a donald trump problem. jared kushner has yet to earn his junior g-man badge they've got him working on immigration policy they've got him negotiating on the wall and he's in over his head there is no one around this president that is competent enough to address the myriad number of issues that come in front of them. trump ultimately never listens to anybody what you have now in this event is, as neera said, it's the first sort of landmark failure for this team in which their incompetence is exposed. it's also donald trump revealed as an inept deal maker a guy who came to washington with a base believing he was a very competent businessman who could get things done in washington even though his track record as a businessman was just as abysmal was the deal he got plowed by nancy pelosi on. it's all come home to roost. >> all that's really come out of this is that donald trump, his cabinet and even his daughter-in-law have appeared to be incredibly callous individual people the republican party look completel

these are more donald trump untruths. no, i mean we could spend all day long if you want to go down the rabbit hole of how many politicians flip—flop, so i think that that is politics as usual. however, i am from texas and i completely disagree. this is a national border, national security crisis, as well as an humanitarian crisis. yes, people in 2016 — yes, there were slightly fewer crossings, but it spiked again at the end of 2018, and what we've seen are 60,000 people coming across the border a month. these are cb — border patrol statistics, not white house statistics. with respect, the numbers... now, what... wait, wait... the numbers, the numbers... 60,000. they're not even half what they were in the late 90s and early 2000s, so how can you... but what has changed, stephen, what has changed, stephen, is the composite of the illegal immigrants coming across. first of all, it used to be individual males. now they are families, including unaccompanied children, and many make the perilous journey from el salvador,

heather: donald trump fighting for legal immigration? scratch off lottery ticket lands this guy behind bars. he ended up seeing green and why he is green with envy. heather: alexandria ocasio-cortez thinks immigrants at the border are more american than donald trump. >> he's fighting against almost every way people can legally into the country, forcing them to become undocumented and then trying to attack their undocumented status. it is systematic, it is wrong and anti-american. those women and children trying to come here with nothing but the shirts on the back to create an opportunity and provide for this nation are acting more in the american tradition than the president is right now. heather: the new york congresswoman slamming the president's immigration policies shortly after his address on the border crisis. as our government tries to come up with a security solution mexico has a plan. the country will post guards at 370 crossing points on the mexico guatemala border in addition to beating up security at 12 points of entry. many

la palabra del presidente donald trump a las regatas en mcallen texas. >> algunos estÁn manejando uber y otras familia han abierto cuentas de calidad , todos ellos son empleados del gobierno y no han recibido pagos. >> la revista times crea controversia con estÁ aportada a la caricatura de el presidente donald trump, todo parece ser una batalla. borjas: como estÁn, le saluda un servidor borja voces y carolina zÁrate, estamos costa costa en vivo con esta ediciÓn de tu noticiero. carolina: el presidente donald trump continÚa dando en vivo una alocuciÓn. " ahora tenemos una pequeÑa estaciÓn a mÁs de 100.000 ilegales entrando en esta estaciÓn, construimos barreras fÍsicas y bajo de 100.000 a 20.000. asÍ es como funcionan estas barreras. le agradecemos la mano que nos estÁn dando la frontera para conseguir esto que necesitamos como de personal, tecnologÍa e infraestructura, muchas gracias seÑor presidente. me alegra estar aquÍ escuchando, no hay dos partidos acÁ en esto.solamente el redonda en el carolina: el presidente llegÓ a texas y sostiene una mesa redonda. en este pu

mitch mcconnell and donald trump. and let me tell you something, lawrence, the wall they should be worried about is not a the wall at the south border, but wall street where we had another gigantic drop today in where the last thing that's underpinning trump's survival here, which is strong economic results is starting to move towards recession. if that turns, it's a collapse for trump, a collapse for republicans on capitol hill. >> now, david jolly, consider mitt romney who has a former governor -- i know governors when they're out there in the country and 50 states they shake their heads, they cannot believe that it ever happens because it basically can't really happen in a state government. so here's mitt romney facing his first government shutdown, and what does he do about it? and one of the first things he's going to read about it is his colleague western senator cory gardener, republican senator like mitt romney from utah saying i don't think shutting down the government is ever the right answer. if mitt romney

donald trump. quote, you can't legislate when you have a chief executive who's weird for lack of a better description. harry reed is right, of course. and so after that weird meeting with the weird chief executive that was weirdly held for no reason at all in the situation room, everyone agreed to only one thing, and that was that nothing was accomplished by that meeting. but tonight there is yet another comment from the psychiatrists studying donald trump to consider from that meeting. chuck schumer repeatedly asked the president why he would not support passing six spending bills that both parties have already agreed to that would reopen the government departments and agencies that have no jurisdiction over the border wall that donald trump wants to fund. donald trump eventually answered saying, i would look foolish if i did that. now, consider the enormity of the delusion in that statement. first of all, donald trump thinks that if he did something rational like sign spending bills for everythin

a very hasty and ill considered move on the part of donald trump if he had if he had said we want to get out now let's figure the best way to get out i think it would have gotten a lot more support to president seven words day that he essentially sired secretary of defense jim mattis he said what's he done for me how is how's he done as ghana's in not too good trump said according to bloomberg news as you know trump said president obama fired them essentially sold it i didn't fire him i thought matters rule over resignation i was just going to say i think if you read james madison's letter of resignation that's what it was it was pretty strong he laid out he spelled out the reasons why for two years he had tried. give the best approach for our military and he found that he just had so many differences with donald trump's style donald trump's refusal to listen to the generals on the ground that he couldn't take it any longer donald trump did not fire james madison james madison quit but here's the only thing that matter said he was going to stay until the end of february to provide a

a couple of you at this table know donald trump personally the pain that donald trump caused, we were talking to tony schwartz and he talked about the tactic that sometimes donald trump would use to empty a building, allowing misery to take hold in the building and making the building unlivable so the tenants would essentially take themselves out of the building. >> yes. >> evict themselves. does it surprise you that donald trump would use that same kind of a tactic on the whole country just to get a wall that he must know he cannot get >> i don't think his perception was he was using it on the country as much as he thought he was using it on the democrats in the house of representatives yes, he will do anything to win. there's no question about that he lost. which is kind of -- >> does he know when he's lost is he aware? >> i think he must know he lost this he may never admit it. maybe he struggles admitting it to himself i think he is aware. >> the number of paychecks most affected have missed was two, 25,419 civilian xwleerps filing initial unemployment claims during a one-week per

>> because it was in donald trump's political interest for michael cohen and donald trump jr. to tell this lie to the senate intelligence community about how long the investigations were going on. you got to give trump credit for being crafty. he was consistently lying to the american people about trump tower in moscow, about the purpose of the meeting with the russian lawyer, but he didn't lie to mueller. his people didn't want him to submit to an investigation to mueller because if he had told those same lies to mueller, then he would have committed a crime. the concern for him now is donald trump jr. most likely told the same lie that michael cohen told. if cohn is prosecuted by mueller, then donald trump jr. should be and that will give mueller leverage over the president of the united states. >> ellie, do you think that's where it's going? >> absolutely. i still think donald trump jr. is right in the sights. a point worth mentioning here, people keep truncating the impeachment clause to high crimes and misdemeanors. that's not what it says. it says you can be impeached fo

i think donald trump has benefited from that. and a lot of what he claims he has been responsible for was already in motion. how do you think donald trump is doing on trade? we have been upside down with all of our international tariffs and trade agreements for years. he international tariffs and trade agreements foryears. he is international tariffs and trade agreements for years. he is trying to correct that situation. changing allegiances in america's industrial heartland helped donald trump win the white house. his promise to bring back manufacturing jobs resonated in 2016. a message that still has power here two years later. china's envoy to canada warned of repercussions if the country bans huawei from supplying equipment to the sg huawei from supplying equipment to the 56 network. it is the latest salvo in a deepening dispute after the arrest in vancouver of the technology giant's finance chief. canada is studying the security of sg networks, but unlike some allies hasn't announced a ban on huawei a?!. netflix hasn't annou

donald trump said he was proud to do this. he said he is proud to shut down the government, proud to be pushing air traffic controllers to the spot where they cannot predict when the entire system will break, and when that system breaks, people die. here's another horrible mark of the trump shutdown. >> i'm here today to bring my appeal bill to mitch mcconnell to show him. if you're not familiar, i'm on a second chance program. i have to have my rent in on time. i have no more money coming in. i am a guard at the smithsonian institute and i need my rent paid and i have nothing, and i need to know, when is he going to open things back up? because i'm about to be evicted. if i don't have my rent in by the first of next month through the second chance program i will be evicted. >> leading off our discussion now, joy reid, msnbc national correspondent and host of "a.m. joy" weekends here on msnbc. barbara ress. the former executive vice president of the trump organization and author of "all alone on the 68th floor: how one woman c

or at least he knows what donald trump has told him is going to come out. he has some rudimentary base of the facts. he knows some facts we don't know about what damaging material is going to eventually become public. rudy is, in fact, try to serve some kind of strategic goal and normalization certainly seems to be that goal in this case however hamhanded and clumsy and occasionally ludicrous he is as he goes about trying to do it. >> it's true what you say about watching the giuliani interviews live, really all i can see for a while are just the rings when he's holding up his hands to the cameras. but, glenn, it's an interesting strategy what john just described and what it feels like we saw yesterday, and one of the things that's interesting about it is this could have been treated in the trump team and in the giuliani approach to tv this weekend as a kind of triumphant turn of, look, the special prosecutor has said buzzfeed's wrong, and just stomp on that and leave it at that, but within that, rudy giuliani decided, and the team must have decided, actual

were they phone calls to donald trump -- to his father, to donald trump the candidate at the time? according to the information that the investigators have received, we know that it wasn't to the then candidate donald trump. we do not know the identity of who these people were. we are told by sources that these were to donald trump juni junior's business associates at the time. we don't know exactly what was discussed in those phone calls. we don't know whether it has anything to do with the russia investigation. we certainly now know that it didn't have anything to do with then candidate donald trump. >> we know democrats were focusing a lot of attention on those mysterious phone calls. what are the implications of this? >> this is an important detail to try to figure out. again, they have been trying to figure out -- the investigators have been trying to figure out whether or not there's any proof that donald trump junior or anything who was involved in the june 2016 trump tower meeting told then candidate trump about what was going on. did he know in advance that they were havin

trump and this is what i said early on there's a there used to be a different donald trump the donald trump who stepped forward to run against pap you can in called him a hitler lover called him a racist denounced him for getting support from david duke all of a so many of the elements that we would now say are trump ism were the buchanan platform in the ninety's and donald trump back then was calling it racist to make this book read by the way in tribalism was the rule of cable news was the rule of social media yeah but i think oh and social media especially but they are they are products of it and accelerators of it and i think both i think that's a big part of the story of this of this book too. you don't really get you know cable news is an invention basically dates back to the one nine hundred eighty with c.n.n. and c.n.n. was a you know it's basically a nonpartisan. place you don't get m.s. n.b.c. and fox until the late one nine hundred ninety s. they don't really have their their full force and influence till a few years later and that m.s.m. be seen its current form doesn't re

now, maybe mitch mcconnell just can't relate because like donald trump, not as rich as donald trump maybe, but mitch mcconnell is a very, very rich man. and mitch mcconnell like all republicans, publicly at least, hates the irs. but does he hate the irs workers who live in kentucky? republicans love to hate the irs publicly. but on a per dollar basis irs workers are the most valuable workers in america. they return a giant profit on their salaries to the united states treasury every year. and they do it in the processing centers in kentucky, texas, missouri, california, and utah that mitch mcconnell and republicans are now keeping closed down. some republicans are now voting for every spending bill that nancy pelosi brings to a vote in the house of representatives, and at least three republicans have publicly declared that they would do the same in the senate if mitch mcconnell would just bring those bills to a vote in the senate. and if those bills came to a vote, there would be many more than just those three who've publicly declared their support. those bills would easily pass the unit

this may not be an issue of donald trump being educated or donald trump just being a stubborn old real estate developer who still thinks that gold plating is the solution to all problems. donald trump, this may be the product of compromise, kompromat, corruption and collusion. donald trump may not be mistaken about these things. he may be taking direction from hi friends in russia telling him what to do about these things. you know, education may not fix that, lawrence. >> eugene, your reaction to this back and forth today, the president's attacks on his own appointees. these are all people he appointed, he chose and when he told us he told us they were the best. >> unprecedented, shocking, disagreeisful, those are words that could have been used instead of unusual. >> listen, i don't mean to pick on "the new york times." i understand the language fatigue here. i'm sure as they develop their reporting on this, they're not going to leave it as unusual. >> no, they're not. look, as an old newspaper man, it has taken us awhile to learn the language we need to use to describe donald trump.

trump, that is donald trump versus pelosi, donald trump versus schumer, donald trump versus the mainstream media. and wonder what those numbers look like when it's donald trump against nikki haley or donald trump against ben sasse or donald trump against mitt romney. it will certainly be much tighter, won't it? >> it's interesting, his view of the history in afghanistan. he has a fuzzy view of history eight weeks ago. he is doubling down now on an immigration metaphor, the wall. he did a same thick with another immigration metaphor with the caravan. he lost by nine points in the popular vote. the greatest house loss since 1973. >> when does the cara vab gvan here? i'm still -- >> pitches and catches report. i think. pitches, catches and the caravan. >> so people on the rio grande are fine for now. >> february 8th. once again, you've got the caravan coming. big problem. >> and the caravan coming. mike, do you think in these days where the president has a built-in protections that he has that this isn't going to be like mccarthy in '68. not like buchanan in '92. there isn't a republican that

a wall donald trump is afraid to walk away from. now that he said it so many times at campaign rallies where he also said mexico would pay for it, right wing media members won't let him walk away. he can't because he could face indictment or impeachment without them. we are in the 16th day over a memory device, a made-up piece of campaign rhetoric. it would be like bill clinton shutting down the government over a promise to build a literal bridge to the 21st century or barack obama because he wanted $5 billion earmarked for "yes we cans." there is no end in sight to this government shutdown. things are only going to get worse from here for republicans, for donald trump and for millions of americans who are about to find out just how much the federal government does. joining me now, e.j. deyoung, msnbc contributor and columnist for the washington post, maria cumar, president of voter latino, jamil smith from rolling stone and kaden dawson, republican strategist. you're at a disadvantage, you're not here with us so i'll go to you firs

well one thing you got elected with a lot of help from donald trump donald trump bragged about the fact in the oval office that he had raised more money for steve king last year than anybody else i just want to say first of all kevin mccarthy has not asked for steve king to get out of congress mitch mcconnell did and liz cheney did kevin mccarthy stripped him of his three committees i don't think that's enough i think they should have booted him out of the house but my question is about steve king why did it take so long for republicans to do this i mean you can go back decades and find incendiary racist comments just as amy knows this is steve king has made throughout his life saying that no nonwhite ever contributed anything to human civilization and among other things and the other second question i have is why steve king and why haven't they condemned donald trump who has also made some racist remarks particularly after charlottesville as we know branding all immigrants from mexico rapists are criminals. he's seen kings an easy target donald trump so tough target they went after ste

. >> haga historia donald trump. reportero: estados unidos pedÍa el reconocimiento de juan guaido. >> e gobierno de esbaÑada ocho dÍas a maduro para convocar a el ex en este aparente y si no borre, espaÑa reconocerÁ a guaido como presidente. >> vÁyanse bien largo al c...s! a los venezolanos y a la venezolana nadie nos da Órdenes. >> de dÓnde sÁca plazos o ultiá reportero: continuarÁn las sanciones econÓmicas para el gobierno de maduro. fÉlix: el delegado militar de venezuela en washington reconociÓ a juan guaido como presidente. >>a nosotros nos dieron las armas para defender la soberanÍa de nuestro país, nunca nos formaron para des, esto es para que defiendas al gobierno de turno. feliz 22 opina que su gobierno traicioneros principios mÁs bÁsicos y de vende a otros paÍses. arantxa los trabajadores afecta a -- afectados por el cierre de gobierno, recibirÁn su hago retroactivo. donald trump amenazÓ con cerrar e gobierno nuevamente de no obtener fondos para el muro. reportera: donald trump dijo que

trump and the enabling of donald trump. look, those poll numbers are bad today. they're going to be a lot worse as i think the damage from the shutdown becomes clearer, as the cost becomes clearer. i also think when people begin to think through the concept of declaring a national defense emergency on the border, i think there's going to be a tremendous backlash to that as well. >> sam stein, anyone who knows anything about the way the army core of engineers, the defense department spends money, does construction, building things, especially things that require permits, which a lot of their stuff doesn't if it's being done in combat zones, say in afghanistan -- >> sure. >> if you're trying to build something in texas and you are the defense department, you are a minimum, if you're completely unobstructed by the political process or by courts, you're a minimum of over a year away from a shovel hitting any dirt anywhere in texas on the border to build this wall. >> yeah, absolutely. and that's not even mentioning the fact tha

that information is not shared with donald trump. it's one -- . >> host: is probably in some disclaimer that we don't read. >> guest: some 14 page paragraph. this is the one thing the internet bill of rights will be increasingly important idea because you can't have these corporate giants in one legal paragraph stuck away in a document that nobody reads and everybody has to agree to when they use google but they can't deprive you of your first amendment rights. that i think is going to be a key issue that is the coming that i foresee being fought out in the ftc, the federal trade commission where he believe the real regulation and that needs to be and i'm predicting in the "killing the deep state" i make the argument that these internet giants will have to be regulated and we have to have the fundamental of rights incorporated into these internet giants even if it involves antitrust action to break them up. >> host: not to leave james comey to quickly and you write a lot about him in your book. you think trump would have been better

this is about loyalty to donald trump. this is about loyalty to donald trump. they'll stay loyal as long as possible. they are worried about primary challenges. they are seeing mitch mcconnell knows the party wants him to stay with donald trump. he'll do it for a while, but eventually he won't be able to. >> thank you very much. appreciate your time. coming up next, new details on just how cruel donald trump's family separation policy has been for migrant children. that's next. igrant children. that's next. -we're doing karaoke later, and you're gonna sing. -jamie, this is your house? -i know, it's not much, but it's home. right, kids? -kids? -papa, papa! -[ laughs ] -you didn't tell me your friends were coming. -oh, yeah. -this one is tiny like a child. -yeah, she is. oh, but seriously, it's good to be surrounded by what matters most -- a home and auto bundle from progressive. -oh, sweetie, please, play for us. -oh, no, i couldn't. -please. -okay. [ singing in spanish ] -please. -okay. went to ancestry, i put in the names of my grandparents first. i got a leaf

donald trump jr. it's long been believed that he lied to congress. it's long been questioned whether or not he would be charged with lying to congress. it's long been i think feared in his own circles -- i think sometimes about once every six weeks a rumor comes out of donald trump jr.'s peer group he expects to be charged withing some. the buzzfeed also reports that even as trump told the public he no business deals with russia, the source said trump and his children ivanka and donald trump jr., received regular e-mail updates about the real estate development from cohen, who they put in charge of the project. the source said cohen gave trump's children very detailed updates. donald trump jr. potentially testified when asked, like i said, i was peripherally aware of it but most of my knowledge has been gained since as relates to hearing about it over the last few weeks. it's possible he lied to congress. >> yeah. i think that's a real big possibility. i think we take a step back for a moment and sort

these are things donald trump said about the last a.g. "very weak position on hillary clinton crimes. disgra disgraceful. the recruiseusal was an unforce betrayal. good job, jeff." trashed him constantly from the airwaves of fox news, from the white house rose garden. who walks in there thinking they're going to be digit affer? is bill barr going to be treated differently? >> i don't think the. th is going to behave differently than he has the last two years or majority of his adult life. he's going to have certain expectations for what bill barr is like as attorney general. assuming he eventually gets confirmed. and the question is going to be, does bill barr make some sort of decision or take some action or even just make a public utterance that forever changes the way president trump views him? with jeff sessions as attorney general, it was that recusal that was sort of a black and white moment that forever sullied sessions' reputation in the eyes of this president. bar has not, to my knowledge, done anything yet in this hearing even t

donald trump passed out candy to everyone but things turned sour ending with donald trump walking out on democratic leaders. >> the president got up and walked out. he asked nancy pelosi will you agree to my wall, she said no and he got up and said then we have nothing to discuss and just walked out. >> it wasn't even high-stakes negotiation but a petulant president of the united states, a person who says i will keep government shutdown for a month or years unless i get my way. >> democrats described it as a temper tantrum. >> slammed the table. >> reporter: republicans say that the gross mischaracterization i the democrats. speech the behavior is embarrassing. the way to come to this floor and talk about a meeting in a manner that did not take place is disturbing to me. i thought the president was very calm in continuing to put different options on the table, nobody slammed their hands on the table, he left the room because nancy pelosi said even if he gave her what she wanted she would never agree to the border security priorities. >> they couldn't even agree on what happened inside

donald trump, jr. actively involved in discussions with michael cohen and others about this possible building. in your experience in intelligence, what do you see in the trump tower moskow story? >> well, i see a president or presidential candidate who was carrying a lot of the water for russia in its attack against the country. i mean, i say this over and over. i still don't think we've fully come to terms with it here in this country, but russia was the biggest asset, the biggest weapon in russia's attack on the country. i mean he repeated their propaganda and their disinformation the whole way through. and you couldn't have avoided it if you lived in america during the campaign. and, you know, that was on everything from sanctions to russia's invasion of ukraine to all kinds of issues, but especially sanctions and nato. and then the divisive rhetoric, trying to divide americans and turn us against each other. so all the while trump is carrying this water, and i think he knew it. i think he understoo

seem kings an easy target donald trump's a tough target they want after steve king are free to donald trump guys amy was all we going to see in it when's the shutdown going to end oh boy larry i don't know any better than you do or bill or even the rest of washington lindsey graham the senator from south carolina has said that he thinks the sides are dug in he's trying to bring together a bipartisan group to fund the government for three weeks on the promise that there will be discussion about funding the border wall and finding some sort of compromise but it seems like both sides think that they're winning this thing i don't think that they are i don't see how this ends other than through compromise which has even been suggested by the washington post editorial page five point seven billion dollars for the border wall which by the way we already have seven hundred miles of so this whole argument that it's immoral is just silly and belies the fact that democrats have voted for border barriers in the past in return for some pats legalization for mine. who are brought to the united stat

and donald trump junior were, in fact, briefed and the degree to which donald trump was involved in this, despite simultaneously denying during the campaign and subsequently that he had meaningful dealings with russia. >> right. he said, again, on the campaign trail that he has no business with russia, nothing to see here, when, in fact, behind the scenes, he was encouraging mr. cohen to set up a meeting overseas in russia with vladimir putin. he was encouraging him to pursue the deal and he was made aware of sort of granular details about the project. what it would look like, where it would be, what the land -- how they were going to acquire the land. so he was -- he was definitely read in to this project to the extent that he has not admitted on the campaign trail. >> of course, for anybody who understands the relationship between donald trump and his children, particularly the business relationship, the detail in your story discusses the extent to which donald trump's kids were involved in this thing, to the extent that ivanka trump was involved in picking an architect, she was g

it definitely does feel different because donald trump is a different kind of president he's. in his threat to keep the government shutdown for months or years and it seems plausible he's he's the sort of man the sort of president who approaches politics from a different direct different way he prides himself on being a deal maker and putting pressure on his opponents in a deal to reach an agreement to reach an agreement pleasing to him and so it seems plausible that he could push the shutdown weeks or months or or years but of course he's not the only decision maker here there there are republicans in the senate who will have a say as well so allan as you can hear there sean as probably a lot of people believe that ultimately this is going to be would doubt but i'm wondering how much damage might be done to politics in the u.s. to the way of doing politics do you see some long lost thing effects from this whole episode over the wall. i do it and they are very sad i mean we certainly do not want to see america devolve into a kind of country where we are willing to sacrifice th

head to head numbers against donald trump. elizabeth warren and hillary clinton were about the same number. but she was well below the rest. i think that's because elizabeth warren, more than the rest, has taken fire from the focused right wing, you know, fox, and you're going to see the others as they get it go down. while the native american dna thing was panned, i actually -- look, it was a debacle. but i think it was important she got it behind her. donald trump, you showed the taped interview last night. he didn't call her pochanetes. >> okay, guys. it's been 20 minutes. >> brokered convention. >> tied electoral college too. >> oh, come on. gentlemen. let's talk again in a year and a half. good-bye. >>> after the break, the acting secretary of defense, a man without military experience, now tasked with leading the largest military in the world. how much horse power does this thing got? doing great dad! looking good babe! are you filming. at booking.com, we can't guarantee you'll be any good at that water jet thingy... but

the story of donald trump is well known by now. he was born the son of a poor american flagmaker from brooklyn, new york. he received a small loan of a nickel from his father to op a fried chicken stand and single-handedly grew that business into a multi trillion dollar organization. after serving valiantly in vietnam without ever getting captured, trump returned from war a hero and married his childhood sweetheart, melania, who to this day is still the only woman he's ever had sex with. [ laughter ] he's a devoted family man. trump insisted on attending every one of don jr. and eric's little league games rars a boss donald was loved by employees are for paying promptly and his generous catch praise -- >> you're hired. >> but this man frump had so much more to give. he announced his candidacy for president, running on a platform of kindness, friendship, and compassion -- kfc. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] and the rest, as they say, is american history. we are so very lucky, we really are, to live in this time. our wonderful

that would seem to include michael cohen's knowledge of donald trump, of the donald trump organization where he work ford a decade and how the senior title and presumably some of the lies that we do already know michael cohen told apparently on donald trump's behalf. the hearing as a matter of when it is, timing, well, just weeks before cohen is scheduled to report to prison. now let's be clear. this will be an on camera public hearing with public testimony that is already begun conjuring comparisons to the nixon era. it was cohen's own adviser lanny davis who recently said, "remember john dean? it's just the beginning, dean. he was famously nixon's trusted lawyer until he wasn't. he went from nixon confidante to star witness for the other side unraveling key parts of watergate in public even as critics at the time attacked his perceived credibility." will michael cohen emerge in a similar role as you consider these two white house trial lawyers? will he reveal things he's only told to prosecutors up to this point? and why is michael cohen planning to apparently tell all under oath bef

two-minute answer by donald trump. in case you're counting, it was 349 words that trump spoke. 349 words. none of which were the word "no." let's bring in our mega panel to break it down. joining me, msnbc national security analyst and former assistant director for counter intelligence at the fbi. jail winebanks, special prosecutor. natasha beartran of the atlantic. and evelyn farkas, msnbc national security analyst. frank, i'm coming to you first. thank you for being here in person. yesterday we had you call in because we just wanted to talk to you about this. what do you make of the fact that in 38 hours since the story broke, since i spoke with you about it on the rachel maddow show, his lawyers, and trump himself have yet to utter the phrase "of course the president isn't working for russia". >> you might have a future in fbi interrogation techniques. you're right. if you study the responses, study the white house reaction and study the clips that you just played, you don't have an all-out denial. it really raises

i wish everyone had the courage donald trump had. donald trump tweeting congratulations for brazil's new president bolsonaro on his inauguration. he's done the trump of the tropics, replying, quote, dear mister president, i truly appreciate your words of encouragement, together under god's protection we shall bring prosperity and progress to our people. 2018 was one of the busiest years in political history from an all-out civil war among congressional democrats to donald trump taking on the fed. what can we expect in the new year? here to walk us to political predictions is pollster and gop strategist justin wallin. thank you for joining us, happy new year to you. let's begin with your first prediction, that democrats will stoke economic fears and scare us towards this recession. >> we have an economy where the fundamentals are terrific, they are very good and the president has a lot of credit to take for that, tax cuts, regulatory relief, second-quarter gdp growth of 4.2% in the past year that just left us. kind of done too much an

the report 17 for donald trump jr. and six each for president trump and his former campaign chairman paul manafort "the washington post" put it's this way in a damning report of their own -- if trump's advisers lied over and over again, of on about contacts with russians, the question is why? it's that question mueller is likely to put to roger stone, now facing seven felony charges, who this weekend had a change of heart about helping special counsel robert mueller >> any chance you'll cooperate with special counsel robert mueller if he asks >> you know, that's a question i would have to -- i would have to determine after my attorneys have some discussion if there's wrongdoing by other people in the campaign that i know about, which i know of none, if there is i would testify honestly i would honestly testify honestly about any other matter, including any conversations with the president. >> maureen dowd makes the connection in her column in "the new york times" writing, stone, who famously has nixon's face tattooed o