fiery crash The driver in a fiery Friday morning accident in New York City hailed a cab and fled the scene, leaving his passenger behind to burn to death in the blazing car, according to authorities. Police discovered the charred body of Harleen Grewel, 25, in the front passenger seat of the vehicle after fire fighters finally extinguished the flames.
Former US Attorney Barbara McQuade briefed MSNBC viewers on the legal strategy at play in reports that President Donald Trump's legal defense team is considering offering special counsel Bob Mueller an interview with the president.
The Politico report was written by Darren Samuelsohn, who joined McQuade as a guest of anchor Alex Witt.
Witt asked McQuade, a former US Attorney who was ousted by President Trump, "were you to be representing the president, would you advise that he do that interview?"
"Strategically, sometimes you would like your client to be interviewed quickly, to get the matter behind them or to deny Robert Mueller and his team the benefit of educating themselves based on other interviews with other witnesses and the review other documents," McQuade explained. "However, with this client -- President Trump -- if I were his lawyer, I would not be advising him to go in and conduct this interview, just because he has proven himself so unreliable in telling the truth."
"This is not a media interview, this is not a rally where you can engage in puffery. Here, facts matter and you can be charged with a crime for making a false statement," the long-time prosecutor reminded.
"Puffery, if you will, or inaccuracies along the lines of what we've all come to expect from this president, could that constitute perjury?" Witt inquired.
"In this context, it would have to be a material false statement and that means just an important false statement. So if you exaggerate in some unimportant detail, that's not enough to constitute a crime," McQuade noted. "But changing a story, we've seen evolving stories, for example, regarding the statement [on] the meeting with the Russians in June of 2016. Once you commit to a story, we can't see shifting versions of that story down the road. So for material facts, it is a crime to lie."
"Is it a foregone conclusion that Mueller will wanting to interview the president at some point?" Witt asked later in the segment.
"I think it's likely ... I think it will likely come at the very end of his investigation. You want to have the benefit of all of the information of all of the documents and other witnesses so that you can have your one shot at this interview," McQuade explained. "That's why I think it's likely to come at the ending."
During nearly two decades as a US Attorney and assistant US Attorney in the Eastern District of Michigan, McQuade successfully convicted the so-called Christmas Day "shoe bomber" and also convicted former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on public corruption charges.
Watch professor at the University of Michigan School of Law Barbara McQuade explain the legal dynamics surrounding whether Donald Trump will be interviewed by Bob Mueller:
MSNBC business reporters Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle sarcastically tore apart President Donald Trump's claims that he has set the stock market on a record path, saying his claims are easily disputed and absolutely "not true."
On MSNBC's Velshi & Ruhle, the two hosts took exception with Trump's claim that the rising stock prices during administration have resulted in lowering the national debt -- saying it was nonsense.
"Wrong!" host Ruhle began with a smirk. "The businessman president just flunked a basic finance test. The stock market has nothing to do with the U.S. debt, which continues to go up, not down, despite the president's best wishes. And I want to remind our viewers that there are only two ways to bring down the national debt: either we cut spending or raise taxes. And guess what we're doing? Neither of those things!"
"This is a weird one because either the president -- he's a businessman so he can't not know this is the case -- so the assumption becomes that was deliberately false," co-host Velshi pitched in. "But let's say he didn't know. Let's say he actually thinks that the stock market increasing, which is private money that goes to companies and their shareholders, somehow relates to the debt. Then I don't know what's worse, that he was being misleading or what he didn't know? But either way, this is really serious."
Taking a harder look at the way the stock market is rising, Velshi noted that the climb began after Democratic President Barack Obama took office and, while the stock market is up, it is also up in other countries.
"Take a look at the rest of the world. The stock markets in most other developed countries are up and, in fact, they are all up in the same time period since Donald Trump has taken office by more than America's are," he explained before sarcastically adding, "So, somehow, this magic of Donald Trump is helping the entire developed world's stock market go up."
"It's not magic and it's not true," co-host Ruhle added with a laugh.
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Breitbart chief and former White House strategist Steve Bannon repeatedly blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at the Values Voters Summit in Washington, DC.
"Now the AP story today...talks about Bannon enlists the value voters in his war against the Republican strategist," Bannon said to cheers. "This is not my war, this is our war and y'all didn't start it, the establishment started it. But I will tell you one thing, you all are going to finish it."
Bannon claimed that in the Alabama senate primary, the Republican establishment "as personified by Mitch McConnell" raised over $30 million dollars to go after Roy Moore. Despite the spending and the endorsement of Republican President Donald Trump, Moore won the Republican primary.
"In Alabama, you folks were able to turn the tables. You took Mitch McConnell's money and you took it from his biggest asset to his biggest liability. The more money they spend, the fewer votes they get."
Bannon then wonder if Sen. McConnell was watching the Values Voters Summit on TV.
"Up on Capitol Hill, because I've been getting calls, it's like before the ides of March," Bannon said, disclaiming that his remarks were only an analogy or a metaphor.
"Their just looking to find out, who's going to be Brutus to your Julius Caesar," Bannon stated.
In the William Shakeseare play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, a soothsayer warns Caesar to "beware the ides of March." Caesar is killed after ignoring the advice. "Then fall, Caesar!" is shouted by Brutus as he delivers the death blow.
"Yeah Mitch, the donors are not happy, they've all left you," Bannon claimed. "We've cut your oxygen off Mitch. Money is not courageous, but money is smart."
Watch former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon at the Values Voters Summit:
Bishop Dr. William Barber II is demanding a "values revolution" to counter Values Voters Summit's celebration of President Donald Trump and Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore.
"I just can't call it Christian right, it's so wrong, it's not Christian. Gun-waving politicians that support segregation is not Christian, it's crazy," explained Rev. Barber on MSNBC's "AM Joy" Saturday.
"It’s time really for there to be a major challenge to this kind of public heresy that we see going on that is so counter the real values of Christianity," Rev. Barber concluded.
"We're looking at pictures of him waving his tiny pistol around at this Values Voters Summit," MSNBC anchor Joy Reid replied to Rev. Barber. "The stuff they're distributing there, it feels so counter to the core message of Christian love in the Bible. It's hard for me to believe they read that Bible and get that out of it."
"Actually, from Jeremiah 22 to Jesus and Matthew 25, Christian values for nations and political leaders has to do with love and justice, equality, stopping exploitation of the vulnerable, caring for the poor, caring for children, welcoming immigrants, helping the sick and loving all," Rev. Barber preached. "And by these standards, the so-called Values Summit is not about Judeo-Christian values, it's not about Christianity, but the values of a heretical rhetorical extremism funded by a whole lot of money, perpetrating a fraud on the American people."
"Their values are cash and not Christ, greed and not grace," Rev. Barber concluded. "What the president did was irreligious, it is an anathema to Christian values. He boasted about taking health care, that's not Christian."
"He promoted arrogance, he promoted warmongering -- these are not Christian values -- and it's high time that we call it out," Rev. Barber demanded. "These are not Christian values but the values of an extreme corporate oligarchy trying to use the values and claim the faith as a way to gain power."
"You cannot have a government that creates problems, that has hundreds of years of legalized slavery and segregation that writes policies that lift up the greedy and forgive corporate crooks and then treat people like things and corporations like people and then say there's no responsibility," Rev. Barber explained. "This is a con, it's been going on a long time ... it's as old as the slave master who had people who endorsed slavery and found theological ways to do that."
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During an MSNBC panel discussion on the "unraveling" of President Donald Trump on Saturday morning, a former GOP member of the House said he is hearing from fellow Republicans that they hope the Democrats take control in the 2018 midterms to save America from President Donald Trump.
Speaking with host Joy Reid, Ex-GOP House member Dave Jolly (FL) agreed with Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) that Trump has no understanding of his job.
"This is a commander-in-chief with no understanding or appreciation for national security, we know that," Jolly began. "I do have great confidence in [Chief of Staff] John Kelly. He's a very sober leader. a very experienced national security leader. I think he's doing a good job trying to contain him."
"If the moment comes where he cannot? Watch John Kelly, because the seriousness of this administration rests on how long John Kelly stays," he added.
The ex-Congressman then dropped a bombshell.
"You know, in law there's what's called an angry withdrawal if a clients committing fraud in court, the attorney is required to leave," Jolly explained. "If John Kelly leaves that's significant. There are Republicans, not elected ones in Washington right now, beginning to question whether or not we would be a safer nation if Democrats took the house in 2018. Because Republicans are never going to do the job they need to do because of the political consequences they would face at home."
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In what grew to be a contentious interview with Julian Assange, Democracy Now's Amy Goodman grilled the Wikileaks founder over his connections to the Trump campaign via Trump associate Roger Stone.
Using clips of both Roger Stone bragging about feeding information to Wikileaks and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) accusing Stone of working with Wikileaks, Goodman pressed Assange to explain away Stone's comments.
"Julian Assange, I wanted to ask you about Roger Stone. In March of 2016, he posted on Facebook that he, quote, 'never denied that Assange and I had a mutual friend who told me Wikileaks had the goods on HRC' — that’s Hillary Rodham Clinton— 'and would begin disclosures in Oct. He did and they did. I didn’t admit it- I announced it,'" Goodman asked. "I now wanted to talk about the latest, Roger Stone going to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee and what came out of that. Your response to that?"
"Roger Stone has been trolling Democrats all his life," Assange deferred. "And he’s doing exactly the same thing, in order to elevate his profile. That’s all. You can look at our statements at the time. He didn’t say anything that I hadn’t been saying in public at the time."
"So, let me turn to Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff speaking at a hearing of the House.." Goodman attempted as the Wikileaks founder cut her off.
"I would just say that the effectiveness of that trolling just shows you how mad the U.S. political culture has become,"Assange insisted. "Is Roger Stone presented as a credible character in his statements? Is that a credible person? Do Democrats think that he’s credible?"
"Well, I think the issue is his closeness to Trump. And whether or not you think Trump or Roger Stone is credible, the --" Goodman tried before being interrupted again.
"Look, he’s— if he had something to worry about, why would he be deliberately playing it up, constantly? He doesn’t have anything to worry about. That’s why he’s playing it up," Assange stated.
Sharing a clip of Stone saying he would share the name of his go-between with Wikileaks, Goodman asked, "Now, of course, Roger Stone isn’t a journalist, but what is your response to what he’s saying right here, that there was an intermediary between you and him, who was a journalist?"
"That the United States’ political culture has gone mad."Assange said defensively before attacking Goodman and saying, "Roger Stone is trolling epically the Democratic political class in order to elevate his profile. And it’s sad to see that Democracy Now. is buying into it."
"Presenting the news is not 'buying into it'" Goodman shot back. "Presenting the news is having you respond to what he's saying because you are at the center of this."
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The homecoming dance, parade and football game at a Sturgis, South Dakota high school have been cancelled after social media showed "Go back to the Rez" painted on a car that was destroyed prior to the scheduled game with Pine Ridge High School for students on the nearby Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
"It's the worst day I've ever had," Sturgis Brown High School Principal Pete Wilson told the Associated Press.
Tensions are high as administrators attempt to contain the fallout.
"The incident has caused severe backlash, including several Facebook threats from people affiliated with both sides," NBC Newscenter 1's Sam Kraemer reported.
One particularly worrisome image spray-painted above the "go back to the Rez" message are the letters SS, which can refer to Schutzstaffel, Adolph Hitler's paramilitary force. Skinheads and neo-Nazi's often use such symbolism to express their views of white supremacy.
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Snapchat posts of the incident included the hashtag, "F*ck Pine Ridge."
"We are a diverse district with many races and backgrounds, which is why this situation is so painful. Because of the angst we feel, we are reaching out to the Pine Ridge School, community and families, as well as all schools in the state of South Dakota to apologize and to encourage more cultural awareness," the Meade District School Board, which oversees Sturgis, told NBC Newscenter 1. "It is our deepest desire that incidents, such as this one, will become history rather than current news."
Some of the students affected by the homecoming cancellations agreed with that hope.
"I wish that we'd made better choices," one student told NBC Newscenter 1, as her friend nodded in agreement. "I feel like Sturgis should've thought twice before we made that choice."
ORANGE -- Thursday afternoon's scuffle in which Police Officer Hanifah Davis was caught on video pulling teen girls' hair outside the city high school marks the second time this year the officer has been involved in controversy in the community, police officials said.
Democratic strategist Maria Cardona didn't mince words when discussing President Donald Trump's speech to the Values Voters Summit in Washington, DC.
In the address Friday, Trump claimed that people couldn't say Merry Christmas instead they say Happy New Year. The panel all had a good laugh and host Don Lemon noted that Christmas and New Year were completely different things.
"Thank God that the president addressed this, Don, because I know that this is what keeps every single American up at night," Cardona said, her voice dripping with sarcasm. "This is a huge problem in the country. So, I'm glad the president is focusing on it."
Even Republican Margaret Hoover, who served in George W. Bush's White House, called the president a "moral compromise" to these Christians, who she said concluded Trump was "the lesser of two evils." She went on to explain, "the rest, they've decided, doesn't matter."
Cardona called issues like Christmas, and now somehow New Year's, "political crack" to the Trump base because "the audience that he was speaking to today eats it up." What she found to be "so ironic" was that it isn't only a moral compromise, "these Christian values voters have made a deal with the devil."
She quoted the president saying during the 2016 that he has never once asked God for forgiveness. Nor did Trump know what "that little white wafer thing was," referring to the Holy Communion cracker that symbolizes the body of Christ.
"There's a reason why presidents, when they're presidents, have never gone to this group," she continued. "This is a group that has been categorized by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a radical right hate group. They put out pamphlets today, Don, about how homosexuality is hazardous to your health. I mean, there is a reason why going to this group does nothing to really focus on the issues that we're facing today, which is the divisions of this country. The way that this president likes to divide us instead of unite us."
Watch the full discussion below:
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President Donald Trump's economic advisor, Stephen Moore, and Don Lemon got into a polite battle Friday night after Moore claimed the Affordable Care Act was collapsing. While Moore has made the claim throughout the night during CNN appearances, Lemon was quick to fact check him.
"Steve you know that's not true," Lemon corrected. "You guys keep repeating that. It's not true. The facts don't bear that out."
"Well, what isn't true?" Moore asked.
"That Obamacare is collapsing, it's not," Lemon retorted.
"It sure is!" Moore said, smiling. "But let me put it like this, Don --"
Lemon cut in to say, "it isn't collapsing under it's own weight. It's collapsing because the president is forcing it to -- Republicans are forcing it to."
Moore consistently maintained that Lemon was wrong but the CNN host encouraged him to "go read the fact check."
"Well, let's do that because this law is seven years old, it's not as if it started to collapse under Donald Trump, it started to collapse four or five years ago," Moore claimed, before going off on a tangent about premium increases.
Obamacare was passed in 2009 but it didn't take effect until Jan. 1, 2014, just a little under four years ago. The executive order signed by Trump to effectively push Obamacare off of a cliff, defunds the subsidies that make healthcare affordable for lower-income wage earners. In a 2016 interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Trump explained that the poor were hurting because they couldn’t afford their healthcare. Without the subsidies costs will skyrocket.
Watch the full discussion below:
MSNBC host Chris Hayes seemed fed up with Republican claims that they're "helping" low-income people by gutting the Affordable Care Act before they have a replacement.
After Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) dodged questions about President Donald Trump's executive order that begins the process of gutting Obamacare by allowing young, healthy people to leave the ACA marketplace and purchase group plans across state lines. Many, including Hayes and a bipartisan group of governors, oppose Trump's order because it's already begun destabilizing markets and causing healthcare costs to rise.
"There are people in Oregon who just got an email today saying that their premium is going up right now at least eight percent," Hayes said.
Reed claimed he'd "been seeing those premium notices for years" -- and then Hayes went nuclear.
"This is gone up more, over and above, it is not just the same thing," Hayes shot back. "Yesterday the premiums were one thing and today they are 15 or 20 percent higher. So you have to explain to those people getting the bills in the mail why you guys in Congress, the Republican Party which controls all three branches of government, can't solve the problem without making them pay more money out of pocket."
Reed tried to claim the issue was "not about Republicans" but about both sides of the aisle in Congress, and then said he appreciates the people on the Problem Solvers Caucus on which he sits for their work "leading" the debate.
"But you're not leading!" Hayes exclaimed.
After a back-and-forth about the minutia of cost-sharing reductions and potential fixes to the issue, the host took one last jab at the New York Republican.
"I hope that you are successful in Congress in forestalling the disaster and have you back on the program, but given what we've seen so far, you'll forgive me for sharing the skepticism of a lot of Americans," Hayes said. "Godspeed, Congressman."
Watch their battle of words below, via MSNBC.
A 2-year-old boy could have a new kidney that is a 100 percent match, but Emory Hospital in Atlanta won't perform the operation.
According to WXIA News, little A.J. has been left waiting for a kidney after being born without any. His mother says it's all because of red tape between the hospital and police. The surgery was scheduled and the father was ready to give it over to his "miracle baby" but they were shut down.
"That's all I ever wanted -- was a son," Anthony Dickerson told reporters. "And I finally got him, and he's in this situation."
Dickerson was arrested for violating his probation last month and charged with possession of a firearm. The Emory Hospital sent a letter to the jail asking if he could be brought briefly to the hospital for bloodwork and a pre-operative appointment at the end of September. They explained that they wanted to keep the surgery on schedule to save A.J.'s life.
Once he was released, he says that the hospital's tone changed.
"The Living Donor Transplant Team at Emory has asked Mr. Dickerson for evidence of compliance from his parole officer for the next three months," the hospital said in another letter after Dickerson was released. "We will re-evaluate Mr. Dickerson in January 2018 after receipt of his completed documentation."
But the family says that there is no reason a probation violation should stop the transplant, particularly since Dickerson is healthy and not using any kind of drugs.
"It's about my son," the boy's mother said. "He's been through a lot. It's like we've been waiting on this. And Dad making a mistake shouldn't affect what he wants to do with our son."
The hospital refused to answer any of WXIA's questions, saying only that the guidelines "for organ transplantation are designed to maximize the chance of success for organ recipients and minimize the risk for living donors." They didn't clarify how a 100 percent match isn't a "maximized" chance or why the probation "minimizes the risk" to A.J.
WXIA asked how an arrest could impact donating a kidney but they refused to answer. A GoFundMe campaign has been set up and vetted by the site to help the family.
"What do he got to do with the mistakes I made? Nothing," Anthony said. His words are reminiscent of the biblical quote "Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin," Deuteronomy 24:16.
Emory Healthcare lists its "mission" as being determined "To Serve Humanity by Improving Health through integration of education, discovery and health care delivery."
"He's only two," A.J.'s mom said. "He don't deserve this. We've been waiting so long for this."
The boy suffered a stroke two months ago and he needs around-the-clock care as well as multiple doctor's visits. Now he's on a waiting list while a kidney that is a 100 percent match sits beside him.
"They're making this about Dad," Carmella said. "It's about our 2-year-old son."
Watch an interview with the family below:
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