donald trump lost it completely. he was in the oval office with mike pence and other aides about hiring a replacement for jim comey. the vacancy that set the special counsel appointment in motion. the times said he launched in a volley of insults, saying his appointment was one of the worst dirgss trump ever made. also calling him a quote, idiot and saying he should resign. we know in public trump says many things about russia. but this is fascinating and important potentially because it is in private. the "times" account saying trump saw this as basically the worst thing that his presidency and erupted in rare self-criticism about his decision to hire sessions. remember, trump could have asked jeff sessions about potential recusal before hiring. trump didn't do that simple thing because he wasn't prepared for the job interview and he shows little interest in staffing the federal government. this shows the response was to oust the attorney general so he could get a new one that would not be recused and thus give trum

trump." whoever it is, whether it is mike pence or anybody, how much of that can be repaired? because america is more than just one president. >> i think it can be repaired. i am confident in the united states that that could be repaired. all of our allies will come back to us. a weird aberration going on right now. they have their own problems. some of these countries have their own similar problems with great britain was the brexit debate and all. it is a confusing period of time, but i think we can right the ship and four years. in eight years, it may do permanent damage, but right now, we have earned enough credibility in the world to be iten the offer with him that just got out of control, particularly with the russia scandal, the internet. this was the of perfect storm of confusion, and this happens from time to time in world history. america will get a pass in a couple of years. very optimistic. we separate the russian people from the russian leaders. the iranian people, we have no gri

spoiler alert, trump wins. brieflyatie, take us , andbeing in the press pen in the hallway outside of morning joe, in new hampshire. katie: it's interesting to share that nickname with marco rubio and kim jong-un, who is also little rocket man. 2015, robert,f you can attest to this, not many folks were taking donald trump as a candidate seriously. , ands creating controversy nbc news dropped his news from the network. macy's was dropping him, univision was dropping him. nbc news said we have to have a reporter covering trump's campaign, and i was literally standing around the newsroom, so they assigned me to it. >> it takes six months? ms. tur: it was going to take six weeks, because he wasn't going to release his tax returns -- his financial information. surely, he would get laughed off stage. everybody was wrong about his prospects. we got lucky because we started taking it seriously much earlier than anyone else did. i would be following donald trump from campaign rally to campaign rally for months on end ,

trump. we'll show you that historic moment as it happened this morning on "fox & friends." today is only day of the trump tax cut crusade and one of the key players in the trump tax cut crusade is already skeptical about the trump tax proposal. any guesses who that might be? we're going to give you about a minute, maybe more to tweet us your guesses about who on team trump is already skeptical of the trump tax cut and the one hint that i can give you is the last name begins with a "t." >> tax reform is going to make health care look like a piece of cake. >> the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you have ever seen. >> there's not a table in here. it's unbelievable. they don't have the numbers. >> this is not a -- again, a tax reform. it's a tax giveaway's the the no a tax cut for the rich. >> the idea that the rich don't benefit from this is patently false. >> there's middle class families with a tax increase under this plan, right? >> there's an exception to every rule. >> that's a

trump, jr. is giving up secret service protection. now, the president's eldest son elected to forgo this service. trump, jr. lives in new york city, works at the trump organization, avid camper and hunter and says he wants more privacy than he can get with a bunch of agents following him. >> trevor: i love as donald, jr. is giving up security, they're reporting exactly where he will be and when. ( laughter ) donald trump, jr. will no longer be protected. he won't be protected when he was at work in trump tower, new york city or home on sutton place. and this is his phone number and don't forget he will be completely unguarded while camping in the berkshires! when donald trump, jr. heard this i bet he was, like, can i get them back?! being followed all the time has to be ayou noiing. he used to be able to go out in the woods and spend time alone with his favorite log, yeah? ( laughter ) then all of a sudden he had to share log. awww... yes, but now he's out there on his own. don't worry about his

>> donald trump jr. is going to be giving a speech at the university of north texas to the tune of 100 grand. and the questions will be provided to him in advance. >> evan? >> foreign policy circles are getting worried about china's aggressive expansion. they've been going using the one-belt policy to go into africa, greece, the bahamas, jamaica. >> that is going to do it for tonight. that's all for "hardball" right now. chris matthews, he returns next week. join him tuesday. special guest al frank. . the rachel maddow show starts now. >> thanks to you at home for joining us at this hour. rachel will be back next week. now we have a ton and a half to tell you about this evening. the white house has spent the week hinting and signaling about an eminent decision from the president on the fate of 800,000 young immigrants in this country. and tonight we have some surprising news from that story which we did not see coming and we'll be getting to that news tonight. but tonight the chemical plant that we've be

the trump people. more maybe just maybe it was the smell of the swamp as well. the smell of the rot at the top. a big shot using private and military jets to ease their official trips. maybe it was that, too, that led him to what he's just done. tonight president trump fired health and human services secretary tom price after price was unable

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trump. >> hi, north dakota. >> she actually said, daddy, can i go with you? i like that. >> why do republicans continue to stand by him? >> i do what's right. that's all. >> gop congressman duncan hunter summed up the core ideology of the modern gop best, quote, he's an ass [ bleep ], but he's our ass [ bleep ]. >> sometimes they'll say, you know, he can't be that bad of a guy. look at ivanka. >> the resistance walked into the oval office today, sat down on a sofa, and trumped trump. the two members of the resistance in the oval office today who outsmarted the president were chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. watching the president make the worst deal he could possibly have made in that room today was a group of stunned republicans including the congressional leadership, the president's own treasury secretary, and his vice president. white house staffers apologized to the republicans as they were leaving for the truly horrible deal for republicans that donald trump accepted. he did not negotiat

of the trump campaign. he grew up in richmond, virginia, went to virginia tech, georgetown and harvard business school. he worked for goldman sachs, became a filmmaker. last week i went to washington to talk with steve bannon about politics, economic nationalism, about president trump and about other issues that face this country. we recorded the conversation at his home which is also the office for breitbart news. two segments of that conversation appeared on "60 minutes" last night. here's an excerpt from that broadcast. >> donald trump's a fighter, great counterpuncher, great counterpincher. he's a fighter. i'm going to be his wink man from the outside the entire time. >> rose: you will not be attacking donald trump. >> no, our purpose is to support donald trump. by the way -- >> rose: and destroy his enemies? >> to make sure his enemies know that there is no free shot or goal. after the charlottesville situation, i was the only guy who defended him, who said he's talking about something, taking it to a

trump and they wanted to see mr. trump's tax returns, they would have to get a court order, an ex parte or what is called a 6-e. the u.s. attorney will get a judge to sign off on it. years ago when i started, that used to be a simple one or two-paragraph form letter, but that 6-e has morphed into a search warrant affidavit where you have to establish almost probable cause to show the connection of the tax returns to your investigation and to the potential criminal violation. so it's certainly a lot easier to have irs involved to get the tax returns, but there are still internal hurdles that they have to jump over to get them. but it's a lot easier, much easier. >> we're going to have to leave it there for tonight. thank you for joining us tonight. i think we're going to need you more as this investigation continues. thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >> thank you for inviting me. >>> coming up, millions of people are in the grip of fear this long weekend in america, not because of a nat

>> will that be coming from trump personally as opposed to the trump phofoundation or the trump organization? >> i know that the president, he said he was personally going to give. i don't know the legal part of exactly that, but he said his personal money, so i would assume that comes directly from him. >> david farenthold never assumed that, which is why he now has a pulitzer prize. the other question to always ask about any trump promise on charitable giving is when can we see the receipt and a copy of the actual cashed check? the other way for donald trump to prove he's made a charitable contribution is, of course, to show us his tax returns, but we might only see those if robert mueller introduces them as an exhibit in a courtroom. and so today the president added a white house press briefing room stunt about charitable giving to his response to hurricane harvey. we'll have more on the president's response to hurricane harvey next with ana marie cox and charlie sykes. check it out! self-appendectomy! oh, that's really attached. that's why i rent from national. where i get the control to

when trump tells the n.f.l. owners you should fire these players, if they don't fire the players they're basically going against the president, right? and if the players take a knee, now they're going against the president. but you realize until this weekend, the knee had nothing to do with the president. nothing at all to do with trump! ( applause ) at all! collin kaepernick started kneeling back when obama was in office. this had nothing to do with donald trump. luckily, to the n.f.l.'s credit, they stood up to the bully in chief. >> the president versus the players. hundreds of athletes sending a message to president trump. >> from coast to coast, even in london, players sending that message to the president from the football field linking arms like patriots quarterback tom brady, some kneeling, raising fists. >> the majority of football players choosing to stay in the locker room till after the anthem was over. some singers taking a knee along with players. >> owners throwing support behind their teams, from

look at president trump. not only do you have a special prosecutor and grand jury's, but you have on capitol hill, with republican leadership, three separate committees. two in the senate and one in the house. they are investigating subpoenas. they have had big breaks already. charlie: in a republican-controlled congress. steve: i know. look at that for a second. if you look at the nullification -- that's one of the reasons i left the white house. look at this, the nullification of this election, i don't think it's coming from the left. you have the democratic party, the corporatists, all this, i think they are second or third tier, which i will get to. but clearly the republican leadership has allowed three committees to be run, clearly by democrats. i see adam schiff on tv all the time. mark warner is running the senate committee. can you imagine, let's take it in political physics -- can you imagine if hillary clinton would and chuck schumer and nancy pelosi were the heads of the senate and house, that you

trump. they only pay for legal fees related to the russia matter if your name is donald trump. one might imagine if you were sean spicer or mike pence or hope hicks or don or reince priebus or jared kushner or staffers who had to hire their own high-powered criminal defense lawyers on the russia matter, one might imagine that might be a sticking point, right? possibly a point of resentment that you're stuck paying what are likely to be millions of dollars for your own legal fees while the billionaire president and his son and heir donald trump junior get their legal bills covered by opm, not the office of personnel management but other people's money. how does that sit with you if you're looking at bankrupting your family to pay your legal fees for a scandal involving donald trump while donald trump doesn't have to pay a thing. as i say, there is always a personal dimension and stay tuned, we've got a little bit of news on that front and that seemingly unsustainable dynamic within trump worl

asked republicans who voted for trump. have yourself a trump supporter or republican? 58% said i'm a trump supporter. tells you about the takeover of the republican party, yes, significant and tells you how much those republicans are using trump as their cue. minor note, though. don't forget nancy pelosi still has a 40% negative and independents don't like anybody running congress. we immediate need to toss that >> nancy pelosi used to stand alone, and chuck schumer not as well known, paul ryan and mitch mcconnell essentially caught up with nancy pelosi. >> right. one way of saying it. the thing that's different between pelosi and schumer and the two republicans, ryan and mcconnell, nancy pelosi and schumer are still popular with democrats. as your graph showed, senator mcconnell is unpopular with republicans and trump voters. the interesting question we asked in the poll about divided republican party, fun to talk about is -- among 36% of republicans said only 36% happy with the job ryan/mcconnell are doing in washington. that's republican voters. >> look, this isn't

trump supporter. voted for every winning governor candidate in virginia since 1980. every winning senator candidate since 1980, and you count up, democrats and republicans, that means, i voted for every winning presidential candidate since 1980 except for one. and that's because i like the vp. you have to get that tax reform done. the final word is this. this is what we trump supporters expected. we knew that donald trump would try and try again, and if he couldn't get the deal, he would make a compromise. and that's what he did on the travel ban. ban to getthe travel along looks what he's doing with daca. if you are voting for all of the winning candidates, major candidate in the gubernatorial election in virginia? even get gillespie is going to win that one? i think the democrat, mr. northam has a healthy lead. the competitor monuments are not a sleeper issue, it's a wide-awake issue now. that could play a role in rallying the right for gillespie. gillespie has a real struggle threading the needle b

and i think president trump has decided that he's the only person who can be a distraction in trump's washington. he doesn't like other people taking up that oxygen, and i think that if anything, it's a fairly good sign that price went. i must admit i'm a little surprised because what president trump has done throughout the campaign and throughout the now almost ten months or so he's been president is defy all the norms, all the definitions that we're accustomed to. and the usual life cycle of these things, you all know this, is there will be a story, there will be a period of defiance and then ultimately the person goes of the i thought when this first starred that trump to stick his thumb in the eye of the establishment yet again would hold on and defend him. so the fact that price is gone i do think should send a chilling affect to those other cabinet members. >> generally speaking when you see a cabinet secretary leave, questions start to swirl and names start to surface as to who is going to replace him. there is some sense that the health and human services secretary in this adm

congress forcing president trump into a new round of sanctions on moscow do you feel that drone trumps compay to idea of and then this spat with russia is now a dad for good absolutely not it's in america's interest and accords with america's values to to to find a rapprochement with russia so why is it that trump who didn't want to pass new sanctions was corner of into doing that by congress which is controlled by his own party why are republicans working against their own president well it's trump is not a cradle republican if if you understand what i mean he ran on the republican ticket but his allegiance to the republican party is weak and the republican party's allegiance to donald trump is weak and this was intraparty warfare but it would seem like as time goes on it's in others interest to kind of bond why isn't trump succeeding in getting them on his side. well there is a lot of hostility from the republican regulars for donald trump they've they've tamp it down because he did run on the republican ticket is at least nominally a republican and they do prefer a party unity but t

donald trump a bum? donald trump a bum? bum is such a great old timey sports insult. [ light laughter ] he talks about the president the way guys in fedoras used to talk about a 42-year-old overweight boxer, "he's a bum." [ light laughter ] there were so many memorable responses to the president's comments this weekend, but if you were angry and frustrated, you might have found some catharsis in this tweet, from buffalo bills running back, lesean mccoy, who wrote, "it's really sad, man, our president is an ass[ bleep ]." [ cheers and applause ] and i have to say -- the most devastating part of that is the ellipsis, you can almost see mccoy tensing his fingertips and going, hmm, how shall i put this, ah, i know, accurately. [ light laughter ] because you think he's gearing up for a longer rant, and then he just calls the president an ass[ bleep ]. [ light laughter ] that's like sending a friend a text that says, "i have something very important i need to tell you." and then typing for ten minutes so all t

. >>> donald trump says tom price is a good man and the trump administration is doing a good job responding to the unfolding catastrophe in puerto rico. >> i think he's a very fine person. i certainly don't like the optics. >> health and human services tom price has resigned. >> it's the kind of thing that really makes people mad about washington. the idea that they're living high on the hog on our tax dollars and not doing people's business. >> price is paying the price, pun intended, because it's a bad week for trump. >> i'm not happy, okay? i can tell you, i'm not happy. >> millions of residents are still focusing on the bare essentials. food, water, fuel, money to get through sweltering days on an island devastated by hurricane maria. >> i am begging, begging anyone that can hear us to save us from dying. >> we have done an incredible job considering there's absolutely nothing to work with. >> the government is saying we have a lot of support but i don't see it. really. at least not yet. >> i am done being polite. i am done being politically correct. i am mad as hell. >> very satisfied,

i mean on donald trump. he said donald trump made the biggest mistake in modern political history. >> someone said to me that you described the firing of james comey. you're a student of history. as the biggest mistake in political history. >> that would be probably -- probably be too bombastic for me but maybe modern political history. >> the firing was the biggest mistake in modern political history? >> if you're saying that's associated with me, i'll leave it at that. >> back with us, peter baker, judge sugarman, this might be one of the best pictures delivered of why the trump white house is the incoherent mess it appears to be. >> well, look. you know, there's no question that the firing of james comey added to the president's troubles. i think anybody in washington with experience would have told him that. you -- there's a reason presidents don't fire the people investigating their teams, because in fact, of course, it raises the question seemingly being investigated by robert mueller. whether that con

this was part of a trump trifecta. he takes senator, a vulnerable democrat in north dakota on his plane to north dakota, which is a presidential courtesy. then he goes beyond courtesy by saying something that can and will be used in all her ads as she runs for re-election saying good woman. i like her basically. before that. he has says i was opposed to it until i was for it because it congress to legalize it. that's step one and two. let me play for you, nancy pelosi, talking about a different issue in her action with trump. >> he said thanks for calling. this is what we need. people really need a reassurance from. from you, mr. president. that the six-month period is not a period of round-up. i was reporteding to my colleagues. i said this is what i asked the president to do and boom, boom, boom, the tweet appeared. that was good. >> and here's the tweet that she said, for all those daca that are concerned that your status during six-month period, you have nothing to worry about. no action. >> enforcement discretion

caller: i voted for donald trump. i hurt so much inside myself, because i believed in this world-class businessmen, that he was going to use his experience and education to help this country get out of the trouble it is in, and he lied to me. going to do everything you want, and he is doing the opposite. i can't believe that he killed so many people so easily, let's our military run our country, like we can just kill whoever we want. in this are so afraid country, they are afraid to walk out the door because they don't know if they are going to be killed by a villain or a cop. host: robert in michigan, independent color. caller.endent up,er: people better wake reading the bible, deuteronomy 28. -- if you obey god. in deuteronomy 29, all the curses will come upon you if you disobey. we are under curse because we disobeyed god. abortion, all of this. god is not going to put up with it. you people can talk all you want up there. all the talk you have done, and there is nothing to be done. the people running our country a

trump told mr. sessions that choosing him to be attorney general was one of the worst decisions he had made. called him an idiot and said that he should resign. mr. sessions told the president he would quit and sent a resignation later to the white house. according to four people, mr. sessions would later tell associates that the demeaning way the president addressed him was the most humiliating experience in decades of public life. and that's coming from a guy humiliated by the united states senate when the senate refused to confirm him as a federal judge in 1986. it was after that that jeff sessions got his revenge on the senate by running for a senate seat and winning. mr. trump ended up rejecting mr. sessions' may resignation letter after senior members of the administration team said it would only create more problems for a president who had already fired a fbi director, national security adviser. mr. trump once again in july told aides he wanted to remove mr. sessions but for a second time did

are you encouraged a little by pelosi and schumer working with trump. of course i am because the idea that when people talk together they work i read it work i release it and you just simply draw lines and be a wall the thing happens but if they convince them to to get above the baka deal you know bach is not is not just about mixing he had this about twin valves out admin who came into any bowler for two thousand haitians and black which is about africa's about eight hundred thousand people grew up in this country should be able to stay here so they get a movement of some like that that they must come for the that may happen and that's a good deal. thank you jesse always great talking with the thank you larry thanks for joining me on this edition of politicking remember you can jam examiner sation on my facebook page or treat me of king's things in nova get use the politics the hash tag and that's all for this edition of politicking. about your sudden passing i phone lee just learned you worry yourself and taken your last turn. up to us we all knew it

trump. and that was a line in the middle of the four paragraph that the president sent to let him know why he was being canned. >> while i greatly appreciate you informing me three separate occasions i was not under investigation. i nevertheless concur with the department of justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau. it's a point that's been important to the president. he stressed it again the next week in an interview with nbc's lester holt. >> we had a very nice dinner. and at that time he told me you are not under investigation which i knew anyway then during the phone call he said it. and then during another phone call he said it. he said it once at dinner and then he said it twice during phone calls. >> did you call him? >> in one case i called him in one case he called me. >> did you ask am i under investigation. >> i actually asked him, yes. i said if it's possible would you let me know, am i under investigation. and he said you are not under investigation. >> now,

trump's view, donald trump's tone is roy moore. and it's not even close. why did he do it? mercurial. at the time he did it he was trying to do nice, do mcmcconnell a favor, do republican senators a favor saying, look, i'm going to fight with you guys not against you guys. you saw it in his speech in alabama last friday night. he clearly had second thoughts of this. the deleting of the tweets. the internet remembers, of course. but the hedging. if roy moore wins, i will be down here campaigning for him. i think he didn't necessarily know what he was geting into this. once he did, he did, to his credit, go down and try to help luther strange. this is another vote for donald trump's agenda. yes, it's a short-term loss. he was with the guy who didn't win. i guarantee you he will blame this externally or internally on mitch mcconnell. it's a long term gain. >> he hasn't shown any ability to control the population in congress that roy moore is going to be. >> mcconnell hasn't. >> neither has donald trump. those people who are far out th

but look at the people around president trump. i have not seen a better national security team in my political lifetime. general mattis is an excellent secretary of defence, general kelly, the chief of staff, general mcmaster, dan coats, the director of national intelligence. so he has surrounded himself with very quality people we have a traditional view of the world, from a republican point of view, and i think we're going to be fine. well, it surprises me you say that, in a way, because if one looks at your own thoughts about donald trump, you have, over time, expressed your own grave reservations about him. every day! about his abilities as commander—in—chief? during the campaign, i thought some of the things he was saying i thought were incendiary and unhelpful but now he is commander—in—chief and i would say this. the muslim ban was a shaky start. the courts rejected his efforts to restrict people coming into america, because it appeared to be a ban on a religion, and you can't do that in the united states. his decis

trump will be trump and he will revert to trumpness. even if he sticks at the teleprompter, who knows what's going to happen. >> sure. >> that's the most dangerous thing. it's not belligerence can be a strategy. in trump's case, it's not a strategy. it's just random spurts of crazy. >> yeah. >> unfortunately, you know, they can shake the world as the president of the united states. >> that's the art of the deal. >> that's the art of the deal. that was not written by donald trump. >> deep-based art form. >> we have a situation, colonel, where we have a dirt erth -- >> you can put up the list of who's missing in the diplomatic posts. we're missing diplomatic posts, two out of four boxes are not there. we have an acting -- we have an unfilled assistant secretary for eastern asia. the u.s. ambassador to south korea is an unfilled position. we don't even have full staff. how can there also be these stories that there is parallel background planning for a potential war with north korea if we don't have a fully staffed state department? >> wha

trump volume one. we have it printed and bound as a physical reminders that his digital words are these signs of our time and we'll be studying it for centuries. these tweets since he declared his run of the 45th president of the united states. he's new testament. the genesis of this story begins tens of thousands of tweets ago. >> here to present the top ten list, celebrity apprentice star, donald trump. >> way back in 2009 when his first tweet was implode to watch david letterman's top ten list. >> sell dakota to the chinese. [ laughter ] >> what's remarkable is on that day, only four people reacted to it. only four people react to what's arguably the most important influential social media account ever. [ applause ] >> two number, we are screwed. >> yeah, that's right. >> fitting because that tweet marked the low point. he was coming out of the bankruptcy again. >> "the apprentice" was in deep falling. the only thing worth of bankruptcy is soobscurity. >> the twitter of the era, right? >> that was a

trump before he became president trump would be intimately familiar with the first two prongs of that. michael cohen is a notorious figure in this steel dossier, let completely unverified document that we first learned of late last year. but he was also involved in mr. trump's business dealings that have come under scrutiny from bob mueller the special counsel, who just last week actually added a 16th attorney to his team, an attorney who specializes in money laundering and financial improprietaries. clearly the senate on tuesday will be keen to get the attorney michael cohen's input on any knowledge he may have on the question of collusion or money laundering as it pertains to the trump empire. >> and does the fact that it now appears to be expanded to be involved individuals that just worked on the campaign to include individuals in trump's inner circle, professional circle, even family relationships, does it signal that the investigation is expanding in its scope? >> well, it certainly seems to be. this is an investigation that has taken multiple turns and we should say there are m

attack on trump then that opened the door for the neo cons to put pressure on trump and then what does trump trump as a tremendous politico wonderful political intuition that people under underestimate are and on the neocon. and the democrats are coming after him so he's going to out on the neo-con but by embracing them and being even more neo con so it's in part for him it's a tactical adjustments a very interesting one of their own way this is the way he did it's a very very he defends himself and this is the way the neocons take over the administration michael in washington. do you i think it's unprecedented we have a president that has so many former military staff generals in service and retired i mean this is that that's and that create a different mindset about looking at security and military policy when inside the white house and not the pentagon go ahead michael. thank you peter just one quick point though on this neo-con issue and as you know even though i agree with much of what's being said i'm a little more sympathetic to the fact the president has wound up in these more

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and the trump name, the trump brand, the trump personality is always going to come first. let the record show, his first ever words at the united nations as the president of the united states was about the apartment building on first avenue across from the u.n. one would think tomorrow in a more formal setting, he would stick closer to the teleprommer than today, which was a smaller speech. he only spoke for about four minutes. and as discussed, he did sort of chide the u.n. a little bit about bloated bureaucracy and perhaps having an unfulfilled mission across the globe and its soaring costs, but he did so not nearly with the scold in his voice like he did in may in brussels. >> 30 seconds, you get the last word. do you think the weight of the north korean situation will be evident in him tomorrow? >> yeah, absolutely. i think that he seems to feel this. i mean, i think a lot of these foreign policy issues like afghanistan, you get a feeling he's not that interested in afghanistan even though he claimed in his speech he studied it from every angle. you don't get the sense

i am a trump supporter. i agree with trump, but i don't agree with democrats or republicans for 40 years laying games with immigration and the border. why can't they just make a deal that covers all immigration problems, the wall, the people, makingit, and stop deals? that is crack. host: is that dealmaking? i will agree with this if you agree with that? guest: yes, it is. -- caller: yes, it is. host: robert costa, i will let you jump in. caller: when you think -- guest: when you think back, a lot of lawmakers are saying why don't we have an umbrella piece of legislation that covers a wall and border and penalties? it deals with people who are living in the shadows and people who have children here. the only way in this divided congress to get something done is to do it big. maybe that is not possible. you see the move forward incrementally on daca. the senate leadership and house leadership on the republican side is wary of the president doing this but still trying to deal with immigration on some level. th

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

donald trump, jr. made public his testimony. you've seen the media get away from trump -- this was a focused message on foreign policy and the democratic short-term deal. a level of shows maturation and a level of savviness that the president seems to be enjoying. scarlet: just to recap those headlines -- donald trump jr. has finished his testimony to the senate judiciary committee staff. in the statement that he delivered, he says "i did not collude with any foreign government. " julia: i don't think we would expect him to say anything else. marty: he is trying to be transparent. he released a complete email chain to get ahead of this issue and now, he's doing the same thing. i think it is an effective strategy. julia: i want to ask you about north korea as well. -- weook a lot of focus could perhaps see another missile launch this weekend. it is clearly having an impact on the markets, some degree of nervousness. heard a more moderate tone saying a military response here is not inevitable. speakingesident trump on message on t

and trump? >>> these are the collected tweets of donald j. trump, volume one. we had them printed and bound as a physical reminder that his digital words are the sign of our times and will be studied for centuries. these are his tweets since he declared his run for the 45th president of the united states. his ever expanding new testament, if you will. but the genesis of this story begins tens of thousands of tweets ago. >> and here top present the top ten list the celebrity apprentice star, donald trump, ladies and gentlemen. >> way back in 2009 when his very first tweet was a plug to watch him read david letter man's top ten list. >> number seven, sell north dakota to the chinese. >> what's remarkable is on that day only four people react to it. only four people react to what's arguably the most important influenceel social media account ever. >> number two, we're screwed. >> yeah, that's right. >> fitting because that trump marked a real low point. he was coming out of bankruptcy again. >> wai

very next day trump was celebrating the house passage of trump care in the rose garden. that night he spoke at an vent in new york city and went dark. >> following that health care vote, president trump made his way here to new york city. it's his first trip to his hometown since the inauguration but he didn't stay in manhattan very long opting to spend the night in new jersey. >> in new jersey where the president tweeted a little bit about why it was a good thing he was there. then the only thing on his public schedule for this critical weekend on may 6th was a phone call with the president of peru. he was also spotted golfing that saturday. not by the press but a visitor who posted it on instagram. that's all anyone thu about at the time. behind closed doors now we see from this time's reporting it was during that first weekend in may that the president and his top aide stephen miller were drafting this letter about how to fire comey. at the same time jeff sessions and his deputy were working on a quote, parallel effort to fire jim comey. now we know that weekend was o

is trump oblivious or think his people are. finally let me finish with trump watch. this is "hardball." is essential to the health of our communities. which is why we're helping to replenish the mighty rio grande as well as over 30 watersheds across the country. we're also leading water projects in more than 100 communities. and for every drop we use... we're working to give one back. because our products rely on the same thing as we all do... clean water. and we care about it like our business depends on it. >>> an emotional day at the capitol hill as steve scalise returned to the house floor three months after he was shot at a knkal baseball practice. he entered the chamber on crutches and was met by a a standing ovation from colleagues on both sides of the aisle. and later in his first floor remarks since june 14th, he thanked his friends, family and doctors as well as the capital police officers who saved his life. >> even after being shot both themselves continue d to engage the shooter and ultimately got him down, which not only saved my life but save issed the

and applause ) trump claimed-- ( piano riff ) donald trump claimed he can prove it's bogus because "i have witnesses. you know, i went there with phil ruffin." now, i thought phil ruffin was the arch nemesis of mcgruff the crime dog. "i'll get you, ruffin!" ( laughter ) but it turns out, he's a casino owner friend of trump's. well, let's take a look at this upstanding character witness they call phil ruffin-- oh, yeah, they did it. yeah. yeah, they did it. now, the wildest accusations in that dossier have never been confirmed. but as far as i know, nobody has tried to confirm them. and here's the reason why. the real news, while reporting on the dossier-- your cnns, your msnbcs, your foxs, they said it's too salacious for us to even look into. but it's the only part we care about! it's the part we talk about, the pee pee tape! pee pee tape! pee pee tape! pee pee tape! well, guess what? there was one man brave enough to go to moscow and check it out. and he has two thumbs. ( cheers and applause ) jim? >> stephen: moscow. the heart of mother russia. and the source of the greatest polit

donald trump won her state by 36 points. politically, heidi heitkamp can't afford to turn down a dinner invitation from this white house. not when she represents a state filled with trump voters. it is hard being a democrat in north dakota, especially in the age of trump. and it is hard being a democrat in west virginia and indiana. it is hard for a democrat to win a statewide election in those states. the three democratic senators from those states were invited to dinner at the white house tonight. heidi heitkamp along with joe donnell, indiana, joe manchin of west virginia, they are the only three democratic senators who did not sign senate democratic leader chuck schumer's letter to republican leader mitch mcconnell and to president donald trump outlining the democrats' principles for tax reform, which was the suggest on the table tonight at the white house. three republicans joined the table -- senator john thune of south dakota, pat toomey of south carolina. and the senior member of the delegation, utah's orrin hatch, w

was trump telling the truth? food stamp usage has declined every month since donald trump was elected president. it has declined by 1.3 million. keith ellison triggered outrage when he compared illegal immigrants living in the united states to jews in nazi germany. >> if you ask yourself what would happen if i was a gentile in 1941 if my jewish neighbors were under attack. would i give them sanctuary? what would you do? would you pass that moral test? jesse: earlier this month he compared trump to king george iii. he compared the country to a dictatorship and suggested there should be a separate country tore black people. a high school in fulsome warned students they can no longer chant "usa" during sporting events. remember when a muslim man in oklahoma behead his coworker? the obama administration said it wasn't terrorism. the jury just heard a tape saying he doesn't like white people and he doesn't regret beheading his coworker. and he posted sharia law is coming and exhibiting pictures of beheading by the tal

trump is the brand now. all of these commentators that have been around the brand are going find out they are going to have a miserable day if they think they are going to be able to track that. >> and they are going to seem like the establishment now in a certain sense. the critics that are going of him. i think the problem is the brand still is going to suffer from whatever is going on with the russian investigation and. the problem is not how to win an election but how to win without proving you are unworthy to win. and if that happens the old trump is going to come right back. >> pause it here. even longer segment coming up. but up next, hurricane irma cost lives. untold damage in florida. still no power for many schools many miami. but worse in the u.s. vir we come into this world needing others. then we are told it's braver to go it alone. ♪ that independence is the way to accomplish. ♪ but there is another way to live. ♪ a way that sees the only path to fulfillment- is through others. ♪ that o

trump. that was a line in the middle of the four paragraph letter that the president sent to let comey know why he was being canned. quote, while i graciously appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, i wasn't under investigation, i nevertheless concur with the judgment of the department of justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau. the president stressed it again the next week in an interview with nbc's lester holt. >> we had a very nice dinner. at that time, he told you, you are not under investigation, which i knew anyway. then during the phone call, he said it. then during another phone call, he said it. he said it once at dinner and said it twice during phone calls. >> did you call him? >> in one case, i called him. in one case, he called me. >> did you ask, am i under investigation? >> i asked, yes. i asked, if it is possible, would you let me know, am i under investigation? he said, you are not under investigation. >> now, while we do not know exactl