rob reiner is extremely outspoken on politics.ight he joins me on-set for a little conversation, back and forth. hey, rob, are you. >> nice to see you, into nice to be here. we ran into each other at a restaurant last night and now we're talking here. >> laura: purple territory. >> absolutely. we should have negotiated this thing maybe we wouldn't have a government shutdown. >> laura: that's the first thing he said last night, are they going to shut the government down? i said i'm here in l.a., let's talk about hollywood. he wants to talk about hole particulars. you started this committee with david fromm, about investigating the russia connection. i read about it, you know, be honest, i laughed, what the heck, hollywood guy, the guy who writes for the atlantic are going to do 20 lawyers in washington with unlimited budget can't do? >> we have a really good advisory board. james clapper and michael hayden, mike morrell. >> laura: big fans of trump. >> john brennan has been involved. so we've got, you know, pretty knowledgeable peo

the language he used about the man you admire, i want you to respond. >> rob reiner. >> rob reiner. >> i will say this, the one thing rob reiner and the rest of the marchers out there are not protesting or not speaking out against with regards to the first year of the trump administration is the economy. nothing to protest against the strong economy we have. you can't protest against the jobs and unemployment and statistics for women. can't protest against the number of women in the cabinet, in senior staffs around the white house and administration. so these are positive things -- >> i understand you're jumping on the positive, and you're correct to do so, but there's so much more in a president than how great those economy numbers are, how great the dow is doing on any given day. i mean, yes, he called him a racist. obviously, i know you don't agree with that. look at the plethora of examples that demonstrate perhaps this president's character and how do you stand up for that? >> i stand up for it by looking at the president's actions. i stand up for it by looking at what the presid

coming up now, governor of virginia, director rob reiner, actor bradley whitford, joy reid, and ron reagan, all in this hour. and the president spoke about the optimism sweeping over our land, a man who spent the year dividing and conquering preached about unity, the lowest numbers in modern history boasted about the incredible progress and extraordinary success he has achieved personally. he faced audible groans at times from people in their seats, especially when he spoke of the threat of chain migration. >> under the current broken system, a single immigrant can bring in virtually unlimited numbers of distant relatives. under our plan, we focus on the immediate family by limiting sponsorships to spouses and minor children. >> major parts of trump's speech were aimed at the center right. but it took an ugly turn as he moved to the section on ma immigration where he stoked fears of open borders. he spoke of two girls murdered by the m-13 game. >> these two girls were murdered while walking home in their hometown. we cannot imagine the depths of that kind of sorrow. we can make sure that o

coming up now, governor of virginia, director rob reiner, actor bradley whitford, joy reid, and ron reagan, all in this hour. and the president spoke about the optimism sweeping over our land, a man who spent the year dividing and conquering preached about unity, the lowest numbers in modern history boasted about the incredible progress and extraordinary success he has achieved personally. president trump faced audible groans at times from democrats out there in their speak, especially when he spoke of the threat of chain migration. let's watch. >> under the current broken system, a single immigrant can bring in virtually unlimited numbers of distant relatives. under our plan, we focus on the immediate family by limiting sponsorships to spouses and minor children. >> major parts of trump's speech were aimed at the center right. but it took an ugly turn as he moved to the section on immigration where he stoked fierce of open borders and criminal immigrants. he spoke of two girls murdered by the ms-13 gang. their parents were in the audience. let's watch them. >> these two girls were murdere

rob reiner. bradley whitford. ron reagan and georgia reese. it's better than the president's speech tonight, actually. it's going to be a lot more excitement. a lot of hollywood, a lot of glitter. it's going to sardi's for a review. >> you're saying for people who didn't watch the state of the union, there is a good way to catch up on it which is to watch chris matthews who will boil it, go through it for its essence and then tear it apart. >> nbc's kristen welker joins us now from the white house. kristen, i was meaning to ask you about something that was just reported before we went on the air tonight with the state of the union. and that is that there was further reporting, it was led by cnn tonight, that in negotiations between the president's lawyers and robert mueller's team, the president's lawyers are now taking a new harder line and suggesting that the president will not speak to robert mueller, that robert mueller hasn't crossed some sort of threshold he needs to cross in order to secure that interview. i wondered if the white house

you saw rob reiner, he said the president is a racist and all kinds of other things and he feels sorry that he hasn't taken seriously. >> come on. when you watch the totality of the speech, i think america, the nice thing about giving a speech, it was long, it probably could have been shorter. when you have that much time, the president is talking directly to the american people. they don't have the filter of chris matthews. they don't have the filter of cnn to try to spin it the way they want to spend it. and rob reiner, he makes good movies but i really don't care what he has to say. >> shannon: all right. that's it from him then. thank you for coming in. last we heard from former white house aide alma omarosa,e said she has a story to tell about the white house. now she has a brand-new gig. is she getting ready to spill the beans? that is next. sfx: muffled whistle text alert. i'm your phone, stuck down here between your seat and your console, playing a little hide-n-seek. cold... warmer... warmer... ah boiling. jackpot. and if you've got cut-rate car insurance, you could be picking

my guests include rob reiner, bradley whitford of movie fame, former virginia governor terry mcauliffe, ron greggen, joy radio back tonight at midnight eastern. it's going to be a little wild. very critical i expect for president trump. >>> welcome back to "hardball." the president will address a divided country tonight and will face a hyper charged political atmosphere in d.c. democrats have called on joe kennedy of massachusetts, grandson of bobby kennedy and political heir to the kennedy family to deliver their party's response. the challenge for democrats more than a year after their stunning defeat in 2016 is which direction to take their party. more more i'm joined by tim ryan, democrat from ohio. tim, congressman, you are looked to by many people as the future of the democrats if they're ever going to win back ohio, wisconsin, pennsylvania, the states that will decide the 2020 election as well as the 2016. what is the way for the democrats to win back those states? >> well, straight economic message. we need to talk to people, chris, who obviously take a shower after they get ho