churchgoers did not support donald trump. we have a great many divisions within the religious community and the united states, and donald trump put his foot right on those divides. he is very polarizing. there is a great deal of tension. i can name churches that have split, denominations in tension over these issues. religion is one of the great fault lines and american culture that donald trump exacerbates, however inadvertently. host: tongue in cheek, this is for one -- from one viewer -- look what president obama did for the republic of iran. you can respond if you want. guest: i wrote the book, "the faith of barack obama," and i thought the claim that he was a closet muslim and all of these assumptions about his closeted cash -- he reached out to the muslim world and seemed to be ever apologizing and ever reaching to what americans considered our enemies. the fact that he was apologizing to the u.s. and attempting to bolster the world, i think that comes not from the fact that he is a closeted muslim but from his religiou

donald trump could never win. but these crowds that show up to the events were still huge and so excited to see him. >> let's talk about that. anybody in the roomba into a donald trump rally? one person in the back. two, three come to fewer than 2% of the audience up into a rally. for the sake of 90% of the people, what is it likes to be in the middle of a donald trump rally in the middle caged in the theater journalists? >> first off, one of the time when you watch a rally in television, something he will say will sound very offensive and you'll presume the room is not with him. this isum where he crossed the line. the cameras are picking up the audio in the room but they are just focused on him and you can't tell whatt is happening ad how people are responding. there were multiple instances where he would say something like there was a crying baby, played get the baby out of fear. he was clearly joking, but on tv it didn't ring that way for somebody to did something and it's not how it read. he never lost any ro

donald trump never did that. he walked into a diner in new hampshire and got along with everybody because he was comfortable in his skin. most people were wearing heavy jackets, it was a blizzard that week. he walked in in a suit and tie like he always does and got down for a pancake and something else. one of his weaknesses is he's a terrible eater. >> can you give some examples of what you'd like to do? >> he likes mars bars, mcdonald's. he likes taco bell, he likes pancakes. the kind of stuff that his wife would never go near. the last guy who did that in the white house was bill clinton who used it to sneak out for a jog to go to a mcdonald's. people relate to that, even if they can't relate to the fact that he's going around on a jumbo jet, you can relate to him not eating that well. everyone gains weight on the road. he was a normal guy and the main thing, the reason he was able to walk into these situations because he's not wearing a costume and he's comfortable in his own skin. americans don't dislike wea

i went to the dash school later than donald trump and i got my mba. he came up to me once to function in new york and said i didn't know women could get their mba and i said mr. trump, yes they can nowadays. let me tell you in 1976 it was really tough. i wish once in a while you would have older women on your shows. we can explain to why there are men like donald trump and harvey weinstein, bill clinton. we admire you so very very much. i watch you every day and my father --. >> host: allegra we are going to leave your comment. thank you very much for calling in for katy tur. >> guest: thank you very much. >> host: was there abuse that was sexist and calling you out? >> guest: i will leave that to the individual to decide. he used different language for women than he did for men. he called me out a lot. but he called me out starting the very first day. i was at a rally early on and the continued throughout the campaign. it could be attributed to the fact that i was the correspondent i was the correspondent that he was recognized in the crowd of people

only donald trump. maybe donald trump junior and sure, eric trump and other people who spent too much time in the bubble could believe anything and ty cob's statement today. a former obama official was president trump's idea. michael flynn is the lynch pin in a case of obstruction of justice against donald trump. michael flynn may have told the special prosecutor that donald trump knew that michael flynn was illegally negotiating on behalf of the united states with foreign countries while still a private citizen worksiin workin trump transition team and told him donald trump ordered him to do that directly or indirectly. we do know that the acting attorney general sally yates made emergency trips to tell white house counsel that michael flynn was in big trouble with the fbi. she discussed the possibility of michael flynn being prosecuted for what she was reporting to the white house. she was in the white house discussing the possibility of michael flynn being prosecuted for what he had done and donald t

donald trump does it anyhow. they have a vote yesterday and the president and the nikki haley warned, if you do not vote for us we will take your money away and the vote was 128 against us, 35 abstained, which is also against us, only nine of them voted for us. and most of those nations we have not heard of. i've heard of togo, but what is this nyru or something. where are they? above water or below water -- i do not know. if she has a party for our friends there will be eight people there plus us. [laughter] host: chris joining us from texas on the republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. hi. it is the democratic morning. i want to share my personal story. and from whenold i was a kid until now it seems that when the republicans are in office everybody seems to be doing better, the economy is better and things are just better. democrats get in and things are worse. that is my lifelong experience. and you know, i guess that is all i have to say. we cannot go back to the socialist policies that almost

this made him value a man like donald trump. you have two men who are very different, lived different lives and draw attention for different reasons, but this is evidence i think of a shift in values in donald trump in the last decade or so. schedules, upon his we do not see him going to church often. guest: he talks about his christianity and bible reading, stopped pastoring the church, donald trump stopped going to church regularly. he is not making the effort to at least appear to be in church regularly as other presidents have done. host: let me ask you about the race in alabama and roy moore. president trump supporter -- supported luther strange and he lost. hist of questions about personal life and what happened in his 30's with allegations of teenagers in the 1970's and tell youhat does that about the president and evangelicals in that race in particular among alabama republicans? caller: -- guest: i think evangelicals who have a moral grid had to hold their nose to support roy moore. no one was happy about it, but there

trump was making headlines saying that mexico was sending racist into the country so donald trump rand was stop - - drop in the division and nbc said we will not air this any longer so there was a story that needed to be covered what would you put a political reporter on donald trump? they said who would do this somebody said katy tur she is just handing around which i was. [laughter] i ended up covering one story then t to bin three by the third or fourth day i was told the president of nbc news wanted to assign me to the campaign full time. i thought of myriad of things but no. what i was living overseas and i have a vacation in sicily in one week with a french boy friend. [laughter] and they don't take me seriously putting me on the donald trump campaign they must think i am a joke as well. [laughter] so i called the friend of mine who covered mitt romney whoo was urging me to do a political campaign just once because it is unlike anything else it is grueling but fascinating he urged me to do after he stopped laughing. so i said yes. i was assured by my boss it will be six weeks top

but donald trump -- if donald trump is thinking that he's got impeachment insurance from doug jones, that may be a big mistake. >> ron kevin kline,, i read it trump's lobbying of doug jones as a possible tax vote in the senate. >> i read it, my friend tonight said i read it as if donald trump's lawyer got hold of his twitter account and tweeted on his behalf. i don't believe that's donald trump and i'm anxious to see what the morning donald trump tweet looks like on this. but, look, i think if donald trump is kidding himself, republicans are kidding themselves if they think the only reason they lost in alabama is because roy moore was a flawed candidate. he obviously was, a horribly flawed candidate. but trump and his policies were also on the ballot in alabama and they also lost tonight. and i think every republican senator has to be looking at that tax bill. it's an amazing accomplishment that you could cut people's taxes and bill one of the most unpopular legislations in history, look at that and ask themselves do we really want to go forward? are we going to take the heat on this

donald trump. the word "brave" has absolutely no application in the same sentence with the word trump. and it dishonors any other use of the word brave that you might like to make if you use that word to describe donald trump. it was especially stunning coming from a military man who knows what brave is. coming from a military man who has lived that bravery himself, has risked his own life, whose sons have served and lived that bravery. it was especially stunning for that man to use that word about donald trump. brave. general kelly said he just explained to the president only three days ago how to make condolence calls, meaning he just explained to the president how to make condolence calls immediately after reporters asked the president why he had not made those four condolence calls. >> so when i gave that explanation to our president three days ago, he elected to make phone calls in the case of the four young men who we lost in niger at the earlier part of this month. but then he said how you m

donald trump today. the texas congressman is among a handful of liberals that have been agitating for our commander in chief's impeachment for months but the effort expected to fail since republicans control the house. john conyers bowing out following an avalanche of sexual harassment, the former congressman is calling it instead retirement. >> i am retiring and i want everyone to know how much i appreciate the support, undiminished support. >> the 88-year-old and longest-serving member of congress accused of harassing female staffers and settling a lawsuit with taxpayer money, conyers went on to endorse his son to fill the seat but it was up to the democrats in the state to nominate their next candidate. congressman conyers calling on his son to fill the seat that he held for half a century, this is a perfect example of career politicians so entrenched in washington that they deepened the swamp. >> i don't think the founding fathers intended congress or house or senate to be a career. public servants,

that thinking with donald trump. explaining that donald trump means back in the days of slavery. let's listen to exactly how he did that. >> what does trump mean? what does he mean, make it great again? >> i think it was great at a time when families were united, even though we had slavery, they cared for one another. people were strong in the families. our families were strong, our country had a direction. and we corrected many of the problems. >> so max, anyone who is thinking that donald trump when he said make america great again meant take us back to, oh, say the segregation of the 1950s, it's much worse than that. and according to roy moore he inprts it as take us back to the days of slavery. >> he's like this modern day omar gantry who is a massive hypocrite, predator, bigot. i mean every vile characteristic that any human being could have, roy moore seems to combine them in one form. and for anybody who thought the republican party couldn't go any lower than trump, roy moore his reputation is -- there is abso

but donald trump -- if donald trump is thinking that he's got impeachment insurance from doug jones, that may be a big mistake. >> ron, i read it as donald trump's lobbying of doug jones as a possible tax vote in the senate. >> i read it, my friend tonight said i read it as if donald trump's lawyer got hold of his twitter account and tweeted on his behalf. i don't believe that's donald trump and i'm anxious to see what the morning donald trump tweet looks like on this. but, look, i think if donald trump is kidding himself, republicans are kidding themselves if they think the only reason they lost in alabama is because roy moore was a flawed candidate. he obviously was, a horribly flawed candidate. but trump and his policies were also on the ballot in alabama and they also lost tonight. and i think every republican senator has to be looking at that tax bill. it's an amazing accomplishment that you could cut people's taxes and bill one of the most unpopular legislations in history, look at that and ask themselves do we really want to go forward? are we going to take the heat on this? a

that we all know is donald trump and who donald trump is donald trump is not actually donald trump. you heard that right. the "new york times" reports that trump told a senator in january "we don't think that was my voice." the times reports that in recent days amid mounting sexual misconduct against many men, trump stupnned his advisers abot the access hollywood tape. the world inside trump's mind is still a place where barack obama's birth certificate is fake and widespread voter fraud robbed him of the popular vote. joining us now is tara dowdell and kurt bardella. tara, i'm glad you are here. you know donald trump. you were on "the apprentice," you were a contestant on the show. does this person who is now denying that it's him in the access hollywood tape, even though you see him in the tape and hear his voice, who still apparently is a birther, believes barack obama lied about his birthplace, and still thinks he won the popular vote but for voter fraud, is this the same person you knew when you were on "the apprentice"? >> i want to stipulate a couple of things up front. numbe

. >>> tonight donald trump, jr. spends eight hours behind closed doors being questioned by the house intel committee. buts it's what he refused to answer that's raising questions tonight. plus news nbc new reporting about russia and what flynn reportedly communicated 11 minutes into the trump presidency. and al franken senate committee career may be coming to an end moments from now after he lost the support of his own party's leadership. "the 11th hour" on a wednesday night begins now. another busy evening, and good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 321 of the trump administration brings a stunning allegation against former national security advisor michael flynn, who you'll remember just days ago pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about contacting russia's ambassador back during the transition. well, nbc news reports that according to an unnamed whistle-blower mike flynn sent a text to a former business associate 11 minutes after donald trump was sworn in as president. saying,

donald trump does it anyhow. they have a vote yesterday and the president and the nikki haley warned, if you do not vote for us we will take your money away and the vote was 128 against us, 35 abstained, which is also against us, only nine of them voted for us. and most of those nations we have not heard of. i've heard of togo, but what is this nyru or something. where are they? above water or below water -- i do not know. if she has a party for our friends there will be eight people there plus us. [laughter] host: chris joining us from texas on the republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. hi. it is the democratic morning. i want to share my personal story. and from whenold i was a kid until now it seems that when the republicans are in office everybody seems to be doing better, the economy is better and things are just better. democrats get in and things are worse. that is my lifelong experience. and you know, i guess that is all i have to say. we cannot go back to the socialist policies that almost

donald trump. >> joy, you make a deeper point as you so often do that politics is not only about what we want to do with our resources, our country, right? but it's really who we want to be. >> yeah. >> and there is -- there is a superficial appeal to trumpism because it reminds me of the joker in "batman" saying you're only allowed as good as you're allowed to be and maybe we should all be worse. that's appealing far moment until you say does everyone want to live in that environment? what some call lowest common denominator? >> trump is like the president he most admires, andrew jackson. you know, andrew jackson was a horrible figure, venal quasi pollulist and indulged for violence and then teddy roosevelt busting up the trust and i think about eisenhower, fdr, the national dad to bring us back from the depths of the depression. donald trump doesn't want to be the models but andrew jackson and indulge the sense of violence and that's not healthy in a presidency. >> why you put it thinking about 2

what did donald trump do? president trump campaigned for the accused child molester. >> get out and vote for roy moore. do it. do it. do it. we need somebody in that senate seat who will vote for our make america great again agenda. >> and once more, more people voted against donald trump on election day and donald trump, roy moore and steve bannon went down in crushing humiliating defeat in alabama giving us one of the best political sound bites of the year. >> mr. bannon, this is a huge defeat for you. >> the silent humiliation of steve bannon. and in charlottesville, a self professed neo-nazi charged with murder for driving his car into a crowd of peaceful protesters and killing 32-year-old heather heyer. it was condemned by politicians in both parties except for one. donald trump. >> we're closely following the terrible events unfolding in charlottesville, virginia. we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. on many sides. >> i do think

eric holder under obama and donald trump said this. i don't want to get into loyalty but i will tell you that i will say this. holder protected president obama. totally protected him. when you look at the things that they did, and hold proer tekted the president. and i have great respect for that. i'll be honest. i have a little more on that in a moment. trump also asked here in this very newsy interview whether he would order the justice department to reopen the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails. something that he has talked publicly about. and he said that he will, quote, stay uninvolved with this particular matter and then he said something that you could take quite ominously. he told "the new york times" tonight, i have the absolute right to do what i want to do with the justice department. the fairest way i can tell you what that really means is that claim under our constitution is not necessarily true. it does depend, of course, on what the president wants to do. let's get right to it with david frum, natasha bertrand

it's not what happened in the donald trump orbit for every decision they made. this is a book about what it was like at a journalist to be there and to see it up close, to show america what we do for a living, the hardships we go through, the long days, the longer nights, the interactions with the campaign and supporters. it has humerous, light-heard moments and then also very dark moments and very trying moments, because this was -- i mean, how do you be filtered about what happened in 2016? it was so unbelievable. >> host: one thing you say during the -- throughout the book is, don't count him out. that you were sensing something out there in the country. >> guest: i don't think you -- anybody should have, and that's why i don't think anyone should count him out even today. yes, i his poll numbers are historically low for a president this early in his first term, and he still says outrageous things and plagued be negative headlines and scandals and a federal investigation, but donald trump enjoys support like nobody else has. people like him not despite all of

and then came donald trump. on twitter, donald trump is like a bank robber who looks up at the video camera to make sure the bank gets a really good picture of him. who else, who else would tweet a confession to obstruction of justice? here's what the president of the united states tweeted on saturday. i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi. he has pled guilty to those lies. it is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. there was nothing to hide. and as soon as i saw that tweet, i said, this is a confession to obstruction of justice. trump flew flynn was guilty when he urged comey to let him go. i wasn't the only one who thought it was a confession to obstruction of justice. here's the front page to "the daily news" tweet l dumb. trump claims he fired flynn because he lied. legal pros call it obstruction of justice. of course. what else would you call it? that was an obvious interpretation. it was the first thing that would come to the mind of any law

the point being, if you do is find out anything negative about donald trump, donald trump is ready to see this investigation was flawed and we don't trust them. it isa it is a very dangerous is true. —— issue. it is a serious issue. it is to do with this terrible dangerous thing that has grown both in this country and the us, that the elite is plotting against the interests of the people. they play this every time. again, it will be, oh, they are out to get donald trump, they have created this thing, this is a man who the people want and all of this rhetoric. evidence isn't going to necessarily... vladimir putin gave his press conference this week where he decried himself of the problems that donald trump is happening. mr putin himself is in deep trouble about disconnection with america. he has his hands dirty because of the influence and interference of russia. the fact that mr putin is on the side of the donald trump camp, makes me sure the investigation will come out all right. i read somewhere a few days ago, that they asked a group of americans outside the main big cities whe

remember when liberals screamed at the sky over donald trump? too early for that. then the message for anyone daring to call them snowflakes. ♪ heather: us designated terror group hamas now calling for three days of rage in response the president's declaration of jerusalem as his relapse capital city. as protesters take to the streets to burn flags it is a monumental moment for our allies in israel but could this push the world further apart from the peace agreement in that region. here to react is managing director of the israel project, thank you for joining us. the fires, the protesting, burning the american flag, it is already begun. >> we don't know how bad it will get. the administration knew something like this was going to happen, they decided the cost of not doing it was outweighed by the cost of doing it. they wanted to make sure the president lived up to his campaign promise to recognize jerusalem as the capital. >> moving the us embassy to jerusalem as well. >> he began the process of building it, this will take years and the administration has been f

this was written by donald trump @real donald trump. i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi. he pled guilty to those lies. it's a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. that was nothing to hide. >> that would look like the knowledge that nine committed a crime and that's why he was fired. and asking someone to stop an investigation is about as textbook for obstruction as you can get. he didn't write it but came up with it and said it over the phone. that's his denial. if you're representing a client who was facing potential criminal charges, and has a penchant for tweeting and has a number of what can only be called grossly inconsistent tweets already on a variety of issues including why he fired comey in the first place. and what he thinks about flynn. very, very positive tweets about flynn in terms of what a lovely, wonderful guy he is. so it is a little sfrank we would both have a tweet from the president admitting that he had knowledge that there was a lie to the fib by a

and mike pence is bound to donald trump. there isn't a good way out of this for him. >> we're going have to take a break here. ron klain, thank you for joining us tonight. and david, please stick around. >>> coming up, a report that the white house wanted to create a provide spy network to spy on, among other things, the cia. private spice to spy on the spice. >>> and also coming up, how jeff flake joined the resistance today, the resistance to roy moore. to most people, i look like most people. but on the inside, i feel chronic, widespread pain. fibromyalgia may be invisible to others, but my pain is real. fibromyalgia is thought to be caused by overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. i'm glad my doctor prescribed lyrica. for some, lyrica delivers effective relief for moderate to even severe fibromyalgia pain. and improves function. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions, suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worse depression, unusual changes in mood or

the veterans support donald trump. the first responders and the military support donald trump. he's willing to talk about issues on the campaign trail that no other candidate was willing to. howie: the supreme court just cleared enforcement of the travel ban. the trump campaign called for a temporary ban on muslims entering the united states. the ban on muslim was so offensive it didn't make it into the travel ban. and you deal with this as a cold, political calculation. dave: president trump is for america first national security and border security. whether it's kate steinle or the supreme court voting 7-2 to allow the ban to be upheld. this guy has the best political instincts in america. president trump is a master at understanding having his finger on the pulse of the american people. corey and i talk about it in the book. when we are wrong, he lets us know we are wrong. but we think as the political professionals we know what to do. but he does. corey and i talk about it in the book. when we are wrong we have to admit it. howie: you talk about the reaction when paul manaf

donald trump jr.'s meeting with the russians during that june 2016 tower huddle, very famous, well, a report that trump jr. asked the russian lawyer for illegal donations to the clinton foundation. that according to the lawyer's statements to the senate judiciary committee with nbc news reporting that exclusively tonight. now, it sets up a defense for some of the russians implicated in the trump tower meeting. the claim is that trump junior asked for dirt on clinton and did not get it. if true, the russians might be positioning themselves on the receiving end of requests they didn't fulfill rather than alleged co-conspirators in a plot to swap evidence to defeat hillary clinton. the question for trump jr. is whether he faces new allegations. now, campaigns seek oppo. ted lieu from california is with me. sometimes i get to ask the simple question, congressman. what does this mean? >> thank you, ari. it means two things. the federal election campaign act prohibits soliciting anything of value from a fore

donald trump dropped it from the list of global threats he announced the u.s. would pull out of the paris climate accord syria yes there was the one and strike on a government air base but the united states has largely stayed out of the conflict and it was a gap which russia was happy to fill there and most recently of course donald trump's order to move the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital condemned right around the world indrajit will stay with you and then come back to the others that sounds like isolation and no no you're pointing out that you feel the document doesn't but widely this is something which the president this is a road that he is taking the united states down i think what you can say is that he's got a more nuanced attitude towards the international system because of the hard core what he calls america's national vital interests so the climate change violates another key interest he considers to be vital which is corporate interests he has released and deregulated big corporations and

donald trump jr. asked a russian lawyer at the june 2016 trump tower meeting whether she had evidence of illegal donations to the clinton foundation. the lawyer told the senate judiciary committee in answers to written questions obtained exclusively by nbc news. lawyer told the committee that she didn't have any such evidence. donald trump jr. will likely have a chance to talk more about that tomorrow when he testifies before the house intelligence committee in a closed-door session. and five days after former national security adviser mike flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi, it is still not clear exactly what the president knew and as the saying goes, when he knew it. thank you howard baker. our own correspondent hallie jackson tried to get answers in the white house briefing. >> when did the president know that mike flynn lied to the fbi? >> as i said earlier, i referred you back to john dowd's clarification ann would -- >> i'm asking for a day. when did he find out? was that when the announce

of donald trump. so we're going to need some deep therapy in 2018. i also think we're ready for it. the irony is as much as he attacks the press, we are actually the ones with the power to hold him accountable. we need to rest up and continue fighting in 2018. >> when i heard that awful carnage speech by trump, i was incredibly pessimistic. i was like, the world is literally going to end this year. then the next day, 24 hours later, there was the woman's march and it was incredibly inspiring. we were all here, you know, half a million people showed up with the pink hats. it was amazing, because i did not expect that. most of us did not expect that type of movement, people coming together in that moment. and then it moved to the muslim ban where you had people come out in the airports. that was very organic. it was amazing. then you had the health care fight to stop the repeal of health care. that was amazing. the town halls and the disability community literally putting their bodies on the line at the

donald trump is not a lawyer. donald trump jr. is not a lawyer. so today, donald trump jurz invoked the trump privilege. he told the house intelligence committee that he would not answer questions about communications with his father. and claimed attorney/client privilege because his attorney was enveloped in those conversations. the trouble with that is the privilege e rvaporates, disappes when someone participates in the conversation who is not a lawyer or one of the team of lawyers. you allow a friend, you allow your girlfriend, your brother to participate or hear that conversation -- attorney/client privilege is gone and so donald trump jr. just invented a privilege today. the trump privilege. but that didn't save him from answering many other questions today and what turned out to be eight hours of testimony to the house intelligence committee in a closed door session. yesterday nbc news reported according to russian lawyer donald trump jr. solicited dirt on the clinton foundation in the meeting at trump tower in the presidential campaign. co

donald trump has never been loyal to anybody aside from donald trump and family members and he was so concerned about flynn and his fate, and why is that? the answer is michael flynn is the key to jared kushner and the president. we are talking about the national security adviser, and we are talking about somebody that had not only a close relationship with the president, but a very close relationship with jared kushner. if there's somebody panicking other than trump, i suspect it should be and is jared kushner. >> the people that the trump team and their supporters would like to be panicking is the fbi, right? you now have an fbi official that was removed because this fbi official was sending anti-trump text, and jeff sessions weighed in on that. he said he also directed the fbi director to review the information available on this and other matters and promptly make necessary changes to his management investigative teams. isn't he recused? shouldn't he be not weighing in on this? >> he has taken a view on the investigation. jeff sessions has a nerve about politicizing criminal invest

against donald john trump, president of the united states. in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high misdemeanors committed as president constituting harm to american society to the manifest injury of the people of the united states. article 1. in his capacity as president of the united states, unmindful of the high duties of his high office and the dignity and proprieties thereof and of the harmony and courtesy necessary for stability within the society of the united states donald john trump has with his statements done more than incite individuals and groups of americans, more than insult individuals and groups of americans. he has harmed the society of the united states, brought shame and dishonor to the office of , esident of the united states sowing discord among the people of the united states by associating the imagine industry dignity of the presidency with causes rooted in white supremacy, bigotry, racism, anti-semitism, white nationalism or neonewt seism on one or more of the following occasions. on august 1

trump a liar makes it crystal clear, donald trump's presidency is a cancer on this nation and perhaps the only hope from that cancer spreading is the nation's oncologist, special counsel robert mueller. >> mueller is now investigating whether donald trump obstructed justice. rather than let his lawyer speak for him, trump tweeted. i am being investigated for firing the fbi director by the man who told me to fire the fbi director! witch hunt. this week "the wall street journal" reported strongest evidence yet of possible collusion detailing how a gop operative, the now deceased peter w. smith launched a quest to obtain e-mails he believed were stolen from hillary clinton's private server while implying that he was connected to michael flynn. >> it shows you both, a, how good the russians are at manipulating people and, b, it shows you how susceptible -- >> right. >> -- the man in the white house is to that manipulation. >> i'm more than happy to be transparent and more than happy to cooperate. >> as far as this incident occurred, this is all of it. >> this is everything. >> that was mo

that's what donald trump looks like when he's lying. now, i'm fine going along with the new convention of calling some of these things falsehoods, but when we know it is a lie,s if we call it a falsehood than we become the liars. today the "new york times" introduced something new to its coverage of the trump administration falsehoods. the times included two footnotes, one correcting something that white house press secretary sean spicer said on saturday and another thing that the president said on saturday. in a lifetime of reading newspapers around the world, i have never once seen a footnote before in a newspaper. falsehood correcting footnote might be the best new thing in the newspaper world for 2017. the footnote shows that the "new york times" is thinking hard how to deal with the trump presidency. they know this is different. the times seems to be trying to come up with new rules for handling the flow of information from the trump administration that they have every right to expect based on the campaign will obtain an unpreceden

sometimes donald trump exposes more than he means to. while christmas weeks could be a time for the president to just chill or focus on his tax bill, donald trump appears to be showing signs of anxiety. lashing out today at the fbi. in new comments, he calls the fbi tainted and he cites a fox news report. it comes right after he took time on christmas eve which you may have understandably missed to attack the number two at the fbi by name. note that trump is getting very close to cross go the line his legal team has set for him. please don't antagonize bob mueller. but donald trump seems intent on pushing, trying to undercut the rush probe. the idea as the wash post explains, to undermine mueller directly. in this account in the post, it tracks the effort which has moved from the fringe to much of the conservative main stream. that's the context where donald trump's seemingly odd holiday tweets. in fact, the tweets this week. we checked. this is first time he's mentioned the fbi on twitter in three weeks. here's part of the fox news sell

donald trump's legal fate may now rest in the hands of a 29-year-old woman donald trump is reported to have described as having as much experience as a coffee cup in politics. that's according to corey lewandowski, his former campaign manager who writes that description of trump's views on hope hicks in his new book. hicks is currently serving as the white house communications director, and she may have just become one of the most essential fact witnesses about the president's role in crafting a press statement that was almost immediately proven to be false about why his son agreed to meet with russians at trump tower in the summer of 2016. nbc news now reporting a source with knowledge of donald trump jr.'s testimony to the house intel committee wednesday tells nbc trump jr. said it was hope hicks who he spoke with on the day of the 2016 trump tower meeting became public and she acted as an intermeediary to relay comments to the president. hope hicks has never in the now well documented span of donald trump's political career been known to do anything other than carry out the boss' di

donald trump jr.'s eight-hour session with the house intel committee yesterday he was asked about these follow-up e-mails an said he was not aware of them or could not recall their contents. other e-mails are eye opening. according to cnn, in one e-mail goldstone forwarded a cnn story on russia's hacking of dnc e-mails to ike kaveladze describing the news as eerily weird given what they had discussed five days earlier. on the day they broke the story, cnn reports that george kaveladze e-mailed his father asking why donald trump jr. was admitting, quote, collusion. senator richard blumenthal of connecticut is a member of the senate judiciary committee and has requested senator chuck grassley subpoena donald trump jr. to compel him to give testimony and documents on a number of unanswered questions. first, senator, your reaction to the fact that we now know that there was some kind of follow-up after the meeting. that this big meeting happens that has all these participants that are very close to the can