i immediately tweeted donald trump was lying again and donald trump never said that again. he never said he lost a friend on 9/11 again, not one. now, full disclosure, i didn't not fact check how many friends donald trump lost on 9/11 before tweeting he was lying about that. i just knew he was lying because i'd been watching donald trump long enough to know how he operates. the guy who tells you everything who was his ung and professor at m.i.t. is not going to leave out a friend of his. i knew he'd never mentioned losing friends on 9/11 before. you just had to think like donald trump to know he was lying about that. michael daily did the homework and fact checking for the daily beast. he did not find any proof donald trump attended a single 9/11 funeral, not one. donald trump did not lose a single friend on 9/11. donald trump didn't go to a single 9/11 funeral, and he told that lie to gain political vaem on a debate stage in south carolina where he was the only one from new york city, and no one there was smart enough to know he was lying. and because this instantly became

donald trump's ultimate loyalty is only to donald trump. it is not to his oath of office or the country. we've been documenting all of the things he is doing that hurt the forgotten man that he promised to be the champion of and who he is actively, aggressively working a against n his administration. cover-up l lie, deny, unless you knonow you did something wrong. amy: glenn, do you think president trump should be impeached over obstruction of justice? you have dom again quitting rather than firing, and president trump fired james comey. do you think, despite you have always said that this is not about collusion? >> no, i don't. the reason is because i think the question was whether he was acting as a president in his right to stop an investigation that he knew was based on false allegations or whether he was tried to cover up his own wrongdoing. once mueller concluded there is no evidence to establish the wrongdoing, i don't think yet a corrupt motive. i think his motive was this investigation is garbage and i'm very open about the fact i

donald trump is a one trick pony. whether it's, you know, 2016, 2018, or 2020 he is going to use like xenophoic appeals, anti-immigrant appeals, calling them animals. that is his -- that's his strength. he's not president of the united states. he is president of his base. now, the good news is that that is not a majority of the country. a majority of the country thinks that what trump is doing is actually morally indefensible and wrong, but he is counting on exciting his base, getting them enthusiastic, riling them up. i do think it's because they're attacking some other group. it's always a politics of subtraction, never addition for him. i think the bottom line of this is he's not growing his base. his tactic is to destroy whoever the democrat is and ensure his base is really strong. >> yeah, rick, when i've watched the news media over the two years of this presidency so far talk about what donald trump is doing, so many people in the news media seem to forget what you have to do to get reelected. >> that's right. >

donald trump is always recurseive. it's a smaller, smaller, shrinking base, and at some point you run out of the jokull guys to go, oh, maga. you run out of people who are going to endorse things that are intellectually bankrupt, morally dishonest and trumpian in every respect. at some point you end up with people saying, wait a minute, 38% is not going to get you home that requires you to win 271 votes in this equation. that's always sort of the dead end of trumpism, is that they are always recurseive, always internal, reducing the number of people that they appeal to. >> thank you for joining us on this friday night edition of the "last word." >> thanks. >>> and when we come back, the field of democratic presidential candidates gets bigger every day, and one of the things that that means is that the new ideas keep coming from the candidates in the campaign almost every day. some of those are among the best ideas i have heard in democratic campaigns in a long time. that's next. 's good to be back. (mom) it sure is. (m

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i have been watching this whole thing, all the hearings and of donald trump -- donald trump does not play fair. once they picked that special counsel, he said he was effed. they were going to uncover all of that dirt and that is why he knew he was done. host: the house is coming in for a quick pro forma session at 9:30. i want to give you guys a chance to respond. are democrats going to go next with the mother report and what are the prospects of impeachment? anna: we wrote about this today. the prospects of impeachment are low. what we saw coming out of the mother report is no republicans in the senate saying it is time to move forward on this. i am seeing a lot of caution on the part of nancy pelosi to try and give her troops room to breathe while there are some on the left that want to move forward with impeachment. there is a lot of wariness among democrats. is if bobone wildcard mueller testified publicly, what does that do to the political climate. i don't know the answer to that. it does not seem like 20 republican senators are going to try to remove donald trump from office.

the question, how far will donald trump go to keep his finances hidden? the answer may lie in a new lawsuit donald trump and his kids, ivanka, don jr. and eric filed against banks subpoenaed by congress, deutsche bank and capital one. the lawsuit is designed to block those banks from responding in any way to the congressional committee seeking information about trump's finances. "new york times" reporting, quote, in this suit filed in federal court in manhattan, the president and his family members argue the democratic house committee leaders who issued subpoenas engaged in a broad overreach. representative maxine waters, the chair of the financial services committee and adam schiff, chair of the intel committee issued a joint statement accusing the president of obstructing lawmaker's constitutional oversight authority and added, "as a private businessman, trump routinely used his well-known littid in littidgeousness. our friend from bloomberg adds this, quote, welcome to the first salvos of the post mueller battle between the white house and congress ove

just like donald trump. donald trump's grandfather was born in germany. what does it mean when you confuse where your father was born with where your grandfather was born? my father was born in boston. my grandfather was born in ireland and i have never once confused that, but then i'm not 72 years old, i don't have alzheimer's in my family history and i'm not the president of the united states trying to convince nato that i'm not just being mean when i ask nato countries to spend more money on their military. that's what donald trump was actually talking about today when he said that his father was born in germany. he repeatedly said that the united states spends much more on defense than we actually do, and that is the kind of trump falsehood that we probably wouldn't even mention tonight, but in any other presidency that would actually be the hot news of the day. the president doesn't even know how much money we spend on defense. that would be big news. in any other presidency. watching the president today, you had a right to wonder whether the preside

donald trump. >> i noticed donald trump come to the building. him and her were very friendly. she had an argument with the coworker. who says i will call mr. trump when you have an argument with somebody? and apparently, she did. >> he says after he made repeated complaints to superior's about the housekeeper's treatment of other staff, he was asked to resign from his job. but after he left, he says he could no longer find work as a doorman. >> weeks, months. turns out almost a year i couldn't find a job. >> fearing he had been blacklisted, he contacted a reporter at the nation"national enquire enquirer", thinking the tabloid might be interested in buying his story about trump east alleged affair. >> he says, you get to like $30,000 and you will be referred to as an ex-trump employee. >> as a precondition of payment, ami asked him to sign over the rights to his story in perpetuity. the contract also stipulated that he would be subject to a million dollar lawsuit if he spoke about the rumor. >> i get phone calls on a regular basis that i could ne

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donald trump loves that country. here he is on 9/11 doing an interview bragging about his buildings. >> you have one of the landmark buildings down in the financial district, 40 wall street. did you ever damage or what's happened down there? >> it was an amazing phone call. 40 wall street actually was the second tallest building in downtown manhattan and it was actually before the world trade center was the tallest and then when they built the world train center became known as the second tallest and now the tallest. >> there's more. let's play the way donald trump has spoken about muslims, about this broad community over a billion people and generalized about them. here's donald trump, a bit of a montage. >> the muslim community is not helping us. the muslim community is not reporting what's going on. muslims have to work with us. they have to work with us. they know what's going on. we have to look at the muslims and we have to do something. we can stand by and be the stupid people while our country is destroyed. d

to electing donald trump in 2016. former political operative at the democratic congressional campaign committee molly mitchell, thanks for coming on this morning. if joe biden has chance he has to do well in rust belt states and take them back from donald trump. >> joe biden thinks he's the best to take on donald trump but he has to win the democratic nomination first and after 40 years in washington he has a lot to answer for, not just the me too allegation but his support for job killing trade deals like nafta, tpp, the iraq war vote, anita hill, only 54% of democrats don't have a favorite candidate, joe biden talks about battling for the soul of america, he's about to battle for the soul of the democratic party. rob: he says he is a prounion man and put that out as hard as he can and he said western pennsylvania, northeastern pennsylvania, had it rough the last few years but starting to come back, the reason it started to come back is the guy he is trying to unseat, donald trump. >> depends how you look at that but

. >> donald trump can't win but the donald trump can sure as hell lose it. they are the party that seeks their own political death and they'll find a way, this impeachment question is one where you have two options. you can try to do an impeachment thing that'll go nowhere in the senate. there is no scenario than any human being says right now that donald trump will be convicted. >> mitch mcconnell. >> you won't get 50%. >> mitchell dragged mansions and others back. there is no scenario where he's removed by impeachment. what does it do? it rubs up donald trump's space and raises him $200 million, we'll get an e-mail saying send me five bucks for donald trump being thrown out of office. it we don't waon't haves politi. donald trump has no moral center, and no shame. you can't shame the shameless. what does work is to run investigations into all these things that are legitimate investigations of the actions of the campaign of donald trump himself and the things that have gone arnds him and all these people, the things that mueller could not touch and things h

, the experts on donald trump taxes, donald trump businesses, the people who know more about it than anyone else, they will join us to cover this breaking news about the trump tax returns and more. my lineage was the vecchios and zuccolis. through ancestry, through dna i found out that i was only 16% italian. he was 34% eastern european. so i went onto ancestry, soon learned that one of our ancestors we thought was italian was eastern european. this is my ancestor who i didn't know about. he looks a little bit like me, yes. ancestry has many paths to discovering your story. get started for free at ancestry.com >>> if i decide to run for office, i'll produce my tax returns, absolutely. >>> big surprise. he wasn't telling the truth. but now he's president of the united states and the chairman of the house ways and means committee, richard neal, is exercising his legal right under the law to demand donald trump's tax returns from the irs. joining us now is tim h brian. he's one of the very first people who has actually seen a donald trump tax return. he'll tell us about that in a minute

donald trump took off on a golden escalator. it was from a position of authority and not a position of something that has been denoted. in many ways it is going to be indicative of how his campaign is going to have to be run because his record is so long. currently not really in sync with democratic primary voters. host: joe biden's defenders are wrong, this is your piece. explain. guest: i disagree with what you said because i don't think joe biden issued an apology. theink he sidestepped apology and went to excuse making. he basically blamed his behaviors on the past and up to the present on social norms and changing societal values. to that, i think that is a ridiculous defense because there has never been a social norm where it is ok to reach out and stroke little girls in intimate manners in front of their parents. i think that is where joe biden gets his creepy label. i think excusing his behavior due to social norms changing is deceptive. host: he addressed this issue friday. he spoke to a union gathering at the washingto

inmigraciÓn es uno de los temas que mÁs motiva a la base de donald trump. y los demÓcratas repiten que el presidente lo necesita mantener viva hasta las elecciones. >> y mÁs adelante, las autoridades de mÉxico le dieron un fuerte golpe al crimen organizado decomisando mÁs de 40 t de mercancÍa pirata. y el doctor juan nos dice cuÁles son los factores que pueden contribuir a la infertilidad en la mujer.ur y acercÁndose a los ochentas. en sÓlo minutos, su pronóstico ♪ maria:las autoridades mexicanas asestar un golpe histÓrico a la piraterÍa, el incautar cerca de 50 t de mercancÍa falsificada proveniente destoria de mÉxico anualmente cerca de 150.000.000.000 $ a travÉs de sus aduanas. el paÍs lucha por el trÁfico constante de mercancÍa falsificada, drogas, armas, niveles exÓticos, entre otras cosas. >> debe entender la gente que se dedica a esto que no lo va a poder hacer por las aduanas de mÉxico. que vamos con mucha firmeza, que si tenemos miedo, pero somos muy valientes. maria: el gobierno del presidente manuel lÓpez obrador lanzÓ una

our next guest wrote the book about having donald trump as a boss. we'll speak with her next. directly to petmeds.com. because it's the easiest way to save 30% on all the medications we carry. so skip the search and go directly to petmeds.com now. termites, we're on the move.24/7. roger. hey rick, all good? oh yeah, we're good. we're good. termites never stop trying to get in, we never stop working to keep them out. terminix. defenders of home. >> are you worried that your staff is ignoring your orders as the mueller report states? >> nobody disobeys my orders. >> president trump this morning saying his employees always follow his marching orders. but the detail in the mueller report shows that is patently untrue. in fact, stories have been written just in the past few days about how don mcgahn might have indeed saved the trump presidency by not acting on the boss' orders. our next guest knows exactly what it's like to work for donald trump. barbara res also happens to be the author of "all alone on the 68th floor, how one woman changed the face of c

that's who turned on donald trump today. judge napolitano said he's very disappointed in donald trump because of what he has read in the mueller report. he's a personal friend of trump's. losing andrew napolitan know today was a very bad day in and of itself for the trump campaign. he is the fox network's highest legal authority. and on the day that the judge napolitano said that donald trump was guilty of obstruction of justice, the highest ranking democrat on the senate intelligence committee, mark warner, tried to alert the nation and alert voters in an article in "usa today" that president trump is "practically inviting foreign adversaries to interfere in 2020." we now know that the russians helped donald trump win the he electoral college last time. donald trump knows that and knows how close he came to losing the electoral college. he knows he cannot afford to lose any of those voter who the russians helped persuade to vote for donald trump last time. the trump campaign needs them and that's one of the reasons we have

this was attributed to donald trump. we now know that was not the case but another example of outrage during the trump administration but not when this was happening during obama. >> another false narrative, political talking point. the so-called cages they talk about, were never designed for these kids. they were overwhelmed. what they were trying to do was to take those kids out of these facilities that were designed for adults, not kids, and put them in a safer environment. in 2014 under the obama administration they were applauded. under this president the narrative is changed 100%. absolute false narrative, disingenuous and dishonest. heather: it is crazy, they are flying these people to texas, dropping them off at a bus stop, flying them from texas, released in arizona and released until they come back in how many days within 15 days, lots of those people disappeared. >> that is right and talk about the children, goes back to your first question we talked about. when a child comes here unaccompanied, wherever they

when donald trump announced his presidency. the weekly tabloid once known for celebrity gossip began playing an unlikely role in politics. the revealing look behind the pages of the "national enquirer". >> the "national enquirer" is at the checkout aisle all across america. >> powered by its sensational articles, it has become one of the significant poply cases in america. >> the readers are incredibly loyal to it. whatever they publish they will read and believe. >> exploiting tragedy. >> people have more of a fascination with this kind of stuff. detractors say the tabloid is ground zero for fake news. >> they sent me the $30,000 over the wire. >> this was a magazine that frankly, in many respects, should be very respected. >> donald trump's run for the white house inspired a whole new series of covers. >> donald trump weaponized the "national enquirer" in a way that hadn't been done. >> his alleged ally was the "national enquirer" boss. david pecker. >> it's a perfect marriage. it is a marriage made in tabloid heaven. >> i th

ruso en la torre de donald trump. el 9 de mayo de 2018 donald trump despide al director del fbi y tambiÉn al vicefiscal general y designa precisamente, a robert asesor especial de la investigaciÓn de la trama rusa. vÁmonos a septiembre del 2018. en ese mes y ese aÑo, el jefe de campaÑa de donald trump se declara culpable de cargos federales. dos meses despuÉs inmediatamente donald trump fuerza al fiscal general a renunciar y nombra a su sustituto interino. el 24 de marzo de este aÑo, el fiscal general publica un resumen de cuatro pÁginas del informe. en lo hubo colisiÓn con rusia y no seis otros son con rusia. lo demÁs es historia. >> por su pato que estaremos dÁndole cobertura a todo lo respecto a este informe. vamos a otros temas que tambiÉn estÁn haciendo noticia. un hombre estÁ bajo custodia luego de haber intentado cruzar con dos galones de gasolina lÍquido para encendedores. y esto lo hace a la catedral en nueva york. el sujeto de 37 aÑos es de new jersey y es conocido por la policÍa. alcanzÓ d

donald trump does not fight fair. said one thing, once they picked that special counsel, he said he was f'ed. he knew if he didn't take -- keep jeff sessions in there, once the special counsel came in, they were going to uncover all that dirt. that is why he knew he was in trouble. >> i'm going to leave it there. the house is coming in for a session. i want to give you to a chance to respond. kenneth is bringing us to today's news. where are democrats going to go next with his mule report? what are the prospects of i think the anna: possibility of impeachment is low. there are no republicans in the senate saying is trying to move forward. you're seeing a lot of caution on the behalf of nancy pelosi to give her troops room to breathe. there -- democrats see it as a full's errand and something that will come back and bite them in sit of being a political plus. -- democrats have will have a conference call to discuss the idea of impeachment. william barr testifying may 1 into, what do you expect that to look like, what d

he is there to work for donald trump. he going to find out that the donald trump is the death touch of everybody's career and honor. but for right now, is he sticking to the trump line. >> david frum, i can't think of an instance where an attorney general spoke in a senate hearing, said one word that are the next day or that day becomes the campaign re-election word. >> yeah, and you wonder as he sort of stumbled around whether he was trying to balance his future and president trump's future. to pick up on something very important that rick said, attorney general barr got a lot of deference. a lot of presumption of good faith. it was not an especially controversial or acrimonious hearing. he got through pretty easily, the democrats more or less absoluted. they raised some concerns but it wasn't a tough fight. and in the weeks after he took the job that a lot of people who were trump critical said his record, he served as attorney general before, he had a good reputation. let's give him the benefit of the doubt. wittes mad

donald trump controls it. donald trump controls the law. william barr is the attorney general of the united states and the republican party decides whether he is removed from power. and the supreme court has five conservatives on it. why should we trust the law? >> i'm a cynic, but the constitution withstood 230 years through depressions. i have to believe that the foundations will withstand this president. we are in uncharted territory right now. >> why should we believe that the republicans at some point are going to wake up and decide they want to uphold the constitution rather than doing what they have been doing since 2016. dutifully support donald trump in whatever he does. >> there are a lot of reasons to doubt that they will. most of them. there would be a few who might feel a twinge of conscious about trampling over the constitution with donald trump, but it's hard to say. >> what if they don't? >> that's what we have elections for. by the way, that's what people go into the streets about eventually. if everything else fails. hopef

donald trump doesn't think jeffrey epstein is a monster. donald trump still hasn't said that what jeffrey epstein did were vile crimes. in fact, after everything that has been publicly revealed about jeffrey epstein in court, donald trump still hasn't said anything negative about his friend. we couldn't find a negative word that donald trump has said about jeffrey epstein, right up to this date, and so no matter how bad the trump appointees get, no matter how far down in the barrel donald trump reaches for t the worst person in the trump administration is always going to be donald trump. that's tonight's last word. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >> tonight, pressure mounting on attorney general william barr to release the mueller report. the doj on defense, amidst leaks from the special counsel's office, is there more to what mueller found about obstruction than barr let on? the president does an about face on his border shutdown threat while battling pressure from democrats to release his tax returns next week, and joe bid

el gobierno de donald trump tendrÁ hasta el viernes para apelar la decisiÓn del juez. jorge: aseguran que el gobierno les negÓ el acceso precisamente en contra de lo que dice la ley. >> el gobierno del presidente donald trump impidiÓ que tres congresistas demÓcratas visitaran un centro de detenciÓn de menores. >> no deberÍan estar en una condiciÓn de un centro de detenciÓn. las visitas requieren una notificaciÓn mÍnima de dos semanas pero el bloqueo se habrÍa dado ilegalmente. pasÉ una ley bipartidista que fue firmada por el presidente que prohÍbe impedir el paso a congresistas. en otra visvivÍan en condiciones reducidas. han tenido mejor suerte, otros congresistas. >> tenÍan cinco meses viviendo fuera. en un momento en que el gobierno quiere un plazo de mÁs de dos aÑos. ilia es comercio fronterizo se ha visto perjudicado por la llegada de indocumentados. decenas han sido reubicados. esto ha generado largos retrasos en el cruce de camiones con productos de mÉxico al mercado estadounidense. los cierres comerciales de texas y arizona, debido al recorte d

that has brought us donald trump? this was before i was running. so they could not say "vote yang" yet. but that is a beautiful message. that is what you all are going to say. so i came to this town and said, what are we going to do? what do you think the responses i got in washington, d.c. were when i said that? shout them out. go ahead. >> [indiscernible] mr. yang: the responses i got from washington, d.c. where these, we cannot talk about that. boo! number two, we should study that further. [boos] mr. yang: and we must reeducate and retrain americans for the jobs of the future. that one you are like that sounds pretty reasonable but again i looked at the numbers. [applause] mr. yang: what do you think the success rate for federally funded retraining programs for a manufacturing workers in the midwest? >> i'm going to guess not that high. mr. yang: it was 0% to 15%. that stuff does not work. then i said i did the math and we are terrible at retraining. they said to me i guess we will get better at it. that is a wash

donald trump is a million times, she is not even in the same category as donald trump. >> and even trump's base doesn't like lawlessness, people violating the law. the problem is democrats have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. prosecute, bring up impeachment charges but actually pass legislation, do the common wheel at the same time. it is not easy, as will rogers said, i'm not a member of any organized political party, i'm a democrat, and unfortunately that's proving true. >> it is pathetic it is all on the democrats to figure this out. where are the republicans? >> their reputations is resigned to history to use that phrase. democrats asked for the keys to the car, they're in control of the house, they need to do their job. i say to those worried about political fallout, there wasn't political fallout because of impeachment. caucus was in chaos, gingrich was resigning, incoming speaker was caught in infidelity. four weeks prior, the american people gave congress back to the republicans by popular vote. two years later, democrats picked up one seat, republicans won the po

in the people that don't support donald trump are still not going to support donald trump listen this is a big report more than four hundred pages long how many americans are really going to go through all of this in read it page by page who knows probably some but probably not the majority people are very busy a busy lives to lead so what you're going to get here is you're going to get each side the trump. donald trump is the white house on one side and you're going to get the democrats in the more than fifteen democrats running for the democratic nomination on the other side all giving their some mation of this report and that's what we've been hearing over the past hours you have donald trump that's telling his supporters listen they did all this millions of dollars almost two years of investigation and it late lead ultimately to nothing against me that's what donald trump is saying on the other side are going to get the democrats appoint to the very same report and say listen there is a lot there there's a lot of lies immorality dysfunctionality abuse of power and attempts at obst

trump supporters are going to still support donald trump i think they're going to see no reason not to based on a special counsel's report likewise the people that do not support donald trump will probably not be able to change the won't change their mind either based on this report this is still going on it's still going to go to congress so this is by no means the last chapter of this book but i suspect that what you get out of this is not much change when it comes to the divide in this country let's remember about thirty to thirty five percent of the country strongly still behind donald trump a little bit more than fifty percent strongly against donald trump so it's those ten to fifteen percent in the middle maybe that could be the deciding factor there i can tell you that the donald trump campaign for two thousand and twenty has already sent out an e-mail within the last hour to their supporters saying no obstruction of justice no collusion donate to our campaign to help donald trump get reelected that's the message from the trump campaign and the president himself likely the de

donald trump. the bbc's north american editor starts the coverage. >> the next president of the united states, joe biden. will it be said time like hefo the rmer vice president joe biden. this is him 30 yea ago. going for the democratic nomination. he tried again 20 years later when he lost to barack obama. now aged 76, he is giving it one last shot. o like many of his competitors who are trying tnore donald trump, he is taking the fight straight to him. >> if we give donald trump eight years in the white house, he wi forever and fundamental alter the character of this nation. who we are, and i cannot stand by and watch that happen. reporter: his prelaunch has been bumpy. accused by somwomen of making them feel uncomfortable, he has d tr make light of it. >> by thee way, he g permission to touch him. reporter: that backfired with many saying this is no laughing matter.th alsoe are now 20 democrats vying for the nomination. >> they call me mayor pete. reporter: early momentum has been captured by th

this is why donald trump became president. there's no place for spin in a fact driven scenario which is what the mueller probe was and if there are facts in a report, in some ways it matters less what the conclusion was because everyone will take the original source information and do with it what they may. >> and on that sunday night if you asked the 300 smartest people about politics that you knew in both parties, do you think the mueller report would eventually become public, eventually, all of them would say, yeah, of course. given everything that's happened over the last two years, the political reality is, it will become public. mueller will testify. we will -- it will all come out in the open. if you're knew that on sunday night, your calculus would never be, we've got to win the day. the long run is where this battle is joined and won or lost. >> it's such a good reminder, joyce vance, and it makes -- it makes me think two things, one, barr was out of the game a very long time and two, having worked in the executive br

always going to be donald trump. that's tonight's "last word." "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >>> tonight, pressure mounting on attorney general william barr to release the mueller report. the doj on defense amidst leaks from the special counsel's office. is there more to what mueller found about obstruction than barr let on? >>> the president does an about-face on his border shutdown threat while battling pressure from democrats to release his tax returns next week. >>> and joe biden today spotted in his

he is one of the more plausible candidates for defeating donald trump. 0ne donald trump. one of the more plausible, absolutely. will he be well financed? absolutely. will he be well financed ? without question. absolutely. will he be well financed? without question. butjoe biden comes with baggage of his own, from the very strict against a hill backin from the very strict against a hill back in the clarence hearings. he is one of them who voted for something else about justice. one of them who voted for something else aboutjustice. if you look at this, was it going for independence... i want to know what the candidate is poor but not what he is talking about trump and cha rlottesville but he is talking about trump and charlottesville but what is your vision? this is the first time to introduce himself and the cycle to americans, why i am running, why it is important to meetjoe biden. i thought it was negative compared to the attack he could have taken. thank you for coming on, ron christie. we saw the president signed up the tweet and retweet other criticisms which is wha

los Ángeles, liliana, univisiÓn. >> hoy el presidente donald trump volvÍa burlas a los inmigrantes. el mandatario dijo que el programa de asilo es una estafa y que quienes lo soliciten en su mayorÍa son segÚn el rufianes, gente que parecen luchadoras de artes marciales que tiene tratos es en la cara, llevan la bandera su paÍs, pero dicen temer por su vida y por eso vienen a los estados unidos. >> el presidente donald trump quiere restringir la inmigraciÓn en general su yerno eestarÍa gestionando expandir el ingreso legal de extranjeros. desde enero ha estado trabajando en una propuesta por otro de risas de empleo temporal a trabajadores poco calificados y tambiÉn a los altamente preparados. >> donald trump dice que el sistema ya estÁ lleno y que no puede aceptar mÁs inmigrantes indocumentados. incluso si son refugiados o piden asilo. tambiÉn sigue amenazando a mÉxico con cerrar la frontera si no impide que lleguen a la frontera con estados unidos. su asesor en temas migratorios quiere limitar la inmigraciÓn incluso legal. sin embargo, el yerno de donald trump lleva trabaj

that's donald trump's mantra. it is striking to see the sitting attorney general of the united states departing from the very point he knew the nation would be reading soon, that mueller said treat this as conspiracy, not collusion in the analysis. but he had his reasons. and all of this comes as we're learning in the section on conspiracy new details about the trump aides that were actively spreading hack material that wikileaks got online, about a conversation trump had where he revealed he just had been told more damaging information would be coming and apparent second incident in addition to the trump tower meeting, in which russians allegedly offered other types of dirt on clinton to donald trump's team. to dig into this, we have subject matter experts that are perfect to advance our understanding. michael mcfaul, and brian fallon, and also then later was a press secretary of hillary clinton's presidential campaign. two views overlapping on the issues. and someone also very familiar with the audience, corresp

trump, here's donald trump earlier today. >> these are not impartial people, democrats trying to win 2020. >> for white house counsel don mcgann who left the administration in october. according to reports trump allegedly told mcgann to inform the attorney general that mueller should be fired and that is not the case. the administration is well aware if mcgann appears before congress. and back in 2017. >> and they provided millions of pages and the conclusion and there's no collusion and no obstruction. >> the special counsel never made a final determination that there was no instruction, that was made by william barr. democrats are leaving this one alone. and privilege to prevent testimony from being heard. and and john gore working for the civil rights division, and the senses question about citizenship. the department of justice that will not comply with such a subpoena issuing a statement, quote, this is a massive unprecedented and growing pattern of obstruction, and will head to the supreme court, this takes place in the senate and the supreme court. the battle is between the ad

trump as hypothetical matchup, joe biden versus donald trump. >> you are the prime example why we are going to win in 2020, you want to paint a picture like the democratic party is only three or four names, some voices seem to be all the media thinks of from the right but that is not true for the party. new york times laid out clearly when it shows eight people in the party and not people who want to repeat the white -- right-wing talking points, joe biden entered the race, one of very few people who can bring many parts, he is the republicans first nightmare from the president on the ballot. >> i have to push back on you. you have 20 candidates and to say the majority of them are not so extreme is the opposite of what we are in from a lot of talking points. including nancy pelosi. >> people running for the nomination and those who serve in congress, people in congress that you write off have progressive policy positions. you won't get pushback from the on that. >> bernie sanders -- >> absolutely, right now. bernie sanders, every poll we had to this point is all about name id, the rub

let's start with donald trump at the southern border. trace gallagher has been very latest. >> the calexico border crossings 80 miles east of san diego, donald trump toured a 2-mile stretch of a 30 foot border fence that has been rebuilt. he is using the fence to illustrate his promise that the wall is underway. >> looks great, looks better and more effective than the previous wall. we can do it faster and it is less expensive if you can believe it so it is a better, faster and less expensive. when the president declared a national emergency it opened access to $3 billion of the $3.6 billion he requested to build the wall, this week he threatened to close the entire border if mexico and congress failed to slow the flow of migrants, now the president has backed off that threat telling officials at a roundtable discussion that mexico is coming through. >> i'm totally willing to close the border but mexico has done more than it has ever done, they are apprehending people by the thousands and bringing them back to their countries. >> the pre

trump tried to have robert mueller fired, donald trump tried to have robert muellerfired, so donald trump tried to have robert mueller fired, so there would never be this report seeing the light of day. but will it change anyone's mines? those who think donald trump is unfit to be president will be kind of reaffirmed in that particular view, having read the report, and those who think donald trump is doing a good job and this was a hoax and a witch hunt will ta ke was a hoax and a witch hunt will take solace from the fact that the attorney general says no laws were broken. i should, attorney general says no laws were broken. ishould, my attorney general says no laws were broken. i should, my report i should warn you , broken. i should, my report i should warn you, contains very strong language. a watershed moment for this president and maybe the presidency itself. donald trump was at the white house meeting wounded warriors. but from his two—year long battle with robert mueller, he feels he has emerged unscathed, his reputation intact. he said his guests were having a good time. i

donald trump has the worst poker face. he was talking about joe biden being in and he understands this year will be all about pennsylvania, pennsylvania, pennsylvania, and he has drawn the worst card in joe biden if he wants to went pennsylvania. >> well, joe, talking about a poker face, it's really hard to maintain a poke are face with your competition when tweet out exactly what you think. i found it very telling that president trump was -- he was definitely unnerved by the union support that joe biden enlisted yesterday and was ripping into union leadership as taking money from the rank and file and he still maintains his support. but i thought that that shows that joe biden has definitely gotten under his skin and that the way joe biden is going about attacking him, not directly head on but references the lies and the lack of moral character and definitely making donald trump part of his case for defeating him, that the character of the man does matter, has been effective and has got i don't know in donald trump's head

which donald trump are we seeing? >> we're seeing the lifelong donald trump. we're seeing the donald trump, whose whole m.o. as a businessman, as litigant in 4,000 odd lawsuits, as a performer, is to fight. to refuse. to deny. to enable. this is what he does. he is like a pig in muck in this situation. subpoena that's he can refuse and deny are his thing of it is why he's in the wwe hall of fame. >> you're saying ignoring lawful requests is his thing. >> until he settles the trump university suit. until he decides, okay, move on. but yes. this is, the oversight various congressional committees, house committees requests refusing is his act. and he'll happily continue doing that until whatever happens. the federal marshalls come to the oval office. we don't know. >> if i may, he's not the donald trump of the past. he's the president of the united states of manager. he is the executive under article ii. congress has article 1 power and they have a right to oversight. in fact, they are required to conduct such oversight. for the president to spew everything he's