won and how trump won. he is still collecting the same data. he says the shift from democrat to republican in voter registration has continued since the 2016 election, the momentum is still on the republican side even though you watch the news might think it is the opposite but the electorate is following trump on the issues and democrats are not talking about issues, they are talking about trump. that is good at solidifying their base to bring donations but not good at broadening the democratic party electorate and that is why democrats are still struggling to figure out their strategy in the midterm in 2018, almost paralyzed by this resistance movement they encouraged but is so radical that democratic party leaders are having trouble raining it in. trump is talking about issues people care about, trade, national security, healthcare and that is why the electorate trends in that direction. we will see how much longer that lasts but if he can start delivering on more these things particularly on the legisla

>> will that be coming from trump personally as opposed to the trump foundation or the trump organization? >> i know that the president, he said he was personally going to give. i don't know the legal part of exactly that, but he said his personal money, so i would assume that comes directly from him. >> david farenthold never assumed that, which is why he now has a pulitzer prize. the other question to always ask about any trump promise on charitable giving is when can we see the receipt and a copy of the actual cashed check? the other way for donald trump to prove he's made a charitable contribution is, of course, to show us his tax returns, but we might only see those if robert mueller introduces them as an exhibit in a courtroom. and so today the president added a white house press briefing room stunt about charitable giving to his response to hurricane harvey. we'll have more on the president's response to hurricane harvey next with ana marie cox and charlie sykes. a basketball costs $14. what's team spirit worth? (cheers) what's it worth to talk to your mom? what's the value of a wa

away, from trump, because trump, i mean really trump who broke away from them with the comments about their league, i think what you could see, now is there is more space for colin kaepernick to get signed. but whether it happens, i think we are going to have to wait and see. >> appreciate your writing, dave. always enjoy talking to you. because the at your best, you are a truth teller. you have a freedom, that allows you to do that. i have never met jamel hill of espn. i love her. adore her. appreciate her work. she too is a truth terrell. i raise that only because we all know what happened a few weeks ago when she tweeted donald trump was a white supremacist. the white house went ballistic. demanded that espn fire her. raise that because i'm curious now as to how much more freedom you think this gives sports journalists to tell the truth that they perhaps should have been telling a wile ago. >> no, a fascinating question. i know am in a built of unique situation because the publication i work for has no economic or financial connection to the national football league. that means i h

limbaugh. >> we got trump dealing with chuck an nancy, trump is happy with it, nancy is happy, trump seems happy with it. not all of trump's voters, 67% fine and dandy with whatever trump does here. and that's what our caller said yesterday. they trust trump. if trump's doing this, then there is a long range reason that we don't know yet. they have total implicit trust. >> also does that match your reporting? >> with regard to his supporters? ye yes. >> well, in terms of the people inside the white house who are certainly not thrilled with with regards to the supposed deal framework that the president has struck with democratic leaders includes his policy adviser steven miller who is an immigration hard-liner and a complete hawk on these issues an wishes daca was something that was brushed into the ash heap of history. as we reported at the daily beast yesterday, there were other senior aids in the room during this dinner wednesday night and this high profile meeting with chuck and nancy. stephen miller was conspicuously absent and back to what you were saying earlier, regarding how

trump. i have polling evidence that shows that, his base is fairly solid. he's in the mid to late 30s and as far as storms are concerned there are political pitfalls and political opportunities. my house was flooded in 2015. i rode by 22 houses on the way to the studio today that still are boarded up and hadn't been fixed. nobody blamed president obama on that not being fixed and i doubt trump didn't have the visual like george bush had of looking out over air force one and not going down and visiting the people. he doesn't have that optic yet and i think he's going back to make a statement of the support for the people of texas, and the politicians in texas, but it is horrific tragedy that's happened down there. people who like myself and other who have been affected by hurricanes and floods get that this is ten years in the making down there of getting it fixed. i think donald trump will come and he'll go, and then there will be the argument much like there was in sandy of the funding, the

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

and trump supporters, is that they think the point of trump is to pass something. so the purpose of the trump presidency is not to accomplish anything. it is an ongoing theater of rage. >> as long as they can keep the theater going, people will remain interested so the rate to be high. there is internal logic to it. >> we talked about this before. so interesting, why i like learning from you. you excelled in this field but you say it has limits. >> it's not fun anymore. we are still, many people, assessing donald trump as a chief executive officer. and the insight from you is that he still sees himself mostly as chief content officer. >> that's right. we were talking about the "survivor" metaphor. is he a contestant or a producer? or is he basically the bachelor? so i think that that is, this purely theatrical approach requires the constant feeding of story beats. >> and it is all atwist. omarosa is someone we mentioned may be on the outs but is the ultimate combination. she spoke about enemies. here's omarosa. let's pull it up. that's my mistake. she said it's so

when a trump's -- one of trump's more moderate -- trump wanted to lead -- leave nafta completely but now he is only renegotiating. i assume he is surrounded by enough people so far who are able to give him rational know how about trade. javier: at the beginning of his speech trump emphasized how well the u.s. economy is doing right now. do you think all the leaders in that room share that view? sophie: well, let's just look at some indicators that might help to disprove or prove it. what about jobs, for example? the economy added more than one million jobs as trump took office. on the other hand, wage growth has yet to pick up. average hourly warnings have only increased 2.5% while the federal reserve bank wanted to see 3% or 3.5%. also the unemployment rate rose slightly in august. and consumers are doing ok. businesses are investing more money, so that is not bad. but the big topic right now is definitely that trump has not yet delivered anything in terms of the promised tech reforms. so corporate america and americans are waiting for this. javier: sophie at the new york stock exch

they were wiretapping trump because trump was obviously talking to him and there were clear lies told not just in the media but as we know way back when when clapper made the statement under oath to senator widen of the senate intelligence committee there was no mass surveillance that's when snowden came out and revealed there was and we brought our case a few days later. >> liz: at least a half a dozen people from the trump campaign including president trump, jared kushner and jeff sessions were talked about as being under surveillance but they were incidentally, in other words it was played down like it was not that big of a deal, but you know , now we're seeing serious wire tap allegations. remember the media called this fake news instead of investigat ing the story let's take a listen. >> its been a full three days since the president said that president obama had his wires tapped, his phones tapped at trump tower. in those three days the white house come up with any evidence whatsoever to prove that allegation? >> yeah, i addressed this multiple times. >> i want to follow-up on t

donald trump says, yes. he says, yeah issue don't like fascists, i don't like nazi us but there are some fine people marching witch. the. at that point something big had to happen so steve bannon stepped out and so did sebastian gorka, but don't think for a second their ideas step out. the reason i profiled them in the book and why i don't mind who comes and goes to some extent is because these are people that donald trump embraced. these are people that he took lessons from and the truth of the matter is, steven miller is still there. if you think that steve bannon and sebastian gorka are scary, i invite you go back and looked ath at videos of steven miller. this this guy has moved on the hard right suns he was young teenager elm write about his journey and it is howeverring hn many ways baas this is someone who has gone way to the fringe on so many issues who is in a position of power. helping to write donald trump's inaugural address. helping to do the muslim ban, giving advice regarding the giorgio are -

trump. he is just as you mentioned last night in alabama, wherever he goes, he is polarizing. he feels he is winning in a divide and conquer way. i worked on books on reagan before and reagan used to say, you have to have 50 percent of the box office to get something done. meaning that your post have to be if you want, in order to push policy through. donald trump is counseling operating with 35 to 40 percent and hence, nothing is getting done. but he still the headline news every day because of twitter and by claims that this cultural war like we so with roseville, you've seen with football, last night and i find it a bit reprehensible because it is pinning american against american in order to kind of be in charge and some of the you know it all began with this movement on obama. and with making mexican americans, latino and latinos for like lesser people. by not having a meeting with someone like john lewis to talk about civil rights. so we are in a really serious unprecedented as we say

donald trump would have made. how do you explain this? >> well i think that it's part of trump's try partisanship, if you will, there is a civil war going on, on the gop on the hill. i've got to tell you, former chair of the dc head of the party, be it local, state or federal, jumping into a primary race, pitting represents against represents almost never happens, there's a lot of political risks for donald trump here. he's got to support strange which is kind of strange, forgive the pun, it's kind of strange because if you listen to the politics of judge moore, and you look at the numbers, he's got about 40%. if donald trump was being consistent with trump land then he certainly would be he be doorsing moore, but he hasn't. it's going to be interesting not onlyt. tonight but whether moor wins or strange wins >>> but a couple things about that, tucker. [ laughter ] >> tucker: i'm sorry to cut you offensively sa, i think the president unexpect saidly has walked on. he's about ten minutes early. >> tucker, we will c

my husband and i are supporters for donald trump. i did not vote for him this time because i wanted a christian man, so i voted for ben carson. god saw fit to put donald in for whatever reason. i think it is because he is a strong leader and if somebody for the people and is neither democrat or republican or independent. he sees the whole picture. he realizes what we need as a people. he is going to get it whichever way he can. if he has to work with democrats, so be it. party, i for his own think they showed their true callers. they were up there -- true c olors. they were up there, not concerned with what the people wanted. they are either going to turn around, or we are going to clean house when it comes time to elect again. host: next up is jim in virginia. he is on our democrat line. caller: good morning. jim is from massachusetts. host: i am misreading things this morning. i apologize. go ahead. caller: no problems. i would like to endorse strongly the reaching out by the president for the democrats. a long time system of bicke

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

donald trump jr.'s statement glossed over many details of the meeting including who was actually in the room. he referred to only seven of the eight people in the room and named only six of them. you can be sure that during the questioning, donald trump jr. was pressed repeatedly on exactly who was in that room and exactly who did what in that room and exactly who said exactly what in that room. it is very likely that the committee staff's questioning provoked more than one version of an answer to various points that were raised today. donald trump jr.'s opening statement says he does not recall any phone conversations with emin agalarov, a russian singer who helped arrange that meeting but was not present at that meeting. but donald trump jr.'s phone records indicate that he had three phone calls with emin agalarov on june 6th and june 7th when the meeting was being arranged. you can be absolutely sure that more than one of the senate committee staff who questioned donald trump jr. today repeatedly qu

trump rode a wave of working class. those are the ones that work behind globalization and they came tout vote which they no normally don't. >> i don't want to spend too much time looking at hillary's race because she's been talking about that. i thought i can get reasonably honest response to questions. tell me that you believe as i do that the democratic party is in trouble. are you willing to admit that? >> yes, but it is in trouble for some reasons which we had an eight year incumbent president. the real reason though is our most important demographic age wise is people under the age of 35. they voted 50% for hillary and elected barack obama. more people under 35 voted over 65, that has only happened once. and but they're not democrats. we got to find a way to reach these young people. hillary and i are doing some work on the supporting groups and running for something in devisable and color of change and voter latino. we are going to support that are doing it their way. i think one of the reasons that democratic par

does donald trump care? well, one aide says that you can hardly remember the last time trump seemed this most pleased. according to daily beast report and a main reason here might be, guess what, the positive press which donald trump may actually prize more than loyalty to his congressional republicans. one gop operative on this point explaining we got used to the new normal of chaos. maybe the new, new normal is betrayal for really no reason. another factor here that's interesting that we have been unpacking, trump may be insulated from some of this allegedly bad news. you may know about it. i may know about it. he may not. quote, instead of being able to march into the oval office and hand trump the latesthead line or printouts of tweets showing how bad the amnesty drive is playing, aides opposing this decision now have to go through a process implemented by, of course, john kelly, the general submitting officially documented requests to get a presidential meeting and trump is now getting mostly positive f

but donald trump says yes. cryolite fascist or nazis but at that point something big had to change so steve bannon stepped out. so don't think for a second because these are people that donald trump that they took lessons from in the truth of the matter is that miller is still there. if you'd think steve bannon and gorka are scary go back and look at the videos of steve miller he has been a hard right since a young teenager. i write about his journey in the book it is such an example on so many issues ending up in a position of power and giving advice dollars -- donald trump has empowered people doing it without informed consent but has also brought people around him. if you like donald trump i am delighted yours your. so if you don't like donald trump if you choose to resist his must understand this. if all you do is resist donald trump then you are resisting it is like flipping the channel on television. you must understand why they are there and what they are going to do with those positions. you have to exp

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trump plays his own. his politics on the identity politics front, people like me might interpret as being white identity politics. >> jesse: kimberly, what you think about all these actresses and actors? do you care about their political opinion? >> kimberly: excuse me? [laughter] >> kimberly: wow. apparently donald trump is the most interesting man in the world. right? he is the new dose iq sky. holding up the whole emmys last night. they wouldn't even have a show. it's unbelievable. alec baldwin won. he's a fascinating, modern president the tweets and says what he thinks and acts like a businessman versus a traditional politician. there's a lot of material to work with. we saw that last night. that's all they were talking about. >> dana: i also think that identity politics as part of it but i was on a plane last night, there are 500 channels you could watch. everyone was watching something different. on nfl. you don't have to watch the nfl game because you can watch it partly on your phone or somewhere

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

at trump tower. over the course of the week he plans to meet with foreign leaders to discuss the escalating threat in north korea and the united states' participation in the climate accords. rex tillerson said that the united states is considering closing the havana, cuba, embassy this after many had to leave after getting diagnosed with hearing problems. >>> some undocumented immigrants checking into motel 6 got checked out by i.c.e. the employees regularly handed over guest information to the custom enforcement officers. on friday, a pair of house democrats wrote a letter to the acting i.c.e. director and requested a full accounting from i.c.e. about the practice. joining me now is one of the reporters who bloke this story for the phoenix new times, great to have you with us. let's start with the very beginning of this. how did you get tipped off on this story? >> so we heard that this was going on, started calling immigration lawyers in the area and asking them have you ever heard of this. and wha

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

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

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

i think they're going to decide it with trump on trump's issues. i'm trying to stay away from it, honestly. >> why do you try to stay away from it. >> it's such a negative impact. today since he's got into office thrnld is going to have a big effect on this one here. in there is some history at work on this as well, too. it's got nothing to do with donald trump you look at the last four govern os in virginia, terry mcauliffe right now going back to mark warner, tim kaine, only bob mcdonald is a republican. democrats have been very effective in these gubernatorial races and it's going to be on the republicans to that cycle as we head into november, jim and shawn. almost sounded like you were rehearsing of a new we didn't start the fire with a virginia governor. i tried that in care oak i one night and it is a tricky song. rchghts thawj for not trying it out on the air. >> we appreciate it. >> if you can think of something that rhymes at ma cullive, tweet us. when it comes to protection from the secret service one member of the president's family sai

today, president trump undecided that. >> close to 1 million people in limbo, president trump ordered the rescinding of daca. >> but left it to attorney general jeff sessions to break the news. >> we are people of compassion and we are people of law, but there is nothing compassionate about the failure to enforce immigration laws. >> trevor: very smart, president trump. how do you soften the blow when telling the kids the bad news? you get one of santa's elves to do it. nicely played. plus, he can sneak in to the chimney to deport them. i see what you did there. ( laughter ) technically, jeff sessions is correct, the children were brought to the u.s. illegally but it's their parents who brought them here. it's not like it was their choice. i don't know any 8-year-old who's, like, no, momma, you go on without me. i'm going to stay in on diewrs and uphold the law. you go on. i know what jeff sessions wants me to do, momma, i'm staying here. ( laughter ) to be clear, even though these folks are commonly known as dreamers, they're also doers. dreamers serve in the military. dreamers are f

he's known trump for years. stone, of course, has ties to the nixon campaign, later, of course -- >> you couldn't make it up. >> if we wrote this in a screen play, people would say get out of my office. >> there's a very good documentary out about roger stone. the role in the 2001 recount. he embraces, brags about the dirty tricks he has employed in politics. a ta toof richard nuxon on his back. he is someone trump has always trusted and he's sort of the original. that altruism that you're never really gone from trump world. trump fired stone last year. they parted ways, depending on who you ask. but he has always stayed in touch. he's been in the president's orbit for a long time and remains in it now. >> thank you so much. we'll be calling on you early and often in the coming days. >>> when life imitates art. >> when i say rocky start, i mean it in the sense of "rocky" the movie because i came out here to punch you in the face and also because i don't talk so good. now i want to begin today by apologizing on b

trump." whoever it is, whether it is mike pence or anybody, how much of that can be repaired? because america is more than just one president. >> i think it can be repaired. i am confident in the united states that that could be repaired. our country -- all of our allies will come back to us. we are having a weird aberration going on right now. they have their own problems. some of these countries have their own similar problems with great britain was the brexit debate and all. it is a confusing period of time, but i think we can right the ship and four years. in eight years, it may do permanent damage, but right now, we have earned enough credibility in the world to be given the offer with him that it just got out of control, particularly with the russia scandal, the internet. hillary clinton won by 3 million votes more. you know, all of this was the perfect storm of confusion, and this happens from time to time in world history. america will get a pass in a couple of years. mara: very optim

the politicking on larry king on tuesday donald trump blame previous administrations for what he calls the mess he's been left to deal with regard to north korea's nuclear program so is that a fair assessment and how exactly did we get to this point anyway all this is mr trump also said he's not ruling out military options for ultimately dealing with kim jong un for the latest and what it all means i'm joined by david jolley formosa u.s. representative republican of florida he joins me from tampa and joel rubin who served as deputy assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs in the obama administration he is president of washington strategy group and he joins me from the nation's capitol. trump said three of these administrations are responsible of this mess jones that fair well certainly the world we live in now is shaped by the predecessors but our current policy is not going anywhere good and for the president to look backwards when we have a clear and present threat now that doesn't do us and any any benefits we really need to have a different policy from the current one w

trump's lost. >> trump knows it. bannon knows it. you know, i think -- >> he doesn't have a whiteboard? >> well, he had a whiteboard in the office with all of his to-do items on it. but it's less important about whether it's bannon or trump who is officially endorsed and roy moore is a demagogue and relates -- >> a lot of people believe this stuff. >> i think that's right. >> anti-gay -- he's the old testament version of trump. >> i think ideologically there is an argument that you could make that he's a bit closer to pence than trump. he's a conservative in a much sort of -- he really believes it in a way that trump has an ideological flexibility that we hear about so much. >> the reason trump endorsed strange in the first place was because he was easily manipulated. he had advisers bring his comments that were negative by trump and he said i don't like that. who else can i endorse? he endorsed strange not really knowing that moore was out there and likely to win. so he got himself in this box but you heard him today basically sayin

might be donald trump. i go back to that lester holt interview where he pro actively explained why he fired comey. is there any way to back out of that as something he's already affirmatively said on the record. >> i don't think so. especially because we all saw it on living color on video tape. i think one thing that's probative. he says it's the russia thing. but a few days earlier he had relied on the rosenstein memo it was because of the way comey handled the clinton e-mail investigation. when you have the conflicting stories, that's what prosecutors came up with consciousness of guilt, i changed my story because the first one didn't look good. the fact the story einvolves is sometimes evidence of what's going on in a person's mind. >> if you were mueller and building a case, would it be the firing of comey that to be the central element of the could be instruction or going to mcconnell, why wouldn't you protect me from this, the constant complaints about the investigation, reaching out to members of co

trump justice department debunks president trump's tweets in court, but that doesn't mean the trump supporters now have to believe that the trump tweets were not true, because this is the country where the truth is what you say it is. that is the case made by curt anderson in his brilliant book "fantasyland" about how america went haywire. that history tells us exactly how we got a president trump. it tells us marco rubio can stand on the stage against donald trump and call him a fraud and a con man and be right about that, and still lose to donald trump in the republican primaries. in my own analysis on this program of how we got a president trump, i looked at first the news media's treatment of the trump campaign, especially cable tv news, and then i looked back at sarah palin's vice presidential campaign where public ignorance was something republicans defended, and then i looked at entertainment television putting trump on tv as a reality tv star, and the embrace of reality tv. i kept looking back through time at our politics and our culture including our entertainment and our sports figur

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

manafort and the donald trump campaign? >> now there's going to be some back and forth between the house and senate committees, mueller the special counsel. mueller will win that fight, and if there's going to be indictments, that reportedly he told manafort that he was going to be indicted. it may be a while for the house and senate. they're focused on national security, and that's very important. mueller is focused on national security and criminal acts so criminal takes precedence. >> the national security aspects obviously dominate a lot of our attention and our focus, what was russia doing, were they meddling in our election, but this is also a criminal investigation. >> when bob mueller took over the investigation, i sort of thought at the end of the day is do what ken starr did in the clinton investigation, is to issue a large report to congress, and say over to you, congress, to determine whether violations of national security occurred and if anyone needs to be held accountable politically. but he's going for crimi

then president trump gives his first address to the u.n. general assembly, boasting about the size of the u.s. military and threatening to totally destroy north korea. pres. trump: the united states has great strength and patience. but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. amy: we will get reaction from jeff sachs on north korea, iran, climate change, president trump. as continues its ethnic cleansing with more than 400,000 people forced out of burma we will s speak witith andrea pitz, author of the new book, "one long night: a global history of concentration camps." all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in mexico, the death toll from the massive, magnitude 7.1 eartrthquake has risen to o 250 people, as rescue workerers cocontinue to o search for hunds of m missing peoeople. the earthquake struck justours after residents partici

trump's travel ban is set to conspire today. a new ban on the way. we are going to tell you how that could impact your travel. >>> let's get first to what is happening with the nfl. now it appears major league baseball just had its first player take a knee during the national anthem. >> bruce maxwell of the oakland a's knelt with his hand over his heart before the anthem played before last night's game. major league baseball said it respects its individuals' backgrounds and opinions. >> my hand over my heart i am an american citizen and great to be here but my kneeling is what is getting the attention because i'm kneeling for the people that don't have a voice. this goes beyond the black community. the scope beat goes behind the hispanic community because right now we are having a indifference and racial divide in all types of people. >> our coy wire is with us now. a lot of people, we know, are watching the games today to see if more players will kneel if there will be more protests. >> yes. . exactly right. good morning to you

trump? how can we weaken this further so you will feel comfortable at this table, which will be completely ineffective? there is really a choice there. with to be clear about that. amy: so you're saying it is not such a contradiction, h.r. mcmaster saying, no, we're not going to be rejoining and rex tillerson, the former head of exxonmobil who is saying, no, we will. >> he is dangling the possibility so that leaders like trudeau who want to imagine a have the power to bring trump back will weaken the agreement further, which will to the benefit of the oil industry and i would argue that rex tillerson, as a man who worked at exxon for 41 years, has the interest at heart. amy: naomi klein, author of the book "no is not enough: resisting trump's shock politics and winning the world we need." we will be back with her in a miminute. ♪ [musisic break] amy: congratulations to our former democracycy now! produce, amy littlefield and daniel patterson, who danced to the song at their wedding on satu

donald trump's eldest son and namesake, donald trump jr. still today was disclosing new contacts between the trump campaign and the russians that happened during the campaign. still today we got new stuff. today donald trump jr., according to the statement that he made to the judiciary committee, today he revealed three new previously undisclosed comments that he had with emin. he is described in the e-mails setting up the meeting as one of two people who are helping along russia and its government support for mr. trump in his presidential campaign against hillary clinton. you had three phone calls with him that you never disclosed before today? even today this key figure from the the trump campaign, trump's eldest son is disclosing three new calls with that person who he knew and was told explicitly was helping out the russian government in their efforts to help trump win the election. today we're still getting those new disclosures. what else have they still not given if they're still disclosing new contacts with the russian government to

he waited, saw donald trump, and donald trump beckoned him, and he joined him for the ride up an escalator and soon steve mnuchin was on stage with donald trump at the rally and the next day he asked him to be on his cabinet. >> trevor: it's like hey, man! great seeing you! moving tomorrow? can i help you? i have an extra room. want to live with me? i'm lonely. u.n. run my economy, man. i love you, man. ( laughter ) mnuchin may not have an impressive resume but you should see his i.m.d.b. page. >> avatar and how to be single dr. . >> financed dozens more including lego batman. >> you did batman, superman? >> i did. >> whenever have you had a treasury secretary of the united states of america who made a batman movie? >> trevor: wow! how many times do you think mnuchin has to explain to trump he doesn't know batman. "i get it, you're protecting his secret identity! i respect that! are you batman?" no, mr. president, i'm naturallen. "am i batman?" sure, sir, if you want to be. matter. these days mnuchin is less interested in producing movies and more interested in producing tax cuts for the w

we are hearing from trump supporters only and on this apparent discussion between trump and congressional democrats on a daca deal. caller: the media, i believe, is nothing but a puppet for the deep state. news?why is it fake he hung up. we will go to walter in indiana. caller: thank you. the subject is important to me. i, too, am a dreamer. i have a dream that someday the laws of the land will be followed. the whole idea of daca is absurd. if i had a vacation home in a different state, and i had not been there in a few months, and my family shows up to vacation, and there is a bunch of criminals in the house, and why i called them criminals is they broke the law by coming into my house, coming into my country. i called the police. i am the police say, well, going to throw out and lock up the adults, but the teenagers, i will leave there. of corsurse not. not, and have laws are when you start to use your feelings and emotions, you get into la la land. we have citizens of this country that get welfare, food stamps, medical, dental, colleges, and we have to teach them everything. it is ridi

tonight, the trump identity. could the president's art of the deal with democrats signal changes in his foreign policy? >> reform is what we're talking about. >> plus -- 2018 predictions. we'll talk to senator chris van hollen about the democratic strategy to take back the senate. and moore versus strange. how the president is putting his political capital on the line in the alabama senate battle. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> and good evening. i'm steve kornacki in new york in for chuck todd and welcome to "mtp daily." welcome to another day dominated by major questions about this president's political identity, as parts of his base signal a potential revolt. world leaders gather at the united nations general 'ably urging trump to reconsider withdrawing from a pair of deals pillars of barack obama's foreign policy. the iran nuclear deal and the paris climate accord. it's become abundantly clear the president needs the help due to north korea. we asked the president when he suddenly started mak

that trump and the trump inner team have may have had with russian interests that could have violated criminal laws so this thing has gone from bad to worse by the mishandling by this white house and media it's not news to ben and to be in constant trouble maker. you know that's it seems to me he likes to do which is to set fires as he has said you know by his own testimony that he wants to bring the whole system down bring down the establishment and that includes republicans and when he was you know heading up a breitbart dot com that was you know his his bread and butter and what he seemed to really relish to mix my metaphors or pile them on everyone to say but will he be influential i think that's a separate question and in so far as donald trump is still calling him up which has been reported yes he's he's influential he has a direct line to the present a united states and he can also be influential if he is sort of directing his readers slash followers of right that breitbart dot com to be thorns in the side of republican leadership and he can do that by you know publishing artic

this is not what trump voters signed up for. and the question is can he shoot the wall in the middle of fifth avenue and get away with it. that remains unclear. >> that's nice, very good. >> stephanie, listen to senator minority leader chuck schumer. they will never learn he had a hot mike, talking with his aids about his relationship with president trump. >> he likes us. he likes me anyway. >> he likes us, he likes me anyway. a little sally field moment there. >> really, really loves me. >> i think that's probably true. i mean, they do have a relationship that goes pretty far back. chuck schumer is the senator from new york. and i think that chuck schumer knows thousand make deals -- how to make deals. and the president wrote a whole book on that. we don't know what happened in that room. but i think the president understands that he needs to actually finally get something done, and democrats will work with him on that. as long as he is willing to come forward and protect these young people. but i don't think they're willing to

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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 leave for your sucessor. you leave that note for a first time baby sitter. it's, like, dinner's in the oven -- ( laughter ) -- bedtime's at 7:00, but not for you and, oh, p.s., the baby is the one

could be hearing from actual trump child. donald trump jr. will testify. already interviewed for five hours in closed session. only six senators were there, amy klobuchar from the judicial committee, thanks for being here. >> thanks ari, good to be on. in middle of voting but found a moment to talk to you. congratulations on your show. >> thanks for making time in the voting. when you look at all of this, what are lines of inquiry important inny you are view for donald trump jr., particularly in public. >> we didn't talk about the private interview, went on most of the day afterward. but for public hearing, i think the public will want to know exactly what happened at that meeting, why he wrote the e-mail back as you remember. when he got e-mail, hey we've got stuff on hillary clinton and he wrote back love it, how can we forget that? i think there will be a lot of questions about that. and as well as some of the points you get to about the business dealings. because you know that one of the things that people are going to want to hear about are what were

trump is unpredictable. he's not ready to go to war or use force. >> you think they think he could be bluffing? >> caught in the middle are the residence. >> he has a good idea i think. >> you think he has a good idea? >> no. it will destroy everyone here in seoul and in korea probably. >> we just got our first response from north korea. it's not pretty. coming from the south korean news agency, they are quoting north korea's foreign minister who has arrived in new york for the u.n. sessions. he says, this is a quote "the threat of president trump is the sound of a dog barking." the foreign minister is scheduled to speak on friday before the u.n. expect more of that. game on. bret. >> bret: always interesting responses. greg palkot in seoul. thanks. the president and his people say the u.s. has many military options to deal with north korea but shooting down a missile really one of them? national security correspondent jennifer griffin is that the pentagon. good evening. >> it's like shooting a bullet with a