trump: she's gone. when it was found that i had more indian blood in me than she did, then it was determined that i had none, but i still had more. that was the end of her 32 years scam on colleges. can you imagine any of those people doing what i am doing? there would be 200 people to show up, if they were president. if they were not president, nobody would show up. is that right? >> [cheers] pres. trump: i have to say, i was saying on the way over -- tell me about bad weather. we may have to cancel. are you crazy? can you imagine? i learned this morning they thought you were going to have a big snowstorm, a big, big snowstorm. the people that get it wrong the most are the weather forecasters and the political analysts. >> [cheers] [applause] pres. trump: they said this is a big, big storm. it is going to be hitting green bay. we may have to cancel. i said, like hell we are going to cancel. people were standing out 24 hours ago, 32 hours ago, outside. who stood out there for 24 hours? >> [cheers] pres.

donald trump's ultimate loyalty is only to donald trump. it is not to his oath of office or the country. we've been documenting all of the things he is doing that hurt the forgotten man that he promised to be the champion of and who he is actively, aggressively working a against n his administration. cover-up l lie, deny, unless you knonow you did something wrong. amy: glenn, do you think president trump should be impeached over obstruction of justice? you have dom again quitting rather than firing, and president trump fired james comey. do you think, despite you have always said that this is not about collusion? >> no, i don't. the reason is because i think the question was whether he was acting as a president in his right to stop an investigation that he knew was based on false allegations or whether he was tried to cover up his own wrongdoing. once mueller concluded there is no evidence to establish the wrongdoing, i don't think yet a corrupt motive. i think his motive was this investigation is garbage and i'm very open about the fact i

trump: thank you. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: i want to thank chris and wayne. i am thrilled to be here in indiana with the men and women of the n.r.a. you are great american patriots. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: chris, wayne, oliver, i have been following oliver for a long time. great guy. three extraordinary champions for the second amendment. and i am a champion for the second amendment, and so are you. it is not going anywhere. it is under assault. it is under assault, but not when we are here. not even close. i also want to thank our tremendous vice president and indiana's native son, mike pence . he has done a fantastic job. [applause] pres. trump: we are grateful to be joined by a number of terrific leaders from the hoosier state. governor eric holcomb. where is eric? you can't miss eric, he is so big. [applause] pres. trump: thank you, eric. senator todd young, a terrific guy. [applause] pres. trump: thank you, todd. senator mike braun, what a job he is doing. [applause] pres. tru

trump: an incredible guy. a friend of mine and all of us for a long time and he's going governorship the one day soon and we are not going to be happy about that at all. phil bryant. [applause] pres. trump: he is a fantastic governor. he built the african-american museum and it is one of the best jobs i have seen in a long time. a lot of money but under budget and ahead of schedule. you don't see that often in government. north dakota governor doug burgum. thank you, doug. [applause] pres. trump: texas attorney general ken paxton. thank you. [applause] pres. trump: washington, d.c. attorney general carl seen. florida's former attorney general pam bondi, respected by everyone. [applause] pres. trump: and they are joined by many faith and law enforcement leaders. we have tremendous numbers of people here today that are strong believers in out only what we are doing, but also faith and faith is a good thing. thing.ook, it is a great i also want to recognize someone you all know well who worked tirelessly on this

he's a personal friend of trump's. losing andrew napolitan know today was a very bad day in and of itself for the trump campaign. he is the fox network's highest legal authority. and on the day that the judge napolitano said that donald trump was guilty of obstruction of justice, the highest ranking democrat on the senate intelligence committee, mark warner, tried to alert the nation and alert voters in an article in "usa today" that president trump is "practically inviting foreign adversaries to interfere in 2020." we now know that the russians helped donald trump win the he electoral college last time. donald trump knows that and knows how close he came to losing the electoral college. he knows he cannot afford to lose any of those voter who the russians helped persuade to vote for donald trump last time. the trump campaign needs them and that's one of the reasons we have reports today that the last secretary of homeland security, kirstjen nielsen was advised not to tell the president about her worries that the russi

while they believed they had the authority to subpoena trump and found trump's written answers to be inadequate, mueller's team believed it would delay the investigation writing we had sufficient evidence to understand relevant events and make certain assessments of the president's testimony. although he has cleared trump of wrong doing, congress can investigate and democrats are calling on mueller to testify. back to you. >>> president trump is hosting a white house event for the wounded warrior project when the mueller report dropped. listen to his reaction. >> hey, i'm having a good day too. it was called no collusion, no obstruction. >> there never was, by the way, and there never will be, and we do have to get to the bottom of these things, i will say. this should never happen to another president again. for the record, the special counsel did not clear the president of obstruction. in fact, he determined mr. trump attempted to influence the russia investigation only to be thwarted by staffers who refused to carry out his orders. we get more from kaitlan collins at the white hou

donald trump. >> i noticed donald trump come to the building. him and her were very friendly. she had an argument with the coworker. who says i will call mr. trump when you have an argument with somebody? and apparently, she did. >> he says after he made repeated complaints to superior's about the housekeeper's treatment of other staff, he was asked to resign from his job. but after he left, he says he could no longer find work as a doorman. >> weeks, months. turns out almost a year i couldn't find a job. >> fearing he had been blacklisted, he contacted a reporter at the nation"national enquire enquirer", thinking the tabloid might be interested in buying his story about trump east alleged affair. >> he says, you get to like $30,000 and you will be referred to as an ex-trump employee. >> as a precondition of payment, ami asked him to sign over the rights to his story in perpetuity. the contract also stipulated that he would be subject to a million dollar lawsuit if he spoke about the rumor. >> i get phone calls on a regular basis that i could ne

donald trump and to trump's critics. lesson one, you can with win reelection while not changing your off putting style. you can be narcissistic and bullying and the works. if oppose the person, you can sure as heck lose to them no matter what you think of them personally and no matter how bad their image is in the world. whatever else you can say about him, this person you see is a villain is seen by other people as the lone tower of strength. the one politician is willing to take the heat by defending the country the borders and sovereignty. if you are seen as the man willing to defend the country and you are a candidate and party are not, don't be surprised at your country's contract. he was seen as strong on the issue of defending his country. the borders and the sovereignty. by refusing to promote a strong alternative for border protection, they allowed trump to position himself so far as the lone protector of the country's sovereignty and brand his enemies for being for open borders. as jerry brown sized it up, he m

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the more this race is about trump and trump's conduct in america in the trump era, the bigger joe biden looks and the bigger this race looks and that helps him stay out of the nitty-gritty that he does not want to get dragged down into and kind of litigate his past, you know, take on attacks from various democratic opponents and get into the mud with them. he wants to be big and above the fray because otherwise, don, you know, why else should democrats pick him if this is just one more democratic primary and one more campaign? he's got to make this race a national emergency. this is a different kind of moment. one of his supporters from philadelphia, brendan boyle, a congressman, said this is the most important election since 1860. and he was not exaggerating. that's the kind of approach that biden and the biden campaign want because if it's not that big of a deal, if it's that that urgent, he's not going to be the nominee. >> hey, jonathan -- i got to go. first of all, no one told me to say this, before you and i start getting e-mails -- tweets about it, i didn't mean rockabilly, it's

it may not have been with trump. trump is who he's always been. but the people around him, the people that some of us still are hoping would hold up these institutions, right, at the end of the day, it's not about trump. it's do the institutions hold. i see them enabling him, right? barr saying i'm not giving the unredacted report to congress. no, i'm not going on court to get the -- you want to do that, you go ahead. just not even giving a good reason. the secretary 069 treasuof the saying, nope, not giving up the tax returns even though the law is clear. you do have some people, i don't want to hold up nielsen as a bastion of lawfulness, but on the other hand, it seems like she at least said we can't close the border and boom, she's gone. then you have trump pushing the boundaries. he essentially offered a pardon as a bribe to get a public official to break the law. you can say he was joking, but you don't even joke about that. that is beyond lawless and it's an impeachable offense if he was serious. i'm not going to say that's remotely going to

mcgahn did not respond to trump on thursday but "the washington post" reports it this way, some trump advisors said privately thursday that they fear trump's ire could prompt mcgahn to speak creating a wave of challenges for the white house. poll lit c politico reports his inability to move on it is starting to worrisome of the president's allies. they want trump to quote stick to playing up mueller's conclusion that his campaign did not engage in a criminal conspiracy with the russian government. one former trump campaign official described the president's post mueller volley as a complete and utter disaster. a former white house official told politico he needs to channel frozen. quote, he needs to let it go. it's especially not helpful to him but he can't help himself. trump is taking on house democrats running a legal blockade to resist the subpoenas that and request they try to scrutinize his administration. he gave a hint about his battle strategy during this exchange after the midterm elections. >> do you expect that when the democrats take over the chairmanship of these importa

in the trump presidential campaign. from donald trump and others involved in the campaign. it is now donald trump's favorite new word. and the trump media's favorite new word, handed to them recklessly or deliberately by the attorney general of the united states. steve bannon never gave donald trump a campaign gift like that. william barr could be on his way to being makeup more valuable to the trump campaign than steve bannon ever was. and trump campaign desperately needs help because the presidential's approval ratings have been consistently abysmal, the most consistently locals ratings of any president. one of the things the president needs the most help with is navigating through his scandals and legal problems during the presidential campaign. no one is in a better position to help him do that than william barr. as the attorney general has proven this week. rick wilson is a republican who has become one of donald trump's harshest critic in "daily beast" column he wrote this after watching william bar in two days of hearings. he comes across as pedestrian and legalistic

trump elected. what we clearly have is those two sides are working to mutual benefit. the russians absolutely wanted trump to be the victorious candidate in the election, and certainly the campaign had the same desire. but what director mueller has told us is, that's not enough, simply the fact that both sides acted to benefit each other is not enough. you have to show in the words of criminal prosecution for conspiracy an agreement between the two, and that was the last piece of evidence, it's the final kind of keystone in the bridge, if you will, that the team didn't seem to feel confident that they had. >> it seemed like the closest they got to finding something that could be criminally charged in that whole section about the links between russia and the trump campaign, oddly enough, campaign finance, was the possibility of charging campaign finance violations from accepting a foreign entity for the purpose of influencing the election. there were two reasons they didn't get there, they couldn't p

>> collusion in the mind of many trump critics means if vladimir putin wanted trump to be president, then they colluded and it's clear there was support coming from the russian government for the idea of a trump presidency and there of course was all the propaganda stuff that came out of the twitter accounts and that sort of thing to disrupt the u.s. politics. you can't do anything about other countries having preferences in our elections or engaging in prop began take proa activities. a lot of people want to call trump a traitor on those grounds. paul: is there anything left, dan, the connection that homan describes russia wanted and what happened here in the united states with americans? >> no, there is nothing left of it. they went over in minute detail. i'm not going to go through here's the table of consistent tense. >>> you go through all these things, trump tower, george papadopoulos, june 2016 meeting in the trump tower, extraordinary detail. at the end of each one they say there was no there, there. no conspiracy, no cooperation. russians were attempting to penetrate there.

, trump. >> not a single message, it doesn't involve trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump ( cheers and applause ) ♪ - ♪ i'm goin' down to south park ♪ ♪ gonna have myself a time - ♪ friendly faces everywhere ♪ humble folks without temptation ♪ - ♪ i'm goin' down to south park ♪ ♪ gonna leave my woes behind - ♪ ample parking day or night, people spouting howdy neighbor ♪ - ♪ headin' on up to south park, gonna see if i can't unwind ♪ - ♪ [muffled] - ♪ come on down to south park and meet some friends of mine ♪ - ♪ [muffled] a lot of people say, "i'll believe it when i see it" but i tell you what, they got it backwards. because there are certain things in life you can only see when you first believe

what to expect president trump to say? guest: i think it will be a typical trump campaign rally. this is his first reelection rally in wisconsin, which was a key state for him. it helped push him over the top. part of this is theatrical. a battleground region like green bay, i'm sure you will see him play off of that. i think it is good to be a classic trump campaign rally. host: why wisconsin? what makes wisconsin so important in 2020? guest: it is important for both parties. it is probably more important for democrats because wisconsin is a state that has been voting democratic since the 1980's. when donald trump flipped those states, that was his margin for victory. if the democrats can win back those states and nothing else on the map changes, they will win the white house in 2020. wisconsin is at the epicenter of this looming campaign. it is a state that has been close for a long time. it was not close during the obama years, but three of the last five presidential elections have been decided by less than one point. it is competitive. there is a lot of change going on in wis

why is president trump not going to this dinner? >> he says it is a very boring dinner that was mean to him last year and the previous years. he doesn't want to reward the press with attending their premier function every year. it has become a point of contention. his staff notld to attend the dinner and the events around it. they may relax that a little bit. president trump has such bad relations with the media. he craves our approval so much. he can't really decide whether he loves us, hates us, or both. attend thepresident dinner at all before he became president? has he ever been to this dinner before? >> he was happy to attend the dinner before he was president. multiple times. those roasted some of times. i remember meeting his kids at the dinner a couple of years ago before he was president. this is more recent. byald trump was roasted president obama back in 2011. that kind of encouraged him to run for office. he didn't want to be seen as this joke that he used to be viewed as. >> in your story in politico, you said presiden

donald trump controls it. donald trump controls the law. william barr is the attorney general of the united states and the republican party decides whether he is removed from power. and the supreme court has five conservatives on it. why should we trust the law? >> i'm a cynic, but the constitution withstood 230 years through depressions. i have to believe that the foundations will withstand this president. we are in uncharted territory right now. >> why should we believe that the republicans at some point are going to wake up and decide they want to uphold the constitution rather than doing what they have been doing since 2016. dutifully support donald trump in whatever he does. >> there are a lot of reasons to doubt that they will. most of them. there would be a few who might feel a twinge of conscious about trampling over the constitution with donald trump, but it's hard to say. >> what if they don't? >> that's what we have elections for. by the way, that's what people go into the streets about eventually. if everything else fails. hopef

conservative instinct, to let trump be trump, the only problem letting trump be trump isn't the same thing as emboldens his conservatives and crazy. >> i take exception with the use of the word conservative. let us be clear, there is nothing conservative about any of this. you know from the russia stuff to trade wars and all of that. so. yeah, look, mulvaney has figured out that sweet spot for however long he is in that sweet spot to be able to keep trump at on pace and away from other things and so let trump be trump and do his thing. but let us be clear. this is not conservatism in any, way, shape or form. it is trump's own brand of whatever trumpism is. mulvaney has figured out how to keep that elixir going. because he knows he can't control the hot spots. it's like trying to keep hot water from boiling up. it just is what it is, so appreciate what it is. and navigate all the other spaces and that's why you are seeing the president cherry picking his secretaries and mulvaney is where to be found in that process? nowhere. >> he's acting. it was your great reporting. tell us your st

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and that infamous 2016 trump tower meeting between donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer. >> whether these contacts were sufficiently illicit or not to rise to the level of a criminal conspiracy, they are unquestionably dishonest, unethical, immoral, and unpatriotic. >> reporter: those contacts continued after the election, including incoming national security adviser's call to sergey kislyak about sanctions imposed by president obama. to the fallout of the report continues today, with not only democrats, but also now republican senator mitt romney releasing this statement today after reading through the report, saying, "i am also appalled that among other things, fellow citizens working in the campaign for president welcomed help from russia, including information that had been illegally obtained, that none of them acted to inform american law enforcement. reading the report is a sobering revelation of how far we have strayed from the aspirations and principles of the founders." now, i've been speaking to white house officials who, of course, jake, g

trump: very soon. one of the things in the new deal is that it is very difficult financially for a company to leave the united states, fire all of its employees, move to mexico or canada. open up a new plant, make a product, sell it in for no tax. we end up with unemployment and nothing but loss and empty factories. it is not happening anymore, folks. not happening anymore. [applause] pres. trump: we have ended the war on american energy and the united states is the number one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world. bigger than russia and bigger than saudi arabia. can you believe that? can you believe that? two years. [cheering] [applause] [chanting "four more years"] pres. trump: thank you very much. we are working on getting pipelines approved in texas that would normally take 15 years to get approved. we are trying to get them approved rapidly. if we do that, we will pick up another 20% to 25%. we already are leading by a lot. in all happened over a short period of time. we have confi

for, quote, all hands on deck to defeat donald trump. should democrats be worried? $30 million is quite a haul for the president. >> on top of $130 million last year. and usually presidents don't raise money in the midterms when their party is trying to defend, in this case, the house majority. this president did anyway. it didn't help his -- it helped, i think, lose the house for his party, so he's got a colossal, monumental fund-raising advantage. and democrats have got to be very serious about it. i think it's going to cost $50 million this year for the democratic nomination. i want to see who can raise $50 until 2019. >> to get the nomination. >> they have to raise it in 2019. we get to new year's eve and i want to see someone with $50 million raised in my party. and nobody is close yet. >> do you look at the campaign finance numbers when you're judging which one of these democrats you think is most viable? >> i think you have to look at some numbers underneath the top line turnumbers, including burn rates, how much they are spending

just like donald trump. donald trump's grandfather was born in germany. what does it mean when you confuse where your father was born with where your grandfather was born? my father was born in boston. my grandfather was born in ireland and i have never once confused that, but then i'm not 72 years old, i don't have alzheimer's in my family history and i'm not the president of the united states trying to convince nato that i'm not just being mean when i ask nato countries to spend more money on their military. that's what donald trump was actually talking about today when he said that his father was born in germany. he repeatedly said that the united states spends much more on defense than we actually do, and that is the kind of trump falsehood that we probably wouldn't even mention tonight, but in any other presidency that would actually be the hot news of the day. the president doesn't even know how much money we spend on defense. that would be big news. in any other presidency. watching the president today, you had a right to wonder whether the preside

or the trump campaign. or the knowing assistance of any knowing american for that matter. that is something that all americans can and should be grateful to have confirmed. host: follow-up from bryan, texas, democrats line. caller: good morning, pedro. i love c-span. as well as my country. we have a criminal and a chief in the white house. god does not carry a liar. donald trump and rudy giuliani -- host: what did you read of the report and what did you make of it? i listen to y'all and i listen to good morning america, it's not good. he didn't collude but he did lie. he obstructed and he is trying to cover up stuff. did you read any of the report yourself? caller: i have had some of it read to me. mueller is aert good person but i don't believe he found it all. i believe somebody will. host: here is bill scanlon. >> we have spoken with jamie raskin. we will speak with several members of the house judiciary committee brought the program, including louie gohmert. we will have him around 9:00 eastern. the hil

circling trump. a new report says new york prosecutors have moved in on president trump's inner circle interviewing some of his closest former aides and gathering more evidence in the hush money case than anyone previously knew. i won't do it. the president defies demands by democratic lawmakers and vows he won't hand over his tax returns as the deadline set by the head of the house ways and means committee arrives. >>> star pressure. federal prosecutors up the stakes for one of the celebrities in the college admissions scandal in an effort to get her to plead guilty. we want to welcome viewers in the united states and around the world. i am wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> breaking news tonight. outrage among congressional democrats after a bombshell statement from the attorney general, william barr. in his second day of testimony on capitol hill, he claimed that the fbi or the intelligence agencies may have spied on the 2016 trump presidential campaign. at the same time, "the wall

the donald trump tax reform, donald trump and republicans were dishonest about this. they said that democrats they tried to get democrats involved and couldn't get them solved. that was not true. they designed this process to go around democrats and on the paul ryan point, i want to add one thing. we get into a paul of ryan in this book. i think a lot of people close to him would say his take away was he trashed donald trump throughout the entire 2016 campaign. he didn't endorse him. he was very fervently against trump. we have a chapter called "not a trump guy" about paul ryan. but then donald trump won and paul ryan felt like he had two choices. there was a fork in the road. he could either concede he lost the argument and stay in government and what he thought was keep the government on the rails. he said he didn't want to the just never trump and take his toys home or he could leave. he chose to stay in government. >> but ended up driving the republicans into a defeat in the house of representativeses. we could go on and on about this. thank you very much, jake sh

we were doing trump tower. so it was from '80 to '84 we were building trump tower. at that time there were about ten people in the organization. that's it. >> he doesn't own a backhoe, a truck or a crane, t a licensing building put my name on your building for "x." >> when i was working for him he owned the building. so no, he didn't do any work. we contracted it out. >> when you hear that he is fighting a congressional subpoena with a counter lawsuit because it's about the release of his financials, does that make sense to you? >> sure. every time he had any problem at all he'd sue immediately and if there was a dispute h liked to be the plaintiff. i'll sue first. he thought that was an advantage. here he was going to be the plaintiff, but the idea was to delay. i think that's what's behind this. maybe avoid getting those financial records out before, you know, the next election comes up. >> what's it like for you? it's been two years plus to watch. i have friends from high school, can't believe i get paid for doing anything. i mean, for you to watch this guy who w

organization, trump foundation, anything to do with the trump inaugural committee. there's a lot of continuing investigations. that doesn't mean people like donald trump jr., jared kushner, his security clearances, things like that yet, they're not out of the crosshairs. >> katie phang, good morning to you. hope you have a good easter in miami. >>> why tomorrow could be a pivotal day in congress on whether to proceed with impeachment proceedings. ceed wi impeachment proceedings. ♪ every day, visionaries are creating the future. ♪ so, every day, we put our latest technology and unrivaled network to work. ♪ the united states postal service makes more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. ♪ because the future only happens with people who really know how to deliver it. because toh!futuroh!nly hoh!ens with people ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven

. >> donald trump can't win but the donald trump can sure as hell lose it. they are the party that seeks their own political death and they'll find a way, this impeachment question is one where you have two options. you can try to do an impeachment thing that'll go nowhere in the senate. there is no scenario than any human being says right now that donald trump will be convicted. >> mitch mcconnell. >> you won't get 50%. >> mitchell dragged mansions and others back. there is no scenario where he's removed by impeachment. what does it do? it rubs up donald trump's space and raises him $200 million, we'll get an e-mail saying send me five bucks for donald trump being thrown out of office. it won't haves political impact. donald trump has no moral center, and no shame. you can't shame the shameless. what does work is to run investigations into all these things that are legitimate investigations of the actions of the campaign of donald trump himself and the things that have gone arnds him and all these people, the things that mueller could not touch and things h

not just trump tower moscow. trump has decades of links with organized crime and very murky sources of funding that raise questions about whether anyone has a tether on him. that hasn't fully been answered. mueller chose not to dig into that. we have several committees in congress looking at this issue, the new york attorney general and southern district of new york. i think what unites this shouldn't be a partisan or ideological issue. it's about good government. it's about transparency at the co-leadership and good public policymaking not corrupted by greed or self-interest. >> you've been sued by trump. i imagine you're not surprised that he took this route as a sitting president of roping his kids in, surprise surprise, and suing the banks so they can't comply. >> also ironically one of the plaintiffs in this case is the trust he set up to ostensibly keep him from conflicts of interest. that entity is suing about disclosures. trump has been doing this since 1973. roy cone taught him how to weapon size the leg

she helped president trump. we see "the new york timeses" .esterday they had an editorial it implies kristjen nielsen said no. i disagree with that characterization. wayink she helped pave the for a lot of these policies that are continuing. wewe see her replacement was to cacarry out what he calls binary likes -- choice, sort of sophie's choice. these parents travel to bring their children to safety in america are told you have a choice. you can agree to let us take your child w while we detain you while you seek asylum or you can detained the child with you. wewe have heard ababout the hore conditions and these facilities. that is kind of what she opened the gates for host of amy: what about the people who say no? >> i'm glad you brought that up. people say no and the courts and at the local level. in the courts we saw two huge victories. kristjen nielsen was to work with trump's son-in-law and close advisor jared kushner i'm getting mexico to agree to hold people while they were seeking asylum instead of lett

trump. anna: it is pretty stunning when you think about it that right before the election, he is not going to let his members say do what you need to do to win, but he considered making a public announcement that he was not with the president. he was so offended by the hollywood tape and what was happening and mitch mcconnell said don't do that. it felt like that would have been the end of the republican party and it felt like they needed to be with this president because he was going to be the party nominee. host: talk about the relationship between mitch mcconnell and this president. how often do they talk. they spoke a lot and mitch mcconnell went up to trump tower days after the election. early decembers 2016, and convinced the president and discussed with him, his plan for that tradition -- judiciary, how mcconnell was going to work with the white house counsel to control all nominees to the supreme court, lower district courts, federal courts. he wanted to remake the judiciary and mitc

donald trump. that sounds sort of intense. consider that miller broke other aides by cheering the role out of the travel pan. a court rejected onslaught of policy chaos that hard liners thought could have been better managed. he wants to eliminate high school rights in china and birth rights for refugees who are fleeing and genocide abroad and limit immigration in general. while the homeless security chief suggested that she was pushing for trump to follow the law on child separation, miller does not even publicly acknowledge the legal or ethical problems of this policy. he said it was a simple decision by the trump administration to have it. period. there is a legitimate debate about immigration policy. there's nothing automatically suspect about supporting, for example, a reduction in the number of annual migrants. any nation without open borders will have some limits. for a. at a pair funded government employee to defend the human rights separation policy as simple, an easy call as a policy, tha

donald trump, he won't change. what will remain unchanged is trump's affinity for obstructing investigations. trump's attacks on the judiciary go all the way back to the campaign where he maligned judge curiel regarding his bogus university, whatever that was. donald trump is hardwired to malign law enforcement. and the fact that he got an enabler, a cheerleader and an apologist in the attorney general is as big of a story today as what we're about to learn from the 22 month long mueller investigation. >> part of the way he excused it was by saying the president was under a lot of pressure because a number of his associates was under investigation. a number of those associates are criminals. they have now at the end of the investigati investigation, some of them pled guilty and been convicted. for the attorney general to say it's okay for him to go and ask for the end of investigations into his criminal associates is really an astonishing thing for an attorney general to do. >> we're coming up on one minute away fr

presidency, he said no because trump is still trump. give him a week he'll be under investigation again. >> and he's made the same mistakes over and over again. we've seen it in both parties. a politician in the flush of exoneration overreaches, overplays their hand. trump is like all politicians in some ways on steroids because t the ego is greater, so the fact he overplayed his hands on these other issues, no reason to dive into health care, the border wall. yet he decides to do it. i think in the context -- i know we'll talk about this more -- you think about the gamble made to some extent by the attorney general and some of the trump allies, if you could cement the perceptions of the mueller report having been good for him at the beginning that that would last is a foolish misreading of the news environment we live in. the first impressions aren't what matter. the last impressions are what matter. we're far from the last impressions on the mueller report. >> this wasn't our plan, but it's a perfect detour. this is precisely the prob

it lends legitimacy to a trump conspiracy theory. the former director of the cia under president obama. director, spying. why is trump and his cronies including the new ag using that word? >> i was very disappointed in what he said about spying when referring to the investigation that was predicated certainly and the fbi was trying to understand what the russians were doing. u.s. intelligence agencies were spying against foreign adversaries so we can understand the threat to our national attorney. for him to say they were spying domestically, he knows the language and terminology and know what is it connotes. it is an extra legal taking place. we know now it is incontrovertible the russians were trying to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. >> according to the language this guy, barr, i don't like him much because of this game he's playing here. a state trooper working at night along a state highway and he's watching and sees somebody is going over 70 miles an hour. is he spying on the cars or doing his job? this word spying

trump. "by february 2016, internal ira documents referred to support for the trump campaign as early as march 2016. they are purchasing online ads that overtly oppose the clinton campaign. for example on march 18th, 2016, the ira purchased an advertisement depicting candidate clinton and a caption that read in part, if one day god let's this liar enter the white house as president, that day would be a real national tragedy. at the same time they go all in for trump." . the first known ira endorsement was purchased april 19th, 2016. the ira bought an advertisement for its instagram account tea party news, make a patriotic team of young trump supporters by uploading photos with the #kidsfortrump. it's russia trying to get the #kidsfortrump trending. using their tea party fake online avatars. which were actually operated from st. petersburg in russia, because that #kidsfortrump was the evolution of the overall long running -- by that point years long running effort to do whatever they could, to

trump: i don't want to say that to you. i'm going to be discussing that with the vice premier in about five minutes as soon as you leave. a lot of good things are happening. a lot of really great things are happening. i think very important is the relationship with china is very strong, probably the strongest it has ever been. we are negotiating a strong deal. our relationship is at a point that is the highest it has been. that is not a bad thing. that is a very good thing. you plan to make -- covered? [indistinct conversations] he is a very tough negotiator. it is very nice when i see the fentanyl. we lost 77,000 people to the fentanyl. that was a very important thing. i appreciate it. this is before the deal is done. this is something china has done before the deal is done. i think you will see a tremendous impact. >> what kind of benefit will it rain for both countries? if there is a deal, what kind of benefit will you bring for both countries? pres. trump: i think it will be great china and that china will continue to t

but trump, yes. if trump wins, he'll do great damage. but if he loses the election, he is going to call upon his supporters for violence. there's not going to be a civil war, that's idiocy. but you will see isolated violence on the part of crackpot supporters. he will be clinging to the doors of the white house giving orders to everybody on all sides that the honest people will not obey, career employees will not obey and military will not obey. anderson, let's check back in and i'm telling you, it's not funny. it's going to be very, very ugly whatever happens. but trump needs to go for the good of this country. >> and the silence of republicans on capitol hill is extraordinary. the republican party that i knew growing up, you know, the party of reagan, i mean that's just -- it's just a dim memory. >> yeah. in national level elections as an adult, i've voted for republicans probably two times out of three. they don't exist anymore. that party is gone. these people are so incredibly craven. and this was the party of patriots. they were go

that starts when the department of justice sues donald trump, fred trump, his father and trump's management for racist rental statuses and many offices and apartments in brooklyn, queens, in staten island. donald trump is put in a position where he has to fight that. he has not done much. he's still known at that time of the son of fred trump. that case in the worse possible case for donald trump could have sort of killed him in the crib before even started doing what he did. with the hotel and trump tower. what does he do to fight against that case? he hires notorious attorney, roy cohn, who not only mounts a defense for donald trump particularly but kind of gives donald trump a young and impressionable donald trump a tutorial on how to fight the department of justice and how to fight any entity or institution that's attacking you, that's getting in your way from going where you want to go and doing what you want to do. so the cohen's play book, deny, delay, counter attack and shamelessness as a weapon. here we are 50 years later, we see a lot of white cohn and donald trump. and the white

trump benefits. the only way he can unite republicans is by race baiting and giving them something to rally around, which is build the wall. he has nothing else for them. >> the whole idea of shutting the border down would be disastrous for the united states. there were the memes about avocado production and they would get expensive. i i don't say the number of the 90,000 crossings. $600 billion of commerce in trading. you're talking about people coming to work in san diego and el paso. >> manufacturing. >> manufacturing. like people -- the number of people who lawfully cross back and forth every day just to live their lives and to benefit the united states. and forget the cities along the border, everything from mexico that comes into the u.s., automobiles and so on. so it was all about frightening people. people bought it. we have a scary situation. he's right, you've got to close the border. it's just whipping up his supporters. >> broadening this out a little bit, you saw the evolution, what the

he had trump's position. w re gonna get to the policies of immigration, but let me just ask this question, because in the book, you wre... so, a lot to unpack there. but the president was using some language -- >> oh, there's a lot on the ra cultures of other societies. and i'm not saying there's something genetic here, but these are cultures that are tremely misogynistic, honor-based, that do not respect women or children. we can assimilate anyone to our culture -- anyone at all -- but when you bring in such hugeer nuat once, you can't assimilate them. they bring their cultures with them. >> i want to finish the chronology of your hisith trump. you go on to support him through the campaign. you introduchim at rallies. he says lovely things about you at rallies. le.s look at this little cl >> i love the idea of the great wall of trump. [ cheers and applause ] and maybe mitch mcconnell and john bhner had to betray us once again to pave the way for president donald trump. >> ann coulter, who e an excellent book

be trump's lost lie. when your children and grandchildren ask you what is the worst lie that donald trump told, you can send them to "the new york times" archives, but you might also want to have your personal list, the list that includes the time the man who apparently has no idea what human suffering is stole all of the suffering of 9/11 for himself. he became a thief of grief. we owe it to history to not let that remain trump's lost lie. that's tonight's "last word." "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >>> tonight the mood inside the west wing, a little under 36 hours away from the release of the redacted mueller report. tonight we have new reporting on what trump insiders who are also mueller witnesses fear the most. >>> plus, is he a real threat or a distraction. bill well talking ability his challenge to president trump for the 2020 gop nomination. >>> and where so much was lost much was also saved. the president of france issues a bold challenge to his country. it now means moving quick