in the mueller probe. richard painter, the former white house ethics lawyer will be here. along with a former lawyer who has faced the mueller probe. it should be interesting. that's all the time we have. hardball with chris matthews is up next. should democrats impeach? let's play "hardball." >> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi drew a clear line many the sand for her party and the country when asked about impeaching president trump. in a wide ranging interview, she said i'm not for impeachment. this is news. i'll give you some news right now because i haven't said this to any press person before. impeachment is so divisive to the country unless there's

something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, i don't think we should go down that path because it divides the country and she's just not worth it. trump's not worth it. this drew immediate action from tom steyer. speaker pelosi thinks he's not worth it, is defending our legal system worth it. is holding the president accountable for his crimes worth it? is doing what is right worth it or shall america stop fighting for our principles and do what is convenient. a moment ago she was asked about it. let's listen. >> speaker pelosi, why you're posed to impeachment? why you're imposed to impeachment right now? >> i've always been opposed. >> some have been demanding his impeachment since the beginning of the mueller probe. >> as far as i'm concerned, he

has enough violations. he's been involved in a lot of activity that we believe needs to be made apparent. i believe that we have everything that it needs to basically impeachmeecach him. >> i'm here. there's a sense of urgency on my part and many of us. this is not to say we disagree. i think every single colleague of mine agrees there's impeachable offenses. that's one thing we all agree on. >> if you're creating harm to society, if you're causing things to happen in society that are unacceptable to the people in the united states of america, an up fit president can be impeached for those misdeeds that harm and corrupt society. >> sarah sanders told nbc news quote, impeachment should never be on the table because the president is doing a great job. that's his spokesperson. speaker pelosi did tell the washington that trump is not fit to be president.

what's powerful here is pelosi's statement about impeachment. it had had ts the sounds of bra. she's not just pumping them, she's slamming them. i'm joined now by democratic congresswoman of illinois. white house reporter for the lso angeles times. thank you for coming on tonight. i was shocked by pelosi's statement because it seemed to me it wasn't -- well we're not going to do it right away. we don't have enough stuff now. it was a statement of direction. we shouldn't be going toward looking to impeach this guy even though he have a lot of evidence already. your thoughts. >> well, i think that what she's saying is regardless of the information, regardless of how unfit he is, we're waiting for republican permission to go

forward and hold him accountable for his crimes. i think if we let the american people see through hearings exactly how lawless he is, they will insist he be removed from office immediately. >> what article of impeachment are you confidence of right now he deserves to have brought against him? what article? >> i think the two most obvious articles, chris, are obstruction of justice and straight up corruption. he's been taking money from foreign countries. >> explain obstruction of justice in a moment, if you can. what has he done? i can see things. what do you see that he's done? misusing his power of office to protect himself. >> i think he's done a number of things starting with firing mr. comey because he was investigating his russian connections.

using any means to frustrate invaes gai investigatio investigations. i think we need public hearings to lay out the evidence for the american people so they can see exactly how lawless this president is, chris. >> let me go to congresswoman. you know the speaker quite well. tell me what you think motivated her decision to make a bold statement today? >> she added on by saying unless there were such compelling evidence that the majority of americans would agree, it would be very didivisive. it's hard to disagree with that. when mnixon was itcmpeached but when the tapes came out, they said it's time for him to go. we're not at that point. if we go into impeachment hearings, that will suck up the

news, all the energy in our country. we need to do things like lower prescription drug prices, to continue on with the agenda of the people. making health care more affordab affordable. increasing wages. those are things that people come home and talk about. i fear that agenda would be off the table. >> everybody that comes up to e and every one of my colleagues, you're the expert, the politician, they come up to us and you know they ask this, when will they impeachment this guy that's the question. you hit over and over again and regular people that aren't progressive. they think he's on the verge of facing. do you think the republicans will back him or won't back him if he fires mueller? if he goes after the kids, everybody figures he will fire them. do you think the republicans will turn on him? >> i think there may be a tipping point. >> what will it be?

shooting someone on fifth avenue. does he have to pull the trigger. >> if he fires mueller, that could be the triggering thing that people said, okay. that is a step too far. in the meantime, chris, we aren't just sitting around watching him do what he does. there are serious investigations and we're preparing, perhaps, for a time when impeachment is on the table. right now it would suck up all the air, all the energy and we couldn't do. i don't hear that so much from my constituents. i hear from people who say, i can't afford to pay for my health care bills. >> here is some more just moments ago now. speaker pelosi expanded on what she meant by her comments. he told reporters if the mueller report is so con cluclusive the a bipartisan and message to the president, so be it. president nixon was not impeached until republicans saw the light. she added, i just don't believe in impeachment.

they wanted to impeach president bush for the iraq war. i didn't believe it thep and i don't now. corne cornell, i want to go to you. i wonder whether there's more information to dhachange it muc. to forclose the road is a dramatic statement. shocking to the democrats. >> i think what she was trying to do, is they have done some really big things. they have voted on gun reform which is something that many americans have been clamoring to do but it's lost in the chaos of this conversation. i understand from a strategic point what the speaker was trying to do. i also understand no one is above the law. also to the congresswoman's point, if there's evidence that's laid out there that he has broken a law, particularly on the security issues. if he is a national security threat to our country, i'm

confident that democrats will start impeachment proceedings. the problem is i don't share their enthusiasm that you'll get republicans and move. n nixon was a different era. there's no way they will get enough republicans. >> a recent poll found that 42% of americans believe he should be impeached. 54% agree. in november 36 favored impeachment while 59% we are opposed. a good chunk went against nixon but there's some hold out. >> we're not in the '70s anymore. we're in different times. fox news didn't exist back in the '70s. there's just a different climate now. you have seen presidents approve rating be static over the better part of two years despite these bombshell revelations that we have seen from members of the press reveal whing what the muer

probe is looking at. the president is an unnamed co-conspirator in a crime out of new york and yet it hasn't moved. that's what the speaker is understanding. she's not saying sd ining stop investigations. she is saying everybody is looking at this bright shiny object of impeachment and we need to look at other things. it's also a way to take the heat out of the members who go back to their communities and say look at the speecher. i think it creates a little more space. >> it always strikes me watching your political career that you're an unhyphenated democrat. you come out of a big city. you have some wealth, some non-wealth. you have a good community to respond to. can you tell your community i think he should be impeached but

it's not good politics. how do you sell that to the true blue democrat? >> i go home and say we are continuing these investigations. we cannot have donald trump have another two years. impeachment at this moment and you notice the speaker did say unless. there was an unless in what she said. at this moment, this would be the most deviciivisive thing an would raise his popularity. >> it's not about right now. she's talking about the direction we're going in. she makes it clear in that statement she's putting on brakes to where we're headed. it's not march 11th. she's not talking about march 11th. read the statement. this is a broad statement. we shouldn't be going in that direction. >> there's also about if there is compelling information that we should -- it could be considered. she did put some equivocation in that. beyond that, we know we would

not be able to do our agenda, our for the people agenda. the basic things they want economically and with health care and with jobs and infrastructure. we would be completely stopped on that agenda if we moved to impeachment right now and i think it would make donald trump even more popular right now. this would be said to be, you can't win an election fairly and you decided to go around it with impeachme impeachment. it's not worth it. >> i accept your political acuity. i think you know what you're talking about. i think it's an assessment. i don't know which way the american people will turn. the maga hat people will blame anybody on the side. we saw it through firing comey,

firing his attorney general. trying to make them all march to his music and ignore the law. it's all in broad daylight and it hasn't stopped his wigwam of support. just this group of people that are for no matter a cultural thing. they are with him as a village. you'll never change. your thoughts. is it more important that democrats proceed with the agenda or get trump? >> they've had one public hearing which was in the house oversight committee with mr. koe l -- cohen. it moved the dreier acrosdrier country by 6%. we saw that entire cast of criminals come across america's tv screens then americans across the country will get direct evidence of who these people are and what they've been doing. i believe that democrats,

independents and republicans will say we need to protect this country. we need to stand up for our values and we need to get rid of the most corrupt president in american history. i think we come together over that decision. >> you guys are all staying with us. putting michael cohen on is like putting chuck on. thank you all. everybody is coming back. trump tells a republican campaign donors down in florida that democrats, did you know this, they hate jewish people. i never knew that. the history of politics in this country tells a completely different story. trump associates said to make court appearances this week, including paul manafort for his second sentencing. he could get ten more years. a decade more in prison.

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prevent problems, and to help provide the most reliable service possible. my name is tanya, i work at the network operations center for comcast. we're working to make things simple, easy and awesome. ncht welcome back. president trump has ignite ed e trouble with his comments regarding jewish people and the democratic party. axios reported at a closed door event on friday, president trump told republican donors that the democrats hate jewish people. that's according to three people who were there. the report goes onto add that trump said he didn't understand how any jew would vote for democrat these days. the president reported comments went a step further in comments he made earlier that day on the white house south lawn. >> i thought yesterday's vote by

the house was disgraceful because it's become the democrats have become an anti-israel party. they have become an anti-jui ia party. i thought that was a disgrace. >> at an event two weeks ago said she i want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it's okay to puch push f push for allegiance to a foreign country. congresswoman, your thoughts on both sides of this debate, this controversy. >> i want to tell you something. the worst thing that could happen to the state of israel would be to basic it partisan issue, which it wasn't for decades. ever since the founding of israel. that's what the president is trying to do.

he is revving up this kind of myth that somehow democrats, i resent it personally as a jew and all but one of the jewish members are democrats in the house of representatives. it's so offensive to me. the idea that the woman that was on fox that was complaining about her wearing a hijab, jews fought for a long time to be able and the military, to be able to wear a skull cap or a beard if you are a religious jew. these kinds of things -- i took an oath of office on the five books and ilhan took it on the koran. we all took an oath of office together. loyalty to the united states of america. this debate is so destructive. i really think the politics is on the republican side and being

led by the president of the united states. >> in his first white house briefing in six weeks, sarah sanders was asked about the president's latest comments. here is the flak ri. l let's listen sflp y. >> yes or no? does the president believe that democrats hate jews? >> i'm not going to comment. >> does he think democrats hate jewish people as he said on the south lawn? >> i think they have had opportunity to condemn some excellents. i'm trying to answer it. >> yes or no. >> the president has had and laid out clearly his position on this matter. democrats had a number of opportunities to condemn specific comment and have refused to do that. that's a question you should ask democrats what their position is. >> as congresswoman just said, 34 members of congress are democrats and maybe more and presidential elections jewish voters have supported democratic

candidates by large margins. i knew this. this is what i've always remembered. 90% supporting fdr campaigns. over 80% for jfk. since the 1990, jewish support for candidates have remained high. high 70s to 80 in that range. talk about that. trump needs to be reminded of the facts. >> i don't think he's concerned about the history or facts. he sees a story that he wanted to keep in the news so after that vote on thursday, he goes out and gives characteristically over the top statement about democratics hate israel. democrats hate israel. he did it plumultiple times. this is something he the doing intentionally the awkwardness i saw from sarah sanders trying to defend this saying republicans condemned steve king. she was asked did the president

condemn steve king and she waffled and said i've condemned steve king. he hasn't. the president is not pure. i was there when he told jewish doe flnors that you aren't goin vote for me because i don't want your money. >> we pulled that for you. >> he's not worried about that. >> we anticipated that bad language. president trump is himself been accused of peddling an anti-semitism in the past. he made these remarks in 2015. >> i know why you're not going to support me. you're not going to support me because i don't want your money. you want to control your own politician. that's fine. good. >> in 2016 then candidate trump tweeted and later deleted be image of hillary clinton over a bed of money next to a six pointed star. it was the star of david. as the president refused to condemn the white supremacist

march in charlottesville. last october in a tweet then house majority leader kevin mccarthy singled out democratic voters with jewish heritage for the attempting to quote buy there election. mccarthy later deleted tweet but not our memory of it. your thoughts about this. this latest problem for trump. >> i don't think there's any question that mr. trump has been associated intentionally with the vilification of different people, including jews in our society. i think that it's a tactic that he uses to divide and conquer people. he plays on racism intentionally and done it for his entire political career. this is one more attempt by him to divide and conquer people based on race, ethnicity and religion.

i think it's 100% wrong. i think it's something as un-american as i can imagine. >> his people know what he's feeling because they express it openly. fox news host stirred trouble on saturday night with comments she made. here it is. >> she's not getting this anti-israel sentiment doctrine from the democrat party. if it's not rooted in the party, where is she getting it from? think about it. omar wears a hijab, which according to the coran, 33:59 tells women to cover so they won't get molested. is her adherence to this islamic doctrine indicative to shria law? >> are you following that? fox news strongly condemned

piro's remarks adding they do not reflect those of the network and we have addressed the matter with her directly. fox is too much for fox. what do you think about the stretch appealing -- pandserring to the audience that if she wears this that dez ssays he wao get rid of the constitution. >> it's his ace in the hole. that base of voters who stick to him are most anxious about the changes that are happening in our country. you feed that and continue to feed that. that's the shame of it. it's also, i know i'm out on the jewish question. what sarah huckabee did today was disgraceful. you know what, i'm partisan democrat. all republicans aren't

anti-jewish. all republicans aren't anti-black. despite the wall, all republicans aren't anti-mexican. it's an easy thing to say. ast an easy thing to say and we have to call for our better angels in those positions than that. it shouldn't be partisan issue at all. >> let me go back to congresswoman on that. thank you. let me ask you about this whole question of ethnicity and trump. i thought -- i never can tell what's in his heart. this is a tough one for any politician or journalist. is it in his heart to be bigoted or is it always a card he plays surrounded by a pretty conservative group of people? i always thought his original sin was going after trump and claiming he was a foreigner from africa, not an american and snuck into the country and didn't go to these schools because that appealed to the

worth kind of right winger. does he really thinks he's a phantom. your thoughts. >> donald trump, of all things that he is, is canny. he understands that certain words trigger a certain response. why would he not condemn ilhan? he had the muslim ban. that was his first act to ban muslims from coming into the country. now, the anti-immigrant rhetoric in general from south of the border. this is the hate monger in chief and it gets him points. he wants to incite and excite his base. he knows the words that do that. that's exactly the kind of politics that he wants to play. it's very intentional. >> do you think he feels it himself or just working the

crowd? >> i'm not sure what donald trump believes in. believes in what at moment makes him feel good. what fills up the deep hole he has inside of him that needs to be filled every single day. if he can get the admiration of his base, he'll say anything. >> if you stoke racism, you're a racist. i hate this question about if it's in his heart. >> it's the politics of -- >> i made a mistake. >> it's the politics of fear. it's the fear of the other and it's something you point out. it's you fleunique to have a pr that's trying to pit different people. >> u.s. congresswoman of chicago and eli stokles.

tom, thank you for coming on. keep up your work. >> thank you. up next, we'll talk about the big week ahead in robert mueller's world with new developments expected in a court case. paul manafort could face another decade of prison. mike flynn could face more trouble. stone is facing the judge there week. that's straight ahead. e judge t week that's straight ahead. if you have moderate to severe psoriasis,

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welcome back. former trump adviser roger stone is pleading for his freedom after he failed to disclose to the court that his new book could violate his gag order. last month stone was barred from speaking publicly about the mueller investigation after he publicly attacked the judge overseeing his case. now we're awaiting a filing from stone's lawyers which will explain why stone didn't violate that order. didn't violate the order. it kicks off an eventful week coming up. this wednesday paul manafort will be sentence in washington, d.c. where he faces up to a decade more in conspiracy on top of the four years he got last week in virginia. we're expecting a status update in the case of michael flynn. it could reveal the extent of his cooperation with mueller. is he talking? roger stone is back in court for a status hearing about his upcoming trial. on friday we'll get a sentencing update on rick gate who is is cooperating with prosecutors.

i'm joined by white house reporter from bloomberg news. let me go to you. i'll ask you about this. why would stone not tell the judge i've got a book coming out or an update on a book that will talk, which i'm not supposed to be doing. >> why would he post a photo of the judge in image of cross hairs? it helps improve the roger stone show. the defense could be there book is part of his livelihood. what he is is a commentator. he still has first amendment rights. we don't flow what tknow the fuf the buook. he will make a case that he needs to make money and this book is part of his living. >> what's the name of book. >> who framed roger stone or something. >> i don't know the name of book.

i think roger is a side show at this point. unless mueller can turn the screws on him and get him to cooperate in this investigation or another, it seems like mueller's investigation is winding down. we're seeing a lot of loose ends being tied up. unless stone can cooperate in another investigation, i don't think he be that relevant. i think lit it will be the roge show. let me ask you ronald, what are we doing with the conversation we had for first segments of today's show? the president on the issue of impeachment. what will be the straw that breaks the camel's back? will a pardon of manafort do it for the republicans? this isn't jack johnson. >> the is abuse of the pardon power. the president has that power but to use it to reward friends to pay back for people who didn't tell dirty deeds about the president, that would be an

abuse and hopefully some republicans would be concerned about that. what speaker pelosi -- >> it falls into the wheel house of obstruction of justice. one way to not get a guy to testify against you is to pardon him. >> speaker pelosi was harkening back to the instituticonstituti. it requires two-thirds of the senate. 67 senators to convict. i think what she was saying is we're not going to move forward. >> in your judgment would this be enough to see the president clearly obstructing justice again? how many times does he have to do it? it's all intended for the same thing? >> it's really hard the know where the republicans are. i'm sure they are guided by public opinion. looking back at the nixon precedent, it's when president trump nixon done so much that opinion was turned against him.

they saw the june 23rd tape had him talking. when ever it's on the phone, tau it's always better. he said get the cia to cover up for the fbi. get the fbi a you haoff the cas. >> his own party told him he had to go. adam schiff said that robert mueller should have compelled the president to testify in person, not give him that take home exam he did. >> i think it's a mistake. i don't think bob mueller should rely on written answers. when you get written answers it's the lawyers answer as mump as the client's answer. you need to be able to ask follow up questions in realtime. >> i want to get to both you have on this. he's very good at process, adam schiff.

>> it seems he will present what he had and not wait. >> he's not setting a perjury trap trap? >> i don't think so. >> your lawyers make sure you don't commit perjury. >> unless your client wasn't honest. if the client wasn't honest to the lawyer, the lawyers don't know how to draft the correct answer. i think at the point you're about to make is if there's other evidence from let's say three or four people contradicting something the president stated, even if the lawyers crafted the statements, the lawyers only know what the clients and the information they have. they don't know what every one else is saying. >> thank you so much. coming up, donald trump named co-champion of his golf's club tournament which is so strange considering he didn't play in the tournament. giving himself awards and accolades for stuff he didn't do.

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. we're going to win in a way that nobody seen before. we're going to win so strong. we're going to be so strong. we're going to be so smart. >> there's never been a presidency that's done so much in such a short period of time. >> i would give myself an a plus. is that enough? can i go higher than that? >> maybe. welcome back to "hardball." president trump campaigned on being the best at everything. he's taken that attitude with him into the presidency. he has pattern of falsifying or exaggerating those efforts. he claims he was first in his class at the university of pennsylvania. let's watch. >> i was a good student. i always hear about the elite. the elite. they're elite. i went to better schools than they did. i was a better student than they were. >> i was first in my class at

the wharton school of finance. >> in 1968, the school paper, the daily pennsylvania published a list of the 56 student who is were on the deans list that year. trump's name was strangely not among them. perhaps a misprint. in 2017, the washington post reported that trump hung up a fake time magazine cover featuring himself, at least at fo five of his golf clubs. the former forbes reporter said the president called him in 1984 pretending to be an aids to inflate his wealth so the reporter would put him on the forbes 400. let's listen to that aids. >> are you saying that perhaps for tax purposes it's been transferred to donald trump. >> correct. that's donald trump. p. >> when you say, that's 90% of the ownership. >> i'm say it's closer to the

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he never played in that tournament. multiple sources told the magazine the president joked to the actual champion, the only reason you won is because i couldn't play. the president golfed at that course 47 times in 2018. trump then proposed a nine hole challenge match. winner takes title. the president won and said this isn't fair, we'll be co-champions. the white house does not respond to nbc request for a comment on this story. i'm joined by washington post columnists. is it worse than this? putting out this plaques to yourself. we also kid about kids in little league all needing a trophy. he says i want it all. he still needs it. your thoughts. >> this is pathetic and it tells you a lot about what an empty vessel donald is. 19 of his properties he has

plaques up of awards he gave himself from a phony hospitality system run by his pal who joey mar-a-largo every year. who gives an award to themselves. it is bad enough when we give children awards for showing up, but giving an award to yourself, the only word to describe it is pathetic. >> well what do you make of it, dana? nobody does it better than you. i think somebody said the congresswoman from chicago, she pointed out he has some big vacuum in his soul that has to be filled up regularly and relentlessly with b.s. stuff about how great he is. >> he has this insatiable need for support for people to affirm him to believe in him. do you remember a year ago when the democrats didn't stand up and applaud at the state of the union. he said that was treason. you could get an idea of what he means. but i'm happy he's doing this --

giving himself the trophy here. he's not getting the trophies from north korea or the economy or getting it from the border wall. we don't want him to be desperate because he does have a large -- >> he does have a large -- >> so let's all applaud him and give him trophies and move on. >> well trump boasted about his golf skills throughout the 20 san francis -- through the 2016 campaign. let's watch him in action. >> i like to play golf. i'm a good golfer, believe it or not. people are shocked. people are shocked. but let me -- i should play obama for the presidency. i'll do it. i've won a lot over my life. i even win a lot of club championships. that is good, right. my hands, look at these hands. these hands hit a golf ball 285 yards. look at these hands. >> who is the best golfer in the room? anybody know? >> you. >> who is club champion here? who is the club champ ?

i want to fight them and beat them. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> that is absolutely false. i win at golf. i win at golf. that i can tell you. >> well that reporter is referring to this washington post article which quotes sportswriter rick reilly when it comes to cheating he's on a table. it is like brett kavanaugh, i like beer, i like beer. give me a break. why does he have to keep saying that? does that help him with republican voters? kennedy used to hide the fact he plays golf. i don't think obama played that much but is it a statement of success, golf? he said something about the guy -- i own a golf course and i play golf. it is a status symbol for trump. >> he's trying to establish that he's been accepted and he knows he's not by a large segment of the population. it is the same reason he's desperate for the approval of the "new york times."

and donald, by the way, is a notorious tax cheat. rick reilly got that right. i've interviewed people who played golf with him and described him taking three, four file mulligans at a time and putting down the score cord -- the score card that he got this and that. so all of the things donald says are untrue but just invite a television news crew to follow him through 18 holes. >> i don't think that is likely to happen. >> i don't either. >> it is sort of a metaphor for how he governs. he's a good golfer and he doesn't need to cheat but he does any way. as david suggested, the floating milligans, whenever he wants -- >> a milligan is a bad -- that didn't count. >> you count the shot and then he throws them away at the end and i hit for par. my handicap is at scratch. you can't do both. throw away all of your bad shots

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on friday i said that president trump is already justified the case for impeachment. i said he has done so primarily but not exclusively on obstruction of justice. over the weekend reporter adam gone nick made the sake case in the new yorker magazine. any one of the things he had done overtly by another president in near universal cries for impeachment if not immediate resignation and confessing to a journalist and the russian foreign minister that he did it to end an investigation into his own campaign contacts with russians follows the exact form of one of the impeachable offenses obstruction of justice applied against richard nixon. the smoking gun tape smoked because it showed that nixon

tried to stop the fbi from investigating the watergate break--in on phony national security grounds and now donald trump has taken along the same route. attempting to use presidential power to cover his criminal attacks telling comey to drop the case against michael flynn and then firing comey when he reused to do -- refused to do so and firing ref sessions and recusing himself from the case and matching up with nixon's dismissal of archie bald cox. and today nancy pelosi said today he's just not worth it. the greater question is whether impeachment has become a duty. if the majority of the house of representatives believes trump obstructed justice as i believe it does, isn't there a duty to act? as the writer for the new yorker put it this week, impeachment may be too good for trump. and may yet prove just the thing

for the country. is it better to wait for such a constitutional explosion or to act now upon the lethal accumulation of public evidence mr. trump has already piled high. that is "hardball" for now. "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >> tonight on "all in." >> do we like tucker? >> a full-blown scandal at trump tv. >> she's my friend and she's your friend. justice jeannine. >> why fox news is condemning one of its own. >> is her adherence to this islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence to sharia law. >> as the president keeps lowering the bar. >> does the president believe that democrats hate jews. >> and then dave corn on new reporting about mar-a-largo and the massage parlor magnate selling access to the president. >> and