donald trump returned to his comfort zone on saturday giving a rambling campaign-style speech at the conservative political action conference and republican pep rally that clocked in at more than two hours. the longest speech of his tenure so far. trump berated the media, who he continued to label fake news. his former attorney general jeff sessions who he mocked in a fake southern accent, no less. and other targets for whom he rolled out a little bit of profanity. >> we had the greatest of all time. now we have people that lost. and unfortunately you put the wrong people in a couple of positions and they leave people for a long time that shouldn't be there. all of the sudden they are trying to take you out with bullshit, okay? >> but trump stopped short of mentioning by name the man who caused him the most trouble this week. his former personal attorney and fixer michael cohen. maybe because cohen's bombshell testimony triggered more house inquiries to come which could potentially reach the man who knows what's in the books. trump organization chief financial officer alan weisselber

. >> thanks, lawrence. >> there is sometimes a method to donald trump's madness, the method and madness were on full display at the conservative political action conference. the president clearly had a mission on saturday and it was to teach his audience his followers the one word he really wants them to say when the mueller report comes out or when the house judiciary committee votes on articles of impeachment and that's a common profanity that you have never heard the president of a united states dropped into a major speech to an audience of thousands of people and a tv audience of millions of people. it's a word that i can't say on tv because this industry considers that word beneath the dignity of an anchorman, an on passion played in the movies by will ferrell. we are going to show you the president saying that word at the end of this hour. it will be unedited. you'll hear him say it a couple times because he said it a couple times and i'll explain why i believe the president said that very deliberately on saturday and why i believe that specifically is the word that president trump wan

insurance broker and donald trump and the trump organization, state and federal investigators are not the only ones that found michael cohen's testimony credible enough to require further investigation, a new poll shows that 50% of voters believe michael cohen now more than they believe president trump with only 35% believe president trump more than they believe michael cohen. that same poll shows that 64% of voters believe that president trump committed crimes before he took office. only 24% do not believe the president committed crimes before he took office. 45% of voters believe that the president has committed crimes while in office. 43% do not believe that the president has committed crimes while in office. michael cohen provided the house oversight committee evidence that president trump has indeed committed crimes both before he took office during his presidential campaign and while in office as president. that evidence came in the form of checks delivered to michael cohen from president trump including one that was signed in the white house by the president. michael cohen testifie

edition of. the politicking on larry king on wednesday donald trump was former campaign manager paul now for learned his fate on his federal convictions immediately after began the speculation about whether the president will pardon him but how would issuing a pardon affect his popularity with his base and what role to play in his twenty twenty reelection bid we will talk about that with rick wilson g.o.p. consultant his number one best seller everything trump touches dies and a republican strategist gets real about the worst president ever is now out in paperback and he joins us from tallahassee the capital of florida ok what's your reaction rick to the sentencing a man of forty. well larry i think what happened yesterday with paul mckenna for it was a shock to very few people he got a very light sentence in the in the virginia case and judge berman issued a sentence that stretches that out to make it so that paul metaphorically was jailed about the age of seventy eight he was also hit yesterday with additional charges out of new york for felony mortgage fraud related to some of his oth

prevent michael cohen and others from testifying against donald trump. in a breaking news report tonight "the new york times" is reporting that the president's tv lawyer rudy giuliani says that lawyers for several people approached him about the possibility of presidential pardons. "the times" reports mr. giuliani who has been representing mr. trump since last spring says he always insisted to defense lawyers that in trump would not consider granting pardons until the investigations were long over. i always gave one answer and they always left disappointed, mr. giuliani said. "the times" notes tonight that president trump's first legal team, headed by washington lawyer john dowd, quote, had discussions with lawyers for paul manafort and michael t. flynn in 2017 about pardons. abc news is reporting that in the weeks following the raid on michael cohen's home, office and hotel room last year, michael cohen was, quote, contacted by two new york attorneys who claimed to be in close contact with rudy giuliani. sources described the lawyers' contact with cohen as an effort to keep him

donald trump on the debate stage. you will not want to miss that. malcolm nance will join us tonight. we will also be joined by congressman lloyd doggett, a member of the one committee that has the legal authority to obtain donald trump's tax returns. the ways and means committee is not usually an important player in investigative hearings, but the trump tax returns might make ways and means the most important committee in the investigative process. it is now clear that democrats in congress intend to use michael cohen's testimony this week as the road map for their investigations of the president of the united states. that means michael cohen' testimony is the beginning of the beginning of the first serious congressional investigations of donald trump. and one of the first steps in these real congressional investigations of the president will be to obtain his tax returns. the associated press reports multiple democrat-led house committees are pledging to investigate not only trump's campaign ties to russia, which are also the subject of special counsel robert mueller's probe, but pr

here? >> i am concerned that donald trump is behaving someone who may have been compromised or blackmailed by russia. >> what's next? >> the house committee sending outleters to individuals looking for these things. such as trumps other business dealings. >> it is hard to imagine the worse thing that happens to donald trump was being elected president of the united states. >> russia, if you are listening, i hope you are able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >>> for more than two years, the nation has been consumed by questions about whether trump campaign and the russians interfered in the 2016 elections? >> we have a special counsel to head the russia investigation. >> the fbi raided the office of the lawyer of the president of the united states. >> there is still no evidence of collusion between the president and anyone. >> was there collusion, obstruction of justice, improper contact between russian officials and the campaign? it is the focus of the mueller investigation and what we'll dive into tonight. beginning with the question, how did we get here? >> we nee

going to make, they'll say look and they've been saying this already that all right, fine, donald trump has not been indicted. other people have not been indicted. but the issue of donald trump being indicted was never almost really in question. it's been standing department of justice principle that whether it's donald trump, barack obama, george w. bush, or any other president, that a sitting president of the united states couldn't be indicted. so not surprising that that didn't happen, regardless of what the evidence showed. eric: you know what the critics are saying, that donald junior is going back, jared kushner is going down, you'll have a whole range of indictments that came. >> and they didn't. 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

thing we heard about jared kushner. donald trump's son-in-law at the time of trump's inauguration. namely that trump was putting kushner who has zero foreign policy experience in charge of solving the crisis in the middle east. next, we learned about 666 5th avenue, the billion dollars headache that kushner created for his family's real estate business for which he owed a lot of money. that he reportedly was hunting for in the middle east. later in 2017, kushner raised more eyebrows when he slipped off to saudi arabia and the white house refused to tell the public who he met with at a time when kushner was becoming bff with the saudi crown prince muhammad bin salman. all that time jared kushner held a very high security clearance which we now know senior intelligence officials did not want him to have, but to which donald trump really, really wanted to give him. according to the "new york times," giving jared kushner that top security clearance met defying the recommendations of senior intelligence officials including the cia. donald trump did it any way. which as president he has

-off, we wonder if that's a signal to donald trump that he's still on board and he would very much like a pardon. my panel joins me this morning. thank you all for being here. paul butler, when paul manafort's lawyer walked out and repeated "no collusion" for people watching michael cohen the ways donald trump quietly signalses to stay in the boss's good graces, that's what it sounded like. basically i'm still with you, boss, give me a pardon. >> first of all, he doesn't need a pardon as much as he did. paul manafort got a judicial pardon, but yes, it's more dangling of the pardon, more demeaning the russian investigation, and frankly, i think the extremely light sentence make a pardon from the president more likely, because it makes it look like what manafort did wasn't really a big deal, which is opposite of the facts. >> you know, cynthia, we've seen a woman sentenced in texas to five years thinking she could vote in an election despite a previous felony. this same judge has sentenced politicians that got, like, 13 years. the former mayor of detroit got 27 years for corruption. this

think i think that. mr brennan may be mistaken in this regard donald trump doesn't really have a lot of will to the people who aren't useful to him and at this point now that paul man of fort faces. thirteen charges in new york against him of the for the manhattan district attorney you know there is no reason for donald trump to get paul in a four out of jail he is going to benefit is is should have flipped when he had the chance or should have told the truth to the special counsel when he had the chance these charges might have been levied against him had he been seen to be somebody who had remorse and was cooperating with authorities so i don't think that triple pardon him at the new york matter has to go to trial it does but right now from the from the initial reading that i've done on it it looks like a very open and shut case in terms of the way he misrepresented to value of his assets in order to get these mortgages for these apartments that he was purchasing trends says he's going to rough go if tim does. what will be the reaction of the congressional republicans and his base. we

remain so popular with his b.s. they have nowhere else to go larry donald trump is sort of eating the republican party and change it from this limited government conservative party with loyalty to the constitution into something that is all about donald trump and he has presented them with this very apocalyptic scenario it's me or death it's me or nothing and so they're stuck in that rut he also has a lot of self reinforcing mechanisms from from fox news and talk radio and other out and other conservative leaning news sources that are presented this again as this very apocalyptic thing it's trumped or death it's trump or nothing you see any chance of a primary challenge to end. well there will be a couple folks come into the primary space against donald trump and larry you know given our politics today it's impossible to predict the extra nowadays that could lead to a serious candidate jumping into that race i mean right now we have bill weld who's in it and larry hogan is looking at it you know and both of whom have many merits about the most of both a move have many good things

founder and editor of dcreport.org. he has been reporting on donald trump since the 1980's. his most recent book is titled "it's even worse than you think: what the trump administration is doing to america." we welelcome you both to democry now! let's begin with david cay johnston in new york. your response to the mueller and william barr's summary to what he found? >> we don't know what is in the mueller repeport. we only know the brief interpretation offered by bill barr, but it opens a whole new cans of warm -- worms. the standard should not be beyond a reasonable doubt. that is criminal. the standard is c constitutional requirement switch his faithful execution of office and high crimes and misdemeanors, which does not require any criminal .ffense we need to see the full report. we need to have mueller's testimony. we need to know what it was that mueller learned about such matters as jared kushner asking to use secret russian diplomatic can medications gear to contact the kremlin without the knowledge of american intelligence, something the russians made available to us the

of people that have very, very serious problems. >> then, donald trump tries to spin his massive congressional defeat. congress has the freedom to pass this resolution and i have the duty to veto it. >>> plus, what the latest request from robert mueller tells us about the status of the investigation and how a defamation lawsuit could force the president to testify under oath. >> total lies. and you've been seeing, total lies. >> "all in" starts now. >> good evening from new york. i'm joy reid in for chris hayes. well, it's been nearly a day since a terrorist attack in which a gunman massacred 49 men, women, and children in two new zealand mosques. a manifesto that appears to have been posted online by the shooter includes anti-muslim rhetoric. and references the president of the united states in a kind of mock quiz reading, quote, were/are you a supporter of donald trump? as a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose? su sure. trump was asked about the spread of white nationalism at a white house event earlier today. >> do you see today as white nationalism as a rising

sitting down with individual 1. allow me to explain. it's a very 2019 story. donald trump went to speak with another fellow former michael cohen client, sean hannity, to attack cohen's allegations that trump was behind that money scheme to pay off stormy daniels. >> he told me at least a dozen times that he made the decision on the payments and he didn't tell you. >> he did. and he made the decision. remember this, he's an attorney. whatever decision he makes, he's supposed to rely on an attorney to make a decision. when you have an attorney, you're supposed to be able to rely on your attorney. >> attorney-client privilege? >> it's also called reliance. >> he knows what he's doing. reliance is an actual defense, though not to committing a crime. now, it donald trump didn't tell cohen to make those hush money payments, if cohen just decided to pay stormy daniels all out of the blue, why did trump pay for it? cohen has the receipts, of course, and he showed them to congress. today's trump lawyer rudy giuliani tried to explain. >> we brought out ten months ago that he made the mamtpa

powerful system further north. plus house democrats push forward on a new probe into donald trump's taxes. will congress get his hands on what the president has kept so secret for so long? and two top republicans defend the white house. one is breaking with america's own intel community while the other insist as hush money payment a porn star is much ado about nothing. the president's job approval ratings, up 3 points since january to 46%. trump scores best among republicans with 88% approval. 60% of both rural residents and whites without college degrees as well as 54% of men and whites. while the president's least popular among african-americans, 88% disapprove, 64% of latinos disapprove, 61% of women disapprove, while disapproval among young americans is 57%. this as 41% of voters say they are likely to vote for trump in 2020 while 48% pick the democratic candidate. compared to previous presidents, those numbers are worse than what barack obama faced at this point in the 2012 cycle when he led his hypothetical opponent by five points, while trump is closer to bill clinton's numbers in

. >> ambassador, this investigation is not just about donald trump and his campaign, it's about -- we believe it's about russia and how russia meddled or attacked our elections and how they were influential. what sort of information does the public need to see, in your opinion, to give us a better idea of what exactly happened in 2016 so we're informed for 2020? >> well, first of all, you know, one of the big differences between the united states and russia is we're a democracy. we believe in transparency. we think transparency is important for accountability. our most sacred documents start off "we the people" because government is about citizens asking for a government, but that government is governed by the people, and so transparency is about respecting people in a democracy, and we undermine our institutions when we don't have that transparency because it makes people even more suspect. and we've seen how the president has tried to tear down american institutions, so if william barr does not share a full report with congress and the congress doesn't share as much as possible with the ame

of america, president donald trump. we gather here today as americans to speak about the progress we have made and the strength of our alliance with our most cherished ally but i just have to say yesterday was a great day for our country. our president and every american who cherishes the truth. after two years of investigations and reckless accusations by many democrats or members of the media, the special counsel confirmed what president donald trump said all along. there was no collusion between the trump campaign and russia during the 2016 election and the attorney general confirmed there was no obstruction of justice. make no mistake about it my fellow americans this was a total vindication. the president of the united states and our campaign. this should be welcomed by every american and even if some democrats want to spend more time on discredited allegations the american people can be confident. the president and i will focus on where we always have, on issues that are most important to the country, on a stronger and more prosperous america and on a safer world and that is ex

general ok let's go live to our. strong and a lot of notable figures seriously donald trump along the way tell us about the investigation and what it could mean for the president now. well the report has been submitted the final report from bob mohler the special counsel appointed two years ago to look into allegations that donald trump had colluded with russia during the two thousand and sixteen elections that final report has been submitted to the u.s. department of justice now it's been a two year long investigation at this point there have been some indictments but none of them have been related to russia this point we've seen indictments for individuals lying to the f.b.i. failing to register as lobbyists other kinds of results but nothing nothing related to russia now at this point we're hearing from the white house and they are saying quote this is from sarah huckabee sanders on report the white house press secretary on report of the white house saying the next steps are up to attorney general barr and we look forward to the process taking its course the white house has not receive

daniels hush money payment signed and dated august 1st, 2017 while donald trump was in august. but that's just one of the many potential crimes of which cohen accused his former boss. despite the campaign finance violations, implicated cohen in tax fraud, insurance fraud, bank fraud, perjury, obstruction of justice, false statements to law enforcement, and self-dealing in his charitable foundation. that was just the stuff that cohen was authorized to talk about and that appears to be the tip of the iceberg. >> is there any other wrongdoing or illegal act that you are aware of regarding donald trump that we haven't yet discussed today? >> yes, and again, those are part of the investigation that's currently being looked at by the southern district of new york. >> those potential crimes anything to do at all with the investigation by special counsel robert mueller and on that front, cohen dropped a bombshell that suggested mueller could be sitting on much more explosive information than he has disclosed thus far. in the prepared section of the testimony, cohen claimed roger stone gave

him through satisfaction of knowing that even after death he is still haunting donald trump. look, john mccain was everything donald trump is not. a man who started serving his country since the age of 17. a man that sacrificed and suffered greatly while donald trump was inventing bone spurs. he was a man that believed in a cause greater than himself. he believed in putting america first. >> do you think this is appropriate and do you think there's a strategy behind it or is it just his personal an moim and he wants to experress it? >> the president's style is when he is attacked, he says i'll punch back. he has been criticized strongly by some members of the mccain family and certainly as he said today with his interview about senator mccain he made reference to the obamacare vote. that was a huge disappointment to president trump. >> i understand the whole counterpunching thing which is a line we heard a lot from the president. he's punching at a person who is dead. he is punching at a person that can't fight back because he's dead. >> that's true but remember the reason his nam

valve for. president harry s. truman and president donald j. trump and you mr president. as president you have done it not once but twice with your bold proclamation on juicer them and with your bold proclamation today on the ball and your partner action comes at a time when the goal and is more important than ever for our security when you ron is trying to establish bases in syria to strike at israel from across the border in syria iran is launched drones into our air space missiles into our territory mr president just as israel stood tall and one thousand nine hundred eighty seven just as it stood tall in one nine hundred seventy three israel stands tall today we hold the high ground and we shall never gave it up mr president we have a saying in israel said in hebrew it says. in have good land that means the people with the golan but thanks to you we now know that there are two peoples who stand with the golan the people of israel and the people of america so on behalf of all the people of israel thank you president trump thank you for your leadership. thank you for your f

russiangate is over. all eyes are on donald trump's attorney general william barr expected to report to congress on mueller's principle findings today. both democrats and republicans have called upon william barr to make the report public with house speaker nancy pelosi leading the charge. speaker pelosi said she'll reject the idea of a highly classified briefing on the mueller findings which she warned could be used to keep mueller's conclusions to the public and she would insist that the mueller report be made public in its entirety. as the rest of the country waits for word on the contents of the report. the man at the center of it is, donald trump, is silent on the investigation that's consumed his entire presidency from day one. trump has been at the mar-a-lago resort all weekend dining with political allies like lindsey graham. trump returned to twitter after two days without mention of the mueller report. as aides reportedly urge him to resist commenting until more details of the report become known. tim o'brien, executive editor of bloomberg opinion. jonathan cape hart of the

, and executive editor of bloomberg opinion. 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 w

. >> good evening. donald trump is at the white house but rashida tlaib -- kim jong un is in hanoi, the north koreans talked about the event at a press conference in the middle of the night. at midnight local time in vietnam the foreign minister confirmed talks broke down over sanctions but that's where the similarities with donald trump's account stops. >> what we pre-post was not removal of all sanctions. >> they wanted sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn't do that. wanted to de-nukes certain areas and i wanted everything and sanctions are there and i didn't want to give up the sanctions unless we had a real program. we are not ready for that and i understand that. >> the press secretary is trying to put a positive spin on the failure to reach an agreement in the second summit with the north koreans tweeting president obama refused to walk away with a bad deal with iran, donald trump refused to make the same mistake with iran, north korea or anyone else and even though donald trump is walking away from vietnam with little to show for it he's returning to washington with h

donald trump's escalating war of words against the late john mccain, stop it for a second, and let that sink in. donald trump today confronted with new reporting that robert mueller's investigators began investigating the trump organization's ties to russia just months after trump was sworn in as president. hundreds of pages of court documents unsealed today in the michael cohen case giving us a rare peek inside the investigation's earliest phase. and offering us tea leaves about what that part of the investigation yielded and what drove the decision to send other cohen cases to the southern district of new york where the president has already been identified as individual 1 in michael cohen's sentencing memo, and is widely believed to face ongoing legal exposure. "the new york times" reports, "federal authorities investigating russian interference in the presidential election obtained search warrants for e-mails of michael d. cohen, president trump's former lawyer and fixer, beginning in july 2017." that's according to documents released tuesday that provide a glimpse into the ear

everything we do. whether it's climate change, whether it's donald trump, whether it's the democratic party, stop rounding the edges and you know, we've -- look, we've all rounded the edges over the years when we've reported certain things. i think this straightforwardness is say what you see. and that's the bottom line. >> and then people can do what they want with the facts. >> exactly. >> congrats to you and your whole team. i know you're proud of everyone who worked on it. >> i am. thank you, ari. >> thank you, sir. >> yeah, brother. >>> we turn now to tonight's news. we have several brand-new stories in this show. we're not covering president trump attacking the family members of his own aides or disrespecting the late john mccain. those are stories donald trump clearly wants everyone to focus on. we haven't covered those on "the beat" tonight and we're not covering them tonight. instead, we have some stories tonight on the trump administration cracking down on key protections for victims of human trafficking and sexual slavery. we have a report on how ideas for radical reform ar

, 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 suffering with an elaborate hoax, a crazy attemp

donald trump as a sanctions olive branch to pyongyang shortly after into korean relations suffer a blow with the north pulling its staff out of a liaison office aimed at facilitating dialogue between the two sides. tensions rise in the middle east as the u.s. leader says washington should recognize israeli sovereignty over the contested golan heights an area seized from syria more than half a century ago. banned from classes pro palestinian students at king's college london say they were locked out during a visit by the queen. a bombshell report alleges that a group of american mercenaries illegally traveled to haiti to help the caribbean countries president consolidate power and move eighty million dollars. i there with twenty four seven headline news this is r.t. international and calibrate friday night at ten here in the russian capital first for you this hour donald trump in the past couple of hours has announced that he's told the u.s. treasury not to impose any new sanctions on north korea and it comes after the north is said to have pulled its stuff out of the into korea lia

evaporated from donald trump's political horizon. special counsel robert mueller found no evidence that the president colluded with the russians during the 2016 presidential election, even though mueller left open the question of obstruction of justice, mueller left open the question of obstruction ofjustice, the president is claiming exoneration. my president is claiming exoneration. my guest has a unique —— perspective on all of this. george papadopoulos was the first campaign member to be convicted as a result of them mueller probe. are we any closer to the truth? george papadopoulos in new york city, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you have had a few hours now to digests the news of the headlines that come out of the special counsel's report, as reported by the us attorney general. you have a unique perspective on this. give me your initial response. my your initial response. my initial response is that i feel quite vindicated actually. i would like to echo the president's sentiment where he stated that he felt exonerated to some extent. it is, i guess it really... you are right

with donald trump's signature on it. >> my favorite moment was that congressman from louisiana being like where are these boxes? where is this box of treasure? why haven't these things been handed over to the fbi? and michael cohen was like i just got them back from the fbi. and the guy was so caught up in what he was asking in his fantastical tale he couldn't even hear that as an answer. then to get emily jane fox's reporting today about where exactly those boxes were was just perfect. >> she knows where the boxes of treasure are. she's going to be my first guest. thank you, rachel. >> thanks. >> well, president trump has just arrived back empty-handed from his negotiations with kim jong un, the murderous dictator who he continues to call his flend. and when the president landed tonight he was greeted by an investigative report in the "new york times" saying his son-in-law jared kushner was rejected for a security clearance and president trump overrode the objections and ordered a security clearance for jared kushner. "the new york times" says that the white house chief of sta

what's already been nominated for the worst week of donald trump's presidency, a bombshell, with something for everyone. a trump lie so big the trump family and their lawyer appear to be in on it. a national security threat so dire that two of the most senior west wing advisers warned against it, and the new hallmark of a trump scandal, contemporaneous memos chronicling the transgression. in this case the story involved the president's son-in-law jared kushner and his pursuit of a security clearance. turns out there was never an all-clear given to jared, there was never a decision jared kushner could be trusted with the nation's most sensitive secrets. from "the new york times" scoop -- quote, president trump ordered his chief of staff to grant his son-in-law and adviser jared kushner a top-secret security clearance last overruling concerns flagged by intelligence officials and the white house's top lawyer. four people briefed on the matter said trump's decision in may so troubled senior administration officials that at least one, the white house chief of staff at the time, john

a choice by donald trump in the management of his relationship with his followers. here is a taste of the madness that was on display on saturday. >> you know, great friend of mine from new york he's a stone cold killer. he's a brutal man. he's actually not even a good friend of mine because he would turn on me in two seconds. >> okay. that's new ground for a presidential speech. the speech rambled on for two hours so it had a lot of new ground for a presidential speech. >> you talk central casting, these guys, you can't -- it's incredible. they had a master sergeant there. i can take him right now, bring him to hollywood, make a military movie and he's the star of the movie. that happened once before, you know, that did happen once before. remember, they brought a man in, a sergeant, a drill sergeant to teach some actor how to be a drill sergeant. the drill sergeant was so incredible that he ended up starring in the movie and he should have gotten the academy award, by the way but he didn't because hollywood december criminates against our people. you know the movie i'm talking ab

about. he's not. >> wow. >> that was donald trump and john mccain, a contrast in leadership and character. the president, it's so interesting, mika, you had with the president of the united states, the current president of the united states actually -- actually playing into the hatred, playing into the ignorance. >> refusing to stand up to it. >> when somebody said muslims are the problem and also that barack obama is a muslim, donald trump knows that's a lie. he has told us privately before that he knew that was a lie. and yet he fueled it. and then there's john mccain, who actually shows character. that's really -- boy, what a revelation of two characters in two short clips and maybe that's why the president repeatedly attacked john mccain's memory over the weekend. 46 years after that american hero was released from a north vietnamese prison camp. a monument that trump avoided during last week's trip to hanoi. he hates him, mika, because john mccain proved his character every day when he was in that camp, just like donald trump unfortunately proves his character every day and

these area, about donald trump, these policy areas, we often talk about how donald trump just adopted the republican party. he just pretended to be conservative. for instance, his flip flopped on gun control. he was a very aggressive advocate of gun control for most of his life and suddenly he decided he was going to be republican and changed. he was very much a believer in choice for women on abortion. he was pro-choice all of his life. that changed. but, willie, what we have here is grand failure on the core values donald trump has always believed in. cup talk about immigration and his anti-immigrant zeal. how much it has stain donald trump this morning realizing that barack obama fixed the problem he inherited from george w. bush and for eight years illegal border crossings went worse. barack obama made the situation better every single year. now this year of course because of drot's policies, and -- drdo trump's policies, it's getting worse year after year. here we have the largest trade deficit, the largest in american history, just like the federal debt. he promised to balance t

communication that might document donald trump's actions or directions surrounding the merger. they write, quote, even the appearance of white house interference in antitrust law enforcement matters, undermines public trust. the fact that actual interference would constitute a serious abuse of power. democrats are asking for those documents by march 20th, so hold on to your radar tubes, everybody, and watch this space. that does it for us tonight. rachel will be back on monday and i'll see you tomorrow morning on my show "a.m. joy." now it's time for "the last word" with the great ali velshi in for lawrence o'donnell. >> there are really valid reasons. >> totally. >> the one that donald trump picked is the wrong one. >> yeah. >> not liking how they cover you. right cause, wrong reason, once again. >> yeah, absolutely. can i just say, ali, just to give you a quick compliment. i was watching your show earlier today as i do every day. the two of you had a conversation about the unemployment numbers that was so detailed and broken down and the fact that, you know, why you have that big bulge in unem

in night versus donald j. trump. >> good morning. issue is a twitter account created by donald trump of 40 before he became president that he has control over independent of his presidency. on his right to block people that account, and ability he shares in common with all twitter users. >> are you arguing that the only thing independent of his presidency is the blocking? or the account itself? >> the blocking. to analyzee trying whether or not state action or government action is being invoked, you look at the particular conduct at issue. you ask whether it is wielding the power of the government, or authority that has been given to the defendant by virtue of their office. >> this twitter account is a designated forum, then? >> no. >> is a public forum? onlyou claiming the private action he took was the blocking of these people? is the twitter account a public forum? >> no. that goes to the second critical error by the district court here. we believe that the state actions question, whether blocking itself is government authority, is a question that should be addressed before the publi

when the time comes for donald trump to leave the white house. and show you donald trump of all people saying that he thinks beto o'rourko'rourke's hand ges say he might be crazy. this from the man with the strange's hand gestures in the history of the american presidency but we'll be joined by joy reed on the dramatic vote in the senate today in which more republican senators turned against president trump than ever before. the republican controlled senate dealt president trump a stinging defeat today voting to end the president's national emergency decoloration, at the southern border. donald trump and his white house staff worked hard to pressure republicans before the vote and actually did manage to turn around one republican senator who very publicly had declared and put it in writing that he would vote against the president but one was not enough. 12 republican senators voted against the president and helped the democrats win the vote 59-41. here is the sample of republican senators who voted against the president today. >> never before has a president asked for funding, the cong

to law school, and he met roy cohn. and if roy cohn was donald trump's mentor. he was like a second father, a second father to donald trump. and so i was is so excited to be next to him. he said he's worked for four years in his townhouse in new york with 14 other lawyers. what did he learn about donald trump. he said donald trump was one of his major clients. and what was it all about? it was about not paying. that was all he did. trump didn't want to pay if the bill was legitimate. he didn't care. he wanted to prolong it. lawsuit9? he didn't care. he would prolong it over years. that was donald trump. well, i'd heard all these rumors about trump, you know, bribes and trump. so i wanted to know were there any bribes. did roy cohn take bribes, is that what he did. and this man kind of laughed, and he said, you don't bribe. if you bribe, you may go to jail. you do favors. i said, what do you mean by favors? and he said, you know, roy did all the work for the gambino mob family, and he did it for free. so whenever, so whenever roy needed a favor, he'd just call the gambino mob family,

university jerry falwell jr., and from the trump organization, donald trump jr. >> i have a great song. you just won't believe it. college kids probably think it is great, but i spent the last three years perfecting it. he got this band. i really think it is going to become the replacement for lee ringwood's "god bless the usa." thank you, zachary. we are proud of you. proud of you. [applause] all right. we have with us donald trump jr., trump organization executive vice president. charlie kirk, who you heard from before, founder of turning point usa. and now i am going to throw to a video about donald trump jr. [laughter] >> in business, i was trained by my father to make the tough investment today to ensure a brighter future tomorrow. a --e most basic as aspect thing the first. the second, protect that. that seems to be at risk. ♪ [applause] >> failed to mention the two most important people on the panel. my wife, becky, and kimberly guilfoyle, vice chairwoman of america first policies and america first pac, also a prosecutor. i am a recovering lawyer too and she has many other credits.

. trump. good morning, your honor. account issuemp is a twitter account created by donald trump before he became president. he has control over independence of his presidency, and has exercised his ability to block people from that personal account. an ability he shares with twitter users. the district court made two critical errors. they incorrectly concluded that donald trump was wielding the power of the federal government when he blocked plaintiffs from the account. second, the court incorrectly the account was a form in which it was excluded. >> argue arguing the only thing in the pendant of his presidency is the blocking? are you still maintaining that position or just the blocking? >> the blocking. when you are trying to analyze state action is being invoked, you look at the particular conduct. you ask whether the conduct at issue is wielding the power of the government, or is exercising its authority that has been given to the defendant by virtue of their office. >>'s twitter account is a designated public forum? >> no, your honor. >> the question i ask is whether you are claiming

, everyone, it's 4:00 in the new york on a blockbuster day of breaking legal news. donald trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort facing 7 1/2 years in prison. a federal judge in d.c. tacking more than three years on his sentence handed down last week in the eastern district of virginia. that judge, amy berman jackson, delivering her rebuke of manafort and his lawyers in ways of repudiations of his lies, his crimes and his excuses. jackson describing manafort's lack of remorse and his breach of cooperation agreement in stark terms, with a summation that defines this moment with legal and political history. telling the court, quote, all of this appeared to reflect his ongoing contempt for and the belief that he has the right to manipulate these proceedings and the court order did not apply to him. all of this was a problem for me, because court is one of those places where facts still matter. and prosecutors in manhattan apparently another place where facts and crimes still matter, effectively pardon-proofing manafort's sentence, moments after judge jackson issues a sentence p the