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 exspy. 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 himself was fired by his own admission, he leaked derogatory information on president trump to the press for the specific purpose and successfully so, of engineering the appointment of a special counsel who sits here before us today. the fbi investigation was marred by further corruption and business zar abuses. top doj officials whose wife worked on fusion gps anti-trump -- fed information even after the fbi fired steele. the top fbi investigator and his lover, another top fbi official constantly texted about how much they hated trump and wanted to stop him from being elected. and the entire investigation was open based not on intelligence but on a tip from a fore

trump: thank you. reporter: [indistinct] pres. trump: ask again? reporter: [indistinct] -- escalated your feud with the four congresswomen. pres. trump: they are very bad for our country. i really think they must hate our country. i think the four congressmen we are talking about -- the congresswomen, what they have said about israel, what they have said about our country, when they talk about discussing people, when they talk the way they talk, when one mentioned that brown people should speak for brown people, muslim people should speak for muslim people, that is not what our country is about. i think they are very bad for our country, very bad for the democrat party. i think you see that. they are pulling the democrats way left. nobody knows how to handle them. i feel they are easy to handle. for me, they are easy to handle, because they are just out there. they are very bad for our country, absolutely. reporter: [indistinct] pres. trump: no, i don't think -- no, no. no racial tensions. there's no racial tension. i had my best numbers recently,

trump is in a long line. lindsey graham is in a long line of disgraced politicians, like joseph mccarthy, who basically communist baited. and what these politicians do is they tell lies. they tell false hoods to try demonize minorities. or demonize others. whether they be dissidents, political dissidents, or whether they be catholics or juice or african-americans or asian-americans or italians or irish americans. they try to demonize and make them the other. and that's what trump has done. he did it when he started out with mexican americans. he did it with muslims and now with black americans. it is inaccurate. his tweets. it is hypocritical. but most significantly, it is unamerican. it is against our first amendment which embraces protest. >> peter, tonight, omar was greeted with this when she went back to her home state of minnesota. watch. >> welcome home ilhan! welcome home ilhan! >> earlier today she said the president is viewing this, in his words, fascist ideology. is this a lose/lose fight for everyb

trump. in this email, donald trump jr. is being told that the russian government wants to pass along information which would hurt hillary clinton and help donald trump. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> now, trump junior's response to that email is slide three. he said, and i quote, if it is what you say, i love it. especially later in the summer. then donald junior invited senior campaign officials paul manafort and jared kushner to the meeting. did he not? >> he did. >> this email exchange is evidence of an offer of illegal assistance. is it not? >> i cannot adopt that characterization. >> isn't it against the law for a presidential campaign to accept anything of value from a foreign government? >> generally speaking, yes, but generally the cases are unique. >> you say in page 184 volume i that the federal campaign finance law broadly prohibits foreign nationals from making contributions, et cetera. and then you say that foreign nationals may not make a contribution or donation of money or anything of value. it says

for trump. thank you. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: that is a lot of signs. do you remember the last election, donald trump will never, ever get the women. we have a tremendous number of women. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we have this tremendous number of women, and during the election night they said what is going on? you know what it is called, suppression. polls are just as fake as the news themselves. but women built 60%, and men will sue me for discrimination now. women fill 60% of all the new jobs created last year. women took 60%. what is wrong with you men? but the radical democrats are trying to destroy all of our country's tremendous achievement and our country's success. unprecedented. we have had unprecedented success. leaders come in from other countries, prime minister's, presidents, kings, queens, dictators sometimes, i hate to say it, dictators, and they all start off by saying mr. president, i would like congratulate you on the economy you created. the greatest anywh

trump and jeffrey epstein. through a mutual appreciation of wealth, women, and years of occupying adjacent real estate in palm beach and on page six, the lives of the two men routinely intersected for decades. if those days if you didn't know trump or epstein, you were a nobody, said a long time harvard university professor who later served on mr. epstein's defense team when he was charged with unlawful sex with minors in '06. peter, this is, indeed, more proof the president lived the life he lived as a civilian to the fullest before we even thought of donald trump in the realm of the presidency. >> yeah. we tend to forget that. we tend to forget what kind of a swinging lifestyle in effect he had. he went on howard stern and bragged about his exploits with women, and he obviously is on his third wife, and he was not the traditional model of a president or a future president working out. that's never stopped him in political life. he's managed to do what other politicians have not been able to do and sort of mov

donald trump jr. took this meeting, of course we investigated that, george papadopoulos came back and told the campaign they had emails, of course we investigated that, the president of the united states is tweeting, it's giving hope or a boost to illegal activity. i love wikileaks, what else does wiki leaks have. of course we would look into that, knowing they're a hostile actor. this is where he's been the most passionate, we did this for a reason, we had every right to do it, because the republicans are trying to say, you shouldn't have been here to begin with. >> to go back to the clarification that director mueller made about why they did not indict president trump, that's something the democrats had gotten excited about, they thought that this was big news. >> for good reason, and we all noted at the lunch break, because the idea that there was proof of a crime committed by the president, and the only reason it was not prosecuted by robert mueller is because of the justice department decision yo

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 that the damage the presidency of donald trump ha

trump is on to something. he is on to this nativist streak that goes back to the 1790s and goes back to the anti-catholic riots of 1844 to the chinese exclusion acts of 1882 to the internment of japanese americans in 1941, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. but we've seen that they go in waves and that we enact these things we are vulnerable to them when we're afraid. and then we look back with shame. and those who supported those measures become discredited by the political system. and, look, there may be some advantage. president trump seems to think so in having people look through politics through the prism of their identity. but i am enough of an op mist about this country and the system to think that this will not at a time of increasingly diverse electorate, younger electorate, that this will pay off in the longer run. in fact, i think it will tarnish a republican party that, you know, i remember when it actually stood for something and had an ideology, and now has become a personality cult around a man w

media, every day it is about trump. first thing that everyone talks about. david: first thing that voters care about is immigration. >> absolutely. david: democrats are going in the opposite direct. >> they want open borders. >> even jay johnson said that. >> idea you want open borders and give them a ticket to come across like a parking ticket then offer free healthcare and diver license and citizen si cip will not sell well. david: leader of democrat party so far among 20 something candidates, getting himself in more hot water, issuing kind of an apology. >> a few weeks ago. somehow gave the impression to people -- time and again. i was. i regret it. i am sorry for the pain and misconception. david: is biden imploding. >> i always thought he had a glass jaw, i never thought he was a good candidate, his claim to fame is that obama picked him for his running mate. obama is not supporting him now, so my sense, he will get clobbered i in every day -- debate. he may get all fixed up botox and what have you but he can't fix

thank you, donald trump. you have just unified the democratic party that understands you're the party of that 35% may or may not be or identify with you as a racist and the rest of us -- and here's where democrats' strength is, is in their diversity, in their numbers, in the women. i think that that's the winning message going in to 2020. >> make no mistake, this is the play from this white house. the president, tim said it, it's about the base. it's about fighting this election on the same terms as the last election. they can echo these things whether it's dog whistles or fog horns but they can sound these notes and energize people to come out and turn out for the president. this is a fight he wants. last week the discussion of the so-called squad, if you will, congresswomen of color, dominated tucker carlson's show on fox news at night. the president last friday in the south lawn teased this attack a little bit, suggesting he sort of stepped in and tried to defend speaker pelosi saying, look, she should be

trump's inaugural. about rolling tanks into washington, d.c. as part of the inaugural parade. they required tanks, missile launchers and who else do you got? during the transfer the power, a member of trump's transition team floated the idea of including tanks and missile launchers in the parade. the source said they were legit thinking red square-north korea-style parade. that quote from a trump transition source. this is a source involved in the inaugural planning. sounding the alarm. you have to know this is happening. they want freaking missile launchers and tanks, you guys. they are seriously trying to do that. when the "huffington post" asked about these plans to use military equipment in trump's inaugural, a trump aide refused to address the matter on the record, but offered a vehement offer the record denial. we were never considering that. the reporter stuck with that story. she filed a freedom of information act request, smartly, not with the white house because you can't foil the white house,

trump's inaugural. about rolling tanks into washington, d.c. as part of the inaugural parade. they required tanks, missile launchers and who else do you got? during the transfer the power, a member of trump's transition team floated the idea of including tanks and missile launchers in the parade. the source said they were legit thinking red square-north korea-style parade. that quote from a trump transition source. this is a source involved in the inaugural planning. sounding the alarm. you have to know this is happening. they want freaking missile launchers and tanks, you guys. they are seriously trying to do that. when the "huffington post" asked about these plans to use military equipment in trump's inaugural, a trump aide refused to address the matter on the record, but offered a vehement offer the record denial. we were never considering that. the reporter stuck with that story. she filed a freedom of information act request, smartly, not with the white house because you can't foil the white house,

to the amazing trump family. [cheers and applause] vice president pence: and my fellow americans here in greenville, all across this state, i'm thrilled to be with you tonight, but i'm here for one 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, p

this trump's america. yes, trump, racism, sexism, misogyny all existed before trump. he has done something to this country and you see it with the republican party and has normalized things that should never have been normalized. the reason because he's sitting in the white house and stands behind the podium and he tweets from the residence of the white house. all of this is coming from the president of the united states. listening to karen bass, head of the congressional black caucus. when it comes to black people in america and 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 an

trump. and he took questions, he tried to get to all of the questions and answer them, and we'll see if trump was convinced by this performance. but he is certainly hanging on the ropes. trump publicly said he's standing with him but behind the scenes it's much more tenuous than his public proclamation of support for acosta. so we can have our fact checks of what he said, but trump is probably watching for the style he presented, did he look strong? did he look like he could keep fighting? and we'll see. >> robert, you agree with that assessment? >> the president knows congress, house democrats want to call the secretary up to capitol hill to get answers, and it won't be an interview and it won't be a press conference. it will be hostile house democrats taking on him and his record as an attorney. this was his opportunity, as annie said, to set the record straight. i have a few sources around the president i was checking in with text message before this program. one of them texted the world?

what does donald trump do? he walks away from that agreement, he imposes tough new sanctions on the iranians, and prompts, it seems, the iranians to abandon the limits on their own enrichment programme. you can, you know, you can argue which is the right approach, but, you know, the agreement did not stop their enrichment of uranium. but surely the lesson the iranians are bound to draw, if you acquire nuclear weapons, donald trump, you call him a businessman, a wheeler dealer, a guy who negotiates, donald trump, once you have nuclear weapons, will treat you in a very different way. i don't look at it that way. the way i look at it is he, donald trump, you know, love him or hate him, he believes he can negotiate a deal. that's what he believes. i mean, he wrote the book. he believes he can do that. with iran, his belief, you know, and i think a lot of americans‘, including my belief, is that the deal was not a good deal. we gave iran a lot of the money. they didn't stop supporting hamas and hezbollah. there we

do enough protecting of donald trump, nor enough going after trump's enemies. i mean, look at the bang-up job the new attorney general is doing. he's investigating the intelligence community itself. looking for evidence that they were all totally wrong about russia trying to help trump in 2016. now that is loyalty. when trump announced in may that he was granting the attorney general authority to selectively make public any classified information that he wants to, dan coats pushed back, warning about the consequences. coats said the intelligence community would continue providing, quote, apolitical intelligence to the president. we can't have that. so now coats is out and the president is ready to finally have someone at the top of the intelligence community who thinks the investigation into trump is a sham. >> americans need to know this, as they listen to the democrats and socialists on the other side of the aisle, as they do dramatic readings from this report, that volume ii of this report was not authorized under the law to be written. it was written to a l

who are we looking for, president trump? >> and i spoke to a former counterterror official the last time this was in the news and he said there were no known terrorists that crossed the u.s./mexico border. you would know better than me. >> it's a fallacy, doesn't happen. drug dealers, yes. middle eastern terrorists? no. if you want to plan tactically a law enforcement operation across the country that gets someone hurt, this is how you would do it. you would specifically name the cities you're going to hit, the categories of people you're looking for, which are the over-stays, right, who have paper on them, and then say it's going to happen on sunday. so there are two extremes, one, the rage will result in the sound of crickets and no one's there because they're gone if they heard about it. the other extreme -- boy, i hope i'm wrong -- somebody gets hurt. you have barricaded subjects or armed subjects and now you have to force entry. where are you forcing entry into? churches, shelters, refuge centers? where is that going on

tower or the trump plaza or the trump whatever it is, the trump xanadu. no. this is extraordinarily cheap and tacky and grifty. and the speech is going to be dreadful. and there are all kinds of catastrophes. they're not sure if the bridges over the potomac can handle the tanks. they're doing a flyover of f-35s which have god knows how many problems, including the inability to eject without beheading yourself. plus it is apparently going to rain. we could be looking at one of the great clusters of all time. >> the other thing about it to me, i think there has been a sort of slowing donning awareness as we got an announcement this week the president raised $105 million in the quarter of just what it means for him to run this time as an incumbent. kellyanne conway, the rare rebuke of her for violations and the council saying she should be fired. the president using his commander in chief to order up tanks that sure looks like a campaign rally. to me it's a little bit of a preview of what he can do with the power of incumbency. >> he has already been running

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 guard and distinguished leaders representing each branch

today, donald trump's surrender is a big one, and so in true trump style, he had it delivered by someone you've never heard of, deep inside the justice department. kate bailey, whose title is trial attorney, united states department of justice, civil division, federal programs branch. it was her job to announce today that donald trump will not try to defy the constitution and delay the census for the first time in history, and that the census will go forward without donald trump's question about citizenship. she wrote an email saying, we can confirm that the decision has been made to print the 2020 census questionnaire without the citizenship question and that the printer has been instructed to begin the printing process. when donald trump lost in the supreme court last week, he pretended he wasn't giving up. he pretended that he might delay the census, which would be as wildly unconstitutional as donald trump refusing to leave office if he loses the electoral college. and there are people who think that donald trump just might do that, that he's just such a crazy tough guy that he'll ju

to the trump tower deal? >> i can't speak to that. >> i yield back, chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. director mueller, you've been asked many times this afternoon about collusion, obstruction of justice and impeachment and the steele dossier. i don't think your answers are going to change if i ask you about those questions. so i'm going to ask about a couple of press stories. a lot of what the american people have received about this have been on press stories. some of that has been wrong. some of those press stories have been accurate. april 13, 2018, mcclatchy reported that you had evidence michael cohen made a secret trip to prague during the 2016 presidential election. i think he told one of the committees here in congress that was incorrect. is that story true? >> i can't go into it. >> got you. on october 31, 2016, slate published a report suggesting that a server at trump tower was secretly communicating with russia's alpha bank and i quote, akin to what criminal syndicates do. do you know if that

trump: yeah. very importantly, today, in a few hours, vice president pence and the head of homeland security are taking the press and congresspeople into detention centers, and we're the ones that said they're crowded. they are crowded because they have a lot of people. they're in good shape. the reason is because the fake news, "new york times" wrote phony stories. what border patrol is doing, they've become nurses and janitors and doctors. and they're not trained for that. what they've done is so incredible. so they're touring detention centers, and that was my idea. because i read a phony story in "the new york times" today or the other day about the detention centers, about the conditions, and i had people calling me up at the highest levels from border patrol and i.c.e., almost crying about that phony story, and they never saw anything. they have phony sources. they don't even have sources. they write whatever they want. "the new york times" is a very dishonest newspaper. they write what they

it's not that they are afraid of trump personally, many of them are, they see trump has achieved this sort of super natural connection with the republican base and for a lot of these folks, it's worth remembering in 2018, a lot of moderate suburban based congressional republicans were wiped out. what the party is left with at this point is this disproportionately white working class, urban. >> and evangelical republican base, and these are the members of congress when they go home, they're constituents are crazy about trump, so it's not just a matter of crossing trump, it's a matter of crossing your own constituents which is much more than these members of congress are willing to do. >> i'm a campaign junky and there's a lot in here that i didn't know about the 2016 campaign, even though i covered it every single day. let me read one ted cruz quote and get into more ted cruz issues on this idea of flip-flopping on trump. ted cruz did not endorse the president at the convention in cleveland, he refused to support him and told confidants there was no way in hell he was going to subjugat

we deserve trump. we deserve someone who has the courage to say to black america you have nothing to lose because you are already losing. it's true. it's not left or right, democrat or republican, it's about black americans getting off their feet and something that's really wrong. >> it's not because i don't like trump it's because i'm not untethered to the facts, like he is, and apparently like those who do not mind defending him even when he's wrong. it's really not that hard to say that someone is wrong. when you say that no one would want to live in an entire city, it is wrong, it's insulting, and it's not factual. i have family from baltimore, so i actually care what happens to the people there. and when you say, here are all the things that are wrong, but don't talk about our country because if you talk about our country you need to go back somewhere, but i'm going to talk about what's wrong and i'm not even going to introduce some way to help. what you don't do is criticize people who actually a

trump told mr. geetz in one of the calls after the congressman appeared on fox new that's did not preclude him from enkurcouragin his allies. it's hard to know who's running who. are they running trump in his tweets? these are the guys though, in all seriousness, want to talk about how ruthless republicans can be, they tried to impeach republican deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. so they're not elegant but they are ruthless. >> they are. what they're playing is the game of keepaway. they want to keep away from the president's doorstep everything 245 can be the least bint crimm nating, the least bit damaging, the least bit destructive to his presidency and in perspective to the campaign and subsequent. i look forward to these individuals dully named to go out and be the front line. this is for everything. >> this is war. >> this is war. you now have the guy who wrote the report sitting in front of them. so as best and as much you can do the ultimate takedown of him and discredit him, the better

, not a martyred trump. an impeachment would give them a martyred trump. >> and an acquitted trump. >> exactly. it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. >> how high will nancy pelosi let that number go. you know she counts. will she corral 150, as long as it's not 218? >> let me just say if you look at the vote when al green put forward his last impeachment vote, it got 66 votes to move forward this time 95. and there are, i think, 86, 87 democrats who are already on record of starting an impeachment proceeding. and i think after the mueller testimony next week, that number is bound to go higher. >> is this a defense by nancy? did she say i'll let you have all the joy of saying you want to impeach, but it ain't going to happen. >> could she send any more signals that she doesn't want to it happen? my fear i think is for the base of the party and for all those activists out there, people you want knocking on doors and being enthusiastic, you will dampen their enthusiasm by not going head-on at this president. an

this is donald trump. of course it's not a dog whistle, it's a bull horn to his most bigoted, racist supporters and we'll just see what happens. so president trump meant most of the day doubling down on those tweets over the weekend. attacking a group of progressive women for being critical of the united states just like the president is constantly critical of the united states. during the event that was supposed to highlight american made products, donald defended his remarks in which he said the four democrats should quote, go back to the crime infested places from which they came. of course when he says that he's talking about cincinnati, and detroit and new york city. later in the day the four congresswomen that president trump attacked in the tirade stood side by side to denounce the comments. here is a little bit of how the day unfolded. >> as far as i'm concerned, if you hate our country, if you're not happy here, you can leave. >> our squad is big. our squad includes any person committed to buildin

we will now hear the opening remarks of president trump. president trump: thank you very much. i will make a very short statement because we are going to the dmz border, and i will be meeting with chairman kim. i look forward to it very much. i look forward to it very much. we have developed a very good relationship and we understand each other. i do believe he understands me and i may be understand him, and sometimes that can lead to very good things. one to start by just thinking president moon and very importantly, first lady moon. she is a very special woman and spirit. she loves your country very much, as does president moon. we had a great dinner last night together, and spends a large part of the morning discussing lots of different things, including trade and military, frankly, and many other items. just thought i would mention that when we came here, our great ambassador, who arrived last night, our great ambassador, who is here aboutace, who was talking the turmoil going on because of -- there was a vitriol level of vitriol that was happening between north and south a

we don't believe donald trump. every other republican who voted not to condemn the president but voted in effect to condemn themselves, they did that, they voted to condemn themselves in history as actively complicit in the president's racism. before the vote the president tweeted "those tweets were not racist. i don't have a racist bone in my body. the so-called vote to be taken is a democratic con game. republicans should not show weakness and fall into their trap." i don't know why the president capitalizes the "r" in the word "racist" the way religious people capitalize the letter "g" in "god" out of reverence for that word. is it donald trump's reverence for the word "racist?" is that what he is signaling to racists with that upper case "r" for "racist?" is that what he's doing? every republican showed weakness and fell into donald trump's racist trap today except those four republicans who voted against donald trump's racism. why is it always the bones? why do racists always talk about their bones, as in i do

>> it was trump country. quite frankly, i was treated excellent. >> and the other inmates were trump supporters and viewed you through that lens? >> let's say i had some street cerd. >> if knew how dishonest people would be behaving behind the scenes, i would have done some -- i would have been more careful. >> when you take it all together, what is your interpretation of who was charged and who wasn't? because on obstruction, one of the arguments the trump side will make is there is no co-conspirators on obstruction. mr. mcgahn and others who were caught up and request to commit crimes according to mueller and the court refused them. >> you know, ari, i think what we are forgetting is that bob mueller referred out 14 cases and investigations to various u.s. attorneys offices. i have a hard time believing none of them will bear criminal fruit. i expect to hear some indictments in the future. i don't think we've seen the last of the defendants. so i don't know that we're going to learn much more about that tom

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 summarizing mueller's report weeks before it was released and again

. >> including donald trump. >> including donald trump. and then kavanaugh just decided and was coached to basically blow up and like chew the scenery as we say in the theater, right, to just act basically. perform his outrage and that turned everything, as if it changed somehow the truth of what we had seen the day before. it's a very sad moment in our democracy that the media is creating these rules and being played by donald trump in a lot of ways. >> you're an expert in disinformation. russian disinformation. but we're consuming a lot of it. i don't know if everyone even knows they are. your thoughts on -- just pick up on where heather took us. >> i mean, he's the master of disinformation, donald trump. the same way putin weaponized greefrance in russia and isis weaponiz weaponize grievance among muslims. i remember a mythical time called "tthe '60s, which not everyone remembers here around the table. and the demonstrations for ford increased it. i would be dismayed if there were not more demonstrations. it r

including donald trump jr. in fact, campaign manager paul manafort shared interm polling and political strategies with an alleged russian agent. any proud and patriotic american should have viewed the kremlin's operation as an outright assault against the integrity of our democracy. idea not a single one of the trump campaign reported it to the fbi. instead, trump himself publicly and enthusiastically encouraged the russians to intensify their attacks and since the election the president has tried to derail any attempt to expose his extensive, pervasive and ongoing relationship with russia. fortunately, the progressive community has remained relentless in uncovering the truth. right after trump took office, our sister organization, the center for american progress action fund launched an initiative called the moscow project which has performed critical research in tracking the full extent of the president's many contacts with russia. the moscow project has also deconstructed every aspect of this tangled web for

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who trump labels the sleepy one. none of that stopped the president from calling into his favorite tv show on that same network thursday night. >> mr. president, just -- i'm just going to open it up to you owe -- to you to go wherever you want. >> reporter: the president admitted he did watch the testimony of robert mueller. >> i couldn't believe what i was saying -- i ended up watching more than i wanted to. and then i watched the afternoon because you know it was such a big crater at the beginning and i said, now i have to watch -- >> reporter: this coming hours after trump received a 75-minute briefing on his 2020 campaign from his top political advisers. the message, joe biden remains a major threat to the re-election prospects but kamala harris might also put up a fight in michigan. meantime, trump continuing to weigh in on the fate of rapper asap rocky. who has been held in a swedish jail since july 5th. after sweden prime minister told trump he can't intervene in the case, trump firing back tweeting, sweden ha

day 894 of the trump administration. and we now have shocking new images of the extent of the humanitarian crisis at the border, released today by the department of homeland security's own internal watchdog. the government provided these images from facilities for migrants in texas' rio grande valley. this photograph in ma cal shows packed into an area called pod 2. in laredo, children laying on concrete benches, on top of each other, with what appears to be one water cooler, some wearing masks over their mouths. in ft. brown station, one man holds up a sign that says, "help, 40 day here." the office of the inspector general surveyed those rio grande detention facilities last month. the report describes, quote, serious overcrowding and prolonged detention of unaccompanied alien children, families, and single adults that require immediate attention. senior managers at several facilities raised security concerns. one called the situation a ticking time bomb. children at three of the five border patrol facilities were visit

how angry trump is. he does this thing, the idea that it does not get covered the way he wanted, how angry do you think he is? >> the fact that he tweeted how heavy the attendance was and flawless and we know the misstatements. >> you don't remember when george washington flew over the airport? >> the setting for this. the lincoln memorial, trump has tried since the beginning of h is presidency to associate himself with abraham lincoln. it would be more synchronize for trump to say he's like the great hamilton. he lacks a sense of humility and the reality of who he really is. he's essentially a showman. >> he got mocked by the russians. they mocked him. >> they said it was you know low energy. they used his own insults to insult his speech. >> it is hard when the home office gets upset with you. >> it is. >> demoralizing. >> i thought it was interesting because it actually reenforces this is huge gender divide that donald trump has created. for donald trump, america is about wars and about winning and it

in o other words, just simply evaluating trump as a political undermining whatt potentiaial opening trump coulde openingg up for the korean people. that is to say, trump may h have his own interest or calculations for why he is pursuing this kind korea in with north particular in this case, it might be for self grand iceman or photo ops, as many of the quotes you presented just now, but regardless of what i is individual interest might be, i think it presents a particular opportunity in this moment where we can actually carry out a concrete peace process. and in that sense, what senator about sanders mentioned about the importance of the work ahead after this kind of symbolic opening is really important. and on that note, i i think it s important in mention -- to mention that president trump spspecifically targeted and askd stephen begin to basically rally the state department and his staff to pursue do tell negotiations with the north korean counterpart in order to make the steps, set the foundation for the peace ahead. i think it is important to see this for what it is, whichch is that

. >> they're saying britain trump. britain trump. the word britain trump. he is britain's trump all right, especially when it comes to whether or not he can win the popular vote. that's thing 2 in 60 seconds. >>> less than 1% of registered voters made boris johnson the new prime minister today. it wasn't a general election. the conservative party's 180,000 members got to choose their new leader, and johnson won by 45,000 votes. but strange hair and winning an election which just a slice of the electorate are not the only things that trump and boris have in common. they're both born in new york. boris johnson has sometimes been called a bully. as a member of parliament in 2006 at a charity soccer match, of all things, he weirdly plowed into this man. the press coverage later accused him of treating it like a rugby match. that's a weird thing to do. in 2015, as mayor of london during a friendly rugby game in tokyo, he flattened this 10-year-old child who was fortunately unhurt. the child saying, quote, i felt a little bit of pain, but it's okay. and like trum

biden is note going to be trump. kamala harris is trying to convince us she is black and she is not. think kamala't harris is black? we are going to let you go. bonnita springs, florida, independent line. caller: thanks for taking my call. i've always been an independent, i voted for both tickets pending on the issues and the candidates and the way they reflect my beliefs. the reason i voted for president trump this last time, by the way i voted for president obama the first time he ran and was extremely disappointed by the time he left office. of fillingin light an airplane with billions of dollars in cash to send to iran. i digress. my main point is the reason i voted for donald trump is because he wasn't bought off, the system of politics in this country is getting out of control corruption. it the wealthy on both parties and most of the candidates, everybody knows it. viewhe globalists point of has taken over because multinational corporations don't have any loyalty to united states. people have got to understand

presidency from trump? >> that's a good question. maybe. thinking about this over the last 48 hours and thinking about the testimony, it seems we use the metaphor, the movie, the movie script tomorrow. like a show. why are movies interesting? because you don't know what's going to happen, the suspense. i think pelosi in effect taking impeachment off the table is when the whole thing began to fizzle. at the end of the day, it's interesting if mueller says a few things he doesn't say in the report or he says things more vividly than in the report, but what's at stake? if it's ultimately to learn a little more, then it's another report. i'm not criticizing nancy pelosi. maybe she's right there isn't stuff there to impeach the president or from a spirited point of view that it would be bad to have a totally partisan impeachment. whatever the merits, though, i think once pelosi basically decided if she has finally decided, but so far not to let these be impeachment hearings as opposed to bob mueller testifies so

trump always doubles down. advisers wrote new talking points and handed him reams of opposition research on the four congresswomen, pivot to patrioti patriotism. it is clear they understood donald trump has been blatantly racist on these women. he wrote on his twitter feed and he said the country you came from. he did not say anything of the green new deal or medicare for all. that pedaling into those things was too late, right? >> it was sort of like what's in the chapter of your book. >> i read it and i didn't finish it. no matter what you hand donald trump as an operative. he's going to do what he thinks he needs to do. he address it in your book. it is true. donald trump has instincts that certainly fe certainly failed him well sel t intelle electorial electorially. donald trump inside the base as a factor that people will look past what he says and pick out what they like and accentuate that. that's what i have seen in this instance so far. >> do you worry that, i like for it to -- just because it is in my

who is of course donald trump. the charges that michael cohen pleaded guilty to said he committed crimes with and at the direction of donald trump to help donald trump win the presidential election in a experience against the united states of america. if attorney general william barr shut down this investigation simply to protect the president, what prevents the next attorney general appointed by the next president from reopening this investigation and charging individual one with exactly the same crimes michael cohen is now in prison for. for the answer to that, we turn to glen kirschner and msnbc legal analyst. so glad we could be here. i have been wondering this all day. if this is william barr shutting down the investigation which is only one of the possibilities in front of us, if that's what it is, shutting it down to protect the president, if just over 18 months from now, we swear in a new president and get a new attorney general, can it be reopened? >> it can be and should be reopened. here's the thing. i d