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hillary clinton has some ideas of what they could do with it. she charts a path for congress to follow, but does her voice help or hurt the situation? >>> and tonight, some of president trump's financial records are being handed over to new york's attorney general. will she find fuzzy math when she digs into documents about his loans? >>> plus, he spreads hateful messages, cozies up to white supremacists and demonizes immigrants, so how is congressman steve king suffering like jesus? the congressman made the comparison and we will take it up in the closing argument. what do you say? let's get after it. >>> so here's the question. is the president's refusal to admit that russia interfered, are his efforts to try to obstruct the russia probe all about protecting the legitimacy of his victory? now, this is that mr. mueller could not rule out as a motivating factor, and now we have news that the president may be putting his political security before your national security. and that could spell trouble for us and him. here's what we know. before niel

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today on the show, hillary clint clinton. the field of 2020 democratic presidential contenders. >> i am absolutely delighted to see this incredibly diverse field. >> robert mueller's findings. >> we deserve to see the mueller report. >> on leadership. do men and women lead differently? >> of course. >> much more -- >> if you really wanted to solve this problem, you would not be separating families and putting babies in cages. >> but first, here's my take. there are many explanations for benjamin netanyahu's victory in this week's elections that have to do with israel's particular situation. it's economic boom, stable security climate and the prime minister's political talent. he's also part of a much larger phenomenon. the continued strength of populous nationalism around the worlds, and the continued inability of left of center parties to respond to it, the case for populous national inch goes something like this, it's a nasty world out there, people are trying to take our jobs, undermine our security. move into our country.

i think those are exactly hillary clinton's words. but i think that we also have to -- this isn't about -- this isn't about making decisions for people, this is about providing the opportunity for them to hear directly and decide for themselves. we're not going to be framing anything. this is direct access to hear from the witnesses and to hear the facts in a firsthand way that you can only get from -- you know, from opportunities like this. and then ultimately people will be able to decide for themselves what they believe and whether they think that this kind of behavior is right or wrong and how we need to move forward as a country. >> just in terms of the subpoenas from your committee and the house, the president weighed in on those today from the south lawn. i just want to play that for our viewers. let's listen. >> we're fighting all the subpoenas. look, these aren't like impartial people. the democrats are trying to win 2020. they're not going to win with the people that i see. and they're not going to win against me. the only w

he helped finance an effort to obtain hillary clinton's emails in 2016 according to the report. the effort was led by barbara la dean, a staffer and associate of flynn and claimed to have received a trove of emails that belonged to hillary clinton but wanted to authenticate the emails and prince, quote, provided funding to hire a tech adviser to ascertain the authenticity of the emails, and now since determined the emails weren't real. so whether or not the president was serious when he said, russia, if your listening, we want the emails, he and his buddies were absolutely trying to find them and all of the deleted emails. >> that is why it is important to get an interview. a good questioner could get more things and confront them with the inconsistencies and it is telling from a prosecutor point of view that mueller said the answers were inadequate. if he didn't have enough evidence from the answers, you say we didn't get enough evidence. >> and also i hope i'm not playing a semantic game here, but barr said that there was no evidence of collusion. no, what the conclusion of th

. >> today on the show, hillary clinton. on the field of 2020, democratic presidential contenders. >> i am absolutely delighted to see this incredibly diverse field. >> on robert mueller's findings. >> we deserve to see the mueller report. >> on leadership. do men and women lead differently? >> of course! >> and much more. >> now, if you really wanted to solve this problem, you would not be separating families and putting babies in cages. >>> but first, here's my take. there are many explanations for benjamin net's victory in this week's elections that have to do with israel's situation. its economic boom, security climate and the press's talent. he is part of a larger phenomenon. the continued populism around the world and the inability of leftist center parties to respond to it. the case for nationalist populism goes like this. it is a nasty world out there. people are trying to take our jobs, undermine your security, move into your country. the cosmopolitan urban elites don't care. this he benefit from these forces so we

hillary clinton is that powerful? >> the hillary stuff is a sort of useful tool to you know basically move on from the mueller report because you don't want to talk about the fact that all these trump administration officials basically opened a vein about mueller and did so on the record. that's a much more inconvenient moment for them. it can't be said enough that the president is in campaign mode. yes, he is in campaign mode like 35% of the country. don't believe anything anyone else says. i guess add a lindsey graham to the group. >> they lost 40 seats in the house. he thinks i'm on the ballot next year. another part, the president thinks some things only happen to him. the president is incredueilous. the strong economy on his watch. saying the u.s. is probably doing better than ever economically. on twitter the president wrote this. you mean the stock market hit an all time record high and they are talking impeachment. president clinton may have felt the same way. the dow hit record highs a month before president

god bless you. >> advice she also gave hillary clinton when hillary clinton came to visit. she gave the same advice. let your single child bring a friend to the white house because it can be a lonely place. she had never met melania trump. she had already drafted a funny letter to bill clinton saying we are looking forward to inaugurating you into the first ladies club. that was a letter she never sent. >> when she said i'm glad i'm not writing it to bill clinton. she wasn't a trump fan. >> she wasn't a fan of hillary clinton either. when her husband voted for hillary clinton in 2016 that was how against trump he was. she wrote in a name, jeb bush. >> right. so here you asked if she still considered herself a republican. in an interview in 2017 she answered the question, yes. when i asked her again four months later in february of 2018 she said, i would probably say no today. again, as the matriarch of a republican family, what a statement. >> as the face of the republican party for decades, someone who worked for the republican party in a variety of roles, what a statement

she's also former senior spokeswoman for hillary clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. good morning. how could i say that on equal pay day, by the way? >> that's okay. >> sorry. and i should know you were a senior adviser to stacey abrams. good morning to you. let me get your read on the headline number. $18.2 million raised in q-1. >> that's very impressive. the other thing i noted is something like 900,000 contributors, which also matters greatly because a couple things you want to look at, the size of the number, obviously, but also the number of people who contribute and the average size of the contribution because that tells you that bernie, for example, can go back to these people again and again and again to continue to raise big dollars. >> so let's look at how this stacks up. we don't have everyone's numbers. we have pete buttigieg, mayor of south bend, indiana, raking in $7 million. you have kamala harris, $12 million. we're waiting for the other ones. how much does it matter the haul in the first quarter? >> you know, i think it matters quite frankly, i think

s efforts to get dirt on hillary clinton. we know about it because of the emails, right, that were released, but our reporting now is that rick gates, of course, who is, you know, former associate of the president, has been charged in all this, he all -- deputy campaign chairman. he also says that people like don -- in addition to don jr. that eric trump, paul manafort, hope hicks, ivanka trump and jared kushner were in that meeting in trump tower in june of 2016. how significant is that? >> well, it doesn't, you know, it doesn't appear that mueller is going to do anything with it. there are a lot of cases that have been referred to other u.s. attorney's offices where it is redacted in the report, so we don't know whether or not don jr. has been referred to another u.s. attorney's office for consideration of this. >> right. >> we know that don jr. was not interviewed by mueller -- >> just to be clear here -- just to be clear here, what the reporting was that they were in a meeting that don jr. was bragging about this, right,

you can imagine easily why buttigieg saying something like that and invoking hillary clinton and even slightly suggesting that hillary clinton may have made a mistake or took the wrong strategy or was ill-served by people around her, yes, there is plenty of anger to go around for people who were allies of hillary clinton to say, look, this is not the time to do it. let's focus on 2020 and look forward instead of looking backward. >> if this is the biggest controversy pete buttigieg has, he'd pay for it. this is the best kind of crisis to have. he gets to draw a contrast and say, hey, i'm from the midwest. how many candidates are going out of their way to visit wisconsin and michigan? >> that's right. you have multiple candidates making stops in wisconsin and michigan states that hillary clinton lost in 2016. democrats are arguing they need to be brought back into the blue column to be successful this time against president trump headed into 2020. >> all right. thank you very much. >>> all right. duke going home and not to play basketball. two schools going to the final four for the fi

we blame hillary clinton because of the sexist double standard in the culture. not to mention, remember when hillary clinton ran for office snefs in a similar position to joe biden today. in 2012 when she first got out of the state department she was very popular. there were all the meems about hillary clinton with a sunglasses and the plane and the phone, and her popularity was at 60%. as soon as she started running it tanked. the same thing may happen to joe biden because she was running in a whole different atmosphere from when she was popular and joe biden is running in a whole different atmosphere from the one he knew as well. >> you got that. by the way, 60% is not where joe biden is right now. patrick. so the cnn apology sure at the top. but this is a guy with 100% name recognition. a guy who has been vice president two terms. run for president, been a sitting senator. okay. so he is a front runner. but this isn't -- this isn't like it's his to throw away. >> no hillary clinton started out 40 points ahead of bernie sanders. and she definitely came down. b

materials that have been released it was just dirt on hillary clinton that he was being promised. there were a number of people in this meeting including eric trump, paul manafort, hope hicks, ivanka trump and jared kushner. some of those people denied they knew anything about the trump tower meeting and some perhaps forgot. it appears that during this -- that donald trump jr. was excited about the prospect of getting information from somebody related to azerbaijan, this is a reference to the developer agalarov who set up the meeting, it appears paul manafort set up and said i don't know about that. it seemed he had some doubts as to whether or not this meeting would ever produce anything of importance. we know frommer to part of this that the special counsel ended up deciding that nothing of value was produced during this meeting, in other words are, no violation of the law by either donald trump jr. or other people related to the campaign. they looked at whether or not this was a campaign finance violation. it would illegal, for instance, if the campaign was trying to get someth

trump was actually more interesting than hillary clinton on the beer question it still actually stands. so elizabeth warren really had a great night the other night. she put out a big buzz producing proposal on student debt. i don't think she is going to make it in the long run. >> you have a great characterization. you say that warren is the professor and mayor pete buttigieg is the student. on almost every issue she makes pete buttigieg look like the kid who showed up to class without the homework. what does that say about what voters actually want ini think they want a fresh face and someone they think can win in the midwest in particular. look at the way that president trump was able to win. he won the midwestern states. buttigieg from indiana although i don't think he could win a statewide race in indiana. he is the mayor of a very democratic pretty liberal tound, south bend. i think that is one of the reasons he is doing well and one of the reasons biden is doing well and one reason bernie sanders is doing well is people, democrats were traumatized in 2016 by the loss of hillary

donald trump's famous speech where he says russia, find hillary clinton's emails. and you know what russia did? they went and found hillary clinton's emails. that day. that day, their trolls went out. their hackers went out and found hillary clinton's emails which, by the way, may have tipped the outcome of the election. the idea that this was going on is the stuff of thriller fiction. and, you know, the obstruction thing, the -- i don't know what the word is, opposite of enablers. protectors. >> guardrails. >> rob porter. rob porter, the staff secretary who had to fire because -- >> alleged wife beater. >> alleged wife beater. he's told to go see rachel brand and find out if she's on the team. he's thinking of firing rosenstein and porter recognizing how inappropriate this is doesn't do it. but it's just like mcgahn. k.t. mcfarland. cory lewandowski who is not exactly known as a squish. he doesn't follow the president's orders. it's amazing that these people stepped in. >> and let me ask you a question because he just -- jeffrey just talked about when the presiden

russians offering dirt on hillary clinton, that is what mitt romney seems to be talking about. >> what a hypocrite. what a hypocrite. any candidate in the whole world in america would take information, negative -- >> from a foreign source? from a hostile foreign source? >> who says it's even illegal?

jim comey could have gone to the justice department and tried to indict hillary clinton. he didn't think a case was there but he also didn't want to exonerate or, you know, bless her behavior. the critical part of this report on obstruction of justice and mueller makes it clear and i'll defer to the many legal experts is he believed the department of justice guidelines believed he could not indict a sitting president. this is no gratuitous editorializing. he actually is laying out a road map. here is a very strong case for obstruction of justice but i can't bring this. he's not saying that the president didn't commit a crime. he's saying, i can't charge him with a crime, batessed on doj guidelines. that's a very different situation. on the impeachment question, the democrats face a difficult choice. you know, i think the democratic base want this, want now someone to bring these charges and the appropriate places in the house. but, you know, nancy pelosi understands that we could go through this entire process and never convict him in the senatement i don't thisenate. i d

he said in his own tweets he won because he ran a great campaign, because hillary clinton was corrupt, because he went to the midwest. our own intelligence agencies tell us a slightly different story. they say the hush shans weren't involved but the mueller report tells us in the first 70 or so pages is all about russia. they did have a preference for donald trump and as you mentioned at the top, the president has never unequivocally said, yes, putin was trying to help me with -- >> even though in helsinki vladimir putin said flat out, he wanted donald trump to win because he would be better than hillary clinton. one quick question for you, marshall. we haven't heard extensively from the president on this, rather a quick couple of statements that he made at a wounded warrior program at the white house. why is it he hasn't spoken out more instead of tweeting? we haven't heard his voice? >> that might be because the president believes he's a good contributor. his lawyers said many times they were going to put out a rebuttal all right. i think that's still in the works, probably coming i

it's not my deal in life. >> hillary clinton reacting to as assange's arrest. here's what she said at an event. >> he has to answer for what he has done, at least as it's been charged. i do think it's a little ironic that he may be the only foreigner that this administration would welcome to the united states. >> president trump seizing on the attorney general's, while his presidential campaign was spied on and carrying it much farther. here's what bill barr told a congressional committee on wednesday. >> i think spying on a political campaign is a big deal. i think spying did occur. i think spying did occur. >> barr later said he was not claim there was improper surveillance only that he was concerned about but on thursday president trump seemed to blow right past that distinction eagerly embracing the spying claim. >> i think what he said was absolutely true, that there was absolutely spying into my campaign. i'll go a step further, in my opinion, it was illegal spying, unprecedented spying and something that should never be allowed to happen in our country a

than they have been with bill clinton and hillary clinton. bill for his rape allegations and hillary for demeaning and discrediting his women accusers. so i wouldn't over second it. the lesson and we should talk through this moment, but i think joe biden should not be disqualified based on this. >> what do you think? >> i agree that joe biden should u not be disqualified for this. i, however, appreciate this is the beginning of a democratic primary process, which reminds me of lyndon johnson's joke about cannibals and the difference between how democrats, cannibals and democrats and cannibals are liberals. the difference is that liberals don't eat their enemies. wait, liberals eat their enemies? >> cannibals don't eat their present family members. >> thank you. i genuinely don't believe based on what we've seen from the democratic party the party and progressive base's treatment of al franken, that this will be enough. there are people who and by the way, joe biden's running and occupying entire ly the moderat lane of the democratic party and

what's interesting about hillary clinton's piece, other than that it's hillary clinton is she was a young lawyer on the watergate committee back in the '70s. she has some background in these matters >> fascinating. she's connected to three impeachment issues. being on the committee then. her husband was impeached and now being part of the election which is under investigation. she has a unique perspective. david, david, david, nia >> which one of these things -- >> thank you very much for being with us. we have been talking about the presidential stonewalling. what will democrats do about it? what next? what's the next move? if the white house keeps fighting, how far will they push this? what's the strategy? anyone can go fast. the question is... is fast enough? ♪ or, do you want speed and style? power and attraction? exhilaration and distinction? ♪ introducing performance, born of refinement. ♪ the lexus rc line. ♪ experience amazing at your lexus dealer. experience amazing you wouldn't accept from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase relieves your worst s

one of the things he was obsessed with at the time was these deleted emails from hillary clinton's home server and there was a campaign event during that time in which he addressed this. take a listen to what he had to say. >> russia, if your listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. >> reporter: and according to the special counsel report, within five hours of that -- those comments from candidate trump, the russians did exactly what he was encouraging them to do. part of it says, quote, within approximately five hours of trump's statement gru officers, reference to the russian military intelligence targeted for the first time clinton's personal office after candidate trump's remarks unit 26165 create and sent malicious links targeting 15 email accounts at -- and redacts the rest of the remark. the importance is this, obviously we all saw what was happening. the trump campaign knew what was going on. you have multiple interactions here detailed in this volume of this report. describing what people were doing to try to encourage tacitly what the russians

hillary clinton's advice was run only out of conviction. you have to know in your heart you're running for the right reasons. win on lose, you have to know you're doing the right thing. this advice is the best add invites i've been given as a public servant. you have to decide, what are you willing to do? will you own this democracy? will you take it back from the special interest and greed and corruption that makes every decision in washington. >> let's get another audience question in here. i know you're ready to go. this is a freshman at american university. >> hi, senator gillibrand. my name is kamran. i have a heart condition and a spinal condition that has allowed me to get heart surgeries throughout my childhood. if my family wasn't able to afford those surgeries, my family couldn't pay for a pacemaker and two steel rods in my back, i wouldn't be alive today. so would you abolish the private insurance industry that has taken advantage of people like me? >> well, first of all, thank you for being so brave. and thank you for sharing yo

but also, as you noted, this was part of his co liealition, the h vote in 2016 against hillary clinton, he won those millennials and he has been able to keep that conversation going with them over the course of the last four years, and many of them are still finding him an appealing choice at this stage of the game. >> it's kind of paradoxical. he's 79 years old and he is favored by so many young people. and part of it is that he speaks in -- he is not an incrementalist. for those impatient for solutions he does not speak in incremental solutions. he talks about big bold structural reforms. but i'll say, you know, last time he had the field to himself it was -- it was bernie sanders versus hillary clinton. now not just elizabeth warren but competing for these younger voters you have kamala harris, you have pete buttigieg, you have beto o'rourke. he's if i were him that this was this is his solid and base. >> something else that stood out. kamala harris asked about her comment about winning back midwest voters. >> the conversation that all of us have been hearing. especially the 2020 el

>> with the dirt on hillary clinton. >> it's a desire to assist in the receipt of information, but it's just a little thin. and i think to go through the process of extraditing someone for a statute that carries a five-year maximum, which means that under the sentencing guidelines, it's like 18 minutes in jail, it's just not worth the effort given all of the risk and some of the first amendment issues phil talked about. it's just not a lot here. >> is this like going after al capone on tax evasion charges like they can't get him for what they want to get him on but they go after him for something smaller? >> some of my friends on the left who have been defending this guy. i certainly care about the first amendment issues. he's also facing a rape charge. it has really disgusted me how people have tried to make him this hero of getting information out which maybe in the beginning that's how it started, but he was very clear in 2016 about the grudge he had against hillary clinton. those were stolen emails from the dnc. the connections with the russians is something that will be explored. b

. >> he even tweeted that i'll fight for you while hillary clinton brings in more people to threaten your freedoms and beliefs. he slammed what was known as quantitative easing. the policy conservatives used to love to hate. he's done the same 180 on key staff. >> i like mr. bennett. i like him. he's a good man. >> after trump fired bannon, he acted like he barely knew him. >> he's got nothing to do with me and nye mie family. he not only lost his job. he lost his mind. >> it's almost as if the president doesn't know we've got records of what he said. perhaps he's already told us everything he needs to follow about his relationship with the truth. >> just remember, what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening. >> and that's your "reality check." >> always good. don't go anywhere, john. it is a comeback for the ages. tiger woods' epic win. "new day" continues right now. >> here it is. the return to glory. >> this has meant so much to me and my family. >> for tiger to get back to the top, the greatest comeback in sports history. >> hard to comprehend right now. >>

no wonder trump wanted to cof e it up. >> robby, more broadly, you were hillary clinton's campaign manager. what's your reaction to the mueller report and what you read in it? >> the first thing that stands out to me in all of this, mueller was indicted in the very beginning that he couldn't indict anyone. he was never allowed to indict the center of the investigation, first off. second, what's been remarkable to me in all of this is what's not illegal, okay? so as we were just discussing, the report says that there were no crimes, supposedly, as it relates to russia. but to me, it's remarkable that the president of the united states or a candidate running for president of the united states as a major party nominee can call someone up and say, hey, these e-mails that were stolen by a foreign adversary's intelligence service and given to a rogue actor, who has probably, through the leaks from our intelligence community, literally gotten people killed around the world, people in service of our country probably died as a result of what wikileaks has done. that you're allowed to dispatch someo

clinton. you have this unique combination essentially of bringing the family business right inside the white house here with jared kushner. but also the allegations of the whistleblower is that that has now been turned into a systemic rewriting of the rules for security clearances that goes far beyond jared kushner and ivanka. for example, i thought it was very interesting in the story, very below is the negative they've actually changed the entire vetting process, for example, doing credit reports on these would-be white house officials. why does that matter? because you might find out if there was something in their financial history, in their credit history that made someone working in the white house vulnerable to blackmail, for example. now we've just gotten rid of that. >> it's interesting. so april, we always like to have you -- sometimes we call on you last because you're there every day to put a period on this. everybody is kind of at 30,000 feet. you're at ground zero every single da

he compared this to hillary clinton's emails and email servers. he thinks this, the overruling of 25 security clearances is a million times worse than the emails. what you have are people with the top secrets of the world. he says a million times worse than the emails. maybe not that hyperbolic, but compare the two. >> it's hard, john, because you have to know what the individual cases are of these 25. what access do they have? how sensitive were their positions? >> well, jared kushner. we think kushner is one of them. he's negotiating middle east peace. he's working on nafta, he's in constant contact with the crown prince of saudi arabia. doing some pretty important stuff. >> exactly. that's obviously a high-end sense of position given the diversity and breadth of his portfolio. some of which encompasses some very sensitive things. so i don't know what his issues were. but if he did, well, that's certainly presenting a vulnerability of security. i can't gauge a million times or what in relation to hillary clinton's emails. i will say that using p

and i described her as hillary clinton without the charm. and i was accused of being sexist for making that comment. but, no, i don't think it's sexist. >> i mean, do you think this is becoming -- this become as problem for him? >> and i would say -- i wasn't even thinking about knows remarks. i was thinking about a remark that he made in which he said that powerful men should never take a one-on-one meeting with a woman without a witness in the room because they'd be accused of sexual harassment, which, you know, he said again on this network like a year and a half ago. so do i think this is a problem for him? yeah, it is certainly not a good look. if i remember a woman at the fed i wouldn't want to answer to him. i would not want to be colleagues with him given what he is on the record as saying. but my greater concern is the fact that he wants to politicize the fed. he said that president trump should fire not just powell but everyone at the fed when they didn't do his bidding. in can cause really serious long-term damage to the u.s. econ

based on the facts and the applicable -- to help them and hurt hillary clinton, but mueller says those in trump's circle were definitely deceptive about their russia contacts. the report says the investigation established that several individuals affiliated with the trump campaign lied to the office and to congress about their interactions with russian affiliated individuals and related matters. we get more now from political correspondent sarah morgan. >> reporter: good morning boris and christine. bob mueller's report is out and the redacted report reveals the trump campaign did not criminally conspire with the russians but the president had other reasons to dread the investigation. the evidence does indicate that a thorough fbi investigation would uncover facts about the campaign and president personally that would president could have understood to be crimes so that would give rise to personal and political concerns. cnn has reported at least 16 trump associates had russian contacts during the trump campaign or transition, and according to the mueller report, the campaign expected

democracy, to sow dissent here in the united states, to help hillary clinton lose the election, to make sure she would lose the election, to help donald trump win the election, and if she were to win the election, to weaken her as much as possible going into the presidency. >> so to the point that was just raised, what happens in the next campaign and the one after that, i hesitate to use the word norms, but there used to be norms. somebody associated with the russian government you could easily in any internet search realize is a known russian operative requested a meeting with you to dump information on your political opponent, you're supposed to say no. so look, it is good if the attorney general is correctly reading, he said mueller did not establish collusion. then he went on to give a much flowery in his own view of the president's conduct and the campaign's conduct. if it didn't happen, great. all americans should be grateful, but you did have a trump campaign that gleefully wanted this information from the russians. that had, look who was in the room for the trump tower meeting.

we know he sought the clinton's e-mails, obsessed with trying to find the 30,000 deleted hillary clinton e-mails from her -- from her privateer is verbs and we know that people that inside the campaign went looking for it. tried to contact people who thought would be able to help them get them. the purpose of the trump tower meeting is one of the things that we know the president has lied repeatedly about. obviously they talked about that it was about adoptions. it turns out they were told it was about getting dirt on hillary clinton, and, of course, the response, once that became public the president essentially dictated what were false accounts of what exactly was behind that. he ordered don mcgahn to try to fire special counsel robert mueller, and then once that story came out he tried to get don mcgahn to go out and pubically say that it did not half. again, that's something that we learned in the report that had been report previously and that the president lied about. lots of contact with russians, obviously, as you mentioned. there was a lot of collusion. it may not be criminal vi

when president trump says russia, if you're listening, i hope you find hillary clinton's emails. he then triez s to tell in his written answers to robert mueller. i made the statement in jest and sarcastically as was apparent to any objective observer. not so fast. what we find out in the 400 pages that inside the white house he's telling basically anyone who will listen, go find hillary clinton's emails. with do whatever you can to fine them. michael flynn takes it so seriously, he begins hiring people. he goes to different gop operatives, he goes to people he knows on the outside. >> eric prince gives money to help find it, betsy devos's brother. >> and it goes on for months and months. they are actively trying to find it. quickly. >> the extraordinary detail that famous quote, russia if you're listening find the 30,000 emails, that day. that very day the russians begin an effort to find the emails. >> yeah. >> using their illegal hacking ability and that leads to the disclosure of emails. not those emails but other emails that maybe swung the election. so i mean, the connectio

one needs to remember vladimir putin really disliked hillary clinton. russia was going to intervene against hillary clinton and then with donald trump, there was someone who had interest in business in russia and talking about trying to build a power there and so trump whole operation was fly by night clearly helped the russians. they lifted american sanctions on russia based on the sanctions of crimea. >> steven, mr. trump has pointed the finger back at his predecessor, barack obama, saying mr. obama did nothing to stop the interference though he did speak with him directly telling him to cut it out. some former obama staff have indicated personal disappointment that they didn't do more. what do you make of mr. trump's criticism on this issue? >> well, it is true, president obama could have done more. it is said he was reluctant to intervene in the national election because, after all, it would look like he was putting his finger on the scale of hillary clinton. i think it is true he could have done more. in fact, he could have issued a statement about

the real animus for putin was against hillary clinton. remind people why. putin really disliked hillary clinton. >> that's right. he also had a real issue with u.s. policy in the obama administration. people tend here in the united states to focus on obama at the beginning of his presidency and the reset with russia, but in reality, u.s. policy and that of europeans had changed very dramatically after the russian takeover, annexation of crimea in 2014, and the subsequent launch of armed hostilities in eastern ukraine which continues to this day in ukraine. there were sanctions imposed. even before that, the kremlin really took a personal dislike toward hillary clinton, blamed her for anti-putin protests that really disrupted his return to the russian presidency. so interestingly, mueller in his report and also in indictments actually dated the russian campaign in the u.s. 2016 election to the post-2014 period. so before donald trump was a real factor. i think that's true. however, it's a very significant finding in the mueller report that confirms u.s. inte

hillary clinton ended up winning a vast majority of black voters against bernie sanders and that ended up being what was the difference in that primary. even though we have a very large and very diverse field, all of these candidates are trying to get, at least a large share of this population in terms of getting support in order to separate themselves from the pack because as we saw with 2016, if a candidate does not perform well among black voters, older, younger, different segments of the black population then they're going to struggle. bernie sanders did actually pretty well with younger black voters and he's trying to build upon that in 2020. there is a much bigger field as tiffany said and it's much more difficult to any specific candidate win a lock of the black vote and that's why you see them trying so hard to make sure they're pitching their message directly to this community. >> since he is the fund-raising front-runner, why hasn't he gained more traction with the black community? >> because it's a more crowded field this time. again, we really don't know. i think the litmus

trump's former opponent hillary clinton believes the report also revealed potential obstruction of justice. >> the mueller report is part of the beginning. it's not the end. as i read it, basically what i thought it was saying, look, we think he obstructed justice, and here are 11 examples of why we think he obstructed justice. >> reporter: some of the president's possible opponents of 2020 are taking that one step further. >> if there is going to be any accountability, that accountability has to come from the congress and the tools that we are given for that accountability is the impeachment process. >> reporter: the churning of investigations may explain the president's recent twitter tirade of 50 tweets in the last 24 hours. as the president complained in the old days if you were president and had you a good economy, you were basically immune from criticism. mr. trump is portraying himself as the victim of what he called the radical left democrats and the fake news media. a former french ambassador to the u.s. said the picture inside of the administration is less pretty. >> a lot of off

and did n hillary clinton. she's the connective tissue of this primary field. she vetted half of them to be her vp and served in obama's cabinet with them and worked in the senate with them and has been a mentor. it is a careful dance there because there's a lot of concern in the party about repeating those mistakes but she does have a strong following and also has these personal relationships. there will be a number of candidates who feel indebted to her on a personal level for their careers. >> and then plenty of others who just want to move on, right, they really do. >> who will actually show up with her on the campaign trail. >> it's complicated. up next a new candidate jumps into a key 2020 senate race. live pictures, chicago, the fraternal order of police protesting the state attorney kim foxx because of her role in the jussie smollett case. big protest there. we'll be right back. popular s. but no matter what park you live on, one of 10,000 local allstate agents knows yours. now that you know the truth,

and donald trump also campaigned saying he was going to drain the swamp and hillary clinton, obama e everybody was corrupt. you can't come into office and say the other people were corrupt and saying you're doing no worse than they were. you have to hold yourself to a higher standard. >> let's talk politics now. joe biden. said right away in his pain if campaign kick off -- if i'm going to beat trump in 20 20 it's going to happen if pennsylvania. >> joe biden's best argument is do you not want donald trump to be president anymore? i'm the guy that can do that. to that end, it's literally the greatest gift he could give to joe biden, because he'll go to everyone on the fenls, grass fence, activists. donors. grass roots folks. staff. and say there's a reason that he sent five tweets today about me. he's worried because this election will come down to michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin. ohio, maybe florida. throw in a few more. but the industrial midwest. that's where he beat clinton. that's where i'm the strongest trump and his people know it. that's why they're reacting the way they di

merrill's take is this is indefensible, hillary clinton ran on a belief in this country and the most progressive platform in modern political history. trump ran on false promises and vitriol. interpret that how you want but there are 66 million people who disagree. good luck. do you see what buttigieg said as indefensible? >> well, the "washington post" article that you just referenced was actually buttigieg trying to clean up some comments he made about hillary the week earlier where he criticized what he called her slogan, i'm with her, and said it was too candidate focused. i'm with her is not her slogan, stronger together is not her slogan. fans adopted i'm with her and they went with it. then he said democrats focused too much on donald trump and didn't have a policy based message and that is why mill ri lost which is also not true. this piece i think was his third attempt to explain how he wasn't going to make the same mistakes that hill are i did. i understand the impulse but it makes me nervous for him because the two biggest things that took down the 2016 campaign, the donal

that was the same day that wikileaks started publishing those damaging emails from hillary clinton's campaign manager john podesta. the president had no problem operation the organization ofusively in the days leading up to the election, but today here at he white house when asked about wikileaks, he was tight-lipped. >> i know nothing about wikileaks. it's not my thing. >> reporter: president trump distancing himself tonight. >> i've been seeing what's happened with assange. >> reporter: offering no comment on the arrest of wikileaks founder julian assange. despite repeatedly praising the organization when it released damaging information on hillary clinton. today the president said he's leaving the matter in bill barr's hands. >> i don't really have any opinion. i know the attorney general will be involved in that and he'll make a decision. >> reporter: while top officials in his government have denounced wikileaks as a hostile intelligence service, trump didn't see it that way during his campaign. when wikileaks was publishing thousands of emails stolen from the democratic nationa

was promised difrt on hillary clinton by the russians his dad drafted a statement upon air force one saying the meeting was about a russian adoption program, a tall tale misleading at midwest and outright lie at worst. president trump has tried to conceal meetings with vladimir putin including confiscating his own interpreter's notes. number five, president trump has dangled the pardon power in front of witness, michael cohen was told by a trump lawyer sleep well tonight. you have friends in high places. this fact pattern could look like obstruction to casual observers and obstruction is one central question we need answers on, others include the role of wikileaks, cambridge analytica and the money trail. read the redacted report. follow the facts first and decide for yourself. that's your reality check. >> good advice, john avalon. thank you very much for reminding us of all of that. people are on the move in washington, d.c., the attorney general has just arrived, this is his motorcade, this is him arriving at the justice department because less than an hour from now he will addres

it's why hillary clinton beat bernie sanders. it was helpful to obama himself obviously in 2008, so this is going to be a big calling card for him. >> so if you're the media adviser in the room and joe biden is about to get out of there and do one of the big town halls he's having and he'll probably get an anita hill question and get a question of why were you against forced busing in the '70s question? he'll get some question where he was in a employs 10, 15, 20, 30 years ago that the democratic party is not today. what would your advice be? >> my advice is to get to where we are today very, very quickly. as long as he's living in the past, it's going to be problematical for him, so he needs to articulate where he would lead the country in the future and the values that he believes in and not get into sort of an apology tour for every vote he's ever cast, and that's going to be difficult. look, his experience is a strength. it gives people some confidence that he can restore some ballast to washington, but, on the other hand, 45

they think this is similar to hillary clinton in a lot of ways. sure, very popular and well-liked when they are not in the spotlight, but once get in the spotlight and you get into the tumult of a campaign with 20 other candidates and it's tossing things up in the day to day it gets a lot harder. >> similar to hillary clinton would be great for joe biden, right? i mean, she cleaned up among key constituencies, particularly in the south and ran the table against bernie sanders obviously in 2016, and you can see joe biden in many ways going for the same constituency, the moderate voters. sure, he'll have to deal with the progressives who are on his left and clamoring for a massive change in many ways and a lot of the bills that they are putting out and some of the proposals they are putting out, but i think he'd be happy if he were able to replicate what hillary clinton was able to do. >> you just heard his communications director and one of the questions is -- you said he wants to focus on the last eight years. have fun with that because you'll hav

trump and disparaged presidential candidate hillary clinton. second, a russian intelligence service conducted computer intrusion operations against entities, employees, and volunteers working on the clinton campaign and then released stolen documents." look, the mueller report's long, what, 400 pages? 448, to be exact. and who's got time to read all that? luckily, here's the kushner's notes version. a couple of facebook ads. see? so easy. it works just as well for all items in the table of contents of the mueller report. section two -- russian active measures, social media campaign. items one through four, the i.r.a., the russian internet research agency, ramps up u.s. operations as early as 2014. or facebook ads -- just a couple -- u.s. operations through i.r.a.-controlled social media accounts, the same. u.s. operations from facebook. exactly. u.s. operations through twitter. all right, not a couple of facebook ads. but look, who's counting? not kushner. also, u.s. operations involving political rallies, targeting and recruitment of u.s. pers