of the first person to see the long awaited report. trump attorney general william barr, who took the unusual step of summarizing the report weeks before it was released and again when it came out. shaping public perception and defend iing donald trump. >> the deputy attorney general and i concluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense. >> the attorney general characterized the report as saying there was no obstruction. yet we know from the report that there are at least ten examples of chargeable offenses of obstruction of justice by this president. >> i think it was certainly the attorney general's expectation that if he could get out ahead of the report, if he could mischaracterize it in a way that supported the president's narrative, the report wouldn't make as much of an impact. >> the president's opponents -- >> amid-the noise swirling around the mueller report, the question remains what's actually in it. the document is a daunting 448 pages, the result of 22 months of scr

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

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

whether to override president trump's vetoes of resolutions blocking u.s. arms sales to saudi arabia. former special counsel robert mueller testified about his investigation. this was his second appearance on capitol hill wednesday. he appeared before the house judiciary ready earlier in the day. this two and a half hour hearing begins as mr. mueller takes a seat at the witness table. >>> this meeting will come to >> at the outset on behalf of my colleagues i want to thank special counsel mueller for a lifetime of service to your country. it tells the story of a foreign adversary sweeping and systemic intervention in a close u.s. election. intervention in a close u.s. election. that should be enough to deserve the attention of every american as you well point out. but your report tells another story as well. the story of the 2016 election is also a story about disloyalty to country. about greed, and about lies. your investigation determined the trump campaign including donald trump himself knew that a foreign power was intervening in our election and welcomed it, built russian meddli

. >> the mueller report is going to form the first rough draft of the history of the trump era. and you know who knows that? >> fake news, guys. fake news. >> donald trump. >>> hello. i'm ari melber. on wednesday, bob mueller will give his highly anticipated testimony before congress. mueller is only speaking under subpoena. he already said the report is his testimony. we have gone through all 448 pag pages, scouring the report. in this hour, we present an in-depth look at the mueller report. >>> i'm speaking out today because our investigation is complete. >> special counsel robert mueller made his first and what he hoped were his last remarks into his probe into russian meddling, potential obstruction and the mueller report. >> we chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself. >> mueller resisted demands to testify before congress until two congressional subpoenas compelled them to agree. he will appear on wednesday. mueller's testimony comes in the shadow of the first person to see the long awaited report. trump attorney general william barr, who took the unusual step of

years running up to that election that eventually landed trump on their doorstep, opening with mitt romney overtaking john mccain as gop candidate in 2008 and closing in 2019 with romney once more, what lingers at the end of the book is recent personal encounter as he's reeling from the indictment of trump adviser roger stone and mueller investigation, one of themes like that in the book as alberta includes exclusive interviews, paul ryan, john boehner, mitch mcconnell and the president himself, joining alberta jonathan, fellow political reporter himself covering the nation for axios, you have might have seen him a few times on hbo as well and known for breaking news and insider report of current administration, please welcome both speakers to politics and prose tonight. [applause] >> hi, how are you doing? >> good. >> fired up. thank you for coming out to see jonathan, this is really excited. >> i have done interviews, i think this should become one of the indispensable books of the trump administration but more than trump administration tracing the origins of president trump and h

not just us, but the outrage with what trump is doing at the border is biblical at this point. time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> christianity is much more clear about how to welcome refugees than the american government certainly is. >> yeah. to have the jewish protesters with never again is now and catholic protesters tomorrow. this is -- when it gets to this kind of treatment and the defense of this kind of treatment, you are tapping something in people. >> the treatment coming from the party that claims that the strongest embrace of religion that wants to define itself by the strong embrace of religion. everything they are doing violates all of that. >> the president putting out the new reelection positioning stuff that it's under god. that's what they're doing. >> thank 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

-- www.vitac.com >>> a historic meeting for president trump after shaking hands with kim jong un. he took several steps into north korea, becoming the first sitting u.s. leader to do so. both trump and kim jong un also agreed to revive stalled nuclear talks. >>> plus, while at the g20 summit in osaka, president trump says he's extremely angry about the murder of "washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi but defended the saudi crown prince, calling him a friend of mine. >>> and the president's son don jr. appears to delete a tweet, questioning kamala's harris. good morning, everybody, it is monday july 1st. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside white house correspondent geoff bennett. president trump making history, becoming the first sitting united states president to set not in north korea. it's something the president alluded to on friday, tweeting this, if chairman kim sees this, i would meet him at the border just to shake his hand and say hello, question mark, exclamation point. kim jong un apparently saw that tweet and yesterday met and led trump over the border at the heavily fortifie

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 law make and tmakers 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 pressedlatest racim the president they hope to defeat. donald trump's weekend tirade which continued into today against congressman elijah cummings and his majority black baltimore district, calling it a disgusting rat and rodent-infested mess, is now as routin

>>>> the house went on to adopt the resolution condemning president trump for recent comments he made about freshman 240-187. by a vote of susan brooks, brian fitzpatrick, will heard and fred upton, along with justin amash voted in favor along with democrats. reelection0 campaign, president trump held a rally in greenville north carolina where he talked about congressional efforts to have him impeached and the freshman democratic congress members he referred to in a series of critical tweets. this event began with introductory remarks from vice president pence. ♪ vice president pence: hello north carolina. it is great to be back in the tar heel state. senator tillis, congressman walker, congressman meadows, congressman hudson, the amazing .rump family my fellow americans here in greenville, across the state, i'm thrilled to be with you tonight. , northre for one reason carolina and america need four more years of president donald .rump in the white house chanting] years -- four more years. vice president pence: time for round 2. the campaign for america's future continues tonig

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

lies. your investigation determined the trump campaign including donald trump himself knew that a foreign power was intervening in our election and welcomed it, built russian meddling into their strategy and used it. disloyalty to country. those are strong words but how else are we to describe a presidential campaign which did not inform the authorities of a foreign offer of dirt on their opponent which did not publicly shun it or turn it away but which instead invited it, encouraged it and made full use of it. that disloyalty may not have been criminal, constrained by uncooperative witnesses, the destruction of documents and the use of encrypted communications, your team was not able to establish each of the elements of the crime of conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt, so not a provable crime in any event. but i think maybe something worse, a crime is the violation of law written by congress, but disloyalty to country violates the very oath of citizenship, our devotion to a core principle on which our nation was founded that we, the people and not some foreign power that wishes

earlier in questioning someone mentioned that was a question whether anyone in the trump world publicized the emails, i want to refer to volume one page # 60, trump junior tweeted to the link of stolen podesta emails you're familiar with that? >> yes. >> that would be a republishing of this information, would it not? >> i'm not certain i would agree with that. >> director pompeo assessed wikileaks as the costco of intelligence. given your knowledge of what wikileaks did here, and what they do generally, would assess that to be accurate or something similar? how would you assess? what wikileaks does? >> absolutely, and they are currently under indictment. as julian assange. >> would it be fair to describe them as you woe agree with this director pompeo that's what he was when he made that remark. if we could put up slide 6. i love wikileaks. donald trump. this wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. you have to read it. october 12th, 2016. this wiki leaks is like a treasure trove. donald trump october 31st, 2016. boy, i love reading those wikileaks. woe any of those quotes disturb you,

developing the steele dossier, a question of outlandish accusations that trump and his associates were russian agents. fusion gps, steele and other confederates fed these theorys to naive reporters and top officials in numerous government agencies, including the fbi, department of justice and the state department. among other things, the fbi used dossier allegations to obtain a warranty to spy on the trump campaign. despite acknowledging dossier allegations as being salacious and unverified, former fbi director james comey briefed those allegations to president obama and president-elect trump. those briefings conveniently leaked to the press, resulting in the publication of the dossier and launching thousands of false press stories based on the word of a foreign ex-spy, one who admitted he was desperate that trump lose the election and who was eventually fired as an fbi source for leaking to the press. after comey was fired, by his own admission, he leaked derogatory information to the press and successfully so of engineering the appointment of a special counsel, who sits here before u

justice and abuse of power by president trump and russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. c-span.org or listen wherever you are with free c-span radio app. before the hearing, this into the complete mueller report at c-span.org on your laptop or mobile device. courtesy of a media company. >> president trump met in the oval office with team usa athletes who competed in the 2019 special olympics world games in abu dhabi, united arab emirates. president trump was asked about that chant that broke out at her -- his campaign rally the previous night in north carolina. this is 15 minutes. >> when you won all those metals, you weren't nervous. you are focused on winning. president trump: well, i want to thank you all for being here. this is special for me and special for the first lady because this is the special olympics. and, i have to say, vice president pence and karen pence have been so involved. and because she does such a job with so many things, i've asked karen pence to represent our government and our country on special olympics. and we have a lot of the great

>>> president trump seems to be trying to rewrite history. this is something we all saw with our own eyes, heard with our own ears of after getting pressure from gop allies, he is claiming he did not like when it the crowd at his campaign rally in north carolina broke out in a racist channe isist chant of se. >> i was not happy with it. i disagree with it. but again, i didn't say that. they did. >> that's called passing the buck. president trump claims his racist tweets telling the four congress women to go back to the countries they came from had no influence on the crowd. that doesn't pass the smell test. nor does his claim that he tried to stop the chanting by quickly continuing his speech. he waited a full 13 seconds. and certainly didn't look upset. let's go to the videotape. >> omar has a history of launching vicious anti-semitic screens. >> he went to to slam the four congress women saying if they don't like america, they should leave. big picture now. my guests are here. good evening. thank you for joining us. so doug, we'll start with you. trump is not the first populist

. >>> 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

trump is the most unpredictable of us presidents, as is evident from his policy approach to north korea, china trade, iran, and a host of other domestic and international challenges. i guess todayis international challenges. i guess today is the republican senator from lauren day, rick scott. he 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 positi

: president trump met in the white house for the first time with the pakistani prime minister. they spoke to reporters about a variety of issues. last year, the president suspended assistance to the country over what the administration saw as pakistan's full year to control the taliban and other militant groups. pres. trump: thank you very much. it is my great honor to have the popular and great athlete prime minister of pakistan. we have many things to discuss. military and terrorism and trade and i think we will spend a lot of time talking about trade, because we do very little trade with pakistan compared to what we could be doing and should be doing when our countries get along perfectly. i think we are having that start. we are going to have that start. this tremendous upside with respect to trade, one of the things we are going to be discussing, too, is hostages. we will talk about that, how your feeling is on that. we want to talk about polio, the possible polio vaccine. i think we have great meetings. we will be spending a lot of time together. we have representatives meeting after w

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

of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country. >> because you would be in jail. >> because you'd be in jail. part of the way this president ran for office is promising he would jail his political opponents. in response to that threat, the consternation was expressed by his opponents. on the right among trump supporters, the reaction was positive. i think there was a thrill at first at how transgressive that was, threatening to put hillary clinton in jail and threatening all of his opponents would be in jail. then ultimately it became a regular thing he said. it became part of the scenery. it became part of his presidency. it started at his rallies and continued through the rnc. thousands of the republican party at the republican national convention or even supposedly normal republicans like chris christie led thousands of republicans in yelling lock her up. now that trump is president, they still chant lock her up or lock him up at trump events, depending on which enemy the president is talking about at that moment. so happy fourth of july. this is a thing we ne

bored. this is the c-span feed of the roll call from the house's resolution to condemn president trump tonight. just listen through to the very end. ♪ ♪ ♪ la, la, la, la, la >> the nays are 187. the resolution is adopted. >> do do do do do la la la. god bless you, c-span. god bless every single person who works for you. that does it for us tonight. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. do you need any more time? because i wouldn't dare try to do that. >> i threw out half my show and then i ended with singing on tv. do you know how messed up all of this is? >> the rachel greatest hits of singing on tv. another very important entry. how long will we have to wait for the next one, rachel? >> have i ever sung on tv before? >> not to me, no. that's why it's -- so that's been almost ten years. >> well, you got a birthday coming up, you know. >> there we go. >> la! thanks, lawrence. >> thank you, rachel. >>> well, during the presidential campaign, republican congressman kevin mccarthy, who is now the leader of the rep

>>> 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

, remarks from president trump at a july 4 celebration at the lincoln memorial. he spoke about the history of american independence while highlighting u.s. accomplishments over the last 243 years. this is one hour. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please rise and remain standing for the presentation of the colors and the national anthem as performed by the united states army band, pershing's own, and the united states army chorus, under the direction of colonel andrew esch. ♪ >> present arms. >> ♪ o, say can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming? whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? ♪ [applause] ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, donald j. trump, and the first lady of the united states, melania trump. [playing

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

, first, that it carried out a social media prmpaign that favored esidential candidatena j. trump. and, second, a russian intelligence service conducted computer int esion operations againities, employees and volunteers working on the clinton campaign. translation, russia used the internet to fool american voters and hacatrs to attack demo computer networks. brangham: according to mueller's rept, the russian campaign began in mid-2014. that's when the employees of what's known as the internet research agency first ce to the u.s. to gather the material that they would later use in their elaborate social media postings. this is the ira's headquarters a. in st. petersburg, rus desjardins: by the end of 2016, the russians had set up fake social media accounts that reached millions of voters aimed at promoting trump o dividing americans.th branghamrussians created fake hashtags, like #kidsfortrump. they bought thousands of online ads. they impersonated u.s. citizens and set up real political rallies, like a 2015 confederate rally in hston. they made posters like this one of "miners for trum

developing the steele dossier. a collection of outlandish accusations that trump and his associates were russian agents. effusion gps, steel, and other confederates -- and to top officials in numerous agencies, quitting the fbi, the apartment of justice, and the state department. among other things, the fbi used dusty allegations to obtain a warrant to spy on the trump campaign. despite acknowledging dusty allegations as being salacious and unverified, former fbi director james comey briefed those allegations to president obama and president-elect trump. this briefings conveniently leaked to the press. launching thousands of false press stories based on the word of a foreign ex-spy. one who admitted he was desperate that trump lose the election and who was eventually fired as an fbi source for leaking to the press. after combing himself was fired, by his own admission, he leaked derogatory information on president trump to the press for the specific purpose and successfully so, as engineering the appointment of a special counsel who sits here before us today. the fbi investigation was ma

once again from our nbc news head quarters in new york. day 915 of the trump administration. we are now just hours away from the swearing in of the former special counsel robert mueller. a few more numbers here at the outset. the career public servant is 15 days away from his 75 birthday. tomorrow will be his 89th appearance before congress. and the estimates are that only 3 to 10% of americans have actually read his report which weighed in at 448 pages. it was devastating, yes, but it was dense, and written for the attention span of an earlier time in our history. the stakes are high, especially for the the democrats are hoping this testimony in front of the house judiciary and intelligence committees will ignite public outrage and public interest in the investigations into the president. there's also a lot riding on this for the president and members of his party. trump attacked mueller constantly. wrongly labed him a democrat. made up conflicts. he charged the whole effort was politically motivated if not made up of whole cloth. that effort continues today when the president agai

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

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

off tonight. welcome to a special hour of 360. we start with president trump's walkback of his insincere walkback of his performance in north carolina wednesday night. he had just launched another attack on four nonwhite congresswomen and he saw him watch the crowd chant send her back about congresswoman ilhan omar. and there the president stood for 13 seconds, soaking it all in, waiting for the chanting to grow and die down. yesterday, while falsely claiming that he tried to stop it, he also said he disagreed with the crowd. well, less than 24 hours later, starting with a string of tweets and two television appearances, he renewed his attacks on the women. no more talks about regrets. in fact he went onto level a series of false allegations about two of the women which were quickly debunked. a depressing end to the week. katelyn collins joins us from the white house. it's hard not to get whiplash following the president's back and forth on this. walking back his walkback yesterday, and lara trump lying, saying it was a couple people chanting, when clearly it was more than a co

for lou dobbs, booming trump economy putting 2020 dems on notice, new polling showing president's approval rating climbing to all-time high, driven by his economic policies. >> immigration remain at forefront for trump administration, immigration and customs enforcement said they are ready and waiting to deport a million illegal him grant -- immigrants living in u.s.. >> jeh johnson admitting that 2020 dem's radical immigration policies amount to open borders, and attorney general william barr saying there will be new action to add a citizenship question to 2020 census, his department of justice announces a replacement team of lawyers to handle census related questions, kevin corke is in work work with the late -- washington with the latest. >> 15 to 20 billion on a census, they are asking everything, except are you a citizen of the u.s., how ridiculous is that. >> reporter: president trump vowed over the week that fight was far from over. >> we are moving forward, we have a couple of avenues, attorney general is doing a fantastic job, in many ways, i think he has it under control

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

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

discussed it. everything had to go through mr. trump and it had to be approved by mr. trump. >> and now you're going to prison. >> and i'm going to prison, yes, ma'am. to those who support the president and his rhetoric as i once did, i pray the country doesn't make the same mistakes that i have made or paid the heavy price that my family and i are paying. >> good morning and welcome to "am joy." 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

and gentlemen, the president of the united dates, donald j. trump, and the first navy of the united dates, melania trump -- the united states, melania trump. he chief"]hail to teh [applause] [chanting "usa"] [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] pres. trump: hello, america, hello. [cheers and applause] the first lady and i wish each and every one of you a happy independence day on this truly historic fourth of july. today, we come together as one nation with this very special salute to america. we celebrate our history, our people, and the heroes who proudly defend our flag, the brave men and women of the united states military. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we are pleased to have with us vice president mike pence and his wonderful wife karen. [cheers and applause] we are also joined by many hard-working members of congress. acting secretary of defense mark esper, and many other members of my cabinet, and also the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff gerald joe dunford. thank you. thank you. thank you. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: lieutenant general of the national

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

we're actually coming up on the disturbing weeks of trump presidency. tonight we have a special show. called trump insiders. i have assembled a group of people who know and knew donald trump well friends foreign business associates and former trump white house insiders to go inside the mine of trump in this pivotal time and let us know where they think we are headed. lots to cover. this is saturday night politics. . >>> thrilled to have everybody watching tonights. thanks for inviting me into your home. a different show tonight. instead of normal brilliant journalists i have, this is a moment in time we all know what happened this week. and other than charlottesville it was the bottom of the trump presidency. scary times i didn't sleep several nights this woke. and i wanted to get people who know trump, friends, exex-friends, business, to really talk very, very kind of like where are we going, how bad can it go? how much of this is something we should be terrified about semi terrified about, the people that know him to really break it down and have some honest discussion. tonight i'm

demomocracy now! pres. trump: i asked him, i said, would you like me to come across the line? he said, i would be honored to do that. i did not know what he was going to say. but it was my honor to do it. we had a very good meeting. amy: president trump made history sunday when he became the first sitting u.s. president to step foot in north korea. trump met north korean leader kim jong-un at the military demarcation line at the korean demilitarized zone sunday, and then took 20 steps beyond the line, which has divided north and south korea since 1953. we will go to seoul south korea, and to hawaii, for the latest. in over 4 million people filled the streets of new york to celebrate world pride and mark the 50th anniversary of the stonewall uprising that launched the modern-day lgbtq movement. we will hear voices from the que er liberation march. >> first, we're honoring our ancestors in the fight for liberation, who started this all 50 or's ago at the stonewall bar. amy: all that and morere, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodma

. >>> president trump's approval rating edges up to the highest point of his presidency, but ahead of 2020, he's struggling in head-to-head matchups against several democratic candidates. we're breaking down the new numbers. >>> acting homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenan pushing back against unsubstantiated ae unsubstantiated allegations of migrant children living in unsanitary conditions. >>> the u.s. women's soccer teams wins the 2020 world cup, beating the netherlands, 2-0. they will be honored with a parade later this week. s week >>> good morning, it's monday, july 8th. i'm geoff bennett, alongside jo ling kent. jo is kindly helping out. >> right on. president trump got some of his highest polls yet, measuring 47% among registered voters, up 5 points from april, while 50% disapprove, down 4 points. judging by the issues, the president is strongest on the academy, 51% approving of his performance, 42% on his job. health care, 38% approval. and 30% on abortion. among registered voters, the poll finds president trump down 10 points, to former vice president joe biden in the hypot

." i'll be back here 6:00 p.m. monday. "hardball" is up next. >>> trump's latest about face. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm steve kornacki in for chris matthews. another day, another president trump. just one day after claiming he was not happy with his supporters chanting "send her back" at that rally in greenville, north carolina on wednesday. president trump today seems to be walking back that attempt to disavow. now yesterday he said he, quote, felt badly about the chant that was directed at minnesota congresswoman ilhan omar, a somali born u.s. citizen. today, though, the president came to the defense of the crowd. >> president trump, the chants, however, the chant was just repeated -- >> no, you know what i'm happy -- you know what i'm unhappy with? i'm unhappy with the fact that a congresswoman can hate our country. i'm unhappy with the fact that a congresswoman can say anti-semitic things. that's what i'm unhappy with. those people in north carolina, that stadium was packed. it was a record crowd. i could have filled it ten times, as you know. those are incredible peop

. >>> 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

pay! >> also there's a new twist in that feud between team captain megan rapinoe and president trump. rapinoe firing the first shot weeks ago declaring there was zero chance she was visiting the white house. and trump firing back, "maybe rapinoe should win first." well, rapinoe did just that. she and her team won decisively. and what does president trump have to say now? take a listen. >> will you invite the women's team to the white house, the soccer team? >> haven't really thought about it. we will look at that. yeah. >> hasn't really thought about it. i want to bring in cnn's amanda davis in leone, france. what does rapinoe make about it, saying about her big win? >> reporter: well, the first thing she said is that it's time to celebrate, ana, and it's fair to say the party is well on its way. this has been talked about as the biggest, the best, women's world cup yet with so many of the former players i've been talking to this week talking about it's the best standard of the women's game they've ever seen. and the u.s. women's team saw off the competition in some style to claim th