trump. >> when donald trump jr. is told the russian government is trying to elect your father president, he doesn't say, what do you mean? how can that be? he says, i want to hear this. >> the actual response? >> if it's what you say, i love it. >> the trump camp's explanations were confusing. >> strange and conflicting accounts from the very white house on the meeting donald trump jr. had with a russian lawyer. >> the first explanation has become a focus of the mueller investigation. because it was misleading. >> donald trump jr. told the new york times that the trump tower meeting was primarily about russian adoption. that statement may spell legal trouble for the president, because he helped write it, while flying home from the g-20 summit. >> he weighed in, offered suggestion like any father would do. >> the new york times reported the day after the statement was issued, there was a conference call involving the president. then hope hicks and legal team spokesman -- >> donald trump -- >> the trump tower e-mails

liberty mutual insurance. >>> they probably have something on trump, trump did something pretty bad. i assume. >> what do they have. >> i don't know. i think they were interested in something with his business. >> with his business? >> yes. >> did they ask you how he ran his business? >> yes, and by the way, i have no idea what he did. >> the trump administration now at the center, his business, of two stories that could engulf this entire presidency, consider the russia probe and that stormy daniels saga are both rotating around this, the same business that has long been a punitive source of donald trump's personal pride. >> my father gave me a very small loan in 1975 and i built it into a company that's worth many, many billions of dollars with some of the greatest assets in it world. we're very proud of our company. we have built one of the really great real estate companies in the world. as a president i could run my company and the country, i would do a very good job. >> that's part of what's happening now. i'm joined by donna brazil, the author of "hacks, the inside of break in

meeting, trump jr.'s meeting with the russians, so there's more here than meets the eye. i don't know if he's a good source of it, but i'm sure that the special counsel is following up on all these clues. >> i'm sure he is as well. what does all of this tell you, congresswoman, about where the mueller investigation is heading? >> you know, i think the investigation is heading to where the facts are leading him, and i think the facts are leading him to financial dealings that then trump had as head of the trump organization with russians. we don't know the full aspects of it because we've never seen for one thing his tax return, and i think that's part of the secret of unlocking the relationship that exists between the russians and donald trump who was then the president of the trump organization. there are too many of these deals he did with russian oligarchs and criminals with a past that no one would engage in business with unless you were accustomed to doing it and had kind of flown under the radar fo

had with these people, including the first trump tower meeting before -- 17 months before that trump tower meeting that's gotten all this attention, there was an earlier trump tower meeting in which agalarov, one of the key guys who set up the meeting, and rob goldstone who sent the e-mails that enticed everybody to attend the meeting in the trump tower meeting with donald trump himself at that meeting, as we report, donald trump gives the first hints to agalarov who no doubt passed it on to the kremlin that donald trump was planning to run for president in 2016. >> and there's another key piece of this, another chapter of the book. in 2015, it's been reported that donald trump, while he was running for president, he ha had a scootecret, he didn't tell anybody. the secret was he was trying once again to do a deal through an intermediary. this time he wasn't working with the agalarovs, he was working with a company who said he had experience doing this and said he owned the company. he didn't own the company. three offshore companies owned the company. you might want to the look at th

they probably have something on trump, trump did something bad. roger was treated terribly by trump. trump is the most disloyal person you're going to ever meet. >> trump has delivered to some institutions of higher learning the biggest embarrassment in their history. donald trump is the biggest embarrassment to pennsylvania university wharton school. there is no other graduate who believes that trade wars are good and easy to win. surely the rest of the graduates of wharton wharton know that no country has won a trade war. but donald trump is disgracing wharton by threatening a trade war that will kill american jobs. but tonight a little school on long island has reached a level of embarrassment that it could not see coming. sam nunberg is a graduate of r toro law school, one of our youngest law schools. we don't know what grades he got at toro law school. but today he sounded like someone who wasn't taking a single note during those courses. >> roger stone is like a surrogate -- he's like my father. >> you feel loyal to him? >> and i'm not going

we have north korea calling trump a dotard. trump calling him little rocket man. threatening annihilation. i want to go to will represently in seou ripley in seoul. you have some information. why may? >> reporter: well, may because they are going to be meeting at some point in april. so ahead of that meeting and ahead of this presidential summit between trump and kim in may, there is obviously a lot of ground work laid out. but all sides appear to want to be seizing on this momentum here first gained when the inter korean talks revived during january. picked up during the olympics. even though they had no meaningful interaction in pyeongchang, obviously now kim jong-un has calculated this is the time to deal with the united states. and if you think about it, it makes sense. i've been chatting with sources who say that really kim jong-un is probably looking at the scenario, he thinks that trump is somebody who will have one shot man, skip all the bureaucracy and make a realistic decision on the fly without having to go through all the steps that u.s. presidents hav

obama or trump? >> a combination of every presidency before this. >> including trump? >> and south korea. >> including trump? you're not going to give him anything on this are you? >> i'm not going to give him this one because even the following day his administration is stepping on this potentially bold move. instead you have a white house press secretary who's gotten stuck with talking points from the pentagon. >> agree with you. >> i was going to say governor richardson said things couldn't be worse. if you have a meeting that breaks down it seems to me we could end up in a worse situation. >> i don't think the little guy benefits from that either. thank you so much for coming on short notice. you were our first responder, sir. thank you. susan page and emira thank you both for your expertise. coming up the latest on the russia probe. the president will agree to an interview as well as mueller wraps up his investigation. fat chance. who thinks mueller going to agree with these terms? plus what does vladimir putin really think about president trump? megyn kelly just

trump's attorney, mr. cohen, surreptitiously initiated a bogus arbitration proceedings against miss clifford in los angeles. remarkably, it says, he did so without even providing miss clifford with knonotice of the proceeding and basic due process. so that is what they're alleging, that she was being pressured. i want to mention something, don. we saw a note from mr. cohen and that note showed that she signed something saying that she'd never had any kind of affair with mr. trump. so that is always going to be out there and in question, don. >> so let me explain this. how does this lawsuit explain stormy daniels' signature or miss clifford clifford's signate statement that she never had an affair with mr. trump. does it explain that? >> reporter: it does explain that. and i think they had to talk about that, because it is out there. it says that in january of 2018, we're talking about last month, that she was coerced into signing something that was false, a false statement. and she said she was forced to d

president trump sounded more like candidate trump. the chief washington correspondent for bloomberg news, also is jane newton small arc "time's" magazine contributor, politics editor at theroot.com and msnbc contributor. kevin, take us back down memory lane. how similar is what you heard last nit to the trail. >> it was like flashbacks. seriously, this is exactly what we saw, president trump really going all in for republican candidate saccone. quite frankly, the polls are inching closer together. colin lamb is making this interesting. president trump carried in southwestern pennsylvania by more than 20 percentage points and i got to be honest here, david, you know this, you are a policy buy the. the trade policy the white house announced last week is something that the union folks that i talked to tell me is going to play particularly well here but on the other side of that, democrats really pushing for a get out the vote effort. a lot of outside money, millions of dollars flooding in as well. >> jane newton small, let me ask you abo

he helped finance donald trump's soho project. he's a friend of the trump family. in october 2016, the first offer to connect donald trump and vladimir putin was made from felix sater to michael cohen. he said lets build a trump tower, let's get him in vladimir putin together. let's get him elected. we can engineer this and make him president. throughout the campaign, other previews of what getting donald trump and vladimir putin together looked like would mean for the trump campaign would materialize. but felix sater, it was just reported by buzz feed was somebody for decades delivered intelligence on osama bin laden and the north koreans. if he was able to deliver bin laden information and the north koreans, i think we have to assess him as someone who could have assisted the trump campaign and working with russia to interfere in the election. >> can you tell us tonight which sanctioned russian bank we're talking about here? >> i cannot. i can tell you we believe, and ranking member schiff has been leading the charge, we believe the transcripts of this investigat

chris is, trump getting more trump. >> there's no question. it's not a simple right/left republican democrat issue. >> there's a damn well fight between this president and this speaker of the house. the speaker believes in free trade, doesn't believe in changing immigration law. >> the other side of where the president is going right now. that's an issue in if the 201 elections. >> it's ironic it was gary cohn enforcing the republican orthodoxy on free trade. he was a democrat. now he's gone. >> democrats largely in the big state -- tend to be protectionist right now the. >> the people in the rust belt cheering these tariffs, as well. >> i don't know what bob casey and sherrod brown are saying about this, but they can't be attacking it. up next, these people tell me something i don't know. you're watching "hardball." thank you so much. thank you! so we're a go? yes! we got a yes! what does that mean for purchasing? purchase. let's do this. got it. book the flights! hai! si! si! ya! ya! ya! what does that mean for us? we can get stuff. what's i

>> that's not where trump is. >> trump does not believe in. >> you can't tell where trump is. >> trump doesn't even know where he is. >> conor lamb said he wanted universal background collect. >> he said no new restrictions on guns an. >> trump is with the nra. >> i'm going to throw nancy pelosi under the bus. >> that has nothing to do with anything. it's not part, the reason he won was the messaging. he talked about health care. >> rejecting the resistance agenda. maga agenda. >> he talked about things that republicans don't want to do medicare, medicaid. your tax plan did not work. it did not working. > calling on my expertise as a perjure and who followed the campaign closely and somebody. >> he's big with the penguins. >> and talked with conor lamb a couple hours ago, i asked him, are you a trump guy? he said absolutely not. i'm a pennsylvania democrat. and also when donald trump said in missouri, he said nice things about me and he supported -- he campaigned on my tax cuts. that's not true. that is just not true. what conor lamb did is said i'm a western pennsylvania pragmatic guy

you had laura ingram, who's four square for trump, her show is 100% pro-trump tweets "there is no way real donald trump should sign this omnibus bill, it betrays certain pledges and mortgages the millennials future." then he signs it. i don't know how she pretends it didn't happen, i don't know what. then you have ann coulter, four square for trump doing the thing where she kicks him away but all over the shins. this would be like reagan signing a bill that hiked taxes, slashed defense spending, spent jobs spent on the teapot dome scandal, talking about 3d chess and spending and transgender people and -- i mean, she's going insane. is this a pushaway or will all of these people come back to heel when their audience screams "we love trump, we don't care"? >> they will absolutely come back. they will come back and they will eat right out of his hands. i mean, there's nothing that this man can do that will deep majority of his major trump support and the pundit class or whatever group you're talking about from supporting him ultimately. what matters is that he has an "r" next to his name

this is not just an anti-trump, pro-trump fight. this is a precedent for the united states congress. there will come a time when the republicans want to do an investigation, where if anyone can come in and say i'm not answering those questions because i don't feel like it or whatever, you have badly damaged the ability of the congress to do investigations. >> and what -- this goes to the question of corey lewandowski's testimony too. he refused to answer questions apparently today, and the remedies for that, i guess, are the same issue can you subpoena him? will the republicans agree to subpoena him? >> again, you heard from adam schiff, so i don't think i'm speaking out of school when i say that, yes, mr. lewandowski and his attorney basically decided they wouldn't answer any questions that they did not determine were relevant to our investigation. now they weren't under subpoena, so there's a whole conversation what you're required to do when you appear voluntarily. but again, there is no way that either mr. lewandowski or his att

to president trump. the united states remains in close contact with our ally, south korea and japan. we see this development as further evidence that our campaign of maximum pressure is creating the appropriate atmosphere for dialogue with north korea. negotiations over nuclear weapons with north korea will be at least as difficult as the obama administration's negotiations on the development of nuclear weapons with iran. the obama administration's energy secretary ernest moniz writing an op-ed in "the boston globe" today said with north korea, our strategy should be don't trust and verify, verify, vary fiechlt jo vary fiechlt joerif verify. joining us ernest moniz. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> a real pleasure. i want to get your first reaction to the developments with north korea today. >> well, frankly, i think that dialogue going on among the various parties, u.s., north korea, south korea, china is very encouraging. i would add japan in that mix obviously. but we've been saying for some time

and when president trump doesn't ask, americans inevitably ask the question, why is president trump so afraid to do anything, anything about putin? i yield the floor.

fred trump, president trump's father. so president trump, maybe bolton's stash will end up growing on you. we're back tomorrow with more "mtp daily." "the beat" with ari melber starts now. >> i have sokatie tur, thank yo. tonight we begin, new tensions with russia, and bob mueller opening a new front on the russia probe. first this big probe, russia hitting back, kicking out 60 diplomats out of the country, this is after trump did what many said was too long in coming, expelling diplomats for faking that alleged blatant move of poisoning a former russian spy on uk soil. mueller probing russia contacts with the gop republican convention in 2016, and why the gop suddenly strangely softened

trump. tonight the president and dictator, will north korea talks materialize. and would they be worth the risk? >> i think it is very risky. it risks the credibility and the united states. >> and a stormy week with how the president's personal attorney silenced sam nunberg. >> i'and this is "mtp daily" an it starts right now. ♪ ♪ goo evening. i'm chuck todd here in washington and welcome to "mtp daily." is there anything more trump than the agreement to meet with kim jong-un. and how it made the president's top forn adviser like sidelined on a top matter of foreign policy or other advisers totally caught off guard as well. is there anything more trump than this i alone can fix it tude the president has about something to complicated or the white house today seemingly started to lay the groundwork to walk it back. >> we are making no concessions and we are not going to move forward until we see concrete and verified actions taking place by north korea. >> is there a possibility that thes

trump here? >> well, exposure seems to be a word bandied about a little bit when it comes to daniels as a porn star. to your question, chris, anybody remember john edwards? he got indicted for doing exactly the same thing, taking campaign contributions and money to basically silence his mistress so as to influence the outcome of the presidential election that he was running for. so is that we've got going on here? >> but that was a hung jury. that wasn't resolved in court. that jury couldn't decide. bunny said she just liked john edwards and did it as a favor and didn't see it as a campaign contribution. that's her point of view the. >> here's the thing. it begs request the question. ep michael cohen said he took out a home equity line of credit to put it in an llc account to be able to pay off stormy daniels. why? why is he randomly paying $130,000? now you have a problem. people like the fec is interested. the house judiciary committee sent a letter to michael cohen and two other gentlemen sayi

why does trump keep doing this? why does he refer to jews in the people only concerned about money and shadowy power structures. >>> when we come back a former russian spy poisoned by a nerve agent on british soil. we'll talk about that. >>> it is a story that seems to come right out of a novel. a former russian spy, his daughter and a police officer among those injured in an attack with a nerve agent in the u.k. no one taking credit for the attack. but all signs point to moscow. let's discuss with the security analyst bob baer. a juliette kayyem, a former department of homeland security official. thank you for coming on this evening. bob, police officials say that 21 people have received treatment after the attempted assassination. what's your reaction? >> my reaction, don, it was probably some sort of aerosol contained the poison, they got sprays, maybe low fentanyl something like that gets in the air affects a lot of people. you can die quickly from something like lo againenle. i agree it's almost certainly the r

coming up for us, trump being trump. with the president described as emboldened now, more comfortable in the job as we see tonight, expect to see and hear more candor from the president. and a man who worked alongside andrew mccabe for 20 years weighs in on his firing and the damage being done when the president attacks the fbi. "the 11th hour" just getting started on a busy monday night. but i'm not standing still... and with godaddy, i've made my ideas real. ♪ ♪ i made my own way, now it's time to make yours. ♪ ♪ everything is working, working, just like it should ♪ >>> north korea, kim jong un, would like to meet with president trump. this doesn't happen. you know, they're saying, oh, well obama could have done that. trust me, he couldn't have done that. >> today i'm defending america's national security by placing tariffs on foreign imports of steel and aluminum. >> if we don't get tough on the drug dealers, we're wasting our time. just remember that. we're wasting our time. and that toughness includes the

what's trump's option? he could cave or he more likely will say no, i'm not going to seed to the subpoena. we'll take it to court. he doesn't have to fire mueller. but what he is doing is laying the ground work to delegitimize mueller and resist a mueller subpoena. and that puts this into the realm of the courts to slug it out. does, you know, mueller have the adequate criminal predicate to prevail. ultimately it goes to the supreme court where trump figures he has the upper hand. so he doesn't have to fire mueller to adopt a strategy that basically says, forget it mueller, i'm not cooperating, let's let this playout, drags it out for a long time. >> barbara, on the delay mueller instead of fire mueller strategy michael just laid out, which sounds convincing, how long would the delay mueller strategy work. >> it's answer interesting theory and may explain what's going on. i don't think it would work for a long period of time. ordinarily when a case works up to the supreme court, it can take a year or more t

there are legal challenges if the trump organization -- excuse me, not trump organization, trump administration, tries to keep stormy daniels quiet. how does it look if they are trying to keep stormy daniels quiet? >> the wall street journal reported this back in 2016. didn't get traction then. fits and spurts and just within the last two weeks it is becoming an issue dominating white house briefings. sarah sanders has to deal with everyday. we just saw this morning. and there are legal concerns kbroeing with issues you just outlined and it is almosting more after political distraction. and more republicans are put on the spot. like what do you say? and like i don't know anything about it. that defies logic. broken through and has become a story, story mind one that any other administration would have been just crushed with. this would be 24/7. with this president, because there is so much else going on, he has the ability to spawn headlines on an hourly basis, along with the russia probe, it is a lesser to your story that is finally changing. >> i don't get it but we may have an answer. i aske

." >> trump's reaction was anger. he said it was completely false. >> the encounter apparently didn't sit well with comey either. >> we know he went back to the fbi suburban and pulled out a classified computer and wrote his first memo about his interactions with donald trump. >> i was honestly concerned he might lie about the nature of our meeting, and so i thought it really important to document. >> the inauguration was such a success. >> comey's next public encounter with the president was awkward. the director of the fbi thought it was crucial to keep his distance. >> he stands in the part of the room that is physically as far from the president as it's possible to be. >> but then -- >> oh, and there's james. he's become more famous than me. >> it encapsulated the difficult position comey was in because he was, at once, the fbi director, answerable to the president of the united states, but also conducting an investigation of the trump campaign, which the president obviously hated. >> you've seen the picture of me

why is the trump administration suddenly getting tougher with the kremlin and why isn't president trump talking about it? >>> and surprise visit. there's intense speculation tonight that kim jong-un may have psychly left north korea for china. we're digging on what would be an unprecedented trip if confirmed. is there any connection to plans for kim jong-un to meet with president trump? >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. >>> breaking tonight, stormy daniels is suing the president's personal lawyer michael cohen for defamation, escalating the legal battle over her alleged affair with mr. trump and a hush money deal to keep her quiet. this as the white house is denying her claims about sex and threats in a national tv interview seen by millions of americans. also breaking right now, the trump team is trying to play up an unusually tough move against russia saying the door is open to new sanctions against vladimir putin. we're getting new reaction to both stories. i'll talk to former director of nati

trump does not know this person. does not remember this person and would have no interest in ever knowing her. but drake has pictures of her and trump showing they at least met. and drake's legal name, angel ryan, is listed on the nondisparagement agreement trump's lawyer drafted to keep stormy daniels quiet saying she was one of the four beam confidential information about daniels and the alleged sexual relationship with dlump his team has denied. adult film actress alanna evans was also in tahoe in 2006. >> how do you know they met the 200 snooks. >> when i ran into stormy in tahoe and she joined my friend and i in the tattoo parlor, it was part of her story. >> i spoke to stormy on the phone. i asked her how it went and her response was he chased me around the room in his tighty whiteys. >> what does trump administration know about it? >> i would imagine jessica and stormy at the same time were under contract with the same company. girls talk. people in our industry talk. so i can only imagine the details that jes

trump did not flow about it. on june 3rd we know that ron gold stone wrote to don junior saying we have all of this compromising material on hillary clinton. it's whilely c lyhighly confide secret, we want to bring it to you directly. we were going to bring it to donald trump's secretary, but it's too hot to handle. in the course of that, between june 3rd and june 7th there's all these e-mail conversations or phone conversations which we don't know about where more of this was discussed. we do know that on june 7th donald trump, after he won the new jersey primary, got on television, went off the teleprompter to say that he was going to detail all of this dirt on the clintons the following monday. so what dirt was that? the obvious inference is that was the e-mails that were stolen from the server. that is a crime. it's a conspiracy to violate the computer fraud and abuse act, title 18, united states code, 1030. it involves a whole bunch of people, going into those servers, stealing those documents. the object of

trump stayed in trump. he invited her to a launch party in california as well as to his office in trump tower in new york. >> he definitely wanted to see you? >> for sure, yes. and this was not a secret. he never asked me not to tell anyone. he called several times when i was in front of people. and i would be like, oh my god, he is calling. and people were like, the donald? and i put him on speaker phone and he wanted to know what i was up to and when can we get to get again. we had a meeting, it went great, it's going to be spectator. they're totally into the idea. that part i never believed. >> did you get the sense that he was dangling it in front of you. >> for sure. oh, yeah. >> to keep you interested, to keep you coming back? >> of course. i'm not blind. but at the same time, maybe it would work out, you know. >> did you view it as this is a potential opportunity, i am going to see where it goes. >> i thought of it as a business deal. >> in july 2007 a year after he they met, daniels said mr. trump a

be trump. clearly that means between now and november's elections, he is definitely not going to change. harry truman famously had a sign on his desk and it said, the buck stops here. but it seems this president doesn't realize that. he constantly fails to take the blame for the chaos he himself is creating. the blame for the race in pennsylvania that should never have been lost by a republican, or the one in alabama, that should never have been won by a democrat. the cabinet reflects the president's choices and the post election spin doesn't deflect from an embarrassing defeat. voters are sending a message. and if the president isn't hearing it, a whole lot of other people are. let's get to cnn's political dal analyst ryan lizza, april ryan and former congressman david jolly. good evening to all of you glad to have you on. ryan, you first. we have all the chaos coming out of this trump white house, and then we have a red district turning blue last night and the president doesn't seem to think

will be trump. trump will indeed be trump. >> he's our president right now david jolly, somebody may go to the white house thinking they can put the president of the united states in a play pen and pacify him and keep him there while they run the place themselves. the president puts his staff people in play pens. gary cohn didn't think the job was big enough for him, trump thought it was and was unsatisfied. is this a 10% of whatever, are we making a bigger story, everybody's making this into a huge story. all the major papers say there's a problem with trump in the traffic, people coming in and out of the white house is too swift, it's not healthy. is it nor not important? >> no, this is a big story. the country needs experts around had president whether you agree with their ideology or not, when it comes to the economy and national security, we need people smarter than the current president advising him. look, they're leaving for one reason. and it's donald trump. there's an old ax yox in industry

in addition, according to officials, during trump's congratulatory call to putin last week, trump added, quote, if you want to have an arms race, we can do that, but i'll win and bragged about america's new defense budget. this may have played a in america's recent rollout of sanctions against russia. one official says trump pushed back on the sanctions by repeating his claim that russia did not affect the outcome of the election but relented after putin's speech and officials say trump's top advisers did not orally brief him before the putin call or they warned him in his briefing papers in all capital letters, quote, do not congratulate because they felt it would not make a difference. one official adds, quote, he would say what he wants, anyway. with that as a back drop, russia's defense ministry released video of what it says is a new test of a heavy rcbm adding the test was successful. it is reportedly one of the new missiles trump flaunted during a speech earlier this year. it comes after putin announced retaliatory methods against the u.s. in keeping with what russia calls, quote

trump, candidate trump, the trump organization had nothing to do with it. these documents they don't prove but suggest that the trump organization has been infinitely involved in the effort of keeping stormy daniels quiet. >> you still don't know where the money came from. >> not yet. thus far when we have attempted to test the voracity of the statements of michael cohen, he has failed each time and confident that he is going to fail that one as well. >> thank you. i appreciate it. more on that. and next, the latest on the too close to call the race in pennsylvania. waves of kids walk out of their schools in a nationwide effort to bring attention to gun violence and safety. i will show you where it happened and how big it was. , the fastest network ever. preorder the new samsung galaxy s9 for half off. ♪ say carl, we have a question about your brokerage fees. fees? what did you have in mind? i don't know. $4.95 per trade? uhhh. and i was wondering if your brokerage offers some sort of guarantee? guarantee? where we can get our fees and commissions back if

trump and therefore donald trump when he tried on buy the silence of daniels. what the e-mails show, and here they are. a bank sending michael cohen this note saying the funds have been deposited into your checking account and michael cohen forwarding that message to stormy daniels' attorney. this shows michael cohen using his trump company e-mail to conduct all this business. did the president know 11 days before his mexico his personal faithful attorney, and at the time, employee, was conducting this on his behalf to secure the election and does that violate election law if true? >> and tell me about the law firm that is involved now and was involved in the trump campaign? >> yeah. so the law firm, it is a small new york firm. they were paid with $114,000 from the trump campaign over the last two years. most of it was in 2016. then another check in late 2017. larry rosen is a partner in that firm. he is representing michael cohen in this stormy daniels dispute. he is telling cnn, the money from the trump campaign has nothing 22to do with stormy daniels. and h

the second piece of this is trump. reason i say that is, kim jong-un designed this strategy during the obama administration. he believed the obama administration would accept them and acquiesce, i think his calculation was absolutely right. trish: the south koreans are about to make that statement. >> today i had the privilege of briefing president trump on my recent visit to north korea. i would like to thank president trump and his national security team including my close friend general mcmasters. i say to president trump that his leadership and policies together with international solidarity brought us to this expwrungture. i expressed the president's personal gratitude for president trump's leadership. i told president trump that now meeting north korean leader kim jong-un said he's committed to achieve denuclearization. kim pledged north korea will refrain from any further nuclear tests. he understands that the join exercises in korea and the united states must continue. and he expressed willingness to meet presi

and solicit on the trade war, donald trump he wil donald trump, and he is focusing re. year on imagery but in the anybody ever wins during a trade war. over the trade war regarding the trade war and long some trade war. he does not understand the complexity of the market. he is correct that american cars have a higher tariff in europe. but it is grea lent -- but it is the craig that does have the commitment to tariffs in airs. lookijdthamnks to europe . it looks like the charlie's >> welcome to "focus on europe." i'm michelle henery. rarararararararararararararararn indecisive election last september. finally, however, the end could be in sight. in our spepecial broadcacast s week, we take a look at what d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d. after weeks of political wrangling, the fate of the potential coalition between angela merkel's conservatives d the socicial democratic papay members who have a postal ballot on the terms of the agreement.y

donald trump's lawyers. and today he has no doubt created sheer panic in donald trump's very fragile mind and in the week and fragile mind of michael cohen because of what michael avenatti said on msnbc tonight. you will hear that in a moment but here's what he tweeted late last night. it was a photograph of a dvd if a picture is worth a thousand words, what's this worth? i was one of many a bit confused by that tweet. and then they said it must have prove a relationship with stormy daniels and donald trump. and then tonight he clarified what his tweet meant in the most painful, possible terms for donald trump. >> let me tell you this, chris, that dvd contains evidence of this relationship. let me tell you why i sent the tweet. i sent the tweet as a warning shot to michael cohen and any other supporter to the president and the president himself to the extent they plan on disparaging my client, lying about what happened or spinning facts that have no basis in reality after this "60 minute" interview, let that

if you're trump. is the way to do that by pointing to something positive, the tax cuts or the economy? or does it require remember who the democrats are. you don't want them getting near power. >> it totally requires that. the john paul jeempbs op-ed was a gift to the trump and republicans though probably too early. the key to understanding whattal happen in november is not just the democrats are charged up which they are but whether republicans are going to say i'm not going to bother going to the polls and democrats will ride away. if republicans can get heated up and if the argument is going to be they got to turn out to the polls because the democrats are moving on guns, they're moving on there, on that, they are on the chashlg and if you don't stop them, terrible things will happen, that is exactly what the rnc, the national republican campaign committee, that's what they want. >> what about, phillip, the first part of that when he was talking about the wall? is this -- does he have to deliver so

so they are not ruling out ivanka trump or the trumps in any way. the media is doing what it does best, asking the questions. howie: whether ivanka answered the question or didn't answer the question it was meant to make news. but was it asked because she was the president's daughter? if you had the same situation at the olympics and it had been kellyanne conway would nbc ask that question. or was it because she was the president's daughter? kristin: probably a combination of both. we all know the media despises the trump administration. 95% of media coverage of trump during the first year of his administration was negative. ivanka is an independent strong woman who caused her own path in a business surrounded by strong men. but because she is the daughter of the most of hated man in modern political history, she is subject to vicious attacks. howie: ivanka trump in the past generally got good press for her career in new york. i wonder what you think underlying this is a kind of a resentment. we talked about jared kushner, too. that they shouldn't b

amy: you write not only about donald trump, jr., but also ivanka trump. senior adviser to president trump, her father. she sort of pave the way for donald trump, jr. in india just a few weeks before. >> ivanka trump with india in november. when prime minister modi came to the white house in june of last year, he made a point of inviting the president's daughter to leave this global entrepreneurship summit in india in november. so ivanka went in november to she wereern city, and all of these beautiful indian-inspired dresses, which -- must of what the media coverage was about. and right before she came, the streets work cleanup. there were a lot of news reports about people who were homeless and living on the streets were removed. everything was made a looks against m&a's for the president's daughter. a fancy party for her. right after she left, one of my sources, who is a retired thating official told me right after she left, things started going pretty well for business as well. the towers, a new project launched in january, the final permissions on that

ousted by trump. after weeks of speculation, the president fires his embattled veterans affairs secretary, tapping the white house physician to replace him. we're learning more this hour about the newest shake up in trump world. >>> russia probe pardons. new reporting tonight that one of the president's lawyers suggested pardons for michael flynn and paul manafort, as the special counsel was closing in on the top former trump aides. was it an attempt to keep them quiet? >>> protecting mueller. after mr. trump attacked him by name, there's renewed anxiety within both parties that he might try to fire robert mueller. this hour, i'll talk to a senator who's part of a bipartisan push to get the president to back off. >>> and trump's testimony. stormy daniels' lawyer asks a judge to let him question the president about his possible role in the infamous hush payment to the porn star. will mr. trump be forced to tell all under oath? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'

that there have been as many nicknames for trump team members as the number of trump team members who have come in gone since strong took office fourteen months ago between nineteen and thirty nine departures have taken place under president trump so far they is a staggering number and these are just some of them the ones who stand out include just a week ago trump chief economic advisor gary coleman he left remember after disagreements over trump's steel tariffs try. right hand man of the architect of his america first campaign stephen ban and he left back in august when michael wolf's tell all book fire in fury was published and steve bannon as you may have heard was seen this past weekend with the national front in paris saying it's a badge of honor to be called a racist f.b.i. chief james komi sacked by trump last may the democrats say to stop the f.b.i. investigation into russian election medley and a security advisor michael flynn is where it all began he was forced to resign just a few weeks after trump took office and you have to remember obama also fired him of course under t

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trump without mr. trump knowing about it. that's part of the overall structure is that michael had great latitude to take care of matters. >> in michael cohen, trump hired his long time mentor the lawyer his consigliere, a version of roy cohn, an aggressive defender of all things trump, no questions asked. after dantonio finished his book on trump, he got the cohen treatment in what turned out to be an empty threat. >> then he got mad and it was you just bought yourself an f'ing lawsuit, buddy. i'll see you in court. >> in 2011, michael cohen described his job this way. >> my job is i protect mr. trump. that's what it is. if there's an issue that relates to mr. trump that is of concern to him, it's of course a concern to me and i will use my legal skills within which to protect mr. trump to the best of my ability. >> cohen, a sometimes democrat, first came to trump's attention after buying apartments in trump developments. then went to the mat for trump against one of his condo boards and won. >> trump loved him for it. that

as a trump voter. and that's something we just don't see the in primetime. i think that really made the show stand out. we're in this period right now where we're seeing some revivals of sit-coms from the '80s and '90s. we're going to see murphy brown next season actually. and roseanne" is definitely one of them. there's the built-in audience. i think they were able to use this as hey, this is something that you don't see in primetime every night. it also refutes the idea that liberal hollywood only makes liberal content. >> yeah, and i take your point on that. i guess what i wonder, is it possible in this day and age when you think back to a lot of people mentioned all the in the family" in the '70s. there were four channels on television in the '70s. liberals and conservatives both watched "all in the family." the roseanne premiere the other night, there's a liberal on that show and her sister. you plenty of anti-trump commentary from her and plenty of pro-trump commentary from roseanne. is there com

trump. in your reading of things, does that mean mr. trump is currently winning their battle? >> the trump administration has not started off on the right foot here. so it is not clear to me that donald trump is thinking in terms of maximizing scarce u.s. leverage. by accepting north korea's invitation outright, you know, we have not yet put solid conditions on the table. and you've heard sarah sanders go back and forth trying to strike the right tone. so there is not yet a coordinated administration line. donald trump has seemed to leave rex tillerson out of the loop so that is not encouraging in terms of building a credible team that the president can rely on and delegate some responsibility to. and then i think there was a missed opportunity here for donald trump to ask or demand the release of three remaining american prisoners that are languishing in gulag. he could have said release them and then we'll have the summit. i think that is the very simplest thing that he could have done. >> donald trump wants denuclearization of the korean peninsula. he wants north korea to g

donald trump. yeah, they got it. >> somehow the arbitrator disagrees with you. >> no, the arbitrator didn't disagree with us because it was a unilateral act. the arbitrator had no contrary, it's like playing a football game and the other team doesn't even show up and then you claim victory. the arbitrator -- >> did the agreement, see, this narrative, this agreement is horrible, the arbitrator is horrible, when the judge rules against him he's going to be horrible. when it doesn't go in your narrative, everybody is horrible. >> was stormy daniels contacted about this arbitration? >> if it's not -- why do you even go through the trouble of bringing this up? >> are you licensed in california? are you licensed in california? >> absolutely not. >> okay. wait a minute. you're not licensed in california? >> why did you go through the trouble of filing this -- >> hold on. hold on. i want to make sure i understood this correctly. this contract is going to be governed by california law. >> i read california

trump? >> many times. >> you have? >> we did all the research, all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting. we ran all the digital campaign, the television campaign, and our data informed the strategy. >> i want to bring in kylie morris with itn channel 4 news. thank you so much for joining us, kylie. i really appreciate it. cambridge analytica responded to the new undercover recordings released today and they say that they never claimed it won the election for president trump and that they have spoken publicly about their contribution to the campaign. they're proud of the work that they did. what do you say to that? >> well, they're sending quite contradictory messages. it's important to note, as you say, that alexander nix has now been suspended, because they say that he wasn't representing the company in the way that they wanted that company to be represented. but i think, you know, if we judge him by his own commentary, he is very keen to boast about the role that they played and the kinds of tick ticks they

trump: you can? amy:y: talk about what exactly you're calling for right now. >> the federal assaultlt ban expired in 2004. seven ststates have their ownwnn s. shooting in june 2016, the floooor to coalition that we are a partt of called fr two things. a ban on assault weapons in florida and universal background checks along the lines that chris was talking about on the state level. after the parkland shooting, we renewed our call. that call is being led by the students. they want a state ban and federal ban. large timbers of people are in support of this. twowo provisions thatat we continue to push before the florida legislature. the legislature will be done soonon. their proposalals right now are much more -- watered down, quite frankly. they include arming teachers. what we need in florida are solutions that will reduce gun violence and not just small proposals raising the age to 21, good, but still includes the selling of assault rifles in florida. amy: in tallahassee, a bill was advanced to requi

quote in january 2015, trump had them as guests to his office in trump tower. a meeting that was never publically revealed during the investigations that followed the 2016 election. never publically revealed until now. in a new book i have been very excited to get my hands on, two very good investigative journalists their new book is called "russian roulette" we got the excerpt they put out today, the book comes out on tuesday. i have two things to tell you, we got the first excerpt today, the second excerpt tomorrow morning. i'm getting up earlier than usual so i can read it. also i'm happy to report before the book comes out on tuesday, here on monday night they're going to join us here live on set for their very first tv interview to discuss what is in their new book. circle it on their calendar. monday at 9:00 before that book comes out tuesday morning. stay with us. and strangers alik e. - this is what america's about. - sometimes it's nice to see all the good that's out there. bringing folks out, we have seen it in community after community. when heartbur