.
@Kasie
: "Do you think that the experience [
@BetoORourke
] has here in the House is a strong enough foundation to jump to the Oval Office?”
@SpeakerPelosi
: “And you ask me that when we have a President of the United States who never – you know – please. Yes, the answer is yes.”
.
@jonathanvswan
: Was birtherism racist?
Jared Kushner: I wasn't really involved in that
Swan: I know you weren't. Was it racist?
Kushner: Like I said, I wasn't involved in that
Swan: I know you weren't. Was it racist?
"This is one of the great catastrophes in the history of America. It is one of the most lethal events in the history of the country, and it happened singularly because of the incompetence of Donald John Trump,"
@SteveSchmidtSES
says. "None of this had to happen."
Julian Castro is practicing his Spanish, and tells
@kasie
why he didn't grow up speaking the language: "In my grandparents' time... Spanish was looked down upon. You were not allowed to speak it. People, I think, internalized this oppression..."
“I think we’re seeing Donald Trump do what he's done best since he was in his 20’s which is inherit something and then pretend that he created it” -
@PhilippeReines
on the Trump economy
“...The Kurds carved out their own little enclave. It was peaceful, it was generally egalitarian, it was feminist, it was a unique thing. Men and women fighting together, co-ruling together. They had hopes that this was going to last.” -
@RichardEngel
in his own words
"President Trump tweets about the crack of dawn. And he hasn't even tweeted one time to say 'Look, I mourn with the people of Puerto Rico.'"
@CarmenYulinCruz
AZ GOP Sen candidate Kelli Ward will go on a bus tour w/ Mike Cernovich, an alt-right activist associated w/ the PizzaGate conspiracy.
JUST NOW: "I don't really know what Mike Cernovich's views are. I know he's got an audience and I want to serve everyone" Ward said
WOAH.
"For those of us that are in states that Trump won we would really appreciate if she would be more careful and show respect to every American voter and not just the ones who voted for her" - Claire McCaskill on Hillary Clinton
And now
@jmeacham
in his own words this Memorial Day Weekend
“We’re living with an American President who bullies, hectors and preens; who’s more interested in self-preservation and self-justification, than the health of the nation and of its people.”
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's attorneys tell
@kasie
that Ford is still not living at home and can't for "quite some time."
She is still receiving "unending" death threats.
“These are dangerous times … and it is very dangerous to have a U.S. Senator continue to peddle Russian propaganda on national television. “
@RepKClark
reacts to Senator John Kennedy's comments on election interference in 2016.
“Yamiche Alcindor is a consummate professional. She is a world-class journalist… She also gets under the president's skin because she asks probing & direct questions time & again at the briefings.”
@PhilipRucker
on President Trump telling
@Yamiche
’s to “be nice"
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen “has been a disgrace as Secretary of Homeland Security, and she leaves behind a legacy of separating families, caging children, and lying about those policies.” –
@SenBlumenthal
"A Republican member of Congress actually said they he did not read and will not read the Mueller report. That is just incredibly outrageous but it shows you just how nervous they are about the report. -
@JoeCrowleyNY
on Rep Woodall deciding not to read the Mueller report.
"In an age where my cell phone that I'm carrying around in my pocket tracks every single move that I make, how the hell could our government have lost these parents?" -
@kasie
JUST IN: Sen. Dianne Feinstein has called for the postponement on any further hearings on Judge Kavanaugh & asks for latest allegations to be referred to the FBI for investigation.
Yesterday Trump said he is "studying deeply" a "major tax cut for middle income people." When asked for a time frame for that, Trump predicted "sometime around the 1st of November, maybe a little before that."
One issue ... Congress is not in session until after Election Day.
Andrea Mitchell (
@mitchellreports
) tells us what makes this summit unique:
"We've never had a summit with a KGB spy master ... and a president who spent the weekend golfing."
“We’re at the point now where the Trump administration and the Trump organization are effectively the same thing and Donald Trump is using one to help the other.”
@Fahrenthold
"It dishonors the tens of thousands of Americans who have served, who went to war willingly and didn't murder people in cold blood." -
@SecNav75
on President Trump's recent pardons.
"It undermines our whole military justice system. That's what we depend on to keep discipline"
"I think he will come to regret this decision," Sen. Coons says of Sen. Graham's calls for an investigation into the Bidens. "I know that he is under enormous pressure... but that doesn't justify abandoning a decades-old friendship and a commitment to the truth."
WATCH: "This is the singularly most disturbing thing ever articulated by an agent of the President of the United States with regard to presidential power" -
@SteveSchmidtSES
The FBI must have had "a really credible fear that the country was in peril and that they were, in essence, obligated to open the investigation. That walking away from it would have been irresponsible," says
@JoyceWhiteVance
of the FBI's investigation into Trump
BREAKING: Sen. Bob Corker says he believes a vote on Kavanaugh should not be held until his accuser speaks to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
If she wishes to do so, he says, "she should do it promptly."
Any reporter who had the honor of covering John McCain on Capitol Hill knows how he loved to have fun with the press ... and sometimes at the press' expense.
Here's to some of our favorite moments between
@kasie
and
@SenJohnMcCain
.
Thousands of young girls around the world decided they want to be the next Rapinoe or Morgan or Heath.
It's long past time we tell those girls that if they do capture that dream, they'll be compensated fairly for it, that they’ll be paid the way heroes are supposed to be.
"The FBI let voters go to the polls in this election without disclosing that they had suspicions that some members of the Trump team were agents of a foreign power. That’s a decision that will go down in history and will be debated for years to come” -
@KenDilanianNBC
"If my Republican colleagues don’t think that they can handle the challenge of respecting Dr. Ford, of questioning her in an appropriate and supportive way, then perhaps they shouldn’t be on the committee"
@ChrisCoons
During this very difficult time, we’d like to wish all the Moms out there a Happy Mother’s Day!!! As you Zoom, FaceTime or reminisce about your mothers, share your pictures so we can celebrate our wonderful moms together.
#KCMothersDay
"My mother went out and bought a gun and then all of us were scared about her gun and my father's gun. We had two guns to worry about. No child, no woman, no man, should ever have to go through that.” -
@RepDebDingell
talks to
@Kasie
about her passionate floor speech on gun reform
"My great, great grandmother was actually killed in a synagogue exactly 100 years ago. The fact that it's happening in 2019 is actually not that surprising. History is not linear, progress is not linear. It's cyclical,"
@juliaioffe
shares with our panel.
“He hasn’t built a single new linear mile of border wall since he took office and that is really remarkable," says
@NatashaBertrand
. "He hasn’t gotten this signature promise done.”
.
@SpeakerPelosi
on
@KellyannePolls
: “I’m not going to talk about her. I responded as the Speaker of the House to the President of the United States. Other conversations people want to have among themselves is up to them.”
Lucy Flores does not call her interaction with former VP Biden sexual harassment, instead saying it was "an invasion of my personal space ... a clear invasion of my bodily autonomy to not be touched, unless I give you permission to touch it."
“Rudy Giuliani and this administration are essentially redefining the ethical standards and standards of integrity for the presidency. The bar is being reset, if it's not indictable it's okay."
-
@FrankFigliuzzi1
"It's a horrible thing to say about a President of the United States, but the truth of the matter is that he wants the violence,"
@SenStabenow
on Pres. Trump's response to the racial unrest in America. "He wants the fighting. He wants the division.”
According to a Washington Post analysis, President Trump spent 4 1/2 minutes out 13 hours of press conferences expressing condolences and acknowledging the coronavirus death toll.
"There is a remarkable empathy gap from that podium.”
@PhilipRucker
“I was the son of immigrants...I had teachers who believed in me, little league coaches who believed in me. I now represent the most economically powerful district in the world possibly. That's the story of America. Not this president" -
@RepRoKhanna
WATCH:
@KamalaHarris
makes a “fraud” case against President Trump:
“And then he claims to be the best president we've seen in a generation. Well, I say let's call Barack Obama cause that's identity fraud!”
“Don't worry, [the president] is going to pardon Flynn, eventually. He’s going to pardon Roger stone, eventually. This president is out of control.”
@RepMaxineWaters
"I'd vote for Mickey Mouse against Donald Trump," Joe Biden says when asked if Sen. Sanders can win against Pres. Trump. "I don't think he can beat Donald Trump and get a Democratic Senate and keep a Democratic House ... we have to be able to win and win Senate seats as well."
"I'm not going to play games and say I'm a pro-Trump Democrat,"
@Booker4KY
says of
@AmyMcGrathKY
. "I'm firing up people that even supported Donald Trump... Mitch McCconnell can't stand that. We will absolutely beat him and he knows it."
.
@NatashaBertrand
on a general manager at Trump Turnberry refusing to discuss accommodations given to the military: "If they have nothing they want to keep from the public here, it doesn't make much sense why he'd be reluctant to talk to us."
We are all just trying to keep up with
@NatashaBertrand
’s reporting on an Air Force crew’s overnight stay at Trump’s Turnberry resort in Scotland earlier this year
“The economy comes back when people spend money again, they start buying cars, start signing leases, businesses start hiring. That doesn’t happen when you have death tolls of 2,000 people a day and cases continue to climb.” --
@ASlavitt
“Trump has failed at every level of this crisis… And wanting to open up the country by May 1st is incredibly dangerous and deadly. It's against nearly every expert's advice out there. It is not time. We need to put people's health in front of the economy,”
@K_JeanPierre
MUST WATCH:
@MichaelSteele
says he once submitted a list of African-American Republicans willing to come work in the White House.
Who blocked those very same applicants?
Omarosa.
WATCH:
@kasie
's tribute to Senator John McCain.
"Senator McCain, after a decade of trying to keep up with you in those marble hallways, I know the place that you so loved is going to be a lesser place without you."
.
@shaqbrewster
reports Bernie Sanders is back in 2016 mode turning out thousands to campaign events
But this time: he’s more aggressive, and willing to get more personal
"I like to say [Lindsey Graham] is probably the world's most known golf caddy. All that he seems to care about is carrying the bags and water for the president instead of doing the work that the people in South Carolina sent him to Washington to do" -
@harrisonjaime
Lawmakers worry that
@DonaldJTrumpJr
may have lied to the Senate Intelligence Committee
"These individuals are not worthy of being taken at their word,"
@RepSwalwell
"Vladimir Putin must consider this the most successful covert operation in Russia's history,"
@KenDilanianNBC
recounted a source telling him. "What's amazing is that a major party in the US continues to perpetuate this narrative that really comes from Russian intelligence."
Can’t wait to hear what
@JoyceWhiteVance
has to say to the House Judiciary Committee when she voluntarily testifies tomorrow? Neither could we. Stay tuned as she joins us on set to preview what’s to come at tomorrow’s hearing on obstruction.
"The last guy Trump wants to run against is me — and it's been pretty clear," Joe Biden tells
@Kasie
. "All this stuff about whether Russians are interfering in the election, the only thing we know for sure is that Vladimir Putin doesn't want me to be the nominee."
“Doral was such a bigger step. [Trump] was saying, ‘I have the power as president to put this summit anywhere I like. I’m going to give it to myself.’”
@Fahrenthold
.
@Kasie
: Do you think that Donald Trump is a patriotic man?
@SethMoulton
: “No... It's not like there was just some empty seat in Vietnam. Someone had to go in his place. I'd like to meet the American hero who went in Donald Trump's place to Vietnam. I hope he is still alive.”
BREAKING NEWS: New report that Democrats are investigating a another allegation against SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Tune in now on
@msnbc
to learn all the latest
And now
@esglaude
in his own words:
"A version of America is dying. We hear its death rattle, loud and violent. But a new America is desperately trying to be born. We are its midwives. We have the responsibility to imagine America anew."
"[President Trump] keeps referring to members of the military as 'my generals.' They're not his generals. They swear an oath to the Constitution of the United States. They don't swear an oath to any president." -
@SecNav75
Democratic presidential candidate
@JulianCastro
calls for a change to the order of presidential primaries: "We do need to change the order of the states, because I don't believe that we're the same country we were in 1972... Our country has changed a lot in those 50 years."
"The president is basically telling everyone around him, don't respond to them. Don't answer. Don't cooperate with the congress. What are they hiding?"
@RepMaxineWaters
This week, Trump was accused of directing the breaking of campaign finance laws to cover up an affair.
Kornacki: To you, is that impeachable?
GOP Rep. Mark Sanford: "We'll, I don't know what I don't know at this point - if it's true? Yeah."
"I was suffering in silence and felt really shackled by the silence and the accompanying shame and isolation.”
@Kasie
,
@DaviSusan
and
@KimberlyEAtkins
discuss how Ayanna Pressley & Evelyn Yang’s public admissions of personal struggle are part of a sea change of women in politics
"If the reporting is right and [Trump] knew about it, and he invited Putin to the G7, there is a case to make that this violates the treason provision in Article III of the United States Constitution."
@JamesCarville
Tara Reade says Joe Biden assaulted her; he denies it. Over two dozen women have accused President Trump of sexual assault, harassment or misconduct; he denies all of it. Here’s how each person describes their accusers.
Almost exactly 26 years ago:
A professor accused a SCOTUS nominee of sexual misconduct during their interactions in the 1980s, at first deciding not to reveal her name.
Dems called to delay the vote, Republicans called it an "eleventh hour attack."
This is Anita Hill's story.