trump's chances against hillary clinton, my co-author felt quite differently and he predicted in august 2015 that trump would not only when the republican nomination but the presidency and he did that on the basis of data that he was looking at particularly the large number of democrats in key counties and places like northeast ohio who are switching party registration from democrat to republican. one of the reasons they were doing that, they watched the first couple presidential debates and realize trump was speaking about issues many of these democratic voters care about, trade and immigration, bernie sanders was talking about those issues which is why he did so well in the democratic primary but for many voters in the rustbelt and other swing counties across america, trump is where the action was was my co-author said this is where it is on election day a year from now. i was much more skeptical although i saw something happening, you can trace the dates trump seized control of the election to july 10, 2015, 31/2 weeks after he launched his campaign. for the first 31/2 weeks he was b

wrote an article for "the nation magazine," head left-hand, president trump, it could happen. at the time, of course this scenario seem quite a stretch. well, now we're living it, and john has taken the time in his new book, "horse many hope to trump apocalypse -- i was talking to john how tricky that word is, i was determine not to trip over it. so, anyway, in his new book, he has taken the time to sketch out several dozen of the top players in the trump administration. in doing so he draws on decades of political reporting experience. he has been a national correspondent for newspapers in toledo and pittsburgh and writes for "the nation" and the o'progressive "and" in these times. " the lives in madison wisconsin, and where he is an editor as well at the "capital times." on tv he appears an commentator and authored ten or -- co-authored ten or 12 books. you don't really sit still too much do you, john? a lot of things about to trump administration have proven to be to say the least, rather unsettled so far. indeed in the times since john finished his new book, in june, and its

of the trump administration and a national correspondent and currently rights not only for the nation and living in madison wisconsin where he is the editor at the capital times maybe saw him on tv where he appears as a commentator so you don't sit still too much those that have proven to be unsettled and with his new book in june several of the several advisers have actors that will have considerable influence over the trump presidency or remain in other government offices and checks their special interest and the impact they are likely to have. the list to say he is highly critical and strongly opposed trump calling for the all-out resistance that identified all the wrongdoers and collaborators and conspiracy -- conspirators and calls for holding them to account. this book is a step in that direction. we're looking forward to a spirited debate. the author john nichols. [applause] >> say it with me. what how well they did "horsemen of the trumpocalypse" i had no idea what i set out to write this book i think of the title first. i had no idea that the title would be so difficul

applause ) but let's get right to it because, if you haven't heard, one of the trump sons is going solo. >> donald 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

way, harriet tubman has absolutely no chance of appearing on anything in the trump administration, including even on a wall anywhere in a building of the trump administration. >> yeah. well, you know, she's doing an excellent job, harriet tubman, and she's getting recognized more and more. >> not by this group. i think we can have complete confidence that the obama administration proposal will not survive in this administration. >> yeah. it's a shame. it's an absolute 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 trum

. next, a look at president trump's first year in the white house with historian h.w. brands andr correspondent --, douglas brinkley. the hour-long event was part of the annual texas tribute festival at the university of texas in austin. >> as we were saying, i am happy to welcome you to the texas tribune festival, and to trump and the presidency. a very rich panel. there is a whole bunch of trump and resistance, trump and congress. we hope you will make this the first of a huge day in the festival. there will be a reception at the at&t center. this panel is supported by pearson and the sponsors and donors underwrite but play no role in my line of questioning. this event will be 60 minutes. the end will be left open to questions from the audience. then pearson will be hosting all of us for a brief meet and greet next door where we will drain the swamp together. so please join us for that. if you are going to tweet during hashtag is your\ -- let me introduce our panelists. douglas brinkley is a professor at rice and cnn's historian and the author of several books about the presiden

trump presidency. then senate debate on the renomination of sec chair of -- and an election security task force on russian interference into the 2016 elections. later, a conversation with former virginia governor, douglas wilder on race relations. and a debate over removing confederate statues. >> next, a look at president trump's first year in the white house be with author and historian, bill w. brands. also with mara liasson and doug g. brinkley. this hour-long event was part of the annual texas tribune festival at the university of texas in austin. [applause] >> as we were saying, bryan curtis on behalf of the texas tribune i am happy to welcome me to the texas tribune festival and to trump in the presidency. a very rich panel. there is a hole in this, there is a whole bunch of panel today trump national security, trump in congress, trump and resistance. i hope this will be the first of a huge dent the possible. there is lunch at the main mall and it will conclude with a reception at the at&t center. some more housekeeping. the panel is with pearson and the sponsors play no role

trump and lest we forget police violence. tonight the conversation with dave zarin, for the nation magazine, author, has been sitting down himself during the national anthem in protest for more than 20 years now. glad you joined us. conversation with sports writer, dave zarin in just a moment. ♪ ♪ by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. dave zarin the first only sport editor in the nation's magazine 158 year history. founder of the website and pod cast, edge of sports.com. he joins us now from washington. daved, good to have you on the program as always, sir? >> grit eat to be here. i saw some of your written work. let me start with the one line that jumped out at me and followers. it its exhausting to have a president who gets angrier at outspoken black athletes than at nazis. take it away. >> that's absolutely right. it is exhausting. and i think this last weekend was exhausting for so many people who kid themselves part of the nfl community. this idea that we have so many problems facing this country right now. whether we are talking about the

. you will want to stay for that. first, donald trump has a surprise, not talking about tax returns. ( laughter ) before leaving office, barack obama left trump a note in the oval office. trump told us he got the note but he -- well, you know trump. >> i just went to the oval office and found this beautiful letter from president obama. it was really very nice of him to do that, and we will cherish that and we will keep that, and we won't even tell the press what's in that letter. >> trevor: that was the third day of donald trump's presidency back when he had that new president smell, that was like 18 scandals ago. remember that? ( laughter ) trump said he was going to keep the letter from the press, so the guy is a man of his word so i guess we'll never know. >> president trump has since shown that letter to his white house visitors. ( crying ) i wish that letter was president! it's so much more qualified! (crying) ( laughter ) i don't know even know if trump realizes it, but that letter is just president obama throwing presidential shade the entire time. that's not the note you lea

watch "washington journal, live every morning. join the discussion. president trump traveled to indianapolis to speak about the republican plan to overhaul the federal tax code. before leaving for the event, the president made comments to reporters on several issues including about the alabama u.s. senate primary runoff, health care, the nfl, and the situation in puerto rico. there is a look. look. 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 vo

today, the trump administration is too busy to say whether or not they're committed to taking andrew jackson off the $20 bill and putting harriet tubman on, something that would take almost no time at all to simply tell us. whether in their view harriet tubman has earned a place on the currency. perhaps if there was a harriet tubman hat that the re-election campaign could sell. that does it for us tonight. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening, joy. let me translate. steve mnuchin for you, joy, on this matter. >> please do. >> his actual answer really meant, i had no idea that was even a thing. you mean they're going to change the $20? when were they going to tell me? and, oh, by the way, harriet tubman has absolutely no chance of appearing on anything in the trump administration, including even on a wall anywhere in a building of the trump administration. >> yeah. well, you know, she's doing an excellent job, harriet tubman, and she's getting recognized more and more. >> not by this group. i think we can have complete confidence that the obama ad

what has turned out to be a busy friday night. the white house announced president trump will give us his decision about young people brought here illegally as children to remain in the united states. there is also new reporting on the russia investigation. special counsel robert mueller obtaining a letter drafted by the president and by his senior aide steven miller in may explaining the president's rational for firing james comey the fbi director t. letter was never sent, the white house counsel believed it was quote problematic. according to "new york times" which broke the story quote a different letter, written by the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein and focused on mr. comey's handling of the investigation into hillary clinton's private e-mail server was sent the day before he was fired t. multi-page letter enumerated trump's long-simmering complaints with comey, including comey was unwilling to say personally trump was not under investigation in the fbi inquiry into the russian meddleing in the 2016 election t. letter quote did not dwell on russia. also today, president t

" is starting now rue. >> lawyers are paid to keep secrets but donald trump's legal team may do things really differently. nothing wrong with talking about business over lunch but managed to land strategy debate over the russia case on the front page of the "new york times," in article detailing turmoil among the team. this is a story about beef and fights among donald trump's top advisers but also about steak, ken vogel spotted trump's criminal lawyers chewing the fat at fancy washington steak house, steak goes for $60, wine list is 2011 kaber net that runs $3,000. problem is terrible choice of the restaurant right next to the "new york times," how the beef turned public. some trump aides worried that colleagues are wearing a wire for mueller. cobb still fuming over leaks from ex-member of the team who tried to out of jared kushner. might be reference to lawyer no longer on the team and reporting on. may see in upcoming weeks between don mcgahn, who represents white house as institution, witness to the comey firing and trump's effort to out of the attorney general own russia. what mat

trump will retur for a second visit to southeastern texas, where entire neighborhoods remain underwater. tens of thousands of residents are still in emergency shelters and rescue crews are still looking for survivors. you may recall the first visit was something of a bust. he went to a part of the state that wasn't flooded and held an impromptu rally where he bragged about the size of his crowd, touted the fema chief's level of tv fame and seemingly even marvelled at the magnitude of the storm. stopping just shy of congratulating himself and texas officials on doing a heck of a job. he also failed to mention to people who died in the storm, that would be at least 41 people and that number might still rise, or the tens of thousands of people displaced from their homes. but maybe today's visit will be different. trump already tried to do something that hasn't seemed to come naturally to him, namely expressing some empathy. he pledged $1 million of his alleged multibillion-dollar fortune to harvey relief efforts. we heard pledges of charitable donations from trump in the past th

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

with a massive military response. he was speaking after briefing president trump following north korea's latest nuclear test. south korea has responded by carrying out its own military exercise. a bbc investigation has found that so—called islamic state was secretly directing would—be extremists to murder people at both london bridge and westminster nearly a year before each attack. the government says it is trying to suffocate is's ability to recruit people in the uk. the most devastating floods to hit south asia in a decade have killed more than 1,400 people and focused attention on lack of preparedness for annual monsoon rains. in many areas, the authorities are struggling to get aid to millions of destitute people. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to a special edition of hardtalk, from lake como in italy, the venue for the annual ambrosetti forum on international affairs. and one topic dominates discussion here — the impact of the trump presidency on the united states and the world. my guest is the us republican senator lindsey graham — himself once a candidate for

international affairs. and one topic dominates discussion here, the impact of the trump presidency on the united states and the world. my guest is the us republican senator lindsey graham, himself once a candidate for the white house, and now a consistent thorn in the side of president trump. so what does donald trump mean for traditional notions of american leadership? senator lindsey graham, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. you are at this significant gathering of international politicians. you have a chance to take the temperature, the mood, when it comes to international perceptions of president trump today. how would you characterise them? i think there's a lot of anxiety in europe about president trump. i don't think that affects him much at home. there was a lot of anxiety about president reagan, a lot of adulation for president trump. so i'm not so sure that's going to affect domestic politics much. but people are uncertain, people are unsure. who is this guy, what does he think, where is he taking the world? and i can understand that anxiety. but anxious for all sorts of

right now, tom price, president trump's point person on obamacare, is out. ousted from the white house on a friday night staff shake-up. this is clearly certainly the most significant policy staff change 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

become the war 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 with the alabama results. steve, what happened? >> yeah, well, i mean, there it is. steve bannon and that sort of anti-establishment winning 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, w

military response to any threat to the us or its allies. and donald trump has warned that america may stop trading with any country that does business with pyongyang. reports from myanmar suggest more rohingya muslim villages have been burned down. the un says more than 70,000 refugees have now crossed the border to bangladesh in the past week. and this incredible story is trending on bbc.com: the rescue of a young boy who fell into a well in xi'an, in shaanxi province. once he was located, oxygen was pumped into the narrow well shaft. it took ten hours before he was finally pulled back to safety. that's all from me now. stay with bbc world news. now on bbc news, it is time for hardtalk. welcome to a special edition of hardtalk, from lake como in italy. the venue for the annual ambrosetti forum on international affairs. and one topic dominates discussion here. the impact of the trump presidency on the united states and the world. my guest is the us republican senator lindsey graham, himself once a candidate for the white house, and now a consistent thorn in the side of president trump

implications for donald trump and in white house. plus john mccain calls trump poorly informed and impulse oef and tells his colleagues we are not his subordinates. we don't answer to him. the 11th hour on a friday nine begins now. >>> good evening. once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. i'm ali velshi for brian williams. day 225 of the trump dprgs and bringing new insight into how the president decided to fire former fbi director james comey. "the new york times" was first to report special counsel robert mueller has an early draft of a trump letter detailing his reasons for firing comey. the report says, quote, the letter drafted in may was met with opposition from donald mcgahn, the white house counsel who believed the angry tone was problematic, according to interviews with a dozen administration officials and others briefed on the matter. the letter was reportedly drafted while the president was on a long weekend at his golf club in new jersey. it was never sent but it was apparently saved. and now robert mueller has a copy. when james comey was fired a fe

that's been blowing up your feed all weekend. friday night president trump went to alabama to campaign for republican senate candidate, although i don't remember the candidate's name or anything about him because, instead, trump decided to attack the n.f.l. >> today, if you hit too hard, right, if they hit too hard, 15 yards! three him out of the game! they had that last week. i watched a couple of minutes. two guys, really, beautiful tackle. boom! 15 yards! the referee gets on television, his wife sitting at home so proud of him, they're ruining the game! ( laughter ) >> trevor: forget being president, what kind of a human being wants more brain damage? how can one person be on the wrong side of everything in history? ( laughter ) i'm just waiting. ( cheers and applause ) i'm just waiting for trump to be, like, what's with all these seat belts, folks? ( laughter ) i remember a time when people weren't afraid to go through the windshield head first -- head first, dust yourself off, shake hands and do it again. ( cheers and applause ) what are you talking about? and also, who is donald

you were a candidate, little katie. president trump treated you like one. you have a number two new york times bestseller. it takes us from the campaign -- >> i like the smattering of applause. >> it's an unbelievably good read. 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

to work for the trump administration. from be a mill their. afford to pay for the lawyer on reta retainer. sell your plasma. or be a trump so the rnc and the re-elect pays for -- do i have that right, i think? >> favorite detail in all of this is so far looking at the re-elect, they seem to have a 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

the nation during its time of crisis? >> only if he goes into trump tower, locks himself in, sends 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 co

. tonight president trump is on the verge of another stinging rebuke from his own party on trump care. the key player is john mccain who came out swinging today and may ultimately be the veto of the republicans' last-ditch effort to revive trump care by the next deadline. saying he cannot in good conscience vote for the new trump care effort. this is a big deal. it means obviously democrats only now need one more vote to save obamacare and administer another bipartisan thumping of this young president. saving health care for at least 21 million people. that's the policy side. in shining a victory with the word obama in it. that's the political side. obamacare does still hang in the balance because of that one vote. but tonight, just one. and then it would be done. tonight susan collins said she is leaning against the new gop plan. she was part of theert. lisa murkowski also up in the air. pence now coming out with a late day plea. >> we cannot in good conscience abandon this cause. the american people are hurting. president trump has made clear, inaction is not an option. let me be clear.

investigation is going. also, politically why some conservatives calling president trump's new deal style with democrats a season of betrayal. and the very latest on the white house face-off with espn. their so-called culture war. but first, the breaking news from st. louis. this is the scene there right now. we want to show you tonight. several hundred protesters are in the streets and they're protesting breaking news, an acquittal of a former st. louis police officer who was on trial for murder for killing a black man after a car chase. now, today, judge timothy wilson found that former st. louis police officer, his name is jason stockily, not guilty of the charges of first-degree murder. the shooting occurred all the way back in 2011 of a man of anthony lamar smith who was 24 years old. a lot going on here that's important. joining us now from st. louis, with more, is reporter casey nolan in the local nbc affiliate. casey, tell us what you're seeing and the background you can provide. >> reporter: well, what we are seeing is a bit of a pause in an otherwise active march covering

north korea. brent: in his first speech to the when general assembly, donald trump delivers his sharpest warning it to north korea. we will bring you coverage from the work and analysis. and a myanmar's leader breaks her silence on the rohingya refugee crisis in her country. human rights groups still accuse her of burying her head in the sand. also in the show another monster storm in the caribbean. hurricane maria is now bearing down on the virgin islands and puerto rico. ♪ brent: i am brent goff. is good to have you with us. we begin in mexico where a powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake has hit the south of the country. at least five people have died. the epicenter of the quake was about 120 kilometers southeast of mexico city. the earthquake sent thousands of people running into the streets. a number of buildings in mexico city are on fire while others have collapsed. it follows another earthquake earlier in the country which claimed 98 lives. dramatic pictures. let's go live to mexico city. cynthia from bloomberg joins me. can you hear me? guest: i can. brent: where were you

president trump will be speaking in huntsville alabama. he has traveled there tonight to rally support for luther strange, he is the sitting senator from the state and he's facing a hotly contested republican senate primary runoff next week. good evening. welcome to it can tonight. peter ducey is with the president. peter, what's going on? >> peter, right this second there's a build that wall chant going on. within the last two minutes or so they came out and put the presidential seal on the podium. that means president trump and his motor indicated are here at the von braun at reason arena in. huntsville. president trump has done this before. the opponents have calls been democrats. tonight he is going to come and tell alabama slvolters as you c see luther strange being announced, to vote for strange over another republican. but it's pitting the president against some of his most loyal supporters, because people like sara palin, steve banon, louie gohmert are all saying that even if you really like president trump and you live in alabama you shouldn't listen to him nick because they think

. everyone has always asked, what if anything would turn off trump's base is this the answer, working with nancy pelosi on immigration. er you have to see this. literally burning with rage. tonight they're lighting make america great again gear on fire over talk of this possible d.r.e.a.m.er deal. the hats, the sweatshirts up in smoke. trump's base literally inflamed. for those who couldn't gear their gear in their buildings, they went outside. tomorrowing their hats. >> in daca to stay in afghanistan and to violate campaign promises leaves me no choice. you have become the swamp. either drain the swamp or you will never make america great again. your move. >> supporting d.r.e.a.m.ers and building that wall. even if he shot someone, some of the base is boiling and trump was back out today. perhaps responding, perhaps not. he brought up the travel ban and chain migration in all cams. this does look like new territory. many people this his base have stuck with him from charlottesville to discussion of the russia inquiry of his own son agreeing to meet with people, offering help from russia i

during the first half hour. >> thank you, lawrence. >> thanks, rachel. >> yep. >>> so donald trump walked into the oval office today ready to show off his art of the deal moves to congressional leaders, and he immediately -- and i mean immediately -- accepted the first thing that chuck schumer and nancy pelosi offer to the horror of the republicans watching their legislative agenda collapse as they watched the weakest negotiator they have ever seen in the oval office. >> we've avoided default. we've avoided government shutdown. the nation can breathe a sigh of relief. >> everybody was happy. >> unworkable, ridiculous and disgraceful. >> not too happy because you can never be too happy. >> i'll be supporting it. >> but they were happy enough. >> i thought the debt ceiling should be raised for a longer period of time. so most likely we're negotiating against ourselves. >> i don't make comments without thinking about them. >> i don't think about it. by the way, ivanka trump. >> hi, north dakota. >> she actually said, daddy, can i go with you? i like that. >> why do republicans continu

politician. you know how politicians behave. how is trump behaving right now, yelling in every direction, tweeting in every direction, getting up at dawn. is mueller getting to him with these demands? is facebook getting to him with the acknowledgment that the russians were running dirty ads in the campaign to help him? >> well, he's obviously a politician right now who is very agitated and disturbed and you see him respond with the same thing whenever he feels the heat so to speak. he deflects, usually tries to go back to crooked hillary or talk about somebody else. and then the second thing that he try to do is undercut the credibility of the people investigating him. you saw him do that with james comey. and the investigation itself. and today's tweet was another round of exactly those things. >> it's funny -- it's not funny, a little sick funny. but he seems to go back to the same redundant language about the media, like he hasn't thought of a new way of saying what he's saying. he says, i'm mad and i'm going to talk. i'm mad. it's almost like it's pout more than a thought.

president trump addresses the human generalissimo today, he will be protesting outside trump tower with other lawmakers. will this increases number of arrest? not clear. and we will speak with dulce garcia, an immigration lawyer in california who is one of six daca recipients suing the trump administration over its plans to rescind the program. then president trump childhood childhood-- trumps home in queens, new york, is now in airbnb. oxfam rented it out this week and four refugees to spend the night and share stories of hope, resistance, and like in the united states. >> to me, the american dream is having a safe and stable home and being able to accomplish your goals and having those opportunities, and now it is starting to feel threatened. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in the caribbean, hurricane maria strengthened rapidly monday over the warm waters of the atlantic, growing from a category 1 to a category 5 storm in a single day, threatening puerto rico and other islands already suffering

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

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

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

. >>> trump's letter to comey. let's play "hardball." good evening. this has turned out to be a very busy friday night. the white house announced that president trump is going to reveal his decision on tuesday about whether he'll end the obama era policy that allows young people brought here illegally as children to remain in the united states. and there's also new reporting on the russia investigation. robert mueller obtaining a letter that was drafted by the president and his senior aide steven miller in may explaining the rationale for firing jm, the fbi director. the letter was never sent because they believed the content was, quote, problematic. according to the "new york times" which broke the story, a different letter, written by the deputy attorney general and focused on mr. comey's handling of the investigation into hillary clinton's private e-mail server was ultimately sent to the fbi director the day before he was fired. the "washington post" reports, the multipage letter enumerated trump's long simmering complaints with comey. that comey was unwilling to say public reply

impending storm likely in congressional action and forged a deal between president trump and congressional democrats on short-term spending and the debt ceiling. that is what we're going to talk to you about during this first hour of "washington journal." your thoughts on the deal that was reached twin the democrats and president trump. democrats call (202) 748-8000. republicans call (202) 748-8001. independents and others (202) 748-8002. we welcome your comments on our facebook page and will look for your tweets as well. just a quick note on the hurricane, we are expecting a briefing sometime in the half fema and0 or so, from will take you to that when it comes up. we will talk to a florida congressman within the hour. we're talking about the president's deal with democrats. the storm this morning downgraded to category four, churning through the caribbean on its way to florida. the news about the hurricane making the front page of newspapers across the country. as is the deal that has been reached with congressional democrats and president trump. the headline this morning from the washin

. welcome to "am joy." well, trump is up early this morning retweeting what could be described as odd. and also this clip. yeah. he tweeted that out. retweeted it this morning. we are going to so get to that during the show, believe me. but first this is 666 fifth avenue, just blocks away from msnbc's headquarters in new york. an aging 41-floor skyscraper that trump's son-in-law and top adviser bought for $1.8 billion. experts say he overpaid. that was before the great recession dropped the property's value by a lot. now the kushner business is strapped. not enough tenants to cover the payments and a bill that comes due in 18 months. that may explain why kushner has been on a globe-trotting honey hunt. the problem is the role in the white house of kushner has made that property shyed away from. 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 wit

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

agone the story is going. why some conservatives tell president trumps season of betrayal on the white house face-off with espn, their so-called culture war. but first the breaking news from st. louis. this is the scene right there we want to show you tonight. several hundred protesters are in the streets. they are protesting breaking news, an acquittal of a former st. louis police officer who was on trial for murder for g kiting a black man after a car chase. now, today, judge timothy wilson found that former st. louis police officer jason stockily not guilty of the charges of first degree murder. the shooting heard in 2011, a man anthony lamar smith 24 years old, joining us from st. louis with more is reporter casey nolan and our local nbc affiliate. casey, tell us what you are seeing and the background you can provide. >> well, what we are seeing is a bit of a pause an an active march. it covered at least five miles since 7:00 p.m. central time t. protest has been kind of ad hoc in different parts of the neighborhood. kind of sporadic. they seem to coalesce. this is the centra

senate to pass any form of repeal of obamacare, president trump began his big push today in his next legislative crusade and proved why he is the worst possible partner the crime for congressional 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 i

dark world view about conflict. >> liz: the media melting down over president trump's north korea remarks in his first speech at the united nations yesterday. this as hurricane maria pounds puerto rico after killing seven people in dominicaxe, and in mexico the death toll from a 7.1 magnitude earth quake climbing to at least 225. rescue workers there still pulling people out of dozens of collapsed buildings including a school where at least 20 children were killed meantime the president meeting with world leaders from jordan, palestine, africa and the uk today, and the president now meeting with the leader of egypt before heading back to trump tower in new york city. we're on that story and much more, tonight. this is risk & reward i'm elizabeth macdonald let's get to the markets still in record territory, the dow and s & p closing at new all-time highs today. the dow up 41 points to end at 22, 412. this is the 58th record close since president trump was elected. now more in the media meltdown, over president trump's speech at the u.n. let's bring in our guest former trump spokesp