friends of donald trump tried to seize his high school records in 2011 right after donald trump said that he wanted president obama to quote show his records because donald trump believed that barack obama was quote a terrible student. >> the word is, according to what i've read that he was a terrible student when he went to ox dental. maybe that's right or wrong but i don't know why he doesn't release his records. >> it's against the law for schools to publicly release student's transcripts but ivy league schools like the university of pennsylvania and harvard where barack obama graduated from law school do make public records of the students who graduate with honors and then ivy league schools most students actually graduate with honors, not graduating with honors is unusual in ivy league schools. there are three levels. donald trump did not graduate with honors from the university of pennsylvania. that is public information. and that puts him somewhere in the bottom half of his class academically even though the president once claimed to have graduated as the number one student in

. >> donald trump jr. says in the 2008 conference quote, "russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets." we see a lot of money pouring in from russia. >> in 2014, >> eric trump told james dodson the same thing. >> eric trump suggested to a well regarded call that those funding came from russia. >> eric trump told the new york post that he was misquoted, stating the allegations was quote, "complete garbage." the public record is clear on one point. donald trump had been to russia more than once. he first went to 1987 when it is still the soviet union, he returned in 1996. his connection with russia grew deeply when a russian oligarch helped him stage the pageant in russia. he took the tint opportunity in moscow to praise the leader. and other russian businessmen. >> we met aguilar in moscow and he came up to us and received a warm welcome. >> rob gold stone is a publicist who works for aguilar. pop star son. >> mr. trump says he believes that the russians had a strong lead

in 1982 donald trump -- donald trump is not a palm beach kind of guy. this is a kind of staid, kind of traditional place. even more so in 1982 when donald trump came down here the first time. he stays at the breakers hotel. he's a miami beach kind of guy. he went there all when he was growing up. he stayed at the breakers, it's raining, so he gets a limo, has a limo drive him around the town, and he says what's for sale? and the driver says or, well, mar-a-lago's for sale. now, if donald trump was part of the eastern establishment, he would know what mar-a-lago was. it was built in the '20 by marjorie meriwether post. 85,000 square feet on 17 acres. for the years she was building it, she cornered the market on gold gild. of trump goes in and sees it, and he thinks it's just fantastic. he loves it, and he decides he has to have it. he's in his mid 30s. he doesn't have the money for a place like this, but he wants it. mrs. post, in her last years,ed had given the estate to the american government for a winter white house. that's the way she wanted it woul

they have followed donald trump to that new low. those followers of donald trump are lost. believing things they didn't use to believe. approving of things they didn't use to approve of. unless the impeachment process catches up with donald trump, trump followers will remain lost in trumpism until a majority of americans who have always opposed donald trump and trumpism turn out in full strength in the next election and do an intervention for trump followers that removes donald trump from office. and breaks their addiction to trumpism. that is tonight's "last word." "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >>> tonight, the most significant move yet since democrats took over the house. we have details of the sweeping congressional investigation into the people around donald trump and seemingly all things related to trump. plus seems like we just said this, but once again the week before us could be consequential. with a lot of moving parts to watch that could determine the fate of some well-known names. >>> and we've narrowed down what you need to see at the saturday

the socialism that donald trump really loves. the socialism that puts taxpayer money directly into donald trump's pocket. >> the trump golf organization currently has a golf course in my home borough of the bronx. trump links. i drive past it every day. going between bronx and -- going between the bronx and queens. >> that was the most perfect illustration of house speaker tip o'neill's old line that all politics is local. and it turned out to be the perfect illustration of just how much donald trump loves socialism when it's just for him. >> taxpayers spent $127 million to build trump links in a, quote, generous deal, allowing president trump to keep almost every dollar that flows in on a golf course built with public funds. >> new york taxpayers spent $127 million that could have gone to public schools or public housing. but it went to a trump golf course, which benefits the fewest possible new yorkers per square foot of any building project in the history of new york. and it financially benefits donald trump. >> tonight, we re

he's reported on donald trump for decades. he was sued by donald trump and he won. you got the information about the stuff that was released related to michael cohen's arrest records. the warrant that led to the arrest. what stands out to you? >> what stands out to me is the length of the search warrant, the amount of detail in the search warrant and the amount of evidence in the search warrant. so i have reviewed, written, reviewed hundreds of search warrants during my time as a prosecutor. they are sometimes very detailed. they sometimes rbt. i will tell you this is one of the most thorough detailed ones i have ever seen and that's saying a lot. it tells us really by the time they got these search warrants to go in and do the -- execute the search warrants on michael cohen's premises. they already had so much evidence about various crimes he had committed, including the campaign contribution scheme. the illegal campaign contribution scheme. we know that, because that's 18 pages worth out of the affidavit. there's a lot of attachments and whatever, it's really 18 s

donald trump. i'm really actually hoping and i hope you understand my point here, i'm hoping we don't actually get a tape of donald trump using the "n" word because what you're going to see, you're going to see conservatives and republicans begin to rally around and justify it. >> yeah. >> move the window once again of acceptable behavior. i think that that would be a cultural and political disaster. >> i think you are correct about the results of what would happen. i think you're 100% spot on and that is unfortunate. eli mystal, thank you, charlie, sta tara will be back later. >> michael cohen said members of congress are playing the heavy for trump out of blind loyalty like he did. one florida congressman decided to do a demonstration of that thing and we will talk about that next. bout that next. >>> i want to say, publicly what i've said privately to michael cohen and his family i'm sorry if it is entirely appropriate to test the truthfulness of a witness but that could have been done in a way

he knows more about donald trump's financial affairs than donald trump. which means he's got the same kind of criminal exposure that donald trump has. he's team trump. he's not cooperating. he's part of the don't be a snitch movement with roger stone. he's not telling on trump. he has immunity from the southern district, a limited immunity about the hush money payments. other than that, he's going down with trump. he'll take the fifth, just to be clear, almost certainly when asked to testify before congress. >> say he takes the fifth. seema, does the sdny need it? michael cohen came with receipts when he testified before the oversight committee. he had two checks, the one at the top with the giant magic marker signature signed in the oval office. this was reimbursements for the $130,000 hush money payment to stormy daniels signed by donald trump. the other signed by don junior and alan wiseleburg. can the southern district of new york indict trump on the campaign finance violations putting aside everything else we know they are investigating? >> the only

the question is, what did donald trump know and what did he know when. and maybe a whole lot of nothing here. but the democrats are going to insist that, look, we need every bit of information put out into the public doug domain or that e have access to so we can determine whether donald trump or -- here's the big one, needs to be looked at for impeachment, something that the democrats have been resistant at the leadership level for because they don't want to go forward with that particular process but if there was evidence to indicate that donald trump in some way or some fashion either colluded with russians or knew information about other people trying to work with the russians that would be a problem and everyone pretty much agrees at this point that the russians did some really bad things in the 2016 election, that's not in question. the question is at least what we're talking about is did donald trump noe anythin know at that. eric: there's information in the report that goes to the intelligence committee, adam schiff. >> the political implications

donald trump. let's relax about the 1.2 million people in the military. they're not going to suddenly start rolling tanks down pennsylvania avenue because of an election result. they are professional, they are dutiful, they are not going to make war on americans or each other for donald trump. remember, even if the majority of the military support trump, that leaves hundreds of thousands of military personnel that don't support donald trump. it feels ridiculous to even have to say any of this out loud. donald trump has pushed the country to this place. to this level of suspicion about what he wants. and i'm sure donald trump would like to have the police and the military, and bikers for trump take up arms if he loses an election. but they won't. they won't because they are better people than donald trump wants them to be, they are not violent criminals, ready to commit treason and murder. for donald trump. there are not millions of people in america ready to grab their guns and go to war against am

trump, sr., donald trump, jr., and alan weisselberg. the only person explicitly named in the indictment is michael cohen. it's clear who the others are. michael cohen brought receipts including a check with donald trump, jr.'s name on it. so donald trump, jr., is far out of the woods. the other instances with regard to donald trump, jr.'s testimony before the house intelligence committee. joy, i think there is compelling evidence according to the democrats who heard his testimony that he lied. i was a prosecutor, a public corruption prosecutor for the department of justice. i could get a jury to -- if donald trump, jr., said the conversations about trump tower moscow ended in january 2016, that's a lie. if donald trump, jr., said the meeting with the russian lawyer was about adoptions, that's a lie. i don't know why mueller didn't bring that charge. joy, if you deputized me to go back to the department of justice, i could prosecute and win that case. >> wow. strong words. tim o'brien, we know certain facts are on the table. the trump to

donald trump's life experience is crime pays. he is -- he owns the only casino in which there is a known case of cheating customers in atlantic city was at trump's castle. we need to recognize we have a man in the white house who is a third-generation the white collar crime family. i also think firmly that we nend to understand d his relationship and his attitude and treatment regarding the kremlin, which is a hostile foreign power that was attacking our elections muellll. mueller's report says they were attacking our election. thatd trump encouraged attack. that should disturb us deeply. amy: glenn greenwald, , before e get a break and then come back, respond to what david cay and fromand also this alert year,r,om july of last they p put out an alert s statig "action alert. it is been over a year since msnbc has mentioned u.s. war in yemen." the tragedy ofs everything that just happen. david and i have known each other for many years and have respect for each other's work. i will be presumptive enough to say i have respect for h

trump today i think we may end up with donald trump being greater legal peril greater legal jeopardy his family in legal jeopardy as we get closer to the election so you may end up getting more g.o.p. primary opponents to hop in the race at that point but what we got it we got to see the road goes do you agree with nancy pelosi those do you agree with nancy pelosi there would be words that to impeach. i think nancy pelosi and you know she and i have not agreed a lot over the years but she's right on this one nancy pelosi has correctly determined that if you impeach donald trump in the house and you don't convict him in the senate all you've done is make him stronger all you've done is inoculate him and give him the ability to shake off future investigations and future are things that that try to hold him to account whether it's on the congressional side on the special counsel side or on another impeachment charge on other matters who would have been to the republican moderates. well larry most of them quit or lost their races in the last year. in the house the most of those guys the

why are they lending to donald trump? >> one theory, and we may find out through this investigation, was that deutsch bank wasn't really the lender. they laid this off to dtb. that's the russian spy bank or one of the other state banks. it's not uncommon for banks to simulate big loans and spread the risk among several banks. but it's long been subpoenaed that deutsch bank made these loans because it was really the russians who were at risk. is that something, david enrich, you think the attorney general would be able to penetrate? >> i think they're certainly interested in trying. i have to say, though, i spent more than a year now digging into the relationship between deutsch bank and donald trump for a book that i'm writing on the subject that comes out early next year. and i have not seen any evidence -- i've talked to basically every person at deutsch bank, past and present, who was involved in any way with the trump relationship over the past two decades, and every single one of them has told me basically the same t

donald trump is not well. and as long as he's president, our nation is not safe." >> well, look, i don't know how unwell he is, but it is clear from his behavior as phil said over the past three years, not just with john mccain, he cannot seem to let anything go when the slight seems to be to him. he takes this personally. this isn't a fight over what he saw john mccain as doing as bad for the country or improper policy. he went against him. he voted against him on that health care bill. he went against him when he, you know, had deemed to reveal the steele dossier. he went against him -- >> the fbi already had. >> which the fbi already had. and also, it also, donald trump reveals his insecurities in the things that he gets upset about. for example, military service. we see how he touts the military. he wants to have a parade, you know, in the style of kim jong-un and other authoritative nations, but he, himself, knows that he did not serve. in fact, he got five deferments and put him against a war hero, that

why is donald trump talking about this right now today? and i want to be clear, we were just talking to chuck about what's true and what's not, it is true that donald trump asked bob mueller to come on down to the white house in those hectic days right after he'd fired james comey and that mueller reportedly showed little-to-no interest in that job. and then that same week, rod rosenstein was urgently searching with someone to be the special counsel to investigate collusion in the wake of this firing and rod landed on bob. and that was a full 22 months ago. and mueller and trump haven't faced each other since. the closest mueller has come in person to donald trump was probably this now-famous chance overlap between mueller and the president's son at the ronald reagan washington national airport. that's don junior in the hat. now, why does the president have his last face-to-face meeting with bob mueller on his mind today? and will bob mueller end his probe without any further indictments? and why is the president emphasizing someone else,

donald trump and the trump organization. and all of the rest of those payoff checks to michael cohen come from that donald trump checking account with only one signature on those checks, only the signature of donald trump. was allen weissleberg no longer willing to sign those checks? why did allen weissleberg stop signing those reimbursement checks to michael cohen after robert mueller was appointed special prosecutor? surely someone in the house intelligence committee today behind closed doors asked michael cohen that question. here's what michael cohen had to say after that closed-door hearing today. >> the hearings went very, very well. i believe that all of the members were satisfied with the statements and the responses that i gave to them. i told them that any additional information that they would want, they should feel comfortable to reach out to my counsel and i would continue to cooperate to the fullest extent of my capabilities. >> joining us now, friend of michael cohen, donny deutsch, msnbc contributor. he texte

they don't talk about donald trump. it's like i don't want this person to be president, i don't want that person to be president. those people don't understand me, they're from another world. it's this disconnect that somehow this manhattan billionaire, supposed billionaire, has figured out how to connect on with people in middle america and democrats still aren't. >> joe, i don't disagree with that assessment. i think it's fairly accurate. nor do i disagree with michael claiming and legitimately so that the state of the economy has a lot to do with those numbers that we just read. there was a blizzard of numbers there. i think, though, there's a little something larger going on and i think what it is is those numbers that we just read at this stage of his president after the two hour and 20-minute speech on saturday, they prove i think that donald trump's sustained assault on the nature of the presidency, on our democracy, on common sense, on truth, a stand daily assault has had a huge impact on the average american vo

i don't care if you support donald trump or don't support donald trump. i don't care if you like john mccain or couldn't stand john mccain. he is attacking a dead national hero and that is plain disgusting. >> well, if i can, look, john mccain -- >> don't justify it -- >> i'm not justifying it. i regret and would not necessarily be my style that somehow this gets to be about some of the other events that as you correctly say you could have disagreements about. i think a lot of republicans, not just president trump were disappointed in the obamacare vote and the dossier thing is a very sensitive issue with president trump and we'll see how this evolves. i do regret and i do agree with you and i'm not going to justify this here because i loved him very much, senator mccain, that we should talk about the events but not the individual. and i do agree about his service. i do agree with senator lindsey graham's tweet that nothing can be done to diminish or stain his service to this country. >> although it was interesting. >> neither you or lindsey have gone the

donald trump, that that's getting out there? >> well, this is not clearly just a matter of optics at this point, this is possibly a serious political problem for donald trump because now that the house democrats are emboldened to investigate these relationships and the idea that perhaps, as jane mayer reported, that donald trump ordered the justice department to do a business favor for rupert murdoch by blocking the at&t/time warner merger, a business rival of the murdoch media empire, that is something they will dig into. also, we should point out that there was a southern district investigation of fox news of how roger ailes possibly used company money to cover up the sexual harassment claims after donald trump fired preet bharara, the then federal prosecutor, that investigation just slowly went away. house democrats judiciary committee could presumably do an investigation to find out what happened. why did the sdny drop its investigation of fox news? >> it's not that president trump is worried about the perception he's tied i

that's all changed with donald trump. donald trump has a vested interest in his strongest ally, benjamin netanyahu, being reelected. they share a mutual hatred, really, of iran, disputes with the iranian leadership, calling the iranian leaders aggressive, dedicated to the destruction of israel. again, today mike pompeo saying that. asked what he's going to say when he goes to jerusalem tomorrow, he said he'll say that hezbollah is a terrorist organization, period, end of story. hezbollah are the elected leaders in the lebanese parliament. so he will be very confrontational and threatening tough sanctions against iran. today he was the highest elected official to go to the western wall, to put a prayer on the wall, alongside benjamin netanyahu. president trump was here and did not do that with netanyahu. so it was really a sign of solidarity and a signal of support to israelis' claims to the sovereign city, despite the palestinians' claims to a fair share of it. now there are no conversations with the palestinians, haven't

ivanka trump? donald trump jr.? >> just follow the transcript. >> would it be fair then to say if any names came up multiple times in that hearing -- >> they have a good chance of hearing from us. >> and we learned today that yesterday's smoking gun almost didn't make it into the hearing. reporting in "vanity fair," emily jane fox tells us that michael cohen's first draft of his prepared remarks to the committee which he started writing weeks ago did not include any exhibits. and when his lawyers told him he would be attacked for being untrustworthy, michael cohen went to work in search of documentary evidence that could support his testimony. that's when he found the check, signed by donald trump in the white house six months into the trump presidency, that one member of the committee called the smoking gun yesterday. it is the first check that we have ever seen signed by a president of the united states in the commission of what federal prosecutors in new york city have called a federal crime. and we are fortunate

president trump, donald trump, behaves as though the u.s. government is his own company and so he acts as though this is a family business. sometimes it's hard to determine where the criminality or the allegations of money laundering and everything, whether it occurred before, during, or during his presidency, so we really need to follow the threads. you don't go far wrong when you determine that what president trump does is motivated by a desire to protect himself and for money. so if you keep those two things in mind, you can get to a lot of the motivations of everything that trump does. >> and what do you make of the fact that the senate intelligence committee chairman who was an ally of donald trump during the campaign has come forward and said that he determined much like devin nunes in the house that there was no evidence of crime or collusion? >> i think that was a very premature position it take especially as we now see that house committee under the democratic leadership are going over so many aspects of the trump organization that

donald trump refers to him as justin from canada. just an act hurt when called out, donald trump said in us that of her tariffs, very dishonest and weak, another tweet about the prime minister. that was in june when a photo the president sitting as world leaders look around the world as donald trump left the g7 summit in canada. since then scandals heated up over a worldwide construction contractor that allegedly bribed officials in libya. a conviction in canada, a 10 year ban on bidding for federal contracts. justice minister jody wilson testified trudeau encouraged her to, quote, find a solution saying if there was no plea deal there will be many jobs lost and lava lynn would move its records from montrÉal. she left the justice ministry and resigned the cabinet laying bare the division in trudeau's government. >> there were many inappropriate conversations and attempts at political interference. >> reporter: trudeau says he wanted to save jobs in quÉbec. they employ 3400 people, but claims he didn't interfere in the judicial proc

so would -- so would donald trump. regardless, it seems like from at least the barr version of mueller's report that there was no conspiracy here. there was no -- not enough evidence of conspiracy to criminally convict anybody, but what we do have is a presidential candidate, at the very least, standing at a podium in july of 2016 and saying, russia, if you're listening, find the e-mails. >> absolutely. >> there was a presidential candidate waving around the wikileaks releases and saying "i love wikileaks" and reading off the embarrassing information to his advantage. that stuff all happened very much in the open. then there is a reporting on the don jr. trump tower meeting. we know all of that. what is the message that russia's already gotten. >> absolutely. the message that russia's gotten is that the attorney general of the united states can put out a four-page document about a 400-page report and basically say everything is okay and, russia, you've gotten away with it. i think that putin probably feels pretty good

trump and say what's wrong with donald trump and say, oh, he's great, no, the media's just after donald trump. you just look at their children and you look at the example being given to their children and you wonder how is a generation going to grow up. we're already talked about the impact that bill clinton had in '98 and '99 on middle schools across the country. you and i saw that personally. and very concerned about the impact that parents who sit by and continue to raise up a man who lies every day, who besmirches people's character every day, who basically does the opposite of every single thing jesus talked about and look them up in matthethews if want to rk, that they are sendi their kids out in trump costumes for halloween. mike, let's stay a little more narrowly focused on john mccain. again, we don't have to talk about john mccain's extraordinary legacy. it speaks for itself. but there is no doubt that donald trump is tortured so much so that a man who has now been dead for six months has his grades in college april tacktta man who i guess did so horribly in college and was su

trump have his loyal attorney general, donald trump has also been extremely efficient, unusually efficient for his administration in appointing judges. that's the one thing that has sort of been working like clockwork. at this point from what i understand he is coming up on one-sixth of federal judges being trump appoint's after just two years. this is terrifying. the clip that you played also is i'm always struck by his use of language. we often look at the way that trump talks, and, you know, he sounds barely coherent and yet he has an uncanny talent for taking language and turning it around on itself. right? the least accountable president in american history probably is saying we have to hold them accountable. he's doing that reversareversal. he's acting as though he is the person without power, which is exactly the same way he uses the phrase witch-hunt. you can't have a witch-hunt against the most powerful man in the world but he uses that over and over again. he acts like somebody who doesn't have power. he is still campaigning against the imaginary elites, but he's using words from

donald trump is also interesting to watch. but they're interesting to watch for very different reasons. we watch donald trump the way you might someone on an edge at the corner of the high-rise and wonder whether or not they're going to jump or a guy in a car driving towards the car, will he crash the car? and it's fascinating and scary to watch that happen. people are watching beto o'rouke -- >> that sounds like a diagnosis. >> hanging out behind the wheel. i think people watch beto o'rouke -- >> not just for the striptease. >> not just for the striptease, except nicolle, but he's a younger investigati younger version of biden, he's positive, moving forward as a community, so people are fascinated by him for healthier reasons than they were fascinated by donald trump and that's important for the country. >> let me show you what donald trump said. >> what's your reaction to beto o'rouke? >> i think he's got a lot of hand movement. i have never seen so much hand movement? i said is he crazy or is that just the way he acts. i wa

donald trump, a dog whistle. hey, has dan, has donald trump said anything racist? he will not say no. >> dan: actually i'm going to say yes and let me tell you what he did say that had anything to do with race clement know, dan, let me address. >> jesse: lets a address this. >> sarah: actually has spoke on the racial -- racial problems by building out the opportunities, 8700 opportunities at the most critical areas in our country and trying to fix them. when he made a political promise to the black community and fix the inner cities, he was serious about it. actually, let's by appointing judges. >> leo: you are apologizing periods before you can call it what you want to. >> leo: for me? >> sarah: obviously i don't. >> sarah: not only for my self but a third of african-americans agree. let me finish, you called me out because they are our polls make all over and galloped came up with 12 weeks ago not a conservative right wing and gallup hundred american africans not only conservative but moderate. >> jessedan and store said nevea racist thing into years and these pe

>> ari, i spent some time in donald trump's office talking to donald and other people. it reminded me of nothing as much as a form of upscale bad-da-bing. it was the president sitting behind a desk. nobody was wandering around because there's paintings and other things sitting on the seats. no one was sitting down. but only one person who mattered, that was donald trump. the main thing is the american people and the investigators are going to have to decide whether donald trump, his family and his inner circle, all of whom were described there by michael cohen, together constitute an ongoing criminal conspiracy that might have made itself either vulnerable or willing to conspire with the russians, but even if it didn't do that, is this ongoing, tax-evading, hush money paying give one thing, which is money for the family. it could be foreign policy or it could be money that left him open to blackmail. that's the big question and that's what connects all the different investigations in new york and washington. is this a potential giant rico case? >> as a reporter and form

can he beat donald trump? a lot of people are saying i know who sanders and biden are and i feel confident they've won elections in the past and can beat him. so that is fine but we have to win this thing in a panicked voice. so that's driving what's happening >> choosing milwaukee as the convention site at least guarantees the nominee will be from wisconsin this time around. but i think you have the ability to break through and especially this early when the field is this crowded and really other than the die-hard, undeniably, democrats are out there. these candidates are raising money, we are seeing big crowds in iowa and new hampshire but those are the places people always pay attention. nationally, we don't know. >> let me challenge both you, you don't pick up apathy. i love new york, arguably a very democratic city, i don't pick up any apathy and i don't pick up any sense they're waiting for something to happen. i think they're already sort of scrubbing these candidates, turning them over like rocks or se

donald trump, a dog whistle. hey, has dan, has donald trump nyid anything racist? you are not going to say no, because you are afraid of him. >> sarah: actually i'm going to say yes and let me tell you what he did say that had anything to do with race clement know, dan, let me address. >> jesse: let's sarah address this.g >> sarah: actually has spoke on the racial problems by building out the opportunities, 8700 opportunities at the most critical areas in our country and trying to fix them. when he made a political promise to the black community and fix the inner cities, he was serious about it. actually, it is also helped us by appointing judges. you can call it what you want but i'm telling you one thing -- obviously i don't. >> leo, she speaking for herself. >> i'm speaking only for myself. a third of african-americans -- gallup just came out with a pole two weeks ago which is not a conservative right winger and they showed that 21% of african-americans said not only are they conservative but 41% said they were moderate. but they are fixing the countryn for us.

total exoneration, complete vindication, those were donald trump's words. fbi official to push the collusion theory and authorize the warrant could have big problems. we are live for michigan with the highlights. the democrat at the helm of the house intelligence committee is not backing down because of investigating the president while calls for ships's resignation are growing tonight. we have team coverage tonight. kristin fisher reporting on the total tonight at a rally with the president firing up debates. we will take you live to michigan with kevin cork where the president wrapped up a while ago. >> good to be with you. the president came out swinging to use a boxing analogy. he threw a few punches and the media, took a few left hooks at the democrats and in particular he came out swinging against what he likes to call the deep state, the president holds the mall responsible for this so-called russian hoax. >> the russia witchhunt was a plan by those who lost the election to try and illegally regain power by framing innocent americans, many of them su

>> it's absolutely donald trump. i remember when he flipped, somebody said he used to carry the president's phone. so he knows exactly what the president was daing during this whole time period. there are still rolls in court documents that we don't know who played that role. for example who is the one directed to get roger stone to reach out to wikileaks? stone himself said that was probably rick gates. so that ties stone right next to trump and that witness would know who ordered him to tell stone to go reach out to wikileaks. that's one example but there are going to be tons for gates. >> and lastly i wonder if there's a sense you have that even if some of these guys are helping and cooperating, they still did a lot of bad stuff. it seems most of the people have gotten pretty light sentences. >> that's not a misunderstanding. but the ones that have very, very helpful inside knowledge, they're going to get a lot of credit for full forthcoming cooperation as opposed to limited cooperation that we've seen with some o

now that donald trump -- sorry. special counsel robert mueller has officially submitted his report it all comes down to trump's attorney general william barr who will decide how much will be made public. a real question of whether barr, who is a clear ally of the president, and on the record opponent of this investigation, has a duty to share mueller's findings with us, the american people, or if he will bury the report and if he does bury the report what does that mean for constitutional republic or at least in theory the people have a right to check on their government and a right not to be ruled by a president who can use flunkies and political allies to bury investigations against himself. joining me is msnbc contributor malcolm nance, nick ackerman, legal analyst, elie mystal, editor of above the law.com, natasha bear, staff writer at the atlantic, and pollster fernand amandi. i want you to answer that question, fernand, we talk about this a lot, is this a constitutional republic if the president of the united

let me first say that i hope our investigation exonerates donald trump. i don't want to think that our president is a crook. but i fear that our investigation will not do that. we're going to take the facts wherever it may lead us and leave no stone unturned. this is just a first salvo of 81 organizations and individuals that we want to get documents from. and with regard to ivanka trump that you mentioned, i just want to note that running a business into the ground is interesting. not sure that's a crime. >> let me ask you this. the argument that you are seeing from folks and allies of the president, devin nunes, for instance, is that essentially there's no collusion, they haven't found collusion so they're just going to go rooting around all of the president's other stuff. nunes is saying there's no collusion, all these investigations are in search of a crime. democrats have no evidence to impeach president trump, ridiculous. what do you say to the argument that this is not a fact-finding mission but politically motivated where the facts are being rever

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