>> okay, that does it for me tonight. now it's time for the last word with catherine rampell, who's in for lawrence o'donnell tonight. hey, catherine, how you doing? >> i'm doing great. how are you? >> good. well, the world is a little bit of. you know, i won't say it on tv, but, yes, we're trying to hang in there and tell all the stories. >> we are all trying to hang in there. thanks, jen, for leading us up for this. >> have a great show. >> thanks. donald trump, the wannabe emperor, has no clothes and the country knows it. and the polls now reflect it. as trump's failures continue to

pile up, the latest fox poll show growing public frustration and his worst numbers, believe it or not, are on an issue that donald trump ran on the economy. donald trump is now down 30 points on inflation. 64% of registered voters disapprove of trump's handling of inflation, and only 34% approve. 58% disapprove of how he's handling the economy overall, and 55% feel pessimistic about the economy. then there's donald trump's foreign policy ratings. 57% disapprove of his foreign policy. the overall job approval rating from the fox news poll is just 46%, which means that 54% of those that fox news surveyed disapprove of trump's overall job performance. and look, donald trump has seen these numbers and he is not happy. this morning, trump took to his social media to lash out at the network, claiming that fox has

been, quote, biased against me for years. they are always wrong and negative. it's why maga hates fox news, unquote. that is, you know, news to some of us. but that is the kind of response we have now come to expect from the president of the united states. we've also come to expect the disregard for the rule of law that comes with a trump presidency. but as we learned last week, that comes with a cost as well. democrats on the house judiciary committee revealed that trump's pardons cheated victims and taxpayers out of more than $1 billion. quote, not only has president trump issued an unprecedented number of pardons in his second term, he has used his clemency powers to take an estimated $1.3 billion away from victims and survivors of crime, allowing perpetrators to keep profiting from their crimes. a sharp break with established practice at the time. president trump pardoned

the january 6th insurrectionists, only 15% of the $3 million in restitution ordered to victims had been paid, with the remaining 2.6 million due suddenly liquidated by presidents by the president's pardons, with a far greater financial effect. president trump's pardon spree has also swept in big time corporate fraudsters, millionaire tax evaders and other white collar criminals. thanks to president trump's pardons, these convicted criminals now get to keep $1.3 billion in ill gotten gains they stole from their victims and american taxpayers. congressman jamie raskin, the top democrat on the house judiciary committee, will join us in a moment to talk about all of that. congressman raskin is now demanding also a full investigation into the fbi's role in the detention of senator alex padilla. in a letter to fbi director kash patel, he writes, quote, this assault on senator padilla, captured on video and

broadcast worldwide, is another vivid episode of authoritarian tactics and brute force being used to crush oversight and critical questioning, including from sitting members of congress exercising their constitutional duty. i write to demand that you immediately provide answers and conduct an investigation into the fbi's role in this disgraceful and indefensible assault of a member of congress here for, for our listening pleasure, is senator padilla on the senate floor himself this week, describing that exact moment? >> you seen the video? i was pushed and pulled, struggled to maintain my balance. i was forced to the ground. first on my knees. and then flat on my

chest. and as. >> i. >> was handcuffed and marched down a hallway, repeatedly asking, why am i being detained? not once did they tell me why. >> then yesterday, defense secretary pete hegseth suggested court orders might just be optional. >> if the court. >> says this deployment of troops into our cities is not legal, would you follow that court's order? >> it's pending in the. >> courts, senator. >> well. >> when the court decides. >> would you follow the. >> court's order decision? >> i don't. >> believe district. >> courts should be. >> determining national security policy. >> so you will. >> not be following that. >> it goes. >> to the supreme court. >> we'll see court. >> and unless the president decides to appeal. there you have it. so i take it that you

don't consider district court decisions to be legitimate. >> president barack obama, former president barack obama said this about the threat to the rule of law under trump. >> if you follow. >> regularly what is said by those who are in charge of the federal government right now, there there is a weak commitment to what we understood and not just my generation, at least since world war two. our understanding of how a liberal democracy is supposed to work, what we're seeing right now is when you do not have those constraints and guardrails, right? when you don't have people inside of government who say no, that, you know, this is.

how the law works and we should follow it. if you are a university, what is your core mission? and if, as i think your core mission should be, it's to teach, to transmit knowledge and broaden horizons for young minds and transmit information that allows them not just to get a job, but also to live meaningful lives and be good citizens. if that's your mission, then it really doesn't matter what the threats are coming from the outside. you push back against somebody who says, you can't carry out that mission. >> joining us now, democratic congressman jamie raskin of maryland. he is the top democrat on the house judiciary committee. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. in your letter, you asked fbi director kash patel for a, quote, detailed accounting of the fbi's operational involvement against senator padilla and senator

padilla's case, because we know that fbi agents were involved. there can be accountability, at least in theory. but we have also seen lots of incidents around the country of supposed federal agents hiding their badges, hiding their faces, not offering warrants. how is any of that legal? >> and from the. >> standpoint of the. >> law making branch, we are. >> experiencing so. >> many of these. apparently staged provocations against members of the house, members of the senate, our staff. >> members, that we. >> don't think that this is just some accidental sequence of events. it feels. like an orchestrated. >> assault and. >> provocation against the legislative branch of government. we there is democratic legislation to try to prevent this sudden. and

scandalous practice of sending out federal agents. >> on an masked. >> basis in unmarked cars to execute arrests warrants. i mean, all of that has the feel of a gangster state. of authoritarianism. there's no reason that federal agents can't be wearing badges, can't have the identification of ice or. whatever federal agency they're with. so we want some accountability from the administration. and they've repeatedly said that they are creating accountability. well, let's put that into action. >> yeah. i mean, the state is supposed to have a monopoly on violence, right? but if you don't know if these masked men are who are coming to swoop someone off the street are actually members of law enforcement or vigilante gang members, you know, how can

americans or or non-americans who are being targeted be sure that the people who are coming to arrest gardeners off the sidewalk, among others, are actually sanctioned to do so. >> well. >> and. >> if you look at what. >> happened in minnesota with the political assassinations of democratic state legislators, these practices create an environment where people can go out and impersonate persons in authority, impersonate federal officers. >> or police. >> officers by blurring all of these lines together. and that's very dangerous. so in a free society, we have. >> police who. >> operate on behalf of the public, on behalf of the people, to stop actual criminals, not citizens exercising their first. >> amendment rights. >> and our police officers are very clearly distinguishable

from others precisely so that we don't get police impersonators who can impose all kinds of fear and terror and violence on the population. >> so, congressman, just to switch gears for a second here, can you expand on your committee's findings on the cost of donald trump's pardons thus far? >> yeah. >> catherine. >> i mean. >> it's. an extraordinary thing. >> i think. >> most people have a. sense that with his tax policy, donald. >> trump wants. >> an upward transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. but what we found is that they are literally transferring wealth from the victims of crime to the criminals to the perpetrators. >> of crime. >> and they've done that through the pardon process, among others. so we looked at everybody who donald trump has pardoned since he got into office. and we're finding lots of white collar criminals, you.

>> know, for. >> example, there's a guy in florida who was running a company for, you know, retirement homes and assisted living facilities, and he was stealing millions and millions of dollars from his own employees, taking money out of their paychecks, claiming that it was going to social security and medicare and workers comp, but it wasn't, and went to buy him a $2 million yacht and other kinds of amenities that he was interested in. well, he got caught. he got prosecuted. he got sentenced to 18 months in jail. and to repay his workers $4.4 million in restitution payments for the money he had stolen. he applied for a pardon. donald trump. two days after trump got in, he sent his mother to a political fundraiser for donald trump. $1 million a plate. they put the million dollars in there. and what do you know? a few weeks later, he

gets a complete and unconditional pardon from donald trump. so he doesn't have to do the 18 months anymore. but unlike prior presidents who followed standard department of justice practice, which held that you don't get the benefit of your pardon until you've fully paid your victims back, donald trump did the reverse. he said, i'm going to nullify. i'm going to cancel out the money you owe to your victims. so not only did he not have to serve a day in prison, and he was jubilant about that, he also did not have to pay his victims back. so donald trump essentially took $4.4 million. that would have had to go to the victims. >> of this crime. >> and gave it back. to the. >> perpetrator. >> to the criminal. well, we found lots of examples like that. in all of it is completely documented and uncontradicted in our report, and there's no way they can refute it because they did it. donald trump nullified

$1.3 billion in money owed by criminals to their victims, or to the u.s. government in fines, and he just canceled it out. and that's a massive transfer of wealth from the people who've been victimized by these white collar fraudsters and criminals, and a return of that money to the people who executed the crimes in the first place. >> sounds like looking out for the common man to me. congressman jamie raskin, thank you so much for your time. coming up, trump values are not coming up, trump values are not quite american life with afib can mean a lifetime of blood thinners. and if you're troubled by falls and bleeds, worry follows you everywhere. ♪♪ over half a million people have left blood thinners behind. that reduces stroke risk and bleeding worry. for life. ♪♪ watchman. it's one time, for a lifetime.

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always was, about humiliating and discarding immigrants, regardless of their legal status or contributions to their communities, and especially if they are black or brown. donald trump's values are not american values, at least not in the way his presidential predecessors have viewed them, even from opposite sides of the political spectrum. on tuesday, former president barack obama argued that our nation's diversity is part of what makes america strong. >> what really makes america exceptional is that it's the only big country on earth, and maybe the only real superpower in history, that is made. >> up of. >> people from every corner of. >> the globe. >> and they show up. they come here. and.

>> and, and. >> the glue that holds us together is this crazy experiment called democracy. and this, this, this idea that we can somehow, despite all our differences, we don't look alike. we don't we don't worship god in the same way. we don't like the same foods. and yet when this experiment works, it gives the world a little bit of hope because it says it is possible for human beings who are not bound by tribe or race or blood, but are instead bound by an idea that they can somehow work together and arrive at a common good.

>> this is not a partizan message. it's actually a very similar message that former republican president ronald reagan made in his final speech as president, when he stressed the importance of immigration. take a listen. >> those who become american citizens. >> love this country. >> even more. >> and that's. >> why the. >> statue of liberty lifts her lamp to welcome them to the golden door. it is bold men and women yearning for freedom and opportunity. >> who. >> leave their homelands and come to a new country to start. >> their lives over. >> they believe in the american dream. and over and over they make it come true for themselves, for. their children and for others. they give more. than they receive. they labor and succeed. and often. >> they are entrepreneurs. >> but their greatest contribution is more than economic because they understand in a special way. how glorious. >> it. >> is to be an american. they renew our pride and gratitude in the united states of america,

the greatest, freest nation in the world. >> donald trump, of course, doesn't see immigration the same way, and he is moving america in the exact opposite direction of this vision that a diverse america prospers, in part because of immigration. donald trump is finally building his wall and americans will pay for it. as i also wrote in the washington post, these decisions hurt not only immigrants or would be immigrants themselves. they also harm america's global influence, national security, and the broader economy, perhaps irreparably. mass deportations and the chilling effect they have on immigrants willingness to show up to work already appear to be reflected in official economic data. more people might leave the united states than arrive this year. for the first time in half a century. and huge numbers of workers working here legally might soon be forced onto the sidelines. american consumers and businesses will notice as produce goes unpicked, homes go

unbuilt, elderly patients go uncared for, and medical trials remain uncompleted. that's the thing about walls. they keep the barbarians out, but they also keep the real barbarism in. joining us now is patrick gaspard, former u.s. ambassador to south africa and the obama administration. he is now a distinguished senior fellow at the center for american progress fund. patrick, thanks so much for joining me. so what do you think trump's immigration agenda means for the america that presidents obama and reagan have advocated for, and in particular as a former ambassador? what effect might it have on the on the united states global influence at this point? >> catherine, thank you so much for having me on, and thank you for your extraordinarily powerful essay that you wrote this week. you're right. trump is finally building his wall, but it's not about what he's keeping out. he's he's locking

in fear. he's locking in ignorance and ultimately locking in a new kind of american weakness. the united states has been the envy of the world. this is not a new phenomenon. this is a decades old phenomenon. some would say it's a two centuries old phenomenon. but essentially the reason why we've been the envy of the world in the way that we hold our ramp up to the world, is because of what ronald reagan said in that speech. you showed a short segment of it. but at some point in that speech, ronald reagan said, america's freedom does not belong to us at all, to us alone. president reagan understood that that freedom, that freedom, that diversity that comes from immigration is a powerful and resonant strength. we saw it as americans want an example, catherine, we saw recently as we emerged from the covid 19 pandemic, that the american recovery happened much faster than recoveries and other parts of developed economies. and that was essentially because of the workforce penetration

that we have from migrant labor that's available to us in industries that, candidly, americans choose not to work in, like slaughterhouses, like, you know, picking all of the produce that we take for granted, taking care of elderly in our country and children as well. runs the gamut. we're now seeing a downward slide in economic outcomes. we're seeing cost of living going up for really basic goods and services. and we're seeing increasingly a distrust that exists amongst former allies, whether it's to the north and canada, the south of mexico, the european allies, and certainly at a time when african nations and african allies have a choice between america and western style democracy or china, and the benefits that they get from those investments that steer them towards autocracies, the choice becomes starker and clearer for them when this wall that trump has put up is keeping us from

opportunity in the world andinc. >> and to be fair, you know, there is a long history of ugly nativism in this country. as as much as we might like to celebrate these lofty words. >> from i'm a haitian american, so i can speak to that. >> yes, i'm sure you you know all about it. but what's interesting, i think today is that the american people are not actually in favor of trump's immigration policies. in fact, 56% disapprove of his deportations, 54% disapprove of his handling of immigration. and just i think this week, six republican lawmakers wrote a letter to the department of homeland security basically complaining that immigration enforcement agents were spending too much time going after non criminals. many of their own constituents. so, you know, the politics kind of seem to be changing i don't know. i'm curious if you believe that. i feel like in the past few years, democrats have been running away

from this issue. >> the politics are changing. catherine. but i want to caution us a bit. right. so you saw that data. there's definitely some buyer's remorse, certainly, amongst independents who voted for trump, who are concerned about immigration policy in this country but did not have the expectation that they would see the kind of cruelty where children are being dragged out of our classrooms, where ice agents are showing up at ball fields and showing up in the parking lot of walmart folks who knew their neighbors and trusted their neighbors to work beside them for a generation are suddenly seeing those neighbors disappear. people didn't have that expectation of cruelty, even though we warned them. so you're seeing some buyer's remorse on this issue. but let's be really clear, catherine, both about nativism and about the reality of our immigration system. one of the nativism that thread has always run through american domestic politics from time immemorial. it's always going to be there to be stoked by some of the worst elements. we have to recognize that, especially since we all know

that in 2040, 20, 43, america becomes, quote, a minority majority country. and that drives a kind of existential fear of a demographic determinism. that's one thing. but the second thing is that we already have seen broad overreach by hone in by others in this administration, that makes it possible to have a conversation about how diversity is our strength and what it means to make sure that we have reasonable measures at the border, but that we're not separating families. so we have to strike the balance in the right ways. >> patrick, thank you so much for your insights on this issue. i'm sure we'll have you back. but first, coming up, donald trump promised to bring down prices, but new trump tariffs prices, but new trump tariffs are promising to do the if you take or have taken humira for moderate to severe crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis and still have symptoms... you don't have to settle.

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tariffs are producing a mild stagflation. evidence accumulates that the economy is sheltering in place amid business and consumer uncertainty surrounding tariff policies. so stagflation is about stagnant growth coupled with high inflation. a bunch of bad things stuck together. stagflation was also famously a pox on jimmy carter's presidency and trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum imports could cause some serious business casualties here in the united states, the new york times reports. cans are likely to be more expensive after president trump's move to double tariffs on imported steel, the main material used in cans for food and on aluminum commonly used for beverages. roughly 80% of the specialized tin plated steel steel with a thin layer of tin used for cans for food, comes from abroad, one producer of canned fruits and vegetables told the new york times. we can't absorb those costs. donald trump is actually expanding those metal tariffs to

many household appliances as well, reuters reports. the tariffs, which are currently at 50% for most countries, would take effect on a range of additional add on an additional range of steel derivative products on june 23rd. this time, eight product lines were added combined refrigerator freezers, small and large dryers, washing machines, dishwashers, chest and upright freezers, cooking stoves, ranges and ovens, food waste disposals and welded wire racks. i hope nobody out there right now is trying to remodel their kitchen. joining us now is cnbc and msnbc contributor ron insana. so ron, thanks for joining me. every time that trump launches a new attack on jerome powell, i do wonder if that has a long term degrading effect on the credibility of the federal reserve, especially now that we're hearing these rumors about maybe trump is maybe he's not going to fire powell, but because powell's term is almost

over anyway. but he might. >> by statute. >> he. >> can't by statute. the supreme court says he can't. that's true. but he might appoint a shadow fed chair of some kind. so what do you make of all of that? like what's the long term cost potentially for the economy? >> well, i think it's degrading the independence of the fed in such a way that you have to worry about foreign bondholders, of. >> which there are many. japan owns $1.1 trillion. >> worth of us bonds. china 760 billion. >> and they. >> have some. >> shadow holdings. >> in other countries. and then there are just, you know, domestic investors, too, who may worry that if the fed becomes politicized and makes decisions based on political expediency over economic reality, then the value of those bonds comes into. >> question and. >> investors will. demand higher interest rates to hold them if they choose. >> to. >> hold them. >> at all. and that means. >> higher costs, borrowing costs for the us government, by extension, potentially, that's higher interest rates. it could weaken the us economy. and i think one of the centerpieces of our economy, catherine, relative to some of the other countries in the world. is the independence of the fed. has

been the modern equivalent of a gold standard. you have the full faith and credit. >> of the united states. >> government backing. >> our borrowings. if that. >> were to disappear. >> or be degraded in a meaningful. >> way, then, like you say. >> it will have long term. >> economic consequences. and we've seen this twice in our history before. we've gotten rid of two central banks over. >> the course of the history of the united states. and the. consequences were not. >> you know. >> healthy for. >> the. >> us economy. >> yeah. i mean, we've also seen ugly consequences for other countries, central banks where they've had hyperinflation after politicians took control of the money supply. you mentioned bondholders. so there's a whole other element in all of this, which is that congress is considering this new budget bill, this enormous budget bill. we don't know what's going to be in it. exactly. >> yes. >> very nice. many people have written about it, but we still don't know what's going to be in it. but we do know it's going to add a lot to deficits at a time when bondholders already seem a little bit skittish about lending money to the united states, is it? am i being, like,

hyperbolic by being potentially worried about the effect of this bill passing on the perceived safety and security of us treasuries? like, are you concerned that we might have a failed bond auction, or that we might have trouble continuing to get people to loan us money in the same way we have in the past? >> yeah, and for more than one reason. so it's not just the anywhere from 3 to $5 trillion increase in national debt, which today crossed $37. >> trillion. >> but also within the house. >> bill. >> there's something called section 899, which would put a tax on foreign investors buying us assets. they did not necessarily in the language exclude us treasury bonds. so if depending on how we're treated overseas, they would be treated that way here. and if you started taxing foreign investors who generally get very favorable tax treatment to hold us treasuries, if that happened, why wouldn't they dump them or sell them, at least in some meaningful way? and again, drive up interest rates in the united

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its board, and veto power over a wide array of company actions, an arrangement that could change the very nature of foreign investment in the united states. joining us now is new york times reporter lauren hersh, who was a coauthor on that story. lauren, thanks for joining us. can you explain exactly what this golden share entails? >> it's a. >> stake in a us company, which is something that we only really ever see in the united states in times of emergency, during the financial crisis, with an institution that's particularly important to the us economy. but as part of this deal, the companies who are combining have agreed to give the us a permanent stake in the company. which means even after president trump leaves office, the united states will have a stake in united steel. so it's really an exceptional situation that, frankly, as far as i can tell, and as far as i've gleaned from any of the conversations i've had, we've never seen before in

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u.s. aid. and just yesterday, trump said this about putin, who supposedly offered to help trump with iran. >> i spoke to him yesterday and i said, you know, he actually offered to help mediate. i said, do me a favor, mediate your own. let's mediate russia first. okay? i said, vladimir, let's mediate russia first. >> the subtext is clear trump has zero leverage with putin, despite repeatedly claiming that he alone could end this war in 24 hours. on his first day in office, former u.s. ambassador to ukraine bridget brink left her position in protest of the trump administration's foreign policy, and she's now running for the u.s. house in michigan. bridget brink, democratic candidate for michigan's seventh district, joins us next. ambassador brink, thank you so much for joining us. deliberate terror is what president zelenskyy called this latest strike on ukraine. in your view, is russia escalating this war?

and what does it signal to the us and to allies, especially after trump skipped the g7 meeting with zelensky? >> well, thank you, catherine. thanks so much. >> for having me on. absolutely. russia is escalating this war. we have seen this happen all along, actually, since the beginning of the war. and it's very important that we respond, i would say, in three ways. one, with robust, robust. >> engagement. >> including diplomatic engagement. two, working with our partners and allies to stop putin and end the war, and three, using all the tools available to us to do so. that means increasing sanctions to stop russia from being able to fund its war machine. it means going after the $300 billion in russian sovereign assets that's in europe, which ukraine could use to buy us weapons. and it means using other tools that

can, such as assistance that can help ukraine defeat and defend itself against this terrible, brutal aggression. >> there are some evidence here that americans are getting kind of weary of our support for ukraine. in fact, a recent pew research poll released in april found that only 44% of americans say the us has a responsibility to help ukraine defend itself from russia's invasion, while 53% say the nation does not have this responsibility. fewer americans now believe america has a responsibility to help ukraine in its war against russia. so how do you connect the dots for voters between the foreign policy decisions made in washington, particularly regarding ukraine? and, you know, the direct impact on voters, particularly if this is a signature issue that you are running on? >> yes. thank you. well. >> i wouldn't. >> say that it's our responsibility.

>> so much as that it's in our. >> national interest. >> to support ukraine's efforts to defend itself against. a regime that is blatantly trying to change the borders of europe. >> by force. >> russia and vladimir putin has. started the biggest land war in europe since world. war two. there are hundreds of thousands of troops that are pitted against each other, basically in the center of europe. conducted all kinds of war. >> crimes and atrocities. >> and as you have shown at the top, killing 28 people in. >> the capital. >> just yesterday. and this is on top of thousands of people being killed, civilians, men, women and children, 10 million people displaced. it's not our responsibility as it is in our interest to work with partners, european partners. >> to stop putin and because two reasons. basically, he will. >> not stop. this aggression

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