relations if the united states hands over a person that is residing in the united states, that is a green card holder. and who, at best, the extrajudicial process of bringing him back to turkey has been somewhat rejected by u.s. government officials saying that not enough evidence has been brought forward by the turkish government. and that is something that american presidents have in the past said is that, you know, any process of extradition would require this to go through the american judicial process. and there hasn't been that threshold met yet by the turkish government. if the president decides just to hand him over, that would be a game-changer for turkish/u.s. relations and would take it to a different level in making the president very transactional when it comes to how he conducts foreign policy interests over values. >> we certainly have seen that so far. and doris kearns goodwin, before we wrap up here, you've been in london. there is -- i guess from this side of the pond, it's a little surprising but for many of our viewers that haven't been following this, theresa may in a

that is leverage over the president of the united states. and of course our most serious concern is is there other financial leverage the russians have, and this is why i continue to emphasize the money laundering issue. if there was laundering of russian money, the russians would be aware of it. that would be criminal activity, the most compromising. >> that's a big leap, congressman. where would you begin that conversation? you need to find evidence to prove sort of the money line. i know the theory of the case on how it could have been done, whether it is golf course investments and things like this, but how do you get at that? that's a theory. do you have some evidence that you can begin to sort of -- does the cohen -- i guess does today's news give you the opening to go down that road? >> today's news shows that the president and his associates were willing to lie or mislead the country about the nature of their financial interest in russia. i think that tells us one thing. it tells us we can't rely on what they're telling us. there hav

that's who we've got as acting attorney general of the united states. so that leaves us to one conclusion. that he's got a mandate and a mission that goes on -- beyond his legal qualifications to do the job. and that mission is to impact for the benefit of the president, the russian investigation. the special counsel investigation. so for that reason alone we should be looking at serious recusal arguments here. and it's great to hear a member of congress on your show state they are going to move to protect the special counsel. but i fear that that will not happen soon enough. so we've got to watch this closely. demand objectivity and this appointment of whitaker smells badly of making the department of justice just another arm of the white house and losing the independence and objectivity that is so central to our rule of law. >> congressman, i'll let you respond and then one last one for you. >> it's not just inside congress where there's concern. outside congress, we've seen 900 different protests over the last week which will bring momentum forward.

good morning, your honor, rush atkinson on and a half of the united states. we're joined by special agent michelle taylor from the fbi. the judge says, and for the defendant? and then we hear from michael cohen. for michael cohen, guy petrillo and a

the president of the united states has been lying to the american people for years now, lying that he was ever doing any business with the foreign power which was at the same time committing criminal acts to help get him elected president. >> i mean, i have nothing to do with russia. i mean, i will tell you right now, zero, i have nothing to do with russia. i have no relationship to russia. i don't deal there. i have no dealings with russia. i have no deals in russia. i have no deals that could happen in russia because we've stayed away. i have nothing to do with russia. i have john. john, how many times do i have to say it? are you a smart man? i have nothing to do with russia. i have nothing to do with russia. >> we now know that, in fact, trump had a lot to do with russia. according to michael cohen, trump was trying to build a trump tower in moscow into the summer of 2016, a year after he announced his presidential run and at the height of the campaign, the same campaign the russians meddled in. and as he was about to become the republican party nominee. in fact, according to a ne

the answers he submits will be a sworn statement from the president of the united states and even if the lawyers think they've nuanced it so its not committing perjury or not revealing culpability for criminal activity, robert mueller is not going to agree to no follow-up. here's the reason for the panic. donald trump knows he's in a corner but he doesn't know which corner he's in because he doesn't know what other information robert mueller has gotten from cooperating witnesses and that's the panic. this isn't a matter of donald trump being able to verify, i'm telling the truth based on what donald trump i said a year ago. this is am i telling the truth based on evidence robert mueller has from others that i don't have visibility in to, which is the reason for the panic and i think at this point the reason donald trump should plead the fifth. >> cynthia? >> i definitely agree. robert mueller would never -- would never make the deal that the lawyers may be pressuring is that they don't ever have to have follow-ups. these questions reportedly do not include anything about the obstruct

the answers he submits will be a sworn statement from the president of the united states. even if the lawyers think they've nuanced it so it not committing perjury or revealing culpability to criminal responsibility, reform will not agree to no follow-up. donald trump doesn't know which corner he's in because he doesn't know what other information bob mueller has gotten from corroborating witness. this isn't donald trump and verifying am i telling the truth on what i said a year ago, it's am i telling the truth based on what bob mueller has from others, which is the reason for the panic and i think the reason donald trump should plead the fifth. >> cynthia? >> i definitely agree. i think bob mueller would never make the deal that the lawyers may be pressuring, which is they don't ever have to have follow-ups. these questions do not reportedly cover anything about the obstruction. there's no way bob mueller would agree he's not going to ask the president questions. >> that could be the holdup, that they still want answers to obstruction questions and the president's lawyers

how does going to look for the united states? >> it just shows that this relationship with mexico is going to continue to be a turbulent one. december 1st is when the new president assumes office down there in mexico and it's already been an interesting back and forth between the two. lopez won office in part by being the anti-trump candidate. he said that mexico would no longer do, quote, the dirty work of rounding up migrants on behalf of the united states. after he won, things got a little bit better. they talked on the phone. president trump called him a terrific guy. lopez had nice things to say about trump as well, but just in the last few days, we saw what sounds like the president -- the incoming president of mexico starting to fight back. the u.s. and mexico have been working on some kind of agreement to try to formalize a process in which these migrants would be able to stay in mexico while their asylum cases were being adjudicated here in the united states, but then that quickly fell apart. and i think that's a clear i

>> this is about the people of the united states. if there is a movement to get something in place we desperately need which we always need which is a vision of what the country stands for and how the american people come first, i'll be part of that movement, absolutely 100%. one way or the other. >> whether you're a candidate or a supporter? >> absolutely. tom steyer, thank you. much appreciated. when we come back, democrats picked up as many as 40 house seats in the mid terms. but some are still not calling it a wave. why? i'll explain next. are still no are still no ♪ she's doing it again no cover up spray here... cheaper aerosols can cover up odors, burying them in a flowery fog. switch to febreze air effects! febreze eliminates even the toughest odors from the air. freshen up, don't cover up. febreze. 74% italian. and i found out that i'm from the big toe of that sexy italian boot! so this holiday season it's ancestrydna per tutti! order your kit now at ancestry.com >>> welcome back. chances are this thanksgiving you found you

we know if there are surveillance tapes, which we talked about at the embassy, do united states intelligence have it? either mueller has spoken to them or maybe there will be an investigation from congress come january to see if they can get the tapes. but we know robert mueller kept his head down and is going forward with his investigation. every time something comes out we go oh, my, and robert mueller's six months ahead of that. so all i know is that i leave my faith in that be rot mueller is going to do the best job he can and will present the facts in a very thoughtful way that can be presented to the public so they have faith in him. that's the most important thing, as he presents it, he will present facts, not ifs, not maybes. and that's something we can trust. it won't be coming from the president or democrats or it won't be coming from republicans, it will simply be coming from the special investigator. >> paul manafort not cooperating any longer with the team. how much of a blow is it to mueller's team and does it delay this investigation? >> i think it is a blow and probably does

that is a united states helicopter. it looks like border patrol helicopter that's cruising by and how close we are to the united states. [ speaking spanish ] she says that she was with the kids there and then they started shooting gas. what happened to the kids? [ speaking spanish ] she says that the children started to cry so they grabbed the children and they ran as quickly as possible. [ speaking spanish ] you guys came from honduras. [ speaking spanish ] what do you think's going to happen? [ speaking spanish ] she says that -- she says that she's hoping that they give her a chance to work. that's what we have heard from this family. this family hasn't really talked about asylum and don't want do come to the united states indefinitely and asking for permission to work for three to four years but that kind of gives you a sense of the confusion. a lot of people that are here, they don't necessarily know about the asylum process. they have been told all kinds of different things and many of them under the impression to

the united states army it would be a horrendous misuse of the united states military to have them firing on any civilian at any border and these people on the border donny just referenced it, the president of the united states -- we just heard him say that these people when you attempt to have a conversation with them they start a fistfight. i mean, that is beyond absurd. this is the president of the united states speaking. this is the president of the united states encouraging an action that is so opposed to everything that this country stands for, but we ought not to be shocked because it happens nearly every day. >> don yeah, you know donald trump. the president thinks this looks tough. he thinks if you talk about having guys at the border with guns it's going to deter people from coming here. it was the same argument they used, that jeff sessions also used for the family sprags policy, it will deter people from coming here. this is what getting tough on immigration looks like to president trump. >> i love mr. tough guy who is tough on women and children but when it comes to the crown

we are waiting remarks from the president of the united states. he is in m france, as we have bn talking about. the white house saying president trump plans to deliver a speak that will focus on honoring americans that fought and died in world war i. he's being joined by world leaders at a cemetery southwest ofer paris. we haven't talked about matt whitaker. i want to get into that first, if we could. the president naming him as his acting attorney general. the white house is distancing itself from this appointment. your sense of how all of this is going to play out? >> yeah. so the constitution says that principal officers have to be confirmed byto the senate. principal officers are people who report directly to the president, which is what the attorney general does. what thewh trump administrations saying is there is another federal vacancy act, which allows them to appoint anyone who has been confirmed by the senate. so their argument is because this man was a united states attorney many years ago in iowa and at that point, a long time ago, the

a lot were under the conception you can do that in the united states. and after what happened on sunday, they are not shaken. many of them are -- starting to inquire about self-deporting. we know about 60 people turned themselves in yesterday, trying to get back to their countries. so a lot of frustration here and a lot of confusion. hallie? >> that was my question, gadi, if you have seen people now given what happened sunday start to basically turn around and go back to their homes? >> yes, and that's very difficult, because many of these people got everything they could and they walked over 2,000 miles to get here and they're literally up against a fence. but the ones that we've been speaking to say they were told -- and they believed when they left from honduras and some of these other countries -- that it was going to be much easier to get in the united states than after what happened on sunday, many are facing that reality, that the process for getting into the united states is a lot more complicated than they originally believed. hallie? >> gadi s

. >> i've never seen your state so united. i'm not sure it's healthy but i just checked after the midterms. 91% of your rank and file voters say they're with trump, for example. i've never seen anything like that. does that mean probably no matter how bad things get or how difficult they get for him in the economy or world events or whatever and his personalities problems which are always there, he's still going to end up with no challenge? >> if he ran against john kasich today in ohio for governor, trump would win by 30 points. if you look at the exit polls, pennsylvania you know well, i know well, it's a good example. you lubar run, he got 88% of the republican vote. there is no buyer remorse by republicans. where there is an achilles he'll are these swing voters, donald trump loses some of those votes and has to make them up -- >> how does he get college educated women back after they decide they don't like him? >> you'll hear a lot of candidates talk about i don't want to make this about donald trump the person, i want to

literally for the economy of the united states would be disastrous. the numbers are something like a million border crossings a day. in the -- you know, across the u.s./mexico border. >> cars and vegetables. >> people coming into the u.s. to work. not just tourists and not just trucks and cars. this is hugely beneficial to our economy and talking about shutting -- i think $600 billion in goods in those vegetables and cars. so sure. you can throw the baby out with the bathwater but the baby here is the economies of california, arizona, texas and new mexico. disastrous way to do that. >> i talked to a source at the department of homeland security just yesterday over thanksgiving and that person said, you actually can't physically close the border. you can close the ports but tunnels and people that can run over water. there's no official way to really shut down crossings at the border in the way that the president wants to. that's why you have fencing and more people being hired to guard the border but just closing down official ports that source told m

liberty. ♪ >>> first lady of these united states, michelle obama. >> with just six months left as america's first lady, michelle obama would turn to the campaign trail, where she fought hard for the democratic front-runner, hillary clinton. >> at that point in time we had a pretty stark choice between two visions of what the country could be. >> one of the messages that she delivered on behalf of hillary clinton to these audiences was that if you don't vote for her you're voting to elect donald trump. >> after the leaked "access hollywood" tape on which donald trump bragged about groping women was broadcast, people wondered if michelle would address the controversy. >> it has shaken me to my core in a way i couldn't have predicted. this is not something that we can ignore. >> she called on women and voters to say enough is enough. >> the polls had hillary as a shoo-in to become the nation's 45th president. >> another major headline -- >> but on election night a very different outcome took shape. >> let's be frank. we all got it wrong. >> despite the allegations of sexual assault against him

they buy their arms from the united states. and so a president that wanted to turn up the consequences here has a lot of options available to him. the fundamental problem is not a lack of legal options or diplomatic options. the fundamental problem is that the president has looked at this situation as you said at the beginning and said one journalist's life, and by the way, dismemberment, is not worth some u.s. jobs. and that's a political decision. by the way, it would be a grossly sort of disgusting and immoral one if the president were being honest about it. he's not being honest. and so what he's trying to do instead is obfuscate the trade that he's making by suggesting more doubt than really exists as to what happened here. >> all right. benjamin, stay with us. josh and malcolm, thank you guys both for joining us. >>> still ahead, just in time for thanksgiving, the president's legal team plans to submit his written answers to robert mull heller by thursday. >>> plus the president defends his acting attorney general. what t

shootings are absolutely a public health epidemic across the united states. and as doctors, we all have hundreds of stories of patients that we've tried to save and parents who we've had to console after we've been unable to save their loved one. we don't just treat epidemics. we also solve them. we know it doesn't have to be this way. >> how do you console a parent whose child has just died in this brutal way? >> it's the worst thing in the world to have to tell a parent they lost their kid in such an unexpected and horrible manner. but the thing is that for every other epidemic, we use science to try to find answers. the difference here is that we've had essentially no federal funding since 1996 to try to solve this, so i petell a paren their kid has died and i'm not doing anything to stop the next shooting. >> i sense in your voice a feeling of powerlessness. >> oh, i don't think so. there's a feeling of -- i actually think that there's hope here, right? we've used science to solve epidemics ranging from car crashes to polio to hiv. we know we can decrease

they enter the united states legally. their status of the united states was not a determining point. to add to that, take a look at this global mark. a asylum seeker are permitted to make a claim regardless of where they enter a country's territory. 148 countries signed this law. another thing, the asylum case that the united states has denied and gone up for five years in a row. keep in mind, the percent of those who asked for a asylum who are denied is 61.8%. fewer than a third and fewer than 30% of anybody who applied for the asylum is granted. the system is not broken. when you look for a asylum. it is an official process, you have to talk to somebody and immigration officials to get it. jonesing me n joining me now raul reyes. there are all sorts of people who are suing about this. >> right, that's their starting point. you see they have multiple grounds on which they base their lawsuit. the aclu is basing it on the grou grounds that violates the administrator act because they're not allowing enough time for these me

. >> i wasn't involved in georgia other than i love the state. >> reporter: as president of the united states, are you concerned about the access people are having to voting? >> i heard it was very efficient in georgia. but, again, you'd have to ask the state governments. one of those things you're going to have to ask them. go ahead, please. >> reporter: thank you, mr. president. you expressed some concerns about social media companies unfairly censoring conservatives during the election. do you anticipate working with democrats to regulate the companies or are you satisfied? >> i would look at that. i think it's a serious problem. at the same time you start getting into speech. it's a dangerous problem. that could be the beginning. so it's very dangerous. believe it or not, i'm one that really likes free speech. a lot of people don't understand that. but i am a big believer. when you start regulating a lot of bad things can happen. but i would certainly talk to the democrats if they want to do that. and i think they do want to do that. yes, sir. >> reporter: former president barack o

so the united states has a vote. and then cameroon has the same vote and so what russia has successfully done in all these types of country situations, these group country situations like with fifa over the world cup or the international olympic committee, they find little countries and they figure out ways of enticing them to vote with them. and so, you know, we could have all of europe, united states, canada, japan, australia, all voting with us, and then all sorts of little non rule of law countries are voting with the russians and the russian guy could get in and run interpol. the international police organization. >> now, bill, there are lots of reasons why this might work out badly, but the magnitsky act, the global magnitsky act you're responsible for may be chief among them i have heard, i saw something here that the russians say that you poisoned sergei magnitsky, your lawyer. >> right, so for nine years after sergei magnitsky was killed by the russians in a russian prison, the russian government refused to

the military can't do anything inside the united states. that's why we have and pay for 17,000 police departments in this country. that's why we have federal law enforcement agents. the united states military is not allowed to do the job of domestic law enforcement. and so donald trump will waste $50 million, $100 million to send a group of unarmed u.s. soldiers to the southern border to do nothing because they are legally prevented from doing anything. if donald trump follows through on this political stunt, it would be a group of soldiers smaller than half, way less than half of the chicago police department. and the territory that they are supposed to cover is a lot bigger than chicago. over 2,000 miles of terrain that is very difficult to patrol, and they won't be able to use their weapons for any way for any purpose. they won't be allowed to do anything if they are sent to the southern border for that stunt. donald trump is hoping that that stunt will feel like winning for trump voters because trump voters know they certainly aren't wi

many to go to the united states. because they're escaping economic hardships or gangs or sexual violence, whatever the case is. is it practical for mexico to stop these people coming in from central american countries before they even kros into mexico? >> migration has been an issue worldwide. and it's always, people don't live in thur croountries and ar looking for better life. mexico has been in partly sunny, not today, a country that has been part of a very important -- today, the net or the basic rule is not of mexicans going to the u.s. mexico is is now a transient country in this process. but that we have to be very strong in supporting the legal and human rights of migrants. that is something we have to do because we have been my grant as migrants in the past. that can be faced and approached with different explosiclusion o solutions. we have to provide solutions, but at the same time, we, our legal system, requires that any migrant coming to mexico should obey by laws. that is what the mexican government is a

and diminish the united states in the world? vladimir putin got what he wanted here and that wasn't an apartment in trump tower. it was donald trump in the white house. >> and, david corn, clearly donald trump would not have been able to figure out any way of dealing with vladimir putin publicly this week of all weeks. >> well, yeah. i mean, you can just imagine the questions at the press conference. you know, since 2013, trump has been saying positive things about putin. when he announced -- when he first announced that he was bringing the miss universe contest to moscow in the summer of 2013, he started tweeting, will vladimir putin be my best friend? will he come? he started saying all these flattering things about putin for all the years leading up until the 2016 campaign. so, i think he's always had this idea of doing business with putin. he's also had a psychological affinity for putin as some sort of strong man who he wanted to emulate. but i think ben is exactly right. by dealing with putin secretly in that point in time

the president of the united states has taken a victory lap. my democratic friends seem to be licking their chops they lost these high-profile races. this moment is why democrats fought so hard to get what they got last night, which was control of the house of representatives. and to my democratic friends, be proud of that because this is the moment. if we did not have a democratic majority, this moment will be much greater of a constitutional crisis than what we're about to face. >> if the opposite had been true. i had the same conversations with my democratic friends heartbroken over beto and gillum and anxious over stacey abrams. if democrats hadn't taken control of the house, you'd have no subpoena power, you'd have no ability to finish the investigations or -- i don't know if you can call the investigation an investigation. i find it funny that it's you and i the former republicans -- >> mueller could get fired tomorrow tomorrow, and he just might. they can immediately appoint a special committee with all the vf gative authority. now the t

iran is sort of the stated enemy of the united states among this strange's officials. that is certainly new when it comes to american diplomacy. you have yemen, which is a point of contention for the united states and the world community. the u.s. just stopping to fuel jets over yemen. some 130 kids a day are killed in yemen, which is at the brink of famine. the saudis do not do diplomacy, frankly. they do economic strength. they're muscling palestinians out of the haj, the pilgrimage to mecca by changing some of the pass recoport regulations in an around riyadh. what you've seen is sort of a very mild sanctioning of 17 saudi officials. i don't think it's likely you'll see anything more. >> especially after he says he hasn't been briefed yet despite some of the evidence that has been presented to him already. cal perry, thank you. stick around. >>> let's switch gears here and get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, a frigid thanksgiving week forecast. >> it's crazy. november, what happened? it was a long summer in areas of the east. then l

i know a few united states attorneys and former united states attorneys who would be shocked at what had happened during the plea bargaining of this case. you are talking 15, as you pointed out, 15, 16-year-old children, 60 victims involved, you know, many of them on the record now. >> yeah. you know that former police chief that we talked to from palm beach, he was very guarded in our conversation, but you can tell, this was a guy that thought they had him cold on much more serious charges and charges serious enough as he said to send jeffrey epstein away for life. what has happened, instead, jeffrey epstein is back in the public, a potential sexual predator. it doesn't appear to have been adjudicated. >> there is a turn in this research piece in the miami herald from the police chief michael ryder, where some of these crimes took place. his quote is, this was not a he said, she said, 50-something hes, one she and the shes tell the story. >> a lot of them didn't know each other. >> stephanie gosk, thank you very much. we appreciate it. coming up next on "morning joe," we will look i

again, you have marco rubio sitting a united states senator. he is questioning the legitimacy of an election because he sees a box that ends up being filled with pencils and erasers and stickers. he's trying to steal elections when rick scott's own monitors and government and law enforcement officers say no fraud here. >> and they're running it. >> yeah. his administration is running the election. you have the same thing out in arizona. again, questioning the legitimacy of elections that you may lose or trying to stop the votes of people who may vote gets you. that's no the what we do here in america. >> so, joining -- >> that's what happens in banana republics. >> joining me, kimberly atkins. develop on this if you can. how much more can the republicans take? don't they know what obviously looks like. >> i think one of the bigger concerns of this is if you recall 2000 in that recount, there are people to this day who still don't -- who still don't accept the legitimacy of that election. it was ultimately decided by the supreme court in their v

we see the all-out assault on the immigrant population here in the united states. the same themes continue to move forward including a distraction or two with a hearing about hillary clinton's emails, once again. >> yea. >> ironically during a period of time where we find out that ivanka and jared and others within the white house have done the same. >> now, in january once the new congress is seated, the majority becomes democratic, the leadership in the house is democratic and the congressional black caucus grows to 55 members with some chairmanships. so the issues of health care, the issues of criminal justice reform, the issues of voting rights are paramount. we talked a lot about that. what can we -- where can we set the mark to see what can be done and whether or not a lot can be done without the senate being able to stop it since the majority of the senate is still republican? >> well, that's part of the challenge. you think that doesn't stop us from moving our agenda forward. we have some imperatives right now. the anxiety in our nation is palpable, whether

and it can happen here in the united states. and it may not be trump himself who applies the violence, but it may be his followers. and in fact, some of them have already taken that step. the pipe bomber recently attacking the president's opposition as well as figures in the media. the president's words matter to his people here in the united states, some of whom are going to follow his lead and take violent action. but also, as jonathan said so correctly and so importantly, that foreign governments, foreign authoritarians, dictators, they watch very closely to see what the u.s. president does and what the u.s. government does or doesn't do and they take cues from that about what they can get away with. and you can -- i could cite example after example of this. bashar al assad in syria is one of them. where they test the water with a killing here, a slaughter there. and if they don't get a strong response from the united states in opposition they'll do more. and i'm afraid that's what we're about to see globally. >> jonathan alt

someone has to say the united states has broken a law. this is exactly where the trump administration is finding the space to operate by finding these gaps in the system and hoping that its dominance as the united states will carry itself through as it violates international law. >> let me ask you really quickly, why will the mexican government go along with this? obviously, there is this argument that the trump administration has made or is tweeting out which for its own intents and purposes has not even been agreed to by the mexican government saying this is a done deal. the mexicans are saying no, it is not a done deal. why would the mexican government, laying out the international law ars pespect o this, agree to something like this? >> you laid out the point that it's not been verified which applies to everything in this administration. the mexican government, which doesn't take power until december, has put out a statement saying no deal, okay, we'll keep them here in mexico while they apply for asylum. there's a different governmen

it's one of the best museums in the united states. it's brand-new. and it's got, it's got a lynching or public hanging exhibit, and it's visceral and it's sobering. you just -- when you go through that, it's got a list of every mississippian from reconstruction through the mid '60s that were lynched and it's got their name and the allegations, you know, for that punishment, if you will. and you just have to come through there. when you get through there, you have to take a deep breath, chris. so, this is -- these comments from a sitting u.s. senator have harmed our state and it's just -- you know, we have to get beyond this now. it's 2018. we're now going into the third decade of our 21st century. it's time-out for these type of comments, throw back comments, chris. >> what do you make of trump, president of the united states, single out african-american journalists, some of the top ones, april ryan whom i've known forever, fabulous journalist, maxine waters out in california who has been a veteran u.s. congress person. and always going to the stupid

we want a check on this president of the united states. the american people said to us they want robust, transparent investigations with integrity. so we will -- i haven't figured out exactly what order they're in because they're all important but i guarantee you we will look at quite a bit. >> shawn, any indication how many investigations the democrats will undertake? they've made reference to a number of them over the past few months. >> yeah. it looks like they're going to be taking a look at a lot of different things, and what's striking, notable when you listen to the comments from congressman cummings and from other democrats is the extent to which democrats seem to be interested in the president's personal financial information. his tax returns. his past business ties with saudi arabia and officials in the saudi government. this is not just going to be an investigation into the president's political decisions, it looks like, it will be an investigation on several fronts it looks like into his personal financial records. that's somet

the united states doesn't need that policy. the united states could continue to pursue diplomacy. the previous administration showed that could be successful. we had many problems with iran, those can be resolved diplomatically. it's saudi arabia that needs the united states for i policy of confrontation. we should not be capitulating our leverage here by going along with what the saudis are saying. >> nor is turkey a good guy hering just because they got that evidence about khashoggi, it doesn't mean they're the good guy, because they were doing everything they can to get this guy, gulen, he's committed no crime. just the fact that we're talking about trading him back or handing him back it's shocking. shocking. let's remember the former national security adviser was accused of potentially rendering the guy for money. this is not what we're about. thank you all for your time. >>> coming up next, democrats won big on midterm election night. a faction of them decided to punch their own party in the face. more "am joy" after the break. ". i've always looked forward to what's next. a

those weapons were proud here in the united states. now the men and with imthat work at raytheon and lockheed martin do excellent work to build weapons that keep us safe. now they're in the hands of people who do not value human life and the president had an opportunity here to stand up for american values, individual rights and human life, he's demurrered. that's very dangerous. >> christine i want to ask you how this is resonating around the world. i will put up a tweet here. pute what's the message this sends to other strong men, autocrats around the world? >> the message it send is that this president no longer stands with -- maybe he never did -- true values of the american bill of rights and the american constitution, what was always sack sacrisant, which if you are nice to this man who is nice to him, if you theoretically throw around money, if you make innuendos about promises of the future the president will do business. i think that sends one message to our allies, we're not the america we once were. and sends a message to di

states. if you just look at the results, the republicans lost over 300 state legislative seats. we all jumped on board, including myself, when obama over eight years lost 1,000 democratic seats. he's now lost a third of thousands in two years, and turning over seven governorships. when you have races so close in florida, which the democrats will not prevail and the race in georgia is now over, but those are now as does north carolina, as arizona is, that would need only one swing state. you win wisconsin and any combination of one more swing state, and the democrats win, or any combination of three swing states, and they win. the president is getting ready to disembark. and before that we sauce governor jerry brown and governor-elect gavin newsom, both democrats and both critical of the president, especially in light of his declaration of the california wildfires being this disastrous and devastating was because of the poor forest management. it's going to be a very interesting photo op that

the united states senate initially portrayed as a genuine disaster for democrats looks closer. after jon tester won re-election in montana and a state trump won easily and republicans face the prospect of having gained just a single seat in this midterm election despite one of the most favorable senate maps in a generation. then there are the states. democrats took seven senate races from republicans and gop did not flip a single one from democrats. still counting votes in georgia where stacy abrams is trying to overcome a voter suppression effort to become the first black governor for georgia. there is much more to this story according to the dlcc, focusing on state races, democrats flipped 350 seats in state legislatures, flipping seven chambers in the process. they gained trifecta, unified governments in six states meaning they now control the governorship, statehouse and state senate, including the state of new mexico a state george w. bush won in 2004. and beta o'rourke's surprisingly close race against ted cruz helped democrats statewide. they gained 12 seats in the state

regulation, remember it's not just the united states. europe has been making stronger noises and they have stronger anti-trust laws. >> i want to talk about the article saying they were distracted by personal projects. how safe are they in their positions when you look at the ramifications? >> generally, they're pretty safe. mark zuckerberg has full control over facebook. he's rejected the notion he lessen his control on the board. he's there to stay. he was asked about sheryl sandberg and mark said he thought she was doing a good job. there are questions about the leadership there and whether they should have known more about the political activities of their own company. repeatedly when we were on a call with facebook we asked them did you know why you hired this fire? they said they had not. that took people by surprise that they don't know enough about their company's activities. >> tony, thank you for joining us and thank you to the panel for joining us. tomorrow night at 10:00 tune in to "revolution." >>> recapping breaking news. p

the united states are tied to. that's not true with saudi arabia. donald trump has an affinity for thugs in the world and over states and over plays into your words lies about the economic dependencies of the united states on saudi arm sales which just are not true. >> good to talk to you. thank you for joining me. >>> coming up, four days until the senate run off election in mississippi. will cindy hyde-smith's racially charged actions make tuesday runoff a race to the finish? ♪ ♪ i'm all for my neighborhood. i'm all for backing the community that's made me who i am. i'm all for my theatre, my barbershop and my friends. because the community doesn't just have small businesses, it is small businesses. and that's why american express founded small business saturday. so, tomorrow, november 24th, let's all get up, get out, and shop small. i got croissant. small business saturday. a small way to make a big difference. this is moving day with the best in-home wifi experience and millions of wifi hotspots to help you

the saudis have all the power over the united states to determine what the united states' posture must be to saudi arabia. >> well, this is a bit of a mystery because it very much is the tail wagging the dog. is it because they supply oil to us? is it because they buy our arms? that's what the president has said. is it because they helped us against isis, and i must say that help wasn't massive. let's remember that it was the saudis, mostly saudis that attacked us on 9/11. and remember that the saudis funded a lot of the extremists that trained terrorists, that were very much a part of the challenge in the world. and let's remember it's the saudis that the three-year bombing campaign in yemen has produced the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world and the worst epidemic of cholera ever experienced in human history with something of over 100 children a day dying of disease or starvation. we have an unbalanced relationship with saudi arabia. it's hard to explain, and we'd like to understand all the president's conflicts of interests in his own transactions, his own business transaction

the united states would welcome a normal relationship with russia. but outlaw actions like this one continue to make that impossible. >> president trump is scheduled to meet with russian president vladimir putin later this week at the g20 summit in argentina. this was his reaction today. >> we don't like what's happening. either way we don't like what's happening and hopefully they'll get straightened out. i know europe is not thrilled. they're working on it, too. we're all working on it together. >> with us to talk about this tonight, ambassador alexander vershbau, former ambassador to russia in the bush administration. a 30-year veteran member of the foreign service. a career diplomat, having served every president from reagan to obama. mr. ambassador, is this the culmination of the putin strategy, weaken nato, weaken the big allies, maybe even tinker with brexit, tinker with an american election process? because this is serving up a huge test for our country, among others, is it not? >> it is a big test for our country and i think it's part of a p

but again, of all the attorneys in the united states, of all the attorneys in the united states department of justice, why did they pick the one guy with a long chain of personal conflicts, a long chain of, you know, of conflicts of interest with the president of the united states? we know why, and we know what goal they were trying to effectuate. but again, they've created a mess, and it's sort of leaving the justice department without leadership. it's particularly striking today in the news as we're hearing about the secretary of homeland security about to be fired as well where department of homeland security, department of justice and maybe the department of defense may not have senate confirmed leadership by the end of the month, or whatever. >> that's a good point. >> it's a major national security crisis, who's in charge? it's a shame what they've done to doj there. >> if you're thinking about how mueller and the team and rosenstein are managing this vis-a-vis whitaker, what are your thoughts about how that works? >> there's a lot we don't know that's going on. there's rosenstein an

he understands that the united states can only do so much in fairness to the united states. we want to absolutely be there. we want to help. we want to be a part of it. but different countries have to also help. that's only fair. and i think the president -- we've already discussed this. the president and i very much agree on that. >> so, dara, just to analyze what you heard there from president trump for a moment, he was essentially trying to tamp down the idea there were tensions heading into this weekend saying, look, this is about fairness, let's focus on that. let's focus on burden-sharing. 's something we've heard repeatedly from president trump. the optics today, both leaders really striking a unified note. at one point president macron reaching over and touching president trump's leg. these two, they were once so close it was describe as a bromance. now that appears to be fizzling because, frankly, they have clashed on different issues everything from trade to iran to climate. and those are some of the issues they'll be addressing today. we'll continue to watch their

for the president of the united states to say to one branch of the u.s. government if you perform your function and get too close to bothering me, i'm going to go to war against you. that is not only an out of -- you know, an out of the box statement, it's part of an obstruction of justice. it's an impeachable move. to say that i'm going to retaliate in various ways to make your life difficult, if you've performed your constitutional functions, it's essentially obstruction of justice on stilts, on steroids. and i think that the house judiciary committee is going to have to look closely at that in january. >> professor tribe, thank you for joining us. >>> and when we come back "the wall street journal" has the smoking gun on president trump's violation of campaign finance law and why he has been named an unindicted coconspirator in the case against his former lawyer, michael cohen. >>> and democrats are gaining ground tonight in two senate races and in other congressional races around the country. votes are still being counted in arizona and florida and al

this isn't just in the united states. i think i just -- over here. you can see it's affecting people, 18 people in ontario and quÉbec have been affected. six of them have been hospitalized. the numbers are likely to increase. the fda says the contaminated lettuce is likely still on the market. there's more. it's with dr. john torez, our medical correspondent. john, this is fascinating. we've talked about a lot of stories. i have a bowl here of romaine lettuce. i've never hold ro stain lettuce in a bowl. they tell you not to touch it. >> that e. coli can spread quickly and is hard to get rid of. what you notice in romaine lettuce, they think it's affected because it's open. water can get in there. iceberg lettuce is in heads. >> the stuff can get in. contaminated water can get inside the lettuce. iceberg lettuce has essentially a shell of leaves. >> they're saying they don't know where this happened and the fda came out today and said they think it might have started in california. it's mimicking what happened a year ago when they had a con tamlatita

he's the president of the united states. that right there is an outright lie. it is the consumer who is paying. >> if it's not the consumer, it's businesses who pay. so that means reduced output, reduced employment. it is a disruption that hurts people. hurts trade. our exports are down. there's been a whole set of reasons why our exports are not performing. no, the country doesn't just simply collect taxes. it's not a windfall profits tax for the u.s. government. it actually slows economies. and backened output. the president has it wrong. there's a very brief period. but it's not an economic positive. >> who believes the president? when he said this about tariffs, people's groceries for example, could be going up soon. or gm. when the president goes up to gm and blames the company, jason, it was president trump who said to car country, we're going to open plants, don't you sell your job. mary barra didn't say it. what do you make of these lies? let's just leave it there. >> i had students -- i know people who worked at the lordstown plant, which has now been

it all adds up to a very isolated president of the united states upstairs in the west wing. >> well, you know, willie, before we're going to get to that in just one second. something i read on your twitter feet last night and i was reading it while i was reading a book to jack for his good night -- because, you know, we have twitter tickers in all of my children's rooms. >> he does not. >> and yours flashes. >> so i'm reading this book with jack and it starts flashing on your twitter feed. sometimes we have an alarm going off and it wakes the kids up. >> that's amazing. >> fire drill. >> and last night's fire drill was so you are at a place where one of our favorite places, p.j. clark's, right? >> uh-huh. >> and you're at p.j. clark and nikki haley hears there's some veterans in the building. what does she do? >> p.j. clark's throws a dinner with us for veterans day.. he year we have this big dinner with them. downstairs, nikki haley and her family happened to be eating dinner. someone let's her know there's a group of veterans upstairs. she comes up and spends a bunch of time with t

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