alan: the washington post is anti-trump. allrnational media is anti-trump. the point is, what trump said in brussels --'s famous street in caps -- was correct. america has a large trade deficit in germany. if germany spent what it is supposed to spend on the fence, and if it bought that stuff in america, the trade deficit would not be so great, and the germans -- "you americans cannot build cars." that is not the point. it was pretty good that trump told them where they could -- erik: tom has a very important -- trump has a very important point about the 2%. those who know what nato is will say you have a point. why can't the nato partners spend what they promised on the fence? the united states has been spending wealth on defense. why can't the europeans do that as well? west germanyer, was defended by nato and the united states, so now it is time for the rich countries in europe to spend what they promised on defense. what is the problem? rieke: you might have a point. i mean, the way he made that point, the way he acted with all these world leaders, i thi

and trump presidency. bob and i hosted a conference in late november after the election and everyone who participated in that event i think was a bit stunned because of the unexpected outcome, and now we're almost 100 days into the administration and i think we're still probably a bit disoriented by the whirlwind of events that have been taking place, from russia to syria, wire tapping, travel ban, north korea, repeal and replacement of obamacare, supreme court nomination, tax reform, the list goes on. we're going to today try to make sense of many of these things with the help of an amazing group of experts, from the usc [ inaudible ] and beyond. in planning these conferences, principle goal that bob and i have -- have used is to bring together in dialogue the perspectives, insights of scholars and also those active in the world of public affairs. i think then it is appropriate that this marriage of perspectives is taking place in this particular venue which is known as town and gown. so let me provide yo

explain. >> look, melania trump is an asset for donald trump, particularly right now. he's under siege. every day is just raining terror on him, and he needs to break the paradigm that he's always in a defensive crouch. so by having her in the white house, by having his son there with him, he may be able to go out around washington, d.c., be able to socialize, visit people's houses. ronald reagan used to pop in on conservatives' homes in capitol hill, have a quiet meal. it might be able to be trump's washington. right now it's not. he seems like an outsider in d.c. he seems more comfortable in europe and mar-a-lago than he does in the white house. >> interesting. sally, this is already a white house full of rivalries and reportedly feuds. and now you have another trump entering five months later who clearly has her own opinion about the people in her husband's administration. talk to us about that. >> i would like to first say to doug, i don't think this is going to be trump's washington, and i don't think he's going to be going out to georgetown parties or any other p

amy: that is ivanka trump. your response, kevin slaten, talking about her company that is now run by her brother-in-law and sister-in-law? >> at the time, she was not responding to this, it would be extremely disingenuous if she uses that as protection -- personal protection to disassociate herself with the human rights -- serious human rights violations and labor rights violations going on in her supply chain. whether or not she is directly involved with the management, she is benefiting from the profits of this company. this company is using her name. she will benefit even more after she leaves office, whenever that happens. let's talk about the facts we do know. -- the, the company factory the center of this, according to reports produces something like 100,000 to 200,000 ivanka trump shoes for year. it is one third of her orders that come from this company every year. they have been working with them reportedly for 10 years, which means based on my experience in this field, that makes them a strategic suppl

trump golf courses. dan alexander is an associate editor at "forbes" and wrote the report and joins me now. thanks so much for joining us. you went through tax filings for eric's foundation and found costs for its golf tournament nearly tripled in 2010 compared to the year before. in 2012 costs went back down but then skyrocketed again. after that you -- you suggest it doesn't add up. was there an upgrade to the events? what is eric's foundation saying about what you callow pick accounting? >> well, the events might have gotten a little bit larger, but one of the big reasons that the numbers go up and we've got people inside the club and people who served on eric's board telling us this is that in 2011 donald comes in and basically says, look, eric, i know that you've been, you know, running this foundation. you guys do work for this charity, but up until now we haven't charged you, and now we're going to start charging you, you're holding this event hon my property and that means you guys are going to p

president trump: no. reporter: would you be willing to speak under oath to give your -- president trump: 100%. i did not say under oath. i hardly know the man. i wouldn't say, i want you to pledge of allegiance. who would do that? who would ask someone to pledge allegiance under oath? think about it, i hardly know the man. it doesn't make sense. no, i didn't say that, and i did not say the other. reporter: if robert mueller would want to speak to you about that -- president trump: i would tell him what i just told you, jim. reporter: you are hinting there are recordings -- president trump: i will tell you that within a short period of time. reporter: when will you tell us? president trump: short period of time. reporter: are there tapes, sir? president trump: you are going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer. don't worry. john, do you have a question for the president? reporter: thank you. president iohannis, you are no stranger to russian aggression. vladimir putin recently suggested romania

no to trump. all that will do is get us to where we were before trump, and trump.s what produced amy: as president trump is sued by the attorneys general of maryland and washington, d.c., for "unprecedented constitutional violations," and as another f federal appeals cot rejects trump's muslim band, we spend the hour with the selling writer and author, activist naomi klein host of her new book, "no is not enough post of resisting trump's shock politics and winning the world we need." trump isaying no to not enough. we need a plan for a way forward. amy: today, naomi klein for the hour. all of that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the u.s.-led coalition is now reportedly killing more civilians in syria than isis, russia, or even the government of syrian president bashar al-assad. that's according to the journalistic monitoring group airwars, which based its findings on data from the syrian network for human rights. this data

trump ordered -- this is what happened -- trump ordered everyone to leave the room, everyone was in the office, trump ordered everyone to leave the room. kushner, mike pence, even jeff sessions, who is comey's boss, by the way, he kicked them all out of the room, then turned to comey when they were alone and looked him in the eye and said -- ♪ i hope -- ( laughter ) come on, man. that's not hope. republicans basically wanted comey to common rate trump and he didn't. democrats wanted comey to plirnl impeach and convict and jail trump. he didn't do that either. or at least we think he didn't because, clearly, the senators kept all the juicy details for themselves. >> we are reconvene in closed session at 1:00 p.m. today. >> we will be having a closed session shortly so we'll follow up on that. >> i don't think i can talk about that in an open setting heath r either. >> we can discuss those more in closed setting. >> i don't believe i can discuss that in an open setting. >> do you believe donald trump colluded with russia? >> i don't think that's a question i can answer in an open settin

donald trump is a business man. it's like giving away a piece of real estate without getting anything back. it's really kind of like we are bending over backwards and it's very, very bizarre. >> michael crowley it's hard to differentiate all the headlines. the bunch of us, you and i have discussed and reacted to. of all of them of late, it occurs to me this could sneakily be the most damaging because this goes to the notion of a fix being in from early on. >> right, brian. the followthrough that it suggests of national policy takes it to that next level. you know, the most damning scenario on table here is that there was some kind of collaboration between the trump campaign and the kremlin that helped trump defeat hillary clinton and that there was a payoff on side for the russians, which was that there would be an easing of american policy towards russia, and that would fund lee involve the lifting of sanctions. brian, i also just want to point out here -- so, i mean it's remarkable there was this push to move so q

president trump: 100% correct. and one of the things i was referring to during that speech was the fact that, yes, they haven't paid what they should be paying now. but for many years they haven't been paying. so i said, do we ever go back and say, how about paying the money from many, many years past? now, i know no president has ever asked that question but i do. we are going to make nato very strong. you need the money to make it strong. you can't just do what we've been doing in the past. so i did say, yes, we haven't paid this year but what about the past years, the many past years where you haven't paid? perhaps you should pay some or all of that money back. you have a question. reporter: thank you. i have a question for president trump. on the matter of security, sir, you -- many of the countries on the eastern flank of nato, including romania, sees russia as a threat to the security and the peace in the region. do you share this vision and do you think that the united states should act under article 5 if an

trump white house the trump campaign mr trump himself has made it a political strategy to attack the media and for thirty five percent of the country which is approximately somewhere between thirty five and forty percent of americans approve of his presidency. and that's as low as it is as it gets in recent history of any president who will do well with that thirty five to forty percent attacking the media but he won't get much better because most of the american people know that democracy depends upon the free media that gets it right sometimes and gets it wrong sometimes but when presidents describe the media as the enemy of the american people as opposed to just criticizing the media which the media deserves to be it's a very big difference and that i think makes the donald trump presidency so narrow cast its public appeal and why president trump's approval ratings among other reasons such as not yet accomplishing very much in the congress that he promised his base to accomplish there are other reasons why he's not popular but i don't think it's a wise idea to personalize to demon

trump fired comey in part over the fbi's investigation into the trump campaign's ties to russia. despite speculation over the weekend, it appears president trump will not try to block comey's testimony. hbo is facing mounting calls to fire late-night host bill maher after the comedian used the "n-word" during his live interview with nebraska republican senator ben sasse on friday night. >> nebraska -- >> you're welcome. we would love to have you work in the fields with us. >> in the fields? i'm not -- [bleep] amy: bill maher has since apologized for using the racial slur. in news on honduras, a handful of international funders say they will stop financing the agua zarca hydroelectric dam, which has faced years of resistance, including from murdered environmental activist berta caceres, who was fighting the project when she was assassinated in 2016. the guardian reports dutch bank fmo and finnish finance company finnfund have announced they'll withdraw from the project entirely. the dam's largest financer, the central american bank of economic integration, says it has already stop

angela merkel's readings are those of -- are double those of president trump president trump. 50% higher of those than president xi and putin. you're going to have many people saying xi is the new leader of and maybe even the less than free world. so -- but what does that mean for someone like her, a chancellor who, as you have written, depends on and takes advantage of ambiguity, and who, quote, inhabits a leadership culture that's am bive lent about public diplomacy? constanze: thus are you punished for your words. just by way of reminder, president obama had approval ratings in germany that were basically 250%, you know, going upwards. i was at the speech that he gave in britain's version of central park. the summer of 2008. with 200,000 people who had come could to see him. when he was still just a candidate. i think he's still -- he still pretty much has rockstar status in my country. that's a benchmark that no german politician is going to achieve that easily, right? the other thing is, of course, that merkel is an odd candidate for the title of a beacon of the free world because s

trump. mr. trump promised to file at least 24 lawsuits during the course of the campaign. >> the president suggested he might have recorded tapes of their conversation. today, the president would not confirm the recordings but said he will discuss the tapes in the near future. charlie: joining me is jonathan karl. i just listened to what you said. the viewers at home saw what you said. give me a recap of what was in your mind and what you think you heard from him and what he intends to do. >> his lawyer responded to the comey testimony and said point blank that comey lied on two critical points. it struck me comey was under oath when he said that before the senate intelligence committee. i wanted to see if the president would also accuse comey of lying. and if so, with the president be willing to sit down under oath and give his version of what happened in those conversations he had with comey. i was quite struck when he said he would 100% be willing to testify under oath, even to the special co

pretty much helped donald trump. let's look at some bicameral defenses of donald trump. jennifer ruben, i want to get your take on it. let's start with lindsey graham who gets credit in the media as being a trump critic but he's been a staunch defender and ruling out the idea there was any obstruction of justice on trump's part. take a listen, on cbs. >> unless mueller is complete idiot, which he is no, he's concluded there's no obstruction of justice case because if he concluded otherwise, comey wouldn't be testifying. you wouldn't let your chief and only witness go through this process if you really believed you had a case to prosecute and mr. mueller is a good prosecutor. >> now let's listen to jim jordan, congressman from ohio, on fox news on friday essentially also exonerating donald trump. >> i think what happened the last 24, 48 hours cleared lot of things up and confirmed what president trump's been saying all along, he wasn't under investigation. i think when this, you know, after what we saw, it looks good for the president, frankly, not so good for former fbi

this is not apologizing for trump. ki thin there are things trump has to change if he's going to be successful. but i do think that he has been a remarkable figure up to now. just take the trump -- everybody thought he couldn't do foreign policy, and he was naive and all this stuff. his first experience in travel is going to riyadh, where the king of saudi arabia comes to meet him at the airport, which he would never do for obama. the king spends 2 1/2 days at his size. every time he's in public, the king is next to him. they invite 57 countries, basically the entire sunni world, to come to a meeting, which is very successful. he then signs about $400 billion in contracts, or his cabinet does. they then become the first president ever to fly directly from riyadh to tel aviv, to israel. now, just that one -- later on, they do everything on the trip, but just that one experience -- barack obama had done that, the "new york times" would have swooned. the entire front page, long articles about his genius, his brilliance. b

on wednesday, trump met tillerson. memeanwhile, as trump deliberars antarctica could soon break off , an iceberg roughly the size of delaware as temperatures continue to rise. in other climate news, in sri lanka, more than 180 people have been killed and half a million people displaced amid the worst flooding the country in the last 14 years. scientists have linked torrential rains and increased flooding in sri lanka to climate change. for more, we're joined now by two guests. in san francisco, california, we're joined by michael brune, the executive director of the sierra club. his book, "comining clean: breaking america's addiction to oil and coal." and via democracy now! video stream, we're joined by kumi naidoo, south african environment activist, former greenpeace head. he joins us from johannesburg. we welcome you both to democracy now! explain what the climate accord is all about and what you think it will mean is in fact the rumors are true that president trump will pull the u.s. out today. >> hi, amy. first, t

if you're a democrat who did vote for trump -- who didn't vote for trump, if you aren't a trump supporter, what you heard was a lot of nonrelated comments to the american economy. there are experts saying that exiting the paris agreement will actually be detrimental to the american economy despite the complaints that trump had about this green energy fund and redistributing wealth. anchor: maya in washington, barbara, you guys will stand by. we want to turn to some break news. several people are reported injured after eyewitnesses said that they heard gunshots and explosions at the resorts world hotel and casino complex in the philippines capital. the report is located -- the resort is located close to the airport. they say there is a blaze on the second floor. swat teams and ambulances are at the scene. officials say they have it under control. we have unconfirmed reports that the so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility for this attack. we'll keep you up-to-date as more information comes in. following wednesday's devastating bomb blast in kabul, germany has announced the delay

trump wanted comey to bow to him or bow out. when he refused trump knocked him over. he didn't even bother calling the man to tell him he was fired. then robert mueller. soon the word began oozing the president didn't like him. he was too close to comey. trump soon made it clear he wanted mueller gone. now trump is beating the drum or tweeting at dawn for the head of rod rosenstein the deputy attorney general who he used to fire comey or at least used as an excuse to fire comey. we have see the pattern. you've get a job investigating donald trump you find your job in jeopardy. there's an investigation an arrow pointing in an historic direction. it's called the saturday night massacre. as long as trump longs to fire the guy coming at him it's only a matter of time the fuse reaches the bomb and we learned that donald trump has a very short fuse. that's "hardball." thanks for being with us. >> tonight on all in -- the president attacks his own justice department. >> i am being investigated for firing the fbi director by the man who told me to fire the fbi director. witch

trump who made his position quite known. listen. >> i am not a believer in climate change. >> we don't know his thoughts now because he hasn't said anything, that story is coming up. >>> also executive privilege. the white house has not ruled out using that tool to stop former fbi director james comey from telling his side of the story, he plans to do that this week. >>> plus closing in, britain's opposition party is slowly catching up on the conservative's lead with days to go before voters head to the polls. >>> welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. we are live in atlanta. i am natalie allen. >> i am george howell from cnn headquarters. "newsroom" starts now. >>> the trump white house is having difficulty answering one simple question. does u.s. president trump still believe climate change is a hoax. >> science says it's real. senior officials with the trump administration refuse to answer the question, this after president trump unilaterally yanked the united states out of the historic

, trump fired him, and now trump is threatening him with secret recordings of their conversations. now everyone wants to know if these tapes are real. and i can you, they are. in fact, we got our hands on the tape of trump and comey's conversation and i cannot stress enough this is real. we definitely did not cut together preexisting statements made by trump and comey. this is the actual recording of their conversation. >> welcome to the white house. >> thank you. >> if it's possible would you let me know am i under investigation? >> i can't answer that question. >> hey, i'm president. can you believe it? >> it makes me mildly nauseous. [ laughter ] >> seth: so to recap, the president is literally threatening the former fbi director for his perceived disloyalty and admitting that he fired him because of the russia investigation. that's insane. trump is worse than nixon. he's shameless nixon. nixon famously said "i am not a crook." trump is basically saying, "i am a crook and there's nothing you can do about it. in fact, after dinner tonight, i'm having three scoops of ice cream." [

president trump just shy of six months in office now. president moon to sort of punctuate the thought, the first call he received among foreign leaders came from the president of the united states, donald trump. obviously the topic of conversation that matters most as it relates to americans is this relationship vis-a-vis north korea right now. the president talking about how south korea has been heavily involved in purchasing military equipment from the united states. so it's been an important trading partner on this topic as well. this is what we expect they will address more formally a short time from now when we see the two men in the rose garden here. obviously as it relates to the missile defense system in that region, south korea with real concerns about north korea's capabilities and frankly the u.s. concerned about those as well. ali and stephanie. >> scott, let me ask you a question. the overturned table and the lamp might actually be symbolic of a couple of things going on. that relationship with south korea. is it as smooth a

a trump campaign event at the mayflower last april. then senator sessions and the russian ambassador, sergey kislyak, attended a small vip reception. among other things, the fbi wants to know if there was an additional private meeting between sessions and the ambassador. >> sources say if there was such a meeting, it may have been just incidental. sessions has previously failed to disclose meetings with russian officials. he testified to congress he hadn't had communications with the russians, when, in fact, he had met with kislyak twice during the campaign. that gaffe forced sessions to recuse himself from the russia investigation. >> responding to the latest questions, the department of justice says sessions did not have any private or side conversations with any russian official at the mayflower hotel. the doj adds in part, "the department of justice appointed special counsel to assume responsibility for this matter. we will allow him to do his job." >> the justice department not alone in fending off inquiries about russia. press se

trump took office. we're covering all of that. much more this hour with our gefrt including the former chair of the hillary clinton presidential campaign john podesta whose e-mails were hacked by russia. our correspondents and special efforts are all standing by. but let's begin with the controversy over president trump's laltsest twitter attack. these go to our senior white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, even by the president's standards this is scomblosive. >> that's right, wolf, the white house has yet to issue an apology from president trump for his ugly twitter attack on mika brzezinski. it certainly does not look like one is coming. aides say it's nothing more than the president punching back with long history of comments from women and offensive tweets aimed at just about everyone. >> reporter: just as president trump is touting his energy policy, he's fuelling mounting bipartisan criticism that he lacks the temperament for the oval office. the latest criticism, tweets aimed at mika brzezinski. i hear poorly rated mor

trump told him. robert: julie, when you look at the white house response and the president, he is working with a hard charging new york lawyer and when it comes to this answer, the question about what did the president ask comey to layoff former national security adviser michael flynn, it is about the word as the senator said in the hearing, did he hope to do it or did he want to do it, did he direct comey to do it? are they parcing words over on pennsylvania avenue? julie: i think they are. they have to because at this point they are in a legal context and the hearing yesterday there was a lot of back and forth about what does hope mean and what comey made very clear was that he took it to mean not oh, i wish, you know, it would be nice if, but i'm telling you, alone in this room with you, i've cleared the room now, of all the rest of my staff, and i'm looking you in the eye and saying, boy, i really hope you drop this. and he took that as a direct order. and i guess what's not clear here entirely i

donald trump's long-time personal lawyer. and as ari just mentioned, senator al franken will join us tonight with his reaction to the breaking news that attorney general jeff sessions might have had yet another secret meeting with the russian ambassador during the presidential campaign that he did not disclose in his senate testimony in response to a question from senator franken, and that he did not disclose in his correction to that under oath testimony that he gave to the senate judiciary committee. >> what could be the most dramatic showdown in washington to take place in a generation. >> james comey has the green light to testify to congress as early as next week. >> donald trump has called him crazy. he called him a nut job. >> showboat, a grandstander. >> and is expected to be asked about what the president said to him about the russia probe. >> i said if it's possible, will you let me know am i under investigation. he said you are not under investigation. >> nobody believes that james comey would say that to the presi

trump: health care is working along very well. we could have a big surprise with a great health care package. amy: as the deeply unpopular health care plan fails to come to a vote before the senate recessed for the holidays early yesterday, demonstrators flood the offices of republicans in what they're calling a last stand to prevent a repeal of the affordable care act. we'll speak with disability rights attorney and activist stephanie woodward, who was ripped from her wheelchair and arrested for protesting outside senator majority leader mitch mcconnell's office. the video went viral. [chanting] amy: and we'll look at how support for a nationwide single-payer healthcare system is growing. at least one poll shows a full third of americans are now in favor of medicare for all and 60% believe the federal government should be responsible for health care. we'll go to california, where the state senate passed a single payer bill but the house speaker killed it in the assembly. we will get the latest from michael lighty with national nu

trump trump's epa transition team. talking about issues concerning the paris agreement and the president's decision to pull the u.s. out of that. from north carolina, democrats line. hi. caller: 53 million people voted for donald trump. donald trump will do something for 53 million people and nobody else. i do know it will lead to carbon footprint. the problem with me is that until we study, i don't think donald trump has the i.q. to study the science behind global warming. president obama, he's not president anymore. it's racist and using obamacare and say something about donald trump. he's the president now. stop blaming president obama. you said about president obama came. stop using bush. host: you made your point. guest: unfortunately in politics we have to look back and see what's been done and what needs to be done. i personally am going to keep blaming the obama administration for the things that i think they did wrong and supporting him for the things i think they did right. i think they did a lot more things

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trump. on sunday he tweeted i believe that the james comey leaks will be far more prevalent than anyone ever thought possible. totally illegal. very cowardly. it's clear the washington environment is weighing on the president's allies, too, particularly his daughter, ivanka trump. >> it is hard and there's a level of viciousness that i was not expecting. >> now, of course, there's a certain amount of irony that comes with ivanka trump's comments. of course, president trump won the republican nomination coming up nicknames for his opponents throughout the campaign. he feuded with the pope and he insulted a gold star family, so certainly viciousness coming from all different directions. jake? >> yeah, that's the abbreviated list you just provided. thank you so much as the white house. >>> what did attorney general jeff sessions think when president trump asked to be left alone with his fbi director? what to expect when sessions speaks tomorrow. that story next. stay with us. award winning inte

now trump went, yay! i imagine everything in hillary's house is bent in rage -- the spoons, the forks, bill, everyone, just bent over, like, ahhh! ( laughter ) you know, at first, i didn't get why the republicans were so ballsy with gutting america's healthcare. but after watching this rally, i finally understood their confidence. they know their bill is a giant turd, but they also know that if the trump is selling, his people are buying. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ) i may be dead, but let me tell myou one last thing.d! get the new ipad pro! it has the powerful a10x fusion chip, so you won't miss me at all! thanks ghost computer. whoops, forgot my power-cord, coming back down. hi guys. in the desert.be here. at the mall. on the mountain. at school. at the beach. in the big easy. yeah yeah today i want to show you guys the next-gen chevy equinox. what do you think? that's pretty. pretty sexy. it looks aggressive. but not overbearing. it's not too big. not too small. seems like the perfect c

we don't know what trump and flynn discussed. we don't know what manafort and trump discussed. there was an investigation going on that could well lead to him and it freaked him ourt. that is why he had this extremely unusual one on one dinner and two weeks later the unusual moment where he asked comey to stay after he asks everyone leave the oval office and they have that al qaewkward office one on one. >> we'll talk about it more later. he admits that he disclosed to a professor at columbia university the fact that he had a memo and that that was then given to some of the "the new york times" porters. why didn't he do it himself? why dide use a cut out? >> good question. in my mind there are leaks, and there are leaks. there are national security leaks, sensitive information, classified, perhaps we saw some of that earlier this week. and then we have leaks that are designed to identify corrupt actions in a boss, somebody higher than you, or an organization or part of an organization -- >> this is after he was fired, may 9. this leak through a cut out -- he had no fingerprints

he is no friend of trump. he was anti-trump from the beginning. he and mccain are two anti-trump. john mccain said something about the foreign policy being better under president obama than president trump. i wish they would go off into the sunset and enjoy their retirement. 174,000 a year they make. enjoy the retirement. >> eboni: on that note, i think lindsey graham, let's say you taken at face value and you think maybe he's not a friend of trump for sure but he does want to see some -- he's a republican but he feels trump is making a difficult period >> kat: the original issue was the idea of trump and russia and collusion. that's what people were looking into and now it is trump obstruction. there would be no trump obstruction if it would not be for trump saying things. that's the fact of the matter, eric. i'm not saying it's fair or not fair. >> eric: even comey said -- >> kat: excuse me. i agree with you. >> eric: the one guy who people are saying has proof of any potential obstruction has said on the stand under oath no, i don't have any evidence of batch. >> kat: i don't t

to vote for donald trump. very-town america is a polite, nice place. trump supporters were unfailingly kind and polite. this idea it is some tremendous, angry, upsurge of emotion is not quite right. the second thing, just briefly, people like me who spend their time looking at public policy have a tendency to overestimate how much people know about politics, how closely they are following politics. about 20% it seems of americans follow politics closely. the rest are not paying a lot of attention to what is going on. it is easy to forget that when you are a news junkie like me. alison: what i thought was interesting and a little sad is many people you talked to did not have a basic understanding about which party stood for what. >> i found this striking. it is the case when you talk to voters often that they jumbled together a load of points of view that do not fit neatly into one party are the other -- or the other and yet there are consistent republicans or democrats. i tried to find out if it was just a few

the trump campaign. that would put rod rosenstein in charge of those matters to the extent that obstruction of justice part touches on rosenstein's behavior meaning rosenstein would recuse himself eerlth from that part of the investigation or conceivably from the entire investigation. once you take out sessions and number two person in the justice department rod rosenstein that would throw this matter to the number three person in the justice department, the here to foreunsung unknown person of rachel brand. rachel brand would be in charge ultimately of potentially overseeing this whole investigation including its budget and the report to congress at the end and everything. so rachel brand is going to get famous as of tomorrow. the whole country is sort of on tinder hooks waiting for the james comey testimony thursday. tomorrow's testimony is a big deal, as well. thank you again for your forebearance while i was out this last week and a half. i am delighted to be back. now i will go sleep for 16 hours. i

is donald trump going to become more normal? no. he's donald trump. this isn't day 98 of the administration. it's episode 98. last friday, was in canada, maybe some canadian government officials, and i said, episode 98. the dairy war. i said i didn't know you al were the north koreans of milk. but with donald trump's going to do is he's going to bend towards the applause. this north star is being popular, become successful. will he moderate his behavior towards what he perceives to be the applause? that's his incentive to do things that are popular. we talked about steve ban -- ban non. we fly to abu dhabi and land in 16 hours. it's not that steve bannon has a point of of view you we disagree on. i'm not a liberal but intellectually i understand the point of view and i understand where that philosophy is coming from. the steve bannons of the world are track pats and what trump learned is when i listen to the crackpots it's equivalent of giving the car keys to junior and he drives entitled the wall at 50-miles-an-hour. when i listen to people steeped i

sorry, obama lovers, this is trump's economy now and this trump's economy now. and you didn't hear that. neil gorsuch was seated on the supreme court, that's one of the biggest win. and why a vote for trump was a vote for conservativism in the supreme court. look at the picture on the supreme court class of 2017. it's a picasso in this conservative's eyes. back to the media for a second. it pains me to say that these people are in the same profession as i am. albeit we're far away from each other on the journalism spectrum, i do opinion journalism so i can have a lean and i admit that i lean, i lean right in that it's right for the country. so tune in to cashin' in every week and get real news on economy, on the jobs, the jobs outlook ap war on terror and crazy communist dictators or tune into the others that deal in with fake news and how muc >> lou: good evening, everybody. president trump today announced a decision sure to rattle globalist and environmental extremist and left wing know nothing that care little about the unfair or destructive consequences of t

on twitter, , critics noted that in 2009 the trump family, including donald trump, took out a full page ad in "the new york times" urging international action on climate change. following trump's announcement, landmarks in cities around the world were lit up green in support of the paris climate accocord. here in new york city demonstrators gathered near city , hall to protest. changeing about climate is an issue of economic justice. if trump thinks is going to undermine what we have been building here in new york city, he is wrong. >> climate justice. when we won it? >> now. >> my name is sean williams. you look at his executive order that he is signing and even with this paris accord and pulling out of it, you see that everything he wants to do is taking us back to all of the things that we fought against and that we fought to get out of. >> my name is lola. i am a student at nyu. it is not a valid argument, the jobs argument him especially because lives are at risk. millions of lives are at risk. refugees are at risk. >> now is the time. we need to stop them. we do not have much time

trump. i don't know what happens after four years, eight years, after he goes away. i'm not sure the republican party stays like that. can it succeed without the trump borders as part of its coalition? i'm not sure. i think they have a much more difficult task going forward. ron, do you think the democrats are more coherent than the republicans. first off -- >> first off it is great to be here. i learned at bob's right hand. adam that there should be structural reasons why our candidates will carry the label, democrat and republican, and, while i don't think there will be a serious third-party threat here, what those labels mean is what is up for grabs. whether or not they mean anything at all, i think that is up for grabs to. our political parties are department stores. complicated, aggregations of products and things and they are dying. people want to shop for what they want, where they want to buy it. i think our partners are facing that too. much more powerful republican sean and other i

and that's donald trump. and i don't think that it's a surprise to anybody that he fights fire with fire. >> fights fire with fire. an eye for an eye. a tooth for a tooth. but donald trump and his spokesperson sarah huckabee sanders, the daughter of a christian preacher, do not believe in the old testament prescription of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. >> again, i'm -- i think i've been pretty clear that when the president gets hit, he's going to hit back harder, which is what he did here today. >> hit back harder. that's not an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. the president's wife seems to believe ten eyes for an eye, ten teeth for a tooth. melania trump's press secretary put out this statement today. as the first lady has stated publicly, when her husband gets attacked, he will punch back ten times harder. melania trump has never publicly claimed to be a biblical scholar. the huckabee family does claim biblical authority for virtually everything they say and do. >> when it comes to role models

trump has never really wanted to stay in this deal. the misconception i think was that he was actually going to stay in. when i spoke to people close to him for weeks he was saying he was going to get out. he told scott pruitt last week and at least one senator he was going to get out. robert: so you don't buy that he was convinced by steve ban season you think his instincts were always to get out of it? jonathan: absolutely. yes, it looks good for bannon. but i don't buy it's a bannon puppeteer move. bomani: -- robert: there were a lot of people around the world, including german chance lore angela merkel that trump might be convinced to stay in she said the times when we could completely rely on others are now to an extent over. everyone sauna as a shot to president trump and when you look at the reaction, especially in western europe, to visceral with in decision. you were aboard with president trump and i wonder about the critics in his foreign policy. he talked at nato about burden sharing yet when it comes to the climate, he does

past trump russia, if only they can get past it and trump stop tweeting or whatever. and i think this whole thing about sessions, shows they're not getting past it. the tentacles of the investigation are too broad, too wide, covering too many people of the administration that until it's resolved, it's going to be very hard for some of these cabinet secretaries to function effectively and run government as people expect them to. >> douglas to you, whether or not it's a closed or open session it's still historically significant that the attorney general of the united states is going to be testifying in this situation, right? >> well, very much so. but it makes sense for jeff sessions to get this out of the way as quickly as he can. there's a great poet of new england, robert frost once said, the only way out is through. the only way out of this russia probe is to go through it. so for sessions to kind of go in there quickly, do it this week and try to get it behind him. because if he waits and does it after the mueller report comes out months from now perhaps, there'll

not a great day for trump. when we are talking about tax cuts and tax reform that's a better day and i can tell you a lot of my former colleagues up on the hill a lot of these republican senators charles they want to be done with this. they want to move onto policy. charles: we are going to talk about that later rate i'm not sure what they want to do to be quite frank with you but one of the recurring themes since president trump's come to washington is not a full-throated support from these folks and particularly on the senate side. they have never stepped up to the plate and hammered home his agenda or defended him and it feels like albany's out there by himself. >> they need to take note of the fact in their state he took the stadium while the left has to have -- president trump has a deep and loyal following. you can poll all day long about his popularity or whatever but the same poll that everyone was quoting through the election saying he was going to lose. the people and the support speaks for themselves