won and how trump won. he is still collecting the same data. he says the shift from democrat to republican in voter registration has continued since the 2016 election, the momentum is still on the republican side even though you watch the news might think it is the opposite but the electorate is following trump on the issues and democrats are not talking about issues, they are talking about trump. that is good at solidifying their base to bring donations but not good at broadening the democratic party electorate and that is why democrats are still struggling to figure out their strategy in the midterm in 2018, almost paralyzed by this resistance movement they encouraged but is so radical that democratic party leaders are having trouble raining it in. trump is talking about issues people care about, trade, national security, healthcare and that is why the electorate trends in that direction. we will see how much longer that lasts but if he can start delivering on more these things particularly on the legisla

donald trump lost it completely. he was in the oval office with mike pence and other aides about hiring a replacement for jim comey. the vacancy that set the special counsel appointment in motion. the times said he launched in a volley of insults, saying his appointment was one of the worst dirgss trump ever made. also calling him a quote, idiot and saying he should resign. we know in public trump says many things about russia. but this is fascinating and important potentially because it is in private. the "times" account saying trump saw this as basically the worst thing that his presidency and erupted in rare self-criticism about his decision to hire sessions. remember, trump could have asked jeff sessions about potential recusal before hiring. trump didn't do that simple thing because he wasn't prepared for the job interview and he shows little interest in staffing the federal government. this shows the response was to oust the attorney general so he could get a new one that would not be recused and thus give trum

>> will that be coming from trump personally as opposed to the trump foundation or the trump organization? >> i know that the president, he said he was personally going to give. i don't know the legal part of exactly that, but he said his personal money, so i would assume that comes directly from him. >> david farenthold never assumed that, which is why he now has a pulitzer prize. the other question to always ask about any trump promise on charitable giving is when can we see the receipt and a copy of the actual cashed check? the other way for donald trump to prove he's made a charitable contribution is, of course, to show us his tax returns, but we might only see those if robert mueller introduces them as an exhibit in a courtroom. and so today the president added a white house press briefing room stunt about charitable giving to his response to hurricane harvey. we'll have more on the president's response to hurricane harvey next with ana marie cox and charlie sykes. a basketball costs $14. what's team spirit worth? (cheers) what's it worth to talk to your mom? what's the value of a wa

away, from trump, because trump, i mean really trump who broke away from them with the comments about their league, i think what you could see, now is there is more space for colin kaepernick to get signed. but whether it happens, i think we are going to have to wait and see. >> appreciate your writing, dave. always enjoy talking to you. because the at your best, you are a truth teller. you have a freedom, that allows you to do that. i have never met jamel hill of espn. i love her. adore her. appreciate her work. she too is a truth terrell. i raise that only because we all know what happened a few weeks ago when she tweeted donald trump was a white supremacist. the white house went ballistic. demanded that espn fire her. raise that because i'm curious now as to how much more freedom you think this gives sports journalists to tell the truth that they perhaps should have been telling a wile ago. >> no, a fascinating question. i know am in a built of unique situation because the publication i work for has no economic or financial connection to the national football league. that means i h

trump. we'll show you that historic moment as it happened this morning on "fox & friends." today is only day of the trump tax cut crusade and one of the key players in the trump tax cut crusade is already skeptical about the trump tax proposal. any guesses who that might be? we're going to give you about a minute, maybe more to tweet us your guesses about who on team trump is already skeptical of the trump tax cut and the one hint that i can give you is the last name begins with a "t." >> tax reform is going to make health care look like a piece of cake. >> the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you have ever seen. >> there's not a table in here. it's unbelievable. they don't have the numbers. >> this is not a -- again, a tax reform. it's a tax giveaway's the the no a tax cut for the rich. >> the idea that the rich don't benefit from this is patently false. >> there's middle class families with a tax increase under this plan, right? >> there's an exception to every rule. >> that's a

trump." whoever it is, whether it is mike pence or anybody, how much of that can be repaired? because america is more than just one president. >> i think it can be repaired. i am confident in the united states that that could be repaired. all of our allies will come back to us. a weird aberration going on right now. they have their own problems. some of these countries have their own similar problems with great britain was the brexit debate and all. it is a confusing period of time, but i think we can right the ship and four years. in eight years, it may do permanent damage, but right now, we have earned enough credibility in the world to be iten the offer with him that just got out of control, particularly with the russia scandal, the internet. this was the of perfect storm of confusion, and this happens from time to time in world history. america will get a pass in a couple of years. very optimistic. we separate the russian people from the russian leaders. the iranian people, we have no gri

donald trump is donald trump's problem on this. and now donald trump and mitch mcconnell are both each other's problem. a problem that they both so well deserve. and their dysfunctional relationship is the very best thing that could possibly happen to the senate democrats' resistance to the trump agenda. joining us now is democratic senator maria cantwell from washington tonight. she is a member of the senate finance committee. senator cantwell, you saw something in that committee hearing room yesterday that that committee has never seen before. i think you might have had one or two arrests of individual voice of protest here and there in the last few years. but tell us what it was like to be in that room with that resistance rising against that bill and the -- watching the arrests that followed. >> well, good evening, lawrence. and it was a moment. i mentioned to my colleague, even though we had been there at the passage of the affordable care act, i wasn't so sure that wasn't the most dramatic moment of the history of this legisl

we will cover that protest outside trump tower as president trump himself u.n. is speaking at the u.n. general assembly -- himself is speaking at the u.n. general assembly. this is democracy now! suinge come back, a daca the president. and president trump's childhood home is now an airbnb. oxfam rented it out last weekend so that immigrants, refugees, could sleep over and have a conversation about their dreams in this country. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. we are continuing to look at the struggle over daca. that's deferred action for childhood arrivals, which gives nearly 800,000 young people legal permission to live and work in the united states. on monday, six dreamers sued the recipients sued the trump administration over its plans to rescind the program. the lawsuit argues the trump administration failed to follow proper administrative procedures in rescinding daca and that revoking the program violates due process laws. daca was instituted by the

spoiler alert, trump wins. brieflyatie, take us , andbeing in the press pen in the hallway outside of morning joe, in new hampshire. katie: it's interesting to share that nickname with marco rubio and kim jong-un, who is also little rocket man. 2015, robert,f you can attest to this, not many folks were taking donald trump as a candidate seriously. , ands creating controversy nbc news dropped his news from the network. macy's was dropping him, univision was dropping him. nbc news said we have to have a reporter covering trump's campaign, and i was literally standing around the newsroom, so they assigned me to it. >> it takes six months? ms. tur: it was going to take six weeks, because he wasn't going to release his tax returns -- his financial information. surely, he would get laughed off stage. everybody was wrong about his prospects. we got lucky because we started taking it seriously much earlier than anyone else did. i would be following donald trump from campaign rally to campaign rally for months on end ,

trump. i have polling evidence that shows that, his base is fairly solid. he's in the mid to late 30s and as far as storms are concerned there are political pitfalls and political opportunities. my house was flooded in 2015. i rode by 22 houses on the way to the studio today that still are boarded up and hadn't been fixed. nobody blamed president obama on that not being fixed and i doubt trump didn't have the visual like george bush had of looking out over air force one and not going down and visiting the people. he doesn't have that optic yet and i think he's going back to make a statement of the support for the people of texas, and the politicians in texas, but it is horrific tragedy that's happened down there. people who like myself and other who have been affected by hurricanes and floods get that this is ten years in the making down there of getting it fixed. i think donald trump will come and he'll go, and then there will be the argument much like there was in sandy of the funding, the

limbaugh. >> we got trump dealing with chuck an nancy, trump is happy with it, nancy is happy, trump seems happy with it. not all of trump's voters, 67% fine and dandy with whatever trump does here. and that's what our caller said yesterday. they trust trump. if trump's doing this, then there is a long range reason that we don't know yet. they have total implicit trust. >> also does that match your reporting? >> with regard to his supporters? ye yes. >> well, in terms of the people inside the white house who are certainly not thrilled with with regards to the supposed deal framework that the president has struck with democratic leaders includes his policy adviser steven miller who is an immigration hard-liner and a complete hawk on these issues an wishes daca was something that was brushed into the ash heap of history. as we reported at the daily beast yesterday, there were other senior aids in the room during this dinner wednesday night and this high profile meeting with chuck and nancy. stephen miller was conspicuously absent and back to what you were saying earlier, regarding how

trump. and that was a line in the middle of the four paragraph letter that the president sent to let comey know why he was being canned. >> while i greatly appreciate you informing me three separate occasions i was not under investigation, i nevertheless concur with the judgment of the justice department that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau. it's a point that's been important to the president. he stressed it again the next week in an interview with nbc's lester holt. >> we had a very nice dinner. and at that time he told me you are not under investigation which i knew anyway then during the phone call he said it. and then during another phone call he said it. he said it once at dinner and then he said it twice during phone calls. >> did you call him? >> in one case i called him in one case he called me. >> did you ask am i under investigation? >> i actually asked him, yes. i said if it's possible would you let me know, am i under investigation? and he said you are not under i

but look at the people around president trump. i have not seen a better national security team in my political lifetime. general mattis is an excellent secretary of defence, general kelly, the chief of staff, general mcmaster, dan coats, the director of national intelligence. so he has surrounded himself with very quality people we have a traditional view of the world, from a republican point of view, and i think we're going to be fine. well, it surprises me you say that, in a way, because if one looks at your own thoughts about donald trump, you have, over time, expressed your own grave reservations about his... every day! ..abilities as commander—in—chief? during the campaign, i thought some of the things he was saying i thought were incendiary and unhelpful but now he is commander—in—chief and i would say this. the muslim ban was a shaky start. the courts rejected his efforts to restrict people coming into america, because it appeared to be a ban on a religion, and you can't do that in the united states. his decision in

and trump supporters, is that they think the point of trump is to pass something. so the purpose of the trump presidency is not to accomplish anything. it is an ongoing theater of rage. >> as long as they can keep the theater going, people will remain interested so the rate to be high. there is internal logic to it. >> we talked about this before. so interesting, why i like learning from you. you excelled in this field but you say it has limits. >> it's not fun anymore. we are still, many people, assessing donald trump as a chief executive officer. and the insight from you is that he still sees himself mostly as chief content officer. >> that's right. we were talking about the "survivor" metaphor. is he a contestant or a producer? or is he basically the bachelor? so i think that that is, this purely theatrical approach requires the constant feeding of story beats. >> and it is all atwist. omarosa is someone we mentioned may be on the outs but is the ultimate combination. she spoke about enemies. here's omarosa. let's pull it up. that's my mistake. she said it's so

>> donald trump jr. is going to be giving a speech at the university of north texas to the tune of 100 grand. and the questions will be provided to him in advance. >> evan? >> foreign policy circles are getting worried about china's aggressive expansion. they've been going using the one-belt policy to go into africa, greece, the bahamas, jamaica. >> that is going to do it for tonight. that's all for "hardball" right now. chris matthews, he returns next week. join him tuesday. special guest al frank. . the rachel maddow show starts now. >> thanks to you at home for joining us at this hour. rachel will be back next week. now we have a ton and a half to tell you about this evening. the white house has spent the week hinting and signaling about an eminent decision from the president on the fate of 800,000 young immigrants in this country. and tonight we have some surprising news from that story which we did not see coming and we'll be getting to that news tonight. but tonight the chemical plant that we've be

when a trump's -- one of trump's more moderate -- trump wanted to lead -- leave nafta completely but now he is only renegotiating. i assume he is surrounded by enough people so far who are able to give him rational know how about trade. javier: at the beginning of his speech trump emphasized how well the u.s. economy is doing right now. do you think all the leaders in that room share that view? sophie: well, let's just look at some indicators that might help to disprove or prove it. what about jobs, for example? the economy added more than one million jobs as trump took office. on the other hand, wage growth has yet to pick up. average hourly warnings have only increased 2.5% while the federal reserve bank wanted to see 3% or 3.5%. also the unemployment rate rose slightly in august. and consumers are doing ok. businesses are investing more money, so that is not bad. but the big topic right now is definitely that trump has not yet delivered anything in terms of the promised tech reforms. so corporate america and americans are waiting for this. javier: sophie at the new york stock exch

they were wiretapping trump because trump was obviously talking to him and there were clear lies told not just in the media but as we know way back when when clapper made the statement under oath to senator widen of the senate intelligence committee there was no mass surveillance that's when snowden came out and revealed there was and we brought our case a few days later. >> liz: at least a half a dozen people from the trump campaign including president trump, jared kushner and jeff sessions were talked about as being under surveillance but they were incidentally, in other words it was played down like it was not that big of a deal, but you know , now we're seeing serious wire tap allegations. remember the media called this fake news instead of investigat ing the story let's take a listen. >> its been a full three days since the president said that president obama had his wires tapped, his phones tapped at trump tower. in those three days the white house come up with any evidence whatsoever to prove that allegation? >> yeah, i addressed this multiple times. >> i want to follow-up on t

trump? how can we weaken this further so you will feel comfortable at this table, which will be completely ineffective? there is really a choice there. with to be clear about that. amy: so you're saying it is not such a contradiction, h.r. mcmaster saying, no, we're not going to be rejoining and rex tillerson, the former head of exxonmobil who is saying, no, we will. >> he is dangling the possibility so that leaders like trudeau who want to imagine a have the power to bring trump back will weaken the agreement further, which will to the benefit of the oil industry and i would argue that rex tillerson, as a man who worked at exxon for 41 years, has the interest at heart. amy: naomi klein, author of the book "no is not enough: resisting trump's shock politics and winning the world we need." we will be back with her in a miminute. ♪ [musisic break] amy: congratulations to our former democracycy now! produce, amy littlefield and daniel patterson, who danced to the song at their wedding on satu

donald trump says, yes. he says, yeah issue don't like fascists, i don't like nazi us but there are some fine people marching witch. the. at that point something big had to happen so steve bannon stepped out and so did sebastian gorka, but don't think for a second their ideas step out. the reason i profiled them in the book and why i don't mind who comes and goes to some extent is because these are people that donald trump embraced. these are people that he took lessons from and the truth of the matter is, steven miller is still there. if you think that steve bannon and sebastian gorka are scary, i invite you go back and looked ath at videos of steven miller. this this guy has moved on the hard right suns he was young teenager elm write about his journey and it is howeverring hn many ways baas this is someone who has gone way to the fringe on so many issues who is in a position of power. helping to write donald trump's inaugural address. helping to do the muslim ban, giving advice regarding the giorgio are -

the trump people. more maybe just maybe it was the smell of the swamp as well. the smell of the rot at the top. a big shot using private and military jets to ease their official trips. maybe it was that, too, that led him to what he's just done. tonight president trump fired health and human services secretary tom price after price was unable

talking about trump. and if that's true, if trump likes him, that means schumer has figured him out. and if schumer's figured him out, there's going to be a lot more cooperation with chuck schumer than with the, the people who more reflect the trump original base. >> joy, can i jump in? >> sure. >> there is a little worry here for trump. which ann coulter uses the i word. funny to us. we like to link hands with ann coulter, first time in our lives, agree with he, but he has to worry. i see so thumuch of this as tweaking mcconnell and ryan, he's completely soured on. they're useless to him, but they and the republican caucuses are actually something that stands between donald trump and impeachment. i'm not saying, we're anywhere near that, but can never totally forget that he has been untouchable no matter what ridiculous thing he tries to do, because those guys are not paying any attention, or at least not looking like they're paying attention to any of these investigations or what bob mueller is doing an

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and trump's world? was it a passing reference? was it more detailed than that? how much does this letter suggest that was on the president's mind? >> sure, so again we haven't seen the letter. we've just spoken about it. our understanding was this letter laid out the president's frustrations and grievances with director comey. as we said, the story, it was very little explicitly focused on russia other than the language we actually saw in the final statement the president put out where he expressed frustration that chm told him privately conservative times that he was not the focus of the investigation but he wouldn't say the publicly. our understanding is that little portion was in the original draft. made it into the final version. the draft itself was outlining the president's wide ranging grievances with the fbi director at the time. >> we have the white house lawyer basically vetoing apparent reply original letter you're describing saying it was problematic, do we know, do you know, was it specifyi

also trump care. protests breaking out with deadline looming, republicans' campaign promise not this president's priority. three are all the top story and each reflect a particularly corrosive tension of the trump administration. travel ban, its growth showing how much the trump administration is doing on policy while the tweets and feuds grab attention. old ban was temporary three-month experiment and this revised ban is slated at permanent. this today is more far-reaching policy than the first travel ban. and it's revealing for many americans and leaders, this ban is getting less attention than the shock of the first travel ban which seemed to plunge the nation into a weekend of chaos. >> protests throughout the country at airports. this as president trump's executive order that bans refugees from predominantly muslim countries -- >> it's unprecedented. protests still going strong here. >> immigrants are welcome here. no hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here. >> that was then but today apparent

trump. he is just as you mentioned last night in alabama, wherever he goes, he is polarizing. he feels he is winning in a divide and conquer way. i worked on books on reagan before and reagan used to say, you have to have 50 percent of the box office to get something done. meaning that your post have to be if you want, in order to push policy through. donald trump is counseling operating with 35 to 40 percent and hence, nothing is getting done. but he still the headline news every day because of twitter and by claims that this cultural war like we so with roseville, you've seen with football, last night and i find it a bit reprehensible because it is pinning american against american in order to kind of be in charge and some of the you know it all began with this movement on obama. and with making mexican americans, latino and latinos for like lesser people. by not having a meeting with someone like john lewis to talk about civil rights. so we are in a really serious unprecedented as we say

trump and they wanted to see mr. trump's tax returns, they would have to get a court order, an ex parte or what is called a 6-e. the u.s. attorney will get a judge to sign off on it. years ago when i started, that used to be a simple one or two-paragraph form letter, but that 6-e has morphed into a search warrant affidavit where you have to establish almost probable cause to show the connection of the tax returns to your investigation and to the potential criminal violation. so it's certainly a lot easier to have irs involved to get the tax returns, but there are still internal hurdles that they have to jump over to get them. but it's a lot easier, much easier. >> we're going to have to leave it there for tonight. thank you for joining us tonight. i think we're going to need you more as this investigation continues. thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >> thank you for inviting me. >>> coming up, millions of people are in the grip of fear this long weekend in america, not because of a nat

donald trump would have made. how do you explain this? >> well i think that it's part of trump's try partisanship, if you will, there is a civil war going on, on the gop on the hill. i've got to tell you, former chair of the dc head of the party, be it local, state or federal, jumping into a primary race, pitting represents against represents almost never happens, there's a lot of political risks for donald trump here. he's got to support strange which is kind of strange, forgive the pun, it's kind of strange because if you listen to the politics of judge moore, and you look at the numbers, he's got about 40%. if donald trump was being consistent with trump land then he certainly would be he be doorsing moore, but he hasn't. it's going to be interesting not onlyt. tonight but whether moor wins or strange wins >>> but a couple things about that, tucker. [ laughter ] >> tucker: i'm sorry to cut you offensively sa, i think the president unexpect saidly has walked on. he's about ten minutes early. >> tucker, we will c

covering tonight on trump and russia. robert mueller gets specific requesting documents from the white house that cover 13 categories. and an explosive report on paul manafort and his offer to update a russian billionaire on the trump campaign. also live reports tonight from dual natural disasters. puerto rico and mexico city. as the 11th hour gets under way on a wednesday night. >> goong once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. tonight the damage from these two natural disasters is very nearly indescribeable. we're going to get reports from both the hurricane damage in puerto rico and the earthquake aftermath in mexico. both of them later on in this broadcast. it is also day 244 of the trump administration, and tonight we have new stories and new headlines that reveal a lot about where the mueller investigation is right now, how extensive it is, how lasting an effort it is. the latest news tonight comes from the "washington post" and zeros in on paul manafort, specifically his communications during the

tonight, the trump identity. could the president's art of the deal with democrats signal changes in his foreign policy? >> reform is what we're talking about. >> plus -- 2018 predictions. we'll talk to senator chris van hollen about the democratic strategy to take back the senate. and moore versus strange. how the president is putting his political capital on the line in the alabama senate battle. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> and good evening. i'm steve kornacki in new york in for chuck todd and welcome to "mtp daily." welcome to another day dominated by major questions about this president's political identity, as parts of his base signal a potential revolt. world leaders gather at the united nations general 'ably urging trump to reconsider withdrawing from a pair of deals pillars of barack obama's foreign policy. the iran nuclear deal and the paris climate accord. it's become abundantly clear the president needs the help due to north korea. we asked the president when he suddenly started mak

my husband and i are supporters for donald trump. i did not vote for him this time because i wanted a christian man, so i voted for ben carson. god saw fit to put donald in for whatever reason. i think it is because he is a strong leader and if somebody for the people and is neither democrat or republican or independent. he sees the whole picture. he realizes what we need as a people. he is going to get it whichever way he can. if he has to work with democrats, so be it. party, i for his own think they showed their true callers. they were up there -- true c olors. they were up there, not concerned with what the people wanted. they are either going to turn around, or we are going to clean house when it comes time to elect again. host: next up is jim in virginia. he is on our democrat line. caller: good morning. jim is from massachusetts. host: i am misreading things this morning. i apologize. go ahead. caller: no problems. i would like to endorse strongly the reaching out by the president for the democrats. a long time system of bicke

and trump? >>> these are the collected tweets of donald j. trump, volume one. we had them printed and bound as a physical reminder that his digital words are the sign of our times and will be studied for centuries. these are his tweets since he declared his run for the 45th president of the united states. his ever expanding new testament, if you will. but the genesis of this story begins tens of thousands of tweets ago. >> and here top present the top ten list the celebrity apprentice star, donald trump, ladies and gentlemen. >> way back in 2009 when his very first tweet was a plug to watch him read david letter man's top ten list. >> number seven, sell north dakota to the chinese. >> what's remarkable is on that day only four people react to it. only four people react to what's arguably the most important influenceel social media account ever. >> number two, we're screwed. >> yeah, that's right. >> fitting because that trump marked a real low point. he was coming out of bankruptcy again. >> wai

very next day trump was celebrating the house passage of trump care in the rose garden. that night he spoke at an vent in new york city and went dark. >> following that health care vote, president trump made his way here to new york city. it's his first trip to his hometown since the inauguration but he didn't stay in manhattan very long opting to spend the night in new jersey. >> in new jersey where the president tweeted a little bit about why it was a good thing he was there. then the only thing on his public schedule for this critical weekend on may 6th was a phone call with the president of peru. he was also spotted golfing that saturday. not by the press but a visitor who posted it on instagram. that's all anyone thu about at the time. behind closed doors now we see from this time's reporting it was during that first weekend in may that the president and his top aide stephen miller were drafting this letter about how to fire comey. at the same time jeff sessions and his deputy were working on a quote, parallel effort to fire jim comey. now we know that weekend was o

bannon beats trump. he is so preoccupied with how he'll look and worried about looking weak and a quote/unquote loser trying to preempt that already saying he supports the guy. >> ej, remind me of the french election and supported lepen and she lost and he said i was always behind you to the guy that won. it is really won. >> don't seek an endorsement from donald trump. what's really interesting here is that this is the donald trump/steve bannon primary. the financial times put it. steve bannon would like to show trump that his people are forhim not because he's trump. he can't do anything. they won't follow him anywhere. they're for him because of far right nationalist christian views. and so, if moore wins, it will be seen certainly by breitbart and steve bannon, a victory for their strategy and if strange pulls this out actually then trump will be able to say they're with me. i can pull anybody over the line. so this has some real implications for the -- total workings of donald trump head, but also,

look at president trump. not only do you have a special prosecutor and grand jury's, but you have on capitol hill, with republican leadership, three separate committees. two in the senate and one in the house. they are investigating subpoenas. they have had big breaks already. charlie: in a republican-controlled congress. steve: i know. look at that for a second. if you look at the nullification -- that's one of the reasons i left the white house. look at this, the nullification of this election, i don't think it's coming from the left. you have the democratic party, the corporatists, all this, i think they are second or third tier, which i will get to. but clearly the republican leadership has allowed three committees to be run, clearly by democrats. i see adam schiff on tv all the time. mark warner is running the senate committee. can you imagine, let's take it in political physics -- can you imagine if hillary clinton would and chuck schumer and nancy pelosi were the heads of the senate and house, that you

trump. they only pay for legal fees related to the russia matter if your name is donald trump. one might imagine if you were sean spicer or mike pence or hope hicks or don or reince priebus or jared kushner or staffers who had to hire their own high-powered criminal defense lawyers on the russia matter, one might imagine that might be a sticking point, right? possibly a point of resentment that you're stuck paying what are likely to be millions of dollars for your own legal fees while the billionaire president and his son and heir donald trump junior get their legal bills covered by opm, not the office of personnel management but other people's money. how does that sit with you if you're looking at bankrupting your family to pay your legal fees for a scandal involving donald trump while donald trump doesn't have to pay a thing. as i say, there is always a personal dimension and stay tuned, we've got a little bit of news on that front and that seemingly unsustainable dynamic within trump worl

donald trump jr.'s statement glossed over many details of the meeting including who was actually in the room. he referred to only seven of the eight people in the room and named only six of them. you can be sure that during the questioning, donald trump jr. was pressed repeatedly on exactly who was in that room and exactly who did what in that room and exactly who said exactly what in that room. it is very likely that the committee staff's questioning provoked more than one version of an answer to various points that were raised today. donald trump jr.'s opening statement says he does not recall any phone conversations with emin agalarov, a russian singer who helped arrange that meeting but was not present at that meeting. but donald trump jr.'s phone records indicate that he had three phone calls with emin agalarov on june 6th and june 7th when the meeting was being arranged. you can be absolutely sure that more than one of the senate committee staff who questioned donald trump jr. today repeatedly qu

trump told us he got the note but he -- well, you know trump. >> i just went to the oval office and found this beautiful letter from president obama. it was really very nice of him to do that, and we will cherish that and we will keep that, and we won't even tell the press what's in that letter. >> trevor: that was the third day of donald trump's presidency back when he had that new president smell, that was like 18 scandals ago. remember that? ( laughter ) trump said he was going to keep the letter from the press, so the guy is a man of his word so i guess we'll never know. >> president trump has since shown that letter to his white house visitors. ( crying ) i wish that letter was president! it's so much more qualified! (crying) ( laughter ) i don't know even know if trump realizes it, but that letter is just president obama throwing presidential shade the entire time. that's not the note you leave for your sucessor. you leave that note for a first time baby sitter. it's, like, dinner's in the oven -- ( laughter ) -- bedtime's at 7:00, but not for you and, oh, p.s., the baby is the one

and the trump name, the trump brand, the trump personality is always going to come first. let the record show his first ever words at the united nations as the president of the united states was about the apartment building on first avenue across from the u.n. >> yeah. >> one would think tomorrow in a more formal setting he would stick closer to the teleprompter than today, which was a smaller speech. he only spoke for about four minutes. and as discussed, he did sort of chied the u.n. a little bit about, you know, bloated bureaucracy and perhaps having an unfill filled mission across the globe and its soaring costs. but he did so not nearly with the scold it has voiced like he did in may in brussels. >> 30 seconds you get the last word. do you think the weight of the north korean situation will be evident in him tomorrow? >> yeah, absolutely. i think that he seems to feel this. i mean, i think a lot of these foreign policy issues like afghanistan for instance you get a feeling he's not that interested. you don't get the sense he's that invested. in this one, north korea,

could be hearing from actual trump child. donald trump jr. will testify. already interviewed for five hours in closed session. only six senators were there, amy klobuchar from the judicial committee, thanks for being here. >> thanks ari, good to be on. in middle of voting but found a moment to talk to you. congratulations on your show. >> thanks for making time in the voting. when you look at all of this, what are lines of inquiry important inny you are view for donald trump jr., particularly in public. >> we didn't talk about the private interview, went on most of the day afterward. but for public hearing, i think the public will want to know exactly what happened at that meeting, why he wrote the e-mail back as you remember. when he got e-mail, hey we've got stuff on hillary clinton and he wrote back love it, how can we forget that? i think there will be a lot of questions about that. and as well as some of the points you get to about the business dealings. because you know that one of the things that people are going to want to hear about are what were

trump rode a wave of working class. those are the ones that work behind globalization and they came tout vote which they no normally don't. >> i don't want to spend too much time looking at hillary's race because she's been talking about that. i thought i can get reasonably honest response to questions. tell me that you believe as i do that the democratic party is in trouble. are you willing to admit that? >> yes, but it is in trouble for some reasons which we had an eight year incumbent president. the real reason though is our most important demographic age wise is people under the age of 35. they voted 50% for hillary and elected barack obama. more people under 35 voted over 65, that has only happened once. and but they're not democrats. we got to find a way to reach these young people. hillary and i are doing some work on the supporting groups and running for something in devisable and color of change and voter latino. we are going to support that are doing it their way. i think one of the reasons that democratic par

tower with donald trump jr. as you recall, he sought to get damaging information about hillary clinton from russian individuals. there is a lot to talk about here, a lot to unpack, including the story about paul manafort this week as well. let's bring in carl bernstein. carl's always the person i want to hear from when we are talking about these investigations. of course one half of the famed woodward and bernstein duo, now a cnn political analyst. what do all these various threads add up to in your mind, carl? >> two things. first, that robert mueller -- the special counsel, is looking at the conduct of president donald trump, members of his family, especially jared kushner, also his closest campaign aides in terms of their dealings with russia, ethnorussians during the campaign before, and in business. there is a much larger context that now informs the whole investigation, and that is the conclusion in the american intelligence community under donald trump -- not under obama -- that now is certain that the ru

was trump telling the truth? food stamp usage has declined every month since donald trump was elected president. it has declined by 1.3 million. keith ellison triggered outrage when he compared illegal immigrants living in the united states to jews in nazi germany. >> if you ask yourself what would happen if i was a gentile in 1941 if my jewish neighbors were under attack. would i give them sanctuary? what would you do? would you pass that moral test? jesse: earlier this month he compared trump to king george iii. he compared the country to a dictatorship and suggested there should be a separate country tore black people. a high school in fulsome warned students they can no longer chant "usa" during sporting events. remember when a muslim man in oklahoma behead his coworker? the obama administration said it wasn't terrorism. the jury just heard a tape saying he doesn't like white people and he doesn't regret beheading his coworker. and he posted sharia law is coming and exhibiting pictures of beheading by the tal

asked republicans who voted for trump. have yourself a trump supporter or republican? 58% said i'm a trump supporter. tells you about the takeover of the republican party, yes, significant and tells you how much those republicans are using trump as their cue. minor note, though. don't forget nancy pelosi still has a 40% negative and independents don't like anybody running congress. we immediate need to toss that >> nancy pelosi used to stand alone, and chuck schumer not as well known, paul ryan and mitch mcconnell essentially caught up with nancy pelosi. >> right. one way of saying it. the thing that's different between pelosi and schumer and the two republicans, ryan and mcconnell, nancy pelosi and schumer are still popular with democrats. as your graph showed, senator mcconnell is unpopular with republicans and trump voters. the interesting question we asked in the poll about divided republican party, fun to talk about is -- among 36% of republicans said only 36% happy with the job ryan/mcconnell are doing in washington. that's republican voters. >> look, this isn't