trump: well, look. we get along well. there are certain things i love what he does and there are certain things that i don't like that he does. do --ot that he doesn't he works so hard, he's doing an excellent job in many ways, there are a couple of things where it's just not his strength. it's not his fault, it's not his strength. >> such as? trump: i have not even thought about john in terms of this. john will move on. >> the 2020 is no longer -- trump: it could be. but let's see what happens. i have three or four or five positions on thinking about. maybe it's going to end up being two. but i need flexibility. host: what do you make of the president openly talking with the american people about what he likes and what he doesn't like? guest: you notice, he wasn't very specific about kelly. i suspect that one of the things he's referring to, one of the areas where he things that john kelly is weak as with his political ability. his ability to get things done on capitol hill. having said that, i really think that none of

>> president trump: no. >> chris: why not? >> president trump: it just won't happen. i think the eight year limit is a good thing, not a bad thing. >> chris: we talked a lot about the cemetery and the fact they didn't go because it was a security concern and you did go the next day. >> president trump: excuse me, not security concern. they wouldn't allow me to go. they said -- secret service said sir, you cannot go, we are not prepared. you cannot go because there was supposed to be a helicopter but the helicopter couldn't fly. they said you cannot go. >> chris: here's the question, you are back in washington on monday, veterans day, why don't you go across the river to arlington for that ceremony? barack obama went every year he was here in d.c. >> president trump: i should have done that. i was extremely busy on the calls for the country. we did a lot of calling, as you know. >> chris: but this is veterans day. >> president trump: in retrospect i should have, and i did last year and i will virtually every year but we had come in very late at night and i had just lef

trump's business dealings with russia. we're assessing the potential db damage to the president from michael cohen's stunning plea agreement with robert mueller. >>> 70 hours. cnn has learned that cohen talked extensive with the pounds n multiple meetings on a variety of topics. and a well-placed source tells me that mueller knows everything. what else has cohen revealed? "weak person." president trump slams his former fixer for flipping saying cohen is telling lies now to reduce his prison time. but is the president's current lawyer, rudy giuliani, undermining his argument? >>> and passing on putin. as mr. trump heads to the g20 summit in argentina, he abruptly cancels his meeting with the russian president citing the crisis in ukraine. given the timing right after the cohen guilty plea, is that explanation believable? >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> we're following a major breaking story now.

. >> michael cohen flips on donald trump. tonight the massive trump lie exposed by his former fixer. >> have no business whatsoever with russia. when i run for president that doesn't mean i'm not allowed to do business. >> and why today's revelation is just the tip of the iceberg. >> i think this is just a preview of coming attractions. >>> plus, new breaking details about donald trump and the so-called moscow project. >> it's basically two old friends saying, hey, our guy can become president. >> what we know about matt whitaker's role in today's cohen flip. >> i'll do anything to protect mr. trump. >> why the president's family is now exposed like never before. >> time and time again, lie after lie. >> when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. the president of the united states has been lying to the american people for years now, lying that he was ever doing any business with the foreign power which was at the same time committing criminal acts to help get him elected president. >> i m

of a bargain in which kelly agrees not to tell trump stuff he does not want to hear, and trump keeps them there. and that's a bad formula for governing. i'm reluctant to name people or suggest people and quite frankly, as a said before, there are few people on the face of this earth who can tell donald trump what he does not want to hear. it's a tough situation greta brawner what about his family? including the first lady, who has been vocal about her displeasure with staff, he has his son-in-law and daughter who are advisors. what about the role that they play? does that help or hurt? chris whipple i think it helps. i think family always helps. and i think with trump, clearly gerrit and a vodka -- jared and ivanka and milani a have been helpful. i think they care about trying to make this white house unction more effectively. nancy reagan was famously called the white house personnel director. but she never suggested firing someone in public. as milani did recent. she may have more influence than we realize time the scenes. and we will see going forward, but family is important for

to donald trump. it's a bombshell in mueller's russia investigation as trump arriving tonight in argentina calls off his weekend meeting with putin. and here at home, a huge reaction in the legal community. we have it all covered from the white house to trump tower, from the justice department to the fbi and c.i.a. as "the 11th hour" gets underway on a thursday night. >>> well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 679 of this trump administration. the day the president was hit with a legal bombshell as robert mueller secures a guilty plea from the man who was once one of trump's most loyal lieutenants. today michael cohen, the president's former personal lawyer, admitted to lying to congress about his boss's involvement in a project to build a moscow version of trump tower as he was securing the republican nomination back in 2016. and perhaps worse than that, cohen admits to being in touch with the kremlin during a presidential campaign. cohen's plea came this m

no, but for you, i mean, does being never-trump mean reflexively being against everything that trump stands for or is it possible to still separate and detach some of his policy achievements? for example, if he were to return to the tpp and renegotiate it and make it a better deal. how do you, as a never-trumper, navigate sort of the policy outcomes versus the need to reflexively stand against donald trump? >> well, i don't have any problem agreeing with donald trump on certain issues. no president is gonna get everything 100% wrong, and he certainly has not. he's done things that i've agreed with, like moving the u.s. embassy in israel to jerusalem, for example. he's done a few other things. pulling out of the intermediate nuclear forces treaty, which i think was an antiquated accord. and, you know, i've said so. i'm willing to support him on individual stances, but that doesn't mean that he is, therefore, a good president, because my opposition to him goes beyond individual issues. it's about his lack of fitness for the office, the kind of moral tone he sets for the country, the ki

and donald trump jr.'s role in pursuing the trump tower deal in moscow. "outfront" now, hunter walker, white house correspondent for yahoo news. he broke the story. and by the way, he reported earlier this year that cohen's discussions, you know, lasted longer than he was claiming, right, this whole january, june thing, hunter, obviously, you had this a long time ago, and what have you learned tonight about ivanka and don junior? >> right, so, all the focus today has been on michael cohen's work with felix to build a trump skyscraper in moscow and what i've learned is that don junior and ivanka trump were separately pursuing efforts to make a trump branded skyscraper in moscow. they also both did have involvement with michael cohen's work. ivanka was recommending architects and as a source familiar with the trump organization put it to me, don junior was, quote, peripherally aware. >> so, let me ask you about this. i mean, how do you interpret this? they're working separately and my understanding from your

it's just 100% donald trump doing what donald trump wants. neera tanden, can anyone turn donald trump into someone who can appeal to voters who aren't already supporting him? >> i mean, the reality of this last two years is that donald trump has not built on his base. and i think that you pointed out the numbers amongst republicans, but i think what's an even more clear warning shot is how well democrats did across the country with independents. they won independents dicively even in places like texas. and david is right there are places democrats should focus on and try to shore up. but when you look at the breadth of the victory from one part of this country to basically every corner, democrats put together a winning coalition. a large scale coalition of suburban women, a lot of college educated white men, in fact it used to be the base of the republican party, as well as millennials who no one expected to turn out and luteenees because of the ret rrk around the caravan. donald trump is in a day's long fury because his strategy backfired. h

trump and his dealings with russia. that is the heart of the issue that i think bob mueller is looking at right now. >> do you believe that this russia investigation has now become an existential threat to the president trump presidency? >> i think what has happened in these last few days is that the mueller invis gaestigation has crossed the bridge that president trump had warned them not to cross which was to look deeply at his finances and particular finances that related to russia. in doing so, in beginning the investigation in that issue and beginning to connect the dots as to whether these relationships were extensive, who they affected, who were they related to, what were the decisions that were made based on those financial ties, those are all the issues that bob mueller is investigating. we are without question at a very critical point in terms of the mueller investigation that will determine whether or not this president faces serious problems or whether or not we will have two more years of the trump presiden

the new trump wall, not one foot of trump wall, and that doesn't feel like winning for trump voters. and so there's not a word at trump rallies now about mexico paying for the wall. those people in the red hats are not tired of winning. and so donald trump has to keep them scared. and if that means we see the words and ideas of donald trump on another mass murderer's final social media posting before going in for the kill, then that's the price donald trump seems willing to pay for keeping his voters scared. have we now seen america's last mass murderer to use donald trump's language and ideas in his social media postings as he kill as the mass murderer in pittsburgh did? we don't know. but we do know tonight no matter how scared donald trump gets his sane supporters, most of his supporters, no matter how scared he gets them to feel tonight, none of them, not one of them are as scared as donald trump who is running scared. more scared than he has ever been in his life. joining our discussion now is stuart stevens, republican political consultant. he serve as a chief strategist for mi

to donald trump. cohen admitted to making false statements to lawmakers on senate and house intel committees in 2017. the court filing refers to individual, one, who cohen confirmed in court was donald trump. it reveals cohen told lawmakers that the development effort, quote, ended in january 2016 and was not discussed extensively with others in the company. meaning the trump organization. now cohen admits the project, quote, was discussed multiple times within the company and did not end in january 2016. he added, the discussions went on until june 2016, that he spoke with trump at least three times, and with trump's family members about the project. cohen told congress in 2017 that he, quote, never agreed to travel to russia for the project and never considered asking trump to travel. he now says he, quote, agreed to travel to russia and began planning trump's possible travel to russia. cohen also originally said he, quote, did not recall any russian government response or contact about the moscow d

pure trump. you know what else is pure trump? lying. >> so michael cohen has made many statements to the house, as i understand it, and the senate. he put out a statement talking about a project which was essentially i guess more of less of an option that we were looking at in moscow. everybody knew about it. it was written about in newspapers. it was a well-known project. so he's lying about a project that everybody knew about. this deal was a very public deal. everybody knows about this deal. >> so that is not true. the potential deal for trump tower moscow never came to light until after trump took office. long after the deal was cancelled. cnn did some digging and found that the project was first mentioned briefly in an article in "the new york times" in february went. -- 2017. the details were few and far between until cohen testified on capitol hill in august of 2017. so, no, it was not a very public deal and it certainly was not public while donald trump was running for president, and that is because trump never mentioned

if donald trump jr. and jared kushner took this meeting innocently, in ignorantly and sort of stepped into it -- it's possible. but mr. manafort? he would have clearly known what the russians were up to. >> two nights before the meeting on june 7th, trump greeted supporters with what now sounds like a curious promise. >> we're going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the clintons. i think you're going to find it very informative and very, very interesting. >> we just don't know if the speech that donald trump made is a coincidence or not. and so the timing seems awfully strange. >> for all the attention the trump tower meeting would later get, goldstone says at the time he hardly gave it a second thought. >> i didn't care about the meeting. it sounds bad, but it's true. i didn't care. i wanted my client to be happy. that's always my ultimate goal. >> coming up -- >> so tell us what happened. was the dirt on the democratic party and hillary clinton forthcoming? so a tree falls o

trump voters felt hillary condescended to them and they felt that trump listens to them. you certainly fall in love with your therapist because you feel listened to and the voters felt heard by trump. he made them feel good about themselves whereas hillary made them feel ashamed. >> what about the issue of immigration and people that live in some of these places in the middle of the country. what is their experience with immigrants? how do they feel about people coming over legally and illegally into the country? >> i think you'll get a broad spectrum of opinions and of course there are immigrants. st. louis for example has been the city for the 100 year population for that reason but one thing i noticed in 2016 when i was out interviewing people and more rural areas in small towns where the majority people were voting for trump is that while automation was what had stolen their jobs away and these communities really aren't decimated. the economy is extraordinarily bad and their concerns are legitimate. sometimes i would ask was there a change in your community? was there

impeach president trump! backin ordeal? impeach president trump! back in 1974, richard nixon resigned rather than face the humiliation of impeachment. he became the only american president ever forced impeachment. he became the only american president everforced out of office midterm. he was brought down by the biggest political scandal in america's history, watergate. five people have been arrested and charged with breaking into the headquarters of the democratic national committee in the middle of the night. we confiscated electronic eavesdropping dear. today's russia scandal appears to have echoes of the watergate break—in. have echoes of the watergate break-in. my sense that we must have the tapes themselves... elizabeth holtzman sat on the congressional committee that initiated the improvement of president nixon. the similarities between watergate and what's happening with mr trump are disturbingly similar. what you had with watergate is a break—in to the democratic national committee in order to get information that was going to affect th

now president trump. the other interesting point in the wsj story, there was this draft indictment, an 80-page draft indictment never filed against michael cohen that also detailed a lot of trump's involvement in this scheme. but, again, that was never filed. instead, cnn has confirmed that indictment existed but michael cohen got engaged in these plea negotiations so the public never saw the 80-page document, jake. >> the journal also lays out a 2015 meeting in trump tower. candidate donald trump meets with media executive, david pecker, he heads the company that includes the national enquirer. >> that's right. this is sort of a look at where this all began. it's this meeting between donald trump and david pecker, ami declined to comment on this story. but in this meeting, donald trump essentially says, look, what can you do to help me? and david pecker apparently replies and says, well, what i can do is i can make sure that i can silence these women. i can make these stories go away if women start comin

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trump. we know from reporting in multiple news organizations that reference to the president, that reference to stone being in contact with the president, i'm told by a close ally of the president's, that that seemed, to the president's legal team, to be implicating donald trump in the central question of collusion. that that bothered him very much. they took those complaints to the justice department where they were heard. but the president's name not removed from that filing. the other one was in the cohen document yesterday. where cohen said i made this misstatements to be consistent with trump's political messaging and out of loyalty to trump. what is the president's legal predicament at this hour, frank? >> well, let's add a third example there. n let's talk about manafort and the revelation that he was not only lying to mueller during his so-called cooperation but funneling information back to the white house and trump. those three together, corsi, stone, cohen, manafort. we've got fou

next we've got donald trump jr. and his infamous meeting at trump tower that included others, including paul manafort and jared kushner, the senior most level of the trump campaign. they met with that russian lawyer who was corrected nnecte kremlin to try to get dirt on hillary clinton. cnn has learned that president trump responded to mueller's questions saying he knew nothing about that meeting finally todg news, michael cohen and the trump tower moscow project. so he was found -- he pleaded guilty today for lying to congress. we learned that cohen kept trump, who was then the presumptive republican nominee for president abreast, updated of the developments on the trump tower moscow deal well into the campaign, until around mid 2016. we know that cohen tried to e-mail the kremlin press secretary about permissions for that project that would be needed but he never heard back from him at that point. so to recap all these overlapping business and political events, let's take a look at this timeline. you've got the pl

it appears to be donald trump. to give the false impression that the moscow project ended before the iowa caucus and the very first primary in hopes of limiting the ongoing russia investigation. and so clearly michael cohen, according to these court documents and according to what he told a federal judge had misled congress so that it didn't look bad on donald trump at the time that this deal was ongoing while he was the presumptive republican presidential nominee. but now we're finding out that donald trump was briefed about this project while he was the republican nominee and his family members were briefed and now we're finding out about a discussion for donald trump to go to russia. it also puts more of donald trump's comments when he talks favorably about vladimir putin. people had criticized him for not being harder on russia. we're learning that michael cohen is but what's really fascinating about this jim and poppy, is the fact that now michael cohen could be the most dangerous witness to the president and

amy: president trump fires attorney general jeff sessions, replacing him with matthew whitaker, a trump loyalist who has been called -- has called special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation a witch hunt. will robert mueller be next? we speak with david cole, national legal director of the american civil liberties union and elizabeth holtzman, former -- the youngest member of the watergate committee that voted to impeach richard nixon, author of the new book "the case for impeaching trump." >> richard nixon did not care about the law. he wanted the special prosecutor out of the way. and while it is s not an exactct similarity here because so far we don't know that there is a cover-up, but what we have is the same mentality of abusing power, of taking power into your own hands s and saying, "i'm first. not america first, i'm first." amy: then to new mexico, where deb haaland hahas made history. >> you are sending one of the very first native american women to congress! today we all came together and we said we still believe in the american dream and american democracy and in ho

that is basically like not just -- not trump friendly. doesn't echo trump. almost as if scripted by trump. talking points, things that trump has said to "the new york times" and others. does that not make it feel very much like those comments were an audition for this job? >> yeah, they were job qualifications exactly right. and of course, the reason they're concerned about it is because those finances could show russian leverage over the trump organization. and trump himself which, of course, is at the heart of the national security investigation that bob mueller is undertaking. >> jennifer, let me ask you. you see the way this has all unfolded. at this moment we don't know what precise conversations took place before whitaker got this job. but the prima facie case is pretty strong. what do you think, if you look at everything he said as a cnn correspondent and look at his positions and how much they echo trump, what conclusions do you draw? >> first of all, i start with the constitution which says he shouldn't be there to begin with. there's a fundamental

trump. he arrives just minutes from now in argentina for the g20 summit. michael smerconish, h michael cohen stood up in court and admitted about lying. as part of a plea agreement, he admitted the dealings continued far into the campaign up the and including when candidate trump was the presumptive republican nominee. the charging document lays out conversations mr. cohen had with russians, including a close adviser to vladamir putin about the potential trump tower project in moscow. they went on, according to the document, until mid june of 2016, "on or about june 14th," according to the charging document. why is that date important? that happens to be the date that "the washington post" broke a big story that russia had hacked the democratic national committee. the timeline is far longer than what cohen told congress last year. today he said he lied to help the president. i'm quoting, i was aware of individual one's repeated disavows of political and commercial ties between himself and ru

trump. more now from cnn's evan perez. >> reporter: dave and christine, the former fixer michael cohen, pleaded dpiguilty to congress o how much you knew about the moscow project and when it was terminated. telling the court he lied out of loyalty to the president. the man who once said he would take a bullet for the president, gave information to special counsel robert mueller during more than 70 hours of questioning between august and november. the deal to build a trump tower in moscow was one of the many topics discussed according to a source. the court documents revealed that quote cohen discussed the status and progress of the moscow project with trump. referred to as individual one on more than three occasions. while cohen told congress last fall that the moscow project ended in january of 2016, he now admits the discussions lasted until june of 2016. cohen now admits he made the false statements to protect donald trump and give the false impression that the project ended before the io

yeah you know it's official donald trump did it herself. yes big surprise for everyone probably even for himself. in the meantime fact checkers have exposed thousands of lies told by donald trump yet that does not seem to bother his supporters indeed and apparently outrageous claim he once made on the campaign trail could actually be true i have the most loyal people did you ever see that where i could stand in the middle if if they have a new and shoot somebody and i wouldn't lose any voters ok it's like i'm proud of the trouble. to begin with. is the dissolve of any objective reality in our politics central to donald trump is the big lie. that's why you see the ethics. of just two years after trump's election triumph i am back in the us to investigate the apparently unshakeable alliance between trump and his supporters i drive through the midwest flyover country as the americans call it the journey takes us through small towns and agricultural regions with largely white populations. these constituencies once back barack obama. in two thou

trump? >> yes, it was a provocation. and we know president trump doesn't take any kind of provocation sitting down. but i think president macron is engaging with the united states at a number of different levels. and one is an attempt to project strength against someone who perceives himself as a very strong leader. and president macron tries to model himself with charles de gaul gaulle, a strong independence streak always eyeing the united states with some suspicion of trying to take over europe and so on. so i think that this was a small bullet towards the president in that regard. but there are some really serious issues between europe and the united states as well which are coming to the fore increasingly. >> to me the interesting thing here is the real chasm between the war of words on the one hand, the official diplomatic spat, and the actual substance. the french president is saying he wants europe to be more self-sufficient when it comes to its military. isn't that also what donald trump has been asking for? >> c

trump: what? no, they are all finished. the written answers are finished. i don't know, the lawyers have them. i don't know. they will. they will. the written answers to the witchhunt that has been going on forever. no collusion, no nothing. they have been finished. finished them yesterday. the lawyers have them. i assume they will turn them in today or soon. >> [inaudible] pres. trump: no, i am going to a war zone, yeah. >> [inaudible] pres. trump: what? >> are you happy with the sanctions on iran? pres. trump: yeah, the sanctions on iran are very strong, very powerful. they are sanctions i think that have had a tremendous impact. more sanctions are going on. we have a lot of tremendous support, and iran is not the same country it was when i became president. it is a much different country. and hopefully at some point we will be able to make a fair deal and help iran and help the people of iran. >> when you talk about the markets today, do you really believe the dems are behind the market drop to

i'm so donald trump values as you will continue to believe in donald trump because trump believes in you. trump may value c.b.s. and c.d.n. may value the access to press but that doesn't mean has any value in the news it could do something and that's coming from someone who should know ten years before fox news came on the scene we wrote the playbook for conservative news we call the t.v. news with a different spirit and all it was was an attempt to insert conservative propaganda into the news i am convinced this is a nation under god in the end right wing news is only a propaganda it's not news and there's no attempt to be for unbiased and i think it's gone so far now that the public isn't aware of that but that's still what we create blame me i'm the one who is is saying i don't want to play gotcha journalism i think there's plenty of place in the news space today where you're going to hear that what is missing i think in the landscape is well what is it that they're really trying to say what is that an edited version. last month that on that is had version came from pat roberts we

trump officials seem to know it's coming. you've heard reports all week that donald trump and west wing staffers are waiting, waiting for the bad news to break. it seems like it's ornly a mattr of time. even george conway, kellyanne's husband think it's in trouble. here's what he said. >> the administration is like a [ bleep ] show in a dumpster fire, and i'm like i don't want to do that, i don't know. and then it's like then you've got the comey firing and then you've got him going on tv saying i have russia on my mind, and it's like oh, no. and then it's like -- then, you know, i'm driving home one day from new york and it's like robert mueller appointed special counsel because i realize this guy is going to be at war with the justice department. >> so that -- that is how the husband of the counselor to the president sees the russia investigation. well, today donald trump faced the cameras again and insisted he's not worried at all and that he's already done his russia homework. trump claimed he's completed his written resp

but trump -- the death touch of trump, the horrifying consequences of being an ally of donald trump, have been playing out in slow motion. they're not done yet. the fact that republics are 336 seats in state house and senate races across the country, the fact that by the time the counting is done they'll have lost 40 house seats and by the time the counseling is done they'll'll be plus one, plus two in the you're thinking, that's horrible. when republicans started the year, they looked at the tax bill, the booming economy, and the gigantic lake of money they had for their candidates and said, we're going to pick up nevada, keep arizona, we'll win west virginia. we're going to win all these other place us. they were predicting a plus six, plus seven model. well, plus one, plus two. you're surprised a republican won in north dakota? i'm sorry. that's like an airplane flying. it's supposed to do that. so, we're in the situation now where the down stream consequences to the g.o.p., because the fully embraced trumpism and abandon i would odd those things we grew up with and both write in

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he talked to trump more times. they have not given us an exact number but he spoke with the president repeatedly about this. and they also say he briefed members of the president's family. and, of course, don jr., at least, has also testified on the hill. we were closely reviewing the one transcript that's been public from his appearances there to the judiciary committee today to see how they square. i would imagine that mueller's office is looking at his appearances that we don't have in front of senate and house intelligence as well to see whether or not he was truthful about these events. >> we should note that the wall street journal reporting that investigators have e-mails from late 2015-2016 in which cohen copies don jr. and ivanka on exactly this, that ivanka recommended an architect. we'll talk more about as the night goes on. thank you both for being with me. >>> i want to bring in daniel goldman. the first question i want to ask you, and tom made this point earlier when he was talking to some of us here

trump for president trump as i was when he was president of the trump organization. >> i assume in that role, not being a government role, that you would have attorney/client privilege with president trump? >> yes, of course. >> michael cohen doesn't have that role any more, but the man that had that role and continues to advise the president from time to time is jay goldberg, joins me by phone. he has a new book coming out kboem t "the courtroom is my theater." thanks for making time tonight. >> happy to be with you. >> happy to have you. let me ask you point blank. if true, do michael cohen's allegations hurt trump and concern you? >> they don't concern me because i don't know as i said, and neither do you, whether they're true. people who testify for the government are in the criminal justice system. cases are replete with government quote cooperating witnesses embellishing, making up stories in an effort to lead the government to believe they should be entitled to leniency. >> you're not using the key two words i started with, i was curious whether you thought if true, the allegatio

therefore, it was a referendum on trump and they don't like trump any more. trump was a third party candidate to many of those voters. they're the sons and daughters of reagan democrats. just because they voted for trump didn't mean they were a republican voter. and many ofs those voters, i believe, will come back to donald trump. you know, they will also -- >> if they get the the right kind of democrat. >> that's right. >> many of those supporters of barack obama in 2008 and 2012. i do believe the message and the messenger will mary. >> so you're saying the same thing. they're on the fence. >> and i think it matters who we select as our nominee if the democrats can regain those states and rebuild that blue wall. >> and our recommendation is hillary clinton. if you could choose dodd that for us, we would be much appreciated. >> i'm going to force you to do this. >> go ahead. >> this is on the table right now. why do republicans hate hillary? those that say they do. >> i want to be clear. hillary lost pennsylvania, ohio, wisconsin and michigan. how.? democrats

>> president trump: what? >> would you consider any of the people who lost for a post in the future? >> president trump: i know a couple good ones. yes, i would. >> mr. president, i asked you on monday if there was anything that you regret in your first two years, and you said that at times you could have and should have used a "softer tone." your critics, your skeptics, they say that they are holding their breath on that happening. will you have to change your tone if you get things passed through congress after losing the house? and he also said that you might extend an olive branch. >> president trump: i would be very good at a low tone. but when things are done not correctly about you, written about you, said about you on television, or on wherever it is, you have to defend yourself. and i have something that is much easier than what i have to do. i have to go around. and going around is much easier than facing and being treated fairly. but you really have no choice. i would love to have a very even modest

trump: that is great. i appreciated. say hello to everyone. happy thanksgiving to you. the condition of the ship is a one? at: alpha one, absolutely. pres. trump: very important to you know we have another big one. the gerald ford will be joining you pretty soon. how does this compare in size and scope with the gerald ford? you know all about that. that is the new one, right? pat: yes, sir. size and scope, a good friend of my left command of that. the size and scope, about the same. certainly some improvements there to the radars and even the catapults and gears are slightly different as well. pres. trump: tell me about the catapult system. on the gerald ford, they don't use steam which is the first i've ever heard of that does not use steam. i know they have some difficulties which i'm not happy about. and they spent a lot of money. i was just curious, the steam system is tried and true for many years, as long as we have had aircraft carriers. how do you find steam versus what they are doing on gerald for

to trump. the is there any indication, sara, that any one specifically asked him to lie. >> there's no smoking gun that has emerged, for example, dump saying this is our story and we're sticking to it. is it possible? sure. but we don't have proof of them but it's also that president trump didn't believe he had to have the conversation with michael cohen. this is a guy out there saying he'd be willing to take a bullet for donald trump, that he's more loyal to donald trump than anyone else, but obviously that has changed. >> what about the timing of this dramatic development? did he wait until trump send his answers? >> the timing, wolf, is very serious, and i can tell you i inside the trump day they were very worried about this, that the president and his team delayed when they responded to mueller. they waited a few days because they were concerned that robert mueller and his heam had up his sleeve and we known the know whether they specifically waiting until today and they have had the presid

are not a trump fan? >> i know, shocking. maybe you haven't seen this thing called the internet. but i have said from the beginning he does something i , like i will support it. on the economic populism front, i thought his nafta correction was not as far as i would have gone, but it was good politics, better than nafta under bill clinton. i said it publicly and i will say it again, and to me, it is not republican in the sense of the party you ran. i'm very intrigued. like i said, glad it is not my party. fun to watch with popcorn. how do you move forward, because this is different especially economically, different agenda than the party when you were in it. >> it is very different. one of those dynamics, for those like myself who have been in the grassroots, and i think you put your finger on the core of where trump's energy comes from, it is around this sense of a community of people who felt economically alienated for generations. you look at the industries, whether it is manufacturing or coal or whate

the trump base is there. classic confrontation of suburbs versus trump country in virginia 7. can the democrats pull that one off? if be a gallon spanberger wins tonight you can be certain that the democrats have the majority. democrats think they can pick up four, maybe five, maybe more seats just in the state of pennsylvania. watch status results come in tonight and cross the border into new jersey. this one is a national test case for the democrats. number one, they think in the northeast, including new jersey, targets of opportunity to pick up seats. some seats matter more than others to the democrats, including this one. new jersey is third. incumbent is tom mcarthur. one of the moderates who stepped forward to help broker a compromise, republican bill to repeal and replace obamacare. personal for the democrats, not just andy kim, the democratic candidate but democrats nationally. again it's a test. in the suburb, this is in new jersey. we look for control of the house. again, democrats think they can get most of the seats they need, if not all. midatlantic and northeast,

>> i don't know. >> you know trump. you have a book called "trump's enemies." and you won't tell me why he would do that? >> in that picture there are some enemies of trump. the guys who use their badges to spy on americans on domestic soil because they don't like their political parties, mccabe, those guys are enemies and there has to be accountability. >> why are they enemies of trump? >> what made them enemies were they used their badges as fbi agents. they had an insurance policy to make sure donald trump was never elected. >> the democrats? >> no, no. they didn't want donald trump. >> basically you're saying these are the most idiotic conspiracy theorists because if they're goal was to stop the president from getting elected, they failed tremendously. the issue is the terminology and the visuals this president puts out endangers people. that leads to crazy people in this country committing violence. that's why this is dangerous. it's not just cute or people lying. it endangers the sanctity of this country and our elections and our integrity. >> did obama k

of president trump. if somebody had listened to eric holder and decided to take in literally rather than metaphorically as he obviously intended to do, somebody had gone on the kicking rampage and kicked somebody to death and had it turned out he had eric holder posters all over his room i would see a pretty contrite eric holder today. that didn't happen. what did happen though was the pipe bombs what to president trumps, the people à >> president trump said i blame the people who got the pipe bombs. >> he said president trump made them targets, president trump marina made them targets of canadian speeches he single dose people up he never sat there and said their targets. you can equate the two. >> there are 330 million people in the united states. most of them of course like all people everywhere are wonderful but some are disturbed. disturbed people quite unconscious mind only six to be taken seriously to express itself intelligible. and presidents doucet tone and give permission. most of us will nev

well what we're seeing is a president trump is consistent in his trump in rhetoric and he promotes the america first agenda his rhetoric should be understood with and the context of the . american mode at the moment and the american mode whether it is in the media or in the foreign policy establishment or with india congress that business as usual between the united states and saudi arabia cannot continue and and this path that we have been on dow for the past two years will not no longer be tolerated so president trump was essentially trying to provide rhetorical support for salvaging what is left of the u.s. saudi relationship because the congress is now moving forward with imposing sanctions on to saudi government including potentially on prince mohammed himself but do you think it strange that doesn't fully absolve mohammed bin solomon of involvement in this matter when he says it could very well be that the crown prince had knowledge of this tragic event that he's still very much sitting on the fence isn't he. i think that he is deliberately seeking to be ambiguous about it becaus

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trump presiden presidency. we're over on time. ken dilanian giving us the context, gene rossi, a doj veteran, saying this is literally indictable. >>> coming up, donald trump defending ivanka trump's personal e-mail use. the watchdog who sparked that investigation is here. >>> new developments in congress in a story that broke right here this hour last night. house democrats now say they will investigate ivanka trump for her misuse of private e-mail, sending hundreds of e-mails that were government-related business. a familiar scandal. today donald trump defending his daughter, who is of course also a white house official. >> ivanka's e-mails, why was it appropriate for your daughter's personal e-mails -- >> early on, for a little before the, ivanka did some e-mails. they weren't classified like hillary clinton. they weren't deleted like hillary clinton. there was no service in the basement like hillary clinton had. you're talking about a whole different -- you're talking about all fake news. so what ivanka did