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president trump is set to meet with senior military leaders just a few minutes from now. he says all options are on the table after earlier today he condemned the suspected chemical attack this syria and said his administration would be making major decisions on how to respond in the next 24 to 48 hours. we will have much more on that, including the president s unprecedented criticism of putin. but first, the other news that s breaking right now that s tied to russia in a whole different way. the fbi raided the law office of michael cohen, president trump s long time personal lawyer today in manhattan. according to cohen s lawyer, the fbi was acting on a referral by special counsel robert mueller and empowered by search warrants from u.s. attorneys in the southern district of new york. according to the new york times, the fbi seized e-mails, tax documents, and business records from cohen s office. thetimes says the seized reports include communication with president trump. the m ....
that s it for me. i m gigi stone woods. the news continues right now with my colleague, david, who s been tweeting this whole hour constantly. thank you very much. great to see you. good afternoon, i m david gura at msnbc headquarters in new york. we start this hour with president trump who is spending the weekend at his golf resort in bedminster, new jersey. the president ending his week touting friday s economic numbers. second-quarter gdp growth of 4.1%, that is the fastest pace since 2014. he s not been able to change the subject, avoiding all questions about the latest revelations from his former personal attorney michael cohen who nbc news reports is prepared to tell investigators that president trump had prior knowledge of that now-infamous june, 2016, view that meeting differently perhaps in light of what we heard on that tape, in light of what we ve learned this week. cnn reporting, other outlets following here, that michael cohen is willing to testify that dona ....
Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U.S. and around the globe. okay, this person is trying to move a conversation in this direction for this purpose. so it seems a little obscure, i don t understand where are they re trying to go. is it a pr strategy or is it a legal strategy? is he a lawyer or a spokesman we have michael avenatti, lanny davis and rudy giuliani out there just talking away. i don t think any of them are actually coming up with a cohesive legal strategy for what they need to do because they want to win the pr battle. lan ny is not allowed to talk. whatever we re talking about now, i have a feeling robert mueller has already been over that. but rudy giuliani is acting like a squirming coil an going all over the place. he s saying donald trump never hacked the dnc. no one ever claimed that. he s also saying that donald trump didn t attending t the me with russians. take a listen to what else he said. this russian meeting, he wasn t ther ....
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. reporter: well, poppy, probably the headline at this point is, out of the earshot of the jury this morning, judge t.s. ellis who is a veteran of these sometimes complex and controversial criminal cases in eastern virginia advised attorneys on both sides in an attempt obviously to avoid any prejudicial inferences being drawn by the jury, told attorneys on both sides to avoid, if they can, the use of the word oligarch. and that s important because some of the bosses and people in power in ukraine have been referred to as oligarchs. obviously the meaning of oligarch is a member of a power structure in which the power rests with the few, as opposed to suggestion or inference that an oligarch might be a criminal. this case is the defense strategy and the defense strategy here, susan, is my client, paul manafort, knew nothing, did nothing wrong, hands are clean. it was all his deputy, rick gates ....
these are the slicers. they slice people up. they wanted me to walk up and go like this. some of the president at his rally in pennsylvania last night and much, much more of that. good morning, everyone. it s friday, august 3rd. welcome to morning joe. we have a number of important developments to get through this morning, including a stark warning from the intel community. russia is at it again. they ve got the public s attention, but what about the president s? does he care? what s going on? plus, dan coats speaks truth to power, again. the director of national intelligence admits he still does not know what the president told vladimir putin last month in helsinki. think about it. the director of national intelligence. and ivanka trump says that it was a low point for her when the separations of children from their family were happening Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the d ....