. is a >> [indiscernible] >> [indiscernible] >> [indiscernible] donald trump: we have a man who is going to be a great senator, and i'm very happy with that. i spoke to him last night. i never met him i never spoke to , him. i'm very happy with him, and i have to say luther came a long way from the time i endorsed him , and he ran a good race, but roy ran a really great race, and i know what they did with mitch . and they used him very much in the campaign, but he works hard and i'm sure things will work out. i just wanted to say, though, on health care, we have the votes for health care. we have one senator that's in the hospital. he can't vote because he's in the hospital. he can't vote because he's in the hospital. we have two other votes that are coming, and we will have them, but the problem is we can't have them by friday because of reconciliation ends on friday, so we'll have to do it in january or february. but i feel we have the votes. i'm almost certain we have the votes, but with one man in the hospital, we cannot display that we have them. plus people want to go through

trumpocalypse it is what happens if the people that donald trump empowers get things to the placer they would like to be and the trumpocalypse we know who they are and number two we know how to resist and that is the point of this book and no we're supposed to be depressed and scared back writing this book that anybody can be a member of a cabinet i will guarantee you i have a better cabinet than donald trump so i just want to start quickly by saying politics and prose that is a wonderful for independent bookstore going to those downturns and no going back to the book and the printed page is a model for the whole country. thanks for having me here. [applause] also for never giving up on us c-span and booktv opens up in this book i was analyzing these cabinet picks i would watch morning journal and listen to the calls on both sides because it knows -- and gives you both sides of the trump cabinet and his divisor's and many of them are stronger than trump. any that come with a historic power base rooted in their wealth and connections and long term ideological thought -- a journey are people th

for you. a trumpocalypse is what happens if that people that donald trump empowers gets to take that things to the place they would like to take things and a trumpocalypse is averted if, a., we know who they are, which would require us to have a media that covered politics -- i'm not sure -- rather than personality. we know who they are and, number two we know how to resist what they seek to do. that is the point of this book. let me tell you, i know we're all supposed to be depressed and scared. writing this book caused me to understand a couple of things. first off, anyone can be a member of a cabinet. i will guarantee you if i took the first five rows, i'd have a better cabinet than donald trump has and if i took the people in the back it would be really great. it's the late arrivers who are doing good works. i just want to start out quickly by saying, thank you 'opolitic and prose, a wonderful independent book store that stands strong, it's gone through the downturnsturnsturns of the k industry, and now that people are coming back to the prisoned page, this store is a model for t

response to the exhausting nature of donald trump. josh norman who plays for the washington football team. this its whs what he said. felt like he was coming to our house and urinating on the lawn. at some point you have to say to that person. hey, get off of my lawn. these were nfl players saying do not threaten our livelihood do. not threaten our constitutional freedoms. and definitely, do not talk about our mothers. that will not be tolerated. and, donald trump, i mean, i think he got smacked down. i think when he was talking to the audience. he thought to himself. oh, i am going to demonize athletes before the white alabama audience they're going to eat it up i is going to be great. late friday night. early saturday morning probably thought he had the most winning issue in the world. what he did not expect and not understand. maybe because he did not play football himself. lived vicariously through the violence on the field. what he did not understand is what they call in the nfl the brotherhood. the idea that players will stick up for each other. if one of them is attacked. >> a lot

out a different person that isn't donald trump, maybe whose name is donald trump but who is a completely different person and then maybe that person could pivot and become the president we need. he is this guy. and he isn't going to become presidential. he's donald trump. >> welcome back to a.m. joy. a second chance to make a first impression offering presidential comfort to texas and louisiana on saturday. even taking selfies with some of the victims of hurricane harvey. for trump the focus was less on the death toll of 42 but on whether trump could pass the presidential empathy test, a test that many felt he failed the first time around and he had to give it a second try. you normally don't have to give it a second try. the second time must be the charm because trump's this time around caused the media to swoon. there he is engaging with real life americans at the massive shelter in houston. military men in uniform, distressed parents and babies. babies. babies. joining me now is conservative commentator. ceo of endeavor stretagies. thank you guys. you were forced to watch m

including a time known to be talking to president donald trump earlier this year. if this reporting holding up, that means there could be tape of whatever paul manafort and donald trump talked and he was reportedly under surveillance. just monday night. we have also learned tonight that donald trump jr. and kellyanne con way turned down the secret service protection they've been enjoying for months. what does that mean? i have no idea. none at all. that does it for us tonight. we'll see you again tomorrow. now time for "the last word." good evening. >> seems like someone doesn't want the secret service following them around everywhere they go. i don't know. >> you know, i have to imagine that there's all sorts of innocent reasons why you would want more privacy than a secret service detail would afford you and weird that the two of them both making that decision on the same night. >> rachel, i just need to warn you of something. it's important. you should know this. i feel i should have told you before now. >> okay. >> but i am wearing a wire. and i know that some people in the work

in in may was apparently donald trump. the according to the "new york times," on the weekend after the hearing trump was rained out of a golf outing in new jersey and stuck indoors stewing over comey's slight against his election. reports are he poured all of his rage into unfettered thoughts. several sources described. they say while it doesn't dwell on russia it does express concern comey wouldn't say publicly trump wasn't under investigation. the letter wasn't sent. the angry meandering tone was probl problematic. that was all changed now because that letter is now in the hands of special counsel robert mueller. msnbc contributor, paul butler and richard painter. thank you all for being here. gener jenny fer i'll start with you. there seems to be a gathering narrative that what set him off and down the path -- i guess he was already thinking about firing jim comey, but the idea comey was made nausious by in any way helping him get elected. >> i think it's significant for a few reasons. one, we are going to have some alternate evidence other than what was put ow publicly. so comp

between steve bannon and donald trump, steve bannon has won decisively. steve bannon's candidate has just beaten donald trump's candidate in the alabama senate race. steve kornacki joins us now uwith the alabama results. steve, what happened? >> yeah, well, i mean, there it is. steve bannon and that sort of anti-establishment wing of the republican party. roy moore was their candidate in this race. this is about 3/4 of the vote in. this race has been called. roy moore wins this republican runoff for the united states senate against the candidate that donald trump endorsed. the candidate donald trump was in alabama last friday, on stage with this candidate saying hey, republicans, i need this guy in the senate. well, donald trump's candidate luther strange, he has come up short decisively in this thing, as you say. look, one thing down the stretch that roy moore and his campaign capitalized on wasn't just that bannon and a lot of these trump supporters from the beginning were behind moore. certainly that helped them with the republican base. but donald trump himself, when he was campaignin

donald trump earlier this year. if this reporting holding up, that means there could be tape of whatever paul manafort and donald trump talked about, while, again, manafort was >> seems like someone doesn't want the secret service following them around everywhere they go. i don't know. >> you know, i have to imagine that there's all sorts of innocent reasons why you would want more privacy than a secret service detail would afford you and weird that the two of them both making that decision on the same night. >> rachel, i just need to warn you of something. it's important. you should know this. i feel i should have told you before now. >> okay. >> but i am wearing a wire. and i know that some people in the workplace now worry about colleagues wearing a wire when talking to them. my wire is right here on the lapel. >> mine too. >> completely open about that. because, rachel, imagine like working in a workplace where you're worried that your colleagues are wearing a wire and maybe, you know, investigators are listening to what you're saying. >> when your colleagues start saying we

rule about who has the legal fees paid for by campaign donors. you have to be named donald trump. did good thing for the trump family is they have two of those guys. >> two people. >> junior and senior. ivanka needs anything, uh-huh. >> kushner, do you get any money? >> exactly. poor mike pence, next week, is going to be raising money for the trump re-election fund. he's raised money for his own pac and donated that money to the trump re-election fund paying for junior's legal fees and mike pence pays for his own. >> the funniest part is he then has to sell the plasma to help jared and the other non donald trump family members pay their legal fees. running out of blood. >> yeah. you know that the president's going to volunteer him. tap mike. he's healthy. >> the paler he looks, the more he's pumping into the trump family legal fees. thank you. have a great weekend. >> thank you. you too. >> all right. i 'm in for launs o'donnell. to rally tonight in alabama, donald trump talked about how he can't seem to close the deal with republican senators on health care repeal and why trump voter

shame. >> it is tragic. >> yep. >> thank you, joy. >> thank you, my friend. >>> donald trump was the first presidential nominee who did not release his tax returns since 1976, and you remember his reason. >> i'm being audited now. i'm under a routine audit. a minor audit. every year i have a routine audit. it's under routine audit. like routine. but, but, as soon as my routine audit's finished, i'll release my returns. i'm be very proud to. >> and of course most of the news media fell for the audit excuse. but there was never any evidence at all that donald trump's tax returns were actually being audited. donald trump never produced an audit letter from the irs. easy thing for him to do if he was being audited. if he wasn't being audited then, donald trump might be being audited now in the most serious review of his tax returns that he has ever been subjected to. betsy woodruff is reporting in "the daily beast" tonight, special counsel bob mueller has teamed up with the irs according to sources familiar with his investigation into alleged russian election interference. his probe has

donald trump of the first five rows. it is those late drivers under doing good works. so i want to start quickly to say faq to politics & prose that is a wonderful independent bookstore and now as people have come back to the printed page this store is a model for the whole country. [applause] show less text 00:06:12 unidentified speaker >> also sees band who never gave up of the book with booktv although work that they do open is the dialogue from the left to the right and in this book i learned learned, i watch morning journal and listen to the calls on both sides it gives perspective and then you know, we're their power base is with the advisers and the allies. many are stronger the and trump. that is important to understand. with the historic power base with their wealth and connections long-term ideological journey that donald trump cannot fire. say the name jeff sessions. what is he going to do? he is not going to get rid of jeff sessions unless he is watching tonight and embarrassed by the fact that we revealed this but the truth of the matter is he has a power base rooted i

tatters. he was living in northern new jersey trying to get back in the game and donald trump in the 1980s was on covers of magazines and the big new york -- it makes more sense why nixon may have tried to reach out like that to him. story like that, they talk about reagan and what he liked about him. it was not anything deeply illuminating however, we talked about inaugural speeches and he had not prepared it and knew nothing about them. he just kept saying i want to be short, i want to be sure. i told him about william henry harrison going long and dying after only one month. [laughter] we talked about kennedy and the like. it was a pretty innocuous meeting. i take away was that he had almost zero understanding of american history. he was somebody of a child of television. he operates with gut instinct of what he sees. he is very visual. we now all know how much he watches cable and all of that. i think that is his intellectual source, cable news. he may have a short attention span so the idea that he reads a book about you know maybe bill w. brands book, not going to happen. reque

trump has got to go. hey, hey, whole, ho, donald trump has got to go. [indiscernible] >>we have nothing to lose that r name. are ready to fight for our freedom >> we are ready to fight for our freedom. >> we are ready to win. >> we are ready to win. we must love and support each other. >> we must love and support each other. [cheering and applause] >> black women matter. like women matter. -- black women matter. black women matter. black women matter. black women matter. black women matter. black women matter. black women matter. black women matter. black women matter. >> we kneel. the black women will lead us in the neil. on three. [indiscernible] >> we are kneeling. will turn their backs, and the rest of us will neil and solidarity to them -- kneel in solidarity with them. black women, turn your back. turn your back on the department of justice. >> black women, turn your backs on the department of justice. the department of justice is behind us. in solidarity with your black sisters. if you are not a black woman, take a knee. take a knee. take any, take a knee. >> take a knee.

together. his reputation was in tatters. he was living in northern new jersey. donald trump in the 1980's was on covers of magazines. nixon was trying to a reach out, he was trying to get back in the game. they talked about reagan. it wasn't anything deeply illuminating. but we talked about inaugural speeches he had not prepared yet. he just kept saying i want to be short. i told him about william henry harrison going long and dying after one month. we talked about kennedy. it was an innocuous meeting. my take away is he had almost zero understanding of american history. he is a child of television and operates on that instinct. he's very visual. we now know how much he watches cable. that is his intellectual force. he may have a short attention span. the idea that he would read brands book, not going to happen. >> did he seem surprised that he had won? >> yes. he kept spinning this idea that there was voter fraud. that hillary did not really when by 3 million illegal people. i was a little startled that he was clinging to that false narrative. you might as well be magnanimous. it was a w

republicans and, of course, i mean the phrase partner in crime as a figure of speech. donald trump confessed to the crime in the first words that he spoke today about the republican tax crusade. the only reason the democrats can hope that the republican tax crusade might fail is because donald trump is president. if any other republican were president, the republican congress would have passed a tax cut for that republican president to sign. as they did for george w. bush on june 7th. there's the last republican president signing a tax cut in to law on june 7th of his first year in office. on june 7th of this year, the president was in cincinnati having one of those raucous trump rallies promising to repeal and replace obamacare any minute now and unveiling the trump infrastructure plan. remember that? trump infrastructure plan which has gone absolutely nowhere. is since that day. because it is the trump infrastructure plan. and trump plans go nowhere in congress. there are a few reasons why donald trump has failed to repeal and replace obamacare. the most important is that the country doesn

donald 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 yes? >> i can't guarantee anything. >> this is shambolic. >> another big trickle down tax

government, to attack government, to attack the american government. donald trump got elected president by attacking american government and the people who work in it. and he could never stop talking about how easy it is to govern, how easy it would be for him to make the decisions, make the deals, get the job done as president of the united states. and now tonight, even donald trump knows that government is a deadly serious business, an especially deadly serious business in florida tonight, and that government's ability to respond to the hurricane on its way to florida can save lives, including possibly lives in and around donald trump's properties in florida. luckily for the americans' lives who are at stake as this deadly hurricane approaches, it is not donald trump who they will be relying on. it is the professionals in government who will do their best to save them from the dangers of this storm, to rescue them if necessary, to protect them. the elected officials who run for office with an expressed hatred of government will actually have nothing to do with how this natural disaste

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 , when i was the most familiar face to him in a crowd. it would be me and -- and local news reporters, and he wouldn't know anyone. we would end up having longer conversations. -- iirst time i was ever ever shared the same air as donald trump was the first rally i went to. he was just holding his greatest campaign hits -- he was just honin

asks why donald trump really cut a deal with democrats and whether it will alienate his base. >>> we're working on a plan for daca. people want to see that happen. you have 800,000 young people brought here, no fault of their own. so we're working on a plan, we'll see how it works out. >> we're already starting the wall. the wall is being renovated because we have vast amounts of wall. the wall is being fully renovated right now as you know. we have to have anxiohave an ung that there in the budget or another vehicle, the equal will be funded otherwise we're not doing anything. >> daca in our and the wall very soon. >>> good morning and welcome to "a.m. joy." forget donald the deal maker are on even trump the independent. how about donald trump the weather vane? trump was all over the place this week taking nearly every possible position on immigration and border security. the flip-flop started with a deal wednesday night with trump's new besties, chuck and nancy. the trio reportedly agreed on a deal to secure legal status for nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the unite

to issues and were intended to rile the base in favor of donald trump and to be negative for hillary clinton. and to create events, as well. so that they actually hosted events that brought in a lot of americans who did not that they were being lured there by russians. >> that's the weirdest part. the event staged in idaho according to russian originalizers of material is anti-foreigner event. of course, it was staged by foreigners pretending to be americans. jill, i want to play for you congressman cummings and talking so far about money that went to facebook. and then there's all the money that went from other companies to the flynns and what that trail means. here's congressman cummings speaking about this. >> we want them to come in. the folks who from these various companies that hired flynn, we want them to come in and tell us exactly how this thing -- how all this happened and by the way, andrea, whether it's still going on. it may very well be that this was a major thing that he wanted to accomplish, he traveled all over the world. to do it. so we want the know exactly is it

this. war against donald trump . hello and welcome to crossfire were all things considered i'm peter lavelle in a revealing video c.n.n. has shown as many critics have claimed the network is more interested in the bottom line and a political agenda rather than reporting on real news on this edition of the program we ask of cnn's evidence free war against donald trump is really at the expense of real journalism. cross-linking the present and future of. c.n.n. i'm joined by my guess steve malzberg in new york he is the host of the steve malzberg show on newsmax t.v. also in new york we have the media personality lionel he is a legal analyst and news decoder at lionel media dot com and in washington we cross to richard goodstein he is a democratic political strategist and former advisor to the president clinton and hillary clinton's presidential campaigns all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it steve let me go to you first here. cnn's motto is. the most trusted name in news over the last few months last c

with confidence. ( applause ) if donald trump's greatest concern is the disrespecting of the american flag, do you know what should piss him off? the confed rat flag, that's basically like waving a picture of your ex around and your girlfriend says, that's really disrespectful to me! and you say, oh, this has nothing to do with you, i'm just honoring my heritage and also i'm building a monument of susan on the front lawn. ( laughter ) on the one hand you have sons of bitches and on the other hand the president of the united states saying a private citizen should be fired for expressing an opinion that the president doesn't like, which sounds very dictator-y to me. 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. t

desperate effort by this white house to come up with a new storyline because the story that donald trump doesn't want the world focused on is the robert mueller investigation which we know from new reporting this week that is moving ahead at rapid-fire speed. he's teamed up with new york state attorney general eric schneid schneiderman. this is a perilous time for the president. having any visual optics where he's in texas is his effort to turn that corner. >> careen, the president's son, eric trump was out with a tweet sort of you know going after the media in advance they're not going to tout the generosity of my dad that he's giving $1 million of his own money. here was sarah huckabee sanders talking about the million-dollar pledge we should say to hurricane harvey victims. take a listen. >> he's pledging $1 million of personal money to the fund and he's actually asked that i check with the folks in this room since you are very good at research and have been doing a lot of reporting into the groups and organizations that are best and most effective in helping and providing aid and he'd love s

. we brought you on to talk about donald trump and jared kushner, but i can't resist asking you about his tweet storm this morning. donald trump went on a little tear and we will get into it later in the show. a train with a hat, and donald trump hitting a golf ball and hit hitting hillary clinton with it. what is going on in his head? >> you may wonder what he ate for dinner. it's not presidential. he's short of gestured this morning at rocketman in new yoryor york -- in north korea, and all of it, i think it's a little beneath the dignity of the office. we have gotten used to this with him to a certain extent, and in the last couple of weeks he has shown restraint and there's been an argument that that is because of kelly's influence in the white house, and he magically helped to manage the president. but this is not a president that is easily managed. >> and we are going to be singing "rocket man" all morning. and donald trump had put a lot of trust in jared kushner, and he has been globe trotting around the world, and here's just some of the business dealings, he met with the form

hurricane katrina. now it's donald trump who is leading the disaster response as many of the 3.4 million american citizens in puerto rico continue to go without food, water or fuel. after the island of devastated by hurricane maria more than a week ago. trump's response has been criticized as slow, inadequate and insensitive. on friday "the washington post" reported on how trump's time at his golf course last weekend contributed to the delays. this morning the white house press secretary called that story false. the mayor of san juan added this on friday. >> if anybody out there is listening to us, we are dying. and you are killing us with the inefficiency. and the bureaucracy. so, mr. trump, i beg you to take charge and save lives. if not the world will see how we are treated not as second class citizens, but as animals that can be disposed of. >> after that desperate plea for help donald trump responded early this morning by attacking her on twitter. the mayor of san juan, carmen yulin cruz joins me now. mayor, before we get to donald trump. first tell me about the state of san juan an

about? and also, who is donald trump to say that football is too soft? really? you play golf, a sport where the biggest danger is when you aren't even playing. ( laughter ) that -- that. but trump's comments on tackling barely registered in the news because all of trump's speeches are basically like gas station bathrooms. you can only really complain about one thing at a time. yeah, i know the sink's broken but i'm more concerned about the dead body in the stall next to mine, that's the issue. ( laughter ) for most people, the most outrageous thing was what the president said next. >> you see those people taking the knee when they're playing our great national anthem -- ( audience reacts ) -- wouldn't you love to see one of these n.f.l. owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a bitch all the field right now, out, he's fired. he's fired! ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: i like how he remembered it was his catch phrase only after he'd said it. ( laughter ) he's fared -- oh, wait. he's fired! ( laughter ) all right, so just so we're on the same page, when

politics has changed. social media is dominating the political landscape and donald trump is a social media president. and he'sw he operates a professional at it and in why heson to him that's was able to steamroll all the professional politicians because he knows how to appeal to the masses. and it's going to revolutionize the way we do politics probably to the detriment. i think what's more important about this is listen very carefully to the nuance of what hillary clinton is saying. what she is saying is things like our country is coming apart at the seams. the world is collapsing. all of our rules of law have been thrown under the bus. 1984. all of this stuff is the typical fear mongering that the democratic party does. mediaon the use of social do you find that politicians more traditional politicians have changed the way they use social media in response to president trump and what they saw from the 2016 campaign? caller: i think they better. if they haven't already started better becausead you have to be able to dominate the social media airwaves. they call it fake news.

that donald trump has made to his team and it comes as price was underfire for that private jet scandal boiling all week. at a time when trump comes off losing the key obamacare fight. now price wasted hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on private jets. late today trump announced he would decide whether to fire price tonight which was quickly followed by this announcement asserting that price resigned. joining me now live he from the white house is kristin welker. what was the nail in the coffin for price tonight? >> i think that there were days of negative headlines. that it kept mounting. the president was growing increasingly angry. he felt as though this ran counter to his campaign promise to drain the swamp and felt as though it was disfrom his agenda. let me read you a little of what president trump had to say. he said i regret that it has created a distraction from these important objectives. that was the crux of it. it seemed as though this was a distraction. the writing was on the wall. if you go back a couple days, he was asked if he planned to fire price. the p

morning. heather: thank you for starting your day with us. in a few hours donald trump will visit florida to see the devastation left behind by hurricane irma. todd: we are learning of the federal investigation into the death of eight people trapped in a sweltering nursing home. >> good morning. in the wake of irma police in fort myers getting a helping hand from army national guard units arriving yesterday. the president is also heading here but in the florida keys people are desperate for basic supplies, fema estimates a quarter of the homes there have been absolutely destroyed and authorities say the area lacks like water, power, even hospitals, and the roads are still littered with debris, power companies from all over the us and canada are sending thousands of workers to the hard-hit areas of florida trying to restore electricity after the storm knocked out power for more than half of the state. think of the communities had the lights turned back on but some could be powerless for another week. those outages causing serious problems in hollywood, florida, police are investiga

of donald trump being president. and i was all over the country working as hard as i could. and to suggest that was not the case, you know, that's kind of disappointing. >> given the way that donald trump has behaved or misbehaved as president, do you believe now in retrospect that had you gotten the nomination you really could have beaten him? >> again, that's speculation. who knows? i think what i can say and what is a fact is that most of the polls had me ahead of him and doing better against him than hillary clinton was doing. does that mean definitively that i would have won? no. does that mean it was likely i could have won? the answer is yes. >> so the next question, is how are you faring in thor raf dona -- in the era of donald trump? everyone knows what it means to be in capitol hill in the era of donald trump. what do you make of it? >> well, you know, the answer is we're doing the best that we can to try to fend off the disastrous policies that he has brought forth. right now it looks like the republicans are once again coming up with some outrageous health care proposal

him. they have signed on to the colts and persona of donald trump. conservatives are frustrated with trop. they feel they have been working the conservative movement for decades and this is the result. this is what has been produced? the political currents are vicious and confused. it all goes back to the 1960's and early 1970's. reagan used to say he was trying to roll back a great society. do -- told like to roll a new society and new deal. you?at surprises that donald trump is exactly the way he was during the campaign. there was weird magical thinking that this was an act, that he would revert to being back a democrat. the alternative universe of donald trump. that he was so unique, he could bust partisan boundaries. that totally went by the wayside. base strategyict and subcontracted out his agenda. much to his dismay over time. they have not delivered. they came in and said they would repeal and replace obamacare. that is why he is so angry. 35%never one, he may have a approval rating. but national approval rating does not mean that much. poll numbers don't mean that much. but

adding $2 trillion in market value since donald trump's election according to an analyst at s&p dow jones indices. jack how from barrenness -- jack, you don't think the tax-cut is priced into the market? is that what you said before the show? >> i i look at high tax companies in the s&p 500. they shot ahead after election day when people from corporate tax cut by coming, now they are giving back those gains and they are not banking on these tax cuts. chances are looking better, it is anecdotal but the president has not had a train wreck tweet in something like the weeks. >> commander killjoy of the chief of staff is imposing more, if the president can get focus republicans can too. try and top that. >> 2500, if you see some sort of tax reform or very good dinner tonight, feed them lobster and caviar, chocolate cake and the s&p above 2500 we can see support at those levels if we gets in tax reform from tonight's dinner. >> what i heard so far, and tax reform, first things they talked about was infrastructure. tied to it, bringing money back, getting back to that partnership in the in

. it is a big storm and we got to be prepared. we are working hard. i talked to donald trump and vice president mike pence and all the resources of the federal government will be available to help us. we are taking it -- quick action. >> reporter: people taking this seriously the heating mornings attempting to get gas and get out of here, we are getting kicked out of our hotel tomorrow morning, we have to figure out where to go and a lot of people in the same situation trying to get out early. rob: thanks so much. heather: the pentagon sending warships to see, eight ships filled with supplies will be on hand for relief operations in the aftermath of hurricane irma, two were supposed to go to texas to help harvey victimless, hundreds of marines being reassigned. the house approving a multibillion-dollar aid package for hurricane harvey relief after the president struck a deal with democrats. >> reporter: the money needed as texans grapple to repair their homes and the state's economy after the monster storm. >> reporter: behind me a neighborhood that is inaccessible because of flooding

go. very, very upset. trump people burning their hats. your own $40, because you already gave donald trump the $40. no rebates. >> no rebates! >> you're not hurting donald trump. it's your money you're burning. anyway, they are arguing are angry and it is about the wall. >> for this part of the republican base, this is an issue. immigration, amnesty cuts so deep with them. the origins of this alt right movement started because of the mccain/kennedy immigration bill. look what happened to marco rubio. elected on the tea party wave, part of the gang of eight immigration. goes down. they immediately disown him. look what's going on now. donald trump campaigned on the border wall. explicit. the best wall we've ever seen. amazing's now walking a way from that. amnesty to d.r.e.a.m.ors, hig et ever betrayal. >> look at polling on trump voters. one thing consistent across economic class. consistent no matter who they are, very exercised about the idea of an lawful immigration. immigration drives them and the wall is the thing they want. go do you, pew did an issue-importance grid of clinton

buchanan ranked below william henry harrison, you have problems. it is premature to rank donald trump. i think in your first year, holes are better indicator of what the public thinks you are better- polls are indicators of what the public thinks you are doing. i thought his leadership through the hurricanes was well done. fema did a good job, his response to harvey and irma i think has helped him get back up and running in the polls, but you do not win to operate below 40%. ronald reagan used to say, as president, you want to be a 50%. anything below that, you are not selling your product well enough. reagan would blame himself and donald trump has been struggling in the 30's and the 40's and we have to see if he can drive those up. host: on the survey of residential leadership, the characteristics each president gets ranked on his listed there. upg brinkley helped us come with that criteria. you talk about crisis leadership and another is international relations, a big week for president trump when it came to international relations. i want to get your thoughts on his appearance at the

when he got out of the military and when he signed onto then candidate donald trump's campaign. and they were working various aggressively to sign some of these clients, including some who we now learned were linked to foreign government or foreign entities that were controlled by foreign government. so under this registration act that they failed to do, there's a real feeling among the folks that i talked to they were just moving quicker than they were able to do their vetting. and whether there was any attent as far as connection with russia or not is almost secondary. they have the exposure. it's something mueller can exploit. can exploit flynn junior, can exploit both of them to give any information on donald trump and donald trump's inner circle which is the real target here snch. >> so jeremy bash, were you just nodding your head no? >> basically the argument they were too sloppily to follow the law i don't think will hold up to scrutiny here. >> carol, can you bring us all up-to-date when the flynn's, seen, and junior, have been doing? have they been making a living traveling

look, let's understand something about donald trump. he can be a demagogue but he's not really an ideologue. there are not many things that he seems to have deep convictions about. the thing he has a deep conviction about is his image as a deal maker, as a guy who gets stuff done. and for the last seven months, he's gone down that partisan road and he hasn't gotten anything done and now he apparently has made the decision that by making these bipartisan deals he can get things done. the real question is, how do the republicans react to this and how exactly how quickly will the republican leadership put whatever deal was consummated if indeed there was one on the floor of the congress. >> yeah. i wonder what republicans are doing, to be a fly on paul ryan's wall right now would be interesting. so listen, by the way, that statement i read was a joint statement by chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. david gergen, before i read the white house statement, what do you make of this? >> well, i'm hesitating on it. one, is it good for the country? and i would have to say to you, don, i think t

come in -- >> you're going to split up familys? >> couldn't be more clear? donald trump was going to reverse the executive order and report young people who came here as children and babies and have no memory of living anywhere else. that sounded harsh to 76% of americans who believe that the dreamers should be allowed to stay in this country. and it even sounded harsh to donald trump once he was president. >> daca is a very, very difficult subject for me. ly tell you. to me it's one of the most difficult subjects i have. because you have these incredible kids in many cases, not in all cases. in some of the cases they're having daca and they're gang members and drug dealers too, but you have some absolutely incredible kids. i would say mostly. they were brought here in such a way. it's a very, very tough subject. we need to deal with daca with heart. it's a very difficult thing for me, because i love these kids. >> got to deport them all said trump the candidate. i love these kids said trump the president. no president had ever painted himself into a corner like that. last week when

and depending on what could be worked out between the committee and robert mueller and donald trump jr.'s own lawyers. we also know that this might have been today the prelude to a second appearance by donald trump jr. at an open hearing, particularly if senators didn't like what they heard from him today. today donald trump jr. was questioned only by committee staff. senators on the committee were allowed to sit in and watch and listen but the senators themselves were not allowed to interrupt or ask their own questions. according to nbc news reporting today, these are the senators who bothered to sit in on donald trump jr.'s testimony today. richard blumenthal on kth connecticut, chris coons, sheldon white house from rhode island. we're told that senator al franken of minnesota stepped in but only for three minutes. we're told that utah senator orrin hatch came by for about five minutes. if you're doing the partisan math, that means there was only one republican senator there today for a total of five minutes, while the president's son testified for over five hours. as for the senator