federal sex trafficking case against donald trump's old friend, jeffrey epstein. here is the attorney general's explanation of why he recused himself in this case. >> i'm recused from that matter because one of the law firms that represented epstein long ago was a firm that i subsequently joined for a period of time. >> by william barr's standards, that's a very weak reason to recuse himself. very, very weak. he has another connection to jeffrey epstein that is even closer than the one he mentioned today. william barr's father, donald barr, hired jeffrey epstein. he hired jeffrey epstein to teach high school students. high school boys and high school girls. before jeffrey epstein became a rich player on wall street, his father hired epstein to be a math teacher at one of new york city's most exclusive private schools on the upper east side and there was something very, very strange about donald barr hiring jeffrey epstein. jeffrey epstein was not even a college graduate and that was and is unthinkable on faculties of elite private schools, but donald barr hired jeffrey epstein anyway

was a strong supporter of donald trump bacchin 2016, now he has created a distance between himself and the president. —— bacchin. sojust how solid is republican support for donald trump? senator rick scott, welcome to hardtalk. it's nice to be her. you have been in europe for a few days, you have been meeting politicians, you have been meeting politicians, you have been meeting politicians, you have been meeting diplomats, how ha rd you have been meeting diplomats, how hard is it being a senior us politician defending the trump administration overseas right now? you know, i don't look at it that way. why don't defend, you know, the trump administration. i'd try to explain, you know, both what president trump is trying to do and what they believe in. so something like now it is a positive that we are having conversation with north korea. now, we don't have anything done yet, we need to get something done, it's a positive that we are having conversations with china about trade, because they have taken advantage of america for decades. let us go through some of those issues you have j

want to introduce you to james poniewozik, the author of this book, "audience of 1: donald trump, television, and the politics of illusion". tell us about your day job. >> i'm the chief television critic for the new york times. i like to say the television critic has become more like a book critic in that there is so much sifting rather than attempting to cover everything, but it is fantastic work in the television is a great excuse to write about everything because tv is the nervous system of america and it reflects whatever people are interested in or obsessed with. i write about sitcoms and reality tv and the circumstances were right. a pretty vast field. >> how much time do you spend with the networks as opposed to amazon, who lou etc.? >> the old traditional networks, part of the subject of the book, a vast drop through that content ocean and it used to be every fall, three or four networks would release the shows they were going to premiere the coming season, that is what we were concerned and fall television is one thing among many, so much on amazon. hbo, showtime, basic cable, premi

manufacturer put commercial priorities ahead of safety. donald trump has presided over an elaborate ceremony to mark us independence day, in an event dubbed "salute to america." but the militaristic tone and cost have been criticised by his democratic opponents, with suggestions he has politicised the 4july tradition. now on bbc news, stephen sackur speaks to us republican senator rick scott on hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. donald trump is the most unpredictable of us presidents, as is obvious from his policy approach to north korea, china trade, iran and a host of other domestic and international challenges. well, my guest today is the republican senator from florida, rick scott. he was a strong supporter of donald trump back in 2016, now he's created a distance between himself and the president. so just how solid is republican support for donald trump? senator rick scott, welcome to hardtalk. it's nice to be here. you've been in europe for a few days, you've been meeting politicians, you've been meeting diplomats, how hard is it being a senior us politician de

believed that donald trump was actually a paid agent of vladimir putin. he said he thought putin paid trump. now kevin mccarthy is a public worshipper of donald trump and he would attack anyone who said anything like that. might even attack me for reminding the world that kevin mccarthy said that. the republican senators who ran for president against donald trump, marco rubio, ted cruz, lindsey graham, they all called donald trump a con man repeatedly on the campaign. they called him a liar during the presidential campaign. and now they are all public worshippers of donald trump. how did that happen? the first best answers to that question will be found by future historians in tim alberta's new book, "american carnage." this is the perfect night to have tim alberta join us, as he will later in this hour. after a day in which republicans once again fell in line with donald trump and defended the indefensible. but this time there were four defenses. that means president trump has four new members of the house of representatives to attack. the four republicans who voted to condemn d

candidates. it looks like donald trump really wants to talk about anything other than that or defending any of the policies that have left him running behind the leaders in the democratic race. that might have something to do with what we saw today. >> any of the attempted responses to donald trump saying what he has been saying about race and women and immigrants need to take into the fact that he is saying it all on purpose. he's not embarrassed about any of it and shame is not going to work here. >> it is the strategy. it is the basic platform of the campaign. the same kind of hate jet fuel that he used in the last campaign. >> exact right. there is not a magic wand you can waive. it's a dark time with the president leading this way. >> it's going to be throughout the campaign. thank you, rachel. we will get to that poll, that nbc poll later in this hour and dramatic revolutions about jeffrey epstein at his bail hearing, including the federal investigators discovering a fake passport in his home issued by a foreign country, which they did not name, that has a picture of jeffrey epste

you, rachel. remember rush limbaugh? he was the donald trump of american politics before donald trump became donald trump of american politicians. the right wing of politics doesn't need two donald trumps. no one really cares what rush limbaugh says. not even rush limbaugh. the latest crazy thing that rush limbaugh says nowadays never makes it into the american news media because it's not as crazy as what the president of the united states said every day. including what the president said tonight. rush limbaugh had to give up many of his beliefs to become the faithful trump follower that he is and he confessed publicly that they were never beliefs at all. he didn't believe all that stuff he was saying. stuff that he and other republicans were lying about what they believed. he actually said that on his radio show and at the end of this hour, pulitzer prize winning columnist will join us about what donald trump has done not just to the republican party, but to our politics and whether the damage can be repaired. when donald trump won the presidential nomination, this week he said

affairs with donald trump while married to his third and current wife. we will break down the legal troubles hicks might be facing. and it was lock her up in a white hood. that's how north carolina's largest newspaper described the racist chants at the president's rally this week. we will speak to the editor who wrote those scathing words. that didn't last long. having read the talking points scrambled into his hands for almost an entire day, donald trump pulled a full charlottesville, praising supporter who is chanted send her back to attack ilhan omar at his north carolina campaign rally as incredible patriots. yep. 24 hours ago, trump per those nervous talking points claimed that he disapproved of the racist chant about congresswoman omar and even tried to stop it, he said. he got nice headlines that claimed he was disavowing the chant from some of the news media who indulged in the false balance tick of pretending whatever the president said is true and it's a given fact. not everyone fell for it. >> president trump, you said you were unhappy with the chant, however the chant wa

beginning to look like a repeat of the disinformation campaign that helped elect donald trump in 2016. concern that the same kinds of dishonest, divisive and race-baiting attacks waged on social media against hillary clinton in the last election are now tafrrgeting 2020 democrats. and like last time they're being amplified by donald trump's allies. brought to the forefront recently when the president's son retweeted shades of birtherism that his father brought up. here's a reminder what donald trump jr. tweeted and retweeted on backlash. kamala harris is not indian-black. she's half indian and half jamaican. i'm sick of people robbing history. and what's worse is the person behind the tweet and its author ali alexander takes on a more sin sister stone. "the new york times" reporting, quote, for people like mr. alexander and an alt-right fringe person figure is the entire point -- e entire point - and there's more -- caroline orr, a social media researchers cited by "the times" was among the first to warn a coordinated attack was breaking out online. she tweeted on debate night, a lot

political attacks by donald trump, signaled impeachment could be on the horizon. nbc news has this -- quote, the news came after three attorneys kmised commissioned by the president of puerto rico unanimously found five offenses that constituted grounds for impeachment. of course, an investigation that uncovers offenses that constitute grounds for impeachment has undeniable parallel to calculations being made by washington democrats in the wake of high-profile investigations into donald trump. >> and if we have a case for impeachment, that's the place we have to go. the fact i would like it to be a strong case because it's based on the facts, facts and the law, that's what matters. not politics, not partisanship, just patriotism. the stronger our case is, the worse the senate will look for letting the president off the hook. >> rosie perez joins us earlier in the week to talk about puerto rico. >> puerto rico is a mess but the people of port reek aico are no. the government of puerto rico is corrupt. the government of puerto rico is a mess. and to put that on the people makes me so

tape was not donald trump launching and then luxuating in a racist attack, to chant the equivalent of the old racist meme send her back to africa. what donald trump was really doing was resetting the debate in some kind of three dimensional chess resetting the 2020 election to be about the four black and brown bad congresswomen being socialists. boom. check mate, trump wins. but what actually happened and what republicans know happened and what made them freak out is that that racist chant changed the entire terms of the 2020 debate. because donald trump didn't call congresswoman omar and the others socialists or communists in his attack on them. he didn't attack the new deal or their support for medicare or all or any policy that the right is planning to label. he didn't say anything about policy. he attacked only one thing about them. their racial ethnic backgrounds. that's why republicans panicked this week. let me do something i don't normally do here anymore and read trump's tweet. so interesting to see progressive democrat congresswomen who originally came from countries whos

that they are now in favor of an impeachment inquiry regarding donald trump. now, if you add them to those who announced their support this weekend in the wake of robert mueller's testimony last week, a number of lawmakers and number of lawmakers calling for an impeachment inquiry is now over 110 and quickly approaching half of the democratic caucus in the house. we're going to speak live with one of those three members of congress who announced their support for an impeachment inquiry today, very shortly. but starting tomorrow, all eyes in the political universe will not be on washington but on detroit where 20 democratic presidential candidates will be participating in the second primary debate over the next two nights. and particularly because they will be meeting in detroit, not just a major american city, but a majority black city. the democratic candidates will doubtless be pressed to respond to the latest racist attack from the president they hope to defeat. donald trump's weekend tirade which continued into today against congressman elijah cummings and his majority black balt

wrote the book principally is just because covering this president, covering donald trump is like a firehose of news constantly coming at you. of bad things. they each erase the thing before. in one day, you can have 10 headlines where the first one for any other president would have been catastrophic and maybe presidency and the bit and then that gets erased from the memory hole literally, sometimes within the same day. the main reason i wrote the book was just to preserve the history. as much as i could get in before it's gone to be honest. before we forget what's happening. i think this presidency is so unique and destabilizing for our democracy, that i just wanted to remember.the second reason is kind of a plea or a warning, don't know which is the better word. i feel sometimes like americans feel that what we are is eternal. that we can't lose it. that this position we've gained as the leader of the free world as the preeminent democracy and shining city on a hope you people think that's permanent. we are a young country and it can slide and slide fast. i wanted to sound the al

. because donald trump cannot speak about 9/11 without lying. we will show you the new lie that donald trump told about 9/11 today at the end of this hour and remind you of some of his other vicious and pathological lies about 9/11. we will hear jerry nadler's reaction to donald trump's latest lie about 9/11 when he joins us as our first guest tonight. he was last here a month after the democrats won back the house of representatives and a month before he took up the gavel of chairman of the house judiciary committee. my first questions to congressman nadler back in december were about impeachment, and my first questions tonight to chairman nadler will be about impeachment. in his 26th year in the house of representatives, jerry nadler has become the fourth chairman in the 206-year history of the house judiciary committee to be handed the house judiciary chairman's most solemn duty and heaviest burden: to consider whether the house of representatives should impeach the president of the united states. yesterday chairman nadler said this. >> we are investigating whether to report -- whet

to the americans who do live there? >> i understand that everything that donald trump says is offensive to some people. >> no human being would want to live there. >> when donald trump attacks -- >> this is being perceived as racist. do you understand why? >> i understand why. but that doesn't mean that it's racist. >> and here we go again. president trump spends another weekend unleashing another twitter attack at another member of congress who happens to be of color and the president's supporters insist it has nothing to do with race. no, this is not a re-air of a previous broadcast. here we go again. good morning. welcome to "morning joe." it is monday, july 29th. with us we have white house reporter for the associated press jonathan lemire. columnist and associate editor of "the washington post" david ignatius. senior adviser on moveon.org and an msnbc contributor, careen yaen pierre will be with us. and james fellows and nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent host of andrea mitchell reports, andrea mitchell. in a moment, we're going to get to the president's torrent of t

because the presidency is office, donald trump is going to come and go, he won't be president forever but i think those forces at work will be here and a conversation that we need to be having. as you know, jonathan, you spent time with the president, he's not always a linear conversation i'm putting it generously. the president tends to respond to topics rather than questions. so i was asking him about populism or asking about nationalism or nativism and the one thing that struck me when we were touching on themes was that the president seemed less interested in talking about those forces at work than in talking about the republican party itself assort of proxy for those forces which is to say that donald trump gave money to mccain's campaign and bitterly disappointed to watch as he characterized john mccain vouching for barack obama's character during 2008 campaign, he felt as though john mccain need today get down in the mud and needed to run a nasty against obama and his chicago-style machine politics, if he was going to win, mccain had a very different outlook on how campaign should

criticism whatsoever from the republican party. i mean, you had paul ryan calling donald trump a racist for the judge curual comments and then two or three days later of course he endorses donald trump. this is -- again, it's very important to remember that this is donald trump trying to distract. this is donald trump trying to distract from the fact that he was humiliated in the census -- in the census issue. he had to back down there. there weren't many i.c.e. raids over the weekend so obviously that didn't go off as planned. he must have gotten the word that was the case. he obviously read maureen dowd criticizing the four women and so he decided to do what donald trump does. he wants to outrage people and in this case, he wants to further divide the democratic party. >> distract and divide. >> distract and divide. this is a short term gain for the president. it's not going to help him expand his base. it's not going to help him get to 50%. there is a reason he's the only president in american history since the advent of polling to never get to 50%. and this is exactly why. >>

reason and one reason only -- north carolina and america need four more years of president donald trump in the white house. cheers and applause] [crowd chanting "four more ears"] vice president pence: it's on, everybody. time for round two. [cheers and applause] vice president pence: the campaign for america's future continues tonight. you know what began four years ago has grown into a movement. it's a movement of everyday americans from every walk of life, and here in north carolina, you believe we could be strong begin. you believe -- carolina, you believe we could be strong begin. you believe we could be prosperous begin. you said yes to president trump in 2016, and i know you will say yes to donald trump in 2020! [cheers and applause] vice president pence: you know, i don't have to tell any of you gathered here, president donald trump is the real deal. he's a man who says what he means and means what he says. [cheers and applause] vice president pence: and i promise you, you gets up every day and fights to keep the promises that he made to the people of north carolina. i see it every

. but using donald trump's own logic, he should have gone back to scotland. because his mother was an immigrant there. his grandparents were immigrants from germany and now he's saying because the duly elected members of congress are doing what he does every day, criticizing things about the country, they should go home. it's ridiculous. good morning. welcome to "morning joe." today is july 16th. with us we have msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele. we have politics editor, sam stein. washington anchor for the bbc world news america, katty kay. and associate editor of "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. and rogers professor of the presidency at vanderbilt university, jon meacham. he is of course an nbc news and msnbc contributor. mika of course went out to iowa yesterday to interview joe biden. we'll be showing you an extended interview today. she caught a late flight back, so she won't be with us today. but we're going to be bringing you the key moments of her sit down with the vice president st

. it is 4:00 in new york. asked and answered. donald trump spent five days telling four minority congresswomen to go back to where they came from. he's repeatedly confirmed the racist attacks are part of his re-election strategy and he, quote, enjoys the case he's making against the four women of color. last night his crowd repeated those racist messages back to him with the haunting chant of send her back. >> and obviously and importantly, omar has a history of launching vicious anti-semitic screeds. >> send her back! send her back! send her back! >> trump there clearly pleased about the crowd's reaction and even today he's still praising their energy and enthusiasm last night. but by late tote reports from "the new york times" and "the washington post" surfaced saying republicans who have embraced the attacks on the four congresswoman -- keep in mind 187 house republicans voted this week to stand with trump on thinks racist smear. they got a little wobbly on the full racist thing. "the washington post" reporting, quoting, republicans questioning vice president pence in a privat

. el presidente donald trump aanunciÓ que las redadas empezarÁn el domingo, pero en florida hubo movimientos de agentes migratorios. >> muchos pobladores amanecieron con el mismo susto. agentes de ice golpeando su puerta, el operativo comenzÓ en campo rojo donde vive ccuyo esposo es indocumentado, Él reaccionÓ a tiempo. >> a eso de las 6:00 de la maÑana Él se asomÓ por la puerta y cuando escuchÉ gritar que dijo " la migra" estaban aquÍ como tres carros enfrente y despuÉs como ddos agentes se dejaron venir, tocaron la puerta y no les abri, los estaba mirando por la ventana. >> confiesa que tiene mucho miedo. >> yo temo por mi hijos porque dije quÉ tal si no van a ver a su papÁ otra vez? e se fue a trabajar a los cuantos minutos despuÉs que miramos que se fueron. >> la misma angustia la viviÓ celestina. >> dijeron policÍa, pero no eran policÍas y luego alumbraron a mi ventana y todo en mi cuarto se alumbrÓ como si fuera de dÍa. >> cerrÓ su puerta con seguro y corriÓ a resguardarse junto a su padre. fueron 20 minutos que ella espera que no se repitan. temen que la

presidente donald trump recurre a la descalificaciÓn y negación. graves acusaciones la fiscalÍa de nueva york podrÍa recomendar 45 aÑos dde prisiÓn por trÁfico sexual de menores. california recoge escombros y evaluar daÑos luego del poderoso sismo del fin de semana. las autoridades invierten millones. llena de gloria regresÓ a casa la selecciÓn femenil de fÚtbol con el cuarto tÍtulo del mundo y la exigencia de que les pague igual que a los hombres. comenzamos. >> este noticiero univisiÓn con jorge ramos e ilia calderÓn. ilia: buenas noches. el presidente donald trump continÚa rechazando los recientes reportes sobre las deplorables condiciones sanitarias y de hacinamiento en los centros de detenciÓn migratoria. el mandatario reiterÓ a los inmigrantes se encuentra mejor en esos centros que en sus paÍses. calificÓ de falsos y exagerados los reportes que hablan de brotes de varias enfermedades entre los niÑos. pedro: el gobierno federal defendiÓ las condiciones de los centros de procesamiento de inmigrantes en la frontera luego de los seÑalamientos hechos en un artÍ

. >>> donald trump did what he did best today, surrender. he surrendered to the u.s. supreme court. yesterday he threatened to defy the supreme court and today he just surrendered to the supreme court, 24 hours later, right after the threat. we'll be joined by a lawyer who forced donald trump to surrender to the court today, neal katyal, later in this hour. and there's a very important lesson in today's surrender for what will happen the next time a new president is sworn in and donald trump is forced to leave the white house. there are actually people who are gaining more and more currency with the belief that that won't happen, that donald trump simply will not accept the inauguration of another president, especially after the president tweeted a video suggesting that he was going to stay president forever. but of course donald trump will surrender the white house because he always surrenders to the stronger power. as he did today. we will see that lesson at the end of this hour, the lesson of donald trump once again surrendering, the thing he does more than anything else. >>> in

. >>> hi, everyone, it's 4:00 in washington, d.c. where this afternoon at the urging of donald trump, the man who negotiated a lenient sentence for convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein sought to recap that deal in light of new charges of sex trafficking that have been brought against epstein by the southern district of another. acosta fighting for his reputation among human beings with a conscience, news accounts saying donald trump is giving zero consideration for firing acosta at in moment for letting an accused child sex predator off easy in miami. at a news conference a little over an hour ago at the department of labor, acosta claimed without the intervinentn of his office, epstein would have walked free and suggested a different climate on victims of sexual assault in 2002 was to blame. >> do you make the same agreement today? >> so these questions are always very difficult because we now have 12 years of knowledge and hind sig hindsight and we live in a very different world. today's world treats victims very, very differently. today's world does not allow some of the victim shami

birthday, known as independence day or simply july 4, donald trump threw himself a party. ever since he saw that the french president has a parade, it's called bastille day and the dictator of north korea has a parade, it's called authoritarianism, and that they get to have tanks and people marching in front of them and saluting them, and all of that stuff, he's wanted to have one too. he tried to co-op other holidays like veterans day and memorial day, but the adults in the military kept pushing him back. no more. donald trump finally got his special donald trump parade, rolling tanks down the streets of your capital, flying air force planes over his head while he gave an odd speech about the airports, the continental congress took control of during the revolutionary war? >> in june of 1775, the continental congress created a unified army out of the revolutionary forces encamped around boston and new york. and named after the great george washington commander in chief. the continental army suffered a bitter winter of valley forge, found glory across the waters of the delaware, and seiz

for nicolle wallace again. the assertion donald trump is a racist president has been overwhelming for some time but what happened this weekend and continued today advances the story to a new place. the racist president is openly telling us he's drawing a racist campaign. he all but announced that with an attack on elijah cummings, a african-american congressman around baltimore. we want to avoid amplifying trump's racist messages by repeating them here, we're also facing the reality we will be dealing with presidential racism the next 15 months and we've seen few signs trump will be held accountable by members of his own party so it's our job to co-author racism when we see it. -- call out racism when we see it. like this tweet of appalling decency -- baltimore is a rat-infested mess. that is a racist link filled with filth and crime, especially when it is a pattern, as with trump it is. calling john lewis african-american, and calling his district crime i fested. he said trump did pour is into and infest our country. crime i fested. all of that was and is racist and just a small samp

>>> hi, everyone, it's 4:00 in washington, d.c., where donald trump is awash in the after glow of his firstness. first president to take his daughter to north korea on a work trip. first president to say out loud he has no yrd what the term western liberalism means by dissing the west coast cities of the united states in response to a reporter's question about it. first president to pass along his pension for birtherism smear campaigns to his son, and, yes, first president to meet with a brutal north korean dictator on that bruin north korea's dictator's home turf and then lavage him with praise. >> it's just an honor to be with you, and an honor you asked me to step over the line and i was proud to step over the line. we heard the power of that voice. nobody's heard that voice before. >> the voice. and what a face, that look on donald trump's case fonding over a dictator could be ripped from one of his realfy showity shows. but now president trump leaving the world to and woder are we less safe today than we were before trump decided to play nuclear negotiator? "the new york time

criticisms of donald trump's cruel border policies and he had strong words for acting homeland security director caven mcleanen during a hearing earlier this month. that started the cascade of one of trump's ugliest fox news triggered outbursts on twitter. on saturday morning trump tv aka fox news aired a segment including a video from a baltimore county woman slamming comings in his majority black district which includes much of baltimore city. >> democrats including elijah cummings say they care about how migrants are being treated at the border but what about the families in people in their own district? living conditions at the border are better than most areas in his district. the city lined with abandoned buildings and trash on the streets. >> and right on cue the man that you are apparently paying to golf and watch television all day like an angry retiree did his version of yelling at the tv. tweeting an hour after that segment aired and calling comings, a, quote, brutal bully and attacking his district as quote infested and infested mess. if fested being a word trump has repeate

constitution. >>> tonight, the political firestorm over donald trump's racist politics and policy. >> does it concern you that many people saw that tweet as racist and that white nationalist groups are finding common cause with you on that point? >> it doesn't concern me because many people agree with me. >>> and how democratic leadership is responding to the president's attacks. >> weak minds and leaders challenge loyalty to our country in order to avoid challenging and debating the policy. >>> then -- >> we all know that aoc and this crowd are a bunch of communists. >> tim alberta on his new book "american carnage" on how donald trump took over the republican party. >>> and exclusive reporting from nbc news on the 70 current and former border protection employees now under investigation when "all in" starts now. >>> good evening from washington, d.c. i'm joy reid in for chris hayes. well, for the last three years there's been this agonized national debate, is donald trump a racist? does he realize that the thing he just said is exciting racists and white nationalists? does the thing he s

donald trump and three times he asked about the use of nuclear weapons. three times he asked at one point if we have them, why can't we use them. >> trump asked three times -- >> three times in an hour meeting why can't we use nuclear weapons. >> north korea they will be with met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. >> any attack by iran on anything american will be met with great and overwhelming force. in some areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration. >> if i wanted to win that war, afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth. it would be gone -- it would be over in literally in ten days. >> brief history of president trump threatening nuclear with war. we'll get to his comments about decimating afghanistan in a moment. >>> plus, remember money party, joe? >> i love it. >> it seems like the one thing that gets bipartisan support is just to keep on spending. both parties back a bill to borrow now and pay later. a money party. >>> plus, a big day for great britain. the uk picks a new prime minister but what does it mean for brexit? >>> and mr. mueller at the

." well, we've got a lot to get to today including the latest on donald trump's re-election strategy of stoking white resentment. the international reaction to his racist attempts against four congresswomen of color and the latest reporting how his team tried to amid the bail out. you haven't heard from michael coman letly because he's in prison but back in february trump's long time fixer gave that testimony in congress mincing no words calling trump a con man, a racist and a keto. and pulling back the curtain on trump world to reveal a vast operation of lies and crimes including the then candidate trump directing a hush money plan. during the 2016 election for stormy daniels, a porn graphic film actress who alleged an affair with trump. this week the department of justice closed it's investigation involving trump and its payments with a federal judge in manhattan oring the release of some investigative documents. the most explosive details offer more confirmation that trump knew about the hush money payments and was personally involved, something he has actively denied. the documents

germany and ireland. where donald trump is getting this back to where you come from rhetoric is out of the nixon era. george wallace, nixon. those are his touchstone figures. he was more of a covert racist. he was for affirmative action to a degree, 9/11, anixon. he was too sophisticated to do that. but george wallace would go wild and donald trump sees it as easy picking. strom thurmond, segregationist crowd. and some people used to call it middle class democrats. but that's who trump is trying to appeal to with this ugly xenophobic rhetoric. unfortunately, that kind of rhetoric and policies have been part of american history from the very beginning. >> in the 40s and 50s, joseph mccarthy smeared many innocent people in an anti-communist crusade. and just this week we heard this from senator lindsey graham. watch this. >> we all know that aoc and this crowd are a bunch of communists. they hate israel. they hate our own country. >> communists. is that a term that leaders should toss around? especially as an attack on four women of color? >> not at all. trump is in a long line. lindsey

new york, and what would represent a total capitulation from the legal strategy, donald trump has embraced since the supreme court told him it was a no go to add a citizenship to the census, the white house today signaling that they'll find another way to achieve his goals. goals nancy pelosi describes as racist. >> for a very long time we have been fighting a fight on the census. you know, make america -- the hat, make america white again. they want to make sure that people -- certain people are counted. it's really disgraceful. and it's not what our founders had in mind. >> trump needed the fight over the citizenship to distract from the week in which his white house has been consumed by astonishing headlines, his sex traffickers and inhumane, detained children and overnight plans of mass raids of immigrant families so sweeping, even trump's own law enforcement officials are speaking out. now in less than an hour the president plans to announce an executive action of some sort to ask a citizenship question through means other than the census. okay. that's after the supreme court

dangerous thing. >> well, listen, i agree complete he and i'm glad that donald trump is finally into self-confession because of course we know he said several anti-semitic things throughout his political career. of course, i remember back during the heat of the campaign the presidential campaign he actually -- he sent out an anti-racist -- sent out an anti-racist tweet with hillary clinton with dollar signs talking about her being controlled by jewish money. and my gosh, all the hatred that he's spewed out about america, talking about america, american carnage and talking about the american dream being dead and on and on. saying america was crippled. i was deeply offended by that. i am glad that donald trump finally is reflecting and understands that his sort of language is just not acceptable anymore. jonathan lemire, it's not like this isn't -- is predictable as the red sox losing two out of three to the baltimore orioles in an important stretch and i guess you know what? listen, we won a world series last year so why in the hell would we want to win one this year? good job, dombro

sex trafficking case against donald trump's old friend jeffrey epstein. we will consider why the attorney general should recuse himself, including the fact that his father hired jeffrey epstein many years ago and why the attorney general has decided to unrecuse himself. we'll discuss that later in this hour. >>> also later in the hour, former cia director john brennan will join us to discuss the president's reaction to the british ambassador to the united states telling the truth about the president of the united states in his diplomatic communications with london. communications that have now leaked. those communications show exactly how well the british ambassador understands the president of the united states and the people who work for the president of the united states and why the ambassador told the british government to never expect donald trump to change or -- or expect his white house staff to ever become competent. we'll discuss that later in the hour. >>> but we begin tonight with the breaking news exclusive by nbc news. a report on the treatment of children by u.s. bo

york. donald trump today has the republican party in a vice. the likes of which they haven't experienced since charlottesville. and before that, in the aftermath of the "access hollywood" tape. republicans who have hardly been profiles in courage today found just over a dozen of their members break rank and slowly, timidly, begin to call out donald trump's flagrant bellicose racist attacks against four female members of congress. we made a decision on this show not to amplify trump's attacks by showing them or even reading them here but it should surprise no one that they're false and that they serve as ugly reminders of donald trump's xenophobia, misogyny and racism. don't take our word for it though. here's the one, the brave, the likely now endangered republican who spoke out on camera. >> i think those tweets are racist and xenophobic. they're also inaccurate. the four women he's referring to are actually citizens of the united states. three of the four were born here. it's also behavior that's unbecoming of the leader of the free world. you should be talking about things

. russia interfered with your democracy and mine. the second thing we learned was that donald trump and his campaign team happily welcomed that, aggressively welcomed it. they were grateful for it. we also learned that when federal agents tried to investigate this, that one member of the trump team after another member of the trump team lied about those contacts. then we learned from robert mueller that donald trump, the president of the united states lied about the russians trying to infiltrate. even lies when he was sending back his questions under oath. so we learned that donald trump committed perjury. he lied under oath. then of course, as we heard there, we heard that american democracy is still, is still under threat from the russians. so just a little night cap for russians who have to be sell rating the fact that the entire republican party are useful idiots for them now and have flung open their arms for the russians to come and undermine american democracy. last night, mitch mcconnell allowed two measures to protect america from russian cyber invasion. he killed two bills tha

elect donald trump in 2016. concern that the same kinds of dishonest, divisive, and race-baiting attacks raged on social media against hillary clinton in the last election are now targeting 2020 democrats. and like last time, they're being amplified by donald trump's allies. the issue brought to the forefront most recently when the president's son re-tweeted one such attack that had shades of the birtherism we heard his father gin up against president obama. here's a reminder what donald trump re-tweeted, then deleted, amidst with backlash. quote, kamala harris is not an american black. she's half indian and half jamaican. i am so sick of robbing american people of blacks of their history. but the story behind the original tweet and its author takes on an even more sinister tone. new york times reporting, quote, for people like mr. alexander, the entire point of commenting was to go viral and counteract any progress made by a democrat by ms. harris because his tweet was elevated by valuable surrogates like the president's son. and there's more. "the times" also points out that a suspicio

people of color in america, donald trump is nothing new. that's the thing we have to remember. he's nothing new. especially when i talk to people from jim crow and especially with the birtherism. >> i don't want to skip over this point, when you look at the exit polling, black women were the smallest group, none voted for donald trump. if you ask them after the election, the antidotal evidence was we all knew someone like donald trump. >> exactly. the reason biden does so well in polling, he's being supported by the black community. in his announcement he took a 2x4 to the racism of donald trump and that awakened people and said, yes, this person can beat donald trump in their mind. they know how dangerous donald trump is and they have seen the bigotism all their lives. when we say we have seen this before, it's sad to see the republican party doesn't speak up and doesn't understand what's going on because we have seen this before. >> i want to get to some breaking news. lashley parker has been seated and mic'd and held hostage for the 4:00 p.m. news. i just learned from our produce

. unfortunately for us and our country's history, donald trump's idea of being president is being donald trump. and that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in" right now with joy reid sitting in for chris hayes. >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> so the first note that i want to tell children across this country is that no matter what the president says, this country belongs to you. >> four freshmen congresswomen respond to racist attacks from the president. >> it is time for us to stop allowing this president to make a mockery out of our constitution. >>> tonight, the political firestorm over donald trump's racist politics and policy. >> does it concern you that many people saw that tweet as racist and that white nationalist groups are finding common cause with you on that point? >> it doesn't concern me because many people agree with me. >>> and how democratic leadership is responding to the president's attacks. >> weak minds and leaders challenge loyalty to our country in order to avoid challenging and debating the policy. >>> then -- >> we all know that aoc and th