on "the beat" and also opening arguments so a lot to get to we're excited about. i hope you have a great weekend and come back monday 6:00 p.m. eastern. don't go anywhere right now because "hardball" with chris matthews is up next. the joker is wild. let's play hardball. good evening. i'm chris matthews back in washington. well, two events last night, 1,200 miles apart showcased the dramatic difference between the democrats and donald trump. in houston the top ten democrats met for their third debate jousting to become their party's candidate in 2020. meanwhile republican members of congress met in baltimore to hear from their party's unchallenged leader. it was a battle for america's attention from a president who can't stand a moment from the spotlight.

and true to form trump unloaded a series of attacks on the democratic field. >> i hit pocahontas way too early. i thought she was gone. she's emerged from the ashes, and now it looks like she could beat sleepy joe. he's fallen asleep. he has no idea what the hell he's doing or saying. and hear's sleepily joe, what, where am i? just sign here, sleepy joe. crazy bernie, he is a crazy guy. i think it was buttigieg, they said think of it as boot and thej edge because nobody can pronounce this guy's name. >> actually that is the way to pronounce it. they were unified in their purpose, of course. they all trained their sights on the man we just heard from, trump. >> houston, we have a problem. we have a guy there that is literally running our country like a game show.

>> you know when i first got into this race i remember president trump scoffed and said he'd like to see me making a deal with xi jinping. i'd like to see him making a deal with xi jinping. >> we have a white supremacist in the white house and he poses a mortal threat to people of color all across this country. >> we must and will defeat trump, the most dangerous president in the history of this country. >> there's enormous, enormous opportunity once be get rid of donald trump. >> and now president trump, you can go back to watching fox news. >> well, while the democrats start to earn the support of rank and file voters trump spoke as a president who has the republican party already in his clutches. >> i go to audiences, i was joking one time recently. i walked up to him and i i said listen i don't have to make a very long speech. you really have to elect me, whether you like me or not it makes no difference because our country will go to hell if any

of these people get in. it'll go to hell. but i said, you know, i was joking but i'm really not joking. you have no choice. >> sounds like louie xiv or xvi. the president's speech last night hit virtually everyone of his political lines. at times trump's address felt more like an act even using wind turbines as setup material. >> try dropping a windmill someplace close to your house, try selling your house. they make noise, they kill all the birds. the energy is intermittent. you happen to be watching the democrat debate and the wind isn't blowing, you're not going to see -- charlie, what the hell happened to this debate? he says, darling, the wind isn't

blowing. the goddamn windmill stopped, that windmill stopped. >> here his latest complaint is about energy efficient light bulbs. >> the bulb that we're being forced to use, number one to me most importantly, the light's no good. i always look orange. and so do you. the light is the worst. >> mr. president, actually some would say it's not the light bulbs. and while trump has criticized baltimore as a rat rodent infested mess the only rat that was apparent during his visit last night in baltimore was an inflatable one. there it is meant to look like him. among the many demonstrators who gathered to protest the president's appearance. that's pretty well-done there. i michael steele is a former spokesperson for house speaker

john boehner and ronald reagan. there you are. you've got the smirk. i can't resist the smirk. i've got to ask you about trump and his joker. it's just like jack nickholson, he can't stand somebody else on television. here he is careening from light bulbs to wind turbines. your thoughts about trump's interruption of our lives again. your thoughts. >> well, you know, donald trump sees the presidency obviously as a reality television show, and that's how he relates to all of this. how am i doing in the ratings? how are the polls? are people applauding? am i getting laughs here? but the whole thing is beginning to spiral downward in a very alarming sort of way. again, we can laugh about his behavior, but the fact of the matter is he's sitting in the oval office and that makes his behavior a very scary thing. >> you know, it reminded me

about these old comedians of one line after another, like take my wife, please. it was like that last night, like take my presidency, please. your thoughts, jaime. >> i hope there aren't a lot of people going to these speeches because i know they're losing brain cells. you have a president talking about light bulbs, and chris, it just doesn't make any sense. >> it makes them yellow. >> i guess it makes them yellow -- >> i'm sorry, i've been corrected. >> well, in the end he's going to be red because he's going to be very upset when he loses this election. he's not talking about the issues that people are dealing with right now. the people that are rubber stamping his election like my senator lindsey graham are not focused on the issues that people are dealing with right now. >> there's setup material on that on everything he does. it september just jokes. all the jokes are at the expense

of anybody concerned about energy, anybody concerned about climate change. they're sort of, you know, against modernism, against reality, against facts, and his audience has to laugh at all that. we don't like these new light bulbs, we don't like wind. why wouldn't you like wind and saving the planet? >> he's been anti-wind from the beginning. he was against wind turbines even in the 2016 election. this is the argument he's going to make against whoever wins the democratic presidential nomination which it is dangerous to elect these democrats. these people will take your country away, and that is an argument that worked for him in 2016. so i think democrats have to be careful to be aware of it. and, you know, the other thing, he makes this argument with a lot of energy. you know, he spoke for 78 minutes last night. what candidate goes out -- what president goes out and speaks to a crowd for 78 minutes? >> could he wear out a biden? >> i think -- >> on a platform, could he wear him out?

>> i think he could wear out a candidate, biden or other candidates as well. >> fidel castro would go four hours at a time, so it's not a test how liberal or conservative you are, it's just if you can talk a lot. but he does have this obsession with the moment. the thing about this president i used to say to people think about radios every two hours has to refresh. this guy has to refresh his act every minute. he wants to own every minute including last night. >> he wants to win the news cycle every single time. he's never polled above 50%. democrats can lose it, and he's going to be out there, whatever candidate you guys nominate he'll be out there saying this candidate will take your health care, take your guns, raise your taxes, wreck the economy. i'm the only thing -- >> he got some help last night from beto, we're going to confiscate all the ar-15s -- fawning over the president from the republican retreat in baltimore yesterday house

minority leader kevin mccarthy invoked the name of ronald reagan as he praised the current president. >> the republicans have never been more united. don't take my word. take the members on the stage, actually look at the polling itself with this president. no president, not even ronald reagan had as much support within the party as president trump has. >> but not everyone is as united as mccarthy is claiming there. the president's nominee in 2012 told cnn the other day i'm not planning in endorsing in the presidential race at this stage. i'm not planning in endorsing in the primary or in the general. ron, let me ask you about this guy. i'm not sure the loyalty behind this president which is sort of lending like and mechanistic and regimental is something to brag about. there's something nonintellectual. they don't praise reagan, they follow him in a kind of way that doesn't suggest individual thinking or anything. it's just we're afraid to buck

this guy because the people at home are much more right wing than any officeholder in the party it seems. >> you meant praise trump not reagan -- there's no genuine affection for this guy and throughout most of the party. he may have his base, he may have his cult-like base among the public and electorate, but elected officials are wise to him for the most part. they know he's a reckless erratic dangerous individual but, you know, they got their tax cut. and if they cross him, they know what happens to him when they go back and get primaried. >> when makes lindsey grahams, for example, who's the classic toty. it's your state, i didn't create these people. what makes his tail wag when the name trump is mentioned? what makes him run around like he loves him? i mean he doesn't love him. i know lindsey. lindsey is a good guy in many

ways, but why are they behaving like that today? ron? >> no, but i think it's survival for them. the bottom line is they need to get re-elected and they need him to get re-elected. they can't afford to have him tweeting to their base as well as his some bad stuff about them and next thing you know they don't win the republican primary and they never get into office again. that's the real bottom line. >> jaime if you win the nomination you're going to run against this guy in -- >> i'm running against him now. >> he's embarrassing. >> listen, the most important thing to lindsey graham is lindsey graham. he wants to be relevant. he said it so in his own words in a "the new york times" article recently. two objective, get re-elected and being relevant.

i call him the world's most powerful golf caddy because that is what he is. >> i've got another theory. those southern democrats, the old grandees, their dream was to get appointed when the other guy died, serve until they died and try to transform death into some building like the richard russell building. that's what their dream was, never to leave the senate ever. is that what lindsey wants? help me? >> the senate allows lindsey to be relevant. but at the end of the day, chris, it's not about the people in south carolina. you tell me whether they ever would have done this, coming up the coast, we evacuate, where is lindsey graham, is he in charleston putting sand in bags, on phone with the governor, no

he's in montenegro -- >> that was a campaign commercial. you'll never go on foreign trips if you're elected to the senate -- >> it's not about that. >> thank you, thank you. my guests are sticking with me. coming up after the democrats big night, who's leading and who's bleeding, and what about that cheap shot from julian castro? here it is. >> barack obama's vision was not to leave 10 million people uncovered. he wanted every single person in this country covered. my plan would do that, your plan would not. >> they do not have to buy in. >> you just said that two minutes ago. you just said two minutes ago they'd have to buy in. you said they'd have to buy in. are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago? >> an attempt to show dementia on the part of the leading democratic candidate, julian

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indifferent. that's where i stand. >> well welcome back to "hardball." that was the democratic candidates of course last night embracing the obama legacy. while the st. story line heading into last night, it wasn't the battle between the moderate and progressive wings in the party that brought the most contentious moment of the night. that came when julian castro took a shot at the former praez falsely accusing biden of saying his health care plan wouldn't publicly enroll people in his option and hinting that biden was old and forgetful. he was charging him with short-term memory loss and dementia. let's watch. >> you just said that two minutes ago. you just said two minutes ago they would have to buy in. are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago? are you forgetting already what

you said just two minutes ago? i mean, i can't believe that you said two minutes ago that they had to buy in and now you're saying they don't have to buy in. >> i said anyone and their grandmother who has no money, you're automatically enrolled. >> it automatically enrolls people regardless if you choose to opt in or not. if you lose your job, for instance, his health care plan would not automatically enroll you. you'd have to opt in. my health care plan would. that's the big difference. i'm fulfilling the legacy of barack obama and you're not. >> a short time ago secretary castro told my colleague chuck todd it was a disagreement over health care policy and not biden's age, he says. >> you repeated the word forget so many times that a lot of people thought this was a planned hit. >> it was not. look, i respect vice president biden. i've known vice president now for years, of course served in the obama administration with him.

i think that in many ways he's a good candidate. that's going to be up for the voters to decide. what i was pointing out is he had denied saying the words buy in, even though he did say the words buy in. >> i think everybody heard what they say and heard him use the word forget again and again. he was going after him saying you don't remember what you just said. >> there are questions you can raise about joe biden and his vigor and his age and his tendency towards gaffes, that wasn't inappropriate, but this was an inappropriate hit. this came across as mean-spirited and precooked and toxic. and i do not think julian castro is going to be the either the nominee or a member of joe biden's cabinet -- >> i think he's a 1% candidate who thought i've got to do something to shake this up or i'm not going to be relevant at

all going forward. >> she said there's going to be a hit directly from julian castro on the vice president, it's all planned, it's going to happen. so somebody leaked the fact he was going to do that. >> a lot of the lines last night were devised -- >> does houston have a problem? >> you might possibly have drafted some of those lines. >> anyway, julian castro is bleeding. who won last nights to use the crude phrase in the game of politics as it is somewhat a game. who won? >> so i think biden weren't perfect but he was good enough. and i think elizabeth warren continued to do exactly what has brought her success so far, which is make her progressive case but stay above the fray. >> she was untouched -- anyway former texas congressman beto o'rourke got a lot of attention on the issue of gun control, defending his mandatory assault

weapon buy back program. watch this. this is going to have a short-term reaction among democrats, and you bet he'll be the poster boy next summer for the nra. let's watch. >> if the high impact high velosity round when it hits your body shreds everything inside your body because it was designed to do that and you'd bleed to death on the battlefield, when we see that being used against children and in odessa i met the mother of a 15-year-old girl who was shot by an ar-15 and that mother watched her bleed to death over the course of an hour because so many other people were shot by that ar-15 in odessa and midland, there weren't enough ambulances to get to them in time. hell yes we're going to take your ar-15, your ak-47. >> does he know people in the first row literally jumping up and down. it was amazing.

in response to that comment by beto o'rourke a texas representative tweeted my ar-15 is ready for you robert francis, using beto o'rourke's legal first and middle name. beto o'rourke tweeting this is a deaf threat. you shouldn't own a ar-15. let's go to beto o'rourke. talking about confiscating, mandatory buy backs of ar-15s. there are 10 million of them in the country right now. what does that mean next summer? >> i think that means beto o'rourke is not running for senate or anything in texas any time soon. he's reinvigorating the gun rights lobby, republican and other fears, people in rural areas fears that democrats are not in favor of common sense steady gun reforms. they're in favor -- they're going to come break down your door and take your gun. and that the a real fear on the part of a lot of people, and he

just made that a lot more legitimate. >> ron, you're thinking about is this beyond where the country is right now in terms of gun safety? >> i think the problem with that and i agree with what was just said, this plays into the republican nra meme of democrats coming in, kicking down your door and taking your gun away. i think the problem for me with beto o'rourke's proposition here about the buy back that's mandatory, so it will be a consfisication eventually is that it's not part of a larger comprehensive anti-gun violence strategy. it seems like sort of a one off thing. well, we're going to take your ar-15s away. i've got news for you. you can take all of them away and it might be a good thing but it won't stop all mass shootings. so unless you embed this in a larger comprehensive sort of program i think you're missing the boat. >> like going after those ammo magazines with 30, 40 bullets in each one.

here's mayor pete buttigieg last night when he was asked to talk about resilience. overwhelming his setbacks that came his way and ones he thought was going to come his way. it's very powerful. let's sit back and watch pete buttigieg. >> i came back from deployment and realized that you only get to live one life, and i was not interested in not knowing what it was like to be in love any longer. so i just came out. i had no idea what kind of professional setback it would be especially because inconveniently it was an election year in my socially conservative community. what happened was that when i trusted voters to judge me based on the judge that i did for them, they decided to trust me and re-elected me with 80% of the vote. >> what do you think, jaime? rare moment of, well, human reality? >> well, it was a great moment for pete. and it was one of those moments

where i constantly try to remind democrats not only those running for president but also on the down ballot, that democrats win when we're hopeful and aspirational. when we talk to people about where they are and relate to them on that level, bill clinton was a master at doing that. barack obama was very good at doing that as well. and the key for us, the key for the nominee of our party, the key for folks like me running for the united states senate is to go into these communities, rural communities and urban communities and talk to people where they are. talk to their heart because when people vote they're not just voting with this, they're voting with this and this. it's the heart and the gut. >> that's what lbj said about civil rights. thank you so much. susan page, as always, front page susan. jaime harris, thanks and michael steele, thank you, sir. and ronaan reagan, we wait for .

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welcome back to "hardball." felicity huffman of desperate house wives she was sentenced today to 14 days in prison for her role in the college admission cheating scandal. huffman and 13 other parents pleaded guilty to bribery and mail fraud charges. she initially faced up to 20 years in prison but received a more lenient sentence in two weeks because of her guilty plea. in a statement today huffman said i accept the court's decision today without reservation. i've always been prepared to accept whatever punishment the judge imposed. i broke the law, i admitted that and pleaded guilty to this crime. there's no excuses or justifications for my actions, period. well, 50 people including false house actress lori loughlin were indicted back in march of this year in a massive investigation which revealed that parents paid millions of dollars in bribes to get their children into elite

universities. part of the scheme involving cheating on standardized exams like the sat and falsely designating some kids as athletes to get preferential treatment even if they weren't athletes at all and had nothing to do with those sports. in huffman emphasis case she paid $15,000 to have a college counselor correct answers on her daughter's sat test resulting in a higher score. tom, in this case what did she pay the test moderator to do to get her kid's numbers up. what did she actually do for the money? >> it was two thinks. one she'd be able to have her daughter take the test with no time limit whatsoever. as we know from taking the college boards you have a certain amount of time to complete certain portions of of the test. she would be able to take as much time as she wanted. in addition to that what she pleaded guilty to and what we saw in the charging documents was that the person who

proctored the test, basically the instructor for the test went back and was able to correct some of her daughter's answers that led to approximately a 400-point increase on her college board. so not an insignificant increase. and on top of that her daughter had a significant amount of time it get it right in the first place. >> how does the proctor get to squirrel away with a test, somebody's test and change enough of the answers to get the points, do they have the answers? how do they cheat? >> i think what came across in the initial charging documents in several instances and it wasn't just felicity huffman's daughter who was able to get some of these benefits, but according to the charging documents, chris, basically you have people that are educators. these are not people that are just off the street. god knows it's not myself. but it would be people that are educators, that are professors

that are involved in the school, you know, in the school and schooling systems so they would presumably have that higher level of knowledge to be able to correct these answers and jack up those scores. >> katey, what do you make of two weeks, 14 days is that jail time or prison? what kind of a situation will this defendant, this convicted person have to face? what will the situation be for two weeks? >> so felicity huffman is not going to be doing hard time at a maximum security federal prison but two weeks is a lot of time for someone who's an otherwise glamorous hollywood actress. 14 days doesn't sound like a lot but for any defendant looking down the barrel of going to jail is day for day. she'll do those 14 days but frankly chris by the time she actually gets into the prison sentence, basically gets acclimated to, she'll be out of the system. you look at her, see she gave $15,000 in order to get her

daughter to test better with that proctor's assistance but if i were someone like lori loughlin, i would be whipping out those prayer candles tonight because she's decided to plead not guilty, take the rick of going to trial against the biggest law firm in the world which the federal government. so he's looking at significant jail time if felicity huffman only got 14 days. >> will this serve as a real deterrent? will this stop parents who has the crazy ambition without the right values from the time their first grade onto 12th grade and they think about buying them in? is this going to teach better values or scare the bad guys? >> i think it's two things. one, you can get caught because that's a big part of this. i think everybody here thought you pay this guy and this guy pays somebody else and you can get into the school of your

choice or at least have a better opportunity. and i think the fact when people get caught doing wrong things and they are people in positions of power or influence or celebrity, that's always a bit of a wakeup call. and the fact that felicity huffman she got a pretty good deal here. 4 to 10 months is what she agreed to in her plea agreement. prosecutors wept for even lower than that, arguing for only a month and now she's going to do 14 days. i wouldn't want to do 14 days and i think a lot of people watching tonight wouldn't want to do 14 days in a federal prison either. i think it is a bit of wake up call. and if you're lori loughlin and you're sitting at home and watching this she paid a lot more money. $500,000 along with her husband. she's looking at significant jail time even if she pleads out. i think some folks are going to be watching really closely and realize this service fraud or wire fraud is something that could bite you. >> good deterrent by this?

>> it is a send a message sentence, chris, and that's exactly what the federal judge said she wanted to do in this case. normally in these cases when you have a lot of people involved in the fraud, when p what happened in this specific case he was cooperating with the feds, he wore wires. everything was bugged. i mean, this is how he actually drew that huge net to bring in all of these parents. so in this particular investigation, this operation varsity blues it actually went from the very top in terms of cooperation. which made it easier to snag people like felicity huffman, lori loughlin, exactly those people. so yeah, it is a detrpt but i don't think it's going to stop people from doing the obvious which is giving millions of dollars to help their kids get into school. >> all the money being spent to get into southern cal is amazing. georgetown is different.

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successful somewhere along the way. that was for "the washington post" in the back. >> i'm joined now by david farenthol who's done most of the reporting that the secretary of state was mentioning there, and harry fineman of course animus nbc analyst. he made fun of you for catching them at this as if it's a joke. >> i'm glad the secretary of state reads "the washington post." we had a story yesterday saying mike pence, the vice president, and secretary of state pompeo spoke this week to events put on by a paying customer of their boss, donald trump. pays trump privately, two public officials affiliated with trump show up to boost their events. >> if you know you're under scrutiny, if people are looking for a misbehavior, but trump seems to lately be expanding on it and showing it off.

coming on fox and friends saying it's a cheeseburger -- it's not about cheeseburger. it's about thousand dollar rooms zbh . >> first of all he loves to brag about how he makes money. it's money coming in. and also it has the political effect of allowing him to talk about that as opposed to every other catastrophic constitutional legal and political event he's got going on all around him. he'd rather talk about that. >> so if you hit my arms i can take it, just don't hit me in the face. it's amazing, this is considered a less problem for him to be caught making money off the presidency than -- >> until it isn't. >> we'll see. president trump told reporters last month his team had chosen his dural resort in miami as the site of next year's g-7 summit after vetting 12 other sites. key line there. let's watch. >> my people looked at 12 sites,

all good but some were two hours from the airport, some were far worse, some didn't allow this or didn't allow that. >> david ud, you tweeted today asking the public has anyone out there in the media, government, hospitality anywhere heard of any sites vetted by this administration. >> well, i don't know that. i'm just looking for evidence that he's right, that he's telling the truth. and so i look for other places trump had vetted. i've been calling all the authorities in states where they say they vetted. and i only found one, hawaii, where they basically called up and asked could we have a conference in oahu and that was it. >> was it his idea to go to miami all around? >> that's what i'd like to know. was there a real formal vetting

process and somebody else said yes, trump diral is the best or someone come out and say throw out hawaii, and here's my choice. >> why would the regular joe root for a guy who does this, who takes advantage of the presidency and makes money off it? >> you and i, chris, are thinking of exactly the same guy. he's in the outer suburbs of the pittsburgh area, in western pa, in ohio, michigan, in wisconsin. as long as he's got a job and doing great in the so-called trump economy, fine. but this strategy of donald trump's, this propensity of donald trump can come back and bite him with some of those people, the moment that economic situation for that person turns downward, for example, the united mine workers are getting ready to strike maybe against general motors. what do they think donald trump is using his influence to shovel

in money and they're out on the street in. >> meanwhile politico is reporting the air force has had crews stay over at trump's resort in scotland up to 40 times in 2015 which started when obama was president. but politico notes the figure does not indicate how many have stayed since trump became president. is this an important question of having the air force use one of his sites? >> certainly when crow say that original appearance, air force crews staying at the president's hotel, it sounds bad. the arrangements that cause this, the air force crew stopping in that airport, that airport directing those people to that hotel -- >> but what about the growth? >> obama signed a contract in 2016 to bring more aircrews there. unless we know that trump stepped in to interfere, it looks like just a continuation of something obama did. >> do foreign powers check in to

win his favor? >> they certainly check in there. the only person i've ever heard say, foreign governments say yes i bought in here because i wanted to win influence, the filipino ambassador yesterday and saying look i'm doing this because trump's a friend. >> in the case of the filipinos they're proud. it's like donald trump is proud, they're proud. i can tell you having had dinner at one of those places they're not doing it for the food. >> i can say i'm clean. thank you. thank you, howard fineman. congratulations to get the secretary of state to take a whack at you today. up next i spoke to many of the democratic candidates in the spin room last night also known as the field hospital after the debate. we're going to have some highlights of that next. you're watching "hardball." highlights of that next. you're watching "hardball. nce-w.

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last night i was in the spin room at the democratic debate down in houston, texas. i spoke to the presidential candidates about the issues and their own performances. let's listen up. >> i think klobuchar was good. i think you both made a very strong opening appeal for unity and sort of a quiet admonition, let's not go so far that even if we win, we divide the country. >> i'm not out to scold anybody

but when i talk about plans that can bring us together i'm talking about how we can govern the country. we are dangerously divided, polarized as a nation. and bold progressive reforms can be done one of two ways. we've got to do it in a way that actually brings people together. >> how do you stop the basic way things work with politics? >> so that's what my end corruption bill is all about. the influence of money in washington is huge, and the point is it's just as huge as you identify. it's campaign contributions but it is so much more. so i have a bill that's a big bill, biggest bill since watergate, and it goes after the influence of money in lots of places. >> most people thought there was another aspect to this, that you were suggesting a man of 76 years had lost the ability to remember what he just said. short-term memory loss you were accusing him of. you rubbed it in three or four times. >> we had a disagreement about whether he said the words buy

in. he did say the words buy in if you look at the full transcript. >> do you think your colleague from texas, do you think it was fair for him to suggest joe biden had lost it? >> no. >> that wasn't fair. you're the only african-american in the top four or five, so you should be doing better. >> i'm still introducing myself to the american people. >> i'm trying to figure out why it's not happening. >> but, chris, those of us who are on the top tier, two of them have run for president before and won many times and the others have been on the national seat for quite some time. so if you want to believe the polls, though, you should also know that the polls have been very clear that on a head to head match i win against donald trump by a significant margin. >> i'm a guy who lives -- i'm the only person in this race and in the senate who lives in a low income black and brown community.

you come a different background but working class area -- >> northeast philly. >> yeah, people don't want a fair hand out but a fair shake. >> that's "hardball" for now. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on "all in." >> hell yes we're going to take your ar-15s, your ak-47. we're not going to allow it to be used against our fellow americans anymore. >> beto a raurk on his promise to take away assault weapons and the death threat he got afterwards. he joins us live tonight. then -- >> i own a lot of different places. soon you'll find that out. >> the court victory that could nail trump on the emoluments clause as new details emerge about just how often the air force stayed at trump's scottish resort. and protests in the streets of baltimore as the president comes to town. >> the light's now good.