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donald trump. quote, you can't legislate when you have a chief executive who's weird for lack of a better description. harry reed is right, of course. and so after that weird meeting with the weird chief executive that was weirdly held for no reason at all in the situation room, everyone agreed to only one thing, and that was that nothing was accomplished by that meeting. but tonight there is yet another comment from the psychiatrists studying donald trump to consider from that meeting. chuck schumer repeatedly asked the president why he would not support passing six spending bills that both parties have already agreed to that would reopen the government departments and agencies that have no jurisdiction over the border wall that donald trump wants to fund. donald trump eventually answered saying, i would look foolish if i did that. now, consider the enormity of the delusion in that statement. first of all, donald trump thinks that if he did something rational like sign spending bills for everythin
donald trump. quote, you can't legislate when you have a chief executive who's weird for lack of a better description. harry reed is right, of course. and so after that weird meeting with the weird chief executive that was weirdly held for no reason at all in the situation room, everyone agreed to only one thing, and that was that nothing was accomplished by that meeting. but tonight there is yet another comment from the psychiatrists studying donald trump to consider from that meeting. chuck...
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>> because it was in donald trump's political interest for michael cohen and donald trump jr. to tell this lie to the senate intelligence community about how long the investigations were going on. you got to give trump credit for being crafty. he was consistently lying to the american people about trump tower in moscow, about the purpose of the meeting with the russian lawyer, but he didn't lie to mueller. his people didn't want him to submit to an investigation to mueller because if he had told those same lies to mueller, then he would have committed a crime. the concern for him now is donald trump jr. most likely told the same lie that michael cohen told. if cohn is prosecuted by mueller, then donald trump jr. should be and that will give mueller leverage over the president of the united states. >> ellie, do you think that's where it's going? >> absolutely. i still think donald trump jr. is right in the sights. a point worth mentioning here, people keep truncating the impeachment clause to high crimes and misdemeanors. that's not what it says. it says you can be impeached fo
>> because it was in donald trump's political interest for michael cohen and donald trump jr. to tell this lie to the senate intelligence community about how long the investigations were going on. you got to give trump credit for being crafty. he was consistently lying to the american people about trump tower in moscow, about the purpose of the meeting with the russian lawyer, but he didn't lie to mueller. his people didn't want him to submit to an investigation to mueller because if he...
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mitch mcconnell and donald trump. and let me tell you something, lawrence, the wall they should be worried about is not a the wall at the south border, but wall street where we had another gigantic drop today in where the last thing that's underpinning trump's survival here, which is strong economic results is starting to move towards recession. if that turns, it's a collapse for trump, a collapse for republicans on capitol hill. >> now, david jolly, consider mitt romney who has a former governor -- i know governors when they're out there in the country and 50 states they shake their heads, they cannot believe that it ever happens because it basically can't really happen in a state government. so here's mitt romney facing his first government shutdown, and what does he do about it? and one of the first things he's going to read about it is his colleague western senator cory gardener, republican senator like mitt romney from utah saying i don't think shutting down the government is ever the right answer. if mitt romney
mitch mcconnell and donald trump. and let me tell you something, lawrence, the wall they should be worried about is not a the wall at the south border, but wall street where we had another gigantic drop today in where the last thing that's underpinning trump's survival here, which is strong economic results is starting to move towards recession. if that turns, it's a collapse for trump, a collapse for republicans on capitol hill. >> now, david jolly, consider mitt romney who has a former...
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were they phone calls to donald trump -- to his father, to donald trump the candidate at the time? according to the information that the investigators have received, we know that it wasn't to the then candidate donald trump. we do not know the identity of who these people were. we are told by sources that these were to donald trump juni junior's business associates at the time. we don't know exactly what was discussed in those phone calls. we don't know whether it has anything to do with the russia investigation. we certainly now know that it didn't have anything to do with then candidate donald trump. >> we know democrats were focusing a lot of attention on those mysterious phone calls. what are the implications of this? >> this is an important detail to try to figure out. again, they have been trying to figure out -- the investigators have been trying to figure out whether or not there's any proof that donald trump junior or anything who was involved in the june 2016 trump tower meeting told then candidate trump about what was going on. did he know in advance that they were havin
were they phone calls to donald trump -- to his father, to donald trump the candidate at the time? according to the information that the investigators have received, we know that it wasn't to the then candidate donald trump. we do not know the identity of who these people were. we are told by sources that these were to donald trump juni junior's business associates at the time. we don't know exactly what was discussed in those phone calls. we don't know whether it has anything to do with the...
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these are more donald trump untruths. no, i mean we could spend all day long if you want to go down the rabbit hole of how many politicians flip—flop, so i think that that is politics as usual. however, i am from texas and i completely disagree. this is a national border, national security crisis, as well as an humanitarian crisis. yes, people in 2016 — yes, there were slightly fewer crossings, but it spiked again at the end of 2018, and what we've seen are 60,000 people coming across the border a month. these are cb — border patrol statistics, not white house statistics. with respect, the numbers... now, what... wait, wait... the numbers, the numbers... 60,000. they're not even half what they were in the late 90s and early 2000s, so how can you... but what has changed, stephen, what has changed, stephen, is the composite of the illegal immigrants coming across. first of all, it used to be individual males. now they are families, including unaccompanied children, and many make the perilous journey from el salvador,
these are more donald trump untruths. no, i mean we could spend all day long if you want to go down the rabbit hole of how many politicians flip—flop, so i think that that is politics as usual. however, i am from texas and i completely disagree. this is a national border, national security crisis, as well as an humanitarian crisis. yes, people in 2016 — yes, there were slightly fewer crossings, but it spiked again at the end of 2018, and what we've seen are 60,000 people coming across the...
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trump, that is donald trump versus pelosi, donald trump versus schumer, donald trump versus the mainstream media. and wonder what those numbers look like when it's donald trump against nikki haley or donald trump against ben sasse or donald trump against mitt romney. it will certainly be much tighter, won't it? >> it's interesting, his view of the history in afghanistan. he has a fuzzy view of history eight weeks ago. he is doubling down now on an immigration metaphor, the wall. he did a same thick with another immigration metaphor with the caravan. he lost by nine points in the popular vote. the greatest house loss since 1973. >> when does the cara vab gvan here? i'm still -- >> pitches and catches report. i think. pitches, catches and the caravan. >> so people on the rio grande are fine for now. >> february 8th. once again, you've got the caravan coming. big problem. >> and the caravan coming. mike, do you think in these days where the president has a built-in protections that he has that this isn't going to be like mccarthy in '68. not like buchanan in '92. there isn't a republican that
trump, that is donald trump versus pelosi, donald trump versus schumer, donald trump versus the mainstream media. and wonder what those numbers look like when it's donald trump against nikki haley or donald trump against ben sasse or donald trump against mitt romney. it will certainly be much tighter, won't it? >> it's interesting, his view of the history in afghanistan. he has a fuzzy view of history eight weeks ago. he is doubling down now on an immigration metaphor, the wall. he did a...
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a donald trump problem. jared kushner has yet to earn his junior g-man badge they've got him working on immigration policy they've got him negotiating on the wall and he's in over his head there is no one around this president that is competent enough to address the myriad number of issues that come in front of them. trump ultimately never listens to anybody what you have now in this event is, as neera said, it's the first sort of landmark failure for this team in which their incompetence is exposed. it's also donald trump revealed as an inept deal maker a guy who came to washington with a base believing he was a very competent businessman who could get things done in washington even though his track record as a businessman was just as abysmal was the deal he got plowed by nancy pelosi on. it's all come home to roost. >> all that's really come out of this is that donald trump, his cabinet and even his daughter-in-law have appeared to be incredibly callous individual people the republican party look completel
a donald trump problem. jared kushner has yet to earn his junior g-man badge they've got him working on immigration policy they've got him negotiating on the wall and he's in over his head there is no one around this president that is competent enough to address the myriad number of issues that come in front of them. trump ultimately never listens to anybody what you have now in this event is, as neera said, it's the first sort of landmark failure for this team in which their incompetence is...
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a wall donald trump is afraid to walk away from. now that he said it so many times at campaign rallies where he also said mexico would pay for it, right wing media members won't let him walk away. he can't because he could face indictment or impeachment without them. we are in the 16th day over a memory device, a made-up piece of campaign rhetoric. it would be like bill clinton shutting down the government over a promise to build a literal bridge to the 21st century or barack obama because he wanted $5 billion earmarked for "yes we cans." there is no end in sight to this government shutdown. things are only going to get worse from here for republicans, for donald trump and for millions of americans who are about to find out just how much the federal government does. joining me now, e.j. deyoung, msnbc contributor and columnist for the washington post, maria cumar, president of voter latino, jamil smith from rolling stone and kaden dawson, republican strategist. you're at a disadvantage, you're not here with us so i'll go to you firs
a wall donald trump is afraid to walk away from. now that he said it so many times at campaign rallies where he also said mexico would pay for it, right wing media members won't let him walk away. he can't because he could face indictment or impeachment without them. we are in the 16th day over a memory device, a made-up piece of campaign rhetoric. it would be like bill clinton shutting down the government over a promise to build a literal bridge to the 21st century or barack obama because he...
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donald trump passed out candy to everyone but things turned sour ending with donald trump walking out on democratic leaders. >> the president got up and walked out. he asked nancy pelosi will you agree to my wall, she said no and he got up and said then we have nothing to discuss and just walked out. >> it wasn't even high-stakes negotiation but a petulant president of the united states, a person who says i will keep government shutdown for a month or years unless i get my way. >> democrats described it as a temper tantrum. >> slammed the table. >> reporter: republicans say that the gross mischaracterization i the democrats. speech the behavior is embarrassing. the way to come to this floor and talk about a meeting in a manner that did not take place is disturbing to me. i thought the president was very calm in continuing to put different options on the table, nobody slammed their hands on the table, he left the room because nancy pelosi said even if he gave her what she wanted she would never agree to the border security priorities. >> they couldn't even agree on what happened inside
donald trump passed out candy to everyone but things turned sour ending with donald trump walking out on democratic leaders. >> the president got up and walked out. he asked nancy pelosi will you agree to my wall, she said no and he got up and said then we have nothing to discuss and just walked out. >> it wasn't even high-stakes negotiation but a petulant president of the united states, a person who says i will keep government shutdown for a month or years unless i get my way....
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trump and the enabling of donald trump. look, those poll numbers are bad today. they're going to be a lot worse as i think the damage from the shutdown becomes clearer, as the cost becomes clearer. i also think when people begin to think through the concept of declaring a national defense emergency on the border, i think there's going to be a tremendous backlash to that as well. >> sam stein, anyone who knows anything about the way the army core of engineers, the defense department spends money, does construction, building things, especially things that require permits, which a lot of their stuff doesn't if it's being done in combat zones, say in afghanistan -- >> sure. >> if you're trying to build something in texas and you are the defense department, you are a minimum, if you're completely unobstructed by the political process or by courts, you're a minimum of over a year away from a shovel hitting any dirt anywhere in texas on the border to build this wall. >> yeah, absolutely. and that's not even mentioning the fact tha
trump and the enabling of donald trump. look, those poll numbers are bad today. they're going to be a lot worse as i think the damage from the shutdown becomes clearer, as the cost becomes clearer. i also think when people begin to think through the concept of declaring a national defense emergency on the border, i think there's going to be a tremendous backlash to that as well. >> sam stein, anyone who knows anything about the way the army core of engineers, the defense department spends...
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heather: donald trump fighting for legal immigration? scratch off lottery ticket lands this guy behind bars. he ended up seeing green and why he is green with envy. heather: alexandria ocasio-cortez thinks immigrants at the border are more american than donald trump. >> he's fighting against almost every way people can legally into the country, forcing them to become undocumented and then trying to attack their undocumented status. it is systematic, it is wrong and anti-american. those women and children trying to come here with nothing but the shirts on the back to create an opportunity and provide for this nation are acting more in the american tradition than the president is right now. heather: the new york congresswoman slamming the president's immigration policies shortly after his address on the border crisis. as our government tries to come up with a security solution mexico has a plan. the country will post guards at 370 crossing points on the mexico guatemala border in addition to beating up security at 12 points of entry. many
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this may not be an issue of donald trump being educated or donald trump just being a stubborn old real estate developer who still thinks that gold plating is the solution to all problems. donald trump, this may be the product of compromise, kompromat, corruption and collusion. donald trump may not be mistaken about these things. he may be taking direction from hi friends in russia telling him what to do about these things. you know, education may not fix that, lawrence. >> eugene, your reaction to this back and forth today, the president's attacks on his own appointees. these are all people he appointed, he chose and when he told us he told us they were the best. >> unprecedented, shocking, disagreeisful, those are words that could have been used instead of unusual. >> listen, i don't mean to pick on "the new york times." i understand the language fatigue here. i'm sure as they develop their reporting on this, they're not going to leave it as unusual. >> no, they're not. look, as an old newspaper man, it has taken us awhile to learn the language we need to use to describe donald trump.
this may not be an issue of donald trump being educated or donald trump just being a stubborn old real estate developer who still thinks that gold plating is the solution to all problems. donald trump, this may be the product of compromise, kompromat, corruption and collusion. donald trump may not be mistaken about these things. he may be taking direction from hi friends in russia telling him what to do about these things. you know, education may not fix that, lawrence. >> eugene, your...
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donald trump. Éste globo que lo hemos visto en otros lugares de protesta contra presidente donald trump y estÁ apostado en este lugar tambiÉn.ademÁs la organizaciÓn que los prÓximos minuto llevarÁ una rueda de prensa en este lugar y nosotros estaremos aquÍ para verlo. vamos escuchar en vivo como se muestra la realidad en este lugar. gente que estÁ a favor y gente que estÁ en contra de la construcciÓn del muro fronterizo que hayan llegado a este lugar. de hecho la ciudad de mcallen se vio forzado para oponer esta barrera para que el pÚblico no cruce a la calle en el momento de que el presidente salga del lugar. tenemos entendido de tan pronto termine la reuniÓn en este lugar va a salir por este lugar y te dirigirÁ un parque fronterizo que se encuentra hacia el oeste y allÍ justamente el presidente va a conocer mÁs de cerca cÓmo estÁ la frontera y regresar al aeropuerto de mcallepara partir a washington . o regreso con ustedes. carolina: estÁ con los otros del congresista jorge cu
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now, maybe mitch mcconnell just can't relate because like donald trump, not as rich as donald trump maybe, but mitch mcconnell is a very, very rich man. and mitch mcconnell like all republicans, publicly at least, hates the irs. but does he hate the irs workers who live in kentucky? republicans love to hate the irs publicly. but on a per dollar basis irs workers are the most valuable workers in america. they return a giant profit on their salaries to the united states treasury every year. and they do it in the processing centers in kentucky, texas, missouri, california, and utah that mitch mcconnell and republicans are now keeping closed down. some republicans are now voting for every spending bill that nancy pelosi brings to a vote in the house of representatives, and at least three republicans have publicly declared that they would do the same in the senate if mitch mcconnell would just bring those bills to a vote in the senate. and if those bills came to a vote, there would be many more than just those three who've publicly declared their support. those bills would easily pass the unit
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story of the real donald trump." jack o'donnell, of course, being the most successful american with the name o'donnell and not related to me, of course. joy, i want to start with the woman we just heard, faye smith. that is the real face of this shutdown right now today. people who are on the verge of losing their homes. she is going to be evicted in washington, d.c. donald trump has done a lot of evictions. >> yes. >> you know, in his life. his father has done a lot of evictions. they know from their end of it how that works. and mitch mcconnell is the person who now will be as responsible as donald trump for faye smith getting evicted if she does. >> yeah, and not only doing evictions. if you follow history as tony schwarz and others have laid out, using tactic like not fixing the heat, making the apartment so unlivable that people essentially self-evict and leave in order to redevelop properties into luxury condominium. he's used to inflicting suffering on people that he thinks are disposable in order to get his w
story of the real donald trump." jack o'donnell, of course, being the most successful american with the name o'donnell and not related to me, of course. joy, i want to start with the woman we just heard, faye smith. that is the real face of this shutdown right now today. people who are on the verge of losing their homes. she is going to be evicted in washington, d.c. donald trump has done a lot of evictions. >> yes. >> you know, in his life. his father has done a lot of...
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that information is not shared with donald trump. it's one -- . >> host: is probably in some disclaimer that we don't read. >> guest: some 14 page paragraph. this is the one thing the internet bill of rights will be increasingly important idea because you can't have these corporate giants in one legal paragraph stuck away in a document that nobody reads and everybody has to agree to when they use google but they can't deprive you of your first amendment rights. that i think is going to be a key issue that is the coming that i foresee being fought out in the ftc, the federal trade commission where he believe the real regulation and that needs to be and i'm predicting in the "killing the deep state" i make the argument that these internet giants will have to be regulated and we have to have the fundamental of rights incorporated into these internet giants even if it involves antitrust action to break them up. >> host: not to leave james comey to quickly and you write a lot about him in your book. you think trump would have been better
that information is not shared with donald trump. it's one -- . >> host: is probably in some disclaimer that we don't read. >> guest: some 14 page paragraph. this is the one thing the internet bill of rights will be increasingly important idea because you can't have these corporate giants in one legal paragraph stuck away in a document that nobody reads and everybody has to agree to when they use google but they can't deprive you of your first amendment rights. that i think is going...
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. >> i haven't heard donald trump voters saying i need this wall. >> yes. >> but donald trump supporters are not a monolith. that's a mistake that everybody makes. no more so than donald trump himself who believes his voters need him to fulfill these promises. it's not a promise if mexico's not paying for it. he's not getting anything done. so my confusion here is does donald trump understand that or is his only -- only thing he does understand is fighting. >> no, i think that hearing that laura ingraham and rush limbaugh were saying he was a wimp terrified him. he, like lyndon johnson in 1968, who decided not to run for president because walter mondale, walter mondale, excuse me, walter cronkite said america had lost the tet offensive which america had not. he said i lost cronkite so i can't be president again. johnson was wrong. and trump is wrong. >> rush limbaugh was none at campaign trail talking to people at donald trump rallies. his campaign aides should know this as well because a lot of them were there also. yes, there was the response. build the wall and mexico will pay for it.
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trump recently, donald trump a long time ago and whoever can cut the giant hole in donald trump's steel slat wall model. that's all the time we have on "the beat." "hardball" with chris matthews is up next. >>> cohen to testify. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. we begin with bomb shell news that president trump's long-time lawyer and fixer has agreed to testify in public next month before the congressional oversight committee and appears ready to really set the record straight. as co cannen said in a statement today i look forward to having a privilege to giver a full and credible account of the
trump recently, donald trump a long time ago and whoever can cut the giant hole in donald trump's steel slat wall model. that's all the time we have on "the beat." "hardball" with chris matthews is up next. >>> cohen to testify. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. we begin with bomb shell news that president trump's long-time lawyer and fixer has agreed to testify in public next month before the...
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a couple of you at this table know donald trump personally the pain that donald trump caused, we were talking to tony schwartz and he talked about the tactic that sometimes donald trump would use to empty a building, allowing misery to take hold in the building and making the building unlivable so the tenants would essentially take themselves out of the building. >> yes. >> evict themselves. does it surprise you that donald trump would use that same kind of a tactic on the whole country just to get a wall that he must know he cannot get >> i don't think his perception was he was using it on the country as much as he thought he was using it on the democrats in the house of representatives yes, he will do anything to win. there's no question about that he lost. which is kind of -- >> does he know when he's lost is he aware? >> i think he must know he lost this he may never admit it. maybe he struggles admitting it to himself i think he is aware. >> the number of paychecks most affected have missed was two, 25,419 civilian xwleerps filing initial unemployment claims during a one-week per
a couple of you at this table know donald trump personally the pain that donald trump caused, we were talking to tony schwartz and he talked about the tactic that sometimes donald trump would use to empty a building, allowing misery to take hold in the building and making the building unlivable so the tenants would essentially take themselves out of the building. >> yes. >> evict themselves. does it surprise you that donald trump would use that same kind of a tactic on the whole...
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these are things donald trump said about the last a.g. "very weak position on hillary clinton crimes. disgra disgraceful. the recruiseusal was an unforce betrayal. good job, jeff." trashed him constantly from the airwaves of fox news, from the white house rose garden. who walks in there thinking they're going to be digit affer? is bill barr going to be treated differently? >> i don't think the. th is going to behave differently than he has the last two years or majority of his adult life. he's going to have certain expectations for what bill barr is like as attorney general. assuming he eventually gets confirmed. and the question is going to be, does bill barr make some sort of decision or take some action or even just make a public utterance that forever changes the way president trump views him? with jeff sessions as attorney general, it was that recusal that was sort of a black and white moment that forever sullied sessions' reputation in the eyes of this president. bar has not, to my knowledge, done anything yet in this hearing even t
these are things donald trump said about the last a.g. "very weak position on hillary clinton crimes. disgra disgraceful. the recruiseusal was an unforce betrayal. good job, jeff." trashed him constantly from the airwaves of fox news, from the white house rose garden. who walks in there thinking they're going to be digit affer? is bill barr going to be treated differently? >> i don't think the. th is going to behave differently than he has the last two years or majority of his...
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and donald trump. and it is an answer that actually does confirm part of what buzzfeed reported last week about donald trump's personal attorney, michael cohen, about what he will say when he testifies next month in a congressional hearing. buzzfeed reported that michael cohen will testify that he was actively engaged in discussions with russians about a trump tower project through much of the presidential campaign. and yesterday, rudy giuliani not only confirmed that aspect of the buzzfeed story, but he took it a step further and included the possibility of discussions of a trump tower in moscow right up until the returns were coming in on election night and that those discussions at any moment could have involved donald trump, himself. rudy giuliani, of course, has no doubt read the answer that president trump's lawyers wrote in response to robert mueller's question about this, and so it is very likely that rudy giuliani's answer is a preview to what we will see, if we ever get to read president trum
and donald trump. and it is an answer that actually does confirm part of what buzzfeed reported last week about donald trump's personal attorney, michael cohen, about what he will say when he testifies next month in a congressional hearing. buzzfeed reported that michael cohen will testify that he was actively engaged in discussions with russians about a trump tower project through much of the presidential campaign. and yesterday, rudy giuliani not only confirmed that aspect of the buzzfeed...
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i wish everyone had the courage donald trump had. donald trump tweeting congratulations for brazil's new president bolsonaro on his inauguration. he's done the trump of the tropics, replying, quote, dear mister president, i truly appreciate your words of encouragement, together under god's protection we shall bring prosperity and progress to our people. 2018 was one of the busiest years in political history from an all-out civil war among congressional democrats to donald trump taking on the fed. what can we expect in the new year? here to walk us to political predictions is pollster and gop strategist justin wallin. thank you for joining us, happy new year to you. let's begin with your first prediction, that democrats will stoke economic fears and scare us towards this recession. >> we have an economy where the fundamentals are terrific, they are very good and the president has a lot of credit to take for that, tax cuts, regulatory relief, second-quarter gdp growth of 4.2% in the past year that just left us. kind of done too much an
i wish everyone had the courage donald trump had. donald trump tweeting congratulations for brazil's new president bolsonaro on his inauguration. he's done the trump of the tropics, replying, quote, dear mister president, i truly appreciate your words of encouragement, together under god's protection we shall bring prosperity and progress to our people. 2018 was one of the busiest years in political history from an all-out civil war among congressional democrats to donald trump taking on the...
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trump and possibly donald trump jr. and we don't knowjared tol over trump tower moscow and lies told about contacts went russian diplomats, labrov during the campaign what do you think about the responses the president has given to robert mueller? >> i can't speak to any concerns within the president's legal team, the president himself in those written responses could have lied. i know the written responses were vetted very closely there were a number of lawyers involved and obviously going into it they all knew if he told a lie in the written responses, it would end his presidency. i could tell you they proceeded with extreme caution in that case that doesn't mean he didn't lie. it just means there were guardrails in place that weren't in place when he's making public statements another piece that's important to the conversation about truthfulness is part of the reason roger stone was charged is because he lied to the house intelligence committee my colleagues and i have been speaking to members of that committee over
trump and possibly donald trump jr. and we don't knowjared tol over trump tower moscow and lies told about contacts went russian diplomats, labrov during the campaign what do you think about the responses the president has given to robert mueller? >> i can't speak to any concerns within the president's legal team, the president himself in those written responses could have lied. i know the written responses were vetted very closely there were a number of lawyers involved and obviously...
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trump's style donald trump's refusal to listen to the generals on the ground that he couldn't take it any longer donald trump did not fire james madison james madison quit but here's the only thing that matter said he was going to stay until the end of february to provide a transition that's where donald trump said no you're not you're going to leave january one and i'm going to put mr mcdonald i believe this in charge and so maybe he fired him for two months but he didn't fire the whole deal bill in the last segment i asked former congressman chris shays this question can you recall another time in modern history when respected military leaders the leaders of issues so many warnings about a president he said he could not could you know not at all not at all you know you may go back to douglas macarthur and harry truman for open fights between not that you are were all of that but open faced with tuner president and a general but not in modern times and you know you add to that. what former general four star general stanley mcchrystal said about president trump just last sunday on a.b
trump's style donald trump's refusal to listen to the generals on the ground that he couldn't take it any longer donald trump did not fire james madison james madison quit but here's the only thing that matter said he was going to stay until the end of february to provide a transition that's where donald trump said no you're not you're going to leave january one and i'm going to put mr mcdonald i believe this in charge and so maybe he fired him for two months but he didn't fire the whole deal...
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trump and this is what i said early on there's a there used to be a different donald trump the donald trump who stepped forward to run against pap you can in called him a hitler lover called him a racist denounced him for getting support from david duke all of a so many of the elements that we would now say are trump ism were the buchanan platform in the ninety's and donald trump back then was calling it racist to make this book read by the way in tribalism was the rule of cable news was the rule of social media yeah but i think oh and social media especially but they are they are products of it and accelerators of it and i think both i think that's a big part of the story of this of this book too. you don't really get you know cable news is an invention basically dates back to the one nine hundred eighty with c.n.n. and c.n.n. was a you know it's basically a nonpartisan. place you don't get m.s. n.b.c. and fox until the late one nine hundred ninety s. they don't really have their their full force and influence till a few years later and that m.s.m. be seen its current form doesn't re
trump and this is what i said early on there's a there used to be a different donald trump the donald trump who stepped forward to run against pap you can in called him a hitler lover called him a racist denounced him for getting support from david duke all of a so many of the elements that we would now say are trump ism were the buchanan platform in the ninety's and donald trump back then was calling it racist to make this book read by the way in tribalism was the rule of cable news was the...
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donald trump never has. but he's telling us that all these 800,000, they're fine with the shutdown according to donald trump. >> well, i think obviously donald trump doesn't know anything about most working people and certainly most government workers, and there's been some reporting which strikes me as wholly credible, the notion that what trump thought at the outset, he liked the notion of the shutdown because he thinks all the government workers and many of them he encounters in washington, d.c. are in fact democrats. but of course he forgets there are tens of thousands of federal employees spread out across the country doing vital things. those people are many of them trump voters. and in certain places where i think where some of the political pressure that might bring the shutdown to an end because of the political pressure on parens and on mitch mcconnell. when the transportation issues start to really bite. when the storm hits. when it turns out that one of the major hub airports gets locked up becau
donald trump never has. but he's telling us that all these 800,000, they're fine with the shutdown according to donald trump. >> well, i think obviously donald trump doesn't know anything about most working people and certainly most government workers, and there's been some reporting which strikes me as wholly credible, the notion that what trump thought at the outset, he liked the notion of the shutdown because he thinks all the government workers and many of them he encounters in...
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i think donald trump has benefited from that. and a lot of what he claims he has been responsible for was already in motion. how do you think donald trump is doing on trade? we have been upside down with all of our international tariffs and trade agreements for years. he international tariffs and trade agreements foryears. he is international tariffs and trade agreements for years. he is trying to correct that situation. changing allegiances in america's industrial heartland helped donald trump win the white house. his promise to bring back manufacturing jobs resonated in 2016. a message that still has power here two years later. china's envoy to canada warned of repercussions if the country bans huawei from supplying equipment to the sg huawei from supplying equipment to the 56 network. it is the latest salvo in a deepening dispute after the arrest in vancouver of the technology giant's finance chief. canada is studying the security of sg networks, but unlike some allies hasn't announced a ban on huawei a?!. netflix hasn't annou
i think donald trump has benefited from that. and a lot of what he claims he has been responsible for was already in motion. how do you think donald trump is doing on trade? we have been upside down with all of our international tariffs and trade agreements for years. he international tariffs and trade agreements foryears. he is international tariffs and trade agreements for years. he is trying to correct that situation. changing allegiances in america's industrial heartland helped donald trump...
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. >> haga historia donald trump. reportero: estados unidos pedÍa el reconocimiento de juan guaido. >> e gobierno de esbaÑada ocho dÍas a maduro para convocar a el ex en este aparente y si no borre, espaÑa reconocerÁ a guaido como presidente. >> vÁyanse bien largo al c...s! a los venezolanos y a la venezolana nadie nos da Órdenes. >> de dÓnde sÁca plazos o ultiá reportero: continuarÁn las sanciones econÓmicas para el gobierno de maduro. fÉlix: el delegado militar de venezuela en washington reconociÓ a juan guaido como presidente. >>a nosotros nos dieron las armas para defender la soberanÍa de nuestro país, nunca nos formaron para des, esto es para que defiendas al gobierno de turno. feliz 22 opina que su gobierno traicioneros principios mÁs bÁsicos y de vende a otros paÍses. arantxa los trabajadores afecta a -- afectados por el cierre de gobierno, recibirÁn su hago retroactivo. donald trump amenazÓ con cerrar e gobierno nuevamente de no obtener fondos para el muro. reportera: donald trump dijo que
. >> haga historia donald trump. reportero: estados unidos pedÍa el reconocimiento de juan guaido. >> e gobierno de esbaÑada ocho dÍas a maduro para convocar a el ex en este aparente y si no borre, espaÑa reconocerÁ a guaido como presidente. >> vÁyanse bien largo al c...s! a los venezolanos y a la venezolana nadie nos da Órdenes. >> de dÓnde sÁca plazos o ultiá reportero: continuarÁn las sanciones econÓmicas para el gobierno de maduro. fÉlix: el delegado...
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well one thing you got elected with a lot of help from donald trump donald trump bragged about the fact in the oval office that he had raised more money for steve king last year than anybody else i just want to say first of all kevin mccarthy has not asked for steve king to get out of congress mitch mcconnell did and liz cheney did kevin mccarthy stripped him of his three committees i don't think that's enough i think they should have booted him out of the house but my question is about steve king why did it take so long for republicans to do this i mean you can go back decades and find incendiary racist comments just as amy knows this is steve king this made throughout his life saying that no nonwhite ever contributed anything to human civilization and among other things and the other second question i have is why steve king and why haven't they condemned donald trump who has also made some racist remarks particularly after a charlottesville as we know branding all immigrants from mexico rapists are criminals . he's seen kings an easy target donald trump so tough target they went after
well one thing you got elected with a lot of help from donald trump donald trump bragged about the fact in the oval office that he had raised more money for steve king last year than anybody else i just want to say first of all kevin mccarthy has not asked for steve king to get out of congress mitch mcconnell did and liz cheney did kevin mccarthy stripped him of his three committees i don't think that's enough i think they should have booted him out of the house but my question is about steve...
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this is about loyalty to donald trump. this is about loyalty to donald trump. they'll stay loyal as long as possible. they are worried about primary challenges. they are seeing mitch mcconnell knows the party wants him to stay with donald trump. he'll do it for a while, but eventually he won't be able to. >> thank you very much. appreciate your time. coming up next, new details on just how cruel donald trump's family separation policy has been for migrant children. that's next. igrant children. that's next. -we're doing karaoke later, and you're gonna sing. -jamie, this is your house? -i know, it's not much, but it's home. right, kids? -kids? -papa, papa! -[ laughs ] -you didn't tell me your friends were coming. -oh, yeah. -this one is tiny like a child. -yeah, she is. oh, but seriously, it's good to be surrounded by what matters most -- a home and auto bundle from progressive. -oh, sweetie, please, play for us. -oh, no, i couldn't. -please. -okay. [ singing in spanish ] -please. -okay. went to ancestry, i put in the names of my grandparents first. i got a leaf
this is about loyalty to donald trump. this is about loyalty to donald trump. they'll stay loyal as long as possible. they are worried about primary challenges. they are seeing mitch mcconnell knows the party wants him to stay with donald trump. he'll do it for a while, but eventually he won't be able to. >> thank you very much. appreciate your time. coming up next, new details on just how cruel donald trump's family separation policy has been for migrant children. that's next. igrant...
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we're working to make things simple, easy and awesome. >>> donald trump being donald trump means that donald trump will want to set the record for government shutdowns, even if his shutdown is only a partial shutdown of government departments and agencies that have not already been fully funded for the year by congress, and to set that record, donald trump has to keep the shutdown going until saturday, which will be the 22nd day of the trump shutdown. the shutdown that donald trump told democrats he would never blame them for because he would take full responsibility for the shutdown. president trump has scheduled a trip to the southern border on thursday with the full expectation and probably the desire that the shutdown is still a shutdown, but the big problem looming for president trump and republicans in congress if they do set a record with this shutdown is that 800,000 federal workers will miss their first payday on friday. federal workers get their paychecks twice a month and friday is their first payday of the shutdown. in government shutdowns, nonessential workers are not all
we're working to make things simple, easy and awesome. >>> donald trump being donald trump means that donald trump will want to set the record for government shutdowns, even if his shutdown is only a partial shutdown of government departments and agencies that have not already been fully funded for the year by congress, and to set that record, donald trump has to keep the shutdown going until saturday, which will be the 22nd day of the trump shutdown. the shutdown that donald trump...
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trump and donald trump jr. isn't true doesn't mean that they didn't tell the truth about the nature of the meeting, they weren't -- they never really were candid until they had to be repeatedly. the president of the united states and the people around him didn't tell the truth as it relates to what they knew, when. this is the problem. there's so many other things here. this phone call, you can -- it's a little bit of red herring. sure, he didn't call him. that doesn't negate all that we know. >> it's interesting, mark. two days after the top intelligence chiefs briefed congress publicly about national security threats facing the united states and clearly differed from the president on several very sensitive issues, and a day after the president rebuked them for doing that, now all of a sudden he has got some new excuse. listen to this exchange he had today with our own pamela brown. >> mr. president, did you talk to your intelligence chiefs today about the displeasure you had with their testimony? >> i did and
trump and donald trump jr. isn't true doesn't mean that they didn't tell the truth about the nature of the meeting, they weren't -- they never really were candid until they had to be repeatedly. the president of the united states and the people around him didn't tell the truth as it relates to what they knew, when. this is the problem. there's so many other things here. this phone call, you can -- it's a little bit of red herring. sure, he didn't call him. that doesn't negate all that we know....
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trump and paul manafort and donald trump jr. and others related to the campaign again and again reiterated, they repeated, they echoed the russian propaganda, the russian disinformation that they had nothing to do with this. this is where the real collusion in plain sight is, even after donald trump in mid-august 2016 received a private intelligence briefing and was told then by the u.s. intelligence community that the russians were behind these attacks, he came out publicly and repeated what vladimir putin was saying, that russia had nothing to do with this, and he did that throughout the campaign and even after the u.s. government made it official publicly that they believed russia was behind this. so there's collusion in the cover-up. and you have the trump tower meeting and you have time and time again where donald trump himself or someone associated with the campaign is sending a signal to moscow, we want to work with you, we're on your side, we're going to protect you. if people charge you with intervening in the election,
trump and paul manafort and donald trump jr. and others related to the campaign again and again reiterated, they repeated, they echoed the russian propaganda, the russian disinformation that they had nothing to do with this. this is where the real collusion in plain sight is, even after donald trump in mid-august 2016 received a private intelligence briefing and was told then by the u.s. intelligence community that the russians were behind these attacks, he came out publicly and repeated what...
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donald trump, jr. actively involved in discussions with michael cohen and others about this possible building. in your experience in intelligence, what do you see in the trump tower moskow story? >> well, i see a president or presidential candidate who was carrying a lot of the water for russia in its attack against the country. i mean, i say this over and over. i still don't think we've fully come to terms with it here in this country, but russia was the biggest asset, the biggest weapon in russia's attack on the country. i mean he repeated their propaganda and their disinformation the whole way through. and you couldn't have avoided it if you lived in america during the campaign. and, you know, that was on everything from sanctions to russia's invasion of ukraine to all kinds of issues, but especially sanctions and nato. and then the divisive rhetoric, trying to divide americans and turn us against each other. so all the while trump is carrying this water, and i think he knew it. i think he understoo
donald trump, jr. actively involved in discussions with michael cohen and others about this possible building. in your experience in intelligence, what do you see in the trump tower moskow story? >> well, i see a president or presidential candidate who was carrying a lot of the water for russia in its attack against the country. i mean, i say this over and over. i still don't think we've fully come to terms with it here in this country, but russia was the biggest asset, the biggest weapon...
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who wants to work with donald trump? if you are a man or women of distinction, honesty, who has a reputation, you looked at this guy and knew it was trouble. >> jim mattis went in. >> he was perhaps the sole exception to this because, thank god, he kept nuclear war from our doorstep for a couple of years. but i come back to cohen in the foreign policy realm. you will think that you're preventing the worst, these people have been asking to lie about the murder of an american journalist. they have been asked to make ridiculous statements about the president and our foreign policy. they may go on to have lovely careers on fox news, but in the real world and in the esteemed world of academia or government or policy making or parenthood, they carry this burden for the rest of their lives. >> he is awful, he humiliates his staff on a regular basis and he humiliates other people regularly. >> you have to think of his mind-set, most people that could have been in those positions that have been vetted will trained to be public se
who wants to work with donald trump? if you are a man or women of distinction, honesty, who has a reputation, you looked at this guy and knew it was trouble. >> jim mattis went in. >> he was perhaps the sole exception to this because, thank god, he kept nuclear war from our doorstep for a couple of years. but i come back to cohen in the foreign policy realm. you will think that you're preventing the worst, these people have been asking to lie about the murder of an american...
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we know donald trump jr. testified before congress about his contact with russians and we know the entire organization is in the cross hairs of the southern district of new york as well as the new attorney general in new york state who said she will investigate anyone in trump's orbit who has violated the law. joyce and the panel are still here. joyce, this reality, this reality that what he probably views as an empire, what his own friends say was a funky family office, is very much under threat of being destroyed, demolished and becoming a criminal liability by his presidency. >> there are so many questions that so many different prosecutors are looking into involving the trump organization. there's even a threat from civil litigation from ethics groups that are challenging whether the president's continued involvement in these businesses, failure to put his assets into a blient trust is something that approaches a violation of the emoluments clause. so the irony for trump could be that by failing to set as
we know donald trump jr. testified before congress about his contact with russians and we know the entire organization is in the cross hairs of the southern district of new york as well as the new attorney general in new york state who said she will investigate anyone in trump's orbit who has violated the law. joyce and the panel are still here. joyce, this reality, this reality that what he probably views as an empire, what his own friends say was a funky family office, is very much under...