00 in the east, 10 00 a. M. In the west. The Trump Administration defe defending this new tweet and the video with it. It shows trump from his old days having shown up on wwe specials attacking Vince Mcmahon with a cnn logo. Placed over his face. The video also was sent out via tweet from the official potus account. Heres what thomas bossert, White House Security adviser, said in an interview this morning. Im pretty proud of the president for developing a twitter and social media platform where he can talk directly to the American People. Youre in charge of Homeland Security there. Yes. That seems like a threat. Certainly not though. I think that no one would perceive that as a threat. I hope they dont. I do think hes beaten up in a way on cable platforms. He has a right to reto. So in a statement cnn says its a sad day when the president of the United States encourages violence against reporters. C
Below 40 , as he tries to pivot away from the russia story and defend his embattled son at the same time. Ive got a great team to help me break it all down. I want to start with Nbcs Kristen Welker who is live at the white house for us. Kristen, clearly this administration feels like it has to stay on offense when it comes to donald trump jr. Reporter theres no doubt, chris. And President Trumps outside counsel, jay sekulow, flooded the sunday shows over the weekend pushing back against this narrative that there was anything untoward about this meeting. He tried to make the argument that, look, there was nothing illegal. He underscored that donald trump jr. Himself has said that he would do things differently if he could go back and do it again, but that at this point in time theres nothing that has been proven to be illegal. Let me read you what the president has been saying about all of this, chris, tweeting about this over the weekend, trying to put the focus back on his former chal
He started laughing. Hes fought even listening to us. All right. They werent laughing at the world melting down. But we could be crying. Julia told louis a knockknock joke. He always laughs at the knockknock jokes. Were on tv. Can you imagine like the president of the United States prized to start an International Incident over fake news, he tweets out over like ten, 20 million, fake news, hes got general mcmaster there. The entire National Security apparatus there. Again this is a guy ill equipped to be president of the United States. We said all along, this is a guy now making the world a much more dangerous place to live. Thank you. We can talk about the nfl, the nba. You know, people are going to look back on whats happened over the past week or so and look at his north korea tweets. This iran tweet. When we find ourselves in the hottest of hot wars and everything melting down, historians will look at the people around donald trump. Oh, no doubt. And say. And possibly congress. And
Uphold your sacred rights and defend your godgiven freedom. Mike kevin corke live on the north lauren. Good to see you. Is the right was convinced that the kavanaugh bump will power republicans through the midterms . Reporter the opinion here is absolutely yes. People feel the way he was treated throughout this process. There were a number of bangers who feel he was mistreated. Protesters, and just maybe by some in congress who a lot of people feel like were willing to believe his accuser whole cloth without regard to what the white house described as credible corroboration. Effort in topeka, kansas, the president reminded the 11,000 in attendance whats at stake in november. President trump each of you will have a chance in four weeks to render your verdict on the democrats conduct at the ballot box. Meantime that was a sentiment the leader of the democrats in the senate, new Yorks Chuck Schumer echoed here. To the americans, so many millions who are outraged by what happened here. The
Blizzard warnings. Yes, it is spring. A severe storm striking the rockies all the way the to plains and 2 feet of snow expected to fall in some parts of south dakota. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to early start, im dave briggs. And im christine romans, thursday, april 11th, its 5 00 a. M. In the east. Lets beginning with attorney general bill barr dropping a bomb shell telling lawmakers he thinks the Trump Campaign was spied on, and hell be looking into why. I think spying on a Political Campaign is a big deal. Its a big deal. Youre not suggesting, though, that spying occurred . I dont well, i guess you could i think theres a spying did occur, yes, i think spying did occur. Barr provided no evidence for that claim. A source familiar with his thinking later telling us he meant spying in quote the classic sense of intel collection. The source said barr now wants to find out whether there was a proper basis for any surveillance. Cnns sara murray has more from washington. Reporter good