back at 10:00 p.m. tonight filling in for rachel. i'll will looking forward to that. otherwise have a good weekend. hard ball with chris matthews of course starts right now. unglued. let's play hardball. good evening. i'm chris matthews up in new york. we're witnesses the consequences of governing by chaos. p president is angry, isolated. depressed. slashing out in ways away have big repercussions. he became unglued. unglued. a tr a try if he can to of events set him off like they haven't seen before.

trump, the two officials said was angry and gunning for a fight. he chose a trade war. that decision announced without any review by the state, treasury or defense departments and taking most of his own staff by surprise led the stock market to drop hundreds of points. the chaos in the white house might lead to a staff shakeup as well. chief of staff john kelly and own family seem locked in a battle right now. according to associated press, one kelly backer said the chief of staff standing remaining tenuo tenuous. in part because of clashes with kushner himself over policy, personnel and white house structure. "the washington post" reports the president's adult son, donald trump jr. and eric were especially angry and felt that by not protecting kushner, kelly

had been disloyal to the president himself. meanwhile "the washington post" reports some mock kushner as a shadow of former self. for his part donald trump seems to be anowed with every move around him. according to axios, staff was talk him off the ledge. tired of restraints tired of own staff. trump is rebelling and kicking off every person who serving him. that's t he purposefully blew off kelly's process and announced planned tariff in a half hazard way. joining me now. shannon, national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan. white house chief of "washington post" fill rutger and republican strategist susan dell percio. i want to start with the jonathan swan on this. give usificatioramifications,

repercussions, if you will, of the craziness in the white house, everyone seems to be an enemy of the president. he has to show he's still the boss and will do anything to do that. >> i want to emphasize for your viewers just how chaotic it was when "the washington post" to their credit broke that story that trump was going to have a bunch of steal executives around the white house the next day to announce major tariffs on steal aluminum, i started calling senior white house officials who should have been involved in the discussion. nobody knew a thing. nobody knew a thing. wilbur ross knew about it. donald j. trump knew about it. frantic scramble to find out what is trump doing. what is he planned. one thing they said he's not going to sign because there's nothing for him to sign.

there's no paperwork. paperwork hasn't gone through a legal process. there's been no interagency process. this stuff was planned out for weeks and weeks and weeks in advance and still among the trade team. this is not a small decision. 25% tariff on steal. don't know whether there's carveouts. 10% aluminum. this is something james mattis opposed on national security grounds which is ironic given it's being invoked on national security grounds. mattis says it's going to do us harm. we get anumb fr we are getting f side. done in the most impulsive way humanly possible. >> want to go on that. this is big time stuff. a lot of countries spend all their time thinking about trade. we never had a president do it

in a way of a pout. i'll end run him because i'm in a bad mood over what happened to hope hicks. she's gone. kushner is in a corner and basically dethroned. and he doesn't like sessions. and what's his name, mcmaster is ready to walk. this is a crazy house. and then to show that he doesn't like the way things are going, he calls a trade policy war, basically a trade war just to show he's still got two guns. your thoughts. >> and i mean, you mention trade policy sound kind of wonkish sometimes. impact on the economy and national security the role that steal plays in all of that is enormous. for there not to be a foreign policy consideration about this too is troubling a lot of people. and we get back to this broader issue of governing. who is governoring right now? we have issues around a budget. we have immigration. gun control. they would like to see

entitlement reform on the hill. in congress, there is still mass confusion about what this president will sign. what if they send him will he actually agree to get on board with. you can't even get that message from the president of their own party. so as far as governing, i mean, it's chaotic as you can imagine. and it's hard to see how this ship gets straightened out. >> fill rutger, you know washington, you covered for the post which covering washington as well. does any organization and i'm just telling you, i want to ask you about this chaotic situation in the white house. it's like fun house mirrors that normally distort you when trump looks in the mirror, he looks normal. the distortion is the reality. this is crazy. when you have the first son-in-law basically being miniaturized by the chief of staff. you've got the chief favor to the president walking on him in the middle of all this storm without telling him ahead of

time. that's hope hicks. seems to be something of a young professional. she walks out the door. and same time, first was attorney general as mr. magoo making fun of blind people, but basically saying to this guy, you're an old loser. you're an old guy who downtoesn know what he's doing here. this is weird. i'm sorry. it gets weirder. there are consequences. if he starts a trade war, by the way, autos need aluminum. they need steal to be made. so if you want the american auto industry to be competitive, you have to get them cheaper materials. you don't make the price of materials go up by starting a trade war. anyway, your thoughts. you are the pro. >> so chris, talking to folks who work at the white house and also people who have been talking to the president over the last few days, he is just isolated as angry as they've seen him during this presidency. he's at open war with his own justice department. he's got a son-in-law in a heap

of trouble both politically inside the building and legally. increasing investigation into his financing and other issues and the russia probe that the mueller probe is creeping closer and closer to the oval office and has the president very much on edge and anerved and we're seeing the policy fallout of that with the trade action. he's just losing it according to the people who are interacting with him the last 24-48 hours. >> he has a son-in-law who just borrowed $185 million and he cut the deal sitting in the white house. and there's questions about whether what he -- if he doesn't like qatar, he will maybe do a little war on that country to get even. this is scary stuff. the guy is using his white house to make money. >> and not only that. >> big money. >> he's been deemed vulnerable for potential enemies of our country to poach and go after because he does need this

financial help. the president. >> just to make sure, kushner has got problems. >> oh, kushner. >> up the gentlemazoo. he bought a building on sixth avenue. couldn't afford it. wasn't a good investment. he's under water. >> multiple properties. >> to fix the problem, he uses the white house as a way to cut good dead deal sg. >> and his sister went to china saying we can get you visas if you do certain deals with us. this is something kushner has been doing all along. it's now just coming to accumulation. >> this is third world stuff. >> this is what happens when you elect a president who is in over his head who doesn't understand how government works who thinks because he won he is entitled to do whatever he wants. >> do you think he knows what his son-in-law is up to. >> how is your day? $185 million today sitting in

the white house seat you gave me. meanwhile, major question to hang over the white house, is jared kushner on the way out, according to "new york times," he is also firing mr. kushner. legal entanglements the investigation of the kushner family's real estate company and the publicity over having security clearance downgraded. according to two people familiar with views. in private conversation, the president vacillates between sounding regretful that mr. kushner is taking arrows and annoyed he's another problem to deal with. jonathan, i can understand how that can be at some point you root for a guy then you realize you're spending your time rooting for the salvation of son-in-law when you have other things you ought to be doing. >> and "new york times" framed it correctly, the president is conflicted over this. he does vent about jared privately, but he also likes having ivanka and also jared to some extent around. i think the most interesting thing to happen this week on

that front is the "wall street journal" put out an editorial in the kindest possible way suggesting that ivanka and jared might want to consider walking out and leaving the white house for the good of the president. rupert murdoch, they talk privately regularly. he is almost a mentor mentee relationship. they are very close. nothing that would get accomplished in the washington journal editorial page without a minimum rupert's knowledge and people familiar with the process probably say more than knowledge and probably a bit of back and forth on that. that's a pretty significant signal. >> well t murdoch mind is always about business so does that mean he thinks it's smarter for the president to get rid of his son-in-law and his daughter? >> that's absolutely what the editorial said. the editorial was these are great people unfairly aligned and the perez is going after

them. there comes a point only they must know about their vulnerabilities if there's more to come. >> this is one thing, this is not the end of the trouble. he'll get rid of family members. move them out and more problems to come. one thing about trump, we know this whole something a soap oprah. matthew leaves, hope hicks leaves. going to be more people leaving and more trouble. starting a trade war, yesterday, by the way, he just did it yesterday, president tweeted today how easy it is to win trade wars. do you know that? he wrote when a country, usa is losing many billions of dollars on trade withal virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good. don't trade anymore. we can win big. it's easy. winning a trade war is not the only thing. let's watch him talk. >> i'm not worried about 60

votes. i believe 60 votes. 60% should be so easy. >> it's easy to be presidential. >> so many of these things are so easy to fix. >> we will get our jobs back. a lot of politicians said you can't get mexico to pay for the wall. it's going to be so easy. >> you're going to have such great health care at a fraction of the cost. it's going to be so easy. >> i do all the time. i work with politicians all my life. they're so easy. >> i'm so good at this stuff. >> remember that song, it's so easy. like taking candy from a baby. the great thing about muhammad ali when he said i'm going to knock that guy out, the big ugly bear, he did. trump doesn't usually follow through with these easiness claims. >> to his credit, he did admit

health care was way more complicated than anyone realized. he did admit that one wasn't so easy. we didn't get any health care legislation passed. >> that was mccain's fault. >> there was a lot of wind in their sails coming off tax reform. there was a lot of bounce in the step of people in the white house coming into january getting tax reform done and i think maybe that did leave them with a perception that like immigration would be easy. that they had some momentum. it really does seem like that momentum is ground to the halt. you talk about the people around them who are leaving. i know there's been so much time spent on hope hicks. even if kushner and ivanka stay on, they've lost their inner circle that was there to help shepard them through washington. dina powell to help them weather the storm. people on domestic policy end. anybody who is going to get things done, they're just few and far between and less at this

point. >> speaking of problems. end with phil there. phil, for some reason the chief of staff to the president, president doesn't really like that much, john kelly, the general is going back and filling the question over what he knew or didn't know about robert porter. now he's saying he didn't know there was physical abuse. what do you make of that. >> i don't know whether to believe it or not. that's his version of events now. it does not match the version of events at the time a month ago and also doesn't match with the testimony the fbi director gave to congress where he made clear that reports of the abuse of porter's wife and their allegations were made clear to the white house. maybe kelly didn't know about the physical abuse. i don't know. you would have to ask him under oath. he's trying to get himself out of that hole. he lost a lot of credibility last month over handling of the porter crisis and attempt today with reporters was to try to clean up that mess. >> when we talk about molestation. say what it was.

we're grownups. why did they -- why did mcgahn the white house lawyer supposed to clear all the stuff why didn't he tell the chief of staff. according to kelly, he was never told what we're talking about here. >> according to kelly he was never told. i'm not sure he was never told. i'm not sure i actually believe that statement. i don't understand how this man could be working in the white house. gone through the clearances. obviously the fbi made this a big flag. if mcgahn did not tell kelly, he should be fired. that is just malpractice. and i don't think the president didn't know what happened. >> that horrible thing this weird russia where somebody told something somebody told something. say it. be grownups and get over with it. be grownups and accept responsibility. it's a cruel world, but be

honest. thank you. coming up, the trump family is in trouble and nbc news now report jared kushner is being investigated for using his position in the white house for personal financial advantage. it's the royal family, if you will, using the presidency to make personal cash. don't you think that's bad and that's ahead. plus why is the first thing on trump's brain this morning starting a twitter fight with alec baldwin? why does he take the bait. not say anything about the new nuclear threat from vladimir putin. that's not worth talking about. alec baldwin. got to get into that one by 6:00 this morning tweeting about alec baldwin. president of the united states, remind ourselves. we saw donald trump propose numerous gun measures when the cameras were rolling. that late night meeting at the white house, secretly no cameras with the nra.

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welcome back to hardball. yesterday we covered the loans that jared kushner's business received as jared kushner met with the executives of the companying making those loans. met with them in the white house. may have used public office for personal gain. nbc news reporting that federal investigators are scrutinizing whether any of the business discussions with foreigners during the presidential transition later shaped white house policies in ways designed either benefit or retaliate against those he spoke with.

that's according to people familiar with the investigation. as well as witnesses that have been questioned by mueller's team. asking about kushner's efforts to secure financing for family's real estate properties focusing specifically on discussions with qatar and turkey and russia and china and united airbag emirates. tells officials he did not mix former business in context and any claim is falls. there were several things. what we've learned new in the dimensions of kushner's business dealings mingling in with official white house business is that the special counsel is looking at whether there's a

link between the conversations during the transition and foreigners to policies once he was inside the white house. the other thing that is significant that we've learned is that mueller is reaching out to foreign nationals. so for instance, in turkey, he's reached out to the fbi field office to see if he can talk to turkish nationals as part of the investigation which is a new dimension we didn't know before publically. >> what do we know so far. do we know he got that loan and he got it using his paris teenage and cachet as son-in-law the president. >> we know it's being scrutinized. we don't know whether it was specific wrongdoing. >> smells bad, doesn't it? >> sitting in the white house and negotiating debt deals where you can get credit you normally wouldn't be able to get. >> anything the special counsel is looking at, clearly the

special counsel think is worth looking into. another example of what he's looking at is with qatar. you take that example. possibly funding some of their business properties. those talks fell through. there was obviously a blockade that the white house strongly supported against qatar. >> what was the time sequence between not getting the money they wanted and hurting them. >> it was weeks, perhaps months, but it was a the sequencing was close because if you think of when the blockade started to take place, it was only last spring. >> i would say you're reporting on this because clearly there's an overlay here. he's going business and designing u.s. middle east policy. certainly a conflict there. >> and one piece of this qatar story that's caused a significant amount of consternation to qatar officials and diplomats that have to deal with the united states is that

kushner was a key player in getting the white house to support the saudi's decision to blockade qatar, cutting off food imports going into the country, covering diplomatics ties. rex tillerson the secretary of state opposed the blockade. thought it was a bad idea. the qatar saw him as helpful ally. who would be able to potentially resolve the crisis in a way that would have been quick and straightforward. instead of tillerson getting his way, according to multiple reports, jared kushner stepped in and played a major role in shifting the white house instead of having the white house oppose this blockade, the white house supported it. that is something where if you're a qatarry official or diplomat and you look at that and you look at the separation, the difference between where the state department is and where the white house is and then look at the fact that kushner's father according to one report hit up folks in your government

for money, folks if your government said no. all the pieces put together as that, all those facts, looks really terrible. so it's not a surprise that mueller is trying to figure out what the answer to those questions is and if there's anything more stin centinister . >> there's a long pattern, i've followed politics for a long time. the history of family often siblings who just can't re cysi taking advantage of their family's power. always embarrass the president. in this case, he's working inside with an official position. >> this is one of the reasons why he's talked to ethics experts to tell you, you know, part of what is happening is because kushner made a decision to not fully devest from his companies. he did not completely sell his stake and walk away. >> he did make a decision to get a job inside the white house.

>> right. and also maintain some connections with his company. so that opens him up to a whole different level of scrutiny. can't do that job. can't be the head of figuring out if the administration can do a middle east peace deal and not deal with governments that are mixing with his family business and so ethics would say that what you do in a situation like that is completely just detangle yourself from the business. kushner chose not to do that. >> betsy, i imagine everybody does business in the united states and the middle east we have a hand in there have a baseball card on jared kushner. a little baseball card that tells them everything they need to know about kushner. what's on the card. what do they have to work with. how can they perhaps manipulate him knowing what they know about him. >> one thing without a doubt is on that card is 666 fifth avenue. clunker of a building in midtown

manhattan that jared kushner had his family company buy in 2007 when the housing market bubble was at its fattest. just about to burst. they bought that building for a significant of money. took out a loan of more than a billion dollars. housing bubble popped. building lost a ton of value. early next year the loan is up for kushner companies. for kushner's family company. they've been searching essentially for cash so they can find a way to pay off that loan. and thus far had very limited success. very little evidence this cash hunts has gotten them all the capital that they need to make that mortgage. so if you're a foreign government official. if you're familiar with the way that international financial dealings work, and, you know, that kushner and his family companies have this major literal liability, that's something to pay attention to. that's something you follow and potential look at as a possible vulnerability to exploit. >> we're going to have to see

more as this develops. looks like fertile territory for mr. mueller. thank you so much for the great reporting. up next, when president trump woke up at 6:00 this morning in the a.m., he tweets at dawn. first thing on his mind was attacking comedian alec baldwin. first thing on the mind. why does he constantly take the bait. this is hardball.

welcome back to hardball. with everything going on in the white house and around the world right now. president trump woke up today and delivered a blistering attack against alec baldwin. in a tweet that revealed what's really on his mind, the president said, quote, alec baldwin who is dying mediocre career was saved by terrible impersonation of me on "snl" now says playing me was agony. it was agony for those forced to watch. that's all trump this morning at 6:00 a.m. tell me right now jason johnson. politics editor. jason, doctor johnson. you have to play shrink right now. why would a man of any age and any responsibility let alone the presidency of the united states get up at dawn and begin tweeting against an actor comedian. what's it about.

>> this the beyond narcissism. donald trump wakes up in the morning as president and looks at security briefings and says i can't want to deal with that. let me do than dozen of other more pressing issues facing our country. >> let's think about this. you believe he is hurting bald win or scorching him a little bit with his career. does he think it works or make him feel better. i like darryl too. bald win has had this whole new blossoming of career because it hasn't hurt him. it's been fabulous for him and snl and nbc. let's be honest. i'm in the building here. why does he want to bring more attention to it as we go through another saturday night. he's promoting the show. >> he's promoting the show and also feeling the most important trick of any politician.

remember george bush and dana car have i carvy. made things easy for him. alec baldwin buried him on twitter. you don't start a twitter fight with a comedian. they are smarter and quicker than you and always going to get the final word. i think trump should learn that lesson above the fact he's advertising for a show that's going to make fun of him. >> comes one day after russian leader vladimir putin unveiled what he called a new generation of missiles had the ability to avoid detection and some putin says can also avoid interception by u.s. missile defense systems designed to shoot them down. one showed nuclear war heads descending on the state of florida. putin's message. nobody listen to russia. listen to us now. question whether putin might be bluffing about capabilities. it's hard to ignore. the president hasn't responded

saying all yet he responds to alec baldwin. >> i think it's crazy. i got to say this. this is one time i'm happy trump didn't say anything. i don't feel safe with american citizen at side he's going to use twitter to do foreign policy. i do think one point he should meet and say is this missile real and somehow should we feel about the fact putin is basically putting up videos and attacking mar-a-lago. stay off twitter with foreign policy. >> don't call him rocket man. don't call him that. thank you jason johnson. psychological explanation. up next, president trump mocked lawmakers saying they're afraid of the nra, but turns out he might be the one who is most fearful of the gun lobby. after late night meeting, he's back to telling the nra line. what happened in the meeting? thumb screws? you're watching hardball. overs.

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the reason nothing has gotten done here. >> the reason i had lunch with the nra on sunday. i called them and said you have to come over. said fellas, we have to do something. they do have great power. they have great power over you people. they have less power over me. what do i need. i tell you, they are well meaning. >> they have less power over me, the nra. right. span of roughly 48 hours. president trump has changed tune on gun control. all it took was a gentle nudge from friends at nra. in the wake of wednesday's remarkable televised meeting with lawmakers, trump at a private dinner with leaders of nra last night. same people who spent $30 million helping him get elected. chris cox lead of the lobbying

nra attended the meeting. later tweeted he had a great night. we all want safe schools. mental health reform. keep guns away from dangerous people. vice president and vice president support the second amendment. support strong due process and don't want gun control. roughly an hour later the president tweeted, good. great meeting in the oval office tonight with the nra. more than two weeks since the parkland high school shooting. we have no idea what the president is going to want to ask for. that is part of the trump two step sometimes. promise everything and deliver in the end nothing. on the hardball round table tonight. kimberly atkins. chief washington report. edward isaac. chief correspondent for politico and gibson respondent for reuters. thank you. let's start off. tell me what you're seeing in the several hours really 48 or so hours watching the very nice. i think we all enjoyed that give

and take with the democratic and republican senators and other people in the room, but then following with nightfall with a meeting with the nra which might be a lot more important. >> i think we saw essentially a replay of what the president did with the daca debate play out over guns where initially he brought together lawmakers have this big discussion on camera where he threw out all kinds of ideas or expressed support for all kinds of things, was rained in later by the more conservative folks and nra to really back off some of the things he expressed support for for background check to raising the age limit and remember that meeting at one point he even went around the idea taking gun from people expected of being dangerous or unstable and due process later. and at another part you had senator diane feinstein rubbing

her hands together gleefully at the idea that things could really go well for the democrats only to find out a couple days later this is what happens when you have a president who doesn't have an ideology about guns. he wants to be in the center of it when he has that position, that opportunity to lead, he sort of leaves it to lawmakers and leaves it to other folks with power like the nra and looks like nothing is going to get done here. >> do you think he can get away with doing nothing on guns after parkland, i mean, nothing. >> it would seem on the one hand, not. if we look at the history of this, the course of his presidency, wouldn't be the first time he talked about doing something big, essentially in front of the cameras. when the cameras go away he backs off it. that was classic reality show television the other day. it was great reality show television. it sort of reminded me of the bachelor. seems like love, but then nobody ever gets married at the end of it. doesn't seem like we're anywhere

closer to having legislation go through congress or by the way any executive action taken by the white house or the administration about guns i don't know when we're going to get to that point. >> if you were asked as a reporter to make a prediction, will there be action on guns as a result of what happened in florida. will there in by in action. anything. >> we could see very tiny incremental change. there is more pressure and i think that the midterms are playing a role in the change in congress this year. we see on the ground in states unlike in previous times a real pressure from voters that something be done. that it look like they've accomplished something. i think we can get a sense of that pulse when we look at the way donald trump is handling this. he wants to ride the fence and the reason he wants to ride the fence is that he knows there's a sizable group of people who are really amped up about the issue on the other side.

. he's going to say one thing on camera and tweet another thing happy at the end of the day. >> a big crowd of young people and parents and teachers show up in washington. maybe up to half a million people. fill the streets. will that put him in a position to not want to be in a bunker doing nothing. will that make it turn a bit towards action. >> it will certainly get his attention. look, i think in the issue of guns is going to have to start. it can't start at congress. can't even start at white house. it's going to have to start from the bottom up. that's what you're seeing with this movement of young people. really pushing and trying to change minds of people. that movement that has spurred retailers to stop selling some of these high power guns. that's where the action. that's where the energy is right now. it will be incumbent eventually on congress to respond to that. i don't think they're the ones

going to lead the change here. >> on wednesday president trump asked some of the gathered senators in that meeting why they are so scared of the nra. let's listen. >> you can't buy one. you have to wait until you're 21. you can buy the kind of weapon used in the school shooting at 18. i think it's something you have to think about. just curious as to what you did no your bill. you don't. >> we didn't address it mr. president. >> because you're afraid of the nra. >> of course they are. of course toomey is. i think the president is talking rather loose about changing the age to 21 to buy an assault rifle. looks like rural senators are scared to death of that idea. kill them at home. they're afraid. >> it does seem to be going. i wonder if we're in the midst of a change and how it's playing out. in the virginia's governor's race last year. exit polls showed guns was the number two issue for people

voting for ralph anymonortham ws a democratic and in favor of stronger gun restriction. if that's true if virginia, we have reason to believe it's true around the country. could be a factor in the florida senate race around parkland. may be a factor elsewhere around the country too as the election takes shape. >> so rick scott is coming out in florida for a reason, age of 21 from 18 in florida. state law saying you have to be 21 to buy an assault rifle, ar-15. is that the smart move down there. >> we've seen rick scott responding to constituents. we have to remember that rick scott gets thrown out a lot about being a senate challenge to bill nelson and seat up november. it's about politics. politics is about responding to voters. i think that's what we're seeing is here. a smart political move is always to do what the majority of voters want you to do. i think we're seeing that and the president wants to sort of

flippantly joke about the power of the nra. the nra spent a lot of money advocating for him to be president. a lot of money advocating for a lot of members of congress to be president, but when they start seeing the shift in the public and their own membership, we know polls tell us own membership supports background checks. we start to see changes. people responding to what voters are telling them. >> i don't know sure the culture is strongly pro-gun. pro-gun, but doesn't have that rural epilation when the father teaches a son to use a rifle. i think rick scott can get away with stuff joe mansion can't get away with and i think toomey can't get away with and bobby kasie. we'll see. round table sticking with tus. you're watching "hardball."

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desperate week in the donald trump soap opera with everyone just trying to keep their heads above water. let's call it search for tomorrow. this has been an especially bad week for fans of hope hicks. also, more trouble with jared. whether the son-in-law is using family ties to prop up business investments. gotten line of credits if he wasn't meeting new creditors in the white house. how does donald trump deal with son-in-law without hurting his beloved daughter ivanka? tune in next week. and people calling mr. trump unglued like a little off the beam based on the wild trade thing he threw out the other day. some say he did that to show general kelly he could do anything he wants. it keeps getting crazier in trump world. old lawyer pays off an actress for him and dumps robert porter for spousal abuse and a hard time to trump's son-in-law who may be skimming business opportunities on the side and

all the time, the potter familius shows he's not sweating and throughout all the michigas, this father knows best. that's "hardball" right now. "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. tonight on "all in." >> jared has done an outstanding job. >> an nbc news exclusive. >> my name is jared kushner. >> the mueller probe with whether or not the son-in-law is using foreign policy to benefit his own company. >> jared is a very successful real estate person. >> why jared kushner may be in trouble like never before and what did the president know and when did he know it? plus, the story behind the unglued president and his impulsive decision to start a trade war. incredible new deception from the white house chief of