trump: she's gone. when it was found that i had more indian blood in me than she did, then it was determined that i had none, but i still had more. that was the end of her 32 years scam on colleges. can you imagine any of those people doing what i am doing? there would be 200 people to show up, if they were president. if they were not president, nobody would show up. is that right? >> [cheers] pres. trump: i have to say, i was saying on the way over -- tell me about bad weather. we may have to cancel. are you crazy? can you imagine? i learned this morning they thought you were going to have a big snowstorm, a big, big snowstorm. the people that get it wrong the most are the weather forecasters and the political analysts. >> [cheers] [applause] pres. trump: they said this is a big, big storm. it is going to be hitting green bay. we may have to cancel. i said, like hell we are going to cancel. people were standing out 24 hours ago, 32 hours ago, outside. who stood out there for 24 hours? >> [cheers] pres.

donald trump's ultimate loyalty is only to donald trump. it is not to his oath of office or the country. we've been documenting all of the things he is doing that hurt the forgotten man that he promised to be the champion of and who he is actively, aggressively working a against n his administration. cover-up l lie, deny, unless you knonow you did something wrong. amy: glenn, do you think president trump should be impeached over obstruction of justice? you have dom again quitting rather than firing, and president trump fired james comey. do you think, despite you have always said that this is not about collusion? >> no, i don't. the reason is because i think the question was whether he was acting as a president in his right to stop an investigation that he knew was based on false allegations or whether he was tried to cover up his own wrongdoing. once mueller concluded there is no evidence to establish the wrongdoing, i don't think yet a corrupt motive. i think his motive was this investigation is garbage and i'm very open about the fact i

trump: thank you. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: i want to thank chris and wayne. i am thrilled to be here in indiana with the men and women of the n.r.a. you are great american patriots. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: chris, wayne, oliver, i have been following oliver for a long time. great guy. three extraordinary champions for the second amendment. and i am a champion for the second amendment, and so are you. it is not going anywhere. it is under assault. it is under assault, but not when we are here. not even close. i also want to thank our tremendous vice president and indiana's native son, mike pence . he has done a fantastic job. [applause] pres. trump: we are grateful to be joined by a number of terrific leaders from the hoosier state. governor eric holcomb. where is eric? you can't miss eric, he is so big. [applause] pres. trump: thank you, eric. senator todd young, a terrific guy. [applause] pres. trump: thank you, todd. senator mike braun, what a job he is doing. [applause] pres. tru

trump: an incredible guy. a friend of mine and all of us for a long time and he's going governorship the one day soon and we are not going to be happy about that at all. phil bryant. [applause] pres. trump: he is a fantastic governor. he built the african-american museum and it is one of the best jobs i have seen in a long time. a lot of money but under budget and ahead of schedule. you don't see that often in government. north dakota governor doug burgum. thank you, doug. [applause] pres. trump: texas attorney general ken paxton. thank you. [applause] pres. trump: washington, d.c. attorney general carl seen. florida's former attorney general pam bondi, respected by everyone. [applause] pres. trump: and they are joined by many faith and law enforcement leaders. we have tremendous numbers of people here today that are strong believers in out only what we are doing, but also faith and faith is a good thing. thing.ook, it is a great i also want to recognize someone you all know well who worked tirelessly on this

trump. it becomes a test for donald trump's commissioner of the irs who has no legal basis whatsoever for not turning over those tax returns by wednesday of next week as chairman neal has demanded. and so all of the donald trump appoint appointees involved, secretary mnuchin, brend mcintosh, william barr, irs commissioner charles reddick might be staring at donald trump's lawyer's letter right now trying to see if there is any legal hook they can hold on to as an excuse for not complying with very of office v and recognize that the president's lawyer's letter is a legal joke to be dismissed as soon as they read it. maybe. the lawyer's letter says requests for tax returns and return information must have a legitimate legislative purpose. chairman neal's letter says consistent with its authority the committee is considering legislative proposals and conducting oversight related to tax laws the extent to which the irs audits and enforces the federal tax laws against a president. it is necessary

president trump put a trump plaque, president trump plaque on that new piece of construction authorized by the obama administration and claimed to his voters that that's my wall. that thing right there that you can see through. >> i don't know. it looks like a fence to me, not really a concrete wall, 30 foot high wall. i don't know, my eyes tell me it's a fence, not a wall, but i think is absolutely right. donald trump is a one trick pony. whether it's, you know, 2016, 2018, or 2020 he is going to use like xenophoic appeals, anti-immigrant appeals, calling them animals. that is his -- that's his strength. he's not president of the united states. he is president of his base. now, the good news is that that is not a majority of the country. a majority of the country thinks that what trump is doing is actually morally indefensible and wrong, but he is counting on exciting his base, getting them enthusiastic, riling them up. i do think it's because they're attacking some other group. it's always a politics of subtraction, never addition for him. i think the bottom line of this is he's not g

once trump knows he's coming back, trump will have him so preautop preoccupied and in his head. >> trump couldn't stop talking about joe biden today. kristen welker said, what's offensive about biden's behavior? >> i think it's the other way around. trump understands what a lot of republicans understand which is that biden is a general election candidate deprives donald trump of a lot of the swing voters in the rust belt that went for trump and i have most of their cell phones in my phone. a lot of the voters in eerie, pennsylvania, in bay city, michigan, in wisconsin n florida who flipped who were two time obama voters who flipped and voted for trump. a lot of voters are very much available to someone like joe biden. >> democrats are looking for a couple of things. they want somebody who is steeped in policy, who can appeal to the base, who can appeal to working families all across the country but also they want somebody who's going to be willing to take a punch and throw a punch when it comes to donald trump. i mean, you could see that at the national action network conference which i

day 826 of this trump administration. the president remains knee-deep in his campaign to strike back against the findings of the mueller report, and to shake off the democrats' efforts to investigate his white house. here briefly is some of what he told sean hannity tonight on fox news. >> there was like a one-sided witch hunt as i called it. bob mueller, i turned him down to run the fbi. the next day he was appointed to be the head of this special counsel. $35 million spent and unlimited manpower, woman power and there is nothing, nothing, and it was a very bad two years for this country but the nice part is as far as trump is concerned and the trump administration, there is no collusion and there is no obstruction. >> in the weeks since mueller's findings were released and just been a week today. the president has maintained his campaign to reframe the damaging revelations about his behavior. this is just some of what he has written to us over the past seven days. and today, sent this out about his former white house co

or the trump campaign. rob: welcome back to a fox news alert, the released mueller report vindicating the president on collusion. jillian: is it now time to investigate the investigators? rob: tom fitton joins us now. let's start with what we learned yesterday. interesting to hear the president feel vindicated and at the same time a lot of members of the media and a lot of democrats saying we see evidence of obstruction in this and something we see collusion as well. >> it was an exoneration of the president, there was no collusion and the attorney general concluded there was no obstruction. if there was obstruction case it could have been pursued, mister mueller would have been explicit about it. instead, this is where the media is grasping and opponent of the president are grasping, mueller put in hundreds of pages of innuendo suggesting there was obstruction. that was not appropriate. another abuse by mister mueller but at the end no case made against the president and i don't even think an impeachment c

when donald trump announced his presidency. the weekly tabloid once known for celebrity gossip began playing an unlikely role in politics. the revealing look behind the pages of the "national enquirer". >> the "national enquirer" is at the checkout aisle all across america. >> powered by its sensational articles, it has become one of the significant poply cases in america. >> the readers are incredibly loyal to it. whatever they publish they will read and believe. >> exploiting tragedy. >> people have more of a fascination with this kind of stuff. detractors say the tabloid is ground zero for fake news. >> they sent me the $30,000 over the wire. >> this was a magazine that frankly, in many respects, should be very respected. >> donald trump's run for the white house inspired a whole new series of covers. >> donald trump weaponized the "national enquirer" in a way that hadn't been done. >> his alleged ally was the "national enquirer" boss. david pecker. >> it's a perfect marriage. it is a marriage made in tabloid heaven. >> i th

donald trump and to trump's critics. lesson one, you can with win reelection while not changing your off putting style. you can be narcissistic and bullying and the works. if oppose the person, you can sure as heck lose to them no matter what you think of them personally and no matter how bad their image is in the world. whatever else you can say about him, this person you see is a villain is seen by other people as the lone tower of strength. the one politician is willing to take the heat by defending the country the borders and sovereignty. if you are seen as the man willing to defend the country and you are a candidate and party are not, don't be surprised at your country's contract. he was seen as strong on the issue of defending his country. the borders and the sovereignty. by refusing to promote a strong alternative for border protection, they allowed trump to position himself so far as the lone protector of the country's sovereignty and brand his enemies for being for open borders. as jerry brown sized it up, he m

trump reaches for t the worst person in the trump administration is always going to be donald trump. that's tonight's last word. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >> tonight, pressure mounting on attorney general william barr to release the mueller report. the doj on defense, amidst leaks from the special counsel's office, is there more to what mueller found about obstruction than barr let on? the president does an about face on his border shutdown threat while battling pressure from democrats to release his tax returns next week, and joe biden today, spotted in his hometown of scranton, was he shooting his first campaign ad? the 11th hour on a thursday night starts right now. >>> good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. i'm steve kornacki in for brian williams. day 805 of the trump administration. the president is now facing new challenges after a rough 36 hours, including stepped up investigations from democrats in congress and new questions about the attorney general's handling of the mueller report. house democrats have now formally d

that eric trump, paul manafort, hope hicks, ivanka trump and jared kushner were in that meeting in trump tower in june of 2016. how significant is that? >> well, it doesn't, you know, it doesn't appear that mueller is going to do anything with it. there are a lot of cases that have been referred to other u.s. attorney's offices where it is redacted in the report, so we don't know whether or not don jr. has been referred to another u.s. attorney's office for consideration of this. >> right. >> we know that don jr. was not interviewed by mueller -- >> just to be clear here -- just to be clear here, what the reporting was that they were in a meeting that don jr. was bragging about this, right, getting dirt on hillary clinton. >> right. that's right. there's no lack of clarity that don jr. was trying to obtain information from the russians at that june 9th meeting and was coordinating with wikileaks to obtain information from them that would be disparaging of hillary clinton and helpful to the trump campaign. and don jr. was not interviewed by mueller. so either mueller made a mistake in not

it may not have been with trump. trump is who he's always been. but the people around him, the people that some of us still are hoping would hold up these institutions, right, at the end of the day, it's not about trump. it's do the institutions hold. i see them enabling him, right? barr saying i'm not giving the unredacted report to congress. no, i'm not going on court to get the -- you want to do that, you go ahead. just not even giving a good reason. the secretary 069 treasuof the saying, nope, not giving up the tax returns even though the law is clear. you do have some people, i don't want to hold up nielsen as a bastion of lawfulness, but on the other hand, it seems like she at least said we can't close the border and boom, she's gone. then you have trump pushing the boundaries. he essentially offered a pardon as a bribe to get a public official to break the law. you can say he was joking, but you don't even joke about that. that is beyond lawless and it's an impeachable offense if he was serious. i'm not going to say that's remotely going to

we have a number of -- trump versus biden, trump-o'rourke. trump-sanders. they are all pretty much a dead heat, tied with this had to have polling but came out. just came out today. how can -- >> name i.d. and he's now being exposed and i don't like to be critical and call someone names but when you say something so idiotic that he's talking about of tearing down the fence, letting people roll, they are in slavery, we need to force people. he said in virginia especially. i guess he hates virginia. virginia especially we need them to go to communities face-to-face eyeball to eyeball to work out these problems. we don't have problems in america. we have gone so far from where we were in the 50s in the 60s and 70s in this country. are there race issues? of course but we've come so far and democrats like beto want to pull his back. >> laura: when you said light in the loafers, you just meant not consequential. you didn't mean any pejorative. >> no, no, no. he flapped his arms a lot. no, no, no. he's flying up. by the way, i have a tip for you. i understand my m

trump. >> emily, we just heard neal katyal say he never expected himself to be saying that attorney general william barr is acting in a trumpian way. did you ever can expect to hear neal katyal to say he was acting in a donald trumpian way? when neal and i first talked about the attorney general's first letter about the mueller report, we did it with some hope, we did it as optimistic -- we greeted as optimistically as we could. we've been struggling to find any since then. >> if you go back further in william barr's history when he was in the george h.w. bush administration, he pushed for a very broad theory of executive power. including granting pardons to more people under iran-contra. i think that this faith that barr maybe because he was associated with hw was going to be the sort of moderate force, it's proved to be misguided. i think if you go back and look at his previous writings, including the memo he wrote last summer, they just look like they're setting up more of the kind of rhe

the trump organization but trump state pennsylvania. it's the big industrial state trump carried in 2016, the one he feels an emotional connection to. it's the one he's determined to try and win again in 2020. and there is is bernie sanders in beth ham, pennsylvania, with fox news getting a very favorable response from the crowd assembled there. it tells us two things. it tells us bernie sanders is trying to compete with white voters who lifted trump to the top with that populous message and shows that trump is worried about it. >> i want to play for you, bill, an interview tonight with a republican in the primary race against the president. this is bill weld just tonight. we'll talk about it on the other side. >> i think a lot of permanent damage is being done to our country if nothing changes the ark of the last two years. if we have six more years of spending ourselves into bankruptcy without a thought about it and insulting our allies and eroding our military alliances abroad and cozying up to dictators and insulting everyone who's

in the people that don't support donald trump are still not going to support donald trump listen this is a big report more than four hundred pages long how many americans are really going to go through all of this in read it page by page who knows probably some but probably not the majority people are very busy a busy lives to lead so what you're going to get here is you're going to get each side the trump. donald trump is the white house on one side and you're going to get the democrats in the more than fifteen democrats running for the democratic nomination on the other side all giving their some mation of this report and that's what we've been hearing over the past hours you have donald trump that's telling his supporters listen they did all this millions of dollars almost two years of investigation and it late lead ultimately to nothing against me that's what donald trump is saying on the other side are going to get the democrats appoint to the very same report and say listen there is a lot there there's a lot of lies immorality dysfunctionality abuse of power and attempts at obst

donald trump. >> i noticed donald trump come to the building. him and her were very friendly. she had an argument with the coworker. who says i will call mr. trump when you have an argument with somebody? and apparently, she did. >> he says after he made repeated complaints to superior's about the housekeeper's treatment of other staff, he was asked to resign from his job. but after he left, he says he could no longer find work as a doorman. >> weeks, months. turns out almost a year i couldn't find a job. >> fearing he had been blacklisted, he contacted a reporter at the nation"national enquire enquirer", thinking the tabloid might be interested in buying his story about trump east alleged affair. >> he says, you get to like $30,000 and you will be referred to as an ex-trump employee. >> as a precondition of payment, ami asked him to sign over the rights to his story in perpetuity. the contract also stipulated that he would be subject to a million dollar lawsuit if he spoke about the rumor. >> i get phone calls on a regular basis that i could ne

trump elected. what we clearly have is those two sides are working to mutual benefit. the russians absolutely wanted trump to be the victorious candidate in the election, and certainly the campaign had the same desire. but what director mueller has told us is, that's not enough, simply the fact that both sides acted to benefit each other is not enough. you have to show in the words of criminal prosecution for conspiracy an agreement between the two, and that was the last piece of evidence, it's the final kind of keystone in the bridge, if you will, that the team didn't seem to feel confident that they had. >> it seemed like the closest they got to finding something that could be criminally charged in that whole section about the links between russia and the trump campaign, oddly enough, campaign finance, was the possibility of charging campaign finance violations from accepting a foreign entity for the purpose of influencing the election. there were two reasons they didn't get there, they couldn't p

>> collusion in the mind of many trump critics means if vladimir putin wanted trump to be president, then they colluded and it's clear there was support coming from the russian government for the idea of a trump presidency and there of course was all the propaganda stuff that came out of the twitter accounts and that sort of thing to disrupt the u.s. politics. you can't do anything about other countries having preferences in our elections or engaging in prop began take proa activities. a lot of people want to call trump a traitor on those grounds. paul: is there anything left, dan, the connection that homan describes russia wanted and what happened here in the united states with americans? >> no, there is nothing left of it. they went over in minute detail. i'm not going to go through here's the table of consistent tense. >>> you go through all these things, trump tower, george papadopoulos, june 2016 meeting in the trump tower, extraordinary detail. at the end of each one they say there was no there, there. no conspiracy, no cooperation. russians were attempting to penetrate there.

election on trump's behalf. president trump called to congratulate vladimir putin on his re-election despite warnings from his staff to do exactly the opposite. in july 2018, trump and putin met for that formal summit in helsinki. there was another private meeting with no official report of what was said. it was later vladimir putin who admitted he wanted trump to win the election and that was the summit after which trump said this. >> my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others. they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> the last time the two leaders met face-to-face was yet another private moment during the g20 summit in buenos aires last november. a much talked about follow-up summit has yet to take place. >>> another break and coming up for us, a word about what to expect tomorrow in our closing minutes here this evening. >>> the president today fired the man in charge of the investigation

donald trump controls it. donald trump controls the law. william barr is the attorney general of the united states and the republican party decides whether he is removed from power. and the supreme court has five conservatives on it. why should we trust the law? >> i'm a cynic, but the constitution withstood 230 years through depressions. i have to believe that the foundations will withstand this president. we are in uncharted territory right now. >> why should we believe that the republicans at some point are going to wake up and decide they want to uphold the constitution rather than doing what they have been doing since 2016. dutifully support donald trump in whatever he does. >> there are a lot of reasons to doubt that they will. most of them. there would be a few who might feel a twinge of conscious about trampling over the constitution with donald trump, but it's hard to say. >> what if they don't? >> that's what we have elections for. by the way, that's what people go into the streets about eventually. if everything else fails. hopef

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donald trump is a million times, she is not even in the same category as donald trump. >> and even trump's base doesn't like lawlessness, people violating the law. the problem is democrats have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. prosecute, bring up impeachment charges but actually pass legislation, do the common wheel at the same time. it is not easy, as will rogers said, i'm not a member of any organized political party, i'm a democrat, and unfortunately that's proving true. >> it is pathetic it is all on the democrats to figure this out. where are the republicans? >> their reputations is resigned to history to use that phrase. democrats asked for the keys to the car, they're in control of the house, they need to do their job. i say to those worried about political fallout, there wasn't political fallout because of impeachment. caucus was in chaos, gingrich was resigning, incoming speaker was caught in infidelity. four weeks prior, the american people gave congress back to the republicans by popular vote. two years later, democrats picked up one seat, republicans won the po

for, quote, all hands on deck to defeat donald trump. should democrats be worried? $30 million is quite a haul for the president. >> on top of $130 million last year. and usually presidents don't raise money in the midterms when their party is trying to defend, in this case, the house majority. this president did anyway. it didn't help his -- it helped, i think, lose the house for his party, so he's got a colossal, monumental fund-raising advantage. and democrats have got to be very serious about it. i think it's going to cost $50 million this year for the democratic nomination. i want to see who can raise $50 until 2019. >> to get the nomination. >> they have to raise it in 2019. we get to new year's eve and i want to see someone with $50 million raised in my party. and nobody is close yet. >> do you look at the campaign finance numbers when you're judging which one of these democrats you think is most viable? >> i think you have to look at some numbers underneath the top line turnumbers, including burn rates, how much they are spending

just like donald trump. donald trump's grandfather was born in germany. what does it mean when you confuse where your father was born with where your grandfather was born? my father was born in boston. my grandfather was born in ireland and i have never once confused that, but then i'm not 72 years old, i don't have alzheimer's in my family history and i'm not the president of the united states trying to convince nato that i'm not just being mean when i ask nato countries to spend more money on their military. that's what donald trump was actually talking about today when he said that his father was born in germany. he repeatedly said that the united states spends much more on defense than we actually do, and that is the kind of trump falsehood that we probably wouldn't even mention tonight, but in any other presidency that would actually be the hot news of the day. the president doesn't even know how much money we spend on defense. that would be big news. in any other presidency. watching the president today, you had a right to wonder whether the preside

, trump. >> not a single message, it doesn't involve trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump ( cheers and applause ) ♪ - ♪ i'm goin' down to south park ♪ ♪ gonna have myself a time - ♪ friendly faces everywhere ♪ humble folks without temptation ♪ - ♪ i'm goin' down to south park ♪ ♪ gonna leave my woes behind - ♪ ample parking day or night, people spouting howdy neighbor ♪ - ♪ headin' on up to south park, gonna see if i can't unwind ♪ - ♪ [muffled] - ♪ come on down to south park and meet some friends of mine ♪ - ♪ [muffled] a lot of people say, "i'll believe it when i see it" but i tell you what, they got it backwards. because there are certain things in life you can only see when you first believe

trump: she's gone. when it was found that i had more indian blood in me then she did, then it was determined that i had not, but i still had more. that was the end of her 32 years scam on colleges. can you imagine any of those people doing what i am doing? there would be 200 people to show up, if they were president. if they were not, nobody would show up. is that right? [cheers] pres. trump: i have to say, i was saying on the way over -- tell me about the weather. we may have to cancel. are you crazy? can you imagine? i learned this morning they thought you were going to have a big storm, a big, big snowstorm. the people that get it wrong the most are the weather forecasters and the political analyst. [cheers] pres. trump: they said this is a big, big storm. it is going to be hitting green bay. we may have to cancel. i said, like how we are going to cancel -- like hell we are going to cancel. people were standing out 24 hours ago, 32 hours ago, outside. who stood out there for 24 hours? [cheers] pres.

and yesterday was one of those days when trump was full penis, no asteroid. >> president trump is no great student of history but you would think he would have his own family history down. especially if he is going to just bring it up unprompted like he did today. >> have i great respect for angela and i have great respect for the country. my father is german, right, was german. and born in a very wonderful place in germany. and so i have a great feeling for germany. >> except the president's father was born in the bronx. (laughter). >> trevor: you know, this is one of those trump lies where i am just like why are you even doing this. in is nothing to gain. right. sometimes it feels like he has an unlimited lying plan with verizon, like why lie about this, you know like sometimes the way we try to get our steps in, is he trying to reach a certain number of lies on his fit bit every single day, you know it is like oh, i haven't hit my 10,000 yet, my dad was from germany. yes, 10,000. i'm not really at 10,000. i'm another lie. although i will say this, i always felt that trump was raci

trump campaign. she won the popular vote but not the presidency. so i think it's risky. i will say it has served biden surprisingly well and maybe there are a few reasons for that. none of the other candidates are aiming their message squarely at trump in the same way biden is. so biden's not going to stand out. but maybe they'll succeed in baiting trump and trump has certainly taken the bait here. he made him relive what is arguably the lowest point in his presidency a battle for america's soul. listen to this. >> we're reminded again. >> i really believe that. donald trump is the only president who's decided. have to choose hope over fear. unity over division. maybe most importantly truth over lies. >> so this kind of similar to what i ask catherine. is this the message biden should be focusing on or are american's minds made up when it comes to trump's character? >> i think it's a good message. i don't agree eentirely when he says trump was the only president not to folk ons the entire american co

we had 18 people that were trump haters. that includes mr. mueller. he was a trump hater. we finish ed no collusion and n obstruction. we get out the first day and they say, let's do it, again. i say, that's enough. we have to run a country. we have a very great country to run. >> joining me now from indianapolis nbc news correspondent hans nichols white house correspondent ann gurren and msnbc contributor adrienne colrod and rick tyler. so, hans, look, the white house has been relitigating don mcgahn's testimony since the mueller report came out and, obviously, the chief messenger here is the president himself. so, what is the strategy. what do they think that they can do to make sure that former counsel don mcgahn doesn't go before a congressional panel? >> they can also evoke executive privilege and work through the white house counsel office and make sure he doesn't testify in front of the house committee. the political strategy here is to talk about those no collusion and the democrats are unhinged. i'm glad you mentioned, you did steal my line, a lot of it here today

circling trump. a new report says new york prosecutors have moved in on president trump's inner circle interviewing some of his closest former aides and gathering more evidence in the hush money case than anyone previously knew. i won't do it. the president defies demands by democratic lawmakers and vows he won't hand over his tax returns as the deadline set by the head of the house ways and means committee arrives. >>> star pressure. federal prosecutors up the stakes for one of the celebrities in the college admissions scandal in an effort to get her to plead guilty. we want to welcome viewers in the united states and around the world. i am wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> breaking news tonight. outrage among congressional democrats after a bombshell statement from the attorney general, william barr. in his second day of testimony on capitol hill, he claimed that the fbi or the intelligence agencies may have spied on the 2016 trump presidential campaign. at the same time, "the wall

every candidate is anti-trump. was the firsten two, forcefully and say the house should come out with articles of impeachment but every candidate is anti-trump. they all want to be him. the question is which candidate is anti-trump vote here's what i bring to the table. former vice president joe biden's plants. a video announcement is expected on wednesday. there was a report that he traveled to charlottesville, for a series of speeches. have you heard in the -- we have not heard anything definitive, have you? >> no. we don't even know where he will bases campaign. it be based in scranton, pennsylvania, his hometown? i think for joe biden, i'm not sure all of the early strategizing really matters in the end. joe biden is jumping in late and will have to post very impressive. the number is all about name recognition. it is difficult to break out of the pack and leap ahead. a remarkable aspect of pete buttigieg's candidacy, that he has succeeded in doing that. the first round of debates are in june and that is a bett

you lost the trump. nobody should have ever lost to trump. you could do it again. doebts go with having a lot of fun in next year and a half following the flavor of the month stuff. don't enjoy yourself. sober up. pick the best candidate to beat trump. nobody wants to be around the democratic party the day after losing to trump twice. nobody will be forgiven for that. shake yourselves up, sober up and pick the guy that can prevent this guy from staying in the white house for as he put it, eight years. >> former governor, form eer mayor, former district attorney, you're a co-supporter but this is the old fashioned way of raising money. not the digital, small donors. not the way bernie sanders has stacked up so much money. joe biden would have to raise $100,000 a day just to match what bernie has banked by the beginning of april. >> it's a formidable task. i think they will do well in mail. bernie raised $100,000 by the end of 2015 but hillary had 60,000. i think joe has the potential to raise a lot of money from small dono donors. i know chris knows what i'm talking

organization, trump foundation, anything to do with the trump inaugural committee. there's a lot of continuing investigations. that doesn't mean people like donald trump jr., jared kushner, his security clearances, things like that yet, they're not out of the crosshairs. >> katie phang, good morning to you. hope you have a good easter in miami. >>> why tomorrow could be a pivotal day in congress on whether to proceed with impeachment proceedings. ceed wi impeachment proceedings. ♪ every day, visionaries are creating the future. ♪ so, every day, we put our latest technology and unrivaled network to work. ♪ the united states postal service makes more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. ♪ because the future only happens with people who really know how to deliver it. because toh!futuroh!nly hoh!ens with people ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven

she helped president trump. we see "the new york timeses" .esterday they had an editorial it implies kristjen nielsen said no. i disagree with that characterization. wayink she helped pave the for a lot of these policies that are continuing. wewe see her replacement was to cacarry out what he calls binary likes -- choice, sort of sophie's choice. these parents travel to bring their children to safety in america are told you have a choice. you can agree to let us take your child w while we detain you while you seek asylum or you can detained the child with you. wewe have heard ababout the hore conditions and these facilities. that is kind of what she opened the gates for host of amy: what about the people who say no? >> i'm glad you brought that up. people say no and the courts and at the local level. in the courts we saw two huge victories. kristjen nielsen was to work with trump's son-in-law and close advisor jared kushner i'm getting mexico to agree to hold people while they were seeking asylum instead of lett

donald trump, he won't change. what will remain unchanged is trump's affinity for obstructing investigations. trump's attacks on the judiciary go all the way back to the campaign where he maligned judge curiel regarding his bogus university, whatever that was. donald trump is hardwired to malign law enforcement. and the fact that he got an enabler, a cheerleader and an apologist in the attorney general is as big of a story today as what we're about to learn from the 22 month long mueller investigation. >> part of the way he excused it was by saying the president was under a lot of pressure because a number of his associates was under investigation. a number of those associates are criminals. they have now at the end of the investigati investigation, some of them pled guilty and been convicted. for the attorney general to say it's okay for him to go and ask for the end of investigations into his criminal associates is really an astonishing thing for an attorney general to do. >> we're coming up on one minute away fr

and that infamous 2016 trump tower meeting between donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer. >> whether these contacts were sufficiently illicit or not to rise to the level of a criminal conspiracy, they are unquestionably dishonest, unethical, immoral, and unpatriotic. >> reporter: those contacts continued after the election, including incoming national security adviser's call to sergey kislyak about sanctions imposed by president obama. to the fallout of the report continues today, with not only democrats, but also now republican senator mitt romney releasing this statement today after reading through the report, saying, "i am also appalled that among other things, fellow citizens working in the campaign for president welcomed help from russia, including information that had been illegally obtained, that none of them acted to inform american law enforcement. reading the report is a sobering revelation of how far we have strayed from the aspirations and principles of the founders." now, i've been speaking to white house officials who, of course, jake, g

it lends legitimacy to a trump conspiracy theory. the former director of the cia under president obama. director, spying. why is trump and his cronies including the new ag using that word? >> i was very disappointed in what he said about spying when referring to the investigation that was predicated certainly and the fbi was trying to understand what the russians were doing. u.s. intelligence agencies were spying against foreign adversaries so we can understand the threat to our national attorney. for him to say they were spying domestically, he knows the language and terminology and know what is it connotes. it is an extra legal taking place. we know now it is incontrovertible the russians were trying to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. >> according to the language this guy, barr, i don't like him much because of this game he's playing here. a state trooper working at night along a state highway and he's watching and sees somebody is going over 70 miles an hour. is he spying on the cars or doing his job? this word spying

i've seen trump who never apologizes. but biden is the only politician who says he'll stop doing something while doing it. if joe biden was robbing a bank, he would be, like, this is completely inappropriate, i should been doing this. i understand. hand me a bag -- i've learned so much and will do better in the future. ( laughter ) i think joe biden doesn't get it, which is great news because guys who don't get it is one of the most powerful voting blocs in america. moving on, vlad, president of russia and hairless grizzly bear. according to a new report, putin's security team is apparently using a device that scrambles g.p.s. signals wherever he goes. a completely true story. researchers figured this out because they noticed, for example, when president putin was driving near the ocean, all the ships nearby, their g.p.s. systems suddenly told them they were on land 40 miles away. ( laughter ) it just scrambled g.p.s. in the cars nearby, waze started speaking in a russian accent -- (russian accent) next, drive into lake.

that starts when the department of justice sues donald trump, fred trump, his father and trump's management for racist rental statuses and many offices and apartments in brooklyn, queens, in staten island. donald trump is put in a position where he has to fight that. he has not done much. he's still known at that time of the son of fred trump. that case in the worse possible case for donald trump could have sort of killed him in the crib before even started doing what he did. with the hotel and trump tower. what does he do to fight against that case? he hires notorious attorney, roy cohn, who not only mounts a defense for donald trump particularly but kind of gives donald trump a young and impressionable donald trump a tutorial on how to fight the department of justice and how to fight any entity or institution that's attacking you, that's getting in your way from going where you want to go and doing what you want to do. so the cohen's play book, deny, delay, counter attack and shamelessness as a weapon. here we are 50 years later, we see a lot of white cohn and donald trump. and the white

the donald trump tax reform, donald trump and republicans were dishonest about this. they said that democrats they tried to get democrats involved and couldn't get them solved. that was not true. they designed this process to go around democrats and on the paul ryan point, i want to add one thing. we get into a paul of ryan in this book. i think a lot of people close to him would say his take away was he trashed donald trump throughout the entire 2016 campaign. he didn't endorse him. he was very fervently against trump. we have a chapter called "not a trump guy" about paul ryan. but then donald trump won and paul ryan felt like he had two choices. there was a fork in the road. he could either concede he lost the argument and stay in government and what he thought was keep the government on the rails. he said he didn't want to the just never trump and take his toys home or he could leave. he chose to stay in government. >> but ended up driving the republicans into a defeat in the house of representativeses. we could go on and on about this. thank you very much, jake sh

we were doing trump tower. so it was from '80 to '84 we were building trump tower. at that time there were about ten people in the organization. that's it. >> he doesn't own a backhoe, a truck or a crane, t a licensing building put my name on your building for "x." >> when i was working for him he owned the building. so no, he didn't do any work. we contracted it out. >> when you hear that he is fighting a congressional subpoena with a counter lawsuit because it's about the release of his financials, does that make sense to you? >> sure. every time he had any problem at all he'd sue immediately and if there was a dispute h liked to be the plaintiff. i'll sue first. he thought that was an advantage. here he was going to be the plaintiff, but the idea was to delay. i think that's what's behind this. maybe avoid getting those financial records out before, you know, the next election comes up. >> what's it like for you? it's been two years plus to watch. i have friends from high school, can't believe i get paid for doing anything. i mean, for you to watch this guy who w

. >> donald trump can't win but the donald trump can sure as hell lose it. they are the party that seeks their own political death and they'll find a way, this impeachment question is one where you have two options. you can try to do an impeachment thing that'll go nowhere in the senate. there is no scenario than any human being says right now that donald trump will be convicted. >> mitch mcconnell. >> you won't get 50%. >> mitchell dragged mansions and others back. there is no scenario where he's removed by impeachment. what does it do? it rubs up donald trump's space and raises him $200 million, we'll get an e-mail saying send me five bucks for donald trump being thrown out of office. it won't haves political impact. donald trump has no moral center, and no shame. you can't shame the shameless. what does work is to run investigations into all these things that are legitimate investigations of the actions of the campaign of donald trump himself and the things that have gone arnds him and all these people, the things that mueller could not touch and things h

not just trump tower moscow. trump has decades of links with organized crime and very murky sources of funding that raise questions about whether anyone has a tether on him. that hasn't fully been answered. mueller chose not to dig into that. we have several committees in congress looking at this issue, the new york attorney general and southern district of new york. i think what unites this shouldn't be a partisan or ideological issue. it's about good government. it's about transparency at the co-leadership and good public policymaking not corrupted by greed or self-interest. >> you've been sued by trump. i imagine you're not surprised that he took this route as a sitting president of roping his kids in, surprise surprise, and suing the banks so they can't comply. >> also ironically one of the plaintiffs in this case is the trust he set up to ostensibly keep him from conflicts of interest. that entity is suing about disclosures. trump has been doing this since 1973. roy cone taught him how to weapon size the leg