trump! trump! trump! trump! donald trump finally draining the swamp of the people he brought to the swamp. ident trump is a genius, people. he hires a cabinet full of terrible people, fires them one by one, looks like he's a man of action. drain the swamp! down to the previous levels! drain the swamp! down to the previous levels! it's not as catchy. it's just not as catchy. how big is this story? the national security advisor, fired after just three weeks. who, like, who could've seen this coming? - a red flag was raised late last month by then-acting attorney general sally yates, yates telling the trump white house she believed flynn was potentially vulnerable to russian blackmail. - remember after obama put sanctions on russia for election meddling, all right, to help trump win, you remember that? well, after that, flynn called the russian ambassador and told them not to sanction the u.s. back because trump was gonna cancel america's sanctions after he took office. uh, which is illegal, obviously. i mean, it even sounds illegal. you don't even need to know the laws. just be like, "you cal

trump. can bannon save trump? >> i'm not sure i agree bannon made trump, i think trump made trump. trump was trump before bannon ever came along. what bannon did was to kind of amplify and heighten trump in a political context, gave ballast to trump's populist impulses. i don't think they were rooted in any authentic interest in policy, were nonetheless evident as long ago as 1988 when he used to go on larry king live pretending to run for president to talk about how we are being swindled and ripped off by foreign competitors, many of the same things he has said. what bannon did was to bring structure to those beliefs and to bring a media movement and as we talked about with ga i this interlocking group of conservative organizations that could get behind trump's candidacy and that proved very effective in the primary and the general election. whether he can save trump i don't know. my inclination is to say no. trump is so self-destructive, so unwilling to listen to any advisor he doesn't want to listen to, there was -- there was a belief in the media or a way of portraying bannon ea

trump! trump! trump! trump! trump! trump! ecret service, there aren't too many people outside protesting. okay? [ cheers ] >> that i can tell you. lot of people in here, lot of people pouring in right now. they can get them in, whatever can you do, fire marshall will appreciate it. and i want to thank our great vice president mike pence for the introduction. [cheers] >> as well as my friend dr. ben carson. [cheers] >> and thank you to a very, very special man, franklin graham, reverend franklin graham, for leading us in prayer, and thank you to alveda king, the niece of the great dr. martin luther king. [cheers] >> it really shows you that america is indeed a nation of faith. we know that. >> yeah! >> well, i'm thrilled to be back in phoenix in the great state of arizona. [cheers] >> where so many thousands of hard-working american patriots. i'd love if the cameras could show this crowd, because it is rather incredible. it is incredible. [cheers] >> it is incredible. does everybody here remember, this was the scene of my first

trump saw as a vanity biography for steve ban. trump resented the notion that bannon was taking credit for his election victory. so trump has been incredibly irritated with steesh bannon. i can just imagine him reading this piece in "weekly standard" saying the trump presidency is over. it's almost laboratory test designed to enrage donald trump. if you were going to craft a it would look a lot like that. >> your earlier interview with steve bannon, he didn't know, maybe he did. this was in the "american prospect" bannon openly contradicted the president and chald members of the administration, despite trump's off the touk u talk, bannon said there is no military solution here, they got us. he said they're wheting themselves, he says i fight every day against gary cohn, despite reports he tendered his resignation august 7th effective today. you sa i the conversation ended with bannon inviting me to the white house after labor by a to continue the discussion. so that's an interesting detail here t. word we are getting is there was some talk of an imminent bannon resition i ig nation or department cure. you are talking to

(bleep) insane. ( laughter ) serious trump, somber trump, free style trump. personally, i'm waiting for the first appearance of reggae trump. that's what i'm waiting for. that will be exciting. one build a wall and mexico will pay for it, blacks blah -- blah, bigly, bigly! ( applause ) that's what i'm waiting for. although people would like to believe -- would like to believe donald trump switches every day because he's not in control. i think it's the opposite. this is not a bug of donald trump. it's a feature. he's in full control of which persona shows up. he told us about it this morning. he tweeted, "the fake news is now complaining about my different types of back-to-back speeches. there was afghanistan -- somber -- the big rally -- enthusiastic, dynamic and fun -- and the american legion -- respectful and strong. ( laughter ) is it just me or is it trump's modeling his personalities? afghan trump, somber, rally trump, enthusiastic, dynamic and fun. american legion trump, respectful and strong! ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) and now, look, don't ge

trump voters really were. so confusing was flustering to pollsters and media, trump voters, trump republicans, had different raits than traditional mainstream republican voters had. analytica modeled trump voters, how they differed from republican. interesting, they cared about different issues, some cared more about gun control, about tax reform, they tended to be more rural, older traditional han republican voters. because the cambridge folks nderstood this, they were better at targeting voters and getting them to come out to the than anyone really realized that they would be. on election day you suddenly have this mass polls of vast numbers of rural people, whiter folks, people who hadn't voted in elections for showing up to vote donald trump and that was something that most people just fact anticipate, but the they came out sited the election for donald trump. host: what about data and how the candidate donald trump speeches, hat in his kicked off the issues that each of the groups cared about, was second amendment moveing that to nafta, etcetera? guest: exactly. and large, voters were less concerned about tr

trump base? if there is some kind of battle between trump and bannon. fits trump versus bannon, forget it. we're trump. >> i'll tell you the one person inside that we've spoken to opposing that question, it's not steve bannon who leads the base. it is donald trump who leads his own base. the president is the president. they voted for donald trump, not steve bannon. when you talk on folks close to breitbart, there's a sense that they can push the agenda. it is not the kind of faction that you think of. reince priebus, mike flynn, sean spicer and now steve bannon, all of them gone. it is so different than it was seven months ago. that much is clear. it is still donald trump who is the face of this. i looked at the lobby of trump tower. he said this phrase and i have heard it repeated back to me. we'll see what happens with mr. bannon. it hargens back to the idea of paul manafort in the campaign. beginning the process of distancing himself from somebody who was very close to the president, just like paul manafort was a campaign chair steve bannon was right there with the president in the trenc

trump as a vehicle for his agenda. for trump it wasn't about the agenda. you did have this sort of clash of ideologies going on around trump. but trump wasn't really preoccupied with it. robert: this is something we're all going to have to watch. was bannon the whisperer pushing trump in a certain direction or an echo of a president who governed by his own stints? the issue that tells us a lot about that, that reveals something about president trump, is charlottesville and the tragedy that happened there last weekend. president trump this week continues to insist that the protests were about preserving history and culture and a confederate statue. despite widespread criticism, it came after that tuesday news conference, he stands by his assertion that both white supremacists and counterprotesters were to blame for the deadly violence. president trump: i've condemned neo-nazis. i've condemned many different groups. but not all of those people were neo-nazis. believe me. not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch. i think there's blame on both sides. and i have no doubt about it and you don't have any dou

i had a tape and trump had a tape. >> trump, say some reporters, leaks when he wants to distract the media. for the rest of the '90s, trump'swas, i'm back on top. >> this kid doesn't give up. i'm maybe stronger than i was two years ago, three years ago. >> finally in 1999, he officially entered politics. >> tonight, donald trump! need we say more? >> donald trump announced he was exploring a presidential run. >> i would be prepared to spend $100 million on the race if necessary. >> trump already had a keen understanding of who his voters were. >> the workers are the ones that really like me. i've often said, the rich people hate me and the workers love me. >> he didn't really know what party he belonged to. >> i probably identify more as a democrat. i'm conservative, generally speaking. i'm conservative. >> it turned out he joined the reform party. from the start, crowd size was a problem. >> tomorrow, as you know, there is a big speech at the arena, and i guess we have about 20,000 people for that. >> that crowd showed up but many came to hear someone else, motivational speaker tony robbins. trump was the second act. >> wh

trump organization for years. carried a trump business card that described himself as senior adviser to donald trump even after trump said he wouldn't recognize him if he were in the room. he said that in 2013. by 2015 apparently felix sater was recognizable again because he was working with michael cohen to make the trump-moscow thing happen and trump was signing off on the letter of intent to move forward with it. michael cohen i think has to testify to house intel next week. he definitely seems to have handed over documents to house intel today. his strategy in so doing is to try to spin what he's handed over in the best possible way. it still looks very bad. it also appears to try to play down the importance of felix sater and his involvement in this project especially sater's comments in the e-mails that have been handed over to congress now and to some reporters in which felix sater brags that there's something about this real estate deal in moscow that in the end will result in donald trump becoming president of the united states. quote, our boy can become president of the usa and we can engineer it. i will g

trump. congressional investigators obtain add trump campaign e-mail never seen before proposing a trump officialwith vladmir putin. the pitch went to man who works in the trump white house. he used to be the number one staffer for jeff sessions. yes, the same jeff sessions under fire for mischaracterizing his own meetings with russian officials. that's the first reason russia is back in the news. the drip, drip, drip evidence of trump-russia contact. the second reason is trump himself. this amp the washington post had an account of the seven different times trump has tried to call off the dogs on russia including a new report that trump lobbied against a bill to product bob mueller's job. that is bad. >> does that mean that firing the special counsel is something that's on the table for this president? >> although the president has the authority to do so, he doesn't intend to do so. >> the third reason russia is back tonight, maybe the biggest reason, the dossier. a key witness linked to the dossier telling investigators about it this week and republican chuck grassley saying that very testimony

trump. it was trump this afternoon. the inner trumpbefore a nano second, to employ a metaphor, his conscience. they were good people marching. they were good people concerned with the lost cause of lee and stonewall jackson. really? would you? no matter what your sentiments about all those who fought in the civil war, would you march with people dressed up with swastikas and other nazi insign insignia? all that was missing it was goose stepping. i don't think the re-enactors and those who paid tribute to the soldiers in the 1860s would march with those doing nazi salutes all in homage. i believe it is possible to celebrate courage without endorsing the cause. but there's some behavior in the past weekend that you can't separate. as winston churchill said, anyone who marches with hitler is my enemy. he said something else that you need to repeat before every press conference. i refuse to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire. as the leader of our country, there was and is forever to be seen as no time to be impartial. that'

and then, and then donald trump's lawyer said something that his client, donald trump, surely would not approve of. donald trump's criminal lawyer said this about the fbi raid of paul manafort's home. quote, these methods are normally found and employed in russia, not america. donald trump's criminal lawyer, tougher on russia than donald trump because no one in the united states and possibly the world is weaker on russia than donald trump. joining us now, nick akerman, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and former assistant special watergate prosecutor, and michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia and an msnbc contributor. ambassador mcfaul, i have to just go to you and your reaction when you heard what the president said today finally, 11 days after the fact, about the expulsion of 755 americans from the embassy where you used to work. >> well, lawrence, you said it very eloquently in your introductory. i agree with the sentiment. i agree with the facts that you stated, and i just think americans need to understand just how radical a statement this is and how weak a stat

trump, jr.? had donald trump, jr. been forth coming? or did the president know from way back, donald trumpever -- or that the candidate, he never told his father about this meeting or that he learned that russia, according to the e-mail from goldstone, that russia was backing his father's campaign, donald trump was aware of that according to donald trump, jr. but it sounds like, i guess the question is, did donald trump know about the meeting, the real reason for the meeting when he was helping craft the statement? >> so anderson, that's of course a key question and it's not one that we can answer with confidence. as you point out, the president and donald trump, jr. have indicated that the president was not fully informed. what our story tonight points out is that the question of how to respond to this report that was coming in "the new york times" last july was discussed on the sidelines of the g20 by top presidential aides and advisers. and as you recall, jared kushner and his wife, ivanka trump, were at the g20. so there were discussions about how to respond on the sidelines. what we h

trump tackles storms. let's play "hardball.""hard bal. >> trump tackles storms. let's play "hardball."ball star. >> trump tackles storms. let's play "hardball."" starts . >> trump tackles storms. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. "the washington post" reports that trump saw a real estate deal in moscow at the same time that donald trump was running for president. we will get to that story all of those details in just a moment. we begin, though, with massive devastation in texas after what is being called a historic storm. houston remains paralyzed much of it under water tonight. thousands have been rescued from their homes. governor activated the entire texas national guard to help in the response. and much more rain is still expected. i'm joined now by nbc's maya rodriguez just outside of houston. maya, we see all of that rain around you, obviously, with the forecast still calling for more. >> it is calling for more, and it has been raining like this literally for days now, steve. this is a neighborhood where people have been trapped in their homes, neighbors have been coming out to basically help them bringing t

trump: wow, what a crowd. what a crowd. >> trump, trump, trump, trump, trump. onald trump: so you know, from the secret service, there aren't too many people outside protesting, that i can tell you. of people in here, a lot of people pouring in right now. in, whatever you can do fire marshal. i want to thank our great vice president, mike pence for the introduction. as well as my friend dr. ben carson. and thank you to a very, very graham for, franklin leading us in prayer. hank you to our peter king -- alveda king. i am thrilled to be back in phoenix, in the great state of arizona. so many thousands of hard-working american patriots. i love that the cameras can show this crowd, it is rather regrettable. -- incredible. it is incredible. incredible. my firstthe scene of rally speech, right? [applause] president donald trump: the crowds were so big, almost as big as tonight that the people said, right at the beginning, there is something special happening here, we went to center stage almost from day one in the debates. we love those debates. we went to center sta

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especially in that movement and in a position if he's angry at donald trump, you know, either because trump fired him or because he's angry that trump with new york globalists, so-called, he's in a position to do trump real damage, just like out of a novel. >> fascinating. this is what sarah palin wanted. when sarah palin quit as alaska governor. she thought she could have a bigger impact on politics by leaving politics, and she quickly dissolved into the comments section on facebook. bannon's got more juice than she did, even having been a vice presidential candidate. we just have to see what he's going to do with it. michael beschloss, great to have you here. we'll be right back. stay with us. don't let dust and allergens get between you and life's beautiful moments. flonase outperforms the #1 non-drowsy allergy pill. it helps block 6 key inflammatory substances that cause symptoms. pills block one and 6 is greater than 1. flonase changes everything. anyone who calls it a hobby doesn't understand. we know that a person's passion is what drives them. [ clapping ] and that's why every memorial we create is a true reflection of the i

and so trump -- he won't be loyal to trump in the sense of a personality, he'll be loyal to the ideas. if trump to those ideas, he'll support him. if he doesn't, he'll run right up against him. >> this pro-bannon camp is arguing that the white house is still full of closet democrats and that's why he got pushed out. how do you respond to that? >> i don't think that's the case. it was bad pr this week when you have the president come out and say awful things in the wake of charlottesville. i think steve bannon had a target on his back. if you have staffers in the white house that are associated with the alt-right or white supremacy, that's not going to be good in a week where a white supremacist merred someone. it's a tipping point for this white house, but when you have somebody who led a birther campaign for five years, when you have someone who busy said so many offensive things and i'm talking about donald trump, not steve bannon, he did those things without steve bannon being in the room. steve bannon wasn't there for the press conference. this white house doesn't fundamentally change even

trump and mcconnell. but there is also a political element here with donald trump appealing to his base. i wonder, does donald trumpt's not like the republican base or americans in general are particularly happy with senators and lawmakers in washington. is trump on to something here in effect taking it to the establishment as it were republican party? >> well, congress's approval ratings have always been -- not always, but lately business mali low and i suppose it is easy if your approval ratings are equally low. but that's kind of been the way it's been for a while. and, yeah, he can make political headway off of that, but i don't think it's going to shake lawmakers to their core. they believe in some of these strictures about the why legislative process working, protecting people incumbent in their seats and not necessarily -- they're not following trump in endorsing jeff flake, for example, because they know power can shift in d.c. quite quickly. so you don't want to play fast and loose with the rules. you don't want to play fast and loose with the questions of loyalty. and a lot of these members have been in p

aides and people around trump while still promoting donald trump, and can you do that without undermining the trumpsidency, drawing trump's anger, and creating a civil war within the republican party and the conservative movement, which certainly won't help trump get elected in 2020. so to me, that's the heart of the challenge here is steve bannon can try to say i'm for trump. i just hate what his presidency is and i'm going to go to war against it and the trump presidency is over, but trump won't accept that easily. >> let me just go around the table and have everybody answer that question. i'll start with you, tara, can you attack the trump world without drawing at tacks ining donald trump? >> no, you cannot especially with the level of lack of discipline trump has right now, and you still, it doesn't matter, if you attack trump's world, you still hurt trump, even if you're promoting him at the same time. you may not hurt him with breitbart followers, but you hurt him with independents who are right leaning. >> same thing to you charlie sykes. is it possible to build an empire attacking everythin

newly revealed e-mails show donald trump's top lawyer directly asked the kremlin to help with a trump business deal in moscow. and this was at the height of trump's presidential campaign. this is a potential turning point in the russia inquiry. and we'll show you why right now. number one, it undercuts donald trump's claims that he never sought russian government help with his business activities. according to these brand-new e-mails leaking out this afternoon, trump's top lawyer michael cohen e-mailed a top putin aide asking the putin government to help the trump organization make money. that means contrary to trump's claims, which we have all heard many times, there is now publicly available, written evidence of a top trump aide proactively contacting the kremlin for financial gain. now, these e-mails were submitted today to congressional investigators. the "washington post" first breaking this bombshell story. cohen, who plays a high-level role in the trump organization e-mailing a senior putin aide in january 2016. of course, the height of the gop primary. quote, i've been working with a company based in russia regarding the development of a

>> and donald trump sort of made him. >> yeah. >> and he is now a huge figure, especially in that movement and in a position if he's angry at donald trump, you know, either because trumped him or because he's angry that trump seems to have sided with new york globalists, so-called, he's in a position to do trump real damage, just like out of of a n. >> it's fascinating. this is what sarah palin wanted. when sarah palin quit as alaska governor. she thought she could have a bigger impact on politics by leaving politics, and she quickly dissolved into the comments section on facebook. bannon's got more juice than she did, even having been a vice presidential kind and we hacand. michael beschloss, great to have you here. we'll be right back. stay with us. on the versatile midsize lincoln mkx. or go where summer takes you in the exhilarating mkz. the lincoln summer invitation sales event. ask about complimentary pick up & delivery servicing. right now get zero percent apr plus 1,000 dollars summer savings on the lincoln mkx, mkc and mkz and i've never seen a better time to refinance your home, than this summer. why? because right now we're seeing our average customer save

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designed for dependable relief. >>> donald trump's autobiography was of course not written by donald trump because donald trumpnot write english language sentences. the actual author was tony schwartz. to do the job, tony schwartz spent a year and a half with donald trump, almost every waking moment of the day. he got to know him very well, which is why when donald trump became a serious candidate for president with a real chance of winning, tony schwartz went public to tell the world that donald trump is a sick, pathological liar who needs to be stopped. as tony schwartz has recently watched the pressure close in on donald trump in what has become his lonely, dysfunctional presidency, tony schwartz has predicted that donald trump simply will not be able to survive four years in office like this. this week, tony schwartz tweeted, the circle is closing at blinding speed. trump is going to resign and declare victory before mueller and congress leave him no choice. trump's presidency is effectively over. would be amazed if he survives till the end of the year. more likely resigns by fall if not sooner. trump must

trump wall on the southern border. when we would point out back in the campaign to trump voters that that was impossible, donald trump would not get the mexican president to pay for that wall, donald trump would fail at that, the trump voters thought, we just didn't understand how tough donald trump is. and the president of mexico was going to find out just how tough donald trump is, and leaders were going to find out how tough donald trump was and america would be respected around the world because of how tough donald trump is, and now vladimir putin expels 755 americans working in the american embassy in moscow, and tough guy donald trump is afraid to utter a single word about it. can it be anything else? is there any other explanation other than fear? donald trump is just terrified of vladimir putin. no one can seriously dispute that now. donald trump has personally lavished praise on vladimir putin more than he has on any other foreign head of state. donald trump paid slavish attention to vladimir putin, more attention than he paid to anyone else there, including all the other countries with bigger economies than russi

trump. >> a little wit, a little humor. >> here is the problem he faces. the steve bannon departure doesn't change the presidency because the presidency is donald trump, but it does change trumporld. there is the possibility of a crackup in trump world where at some point he has to look over his shoulder to the alt-right folks, the nativists and those folks and say, i am still with you guys, despite the speech last night. the only way to do that is to move back to his base, to the -- the trump nativist, wall, immigrants, red meat debate. >> he is not going to apologize because he never has. he is not going to use humor. peggy, he is not the president you worked for. this man has no humor in him. >> i know that. >> peggy is into a nice fantasy. jim vandehei is always one to bring me back down to earth. donald trump not known for deprecating humor behind the scenes and he's not likely to display any on the stage tonight. >> the reason people are nervous is because there is a ton of dry kinned li kindling out there. nerves are raw. the possibility of deadly violence is real at any one of these rallies when you have racism pulsating through some of the topics. immigration, the pa

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trump runs for re-election. and by 2020 there could be a very big opening for john kasich in trump country. donald trump came in a close second in the ohio caucuses in 2016. in 2020, he might come in a distant second in the iowa caucuses in john kasich runs against trump on jobs in iowa. wright county, iowa, voted for donald trump two to one over hillary clinton, but some trump voters there are now very disappointed in the president because he actually fulfilled one of his campaign promises. >> i'm going to withdraw the united states from the trans-pacific partnership. >> donald trump actually delivered on that promise on his first week in office. one farmer in wright county, iowa, who voted for donald trump told politico, i was disappoint the trump kind of broadly wiped out tpp before there was even a discussion. iowa was one of the many agricultural states that was poised to win huge economic gains and jobs if the united states ratified the trans-pacific partnership. but that's not the story trump and other politicians told about the tpp. >> the trans-pacific partnership is another disaster, done and

trump voters were the ones who said outrageous, abject disappointment. unique, off the scale, and crazy. so if you call donald trump crazy, you might be a trump voter. re's more of what the trump voters had to say last night. >> he has got to be his own worst enemy. he couldn't be any worse at achieving goals in politics. >> everything he does is outrageous. he just doesn't have that soft touch to sell you on what he wants to accomplish. >> the thing that drives me crazy is all the tweeting he does. why doesn't he just quit that tweeting? >> he's just -- he's let me down. >> we know he's a nut. everybody knew he's a nut. he's not even proerfessional, l alone presidential. >> i question what he's trying to do and don't fully understand it. >> he's such a flawed individual. he makes a travesty of the office. >> there are now signs in polling that some of donald trump's base is turning on him. tonight a new fox news poll shows donald trump with his highest disapproval yet in their poll. 55% disapprove while just 41% approve. donald trump has lost the most support in the fox poll among conservatives, republican men, and white voters without a college deg

trump and russia. robert mueller's team looks into the role president trump played into writing that statement about his son's meeting with russians. plus how the trumprsued a deal with russia with one associate writing, i will get putin on this program, and we will get donald elected. all this as trump today woents say russia poses a security threat and says he hopes the u.s. will some day have a good relationship with russia. >>> also north korea fires another missile. the president heads to flood ravaged texas. and a newly pardoned joe arpaio could try to primary one of trump's republican critics. the 11th hour rgs on a monday

it's to look at what might have driven the trump campaign, the trump family or president trump himself to act or behave in certain ways. that does not have to simply be to win an election. it can be to protect financial dealings that were not disclosed because the tax returns were never disclosed by trump. if you look at mueller's team, there's a lot to suspect that this is heading towards a financial investigation and so paul manafort is smart to counter with experts himself. >> so as the russia investigation rolls on, president trump has said he has no plans to dismiss special counsel robert mueller. here he is. >> president, you've thought about, considered the dismissal of special counsel. >> i haven't given it any thought. i've been read about it from you people. i'm not dismissing anybody. i also want the senate and the house to come out with their findings. >> so, can mueller and everyone awaiting his findings breathe a sigh of relief. >> until chris cuomo is on new day tomorrow morning. he's been back and forth on this issue for a long time. he gets angry at mueller and tweets

>> and donald trump sort of made him. >> yeah. >> and he is now a huge figure, especially in that movement and in a position if he's angry at donald trump, you know, either because trumpm or because he's angry that trump seems to have sided with new york globalists, so-called, he's in a position to do trump real damage, just like out of a novel. >> fascinating. this is what sarah palin i think that could have been a breaking pountd where republicans really would have stood up to the president and said we are not going to stake this and create their own agenda. >> we have had some false alarms, too. >> with bannon leaving, it gives a lot of excuses to a lot of republicans to say, look, we are going to give him a reset. i actually think that's so unfortunate because the people in the party, the leadership was starting to -- >> i have to say, the first thing i thought of mitt romney, old news. he came out with his statement and said the same thing in his campaign. quick break here. the round table is staying with ♪ when heartburn hits fight back fast with new tums chewy bites. fast relief in every bite. crunchy outside. chewy inside. tum tum tum tum new tums chewy bites.

for the trump/mcconnell health care bill in the senate so what republican senators know tonight, donald trump will attack you if you vote against his legislation, as john mccain did, and donald trump will attack you if you vote for his legislation, as jeff flake did. there are indications that the trump crowd really isn't buying it anymore. jenna johnson of "the washington post" who was there filed this report. "many in the crowd lost interest in what the president was saying. hundreds left early while others plopped down on the ground, scrolled through their social media feeds or started up a conversation with their neighbors after waiting for hours in 107-degree heat where their water bottles were confiscated by security people, tired and dehydrated and the president just wasn't keeping their attention." the president's most important lie last night was about himself. he lied about what he said on the day heather heyer was murdered in charlottesville when she was participating in a demonstration against nazis and white supremacists. the president pulled out of his pocket what he said were his comments on that saturday and he read them to the crowd and then he accused all of us i

with donald trump letting trump be trump works. when he goes a little too far, they push him to the other side. he does the scripted speeches. then he gets bored with that and goes back the other way. he cruised from the canoe in the primaries. he cruised to victory in the general and the special elections. i think it might be the secret sauce. >> it's trump be trump secret sauce. >> there you go. new marketing opportunity. dylan, thank you so much and john and wendy, thank you. >> thank you so much, appreciate it. >>> next on "newsroom l.a.," vice president mike pence warning russia do not test the u.s. but moscow is striking back at likely new sanctions. >>> and pushback from china over what to do about north korea's latest missile launch. you won't see these folks they have businesses to run. they have passions to pursue. how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters, ship packages, all the services of the post office right on your computer. get a 4 week trial, plus $100 in extras including postage and a dig

to top it off, the reporter is certain trump leaked the recording. >> two people have the tape. i had the tape and trump had the tape. >> trump, leaks when he wants to distract the media. for the rest of the '90s, trump's spin was i'm back on top. >> i mean, this kid doesn't give up. i may be stronger than i was two years ago or three years ago. >> and finally in 1999 he officially entered politics. >> tonight donald trump! need we say more? >> donald trump announced he was exploring a presidential run. >> i'd be prepared to spend $100 million on the race if necessary. >> trump already had a keen understanding of who his voters were. >> the workers are the ones that really like me. i've often said the rich people hate me, and the workers love me. >> he didn't really know what party he belonged to. >> i probably identified more as a democrat. i'm conservative. generally speaking, i'm conservative. >> it turned out he joined the reform party. from the start, crowd size was a problem. >> tomorrow, as you know, there's a big speech at the arena, and i guess we have about 20,000 people for that. >> that crowd showed up, but many c

trump is worried about right now? >> when you see, he sees mueller going out and broadening his power base. this is an incredible law firm he's creating here. for one purpose torsion get trump. >> it's a get trump squad. he understands it. robert mueller has unlimited resources, unlimited federal crimes and no limits in terms of assume vision. so he will fly speck every single transaction that donald trump and people around him, family members have done in the last several years and go looking for a federal crime. that's extraordinary. somebody who has a wide array of business dealings has to look at it and say my lord, anything i've done in the last 12, 15 years can be looked at as a federal crime. >> you handle the politics of this. i think trump is still quite capable of doing what he can to get rid of muler and make sure there are no more muellers after mueller. that means he has to get control of the justice department. >> given all the lying, and we will now at this point call it lying, given what we learned from this statement, it shows he thinks it is worth it. there's something worth it to be telling all these lies. so yeah. >> and to cap off a weird day in trump land, president trump