is it them or is it the rnc head?cdaniel from michigan is somebody who is installed with the trump and reince priebus, the chief of staff, they are in private business and i don't see any ethical issue coming up in them advising the rnc any more than a big outsider could be used to consult. that is not the issue. what the issue is -- are they giving their father and his administration good political advice to help them chart the days, weeks, months ahead? lynn sweet, always appreciate you being here. thank you. >> thank you. >>> it's been less than a week since the deadly terror attack in manchester. but, today, the city comes together for a huge public event. cnn's muhammad lila is live in manchester. >> reporter: i'm muhammad lila in manchester where the city is celebrating and i'll tell you why coming up after the break and give you the latest on the investigation. >>> and if you put yourself in this position, terrifying moments for a kayaker. a shark knock him into the water. the whole thing caught on camera by pe

what about the rnc, kyle?and the relationship between them and how are those conversations going -- how much of what is swirling around the white house with the controversies controversies a part of the conversations there happening? >> sure. it seems historically during the campaign and a little early why 0, there was a little bit of distrust between the trump camp and the rnc. since the election and since the inauguration he has been below the ready and fund-raising and not the headlines or being in the news you saw during the campaign for the rnc and just the nature of the news cycle. it's tough to judge exactly how the new chairwoman of the gop and president trump get along. you haven't seen them in public together very much or heard too much about their conversations. >> all right. julian and kyle, we appreciate you sticking around for us. thank you. >> thank you. >>> this morning, we are learning more about the man behind the bombing in manchester and also a warning from uk officials that members of his

new rnc chair kicked it off yesterday. you saw the meeting. there was 160 rnc members.were the political arms of the gop. the senate territorial committee. all are tasked with helping the members looking toward 2018 and the midterm race. usually it's the reception period when you win the house, senate, and white house. as you were mentioning there, when you have the aftermath of the james comey firing, the russia investigations continuing. the tone was different around here. that's why when donald trump recorded a video yesterday that played to these rnc members, there was one particular line that was interesting. we'll play that byte. >> i'll be going around to different states. i'll be working hard for the people running for congress and for the people running for the senate. we can pick up a lot of seats. especially if it keeps going like it's going now. >> reporter: even before this week, thomas, the republican party had issues. it passed in the house that health care bill, which had 21% approval rating across the country. what the issue is for the republican party

this is the rnc's first meeting since inauguration.have a new rnc chair, all 168 members, the political a apparatuses of the congressional committee, the trump campaign is he here. to your question, the russian investigation is ongoing. there's the aftermath of the comey firing and talking several rnc members here, a sentiment i continual ly heard was, do you remember october of 2016, a month before the election when the media, including the campaign themselves, thought it was doomed to a certain extent and within a month suddenly there was a trump presidency. this is one of the gentlemen from alaska. take a listen to what he said. >> most of us realize it has no lasting input. it will go away. there are much more important matters to focus on, matters that president trump and his staff is focusing on. i think i and everyone here that's been here we're all very upbeat. it all looks good from our perspective. >> reporter: you heard the gentleman say they were upbeat. this week was an opportunity to begin to look at what the strategy was

>> well, look, the rnc committee members are elected by their state parties.g to be loyal to the president, just as democratic national committee members were loyal to president obama. come hell or high water. and we've certainly seen a lot of both over the past 100 days, so that shouldn't be a surprise at all. what they do want to talk about are jobs and the economy and health care. and i can tell you from the conversations i've had with members of congress, any day that we're talking about james comey or tax returns or tax returns or some other crisis du jour is when we're taking our eye off the ball and not talk about the issues where we can connect with the voters and effect change for the voters and that's a real problem. >> it's hard to keep your eye on the ball with all these tweets coming out, doug. you'd be a magician if you could. clearly they think very differently than the rnc members that are gathering. is that going too far too fast? >> no. i don't see why it's not happened yet, why there's not been any proceedings, except for the republicans see

one of the things they're trying to do is beef up the rnc.lp and they need essentially, the republican national committee to kind of restaff after so many of its staffers came into the white house after the transition to help staff donald trump's administration, so, i'm told they're coordinating with the rnc right now, trying to get that situation rectified so as they go forward in addition to some of the war room efforts they're considering creating within the structure of the white house, they desperately need some outside group help. they have a couple of superpacs out there that are a will the l bit outside of their circle of criminal. the rnc, they have a little bit more say over and trying to work hard and get help as they head into a tough string of news in the next couple of weeks. >> the rnc should be focused on 2018. we'll see how that plays out. jeff, welcome home. >> we've been talking about the cascade of stories about jared kushner have drawn this russia investigation within steps of the oval office, but overnight, we're learnin

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we will marry that with the rnc. conditions, you pick steve bannon and you pick kellyanne conway and then we're in. trump says, fine, who cares? right? bannon who had been running the breitbart operation, supplying a lot of untrue, false stories -- >> let's just say lies. >> we know. so they married content with delivery and data. and it was a potent combination. the question is where and how did the russians get into this? i think it is a very important question. so i assume a lot of the people here may have, if you haven't, i hope you will, read the declassified report by the intelligence community that came out in early january. >> this is 17 agencies. >> 17 agencies all in agreement which frig my experience as senator and secretary of state is hard to get. they concluded with high confidence that the russians ran an extensive information war campaign against my campaign to influence voters in the election. they did it through paid advertising, we think, they did it through false news sites, through these thousand

that's the hotel del coronado, rnc having their spring meeting here. out here are saying, they want the rnc to hear their displeasure, how angry they are about the firing of director comey. that's the point of all of this. see a lot of signs saying independent special prosecutor, saying this is a constitutional crisis and one overriding message is they hope to flip congress in 2018. >> thank you very much. that rnc meeting going on in coronado, california, many questions there as well. now, the lighter part or perhaps the heavier part when you hear what i'm going to say, the lighter topic of the evening. what does the president of the united states have for dessert? jeanne moose has an investigation. >> reporter: "time" magazine got a scoop, literally a scoop. >> one scoop for me, please. >> reporter: on the president's scoop we already knew he hankers for taco bowls and big macs and kfc eaten with a knife and fork and sometimes insists on fellow diners eating meatloaf. >> then he say, chris, you an i will have the meatloaf. >> it's emasculating. >> no

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callers indicated it is possible for any number of hackers to enter into systems like the dnc or the rnc or something else to spread false information or misdirected resources and staff. after careful investigation, not only technical forensics but the kind of human intelligence that our agencies are used to collecting all the time, that the direction of these campaigns was from the highest level of the russian government. how much involvement, where did it come from, and was there any connection between persons in the united states, whether part of the trump campaign or trump transition or elsewhere in other efforts to derail the election as we would have it. >> independent. >> thanks for taking my call and putting out interesting things. why wouldn't an investigation by an investigative journalist or mass media organization be just as good. some government effort investigating this. i know the government would have some pull in retrieving classified information. the fourth branch of government. the caller makes a good point that at times at stress in our public life, when the governmen

the dnc reaching just $4.7 million last month, less than half of the 9.6 million raised by the rnc..p. says they have president trump to thank. rhonda mcdaniels saying these numbers are evidence of the overwhelming enthusiastic performance of trump and the tireless work by republicans everywhere to ensure we work together to build on our majorities. would this be concerning for you if you are still there? >> mo: historically, the party that's in the white house does better at fundraising than the party that's out of power. the dnc was in really, really bad shape heading into and coming out of the selection. not just talking about the wikileaks. >> harris: the push against bernie sanders -- >> mo: there was a much bigger challenge of the dnc and that was the infrastructure. the stuff that's not in the new news, i could do without that, i'm not the target. he's firing up the base. just as romney mcdaniels job is at the rnc. >> sandra: >> meghan: the leaguf nations has an article in the post today about how this is the impeachment election meeting the only way democrats will come aroun

the rnc is also saying nbc and other networks, cbs are also refusing to air this ad. joining us with a reaction, a president trump's daughter-in-law lara trump is here with us also an advisor for the 2020 campaign. good to see you, how are you? >> i'm great, and love that ad, isn't it nice? >> sean: i like the ad. the funny thing is whenever these networks carry the president because they like the ratings that he brings to the networks when he gives speechese he gets to call them out and say fake news for free. the idea that they wouldn't take money because they are so offended that he calls them out on a regular basis is almost laughable, maybe they have a responsibility to their shareholders, what do you think? >> we have seen it time and time again, we sought throughout the entire campaign, the fact is there a certain networks the majority of the mainstream media throughout the country who refused to report the facts and the real facts. we felt like as the campaign it was our duty to report to the american people the incredible things that the president has done in

that. >> this was a meeting not only with rnc but also white house officials and a super pact that's designed to aid the president outside of white house. this was donald trump, jr. and eric trump as well as erick trump's wife. the plan is to map out a strategy for the next couple weelks and make muir all these different groups are on the same page and playing out of same page book with the goal of making sure republicans can retain the house and the senate? 2018. and then lay the grown work for the presidential's campaign in 2020. this couples with the reports that the white house is planning somewhat of a war room inside the length of time wing designed to respond to all these attacks and criticisms of the trump administration as this russian investigation moves forward. there's clearly an effort of foot here to make sure everyone aligned with the president is working together to make sure his message gets out and they can refute some of the criticism that's coming his way from various circles. >> ryan nobles thank for filling us in on that. i want to talk more about this with jack

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the read on all of this with the rnc chair, ronna mcdaniel, after this. on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates... maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. liberty mutual insurance. >> with regard to the tfx contract, would you make any suggestions what should get the contract? >> no, it's completely the defense department. >> is there anything to the reports that post master day will be replaced before the next campaign? >> no. >> are you able at this time to tell us something about ambassador thompson's report with premier khrushchev? >> what do you do if you don't get the tax cut? >> i plan to get the tax cut, mr. morgan. >> neil: on monday, he would be 100 years old. george bush sr., jimmy carters in their 90s. it's not unthinkable. john f. kennedy was cut down on november 22, 1963 at the age of 46. but we started rummaging through history a little bit to look at press conferences that were short, concise and to the point. h

>> reporter: in talking with these -- there's 160 rnc members here.ate committee, house committee, we're all here. across the board, do you remember what october 2016 looked like? one month before the last election. where the future of the trump campaign seems quite ominous. just a month later, he pulled it off and he's now in the white house. so we're still 18 months away. give this time. the senate is going to take up a health care measure they'll see if they can work out something with the house. donald trump recorded for those in the room, said i'll be on the room for senate candidates. the interesting line that he said, if things are going like they're going now, we'll be fine and actually pick up your senate seats. is this a room of partygoers from all 50 states. standing by trump, just three months in. >> vaughn hillyard, you're on a beach in san diego, you can take your tie off. i'm just saying. >> reporter: i took the jacket off. >>> much more about president trump's comments and tweets about james comey? could the president face allegations

the rnc though, pam, did respond and did take hillary clinton to task for this speech.minder why hillary clinton lost in 2016, going on to say instead of lashing out with the same partisan talking points hillary clinton would be wise to look inward, talk about about why she lost and address the dwindling base of the democratic party supporters, but we won't hold our breath. thanks so much for being here, laid its. karen, i want to start with you. as brianna laid out, this is really a political speech and a direct message talking about drawing the comparison between the frump administration and the nixon administration. were you surprised that she went there? >> not at all. i thought this speech was a really interesting bookend to the speech she gave at her own commencement, almost a subversive speech back then. "life" magazine would later call her a voice of her generation for that speech and right now hillary clinton i think is trying to figure out what kind of voice she should be here. in many ways she represents the past of the democratic party and yet these are -- t

bothow the russians had the dnc and the rnc. they chose to expose the embarrassing emails from the dnc but nothing from the rnc. my guess is that nobody in the rnc wrote anything remotely embarrassing. that is why they didn't have anything to show. can you believe that? that, we know. secondly, we know that the trump campaign, starting with the candidate himself was dancing very happily over these lakes. encouraging russia to find those hidden emails. he was barely joys about the joyous aboutly the leaks. that doesn't suggest collusion but it suggests that we have -- in germany, we would call that a gift. let's see if we can take advantage of that. putinw that vladimir believes -- he has had it on multiple occasions that the of the 20thgedy century was the dissolution of the soviet union and the soviets fear of influence. influence.phere of the incursions into eastern putin's approval ratings and russia were in the mid 40's. after he did that, they shot up into the 90's. 0's.0's to 9 >> 65 to 85. >> i saw things suggesting they

i think it's important for the rnc to have talks about what we're going to do about midterm electionsho were charged with the trump business? >> that's the point i was going to make. they may not be the exact right people that need to be having these conversations. i think the most important thing is to keep that line of separation between the business interests and the politics. they clearly are trying to do that. we also know that the daughter-in-law is now involved in the political arm of this all of this. it's going to be very difficult to -- >> ron, can they do that? can they have it both ways? and the lines not be blurred? >> no. i think there have been issues and there are issues all the way through. i mean, this is just -- you know, we have seen -- i remember george w. bush did -- as a son of a president, did have interactions with the rnc as kind of a defender of the father. so that's not -- i don't think that's unprecedented. what is unprecedented is this kind of mingling of how often, for example, the president is at trump properties and all of these questions about whether

office as the west wing sets up a new war room to push back on all russia stories with help from the rnc. we get more now from ryan nobles. >> reporter: good morning. this is the start of a busy week for the president as he returns from his long trip overseas. and we'll have to see if the white house provides anymore clarity about this latest controversy involving the president's son-in-law jared kushner and the reports that he attempted to set up a back channel of communication between the trump transition and the kremlin. the white house is not confirming or denying the report, but they did find an unlikely ally this weekend in south carolina republican lindsey graham who said that he's not sure he buys this report. listen to what he had to say on state of the yun. >> i don't know who leaked this supposed conversation, but you have the ambassador to russia reporting back to moscow on an open channel. hey, jared kushner's going to move into the embassy. i don't trust this story as far as i can throw it. i think it makes no sense that the russian ambassador would report back to moscow on

the rapid response from the rnc blasted the cbo's credibility on health care. they slammed the agency way off with its obamacare predictions, trying to say, hey, don't take their numbers to the bank. hours before the cbo score became public, mix mcconnell had a strikingly dour assessment. he said i don't know how we get to 50 at the moment but that's the goal. that's basically the law if you're going to do anything. he doesn't play games. if he doesn't know how he'll pass health care in the senate, it's because he doesn't know how he'll pass health care in the senate. he is not about raising or lowering the expectation bar. they're not in a good place right now. it comes as health care anxieties are dominating. from the big skies of montana which hold as special election tomorrow to the suburbs of atlanta which hold as special election next month. >> he says he's thankful for the new health care bill. the one that eliminates protections for pre-existing conditions. >> we know he didn't pay his own taxes. yet he wants to raise our taxes for a government takeover

camp that was not the president early in the campaign, obviously, because they were at the rnc. >> marthaating. thank you very much. joining me now, pete hoekstra, former trump campaign advisor. and the ceo of squared communications and a democratic strategist. i know you have worked carefully with mike dubke at your company. why did he leave? >> mike is a pro's pro. he is a long-term strategic communications thinker. as your audience knows, this white house is on hyperdrive in terms of making news. it is really hard to plan and an environment like this. what happens, presidents come in with her campaign staff, it happened with bill clinton, his communications director, george stephanopoulos left after four months. it happened with barack obama's first one. these are hard transitions to make from campaigning. a small, tight-knit group, to the multilevel job, the one like my cat. when the president calls and asks you to take a job, mike answer the call and did the best he could. a very turbulent environment that they are in. >> martha: pete, there has always been this divide between the in

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is possible for any number of hackers to enter into systems like the dnc or rnc, or something else, to spread false misdirectn or resources and staff, spread lies or misinformation about candidates. investigation, the direction of these campaigns was from the highest levels of the russian government. that is the investigation that is ongoing now. how much involvement, where did it come from, what impact did it have and was there any connection with persons in the malwaretates in that and other efforts to derail the election as we would have it. host: norman, massachusetts, independent. caller: thank you for taking my call. why wouldn't an investigation by an investigative journalist or mass media organization be just as good or better than some government efforts at investigating this? the government would inoretically have some pull retrieving classified never know, but you these days with our government. our on government spreads misinformation better than any hacker could. this should be music to c-span's ears. that is a strong point. we think of press, journalism, ,he media as the

so you can imagine how he keeps stepping into it this way. >> how stoke ready you not to run the rncight now? >> oh, my god. >> it's just one great big dysfunctional family. >> but here's -- you touch on i think the real rub here. this is beyond trump. the party has sort of embraced going back to the primary, embraced this in a way that they now own it. and you're already beginning to hear and see members on the hill and those who are looking at the elections next year going, we've got to do a course correction, otherwise th ship will go down next november. we will lose the house, we will not hold the senate, because the american people are not going to buy into this. we can't stand on the frontline and go, oh, there's nothing to see here. we can't play it down that way. >> michael is talking about a course correction. this same michael talked about a pivot for a while. we didn't see a pivot, i don't know if we'll see a course correction. >> the course correction isn't from donald trump, it's from the party leadership. later for trump. my re-election is more important than where the

i worked for reince priebus at the rnc because my background in politics. after trying to get repeal and replace done and through the house, i decided i could help more on outside with brad and others to help make sure we actually talk to the voters and move that agenda forward the best we can from a nonprofit issue advocacy organization called america first policies. we are excited to be doing that. >> i want to ask about that. but one more sort of inside baseball question. is a lot of discussion that if it didn't pass the house that reince priebus might be gone. two strikes might mean he was out. your thoughts? >> i can imagine that situation. i talked to him on an almost daily basis. i was in a rock-solid relationship with the president. i know they're working really well the three of them together to get this done. >> despite the former stories about the friction between bannon, if you like that's over? >> absolutely. >> martha: let's talk a little bit about the agenda because one of the things you're both working on now is a sort of provide cover for t

so this is pretty much the launch here this week for the rnc of what are we looking at in terms of 2018 of figuring tout messaging, and i asked several rnc members to what extent is the donald trump drama over there at the white house getting in in the way of the message and they said, hey, you have to wait 18 months here at this point until the midterms of november 2018 take place, and they said in october 2016, people thought that the trump campaign was doomed and then a month later, he is looking at the white house. so caution, let the senate take up what could be a health care bill of their own, and see if they can work out something with the house. in the meantime, they are going to continue to push forward and see where this goes. melissa. >> all right. vaughan hillyard , enjoy that sun. >> new details emerging with that dinner that the president had with the former drirector james comey and what we know so far and how it relates to the russian investigation is coming up up. >> and dramatic changing coming to the justice department following drug financials after trek or the sessi

>> mark murray said, susan, it's like -- the rnc statement is, like who is running the rnc?? >> this budget is an orphan. you know what striked me is not that he violated some of his caaign promises, he laid out votes that hurt his own voters, people who rely on food stamps, who rely on medicaid. the biggest budget cut is medicaid. >> even mitch mcconnell said, well, it's a recommendation, which, by the way, mcconnell would say about any budget. >> i was on capitol hill today and they said it was dead on arrival. that's when it was first tri trickling in. for the very first time, you see bipartisan support for something -- >> it's standard practice for congress to say president's budgets are dead. >> they can't use budget reconciliation to do the tax plan, then. >> that's why paul ryan wanted it. >> he was enthusiastic. while some of these programs clearly will stay in place and should stay in place, directionally, it is where the republican party wants to go. it's not that the party wants to cut medicaid but the party wants to see -- >> i agree with you, this feels like the

any republican that calls for this really should be reprimanded by the rnc. the democrats will use this to fund raise off of but that's what it will boil down great thing for democrats to fund raise off of. i don't think anything will materialize from it. you have a memo, like i said, written three months ago, no one has seen it. until comey was discharged by the administration last week. so a lot of facts up in the air. >>> matt thank you for joining us. we'll obviously see you again at some point because this is ever changing. absolutely. thanks guy >> we're glad you got in here. thanks again, matt. >> stick around, we will be right back. vo: at dominion, we have a long history of providing reliable energy and that'll never change. it's a reflection of our commitment to energy innovation and renewable sources like solar, wind... and cleaner energy like natural gas. and we'll continue to innovate, upgrade technology, protect our environment and serve our communities. dominion energy. more than a new name, a new way of seeing energy. >>> dc congress woman goi

but according to the government there was a hack into dnc and rnc and they used an intermediary or what james comey calls a cutout, somebody else pretending to be somebody who released it to wikileaks. >> what do you make of the love/hate relationship that the trump administration has had, donald trump the person and his administration has had with julian assange? donald trump has been quoted more times than i can count, 64, i think i saw somewhere, where he said in one way shape or form i love wikileaks. because he was loving wikileaks when wikileaks was putting stuff out about secretary clinton. now his cia director, mike pompeo has said that julian assange has no first amendment rights. his attorney general jeff sessions says his arrest is a priority for the u.s. government. what do you make of the love/hate relationship with julian assange? >> trump ran with an anti-press platform. the fact that he's targeting leakers and publishers like wikileaks is not a surprise. what i make of it is how scary it for all of us, all journalists that you're targeting -- that you have the justice de

reince priebus, donald trump's chiefs staff was very capable when he was with the rnc director. the rush is pre-- the trouble is priebus had no white house experience. he was not empowered by donald trump first among equals. which is a critical thing in the white house. clinton second chief told me, the moment that a white house chief no longer speaks for the president, people can smell it and sense it. you're a walking dead man. priebus, they haven't been able to do anything right. with possible exception of that supreme court nomination. no competent white house chief would have allowed executive order on immigration to go out into the world without being vetted by the departments in charge of enforcing it. it's a rookie mistake after rookie mistake. but at the end of the day, it's fundamentally on donald trump. donald trump needs to realize that he cannot govern -- governing is tough. it's nothing like running a manhattan real estate firm with advisors coming and going and no chain of command. trump i think is in the process of learning that. host: there's a story on the webs

is possible for any number of hackers to enter into systems like the dnc or rnc, or something else, to spread false misdirectn or resources and staff, spread lies or misinformation about candidates. investigation, the direction of these campaigns was from the highest levels of the russian government. that is the investigation that is ongoing now. how much involvement, where did it come from, what impact did it have and was there any connection with persons in the malwaretates in that and other efforts to derail the election as we would have it. host: norman, massachusetts, independent. caller: thank you for taking my call. why wouldn't an investigation by an investigative journalist or mass media organization be just as good or better than some government efforts at investigating this? the government would inoretically have some pull retrieving classified never know, but you these days with our government. our on government spreads misinformation better than any hacker could. this should be music to c-span's ears. that is a strong point. we think of press, journalism, ,he media as the

all this comes as the party's chairwoman declared today at the annual rnc spring meeting that the statetrong. but in a blistering op-ed in "the washington post," conservative blogger jennifer rubin writes if trump is still around by november 2018, a thrashing at the polls may be the only thing to persuade republicans to walk away from trump. i'm joined now by the author of that piece, jennifer rubin of the "washington post," as well as republican strategist john fearry. jennifer, that's just one quote of many in that article. this is what many would call an ep epic takedown of republicans and what is going on in this white house. what circumstances do you see -- and you outlined them -- that the republicans are going to start walking away from trump, finding that their own self-preservation is better than the preservation of the president? >> well, you would have thought that the confession in the interview with lester holt would have done it when he acknowledges that the reason for the firing of the fbi director was not the stated reason but had to do with russia. you would think it wa

administration handling of irs and charities and were they targeting group or not and shawn spice were rnc said why would they take the fifth amendment if they have nothing to hide. >> if we look back to one of the debates between president trump and hillary clinton he also said one of the people had done server and the guy that did the server would take the fifth. it would be interesting to see what the take is on it now. >> graduates of university of notre dame p administration over the weekend by walking out on vice-president pence during commencement ceremonies. as vice-president took to the podium class of 2017 dozens of students stood up and walked out. earlier this month education secretary betsy devos was heckled dering her speech as students turned backs to her. >> this was interesting the students went to administration and asked to talk to them about this in advance and asked which direction they should go out which would be the least disruptive to the graduation ceremony. instead of saying no don't do it the university said okay there was a handful that do it do what you need t

giving his rnc convention acceptance speech, and it's sort of thought of as a law and order speech.. the most tumultuous year in american political history, riots, protests, assassinations and he is calling for a return to order. he said it's time from frank talk about the problem of order in the country and there's a sort of kind of throwaway line where he talked' african-americans and the civil rights struggle and say they want the same as white americans and just dent want to be a colony in a nation, and that term stuck with me, and it seemed to capture something deep about a lot of the reporting i was doing. >> host: where did this book spring from? was there an inincident? i >> guest: we covered criminalbo justice loot on my show and we did that even before michael brown's staff, and before sort r of the explosion of "black lives matter" activism and what happened in baltimore but when i started covering ferguson, and then baltimore, that was a sort of catalyst. i was thinking about where the country was at and what was it about this moment that was producing this kinetic reacti

came to jared kushner and basically said, we will marry our operation, we wi will marry that with the rnc on two conditions, you pick steve bannon and you pick kellyanne conway. b bannon had been running the breitbart operation. >> reporter: they said voters did not accept that from a woman but blames her loss on james comey for revives the e-mail you shall shissue. savannah? >> andrea mitchell in washington, thank you. >>> president trump meanwhile is keeping the world in suspension tonight about his plans tonight regarding the paris accord. reports today the president was about to drop the hammer on that agreement sent a ripple across the globe but tonight some activists are holding out hope. nbc white house correspondent kristen welker with the enormous impact it could have. >> reporter: tonight, mounting anticipation as president trump inches closer to a final decision on the paris climate agreement. two administration officials tell nbc news mr. trump is leaning toward pulling out of the accord. >> very soon. you'll find out very soon. >> reporter: mr. trump called climate change a h

the congress care woman declares at the annual rnc spring meeting the state of the party is quote strongstering op-ed in the "post" she says if trump is still around by november 2018, a thrashing at the polls may be the only thing to persuade republicans to walk away from trump. i am joined now with the author of that piece, jennifer, that article, that is one quote of many in that article. this is what many would call an epic takedown of republicans and what is going on in this white house. what circumstances do you see and you outlined them, that the republicans are going to start walking away from trump, finding that their own self preservation is better than the preservation of the president? >> well, you would have thought that a confession in the interview with lester holt would have done it when he acknowledges that there is, therefore, the firing of the fbi director was not the stated reason but had to do with russia. you would think it was this morning when he, in fact, threatened the fbi director and hinted that there might be tapes in the white house. but they haven't broke ye

inherits an rnc data foundation that after the republicans lost to 2012 and they thought they had a very good operation with the set up that romney did called orca, they thought it was really state of the art. they lose. so they raised, best estimates, $100 million. they brought in main vendors who said we will never been behind the democrats again and they invested to build this data foundation. they beta tested it. they ran it -- somebody was able to determine 227,000 surveys to double check, triple check, d quadruple check. so trump becomes the nominee and he is basically handed tried and true and effective. and you can believe the hype on how great they were or the hype on how they weren't, but the fact is they added something. i think we bet err understand all of that money for their own anewsment. we know they played in "brexit" and they came to jared crushner and said, we will marry our operation -- which was more as it's been described psycho graphic sentiment, a lot of the harvesting of facebook information, we will marry that with the rnc on two conditions. you pick steve banno

reince priebus did a great job at the rnc.son but obviously needs to take some responsibility for the chaos here. better surrogates. maybe triple the amount of surrogates they are using. more lawyers may be. get on the same page as the house and senate. >> richard: you blame mr. reince priebus for a problem at the top. the trump cannot control the white house period. >> dana: can i say one thing? it will only be as effective as president trump respects it. if he's going to put in place, that means -- he has meant tweeting this past week. it has been beneficial to him. give them the space with no twitter. >> richard: a quick break and when we come back, one of us isn't going to be here. kimberly is going to host "hannity" tonight. she will have the lead latest details on the montana issue. >> jesse: see you later! ♪ >> jesse: time now for "one more thing." i'm quarterbacking this segment because kimberly headed over to the "hannity" studio. preplanned guest totes testing. >> dana: this guy might be the most enthusiastic on the

. >> jack berkman is challenging the dnc, rnc and shawn hannity to put up $105,000.e was shot and killed last year. he's led to it. >>> you can help find this 13-year-old missing girl. she was found at her before she went missing she of . >>> 6:36. teachers, students, parents protesting growing controversy in prince george's county. they're taking a stand over a proposed 9 -- >> reporter: we're here at the heightsville high school. let's go ahead and show you the protest video from yesterday afternoon. obviously teachers here in the county very concerned about their future. of course, education for the kids. here are some of the numbers. the proposed budget has a 2% increase in education spending. that's like you said, $90 million less than what the school board wants. some critics are saying that is a huge cut. there may be pebd for teachers who are nationally board certified. >> $100 million budget cut, that's down to bones, and we close it. >> we'll send it back to you. >>> tragedy on the road. a high schooler killed in a terrible crash. his family speaks out abou

rnc national committee man, randy evans joining us, great to see you, they came out guns blazing. sending their subpoenas to agencies. fbi, nsa, the -- it is a sight to see today. >> it is reestablishment of the plants of power with congressional oversight of his agent, all they do is run among. i would not be surprised that -- fifth amendment. lou: committee is frustrated that agents have not been forth coming with what committee seems to consider. is this going to end with the fifth amendment responses or will there be production of se subpoenaed material? >> i think that documents will get produced but actually live testimony, about what people knew and whether they knew it how they knew it and why they wanted to know it, you will see it happen. we know that susan rice is incapable of telling the truth on a consistent basis, she wants to take oath, then be caught you know just flat fooded in something that is -- flat footed in something not true, i think she will take the fifth amendment before she does that. lou: s has been caught lies flat fooded with the benghazi scandal. an

we know the russians hacked both the dnc and the rnc. yet they chose to expose the embarrassing e-mails from the dnc and not the rnc. my theory is they didn't have anything that was echl baresing. starting with the candidate himself, they were dancing very happily over these leaks, even encouraging russia to find those hidden e-mails and fairly joyous about the leaks about, you know, what was happening within the dnc vis-a-vis bernie sanders on the eve of the democratic national convention. that doesn't discussion collusion but it -- oh, boy, we've got a -- in germany we call it a gashanct, a gift. we know that sclunt p skrunt believes, becau -- vladimir putin believes the soviet union and the soviet sphere of influence, we know that prior to going into ukrainian and exiting cry miya and the incursions into eastern ukraine in the danbas area that approval with trump were in the 40s -- >> 60s. >> 60s to 90. that's still pretty good. >> 65 to 85. >> i've seen suggestions that they were actually in the 90s. but we may have been looking at d