He was facing an uphill battle. A lot of people, including the republicans do not believe he has the experience of Veterans Affair and though he does have credentials as a doctor, he does not have the credentials to run something that brig. Its still a very fluid situation. Right now the president says hes standing by dr. Ronnie johnson and hes going to leave whether he steps aside up to Ronny Jackson. I heard the line where you have trump saying we wish to work on this new deal with iran. Can you tell me what it is the president of the United States wants and what is it about this deal that macron that hed being to change . Reporter look, all we know is the line you just cited. Theres no more information coming from the president what
this deal might be. The french president went into much more detail. He said dont rip up the current deal until you have something else. So keep the deal this is the french president laying out his argumen arguments, he said keep the deal and we need ano
Right now. Its not an order, the president s opinion. Are President Trumps tweets considered official white house statements . The president is the president of the United States, theyre considered official statements by the president of the United States. Wow. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. Im confused. So confused. What is that line from the office . Universe, you win. Its thursday, august 2nd. And what a way to start the day. What a way. So, is it the official policy of the president or not . I think the most telling thing of the whole story is how much his lawyers freaked out immediately and started calling around immediately. He was just venting. Just like a baseball game. When hes actually doing what talking about what would start a constitutional crisis. Or Obstruction Of Justice. As brian clause pointed out yesterday is exactly what he did in turkey back 2013, 2014. Talk about fake news. You talk about deep state conspiracies. You fire prosecutors and you have a were
Lets hope its healthy. It must be. After hearing the news this morning. A revealing admission from the government. Health and Human Services had warned the Trump Administration that separating kids from their families would be dangerous to the children. The president did it any way. So he did it knowing exactly what would happen. He also continues to tell supporters that the free press is the enemy of the people. And as you can hear, the results are chilling. Its getting bad out there. Paul manafort also back in court this morning. After prosecutors kicked off their case against him. Well have the latest on that. Boy, i just andrea, ill talk to you and mike, who have been around a little bit. Through difficult times. In covering difficult stories. Watching whether donald trump goes to the vfw and the press,
he points at the press, and whips the crowd into a frenzy to boo at the press there. Whether he whips the crowd into a frenzy to boo and take the free press in tampa. This is part o
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. Its 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. Theyve got the publics attention, but what about the president s . Does he care . Whats 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 day. Barletta or ca
The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. The United Nations taking on Donald Trumps attacks on the free press. The top story, The Closing Circle of pressure on trump from the manafort trial. Michael avenatti has popped back up with a dvd, doing some Breaking News of his own on who is in possession of it. Do you have anything else you can tell me about this dvd . As soon as we get it back from Law Enforcement, ill be happy to talk about it. That is new. The assertion that Law Enforcement are sufficiently interested in this dvd collected as evidence. We do not know, and this is important, if avenatti is alleging its in the possession of federal Law Enforcement, which could mean mueller or cohen prosecutors in new york, or whether it is some other local case which could be far less important. Meanwhile, the other news tonight is that mueller has completed interviews with another new roger stone associate, her name is kristin davis.