knew better but did it anyway. all they can do is refer to the white house and remedicommenme d recommend disciplinary action. the white house pushed back hard. the chance of disciplinary action unlikely. that's it for us. good night from our headquarters here in new york. happy tuesday. just had to throw another show out the window tonight. i shouldn't even -- the thing is, i need to change myself. i need to change my own expectations. we made it as far as dinner time tonight with an actual show we worked on all day and planned and produced and the whole thing and i was like oh, scott free, we're done -- i'm going to have to revise my expectations. i thought we would have a normal night.

that was my mistake. this is the new normal. it's fine, we can do it all. there is all sorts of different types of breaking news tonight and today. there are elections tonight in texas, a particularly interesting special election in oklahoma. and a few other states we're watching returns coming in right now into the wee hours tonight looking for upsets in other interesting results in those local elections, especially ones that may have national implications. also today, in west virginia, the teacher strike there came to a very dramatic ending, a triumph ending for the teachers that had a remarkable labor action in the state over the course of nine days. we'll get to that story, as well, this hour. you never know what you'll be able to lead with because other stuff keeps coming. you and me, we are lucy and ethel, working in the chocolate factory and the conveyer belt keeps speeding up. that's what it's like. we can handle it.

we can do it. saturday morning, this past saturday morning at 7:00 a.m. east coast time, nbc news published a weird news story about the trump white house. the story came out early saturday morning, but it was about an announcement president trump made on thursday of last week. you definitely heard about this announce the from the president. you heard he said this. you heard he announced there would be new big tariffs on steel and aluminum but did you actually see the way he announced it? there was something a little weird about how he actually rolled out the details of this very big, very important, very dramatic change in policy. this is how he actually announced it. watch. >> so, we'll probably see you sometime next week. we'll be signing it in, and you will have protection for the first time in a long while and you get to regrow your industry. that's all i'm asking. you have to regrow your industries. mr. secretary, thank you for being here. we appreciate it.

mr. secretary, thank you very much and we'll see you next week. thank you, everybody. thank you very much. >> what size are the tariffs? >> make your way out. >> unlimited period. >> what percentage? >> it will be 25% for steel. it will be 10% for aluminum. and it will be for a long period of time. >> thanks, guys. >> thank you very much, everybody. thank you. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> it's being written now. yeah, 25 for steel. 10 for aluminum. the president held this big event with all these business people and kept saying during the event as if he had

previously announced there would be new tariffs on steel and aluminum but it wasn't until he was saying good-bye to everybody, declaring the event over saying he would see people next week a reporter finally got him to spit out what these tariffs were going to be. it turns out they were very round numbers, 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum. he answered the reporter shouted questions after he had declared the event over. that's how the president rolled out these numbers for the big tariffs. kind of as an after thought, something that didn't turn up in his prepared remarks and you know, kind of seemed like maybe he didn't have prepared remarks, right? that was on thursday. it took a couple days to report out but by saturday morning peter alexander at nbc news was able to report what actually led up to the strange announcement in the white house. quote, according to two officials, trump's decision to launch a potential trade war was born out of anger at other

simmering issues, in the words of one official familiar with the president's state of mind, quote, on wednesday evening, the president became unglued. unglued is a quote. trump was angry two officials said. he was angry and gunning for a fight and he chose a trade war. by midnight wednesday, which was less than 12 hours before the president made this announcement, nobody on the president's team prepared any position paper and the white house counsel said they were two weeks away from completing a legal review. when the president showed up at that meeting where he made that announcement, quote, there was no diplomatic strategy for how to alert foreign trade partners. there was no legislative party informing congress and no communications plan how to announce the policy let alone explain or defend what the president was going to announce that day. they did not tell the defense department they would do this and did not tell the treasury

department they were going to do this. "the washington post" reports tonight that wasn't just a matter of bad manners or not following protocol. the post reporting tonight that defense secretary james mattis and rex tillerson started warning senior trade officials today that there are national security consequences to what trump just announced. they have started warning trade officials today that these tariffs trump just announced quote could endanger u.s. national security relationships with allies. and just to put the icing on the cake and just to explain that weird tape we showed, it turns out there were actually no prepared remarks for the president to give at that meeting. so on thursday he's apparently been mad and steaming all night and wants to announce something. he's sitting there at this meeting. he announces a huge economic policy that has big implications for regular americans and jobs and relationships with allies,

apparently it has national security and the controversial thing and the president apparently just winged it. no prep, no policy, no notes, nothing written for him. and it seems not impossible that he had no numbers in mind for this policy until he declared the event over and a reporter shouted out, hey, sir, what are the numbers? and he, you know, looks off into the distance and grasps those two nice round numbers. he had 25% for steel, 10 for aluminum. it's almost like he was saying, does that sound good? is that good? the president said at that bonker's announcement as reporters were ushered out, he said "it's being written," this

thing that he had just announced with no notes, no policy, no legal review, no communications plan, nothing. there is no signs this is being written. apart from the fact that today that announcement from the president resulted in yet another very senior departure from the white house staff. the director of the white house national economic counsel, the main economic advisor to the president announced tonight that he is quitting. which means i now have to turn around and face a different camera so you can see me in front of a different wall, so i'm really smooth with that, aren't i? so i can update the departure board, turning out to be a white house and presidential administration unlike any other in terms of the ability to fire, lose and repel top staff. this president has only been in office a little more than a year. and he's lost secretary of health and human services, white house chief of staff, deputy white house chief of staff, yet another white house deputy chef of staff, national security advisor mike flynn, another deputy national security advisor

on the national security counsel he lost the intelligence director there and middle east director there and the director of strategy planning there and deputy chief of staff and the chief white house strategist steve bannon and that other white house strategy where we don't know where wat his job is went on tv a lot, sebastian gorka i think was his name. the director of public liaison, the communications director, am rosa and james comey, chief of staff of the fbi, special advisor to the president on regulatory reform, carl icahn more on him in a moment. he's lost the director of use of government ethics, the counselor to the treasury secretary, the director of the national security agency, the deputy director of the domestic policy counsel and the vice president staff it has been amazing. the vice president's chief of staff, the vice president's wife's chief of staff. the vice president's press secretary, chief counsel, the

head of the cdc, white house staff secretary, the white house speech writer, associate attorney general, press secretary, the federal railroad administration, rachel brand, press secretary, assistant press secretary, communications director, another communications director, another communications director, the deputy secretary of homeland security, the special representative for north korea policy in the state department for the past 30 years, bye, bye, assistant to the president in the office of american invasion, jared and ivanka's friend just left at the same time the president lost hope hicks. senior advisor to the defense secretary, the u.s. ambassador to mexico, department tidy -- deputy director of the national economic counsel the white house chief economic advisor gary cohen. we'll have to start broadcasting

in an octagon so i can keep turning to different walls. i mean, gary cohen, they haven't been there that long. gary cohn may be the latest senior white house person to leave. gary cohen criticized the president's remarks after charlottesville and there were signs at the time that he might be railroading resigning from the white house. just the prospect that gary cohn might resign led to a big plunge in the markets that day, even though gary cohn didn't ultimately leave.

tonight gary cohn's resignation was reported after the markets closed. after the markets closed, people can still trade in basically what amounts to bets on how the market will open in the morning and after the news broke of gary cohn's resignation tonight, that showed the markets going off a cliff. the resignation tonight, you can see it tonight as just the latest in an incredibly chaotic and unstable white house and presidential administration unlike we have ever seen before. but the gary cohn resignation also feels like it's a little bit part of a cluster, double intended because in a period of three weeks, we've had the resignation of a lot of people very close to the president, the staff secretary who was very close to the president who resigned amid domestic violence allegations and hope hicks considered personally closest to the president. and now we've got gary cohn who was also reportedly close to the president and had reportedly been considered as the next white house chief of staff and had this other reporting from nbc siting five sources saying that the national security advisor h.r. mcmaster is on his

way out the door. a national security veteran who had been national security advisor to biden, he responded to that news from nicole by saying quote, if john bolton replaces mcmaster, we're all going to die. tonight john bolton was seen visiting the white house. i didn't call colin kahl for comment but i should have. five sources and nobody contradicted it yet. john bolton seen at the white house today. maybe that's next. we'll have more on the sudden departure of gary cohn in a couple minutes. we'll talk to somebody very well sourced in the circle and the source of good reporting about his role in the white house. we've got that coming up. but after the gary cohn news broke tonight, more stuff happened. "the new york times" broke very dramatic new news tonight about

robert mueller flipping a new cooperating witness. president trump was sworn in january 20th of 2017. and as the one-year anniversary of his inauguration approached in january of this year, you might remember there was a little bit of controversy, a little bit of awkwardness about a big party planned at his club in mar-a-lago to celebrate the one-year anniversary in office. there is always a little controversy being hosted at the president's own private for profit club surrounded by hand-picked members but the awkwardness was more acute. while the one-year anniversary was approaching, simultaneously, the federal government was shutting down. and the president was reportedly upset that the government shutting down was going to interfere with his ability to attend the parties that were going to be held in his honor at his private club. well, on january 17th, a couple days before those parties were supposed to start happening, a

few days before the one-year anniversary, a man named george nater, a lebanese-american man reportedly flew into the airport in washington d.c. and he was apparently planning to switch planes so he could fly down to florida to be there at mar-a-lago for the celebrating. and that's where "the new york times" tonight picks up the story. quote, mr. nader was first served on january 17th after landing at washington's international airports with search warrants. he planned to celebrate the president's first year in office but the fbi had other plans questioning him for more than two hours and seizing his electronics. he was the subject of a story this weekend that was interesting, intriguing, a little opaque but this weekend

the times described the same man as a lebanese american businessman who had become a focus of the mueller investigation. in this reporting this past weekend, the times said he had been questioned by the prosecutors and other witnesses had been questioned about him, about his role advising the government of the united arab emirates and quote any possible attempts to buy political influence by directing money to support mr. trump during the presidential campaign. so that was the reporting, people were asking about this guy's role and investigators were asking witnesses about this guy's role and this guy was a focus of the investigation. now tonight, the times reports something that is an order of magnitude different. they are reporting tonight george nader is your rating with

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all right. "the new york times" has broken this scoop on the front page advisor to emirates with ties to trump aides is cooperating with swoun. this means there is a new cooperating witness for robert mueller in the investigation. now, the guy who is reportedly cooperating with mueller now is said to be an advisor to the government of the united arab emirates, it is best known for cities dubai and abu dhabi. e uae has a long boarder with saudi arabia and another border with oman. they are close to but

politically at odds with another small rich country nearby called qatar. but united arab emirates stands out from where you can't look at from a map. they have lots of money, lots of influence and lots of ambition and for the purposes of the trump administration and scandals, it also happens to make lots of cameo appearances in meetings with people associated with donald trump that nobody reports at the time that people try to keep secret and that nobody can explain months later when they finally ultimately get exposed in the press. it happens over and over again from people representing the government of uae. first one of those was on december. the month after the presidential election, december 2016 at trump tower. the defector ruler, the crown prince turned up in new york and took a meeting at trump tower reportedly with mike flynn and steve bannon and jared kushner. now that meeting is not that weird for a foreign leader to meet with top officials of an incoming u.s. presidential administration. it's not unheard of. what is unheard of, what was really weird about that is they did it in secret.

donald trump wasn't president yet. barack obama was president. whenever a foreign head of state or senior member of a foreign royal family comes to the u.s., particularly if they're going to visit with american political officials, they're supposed to notify the u.s. government that they're coming. it's a matter of long-standing diplomatic protocol and frankly it's a matter of security. but they tried to do that meeting secretly. the crown prince took that meeting with flynn and bannon and kushner for some reason and turned up in new york without notifying the obama administration. so they tried to keep it secret for some reason. the obama administration knew he was here, intelligence agencies tend to know the whereabouts of foreign heads of state when they arrive here. but the fact that they tried to keep it secret was just an interesting red flag about that meeting. that was december 2016. then the following month, january 2017, that same country, united arab emirates turned up again in a mysterious and secret

meeting involving somebody from trump world. this is first reported several months later in the washington post months after this meeting happened. but it ultimately was proven out their reporting was correct in january before the inauguration, united arab emirates convened a secret meeting in the islands between a russian financier, who is said to be close to vladimir putin and an american guy named eric prince. eric prince is the brother of betsey devoss and a major trump donor. eric prince denied there was anything wrong about that meeting but it's an effort to create a back channel between trump world and putin world at a personal level. as "the new york times" puts it in the new report tonight, quote, at the meeting, the

russian fund manager represented mr. putin. so secret meeting one involving uae is in december at trump tower. secret meeting two involving uae is in the seychelles and then surfaced last week in the dramatic reporting from ""the washington post" about jared kushner's contacts raising serious national security concerns about him. this is the reporting that came out around the same time that we learned that jared kushner was stripped of his security clearance, one of the most dramatic details in the reporting is that u.s. intelligence surveillance of foreign officials turned up conversations in which foreign officials talked about dealings with jared kushner. this was the lead of that article in the washington post last week. quote, officials in four countries have privately discussed ways to manipulate jared kushner by taking

advantage of lack of foreign policy experience. from the same report, the uae, officials from the uae identified jared kushner as early as the spring of 2017 as particularly manipulative because of his family's search for investors and their real estate company. so uae turns up over and over again, potential efforts to create a personal back channel to putin through this financer guy thought of somebody that can get messages to and from putin. secret meeting being held during the transition without notifying the u.s. government. the foreign government that believes its got sway over jared kushner because kushner and his family have been freaking asking him for money. so uae turns up in all these stories. it all feels drenched in intrigue but we don't know how to connect these things or whether they connect or point in some particularly nefarious direction. well, tonight "the new york times" reports that george

nader, adviser to the crowned prince of uae is cooperating with robert mueller's inquiry. they report he was at the meeting in the seyshelles. with the russian prince who can supposedly get messages to and from putin. what mueller appears to be looking at is quote, the influence of foreign money. mueller asked about the funneling of money from the emirates to the president's political efforts. it's illegal for americans to accept foreign money for political races. and that guy's cooperating with them now? days like this you're like no wonder everybody is quitting. joining us now is adam goldman, "new york times" reporter covering national security and a reporter who woke this -- broke

this story. mr. golden, thank you for joining us on short notice and congratulations on this scoop tonight. >> thanks. >> so can you tell me about the difference between and the transition between the reporting from the times this weekend and that nader was a focus to he's actually cooperating. how did that reporting evolve? >> nader's importance is he was essentially unregistered foreign agent of the united emirates and he was essentially peddling influence on behalf of uae, you know, in the united states and around the world, sort of delivering their message, right? and he has become the focus because i believe that mueller and his team want to learn what

he did, what george nader did with the money the uae gave him and of course, did any of that money make it to the trump campaign or its coffers. >> in the reporting from earlier, from a few days ago, there was a description about a republican fundraiser, i think deputy finance chair at the rnc, a trump donor and republican fundraiser who at some point appears to have secured for himself a defense contract worth several hundred million dollars possibly through his connection with mr. nader. is that part of the question, i guess, of whether or not money was funneled inappropriately from uae to people associated with mr. trump? >> i suspect they will certainly look at that. the interesting thing about brody is after eric prince meets with them and mr. nader in the seychelles and makes a pitch to

sell them defense contract services, he's denied it. he doesn't get that contract. fast forward, it's brody who gets a similar contract. so there's something going on there we're not exactly sure. >> now at that meeting, it's a described as a bit of a mystery, an object of fascination that meeting, what was that about. i said in summarizing the speculation around that meeting is that it's believed that the meeting may have been an effort to set up a live communication between the office in russia and the incoming trump administration. is that supported, is that how you understand it?

>> i'm not ready to say there was a back channel to the space and what we know is the facts are. prince goes there and makes a pitch to the bar. we don't know if they have a drink. it's a short meeting. we don't know what is said. it's true they believe that flynn was pitching himself as a representative of the trump administration. you know, just remember the russian investment guy, they have a lot of money invested in the fund. there is a reason for him to be there. there is a reason for him to be there and meet with uae officials. >> adam goldman, reporter for "the new york times", appreciate you helping us sort it out. >> thank you. >> again, "the new york times" reporting there is a new cooperating witness, advisor to

the government. mr. goldman was saying there about the money flow among uae and russia. the financier set up to meet with in the seychelles heads up a fund that doesn't distribute money but accepts money from other countries to invest in infrastructure. united arab emirates pumped billions of dollars into the fund. they are sending billions of dollars to that guy, the guy who meets with prince, prince goes and meets with him and we don't know what that's about but the guy who brokered that meeting and part of it is now part of mueller's investigation on the prosecutor's side which makes me think maybe we'll figure out about that meeting. maybe we will get that full

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last night we reported on new concerns about -- >> carl icahn. carl, carl icahn. carl icahn. >> carl icahn, somebody who the president likes to say the name of more than himself. carl icahn billionaire investor, former special adviser to the president on regulatory reform who quit that job and then tried to deny he ever had it in the first place when the new yorker reported that icahn had made a regulatory change that would have put effectively hundreds of millions of dollars in carl icahn's own pocket.

the new york attorney general's office have taken an interest in that matter. but now carl icahn is back in the thick of it again because it turns out mr. icahn sold off $30 million in stock in a company's who price would tank if the government announced a steal -- steel tariff. he sealed off the $31.3 million of stock before president trump in fact announced his new steel tariffs. we reported on that last night. now a non-partisan watchdog group asked the securities and exchange commission to investigate mr. icahn for possible insider trading. they want to know if someone in the trump administration provided mr. icahn with information that the steel tariffs were on their way. those tariffs today cost the president his top economic advisor gary cohn, which at one level is another one out. but i'm also interested in really knowing why he left and what the consequences are of him

leaving and how nuts this whole process has been in the white house. joining us now is someone who knows. stephanie ruhle the host of msnbc live. you know more about this than anybody else i know. >> i know some and president trump who loves to say i and i alone is going to have to look at the stock market because dow futures are now down 400 and that is because gary cohn, his economic advisor said sayonara. after he got taxes done, early january gary said to the president. could he do something at state and could he do something, a cabinet position and trump said how about infrastructure. has gary rolled out a plan? no. >> it's a punch line. >> no, we're dealing with the president of unforced errors that gets distracted and changed the narratives and says let's look at daca and keeps changing

the narrative when russia gets closer and closer and of course, things, we change the narrative because we're looking at the gun control issue but last week, sort of wilber ross on policy. wilbur ross and peter navarro -- wilbur ross is a guy who has been fall ago sleep in meetings for months. peter navarro couldn't get a job in the mail room. he's not a widely accepted economist. let's go for a trade war. how about china. the issue isn't policy but process. so gary is not surprised president trump has a nationalist agenda. he was elected on one. gary said america first doesn't have to be america alone. the president led wednesday and thursday with this 10%, 25% tariff plan without coordinating with the state department, defense department and most

importantly, white house legal counsel. the president said this is an issue of national security. that's why we need to move forward with the tariffs and were the tariffs supposed to hit china? it's about canada and mexico and we heard from mattias, tillerson potentially saying this will hurt national security. if gary cohn is in the white house to focus on economic issues and he cannot get the president to listen to all sides and we could be moving to a direction that would hurt our economy, what's he going to stay for? >> if he's a process guy, though, and he wants a deliberate process and doesn't agree with the president on everything, he wants things to be rational, how did he last this long? the whole white house is haywire. >> he would make the argument taxes. i'm a process guy and the one thing i got done whether we like the tax reform plan or not, he came to do taxes and hangs his

hat on that and gary led that process. ivanka likes to take credit for the taxes, so does everybody else out there. he can walk away saying i'm a process guy, i came to do my job and i did it. now there is no job for him to do. >> in terms of the chaos that led to the tariff announcement, you had the remarkable report what led up to the president making that announcement on thursday. there's a room full of executives. the white house as of midnight the night before didn't know who those people would be and couldn't have the secret service clear them and get background checks. then the president announces the tariffs but he doesn't actually say what they are until he's told everybody good-bye and reporters start shouting hey, hey, hey, what are they? he appears to my eye to grab these numbers like 25 for steel, 10 for aluminum. you reported that there were no prepared remarks for him. >> no. >> no position paper and no

legal back ground. >> none. there was no plan how would we discuss this with allies and alert congress. john kelly wasn't aware how they would do this. if it is your responsibility to lead this process and it's going absolutely bonkers, how can you put your name next to it? gary is saying you stood with the president of charlottesville but money is the issue? that's what you won't stand with him over? after charlottesville, fair point, he did say i'm not happy with this but he would make the argument now i came to focus on the economy, how can i do that going forward, i'm guessing. >> is there any possibility the president didn't know what the numbers would be before he shouted them out to that reporter? >> sure. >> was 10 and 25 decided before he got there? >> i don't believe so but president trump -- >> so he just was like yeah, we'll do this tariff, 25%? he just made up the number. >> president trump has given prepared remarks before and while practicing his team said president trump you're wrong on the stock market value how much it's gone up and he said i get my numbers from hannity, not

from his economics' team. president trump repeatedly called china a currency manipulator and it was after he won, they walked him to the treasury department and said we actually have a model, we put in every currency and it tells you what is correct. the president walks back from that. gary is staying another two weeks. do we think trump will move forward with the tariffs? sure. what they will look like exactly unclear but i'm guessing that globalist side of the house will try to fight it. >> stephanie, the anchor of msnbc live that area at 9:00 a.m. eastern. thank you for helping us. you made me feel worse. >> so sorry. >> i feel more worried. >> there you go. thank you. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. this is something that i'm

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who made history? we made history. who made history? we made history. >> teachers of west virginia today ended a nine-day strike and you can hear from what they were saying there how it worked

out. this was all 55 counties in west virginia, all 680 public schools in the state. the governor had actually told the teachers that they should go back to work because he was promising them a pay raise. that was days ago but the teachers decided they would not take his word for it. they stuck it out and kept the strike going until the legislature approved the pay raise, which is i think the only reason the legislature actually approved that pay raise. they did it and today the governor signed a bill giving teachers and state employees a 5% raise and the teachers when they weren't chanting, they were breaking into song. ♪ ♪ take me home country road >> the victory after this long strike, it wasn't without a serious price. the pay raise is going to be financed through very deep cuts

to the budget including $20 million slash to general services and medicaid. funding that keeps health care premiums lower and benefit cuts at bay only lasts until the middle of next year and then it's back to the drawing board or picket line. the teachers celebrated but know the real victory won't come until november, if not then. >> folks, remember what they put you through. get out there and get active and make sure everybody goes and votes in november. >> hard-fought victories are like yawns in a crowded room. they are contagious. you see your co-worker yawn and you're yawning. same thing. it's already happening. teachers in kentucky and oklahoma saying they are considering following in the footsteps of what west virginia's teachers did. in kentucky they are asking for more pay and better benefits and in oklahoma the teachers union is threatening to shut down

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what "the washington post" reported today is the president's long-time personal lawyer michael cohn is the focus of mueller's inquiries now, particularly in pursuing trump tower moscow project during the campaign while trump himself is denying to the public he had any dealings with russia. michael cohen was reportedly working on a possible trump tower moscow for the president, using having mr. trump sign a letter of intent to pursue that project while he was running for president. "the post" reports that mueller is looking into that. and a strange meeting and a strange proposal that was reported by "the new york times" in february of last year. this is a meeting that took place right after the inauguration, about a week after the inauguration. it was in a new york hotel. and it took place between trump lawyer michael cohen, a ukrainian lawyer and felix

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funneled into the trump campaign or into the trump administration, amid all of that jazz, all those stories breaking tonight, the president tonight also just got sued by adult film actress stormy daniels. that. if you want more details on that, i'm going to hand you over to the tender administrations of lawrence o'donnell, whose show begins right now. good evening. actually, we will go into it. but not much more than what you said. one of the big mysteries of it is why does donald trump never say a word about this? why does he never deny anything that stormy daniels says about him, including today? >> and even the initial denials from the initial carefully worded denials from his lawyer were so full of holes that when he eventually