51 Congressmen support impeachment proceedings against President Trump

Also, President rump announced the U.S. will impose a 5 percent tariff on Mexico [View in browser]( [Image](  MAY 30, 2019 In an evening tweet, President Donald Trump announced the U.S. will [impose a 5 percent tariff]( beginning June 10 on all goods coming into the country from Mexico "until such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico, and into our Country, STOP."  The tariff will rise to 25 percent by October unless Mexico takes action to stop the flow of migrants into the United States, the White House said in a briefing statement.  "Social problems are not resolved with taxes or coercive measures," Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrado said in a letter to President Trump.  Trump's announcement comes at a delicate time, with efforts to ratify the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement treaty under way. [Image]( President Trump on Thursday morning denied that he had anything to with a [reported request to move the USS John S. McCain "out of sight"]( during his recent state visit to Japan, but he said whoever made the request was "well meaning."   "Somebody did it because they thought I didn’t like him, OK, and they were well meaning, I will say," Trump added. "I didn’t know anything about that. I would never have done that." The president also said he was not a fan of the late Arizona senator in "any way, shape or form" — something he's continued to say since McCain died last year.  Meghan McCain, responding to Trump’s comments, said the president is making her grieving process  "impossible" because Trump "is so obsessed with the fact that he's never going to be a great man" like her father.  “Please have a little more compassion,” [she said on The View.]( “This is very hard." In an early-morning tirade on the White House lawn, [President Trump lashed out at Former Special Counsel Mueller]( for not exonerating him.  Trump referred to as Mueller as a "true never-Trumper" and said he never should have been tapped as special counsel.  Before speaking to reporters Thursday, Trump had tweeted that he "had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected." It was an apparent admission that Russia helped elect the president.  He later walked back that statement while speaking to reporters. "Russia did not help me get elected. I helped me get elected," Trump said.  "Russia had nothing to do with it at all." ICYMI: Videos from MSNBC Today [Image]( [Rep. Quigley joins calls for opening Trump impeachment inquiry]( The member of the House Intelligence Committee announces that he has informed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that he is in favor of opening an impeachment inquiry into President Trump, and talks with Rachel Maddow about challenges to the investigation and his belief that Trump was compromised by Russians. (Maddow) [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Image](  [Inside team Trump’s plot to whitewash Mueller’s historic report]( A day after Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s first public comments, President Trump lays bare his strategy to undercut Mueller’s findings. (The Beat) [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Image](  [Missouri could be first state without abortion clinic]( Regulators are refusing to renew the license of Missouri's last abortion clinic, which could cease providing those services this week. (All In) [Facebook]( [Twitter]( More Videos - [Trump counterintel questions unresolved by narrow Mueller inquiry (Maddow)]( - [Hayes: Trump freaks out over impeachment talk (All In)]( - [Jeff Daniels: ‘we can't go on like this’ (The Last Word)]( - [Ari Melber to 2020 Dem: What are you so Afraid of? (The Beat)]( - [Do the Special Counsel regulations need to be updated? (MSNBC Live)]( - [1,000+ immigrants apprehended at border in record round-up (MSNBC Live)]( - [WaPo: iPhones sent data to 5,400 hidden app trackers (MSNBC Live)]( - [Politico: Roy Moore hits back at Trump on Senate run (Hardball)]( - [China threatens to cut off rare Earth minerals as trade war escalates (MSNBC Live)]( - [Arab leaders hold emergency summit to discuss Iran tensions (MSNBC Live)](  [Latest from NBC News]( Quote of the Day [“If you can rig the census, you can rig everything. This gets to the heart of American democracy. If we corrupt the census, we will live with the ramifications for the next decade and beyond.”]( — Mother Jones' Ari Berman, on new evidence on the push to rig the census ([Video]() Opinion [OPINION](: Mueller passed the impeachment baton to Congress. They could still drop it. The former special counsel could not have been more explicit that it's up to Congress to do what it will with his report on the president... Without uttering the word “impeachment,” then, Mueller tossed the ball to Congress. Still, it’s true that Mueller provided too much information for the ordinary citizen to digest and make an informed decision, given that most cannot devote the time and attention to read the entire special counsel’s report. by [Michael Conway](, former counsel, U.S. House Judiciary Committee.  [OPINION](: Robert Mueller's statement made the Democrats look like cowards. Trump sees a Democratic Congress reluctant to wield the impeachment power voters gave it in the midterms. And he may be right. Democrats worry about the political ramifications of impeachment and so they make strong statements; they say they won’t tolerate the president’s assault on checks and balances but they do nothing of substance to stop him.  [by Kurt Bardella](, NBC News THINK contributor. Watch to watch Coming up Monday: Chris Matthews holds a special town hall with Mayor Pete Buttiegieg at 7 p.m. ET.  Next Wednesday, Chris Hayes moderates a live town hall with Elizabeth Warren in Indiana. Sen. Warren will speak directly to voters and take their questions on how she plans to win back the industrial Midwest with her wide-range of policy plans on issues including student debt, housing, and her “Ultra-Millionaire Tax.”  Interested in attending the event? [Register here](. [Image]( This newsletter was prepped for you by Wyatt Mayes, Stephanie Haberman and Sam Go.  Tell us what you think of the news and [drop us an e-mail](mailto:msnbc.digital.editors@nbcuni.com).  Have you read the [Mueller report](? 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