including michael steele. speakership has an explanation date, and in today's politics, and in today's rough and tumble world on capitol hill, that expiration date comes a lot quicker than it might have in the past. >> jake, who's leading the pack? as congressman costello just suggested? that this is scalise's or mccarthy's to lose? >> i just want to ask a better question here. if you assume that -- >> there are no better questions than the ones that i ask, jake. >> okay. let me answer your question in a very direct way. i think that it's up for grabs whether republicans keep the majority. so the conversation of who's going to be speaker is probably better answered as, who will stay through two years of being in the minority? because if we believe the abundance of statistics in front of us and believe history and i know this is a dangerous game to play, republicans should, if history holds like it has in the past, republicans should be in the minority. listen, scalise and mccarthy both have a lot of selling po

msnbc political analyst michael steele. washington correspondent for bbc world news america, msnbc contributor and author of a new book out this week "the confidence code for girls" katty kay. plus washington correspondent for cnbc, kayla. thank you for joining us this sunday night. catty, i want to start with you to put this all in global perspective particularly as we learned of the alleged attack in syria this morning now. we know that president trump, last time he was confronted with something like this, launched strikes against syria, a move that the obama administration declined to make. what is your sense of the significance of what we have learned this morning and how intensely the u.s. should respond? >> well, i think the president's tweets were significant, partly because he took on vladimir putin in name for pretty much the first time ever. but it also raises questions about what american strategy is. the president launched an attack last time against an air field. the syrians have responded a year later with mor

investigate this infamous, completely untrue, unverified ritz-carlton moscow in a bad story by michael steele, the foreign national guy that was paid to get russian propaganda to manipulate the american voters. why would a sitting president want to go to an fbi director. i hope you can dispel it. if, in fact, he thought it was true. the president is saying that's not true. can you find out that it's not true. can you report that it's not true? wouldn't you want to do the same. we'll have more on that later. now we turn to some other develop its including those surrounding robert mueller's overreaching witch hunt. former federal election commission chairman bradley smith, a republican appointed by president clinton, throwing cold water on the notion that michael cohen could or should be charged with a crime in connection to the stormy daniels payment. he wrote the following. when you stretch the law to "get a political opponent, it's rarely possible to return the law to its original shape. someone who was never part of the trump campaign but instead a longtime employee of the trump organizatio

michael steel is with me as wel well.hat president trump had to say yesterday, gentlemen. >> we have a problem with china. they have created a trade deficit, and i really blame our representatives and frankly our proceeding presidents for this. so we'll be working with china. we'll be negotiate iing with ch. our relationship is very good with china. we intend to keep it that way. >> given china's reaction, does it sound like the relationship with china is very good? >> no, it's very bad. this is terrible economics, it's worst politics. china is the largest consumer of soy beans and i'm thinking about iowa, which went for president obama twice and president trump and the soy bean farmers who are not happy with this. i bet michael will agree free trade u is what built the reagan prosperity. a trade war is going to destroy it. >> soybeans, you mentioned iowa, 8 out of the top 10 soybean producing states are red states. iowa blg one of those. apparently the hawkeye state plants as much soybeans as it does corn. he issued this

former senior advisor to jeb bush and former spokesman for michael boehner, michael steele., both. charlie, out there in normally red -- i guess it is not always red -- wisconsin -- >> purple. >> -- purple wisconsin, let's talk about the trump factor. it is fascinating both parties are filtering everything true trump, just obviously taking different sides. >> yeah. we are a bellwether state here in wisconsin. that supreme court election earlier this week was -- we're way past a wake-up call now this is a frickin' red flag for republicans. because there is no question about it this national trend which democrats and liberals are more motivated is showing up in these elections. i'll tell you, there are a lot of folks who are saying that on the freak-out scale of 1 to 10, that this is a 10. again, the irony as you pointed out is that even while this is happening, even while you have liberals more motivated and republicans losing some of the independents, particularly in the suburbs, what's happening is there is so much pressure on republicans in primaries to become more trumpis

michael steele, how is it that scott pruitt still has a job? >> because the president wants him to have the job. that's the only reason why. in any other administration, he would have been long gone. but the president wants him there. because he's doing what the president thinks he needs to do to, you know, curtail the regulations and to make the kinds of changes at the epa that the president wants done. doesn't matter what we the public, who are the taxpayers paying for all this stupidity think or feel about it. it doesn't matter what members of congress who, quite honestly have been rather embarrassed and silent about this in terms of really putting the pressure on. yes, committee hearings, but then what? unless there is a full frontal push by the republican leadership to the white house to say this is not draining the swamp, let's put it in terms we think you understand. this is not draining the swamp. this is, in fact, an embarrassed enrichment of that swamp at taxpayer's expense. >> jim, this is the op-ed in "the washington post." the edit

. >> "times" reporter joining me and my friend michael steel and political analyst.to see you both. chris, let me start with you. we now know that the president takes his cues in many cases from things he hears on fox news. do we have a sense of how he will react to two lawyers, obviously lawyers he likes and respects giving him advice to either fire rod rosenstein or get rid of mueller? >> i think one cue is he wanted us to watch the show. the president tweeted, tune into sean hannity. so maybe he kind of had a sense of what they were going to say. he talked to alan and hired joe as one of his lawyers almost. and there is a feedback loop. they give him advice through tv and he kinds of repeats it back. looking for a combative approach than what he is getting from his own counsel. >> one of the more combative guys out there is rush. listen to what he said. >> the worst thing trump can do is start firing people. that is what he is being growthed into doing. many of you think that is what trump should do and the just and proper thing. but this is more than just and pro

i respect michael steele as well. but every single reason, comey, russia, that she is a woman, we actually haven't had a woman if you can recall. >> that's correct. >> all of those reasons are true. >> and the fact she did not spend time on the ground in those three states that cost her the election. >> michael, you went to wisconsin if you were by 11 points in are not internal poll? >> yeah, because that's not exactly what the internal polls were telling you. >> i was there, michael. her polls had us up above 11. >> your own democrats said that. >> hindsight is always 20/20. now setting here today we can look at every single mistake that was made, about i can also say we have not had a woman president. racism played a huge role. voters suppression plays a huge role. >> and the fact they didn't like hillary clinton played a big role. >> people didn't like her because she was a woman. a lot of people who voted for president trump have a promise with women leadership. >> you can't play it -- >> i want every single reaso

this, it is good day to have john harwood the cnbc editor and white house course poerresponde michael steele. mr. business guy, ins s-- since you are the business guy, is this a business war? does it quack like a trade war. >> not yet. i think we're on the brink of it -- and larry kudlow who is a colleague came out and calmed markets by saying -- >> it seemed to work. >> these tariffs may never take effect. and we may get into a negotiation. that did work. the marpgts ended up closi-- th markets closed higher after the futures were down after the china announcement overnight. so we're not there yet. but i think it depends on the extent to which president trump can pull back or people can contain the president because his impulses as ams newspaper reported in the story over the weekend, this is a president right now who is following his instinct and impulses mostly unconstrained. >> and -- is he -- do we think he will likely look -- john just described is larry kudlow saying, oh, no, american will blink. i hate to say that. but china roared and america blinked. prest ump will not like that l

. >> senator kennedy right there, joining our panel here michael steele, nbc political analyst, generalharlie are here. senator kennedy, fine, senator graham, collins, these aren't exactly the trump whisperers at the white house. is he going to pay any attention to what his republican colleagues on capitol hill are saying abouting rid of scott pruitt, the president? >> the president, probably not at the likes him where he is for whatever limited purpose he's serving right now for the president. and that is undoing a lot of regulations inside the epa that, you know, the president promised would be done. as long as that's good. this is unlike in some other instances where the president has been hair on fire about people and what they've been saying, ben carson, he's been churning about that and all, you know, aim with zinke. pruitt is a different creature. there's still talk about moving him into jeff session's role at some point. so clearly is not soured on pruitt the way others in the party have. >> but explain to met difference here. there's the difference which you talk about is polic

ruth marcus and michael steele, msnbc political analyst. i'm going to start with ruth. connection between michael cohen not just a fixer of women problems and all that, which we know about, the stormy thing, the karen mcdougal, the fact that he was at the tower in june of 2016, he may well have been according to mcclatchy, he may well have been in prague, handing over money to russians for hacking into the dnc. tell us how they can squeeze him on the criminal business stuff to get trump caught in collusion with the russians? >> i used to say that the russian investigation, the whole scandal was an iceberg. >> i still say. >> and we're seeing the tip of it and what mueller is doing. now we have a whole separate iceberg. the raid on cohen's office run by the u.s. attorney's office in new york for business matters. maybe related to stormy daniels. related to tax medallions and everything else. it seems like these two icebergs are colliding. and michael cohen does have a foot on each one. he was very much involved in donald trump's deal, a secret deal he didn't tell the publ

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it very well could have been thrown in there just as part of someone trying to test whether michael steele gathering this information, and it hasn't been verified. that hasn't stopped the president from fixating on it. whenever there's a part of that in the reporting, he reacts to it even in the conversation he had with james comey, he wasn't asking james comey to do an investigation into russian meddling. he asked james comey to investigate that allegation to disprove it. it's something about that that really triggers him, and he can't help but take to twitter and comment on it. >> he absolutely cannot as i'm looking at that tweet again. so i want to look ahead to what's happening this week. tomorrow mike pompeo has a senate confirmation panel vote. the fact is he is not being endorsed by the foreign relations committee. how significant is that in both of your minds? erin, you first. >> well, certainly it is significant and it doesn't give him a huge vote of confidence when he is confirmed ultimately. i would point out to you, remember in january of 2017 when rex tillerson was going throu

michael steele, former chairman of the republican national committee and, ashley, let's start with the news analysis here. trump seems to be thinking if i raise the heat, it's good for me. is he riding off of his higher poll numbers? what's about this steaming up of his politics in every direction no china, mexico, everything. >> well, the president is coming into his own as the president. he was a little tentative and hesitant at the beginning and he would defer more to his advisers, especially on issues that weren't gut visceral issues for him. now west wing aides tell us he feels more comfortable, he feels emboldened and this is someone who always wanted to play to his base. if there was ever a debate or a question of where he's going to go, he's going to go to that read meat, that base, those lines that got him huge applause during rallies and that's what we're seeing right now. >> is there any difference between him and his base? in other words, is he honestly against stupid wars? a phrase a lot of us liked hearing back in '16. is he really for tough trade policy? is he really aga

joining me is michael steele. michael, we ask if scalise is angling to be speaker.republicans were to lose the majority, there would be no speakership. you were in wave election year. over 60 seat gain in the house of representatives. you remember what the atmosphere was like when it was working for republicans in 2010. how do you compare that atmosphere to the one you're seeing now, the democrats are dealing with? >> it's a bit similar. the energy was different though because for republicans we didn't have the white house, the senate or the house at the time. you have this urgency. now you see that republicans are pretty much like the democrats were back in 2010. a little bit defensive. sort of false optimism about what's to come and what the landscape looks like for them. beneath the surface they know the truth. there is wave true broewing amog the electorate that will serve as a referendum on the first two years of this president. just as a referendum on the first two years of barack obama. he led off, against the advice of some in his own party, of health care a

i'm talking about the way your party treated michael steel. >> angela -- >> hold on.re talking about -- and that's fine but no one is to the degree that donald trump has said things and put things out there in terms of race. >> i'm not talking -- that's what i'm saying. i'm talking about people who allowed it to happen. she just brought up ted cruz. you have been very consistent. you know ted cruz hasn't. i have former bosses i'm ride or die for. >> go ahead. >> i would say part of that problem -- i don't like the post he wrote. you do have people that are willing to take it to the convention. he said not you. what a jerk. he went and drank the wine and peed on the carpet. they are saying things like that. all they get told is you're not act the right way. eventually people throw up their hands and leave. >> scott, we'll get you on the other side of the break. we'll be right back. from paying too much on their car insurance. hey, there's cake in the breakroom... what are you doing? um...nothing? marvel studios' avengers: infinity war, in theaters april 27th. now...whe

says he met with trump alone wanting to inform him about salacious details in the now infamous michael steeleuding allegations that he was filmed with prostitutes in moscow in 2013. >> he interrupted very defensively and started talking about do i look like a guy who needs hookers. and he says he may want me to investigate to prove that it didn't happen because he said if there is even a 1% chance my wife thinks that is true, that is terrible. and i remember thinking how could your wife think there is a 1% chance you were with prostitutes peeing on each other? >> reporter: the president >> reporter: the president quick to hit back saying virtually everyone in washington thought he should be fired. the president continued on to say it was my great honor to fire james comey. >> all that and more in the first television interview right here on abc 7. you can watch it tomorrow night at 10:00 followed by abc 7 news at 11:00. >>> still ahead, it is being brilled as billed as a four day celebration of college football, why it could be the biggest thing co coming to the south brey in i we worked with

says he met with trump alone wanting to inform him about salacious details in the now infamous michael steeleossier, including allegations that he was filmed with prostitutes in moscow in 2013. >> he enter represented very defensively and about do i look like a guy who needs hookers. and he says he may want me to investigate to prove that it didn't happen because he said if there is even a 1% chance my wife thinks that is true, that is terrible. and i remember thinking how could your wife think there is a 1% chance you were with prostitutes peeing on each other? >> reporter: the president requestic to hit back saying virtually everyone in washington thought he should be fired. the president continued on to say it was my great honest or t fire james comey. >> all that and more in the first television interview right here on on abc 7. you can watch it tomorrow night at 10:00 followed by abc 7 news at 11:00. >>> major developments in the case of michael cohen. president trump's personal attorney. special counsel robert mueller reportedly has evidence that cohen secretly made a trip to prague dur

says he met with trump alone wanting to inform him about salacious details in that n infamous michael steelesier including allegations he was filmed with prostitutes in moskow in 2013 merchandise. >> and he interrupted very defensively and started talking about do i look like a guy who needs hookers. >> reporter: and later at the white house president trump brings it up again. >> he says he may want tee moo to investigate it to prove it didn't happen. because he said if there's even a 1% chance my wife thinks that's true, that's terrible. and i remember thinking how could your wife think there's a 1% chance you were with prostitutes peeing on each ort in moskow. >> reporter: the president was quick to hit back this morning calling comey a liar and leaker. the president then continued onto say it was a great honor to fire james comey. >> well, all that and more in comey's first tv interview on abc 7. you can watch it during a special this sunday at 10:00 followed by abc 7 news at 11:00 over on channel 7. >>> new it dales tonight in the investigation of president trump's personal lawyer. in th

michael steeles doi s doteele d michael wolf. >> the special counsel is the asking about michael cohen. joyce vance, thank you so much. a live look right now at the senate, facebook hearing that we have been watching all day, still going. we'll bring you the latest from mark zuckerberg's testimony and we'll also talk with senator amy klobuchar who just questioned the ceo. "mtp daily" is right back. ♪ ♪ from only the thickest, juiciest heinz tomatoes. no one grows ketchup like heinz™. i had a very minor fender bender tonight! in an unreasonably narrow fast food drive thru lane. but what a powerful life lesson. and don't worry i have everything handled. i already spoke to our allstate agent, and i know that we have accident forgiveness. which is so smart on your guy's part. like fact that they'll just... forgive you... four weeks without the car. okay, yup. good night. with accident forgiveness your rates won't go up just because of an accident. switching to allstate is worth it. >>> welcome back. mark zuckerberg is still testifying before a joints senate committee hearing where he is fa

they sent that to michael steel. >> who was hired by republican operatives. >> mr. comey never told the president that his political opponent funded that dossier and they used it to get a fisa application warrant on a u.s. system on domestic soil. >> the fisa warrant stemmed from a campaign operative. >> carter page. i don't know and nobody knows if that information, that dossier was paid for by the clinton campaign. it was ever provided to the judge. the warrant was on mr. page. >> the information went into the carter page. >> that's true. my understanding when the federal agent goes to a fisa court and asking for warrant to be issued, all the information contained has to be verified and sworn to be accurate. they can not do that because they don't know in the information is accurate. >> i want to make it clear, jim comey was not in the government during the boston hamarathon. >> that's right. director of the fbi. he is deciding based on public data. he's admitted this. based on public opinion data if he was to continue an open investigation on then secretary hilla

former spokesman for house speaker don baner, michael steele. welcome to all of you.> sorry, i have to run. >> at least we have other people. let's start there, though, and talk about pompeo and his confirmation and his role in these talks. jonathan swan it's clear the president has more confidence in poem p pompeo than tillerson. an unexpected meeting with kim jong-un for pompeo. what's the roll he plays going forward. >> he's a functioning secretary of state. the president would not have sent rex tillerson. what's the roof of that? because he didn't previously. there's a reason rex tillerson didn't go to the middle east after the jerusalem announcement. he sent mike pence. there's a reason he didn't go to south korea for the olympics, he sent mike pence. so now you have -- now you actually have a secretary of state who, when he speaks to foreign countries, they can -- you're never going to be able to speak for donald trump because he's always going to change his mind, but to the best of ability they know this is someone very close to the president who is speaking on

michael steele, he wants to keep this movement going. is it working? >> it is. it is.rom the base, he's sitting in the high 70s, low 80s in terms of ground support by republicans across the country. that's why the house and senate leadership are frozen in their steps in not coming out and speaking out on tariffs and other things and that's why donald trump feels he can effectively double down. his mo is very clear, throw the bright shining object up in the air, watch everyone chase it into a rabbit hole and he moves on to the next thing and that works for him right now. the real question i think still stands out there, mika come november, the day after that election, that wednesday morning and they wake up with nancy pelosi taking that gavel in the house and in -- any shrinkage in the senate, what does he do then? i bet you even in that instance donald trump doesn't care about the political opponents on the other side. he doesn't care if it's republican or democrat, he will continue to play this game. so republicans out there right now thinking the president is going t

joining me now, michael steele, former spokesman for john boehner. president of the united states at a rally to attack an incumbent senator, who is running for re-election, with those kinds of vague threats, that's a little -- shall we say a little joe mccarthy. >> the threats are one thing. but there are a number of democratic senators running for re-election in states that the president won. the president has done an awful job of holding those democratic senators accountable when they vote against his agenda on things like tax reform, strengthening the military. and so if he can provide the sustained attention and focus on senator tester that he hasn't yet, it may create opportunities to get more democratic senators on board his initiatives. >> you have claire mccaskill, heidi hidecamp, joe manchin. >> it's a long list. is that is will tell the story whether that turns. >> i think jon tester is the big winner. trump looks desperate, waves a fake dossier in front of them. i worked in front of two white houses. you get senators with honey more than v

reporter who covers the special counsel investigation and former rnc chair min and my friend michael steeleanalyst. let me start with you. we know everybody know that is the president takes his queue in many cases from things he hears on fox news. do we have a sense of how we react to two lawyers? they give him advice to either fire rod rosenstein or get him recused or get rid of mueller. >> he wanted us to watch the show. make sure you tune into shaun hannity. maybe he had a sense of what they were going to say and he had been talking to alan dershowitz. he almost hired him as one of his lawyers. there is a feedback loop. he has these people going in and they give him advice and he repeats it back. he's a much more combative approach. >> rush limbaugh has a different view of this. listen to rush. >> the worst thing trump could do is start firing people. that's what he is being goaded into doing. many of you think that's what he should do and think it's the just and proper thing. this is more than just and proper right now. this is about survival. >> michael, it's tricky because there are r

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bruce ohr's wife worked for fusion gps , worked with michael steele who prepared the dossier and he wase's handler. if the shoe were on the other foot it would be front page news all over the world. maria: that's exactly right. senator good to have you on the program this morning thank you. >> thank you. maria: senator lindsay graham we'll be right back. stay with us. feel the clarity of non-drowsy claritin, with powerful 24-hour relief from symptoms triggered by over 200 different allergens. like those from buddy. because stuffed animals are clearly no substitute for real ones. feel the clarity and live claritin clear. for one week only, save up to $34 on select claritin products. check this sunday's newspaper. check this sunday's newspaper. tso why binge in here, when you can do it out there. with this clever little app called audible. you can listen to the stories you love while doing the things you love, outside. everyone's doing it she's binging... they're binging... and... so is he. so put on your headphones, turn on audible and binge better. president trump: tester started throwi

bruce ohr's wife worked for fusion gps , worked with michael steele who prepared the dossier and he wass handler. if the shoe were on the other foot it would be front page news all over the world. maria: that's exactly right. senator good to have you on the program this morning thank you. >> thank you. maria: senator lindsay graham we'll be right back. stay with us. where's gary? 'saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico. goin' up the country. later, gary' i have a motorcycle! wonderful. ♪ ♪ i'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wanna go? ♪ ♪ i'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wanna go? ♪ geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. that skills like teamwork, attention to detail, and customer service are critical to business success. the kind of skills, that work for you. but as it grew bigger and bigger,ness. it took a whole lot more. that's why i switched to the spark cash card from capital one. with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy. everything. what's in your wallet? sure. mom,what's up son?alk? i can't be your it guy anymore. what? you guys have

michael steele? program, but i think all of our thoughts and prayers are with former first lady barbara bush and her extraordinary family, some sad news from them tonight. hopefully better times ahead. >> i want to underscore that point, our thoughts, pricayers, hopes are with barbara bush. >>> don't miss msnbc's "headliners." chris matthews hosts a special hour coming up next. for now, good night from washington. >>> i'm chris matthews. a war of words is dominating the headlines. on one side, a hotly anticipated tell-all book. on the other, a president's tweet storm. as a prosecutor and director of the fbi, james comey says he held himself to the highest standard of integrity, only to be attacked by a president and by both sides of the aisle. now he is finally responding in his own words, and on his own terms. >> so comey's book is out. they can't shut him up. >> comey says the president lives in a

josh -- and michael steele, former rnc chairman and also an msnbc political analyst. chael i am going to start with you. your party here. >> we are having fun, around we. >> paul ryan walks away. >> yeah. >> look, we know -- anybody that spends time with paul ryan knows he hated this job. >> quau. >> i think there is a lot of truth to that. but this -- but he -- the republican party is not paul ryan's party anymore. >> it's not. >> that to me seems to be the bigger story. >> it is the bigger story. and it is partly why ryan walks away. because as have some 40 other members of the house, how do you leave the majority. >> that's the he request. you are in the majority. you have the white house, the senate, and the house. how do you have 40-plus members when you know there is a 24-seat swing between the democrats and you keeping or losing that majority, how do you do that? well they are looking down the road. they see the mood of the country beneath the surface, beneath the economy, beneath all the high stuff that's coming out of washington. they know with a is closer to

i'm talking about the way that your party treated michael steele, someone who came -- >> ohold on, holdn. we're talking about now. no one is to the degree that donald trump has, said things and put things out there, in terms of race. >> i'm not talking about that. >> that's what i'm saying. i'm talking about people who allowed it to happen. she just brought up ted cruz, which is a great point. you're being more courageous than ted cruz. i never came after you. you have been very consistent. you know ted cruz hasn't. let's be honest. i have bosses that i ride or die for. he's not a courageous example of how to stand up to donald trump. >> go ahead, amanda. >> a part of that problem, and i don't like the piece that ted cruz wrote for donald trump in "time" magazine. you had people that were willing to take it to the convention. you said, not you. a lot of people, he went to the party, drank the wine and peeed on the carpet. you have republicans that are trying to stand up and hold the line and all they get told is you're not acting the right way, not fighting hard enough, people just thro

bruce ohr's wife worked for fusion gps , worked with michael steele who prepared the dossier and he wasele's handler. if the shoe were on the other foot it would be front page news all over the world. maria: that's exactly right. senator good to have you on the program this morning thank you. >> thank you. maria: senator lindsay graham we'll be right back. stay with us. i accept i don't bike the miles i used to. i even accept i have a higher risk of stroke due to afib, a type of irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. but no matter where i ride, i go for my best. so if there's something better than warfarin, i'll go for that too. eliquis. eliquis reduced the risk of stroke better than warfarin, plus had less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis had both. don't stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping increases your risk of having a stroke. eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. don't take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. while taking eliquis, you may bruise more easily... and it may take lo

michael cohen. that's in the christopher steele dossier. l cohen's passport, even if we could see the inside of it, it wouldn't prove one way or another if he had ever been to prague, but certainly nobody's been able to disprove his assertion that he's never been there. and that's been a sort of central talking point for calling the entire dossier into question. people who say that the dossier is a bunch of lies, it's all disproven, there's very few specific things that anybody says that definitely didn't happen and it's in the dossier. but michael cohen saying he never went to prague, that's kind of the one big factual rebuttal that anybody has come up with about what's wrong with the steele dossier. well, that definitely didn't happen. cohen says he's never been to prague. therefore, the dossier's in question. that's why this story by peter stone and greg gordon at mcclatchy has ended up being such a big deal. you might have missed this story when it came out on friday. it came out right before president trump announced he was bombing syri

. >> daca, joining me now, michael steele and msnbc political analyst.on the president's performance today? >> the man has no time and place awareness. that's clearly it. you know, this is a big festive occasion, like you said, there are a bunch of 4 and 5-year-olds all over the lawn, little easter eggs and bunnies running around. to use that as a messaging point on the military and daca and other things to me is tone-deaf to the occasion. i get it, you want to get your message out there, but leave that for others who can have those conversations with the press on the side while you talk about, you know, the joys of the easter season and having these kids here, family and those types of things. so time and place awareness, it does matter. >> how about his message being factually correct? there's this talk with more members of the sort of establishment cabinet gone. gary cohn's living but still in the building. hope hicks is gone. rob porter, no longer in the building. people are saying this is trump unleashed. >> it is. this is probably the freest donald

last weekend, i was in charlottesville, with michael steel. the former chair of the rnc.mer chair of the dnc and the former chair of the rnc. we sat down to find common ground. we have the tools. we need the leaders not afraid to convene these conversations. >> here's the problem is that they don't have the tools. they're not taught civics. not taught american history. >> good point. >> so we don't even know how to have this dialogue. i don't want us to talk to each other. i want people to listen. young people today and their parents don't know how. >> i think america was designed to be an argument. america was designed to be an argument. i have no problem with the argument. problem i have, we're not listening to each other while we argue. we're arguing at each other, rather than to each other. we're arguing to make a point to a camera, not to convince each other of our goodwill. at least. if not our position. and there's a way to do this. it's harder when you're a politician to do this. a lot of our politicians right now are taking the easy way out. they're playing to th

. >> and the publishing copying 850,000 and michael steel was 150,000 and had a few copies. are not the first time to criticize james comey but let's listen to chris wallace talk about the book. >> the other thing that surprised me frankly is how ---y the book is. and getting into the kind of political food fight that james comey has done more damage to his own reputation than to preside president's trumps. >> to be fair to the book, there is a lot about his life and prosecuting the mob and leadership and if you follow him on instagram or twitter you know the kind of pros that he favors. but he does go there about the president's skins and his hair and hands. >> was that a mistake? >> it is a mistake. >> and i know i deal with it. i'm sure other people in the public ideal with it. you just have that funny little dig that you want to give -- you want to do on twitter or put in your column. don't do it. it is just -- it always undermines your argument. and if you -- it is the laziest way of writing and the laziest way of arguing. if you have something to say, say it and it is

but many of these memos bolster the president's claims against the president and the michael steele dossierdon of new york, thank you for being here. >> happy to. >> pick up on that point. we know republicans were pushing for this release. a number of your colleagues arguing, look, it shows there was no obstruction and james comey in fact never said there was any obstruction in these memos, yet there are disclosures that are potentially problematic like the president saying that he spoke to russia's president putin about prostitutes. what do you make of these revelations? >> well, first off, i'm happy that the justice department provided these unclassified memos so that they could be released publicly. for me? i was asking for these memos to be released, the unclassified version, before reading them because i just believe that the american public should have all of the information. it is one thing for me to read the memos and for other colleagues, and then we all come on here and we're all talking about what we read in the memos. it is better for your audience to be able to read for themsel

. >>> then why did michael cohen just drop his buzzfeed lawsuit over the steele dossier? >> i think they ought to apologize to start with, michael cohen. >> ben smith joins me exclusively on cohen and what they have verified from the dossier. >> i'm also very much of a germophobe by the way. >>> and as republicans lay the ground work for obstruction -- >> rod rosenstein's real problem right now is more with congress than it is with the president. >> guess who's joining the trump legal team? >> what difference at this point does it make? >> "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. one of the top lawyers on special counsel robert mueller's team reportedly confirmed a pretty remarkable bit of information in open court today, that investigators started looking at paul manafort because they suspected the former trump campaign chairman might have been serving as a back channel to russia. the revelation came during a hearing in washington, d.c. where manafort is claiming that mueller overstepped his authority in the russia probe by indicting man

steel dossier. what would be the significance of michael cohen being in prague in 2016? ssier allegation is that michael cohen went to prague. to meet with russian representatives secretly. and late august or september. of 2016. that is the middle of the campaign. to discuss the relationship between the russian government and the trump campaign. now to be fair, cohen told me and told anybody else, that he hasn't been to prague. and he didn't never and he wasn't part of this this trip. and wasn't part of this engagement with the russians. so mueller obviously would be locking at that. and if report is at all accurate, and mueller has this information, it is tremendously significant. issue of collusion and cohen's credibility. he's a reputable news service. nobody confirmed this. we need to wait and see if other news organizations that can basically match this story. but this would blow open the trump russia investigation. if true. >> it will be interesting to see if any other news organizations do pick that up. thank you for joining us. we should note going back to the syr

, i want to go to the news that broke the latest about michael cohen and a trip he appears to have taken. i want to set it up in the infamous steele dossier, there's an allegation michael cohen travelled to prague. when it was published, michael cohen was alleged to have travelled to prague to meet with kremlin officials for a back channel to clean up the mess made by the fact that manafort and page were being reported about. when that dossier was published, michael cohen put out a tweet with his passport saying i've never been to prague and sued buzzfeed for publishing the dossier. tonight mcclatchy reporting mueller has evidence he was in prague confirming that part of the dossier. greg gordon of mcclatchy, what have you found out. >>> what we've learned from a couple of sources is that the fbi, the mueller team now have evidence that michael cohen was indeed in prague despite his vehement denials that have gone on for more than a year now. >> and how do you -- what are we to make of that? do you know how he got there, who he met with? >> we're told he went in through germany. that's part of the so-called zone of the 26 countrie

michael coe hen who is close toes president trump. this was a concrete allegation about cohen being in prague. he denied it. >> when the steele dossier was first released in january of '17, michael cohen adamantly denied the allegation he was ever in prague. in fact, he tweeted a paragraph of his passport saying i have never been to prague in my life, fake news. as mcclatchy reports investigators traced evidence that he entered through germany apparently during august or early september of 2016 as the ex-spy reported. he wouldn't have needed a passport for such a trip. both countries operate with open borders. >> this is -- this was also at the time the dossier came out. one of the several things used as an effort to undermine the dossier to say look at this. they said he was in prague. that's not true. we can't assume any of this is true. the allegation he was meeting with a russian, that he was there in prague, that substantiates part of the dossier. if there is -- if mueller has any hint he was meeting with russians there, it's really hard at that point to view you this, the dossier completely much less this particular asp

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michael cohen's travel records. we wanted to get his travel records. want we wanted to determine did he go to prague? interestingly the allegations in the steele documents about michael cohen were that he was the fixer, brought in to fix the manafort problems, the information was coming out about carter page. he was the fixer brought in. so that is certainly consistent with the kind of work he was doing for the president. but we were never able to pursue it. basically, cohen was able to decide, i'll let you know what i feel like turning over to you. >> since you brought up prague, i want to ask you about this mcclatchy reporting that broke friday we brought up on the show. sources, mueller has evidence cohen was in prague in 2016 kirping part of the dossier. did that come as news to you? is that credible to you? >> well, you know, it came as news to me what the special counsel has. as i was mentioning, we were never really allowed to pursue this. and it was part of a trend with our committee. the only subpoenas, the majority was really interested in pursuing were subpoenas against our own government, not against witnesses that were trying to b