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Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Don jr. And it goes on to say this was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics. It is done frequently in politics when everyone involved is an american citizen. It is much more treacherous if there are any foreign nationals who are part of a meeting like that because there are violations of the law if foreign nationals contribute anything of value to a campaign. Money, information, anything of value. So thats where it gets a bit tricky. Now, one of the issues, we know, is that donald trump jr. , through his testimony and the emails that he released, did acknowledge that it was a meeting to get information, dirt as it was described on Hillary Clinton. We also know that another attendee of that meeting, j ....
The latest news from around the world with host Fredricka Whitfield. Speak out on the stuff that you know . And they have shifted gears so much on that, i think that its interesting to say its from that investigation that develops, but at best, he spoke too soon. So the president has said he wants this russia thing to go away, he wants people to stop talking about it, stop asking about it, but hes the one whos bringing it up. So here we are a couple of months away from the midterm elections, so how important is it to get out in front, change the narrative, when the president keeps bringing it up. Every day, the news of the day is dictated by what the president tweets. One thing we can all appreciate about the president s twitter account, is that we dont not know what hes thinking in the more. I think as we were talking about in the previous segment, republicans want to talk about the economy, they want to talk about jobs, the Unemp ....
Were his lawyers, i would not want him to go back, this just leaves him open to further statements. stay here, get policy done, legislation done, confirmations done, is this because mitch mcconnell is concerned about the president s behavior, what he says leading up to midterm elections. i think part of it is, with less than three months before the midterm elections, the entire house, some key republican senators, they want to have something tangible to go back to the voters and say this is what we got done, you might be hearing about the russia investigation, but here s what i m doing as your congressman. they have the tax bill, and i think they want a couple of other things under their belt to take back because then the conversation is going to be ....
Sort of keep their heads down, they do their jobs, they try to get policy done, they try to get work done, and that s really what they re proud of and what they want, they wish the world would focus on. then there s this other level where they re sort of swimming at the deep part of the ocean, and at the top of the ocean, you have these waves that are really violent and there is a big storm at the top and that s really donald trump on twitter, which is so in contrast to what they say is what s actually going on inside the administration. so you see people getting up and doing this white house briefing saying, yes, there is incontroversial evidence that there is tampering or attempt by russia to tamper with the 2018 elections, and then you see the president completely going 180 on twitter and saying something completely different. that s really been the way the administration has worked from the get-go where the president seems to be dealing with his own sort of alternative reality fiel ....
Is the right thing. some of the people that he may be looking at, i m going the see, if we talk him out of that, because franklythe they are great people. so our nbc news headline on this from our fantastic colleague jonathan allen is, quote, caught in a gop war. trump picks both sides. how much longer can he do that, dave? well, i think he ll do it as long as it serves his own personal needs and desires. but what has to be straightened out for the republicans in the senate seats is, they have to be able to go forward and know that they can hopefully keep a majority. but a key to that is, as you were saying, they ve got to pass tax reform. they are also going to come back as the president said, they will come back to health care next year. and that is going to be another issue, which is once again, going to be whether they can accomplish what they want to in health care. getting these things done, policy done, is critical. talking about tax reform, your boss knows a thing or two ....