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and that is going to wrap up this hour of msnbc live. katie tur is going to take over. it s 11:00 a.m. out west, it s 2:00 p.m. in washington where it is day two of french president emanuel macron are meeting at the white house. we ll see if that special relationship between macron and the president can change the president s mind on a host of issues, primarily the iran nuclear deal. even as the president hosted his french counterpart, mr. trump was pressed on issues here at home. and at this afternoon s joint press conference, it was his embattled pick to be the next secretary of veterans affairs. i haven t heard of the particular allegations, but i will tell you, he s one of the finest people that i have met. admiral jackson, dr. jackson, he s a wonderful man. i said to him, what are you needed for? and as far as experience is concerned, the veterans administration which is approximately 13 million people, is so big, you koucould run the biggest hospital system in the wo ....
atta attack. they see our resolve breaking and it becomes a tweet without meaning he s hurt himself in forth corkorea. he ll look in the eyes of russia and iran. we have full coverage today for you from the top stories from white house correspondent jeff bennett and rodriguez and alexi from axios and npr and i ll talk to castro coming up. let s head to the white house for reaction. jeff, another good day to you on this sunday. what can you tell us? president trump responded using what is his favorite me megaphone twitter to level the most direct criticism yet. president trump says putin wbr id= wbr1755 /> bears responsibility for that deadly chemical weapons attack in /b> out saying we don t want the united states to get embroiled in another war in the middle east. there is still a lot of feeling along americans that we went into the war in iraq under pretense that was false, there was a lot of fatigue about being in iraq for so long and so the support for any action fel ....
this coming as president trump does appear to be going ut alone. essentially acting as his own lead attorney. this was according to sources who say the president feels misled and no longer wants anyone else in charge. it is a decision with massive implications, given the fact president trump s personal lawyer and ficker of a dozen years is under investigation and his documents have been seized by federal prosecutors. that means the president, who does not have a law degree, is trying essentially take over his own defense and today he went on offense on twitter about the russia investigation, tweeting slippery james comey, the worst fbi director in history, was not fired because of the phony russia veinvestigation. where by the way, there was no collusion except by the dems. of course, there s a huge problem with the tweet like that. and that is this. the president himself said last year on national television that comey was fired because of russia. regardless of recommendation ....
A look at the latest news and headlines of the day features discussions of politics and culture, analysis of political correctness in Campus Craziness and. be intimidated into accepting your fraudulent promise. it w often works and that s exactly why they do it but it only works when the rest of us play alongng with it so let s sp playing along with it. so, can you explain to me why if it s wrong to meet with russians in the hope of getting dirt on your political opponent, it s okay to pay for a national toor get dirt from russians about your political opponents which the dnc in the hillary campaign both did? it s very different for a campaign to spend money to do opposition research in a foreign country then for a foreign government like the russians to actually invest in disarming our election security to benefit one candidate, that s the big difference here. there s nothing wrong in paying if there is perjury, convicted for perjury and see if you can convict but let s ....
so glad to have you with us. and we have breaking news. the president angry, lashing out, going off on twitter by attack robert mueller, the free press, and even threatening a government shutdown if democrats won t agree to pay for his border wall. the president arrived at the white house just a few minutes ago. it s unclear right now if he ll continue his tirade once he settled in for the night. it s also unclear what exactly has set him off. but it could be a number of things, as we ve told you. his former attorney and loyal friend michael cohen appears to be ready to flip on him. sources say cohen is willing to tell mueller that trump knew in advance about that infamous 2016 trump tower meeting, the one with the russians, offering dirt on hillary clinton. and on top of that the president has learned along with everyone else that cohen has been secretly recording their private conversations for who knows how long. we played one of those tapes for you last week. it s the one wher ....