trump: is there anything better than a trump rally? >> no. mr. trump: what about a sleepy joe biden rally? [booing] mr. trump: some beauties. [laughter] i sort of hope it is him. i don't mind any of them. you got pocahontas is rising. [booing] mr. trump: you got kamala, kamala is falling. [crowd booing] mr. trump: you got beto. [crowd booing] mr. trump: beto is like gone. but we will see what happens, you know, whoever it is, i don't know it matters but different, different people. i think sleepy joe may be able to limp across the finish line. but today they announced that they are going to cut way back on his appearances because he is such a disaster, they are going to have fewer appearances. you've heard that, right? they are going to cut back on his appearances. could you believe it? if i ever did that, it would be over. the fake news would get us, but we don't let them get us because it is fake. and today the deputy editor of the new york times was demoted. isn't that beautiful? [crowd booing] [applause and cheers] mr. trump: all the news tha

i think donald trump is beatable. it's very hard to beat an incumbent president, particularly with the current campaign finance laws in which an incumbent president can raise unlimited money. the last incumbent not in the federal funding system to lose wa herbert hoover and he had a bad year. but it's ominous. if the democrats get their act together and coalesce behind a really good ticket, they should be able to win this race. but i do think, looking at polls now, trying to predict what's going to happen november 2020, is not very useful. >> and stewart, we do know historically that when an incumbent president is challenged in the primaries within his own party, that incumbent president never wins re-election, every single time it's happened. >> yeah, it's interesting. if you sort of drill down, whether or not that's a leading or trailing indicator. the fact that there is a primary, an indication of a larger weakness, and that's why he loses? or the fact that he's in a primary why he loses? the reality is the primari

when he got elected i tried to do the good trump/bad trump thing. give him a pat on the back when he did something good, attack him when he did something bad. i'm on conservative talk show radio, all they want to hear is the seanty b hannity bad. the guy walks on water. to be honest, i didn't pay that much attention to him. i thought he would make a few jokes and that was it. but every time he opened his mouth and he lied and he lost me for sure at helsinki when he stood in front of the world and said i'm with putin, he's my friend, i don't like my intelligence community. that was it and i have never, ever gone back. >> what do you think the best and most effective way, because the idea of his fitness -- >> he's nuts. nuts. >> the truth is that whether people say it disparagingly or affectionately, anyone who comes in contact with him comes away saying he's crazy but this is a hard story to cover and hard attack to make. what are sort of your proof points? >> he's a psychopath, he lies every time he opens his mouth, he's the big of the narcissist we

trump. 54% prefer a democratic party nominee with a strong chance of beating donald trump. 39% prefer a democratic party nominee who shares their positions on major issues. in that poll, joe biden continues to lead the democratic field with 29% of the vote. that is up 7 points since june -- since june and that cnn poll. the poll does not show significant gains for any other candidate. bernie sanders is at 15%. that's up 1 point. elizabeth warren is at 14%. that's down 1 point. kamala harris is down 5% and that's down 12 points since june. pete buttigieg is at 5%. that's just up 1 point. and beto o'rourke is still at 3% with no change since june. no other candidate gets more than 2% of the vote in that poll. there is good polling news for democrats in senate races also. in arizona, a new poll shows the incumbent republican senator martha mcsally not only running below 35 below 50%, which in itself would be a very bad indicator for any incumbent, but it shows her running likely behind her demo

we don't work for donald trump. we work for every day americans and so we have a constitutional responsibility to be as a check and balance on an out-of-control executive branch. we are undertaking a lawful constitutional legislative oversight responsibilitieses. bill barr is rewriting the constitution claiming we have no legitimate purpose. the constitution is our legitimate purpose. >> uh-huh. and that lays out sort of battle in the courts. then you have the specific issue of mr. bill barr. dal la lithwick is a legal scholar, an independent expert, not a part of your democratic team but she has argued here on "the beat" there is a problem with how mr. barr's carrying out his role. take a look. >> it feels like barr sort of leaping in front of the president yet again and saying first and foremost, my interest is not the justice department or the united states people. it's protecting this president. >> win or lose, the courts are ultimately going to decide and it could go to the supreme court which we just heard fro

when he first got elected, i tried to do the whole good trump, bad trump thing. it became pretty clear to me that the man basically lies every time he opens his mouth. i think the guy stokes bigotry. i think he stokes racism. but i think it's all about trump. i don't think he's a racist. it's just all, whatever benefits donald trump, that's all i care about. >> and walsh was elected to congress in 2010 as part of the tea party movement. he served one term. he has a history of incendiary remarks himself, including calling president obama a muslim, enemy and traitor, and during that interview he apologized for that. >> i said some ugly things about president obama that i regret. >> do you believe he's a muslim. >> no, and i've apologized for that. we have a guy in the white house who's never apologized for anything he has done or said. i think it's a weakness not to apologize. i helped create trump. there's no doubt about that. the personal ugly politics. i regret that, and i'm sorry for that. >> and coming up on "morning joe," former congressman joe walsh will be

president trump: i do, i do. the question was, do i see a connection between hong kong and what's going on with the tray talks? i think it -- trade talks? i think if it weren't for the tray talks, honk -- trade talks, hong kong would be in much more trouble. it puts us in a bad position if there is not a humane weight of handling the problem -- way of handling the problem. i let them know, handle it in a humane fashion. i do believe that because of what i am doing with trade, that is very much keeping down the temperature in hong kong. i think by really a lot, because china wants to make a deal. i actually think china has to make a deal, but that is holding it down in hong kong. you understand that, right? >> [indiscernible] president trump: i think it was automatic. i don't say fire or not fire. i think she had a bad night. it was unfortunate. drinking.he was the whole thing was very unfortunate and i think the press is very dishonest because it was supposed to be off the record. but still, you don't say things

trump: say it? reporter: do you want powell to resign? pres. trump: do i want him to resign? let me put it this way, if he did, i would not stop him. reporter: [inaudible] pres. trump: he is a very good competitor, but we are going to win. reporter: [inaudible] the foreign aid cuts? pres. trump: they are going to be -- rather than renegotiating everything again, i'm going to do the way i just said. we will be distributing that money differently. reporter: [inaudible] denmark? pres. trump: she's a wonderful woman, we had a great conversation. we have a very good relationship with denmark, and we agreed to speak later. she was very nice. she put a call in and i appreciated it very much. reporter: how far are you willing to push china? pres. trump: china has been hurting our country for 30 years with the money they have been taking out. other presidents should have done something about it, and a long time ago -- whether it was clinton, or bush, or obama -- any of them. they should have done something about it, and they didn't. i'm doing it. i have no choice, because we are not g

to trump. fair enough. but it's normally people who would know better. in other words, derangement goes both ways. >> it's a brilliant insight. we could name friends and former republican allies that -- whose views were consistent with ours for the past 30 to 40 years who now have been overcome by trump derangement syndrome. and now are acting like they never did before donald trump won the nomination in 2016. in fact, look at the words of lindsey graham before trump won the nomination. said that he was crazy, said that donald trump would destroy the republican party. that he would destroy america. and then look what he said after. you can look at what mike pence was quietly saying before hand to people saying he would destroy the republican party and then what he said after. mike pompeo talked about donald trump being an autocratic straw man. mike pompeo has been most affected by trump derangement syndrome and tom, this is what i don't understand. donald trump is going to leave washington at s

and so people saw that, and the sort of absurdity of donald trump, i mean, donald trump as president? it just sounded absurd. this is a reality tv star president. americans wouldn't want that. not after we were the country that produced obama. and i think people just couldn't fathom that that many americans, 62 million people, would choose that over progress. but michael moore, i was on with michael moore on realtime, and i recount the story, and i'm sitting between him and tony schwartz, and he predicted donald trump is going to win. i can't believe it, i'm a data girl, democrats should be able to build on what barack obama did in 2012 and one. and michael moore said something interesting, he said a lot of white americans look at that eight years of obama, and they say, okay, great. next we're going to have a woman president. we're told now we have to have hillary. then the gay president, the latino president, where does it stop? so in their mind, the forward march of progress is a backward march for them. the sense that the country is being lost and sliding away is deep-seeded and r

trump: yes, i am. reporter: you are? pres. trump: yes, i am. yes, i am. reporter: since the mueller hearing, 168 house democrats so they want to launch a house inquiry. pres. trump: no one has mentioned this question to me. until last night it was not even mentioned in the debate. people are already thinking it is a hoax. you know it is a hoax, right? nobody has mentioned it to me. one thing i will say that you haven't covered, two days ago, a highly respected judge in the southern district of new york , in manhattan, came out with the decision on the whole russia hoax and he said exactly that. it is a hoax. you want to read the decision. this is a decision by a judge who is highly respected, appointed by bill clinton. he said it is a hoax. this was a case brought by the democrats against me, and nobody wants to talk about it because it is fake news. reporter: what did you tell putin about the imf treaty? pres. trump: we did not discuss the imf. mostly we discussed the forest fires in siberia. i said we have the greatest equipment. we have large sections

trump: not at all. not at all. because if you look from november 9, the day after the election, we are up 50% or more. we are up many, many points. we were up about 16,000, or $17,000. we are at 25,000. so don't tell me about 600 points. reporter: [inaudible] justice ginsburg? pres. trump: i hope she does really well. our thoughts and prayers are with her. it is a very serious situation. i am hoping she is going to be fine. she has gone through a lot. she is strong. very tough. we wish her well, very well. reporter: [inaudible] pres. trump: i don't like what france did. they put a technology tax on our tech companies. it is not that i am the biggest fan of the tech companies, as you know, they were very much opposed to the republicans and are very much opposed. somebody came in the other day and said the other day the election that we had in 2016 with hillary clinton, that it could have cost me anywhere from 2,600 to 2,600,000 votes. i think it went up to close to 10 or 15 million votes. i'm not a big fan of the te

he liked trump. and i came in and he said, sir -- he is a great veteran -- he said sir, i have cancer, and sir, i went to the -- they were late. they had problems. they gave me the right to go out and have a great cancer surgeon. you look much better than you did three years ago, al, much better, much better. v.a. choice, right, al. thank you for your loyalty. he has been in every rally. got so tired of looking at him. now, look at him. that's good. i appreciate that story. i appreciate -- v.a. choice just makes sense, right? doesn't it make sense? we have achieved record funding for the united states military, $716 billion, $700 billion, and $738 billion, and it is almost completely rebuilt, including -- and we hope to god we never have to use it -- we have the finest, most powerful nuclear capability anywhere on the face of the earth. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: and i hope to god we never have to use it. we are investing in the future of human spaceflight, and someday soon, american astronau

that's not donald trump. donald trump thrives on, lives on, exists on this kind of attack politics. >> yeah. >> that's who he always was. that's who he was in business in new york. when i interviewed him on the 26th floor of the trump tower during the campaign, he was fascinated by nixon. we talked a lot about nixon. and he wasn't interested in nixon the architect of the peace with china. >> linkage. >> he was interested in i think looking back on it figuring out how to do publicly and nakedly and openly what nixon, even nixon for the most part wanted to do in private. >> you know, i've been thinking of that image in the "untouchables" where robert de niro goes around with a baseball bat and whacks one of the guys to teach a lesson to the other cabinet members. is trump wants everyone to know how nasty he can be? is it a message? >> i agree. the difference between nixon and lbj is he thrives on doing it publicly. he wants to do it publicly. did you see the white house this week said no, no, he didn't talk to

trump. >> isn't it the case if anyone gives it straight to donald trump, they'll say others are working to attack our election and that makes him feel unsecure. how likely is it to pick someone that told him hard truths. >> i think you can't lay those down. we understand. this is not about donald trump nominating a democrat or any of this kind of thing, but we have to have somebody who's experienced, who's objective and it is not in question that russia attacked our election system and serving on the intelligence committee, i can tell you, joy, what we're looking at in 2020 in terms of attack from hostile foreign actors is going to make 2016 look like small potatoes. >> we know that donald trump wanted and what he got in william bar. given that he was even on the table that he would like to have someone running intelligence. my sque whether or not mitch mcconnell, was he the person that finally convinced donald trump to say no? would he allow him to put a william baresque person in at the end of the bni. they know donald trump has got wen more election. he's very popular with primaries.

but trump and his -- excuse me, trump said his advisers have searched the entire nation and decided the most suitable spot for the 2020 g7 summit is something different. a golf club set among drab office parks near the miami airport. the president's own golf club. i mean, even if that golf club that belongs to the president was doing great, was like a jewel in the crown for the president's business interests and was like this immensely profitable thing, it would of course still be crazy and fantastically illegal for him to be trying to pull off this stunt, to direct all this ill-gotten business, right, this big corruption windfall that he can direct to that private club by naming it as the venue for the g7. i get that, right? what i did not realize before this whole thing actually started happening is that that particular club owned by the president, that particular golf resort actually isn't doing well. it really needs the money. that severely underperforming line in "the washington post" story on this scandal comes from a tax consultant who was actually hired by the president's busine

of trump enterprises. and congress one question needs to be addressed by the investigative committee why did trump fire james komi. why do you believe you were fired. so i don't know for sure i believe the prick think the president at his word that i was fired because of the russian rustication something about the way i was conducting it the president felt created pressure on him they wanted to relieve he was asking for something and i was refusing to give it. and fact early in his term trump asked to speak to call me in private. there was a meeting at the white house a one on one meeting between trump and call me call me must have had his antenna up because he felt like something was wrong because as soon as he was done that meeting he wrote up these memos. after meeting with trump call me sat in his car and wrote down what was discussed the meeting was about general fled the advisor who had lied about his contacts with russia trump said he hoped komi coming let the matter go. i hope you can let this go n

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never trump so that in addition of that view was quite often against trump. >>host: because i have talked to so many national review. >> that's exactly what it was i endorsed ted cruz and i was asked to submit a piece why would a supporting cruise over donald trump and i stand by it he didn't walk with conservatives like reagan did. he walked with liberals that's a simple point became the bible there were some sioux with the national vehicle to be vocally anti- trump and some were not . . . . we never talked about the media research center at the end of the lunch he asked me if he supported the media research center so it really wasn't what he had said. it was what it was an off to the races we went. >> host: i found that interesting because that is the phrase he used to describe amarosa and multiple people, men and women yet somehow when he uses it against women is called so what is your take on someone that is conservative you talked about stability, humility when the president uses language like that do you think the media is unfair to see sexist, racist o

president trump: thank you very much. hoping the hurricane may be makes a right and goes up north but that is about a 5% chance. it is one of the biggest hurricanes we have seen in a long time. it could be very devastating. i just spoke to rick scott. we have a lot of people we are speaking to. i spoke to marco rubio. doinga and florida are really well, they are working hard. florida seems to be the main target at this moment. i think a lot of good things are happening. tremendous work is going on. guests are coming in from louisiana and all over. we don't know about evacuation. locally, we will see where it is coming in. we just don't know exactly where it will be coming and how far it is coming. i am going to camp david. we have a lot of experts with us. .e have a lot of fema people a sunday at 12:30 we have meeting at fema headquarters. that will be about the time that we will know where everything is going. a lot of decisions will be made. a little bit less than a day before it hits. we will see what happens. the stoc

again, this is donald trump. we've gotten to know him and even though it seemed familiar, he wants to be the bride at every wedding, wants to be the corpse at every funeral, wants to be the baby at every christening and apparently wants to be the rock star at every trauma center as well. the fact they would put out this promotional video, the fact they would tweet out how he was this rock star, how totally vulgar and inappropriate the entire thing was, but once again, it was donald trump, the essence of this man, that was really on display and exposed by this national tragedy. >> karine, i want to dig in to the political vulnerabilities exposed. i agree with everything an nie and charlie said. the white house has to worry when as he said donald trump is exposed just being himself. that's who he is. goes to a hospital ostensibly to comfort people and talks about the size of his overflow crowds. i have aired president obama's moment singing "amazing grace." i think we have that footage again. my old boss george w.

so was donald trump. bill clinton was on the plane with epstein. so was donald trump. the fact is mr. epstein took his own life. he died while he was in the custody of the trump administration. bill barr directs the bureau of prisons, and they allowed, in so ways that facilitated mr. epstein's suicide. >> well, that's not fair. what do you mean facilitated? >> they were on notice that he wanted to take his own life. he was on suicide watch. >> what do you make of pulling back, not having the guards there? about not doing the half hour checking of him, make sure he had a cellmate who could watch him. what do you make of all that? >> at minimum, it was negligence. what the inspection by the inspector general, the justice department and the fbi will look at, was it knowing and intentional. again, you know that suicide is the leading cause of death of people who are in prison. we also know that mr. epstein tried to take his own life earlier. the decision about whether he should be taken off a suicide watch is one that is made by a medical professional. here it seems like t

you see the trump method this trump protecting the little guy, protecting your workers, of having the rule of law when he comes to immigration, it's starting to actually go throughout the world, the salvin i situation is very very important in the fall to see what happens there but it's very close allie of president trump and you'll see those guys, i think, back off of this one belt one road with china. maria: well all the while, you've got protesters in hong kong holding the american flag which i thought was incredible. i've got to switch tomorrow ices and ask you about all of this pushback. all of this happening while the president is getting slammed by the left. he tries to have a fundraiser this weekend. he did have two fundraisers actually raised a lot of money and yet, the organizers, stephen ross got slammed for supporting the president. what's your take on all of this pushback? you've got pushback from even jerry nadler whose trying to work-up and an impeachment inquiry. nadler says this goes out of touch to the democrats. he actually announced on friday, i think on cnn, he's

they want to reverse the trump tax cuts and deregulation to reverse the trump job gains and earnings rights. they want to make energy more expensive. ask president macron in france what people think about that. he still has protests in the streets. and of course all of them want a massive expansion in government paid for by you. that's not just a tax grab, that's a power grab. populism is about power to the people. the left are about taking power away from people and giving it to the government. there is one more argument that is a completely. we need to demolish that, too. this comes not from the left, but from the never trumpers and the republican establishment. they say donald trump may have a good economy but that's because of good conservative policies. where he moved away from republican policy like trade and china, it's a disaster. but tariffs worked on the border with mexico and they are working with china. the way the critics talk you would think our entire economy is dependent on china. but in 208, imports from -- in 2018, imports 2.7% and exports .9%. as we saw last night

meaning president trump, right? here's the counsel for congress saying something mysterious appears to have been going on between donald trump and deutsche bank, it makes sense congress would want to look at deutsche bank's records. that tape of that oral argument, though, is how we got the surprising upshot from this litigation, the sort of turn in this litigation over the last few days, which is that deutsche bank for all of its troubles, for all of its worries right now, deutsche bank has been trying to no comment the federal courts as to whether or not they've got president trump's tax returns. they've been trying to get away with telling the court if part of what they got in their records from their donald trump files is the president's taxes. so we've got this kind of -- this incredible tape. we never get to hear this stuff. it's like, you know, court proceedings in real life on tv. but check this out. listen to the deutsche bank lawyer try to no comment a whole panel of federal judges when they are asking him

but the key for trump was the voters who didn't like clinton or trump broke for trump by nearly 20 points. what we're seeing in this nbc poll is voters who don't like biden and don't like trump, they're saying pretty overwhelmingly in our poll they'd go for the democrat now. >> we wanted to try something new in '16. we don't like either. so let's go with somebody we think might be better. we already know we don't like the other thing. this time, same thing, right? we know we don't like trump. >> that's the possibility raised to me. the trump message in 2016. you heard a little bit of what do you have to lose? >> right. >> it's the idea of the guy running as the outsider who is the detonate button on the system. >> i am with you. i am with you. that is to me the game of '16, blow this thing apart. it's terrible. anyway, the new poll shows that 49% of our poll approve of trump's handling of the economy, but that alone doesn't seem to be enough. among those who approve of his handling of the economy, nearly 3/4 said they would back a generic democrat. it seems to me the economy, ivan if it s

trump: no. what happens is china devalues their currency, and china is polling money out, and that will pay for the tariffs. i don't say that with all with china, they are very highly sophisticated, but so are we. more than anybody would understand. all you have to do is ask china. all you have to do is ask china. let me just explain. so, china is devaluing their currency and they are also pouring money in. their currency is going to hell. but there are also pouring money in. and that will totally pay for the tariffs. the tariffs are not being paid for by our people, it is being paid for by china, because of the evaluation, and because they are pumping money and. thank you. >> [reporter's question indiscernible] pres. trump: well, you interviewed the wrong farmer, number one. number two, any amount china takes out is made up by the billions of dollars we are taking in. remember this, our country is taking in billions of dollars from china. we never took in $.10 from china, and out of that many b

but trump was not too pleased. he wants those rates slashed even more, and he probably wasn't happy about powell talking about trump's trade war with china complex and turbulent. so trump did what he does, he launched a twitter attack on his own fed chair. and just when the market went up as powell spoke, it started to plummet when trump spoke. cnn clocked this. powell made a speech on cnn which they tweeted about. cnbc said stocks jumped to record highs and the dow jumped positive. at 10:42 a.m., the dow, nasdaq and s and 35rskand p 500 took t skies. which is good, then donald trump asked if powell was a bigger enemy than xi. despite president trump and ivanka themselves doing tons of business -- wait for it -- with china. that tweet led to a stunning reversal on wall street. at 11:04, stocks plunged, followed by a series of markets tumbling down, down, down. the time that president trump took the stock market down all on his own was one hour and 24 minutes. trump's fed chair labeled an enemy for not doing his bid

now, they're promoting trump more than any other non-trump entities online. ask me about mike flynn. how did that transformation happen? and why did the trump white house embrace it sthenthusiast c enthusiastically. >> thank you for being with us tonight. i can barely keep up with it. >> thanks, i keep on watching it for months and it keeps ongoing and going. >> i know about "the epoch times" and i know they had this very strange cameo role the white house protested in 2006 that i was covering. i was not aware of the whole transformation they went through. did you know what started it? >> it just happened for a couple of years. in 2016, they decided to hire a bunch of american journalists that were not associated with the falun gong. that was the beginning of it. they put them in a little room and say make our website. you are going a sports and crime. basic journalism. they're all very new and they're required to do a lot of articles. they start to have a specific point of view. they're an ultra conservative religious movement, it is anti-homosexuals. >> and

steele who hated trump's guts. so there is a common theme here that the investigation of trump was very biased. liz: this is about precedence of this country. using the intelligence apparatus in this country to do opposition research in the campaign. >> you hear it's nothing but a republican right-wing talking point. but this is a serious issue. to those who have been saying all along we must look at how this started, we must look at the fisa warrant process, i commend them for saying that. you don't prejudge anything. but these are serious issues and bruce ohr had massive conflicts of interest. liz: the next step is the steele dossier, the quote insurance policy. thanks for reading those 34 pages. i tried to read them. president trump saying joe biden not ready for primetime. politicians make mistakes when they say thousands of word a day. liberal intolerance unchained. twitter mobs with electronic pitchforks boycotting trump fundraisers. the left hikes to say we are open and intolerant. but critics say not so muc

of trump enterprises. and congress one question needs to be addressed by the investigative committee why did trump fire james komi. why do you believe you were fired. so i don't know for sure i believe the prick think the president at his word that i was fired because of the russian versification something about the way i was conducting it the president felt created pressure on him they wanted to relieve he was asking for something and i was refusing to give it. and fact early in his term trump asked to speak to komi in private. there was a meeting at the white house a one on one meeting between trump and call me call me must have had his antenna up because he felt like something was wrong because as soon as he was done that meeting he wrote up these memos. after meeting with trump call me sat in his car and wrote down what was discussed the meeting was about general fled the advisor who had lied about his contacts with russia trump said he hoped komi come let the matter go. i hope you can let this go now

trump's attorney general planning a $30,000 holiday party at trump property and trump reportedly promising pardons to aides who break the law to build his border wall. nancy pelosi has criticized trump's plan to raid fema money, and democrats say they plan to investigate trump's idea of using his miami property for the g7 summit. but nbc's first reading points out democrats don't seem to have a single overarching strategy to deal with these stories, noting the lack of a coordinated democratic response. with me now is mother jones' washington bureau chief david corn. david, good to have you with me. is the dam breaking on impeachment as the number of democrats calling for an inquiry ticks up every day? >> the number you put on the screen there, 135 democrats calling for impeachment is an important number. the more important number is 218, which is a far distance from 135. why is 218 important? that's the number of votes you need to impeach a president. now how many democrats are there in the house? 235. so that means that nancy pelosi can only lose 18 democrats. and right now there are a co

trump woke up to a trending hashtag he was desperate to change, #trump recession. it came along with headlines the economy is in distress, maybe even headed for a nose dive, which trump's aides even admit could spell disaster for the president. a source close to trump telling axios, i'm very worried about the economic data. a lot of us are concerned. without the narrative on the economy, he can't win. axios adds the team is worried about polling positions in pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. and one senior white house official be warns, he's running out of tools to juice the economy. those leaks from inside trump's orbit, potentially devastating for a president whose signature campaign message is this -- >> an economic miracle is taking place in the united states. we have the strongest economy in history. the economy is thriving like never before. our economy is going to soar. the 401(k)s are up 50%, 60%. soon it will be 78%. >> we had the highest stock market in the history of our country. our country now has the hottest economy. we will win so much you're goi

here is trump's predicament. a bad set of poll numbers, a troubling economic outlook, and no apparent weapon for turning the economy around. at his rally in new hampshire last night, he made the case for his stewardship of the economy, but also with a warning. >> the bottom line is i know you like me and this room is a lovefest. i know that. but you have no choice but to vote for me because your 401(k)s, down the tubes, everything is going to be down the tubes. so whether you love me or hate me, you got to vote for me. >> the president appears publicly unfazed, "the washington post" reports privately mounting signs of global economic distress this week have alarmed the president, who is worried that a downturn could imperil his reelection, even his administration officials acknowledge that they have not planned for a possible recession. they have no tools, no weapons to fight one. trump's economic adviser have been delivering the president's upbeat assessments in which they argue the domestic economy is stronger

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something that still upsets trump. now, we can extrapolate from ratcliffe's qualifications for the job, what his white house -- what this white house occupant is really looking for in the next director of national intelligence. it might say things like must be willing to attack special counsel robert mueller, must want to settle trump's scores for the russia investigation. or as the economist put it, donald trump wants a loyalist as america's top intelligence official. r and it might end sooner than we think. trump says he's got a short list in his pocket with three names on it and he'll be mulling it this weekend while you pay for his vacay at his golf resort in new jersey. the director of national intelligence, senator mark warner said the president should nominate someone with a deep knowledge of the intelligence community with respect for the hard work they do and be able to speak truth to power when necessary. joining us now is senator ron wyden. when the president tweeted he was withdrawing the nomination today,

our game plan is simple -- we're going to make donald trump the face of donald trump. and that's all we need. >> congressman, last question to you here, about the role of congress in all of this. i think more broadly about what's being hammered out at bedminster, the future of afghanistan, you have an administration that is circumventing the role of congress. as the president said yesterday willing to make a deal with the taliban without the involvement of congress. here you have the president as philippe was saying telegraphing if you want to be charitable about it, with a the prime minister of israel should be doing. what's your response to that? i go back to you as the lawmaker, as the member of congress watching this happen again and again, the white house taking on this outsized dare i say inappropriate role. >> of course trump is circumventing the congress. he's circumventing the constitution, flaunting the constitution, i want to take some responsibility in congress as well. that's why it's our job in congress to hold him accountable. the fact that we refuse to

: it's a trump talking points. you prove one thing, then another thing, and another thing, and all the sudden you're on that slope. all of a sudden no one has any legal protection. we have a second amendment -- cope >> reporter: people are concerned -- >> president trump: let me tell you this. we have a second amendment, and it will remain strong. >> reporter: [indistinct] >> president trump: go ahead. >> reporter: are you concerned about the emergence of isis in afghanistan? has that affected your decision-making at all? >> president trump: at a certain point, russia, afghanistan, iran, iraq, turkey, they are going to have to fight their battles, too. we wiped out the caliphate, 100%. i did it in record time. at a certain point, all of these countries where isis is around, they've been decimated, by the way. badly decimated. but all of these countries are going to have to fight them. do we want to stay there for another 19 years? i don't think so. at a certain point, other countries -- and that includes russia and

basically his approval rating sat where trump's -- he was at 44%. trump's at 43%. but on that question of the economy performance on the economy, obama's number was down in the 30s. he ended up getting re-elected but in a completely different formula there in terms of what was propelling him. >> i think that obama got a lot of space because he inherited a terrible economy. the fundamentals are strong because i'm old enough to remember that was not necessarily a good phrase to use in the particular movement in 2007 because that was not true at the time. and we saw the economic downturn which essentially meant that average americans were losing their homes and everything they owned and everything they had. and i think that the recovery from that was such an insurmountable task. that's why obama numbers sort of i think obscured the fact that people are allowing him to at least try to get the economy back on track. the difference here is that the economy is the only card trump has to play. he literally has nothing else. his message discipline is great when it comes to

this is the 35th time one of trump's nominations went busto, forcing trump to pull a 180. when asked what ratcliff's demise says about the white house vetting process, watch this. >> i think the white house has a great vetting give a name, i g out to the press, and you vet for me. the vetting process for the white house is very good. but you're part of the vetting process, you know? i give out a name to the press and they vet for me. we save a lot of money that way. >> oh, okay. your vetting process is our fault. got it. you're also saving money by not vetting anybody, and letting us do it for you. perfection. so maybe we shouldn't be surprised that ratcliff met this fate. as we wait for round two of presidential roulette dni addition, this is more than just a mere hiring decision. the zrvegs dni is the top intel official in the nation, coordinating all the other agencies. who the president picks for ha gig matters. it determines the strength of the entire intelligence community. and it's not hard to see why donald trump might want to reign in the intelligence agent sis. t

. >> trump may not know hurd well. but republicans know trump. hurd is the 8th republican to say he is not running for re-election. the sixth to do so in the past two weeks. pamela brunn is outfront at the white house tonight and pamela what more are you learning about radcliff and in, you know, president was full steam ahead, and now bam, it's over. >> boom, it's over. i've spoken to administration sources today erin expressing concern once again about the vetting process here at the white house or lack there of. the source familiar with the process saying that president trump's selection of congressman radcliff came without ample vetting and that the performance last week during the mueller hearing sealed the deal for him. one source telling me the erin is white house known for weeks that coats would be replaced and there is no excuse for a lack of vetting. of course in a typical administration a thorough vetting would be done and white house officials would be pdesignated to defend the pick. the but sources say republicans have made concerns a

trump: no, i want clean air and clean water. right now, we are having the cleanest air and cleanest water on the planet. that is what i want. absolutely clean air and clean water. >> [indiscernible] clarifyg if you could what you meant about the talk. calls,rump: we have had we have had calls at the highest level. the vice-chairman put out a statement -- saying that he wants to make a deal. i think it is a very good word used, calm. not a word i use that often, but it is a good word to use. it is one of the reasons it is a great country. i think that that message also helps with respect to hong kong. i really do. i think it makes it easier for hong kong. i think that president xi will do something with hong kong. i really think that message is a good message with respect to what the ultimate outcome is in hong kong. very, very positive message. and we appreciated it. we appreciated it. what else? anything else? >> mr. president, your latest calls on pulling out of the wto, and if you do, can i also asked mr. modi, what would you

trump. in others it will be played with the deadly darkness of shakespeare's richard the iii. and if we are lucky, future audiences watching all of the plays about the madness of donald trump will be watching them the way i watched the madness of george iii in 1992. they will be watching something that feels like it happened a long time ago in a crazy moment in history that could never come again. if we're lucky, when future audiences are looking back at it, the madness of donald trump will look like a four-year explosion in our politics and culture that came and went within the space of two presidential elections and all of the polling that came out this week strongly supports the possibility that the trump presidency will crash into democracy on the next election night and this time lose. donald trump has an approval rating which, if it holds, makes it impossible for him to be re-elected. "the associated press" shows 62% disapprove of donald trump's job appearance with 36% approving. there

i found they started treating trump the way trump treats them. and i don't think that was the right move. i don't think inviting zarif without a lot of plans was the right way to go. i don't think that trump raising russia repeatedly was the right maneuver either. i don't think they came up with a lot other than technical and financial assistance to fighting the fires in the amazon. >> what about the sense of unity. we heard ambassador sherman describe how he is trying to give this ideological sense of community and unity here. >> right. >> is it working? >> no. i certainly don't think it's working. i did find it ironic that he was the one publicly saying that. when we know from a number of sources that that wasn't really the truth. it goes to my point when macron and german chancellor merkel, they are all trying to play to his level. boris johnson. they are at the trying to get on his level. i don't want to say he looked good, but he ended up getting the opportunity to say, oh, no, everything is great. we're having great conversations. he ends u

trump is none of these. lumping that is a terrible insult and they have enough problems and stigma has it is. calling trump crazy hides the fact that we're crazy for having elected him and even crazier for allowing his crazy policies to persist. trump is as destructive a perp in this century as hitler in the last century. he may be responsible for many more million deaths than they were. he needs to be contained but he needs to be contained by attacking his policies, not his person. it's crazy for us to be destroying the climate our children will live in. it's crazy to be giving tax cuts to the rich that will add trillions of dollars to the debt our children will have to pay. it's crazy to be destroying our democracy by claiming that the press and the courts of the enemy of the people. we have to face these policies not trump's person. it's absolutely impossible, you can bet the house that the congress that paints that the cabinet will never ever remove trump on grounds of mental unfitness. that will never h

to the trump organization. it is still unclear at this point what precisely they have. the information is under seal at this point. whose tax return information they have, it is unclear whether a young will order them to publicly disclose it. at this point deutsche bank is arguing that they do not want to have to publicly disclose that information because of privacy concerns with past and future customers, wolf. >> very interesting indeed. lauren fox, thanks for that update. >>> joining us now, democratic congressman ruben gallego of arizona, a member of the armed services committee. congressman, thank you for joining us. let me begin with breaking news. are you confident that lawmakers will be able eventually to obtain president trump's tax returns from deutsche bankn. >> look, i hope so. what we're seeing is a history of everybody that is involved in the trump organization, whether it is family or corporations, whether it is banks, that they are all stonewalling and the question is why are they tone walling?

>> donald trump coddles the nra. donald trump loves the nra. donald trump has no reason to be afraid of it because he sees them as an ally. at the end of the day his policies will be lined up with the nras. >> let me show you all of the things donald trump has attributed the epidemic of guns, violence to in his career. >> mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun. we must stop the glorification of violence in our society. this includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace. bad guys aren't giving up their guns. and you're not going to be giving up your guns either. if we had guns in california on the other side where the bullets went in a different direction, you wouldn't have 14 or 15 people dead right now. if even in paris they had guns on the other side going in the opposite direction, you wouldn't have 130-plus dead. if they knew there were guns in the room, it might not have happened. >> where do you start? >> when you have a presidential candidate that says i can shoot someone on fifth avenue and get