the full page ad about the central park five, now exonerated five. this is all part of the same symphony of racism that donald trump has been playing. i don't know, lead violin for. this is a very mixed metaphor, but, you know, this is all of a piece and it is central to trump and trumpism, which is white grievance, white rage and a feeling of zero sum racist politics. >> the south africans came to renegotiate a. trade deal, $14 billion trade deal. they came to have a conversation about hundreds of million dollars of health care today are dependent upon. and donald trump gave them the backhand and used this racial austin to just burn the place down. who are they going to turn to now? the chinese. yeah, that's that's. >> what americans don't understand. that's the answer in a lot of parts of the world. alex wagner, patrick gaspard, great to have you both. that is all in on this thursday night. the briefing with jen psaki starts right now. good evening jen. >> hey chris. >> so one of the things as we've been i was watching your coverage. >> on the meme. >> coin extravaganza this evening. what a what a way to finish a day where you pass a big bill than a meme coin

dinner. exactly 24 hours. but one of the. >> things. >> i was thinking. >> about, because. >> we often have. >> moments of light here, is that there's. >> a long. >> you and i both know this well, a long way to go before this bill becomes law. a long way. we're going to talk about that tonight. we have someone who's had basically every job in government, as i can imagine. omb director, treasury secretary, white house chief of staff jack lew. probably no one knows the process better, but i'm trying to look for moments of light. so that's the one i'm hanging on right now. >> well, and jack lew. jack lew is a great guest for this, because one of the things that we see with all legislation this happened with the aca, particularly the longer it sits out there, the harder it gets, the more that it takes. so timing and delay. and that's a real question in the senate, which is a place that can be slower. i'm really curious to see what he has to say about that. >> exactly. and also no one has had time to dig through it. so now they will. that's right. well, chris, have a great evening and. >> a great memorial. >> day weekend too. >> thanks a lot. >> okay, so today as i just was talking with chris about

republicans finally passed donald trump's, what i'm going to call a big old nasty bill to give tax breaks to millionaires while kicking millions off their health insurance. great work everyone. i mean, congrats to all involved. i guess this is your signature accomplishment. but if you're the president and this he was definitely involved in this one quite a bit. how do you celebrate the first step in your signature legislative agenda? well, we were just talking about this too. but basically he ended tonight with a big fancy dinner, one where rich people all coughed up money to make his family richer, all for the privilege of getting access to him. the sitting president of the united states. now i'm referencing, of course, the fact that tonight donald trump spent the evening wining and dining with the top investors in his family's meme coin, a type of cryptocurrency. of course, trump's family basically auctioned off access to the president by promising the top 220 purchasers of his coin a seat at his crypto gala, the one that was held in the last couple of hours just

tonight at his golf club, of course, in washington, dc. now, the top 25 coin purchasers of that 220 got even more access to trump. they were invited to an exclusive vip cocktail reception before the dinner. so just to be clear here, i mean, these crypto investors literally bought access to donald trump by enriching his family. and the more money they paid, the more access they got. it's basically the definition of an in-your-face, blatant, brazen, whatever you want to call it, pay to play scheme. but the white house says, don't worry, because trump isn't doing any of this as president. >> this question has been raised with the president. >> i have. >> also addressed the dinner tonight. the president is attending it in his personal time. it is not a white house dinner. it's not taking place here at the white house. >> oh i see. so this dinner was scheduled during trump's personal time. his shift must end at 5 p.m, i guess. so

anything after that doesn't count in terms of abiding by rules and laws and such things. that obviously is not how any of this works. i mean, when you're president, you're the president. from the moment you are sworn in to the moment you leave office, whatever you're doing, sleeping, dining, vacationing, no matter what you're doing, and the people who paid the trump family huge sums of money by investing in this meme coin that, again, will benefit him and his adult sons financially. they got special access to the president and we will probably never know who most of them are. and these donors, by the way, gave a lot. i mean, nbc news estimates estimates that the average attendee to this dinner spent more than $1 million on trump's cryptocurrency in order to just attend this dinner. and cnbc at the same time reports that about 764,000 people, most of whom bought much smaller amounts of trump's meme coin, have all lost money on their investment. so small investors, the overwhelming majority, got screwed, while rich investors got a private dinner with the

sitting president. and for the people who invest a lot, it's worth a lot. i mean, the person who bought more of trump's meme coin than anyone else was this guy. his name is justin sun, and he's a chinese born crypto mogul. you can see him right there on the screen who until recently was being prosecuted by the sec for his own alleged crypto scams. that was until justin sun invested $75 million in trump's family crypto business. and then suddenly, trump's sec decided to pause the case against sun. gee, i wonder why we're going to have a lot more on trump's number one crypto fan later in the hour. there's a lot to say, including what a $6 million banana has to do with all of this. and i promise you, it has something to do with all of this. but other than justin's son and a handful of other crypto investors, we don't actually know who the vast majority of these attendees were. all we know is that they bought access to trump and an administration as corrupt as this one. that kind of access is worth a lot. we've seen time and

time again how being close to this president can make people richer, or at least allow them to avoid financial pain. i mean, today, propublica also reported that more than a dozen high ranking trump officials and congressional aides sold stock right before trump crashed the stock market. with his big tariff announcement last week. once again, the people around trump seem to benefit a lot. well, basically everyone else gets screwed. it's dynamic we see playing out over and over and over again in this administration. and there's basically perhaps no better example of it than trump's big, beautiful, nasty bill. whatever you want to call it, that house republicans just passed by. now, you've probably heard some of the top lines about this bill. we talked about them last night. we'll talk about it more in the show, how it will cut taxes for the wealthy and slash things like health care and food assistance for anyone else. but when you really look under the hood and we did a little bit of that today, you start to see that the closer you are to

trump, the more this bill does for you. i mean, for instance, the bill allocates a whopping $25 billion for a new us missile defense system unironically called the golden dome for america. yes, they called it that. everyone. well, last month, reuters reported that one of the leading contractors being considered for that big, expensive project is spacex, which is, of course, one of the companies run by trump's top campaign donor, elon musk. that's not even all. i mean, the bill also includes some other giveaways for the maga faithful, like a tax break for gun silencers. and the only people who benefit from that one are secret assassins, i guess. and, well, gun store owners, the people who make money selling dangerous weapons, people like maga representative andrew clyde, who even took credit for getting the gun silencer tax break in the bill. congratulations. i guess the next time a gun goes off and you don't hear it, i guess you should thank georgia congressman andrew clyde for his work there.

don't forget to stop by his gun store, of course, because according to his latest financial disclosures, it's worth anywhere between 5 and $25 million. and that's before the big, beautiful gun silencer tax break kicks in, which, of course, he's working to ensure and remember the whole theme of this bill, from top to bottom, is that it will make the rich richer and the poor poorer. i mean, 13.7 million americans would lose their health care if this bill becomes law 13.7 million. that is one in every 25 americans, some from losing medicaid, some from losing aca tax cuts. the bill would also add so much to the national debt that it would automatically trigger $500 billion to cut cuts to medicaid, medicare. the bill gets really creative. i will give it that. i guess when it comes to taking health care away from people, it does it in lots of different ways. and it would mean the biggest cut to food stamps since the invention of food stamps. just to put it in

perspective, this is all a tax on the poor to pay for tax cuts for the rich. congressional budget office estimated the overall impact of this bill on the finances of the top 10% wealthiest households in america, and on the bottom 10% poorest households. by 2027, the top 10% is set to become 4% wealthier at the expense of the bottom 10% getting 2% poorer. and i know republicans in the house are out there celebrating the bill they passed this morning like it's a done deal, but that is also far from the reality here. and this process and process is the most important one. but it's important to understand and know because there is still time here. i mean, this big, beautiful bill heads to the senate next. and if the senate makes even a single change to the text of this bill before passing it, that new bill will have to go back to the house for them to pass and so on and so forth. they basically the two chambers have to come to an agreement on the text of the bill. the reality here is that the average budget reconciliation process takes

five months. so when senate republicans are claiming they are going to get everything done by july 4th, that seems pretty challenging because no matter how you slice it, there is still a long way to go in this process. now, up to this point, republicans in the house jammed this bill through the first step of the process as quickly as they could literally hold hearings overnight, pulling all nighters to pass their first draft of the bill as soon as possible. some people fell asleep during that. that meant there was no way for members of congress, for journalists, for the public, anyone to go through. it was actually in the bill that was very much by design. that also meant there was very little time for citizens around the country to voice their concerns, to peacefully protest, to push their representatives, to vote against it if they're against it. but now this whole process slows down, and there's time to dig into it, to ask questions, to peacefully protest. if you choose to write and call representatives. and remember, republicans can only afford to lose three votes in the senate,

and there are a lot of ways they could lose those votes. i mean, the hill reports today that they have a count of 5 to 7 republican senators who could be a no because of the bill's medicaid cuts. people like senator susan collins of maine, senator thom tillis of north carolina, and senator jon husted from ohio, who are all up for reelection next year. did they really want to run on a campaign of having cut medicaid, health care, and food stamps, all to ensure the wealthiest get more tax breaks? because there are a whole lot of campaign ads i can think of that can be run just around there. vote on this particular bill, one republican senator told the hill, quote, there's probably five or 6 or 7 of us who, if you do anything that cuts into benefits, you're going to have a real problem. wait till that person reads the text of the house bill. as politico put it today, senate republicans are prepping for one big, beautiful rewrite. then there's republican senator from kentucky, rand paul, who says he is a hard no on the bill. he

says it would add too much to the deficit. republican senator ron johnson of wisconsin says the country can't afford the bill as written. they're basically on different sides of their concerns, but those are two more potential no votes. so a bunch of republican senators think the bill cuts too much. couple think it doesn't cut enough. not a mathematician here, but i think a bunch plus a couple is pretty much more votes than republicans can lose. that means getting this bill rewritten and through the senate is not going to be a cakewalk. and it could take time. that means time for constituents of those senators to show up at their offices. that means time for protests and peaceful ones, of course, and phone calls and journalists digging through the more than 1000 pages in this bill to find everything. republicans tried to hide in it. and we tried to do that and talk about some of it tonight. i mean, there is time for americans to apply pressure, not just in the senate, because, again, once the senate eventually passes their version of the bill, it will head back to the house, and they will have to pass that version of it all over again. today, republicans

only manage to pass this bill by a one vote margin, 215 votes for the bill, 214 votes against the bill. but after voting on that today, most members went home, as in back to their home districts away from d.c. that house is actually in recess until early june. that means that the constituents of every republican that voted for this bill have a real opportunity to make their voices heard. the fact is, 215 republicans, some of them in very tough swing districts who are up for reelection next year, just voted to take medicaid away from millions of americans, including all these republicans. >> democrats will tell you it's going to cut social security, medicare, medicaid and take away your health care. they're lying. >> and nothing. >> can be further. >> from the truth. >> we are. >> not going to be touching social. >> security. >> medicare, medicaid. >> i also will stand. >> with. >> president trump in opposing gutting medicaid. >> my position on this. >> has not. >> and it will not. >> change this moment. he says he supports both.

>> programs, writing a letter to. republican leadership saying he will not vote for any legislation that lowers medicaid coverage. >> let me tell you again, as a. >> nurse practitioner and person who understands and cares about. >> healthcare. >> i can reassure you. >> that healthcare. >> medicaid, and medicare. >> social security are. >> not places. >> where we're looking. >> to cut services. >> a budget. >> bill that. >> does not. protect vital medicaid services and address the cap on state and local tax or salt these deductions. if they are not there, it will. >> not receive. >> my vote. >> would you vote to have that potential of those. >> benefits being taken away? no. >> i mean, obviously my goal is to not do anything that damages medicaid. >> every single one of those republicans just voted to damage and dramatically cut medicaid. every single one. the margins in the house are razor thin, and there's a lot of time left before the house will almost definitely have to take this bill back up. a lot of time in which any swing district republican member of congress could face a lot of pressure

from their constituents. so as we enter the next stage of the budget reconciliation process, what are the impacts of this bill? everyone should understand what could happen in the process that could throw sand in the gears to keep some of these horrible things in the big bad bill from actually becoming law? well, i have just the person to ask. jack lew is the former white house chief of staff, former treasury secretary, former director of the office of management and budget. any person who knows his way around this process and basically any job in washington, dc better than almost anyone else. he than almost anyone else. he joins me in just 90s. dry eyes still feel gritty, rough, or tired? with miebo, eyes can feel ♪ miebo ♪ ♪ ohh yeah ♪ miebo is the only prescription dry eye drop that forms a protective layer for the number one cause of dry eye: too much tear evaporation. for relief that's ♪ miebo ♪ ♪ ohh yeah ♪ remove contact lenses before using miebo. wait at least 30 minutes before putting them back in. eye redness and blurred vision may occur. ♪ miebo ♪ ♪ ohh yeah ♪

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♪ far-xi-ga ♪ >> joining me now is someone with a more impressive resume than most than almost anyone i know. jack lew is a former white house chief of staff, former treasury secretary, former omb director, former ambassador to israel and now a professor at columbia university school of international and public affairs. it's great to see you. there's so much, you know, that i think a lot of people are trying to understand out there. so i'm so grateful to be talking to you tonight. i just wanted to start with the impact of this bill that's now passed the first step here in the house. you know, we've been talking a lot about the impact on medicaid, additional the cuts to additional health care benefits, to snap benefits, programs that have been lifting up millions of americans. what should you see as you look at what you've seen

and reported in the bill and the details, what do you see as the short and long term impact of this bill? >> it's good. >> to be. >> with you, jen. >> it's good to see you. and i have to say. >> that. >> this is a big. >> bill, but it's. >> hardly beautiful if. >> you look at it at a. macro level. >> it takes a budget deficit and projections of debt. >> that are. >> already a significant enough problem that last week, the third of the major us rating agencies downgraded us credit rating, and it took that to. >> a. >> much worse place. it adds, at a minimum, $3 trillion to the debt over the next ten years. and that's assuming tax cuts sunset. and we know. >> that. >> the sun rarely sets on. >> tax cuts. >> if the. >> full tax cuts. stay in effect, it adds 5 to $6 trillion. that's trillion with a t to the national debt over the next ten years. >> you know. >> i've always. >> believed that we have to pay. >> attention to.

>> things like, are we running a fiscal policy that's sustainable, that's just not sustainable. so that's the large level. i think that's. >> part of the. >> reason it was so difficult to get a majority in the house. and the one. >> vote majority. >> passed the bill, but. >> it really. >> showed that for those in the. >> republican side. >> who really care about the deficit and the debt, this bill doesn't solve. >> that problem. >> it makes it worse. then you drill into it as you did in your introduction, and it's upside down. i mean, it takes benefits away from the people who need them the most, and it gives. >> tax cuts. >> to the people who are already in the best position. the average family. >> $50,000 and. >> below would. >> get about $300. >> a year of benefits. >> they'd lose more than that from the tariffs. if families are a million and above, get about $90,000. >> of tax. >> cuts, it's completely upside down. >> i know you are a policy wonk

in your heart and have long been, but you've also led a lot of these processes. i tried to do my best to explain to people what happens from here. so what could happen between now and this bill getting to donald trump's desk, in your experience, that could make it less awful. >> well, look. >> you can take policies and change. >> them, but it's very hard. >> to make the bill better. >> in terms of. >> hurting fewer people, unless you're willing to take away some of the. >> tax cuts. >> or have a bigger deficit. so there's a. >> price for everything. >> i think. >> the. >> reality is that. >> for those. >> who care about medicaid, it's one thing to say you're not going to cut medicaid. >> this bill. >> cuts medicaid very deeply, more deeply than i've ever seen it cut. and it will mean that millions of people lose their health benefits. and you can put a label on things that make it sound benign. but then when you look behind it, you understand why it really is not benign. >> so you say.

>> able bodied people, adults should work. and most people agree with that. this bill would take families where. >> you have. >> children with one parent at home and say they have to work and prove that they work, or they lose their medicaid and they still have. >> to be home because they can't. >> afford child care after school. >> for their. >> seven year old. so there are choices that are built in here that they know will mean. a loss. >> of health care coverage. >> and, you know, there are ways of dealing with these things, but everything you do to address the problems means you lose savings. >> i think. >> this is the. >> opposite of. >> what you do. if you really want to reduce the deficit, if you really want to reduce the deficit, you have a bipartisan conversation. >> about the. >> difficult choices. it doesn't mean. cutting taxes. it means raising taxes. it does mean taking careful. steps to reduce entitlement spending. but these are not careful steps on entitlement spending. and they're big tax cuts. >> let me ask. >> you to put. your your former

white house chief of staff hat on for a moment. since you've worn many hats. i mean, after the house passed this bill we've been talking about that will have dramatic impact. negative one on working people. donald trump tonight hosted a dinner with the top 220 buyers of his meme coin. and the white house says he's doing this on his own personal time. so it's okay. that is not how i remember it. working. working for two presidents. i'm trying to envision if that was something that you came across your desk as white house chief of staff, what would you say but help people understand how there isn't really personal time for a president? >> it was a struggle. >> to. >> get the president upstairs. >> to eat dinner. >> the president. >> the. >> president. >> is on 24 over seven. >> and the laws apply to him at all times, which is important, i think, for people to. >> know and. >> and. >> you know, my. experience is. >> crises and the need for.

>> contact with the president. >> doesn't end at 5:00 or 6:00 at night. you know. it's often a very inconvenient hours. >> no question about it. i mean, well, he was doing this, you know, i think a lot of people, in addition to the impacts of this bill, are worrying about the impacts of tariffs, of course, causing prices to go up. you've talked about this. you've been the treasury secretary, omb director, so many jobs. you've had many of the seats at the policy table deciding all of this. let me just ask you about how abnormal it is to see a president threaten a retailer like walmart if it doesn't, quote, eat the tariffs, meaning refuse to raise prices given the impact of the tariffs? that's not something i've seen happen before. i would gather you probably have never seen that happen before either. yeah. >> you know, we. >> we in the administrations i. >> worked in, we were always very. >> careful not to do things that would look inappropriate. and

you would feel free to share your views. >> and your thoughts. >> with, you know, ceos. >> but i don't. >> remember ever threatening. a ceo or working for a president who threatened a ceo. you know, i think the tariffs are going. >> to. >> increase prices now that there are 90 day. delays on them taking effect and negotiations. there's some chance that there'll be agreements. we don't know what. will happen at the end of the 90 days, but we know there are going to be higher tariffs, higher tariffs than we've had in my lifetime. and that means that prices are going to go up. and not. all retailers can eat the. >> extra cost. >> of the tariff. and the only other. place for it to come from is. the price. so i. >> think we are going. >> to see. >> some pressure. >> on prices here. >> not just at walmart but at other. >> places as well. >> that's what. >> tariffs do. >> jack lew, thank you so much for bringing all of your

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i'm about to ask a bit of an odd question. do you recognize this banana that you can see on the screen? it's okay if you don't. i don't blame you. but believe it or not, back in 2019, that banana duct taped to a wall was sold as a piece of art for $120,000. what's even more absurd is that five years later, another edition of that same banana art as i guess they called it, was sold again for more than 50 times that amount for a whopping $6.2 million. now, the man who bought it, we've already mentioned this evening it was none other than chinese born crypto mogul justin sun. yes, the very same guy who won a private dinner with president donald trump, along with more than 200 other top buyers of trump's meme coin.

now, even if you consider it modern art, i guess good for you. a single banana doesn't have a whole lot of inherent value, obviously. i mean, it's certainly not worth millions of dollars, and mr. sun even proved that point himself when he ate that $6 million banana shortly after buying it. what was valuable to mr. sun, it seems, was the publicity he got, the shock and awe of it all. and now the chinese born billionaire is back in the spotlight for dumping his money into something else with no real face value. trump's meme coin. think of meme coins. kind of like that banana. i mean, the value isn't in the coin itself. the value is in what the purchaser gets out of it. and that may explain why justin sun reportedly purchased what is now $18.6 million worth of trump tokens to become a guest of honor at tonight's dinner. can't make it up sometimes. joining me now is democratic congressman dan goldman. before getting to congress, he was an assistant u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york. congressman, i just have to start. there's so many ways to go with this. i just have to

start with the white house explanation that he was on his private personal time, and there's no such thing as personal time as a president. but from a legal perspective, there's no personal time. there's no such thing as personal time for a president. right? >> well, absolutely. >> certainly not. >> if you're dining with. somebody and you're. >> selling a seat at. >> that dinner. >> to the highest bidder. and i believe that if justin's son is the top trump coin holder, that. >> he is. >> one of the. >> 25 people. >> who gets. >> a private. tour of the white house. the white house is, of course, public property. it belongs to the american taxpayer, not. >> donald trump. >> there are all sorts of restrictions under the hatch act on using that for campaign purposes. i don't even think there are. i'm not unaware of the restrictions using them for. >> personal financial. >> purposes. >> because that's. >> such egregious corruption that no other president has ever

done it. >> justin son, remember. >> also was being investigated by the sec and after he gave $75 million, invested 75. >> million. >> in donald trump's crypto. >> firm. >> all of a sudden those sec charges were dropped. so we're just seeing. >> the corruption. >> in plain sight. >> that clearly it's right in the middle of plain sight. now, obviously, i don't expect attorney general pam bondi to investigate this, obviously. but if it were any other justice department, wouldn't they investigate this? >> well, look. i think we have to stop saying obviously she's not going to investigate it. okay. in the first trump administration that well, whether whether she i mean, do i think she will know, but she should not be let off the hook because this is such obvious corruption as is donald trump accepting the $400 million plane

from qatar, as is the $2 billion deal for his stablecoin with binance? another another company that's come in the crosshairs of law enforcement and in any other administration. of course, there would be a special counsel, as there was in donald trump's first administration when rod rosenstein appointed robert mueller. and as joe biden's administration did several times with various people, including donald trump, including joe biden himself. so it is incumbent upon the attorney general of the united states, not the attorney general of the president of the united states, to enforce our laws and to prevent obvious and egregious public corruption that donald trump is now doing so brazenly and so aggressively that he's literally selling tours of the white house to the highest bidder from any country, and no one has any idea who they are,

what their background is, whether they're with foreign intelligence, what kind of relationship they have. i mean, the problems here just spiral as you go further down the line. >> we've learned some of them. but to your point, we don't know the majority of them, which is incredibly alarming. well, while i have you here, i want to ask you, because you've raised this about this piece of the republican budget that was in there. it's the specific rule 65 c it would, quote, restrict the authority of federal courts to hold government officials in contempt when they violate court orders. without that power, judicial orders are meaningless and can be ignored. basically, i sort of summed it up there, but this is something you've been sounding the alarm on. so what should people understand about that particular piece that is in the bill that the house just passed? >> yeah, the entire judiciary bill of this reconciliation bill, when it came through our markup in judiciary committee, this is what i focused on

because the house republicans at donald trump's direction, presumably, are making it more difficult for courts to enforce their orders against donald trump and the trump administration. so rather than be their own check on the administration's lawlessness, it's unconstitutional conduct. it's illegal conduct, which judge after judge after judge is now finding to be the case. they are taking donald trump's side against the court and trying to gang up with donald trump and prevent the courts from enforcing their orders. so donald trump has already taken full control of congressional republicans. he's now trying to take over the only other branch of government, which is the courts. and the way to do that is to defy court orders. and the republicans in congress are helping him do it. it's not enough to just sit silently

while he does this lawless stuff. they are actually accomplices with him in defying court orders. >> no question about it. i wonder why they want to be able to defy court orders. i think we all know congressman dan goldman. thank you. as always. thank you for joining me tonight. and coming up, caroline love held a press briefing today. we already played a clip of it. and as usual her answers could use some work. so i'm going to step in and field some of the questions she got after a very quick break. >> that's new. join me my friend. >> what are you doing? >> we are living la. >> vida loca. >> oh. >> do you mean la. >> dolce vita? >> was your idea? >> enjoy the. >> intense flavor of lavazza dolce vita. >> that's it. is this las vegas? venice? >> i'm confused.

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figured why not? it's like riding a bike. i'm going to go try to answer as many of the questions as i can, but with the actual truth. okay, we're going to start with nbc's garrett haake. >> on the president's. >> dinner tonight. will the white house commit to making a list of the attendees public so people can see who's paying for that kind of access to the president? >> garrett. we would all love to see that list. of course, the white house isn't going to release it, though. the list of who's attending the dinner, because they don't want anyone to know who's paying for access to the president and paying to make trump and his sons richer. we do know a few things, and i've talked about a little bit of it, like people like $6 million banana guy, justin's son, and a hacker named ogle were reportedly on the guest list. if that gives you a sense of the clientele there. we also know that a majority of the attendees who are getting vip access, by the way, are likely individuals operating from outside the united states. so we know some. we'll learn more. but yeah, i wouldn't be hitting refresh for that list. okay.

mary bruce from abc news. >> following up on the. >> dinner tonight. >> you. >> mentioned this is not a white house dinner, but the president is always the president. and the trump family is making money off of this. so can you just explain how is this not the president using the office to enrich himself? >> mary i can't explain it because that's exactly what this is. i mean, just imagine for a second that joe biden or barack obama said, you know what? i'm going to go have dinner with 200 donors, many of them from other countries, and they're going to pay millions of dollars to an outside business. that makes me and my family a whole lot richer. and by the way, not even going to tell you who they are. but don't worry, it's fine because i'm not on the clock. imagine the field day republicans would have with that one. okay. next up, yamiche alcindor from nbc news. >> the president showed a video that he said showed more than 1000 burial sites. of white south africans and he said were murdered. we know that that was

not true and that the video wasn't true. and that's why i wonder, why did the president choose to show. >> that. >> it's not? the video was showing a burial site. it is unsubstantiated that that's the case. >> well, first of all, yes, you're right, that was not true. i mean, according to local news reports, the video was a compilation of protests against the violence that all farmers face, regardless of skin color. but trump became, we think, obsessed with this false narrative of white genocide. after seeing a fox news segment on it back in 2018. and then that obsession only grew once. his best buddy and huge donor, elon musk basically moved into the white house. musk is also obsessed with this. completely disproven and totally offensive claim. so to go back to your question, i guess, i mean, why did trump show it? because it's a white supremacist dog whistle, and because his friend elon musk probably asked him to. okay, next, how about mike carter from newsmax? >> you had two republicans. >> last night that. voted against massey and davidson.

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ultra processed foods, chemical exposures, lack of physical activity, stress and excessive use of prescription drugs. unlike health and chronic disease, are serious issues. but i think we should all be pretty skeptical that this commission, headed by a crank conspiracy theorist, will come up with the proper prescriptions for these problems. and that's the important part here, right? because if the trump administration really cared about making america healthy again, they wouldn't be doing what they're doing. they wouldn't have closed the cdc's office on smoking and health, or halted funding for the diabetes prevention program, or made plans to roll back regulations on forever chemicals in drinking water, or censored leading nutrition scientists, or cut billions of dollars in research funding. at the nih, the largest funder of cancer research. and they definitely wouldn't have supported a bill that will strip health care and food access from millions of americans. joining me now is doctor ashish jha. he is dean of the brown university school of public health and the former white house covid 19 response coordinator. i wanted

to chronic health is obviously a big issue, a serious issue. we all care about our kids health, but what have you. i don't know if you've had a chance to look at this report, what it outlines and what some of the conclusions are. what do you make of it? >> yeah. well. >> first of all, dan, thanks for having me back. >> look, it starts off by saying. >> our kids. >> are the. sickest they've. >> ever been. i think it's worth remembering. >> childhood mortality is. >> the lowest it's ever been in the us history. >> and. >> that's because of vaccines. we've gotten. >> much better. >> at preventing a lot of infectious illnesses. >> now the report what it gets right. >> let's start there. >> it identifies chronic. illness as a problem. it is. it's great to see the secretary join the public health movement. we've been talking about obesity. we've been talking about. >> access to better food. >> we've been talking. >> about exercise. those are important things, no question. the problem. is then when he gets into prescriptions of what to do, there's really just not much there. and most of his ideas are not based in science. and so he identifies the problem that all of us have been talking

about, but without anything that even remotely. resembles a solution. >> then the solutions are kind of pivotal here, i would say. he said in his in his recent hearings, he said on multiple occasions that he did not know if a program had been cut or not, which seems like a pretty pivotal thing for the hhs secretary to know. what do you make of that? that he seems to be unaware of the decisions that are going on in his own agency? >> yeah, well, that's the other part of this. right. and you allude to this both in your opening statement. and now that look, he identifies. >> chronic disease. >> as a. >> serious problem. we all agree. >> with that. totally. right. but if he actually. believed that he would not be eliminating the office of chronic disease prevention at the cdc, as you said, he would not be eliminating massive amounts of research on how to prevent obesity and chronic disease in children. like there is a huge mismatch between the slogan. >> the tagline. >> that says chronic disease is a problem. >> and then gutting all the programs that are actually going. to do.

>> anything about it. >> so it's really not clear what the secretary intends, because his words don't seem to match his actions. >> well, you're here. i wanted to ask you about vaccines. i mean, you mentioned them as well. and you were the covid 19 coordinator for the biden administration. this administration has limited approval for seasonal covid 19 shots to seniors and high risk individuals. and the fda advisory panel is split on whether the agency should require updates of covid vaccines, which opens the door, of course, to the possibility that we won't have updated shots for the fall. well, first of all, i hope i summarized it correctly, but help us understand what the impact of that could be on people's access for the vaccine and health. >> yeah. >> well, first and foremost, jen, when we made decisions. >> about this when i was at the white house, first. >> of all, people at the white house didn't make the decisions to scientists at the fda, made those decisions, and they based it on data. there is no data on. >> which they are making these decisions. >> second, the secretary said he was not never going to limit people's access to vaccines. he has just limited people's access to vaccines. if you're under 65,

you're not going to be eligible. my view is people over 65 absolutely need to get covid vaccines. people under 65 should have the option. especially if they have chronic diseases. he is really taking away people's choices and i really do worry about where this is going. annual updates of covid vaccines, like annual. updates of flu vaccines, is essential, especially for high risk people. and whether he's going to continue doing that or not really is unclear at this moment. >> thank you, doctor ashish jha i always enjoy talking to you, helps provide a lot of clarity to people out there. really appreciate it. coming up, we're going to talk about a follow up follow up to a story we brought you last week. the white house is now scrubbed its website of donald trump's public remarks. gee, i wonder why. we'll be gee, i wonder why. we'll be right so what are you thinking? i'm thinking... about our honeymoon... how about africa? a safari... swim with elephants... hot air balloon rides... lions growling and giraffes that come in through your window... wait — can we afford a safari? great question. like everything, takes a little planning. or... put the money towards a down payment. with enough room for a baby. babies. baby. let's take a look at those scenarios.

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follow up on a story brought to you. last week. huffpost first reported that the white house had been slacking on the routine practice of releasing transcripts of what the president says in public appearances. now, these transcripts are an important part of what it means for administration to be transparent. obviously, you know that thing this administration loves to claim it is. and we surmise that the reason they were pulling back from providing an official record of remarks from the leader of the free world is because the leader of the free world likes to say stuff like this. >> i'm surprised that it. >> wasn't, you know, the public wasn't notified. >> a long. >> time ago. >> because to get to. >> stage nine, that's a long time. that's monroe from the monroe. >> document document. you know. >> i don't want to be a wise guy. but when hitler made his speech at the eiffel tower, i would say that wasn't exactly ideal. >> just a quick little fact

check here. cancer only goes up to stage four. it's the monroe doctrine, not document. and if you were a wise guy, you'd be wise to know that hitler never gave a speech at the eiffel tower, so it's not hard to see why this administration would decide. there's no need for a written record of all of that, right? well, now nbc news has learned that the white house is taking things a step further, scrubbing basically every transcript and making only video and audio of his remarks available. so if you're a journalist, of which there are many out there looking to cross-reference with an official transcript to quote the president of the united states accurately, too bad for you. there's nothing there. the self-proclaimed most transparent administration in history wants to hide that from you. and again, not hard to see why that does it for me tonight. the last word with jason johnson is in for lawrence and he starts right now. hey, jason, how you doing? >> i'm doing great. >> thanks so much, jen, for starting. >> us off tonight. >> thank you. >> oh, boy. >> the mount