how long will you watch people being gunned down in first grade, fourth grade, high school, college, church, synagogue, grocery store, movie theater, a mall, and a nightclub and do nothing? congressman val demings shredded marco rubio on the debate stage last night as florida becomes the emblem of the rot on the right. also tonight, donald trump under oath, deposed today in e. jean carroll s defamation case. we could be hours away from the delivery of that subpoena from the january 6th committee. plus, incredible new reporting on the man barack obama, president obama warned trump about, michael flynn, and his holy war on america. rachel maddow is going to join me tonight. very excited about that. have you caught her amazing new podcast yet? we ll get an exclusive preview of episode 4 of ultra and we have more to talk about with the great rachel maddow. we begin tonight with florida, which i would argue, even with texas existing has emerged as the modern state in t
Dedicated to ideas that never took off. The museum of failure. Good morning. Its june 8th. Iam i am annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Polling stations are open across the country as millions of people go to cast their votes in the general election. Theyll close at 10pm this evening, with the first results due before midnight. Police say therell be increased security at some Polling Stations with Armed Officers in some areas. Joining me now from westminster is our Political Correspondent alicia mccarthy. And intensive seven Week Campaign and now people get to go and cast their votes, tech as to what has been happening. 50 days since mps voted to hold the selection and finally, today is the day. Polling stations will be open for another 11 hours. We have seen theresa may, tim farron, nicola sturgeon, jeremy corbyn, they have all been out to vote so far. We are electing 650 mps. We have got 3301 candidates standing in the selection. 986 of those women. The polls dont close unt
though, what you re describing and what you played with played there with the congresswoman is so reminiscent to me not just of michael cohen but of jim comey who testified i think shortly after he was fired. and i think donald trump was taunting him by saying lordy, i hope there are tapes. and he was asked if he viewed it as a direction when he was asked to see to it to let michael flynn go. i guess the question here is how many more examples do people need of how donald trump rolls? he makes what he wants abundantly clear to everyone that works for him. whether it s a political rookie, like gordon sondland, to really someone who s been in and out of law enforcement his entire career like jim comey. well, nicolle, i suppose that depends almost entirely on which people you re referring to, right? i mean, the degree to which some of these folks are willing to accept no suggestion that the president might have ordered something wrong or not versus people who might be more open to see
had told reporters he had no knowledge of the payments to daniels, and here s giuliani admitting that the president did stha suggest that former fbi director go easy on his former adviser, michael flynn. if he said the president was asking him, dreirecting him, in his words, to ask to let michael flynn go. he didn t direct that. the president had previously denied that as well, and shortly after it was revealed that trump campaign chief paul manafort shared data with a kremmling oligarch, here is rudy giuliani admitting that the trump campaign may have colluded with russia during the campaign. i never said there was collusion between the trump campaign. i did not, i said the president
now what s really interesting and critical to understand about the call is whenever michael flynn was communicating to the russian ambassador the trump administration s intention to lift sanctions when they came into office, was he indicating he was acting on behalf of the president or the president-elect at that time that trump told him to make the offer? or was he suggesting this was something he was going to try and convince the president of? that s significant because the mueller report couldn t ultimately establish whether or not the president-elect had actually directed michael flynn to make that offer. that s really that is significant, not just sort of substantively as to why the president would have made that offer to lift sanctions with you also because it goes to when donald trump told jim comey to see his way to et willing michael flynn go. of course if he directed flynn to make that offer to lift sanctions he would have known full well at that time that the michael flynn