trump. let's listen to that. >> while west virginia really loves trump, it's his policies that they love. i'm basically trumpier than trumpe policies, but i'm a much more mild mannered and much more in line in terms of the social issues in west virginia than even president trump. >> let's bring in the "hardball" round table. eugene robinson, "the washington post" and msnbc contributor. and sahil kapur national reporter for bloomberg politics. what i see is a guy selling ice cream or the local ford dealership, the guy that really shouldn't be on television, but he owns the company so he does the ads. i thought that was the strangest ad. i don't know if he is going to win in west virginia. >> look, the whole thing is really strange. if you're too trumpy for trump, who are you? what are you? china people. >> he is trying to clean up -- >> china people. it's crazy. this is a three-way race. >> they're all close to 20. >> exactly. anything can happen in a three-way race. >> one person is surging, elena. i used to try to pick them all the time. where they stood before the election and who was surging. it was real simple. and th

park avenue where ivanka lived. >> cohen caught trump's attention when he became treasurer of the board for the trump world tower. >> donald trump is impressed by the effort that michael cohen helped lead to oppose a tenants' movement to reorganize the building. >> he took trump's side against the other owners in the building. trump was grateful. >> after counseling the real estate mogul on legal matters, cohen received a job offer from the man he long admired. cohen became trump's special counsel and executive vice-president of the trump organization in 2006. >> it was a pretty alluring universe to be in trump tower. this is a man who idolized him for years before he ended up working there. it was a dream come true. >> michael cohen who voted for obama in 2008 threw his support behind donald trump. when he considered entering the presidential race as a republican. >> >> i think before the election, michael cohen was perhaps more political than donald trump was. this is someone who encouraged donald trump to run for president. had been involved in campaigns before. >> cohen took a trip to iowa in trump's plane to meet republican

trump. now there is something you'll notice in here. trump -- trumpmp, this is about -- the book i talked about today, the great revolt, reshaping american politics, doesn't say trump but that is where it gets to. very different. here is the through-line of the books that donald trump tweets about. they're about either him or about the campaign he ran. they are written by friends or people -- journalists who are favorable to him, tell the story he wants to be told. remember, good in donald trump's book means good for him. and his reading habits or lack there of speak to that. >> back to you -- what are you reading? >> so i'm reading the -- the -- the ulysses grant novel and i'm reading "let trump be trump -- no, i'm not. >> i'm reading "the hellfire club." >> i've already read it, brianna. hi, jake. >> i know. thank you so much. so we're getting a look -- i want to show you this. this is the destructive power of that volcanic eruption in hawaii. that is time lapse video of moulton lava showing how fast the lova flow rolls across the city street and ev

trump each other on the thing that they are each the most trump-like. mike braun, the businessman, he is self funding, arguing that he is the trump-like, this is outsider who is going to shake up washington. luke messer has been arguing that he has the best record as far as supporting trump's agenda in congress. todd rokita says he has the most trump-like attitude, he is the fighter, the one who is tough enough to beat joe donnelly and to help stop what he calls the witchhunt, the mueller investigation, and otherwise support trump in washington. host: have trump or vice president pence said who they like in this race? guest: they have not. that has been a little contentious, because todd rokita has been endorsed by the two men who ran trump's indiana campaign in 2016, but they made a point that they were endorsing for themselves, not on behalf of the white house or the trunk-pence campaign. when rokita put that on his yard signs, the trump campaign asked him to take us down because they thought it was implying that he had the endorsement of trump and pants, and he did not. luke messer has a lot of ties to the president. he competed in the congressional

trump has done that i think only he would do. pretty obvious one where people were saying they were going to do that, trade. trump i think that most oftrump 's -- i think most of trump victories have been traditional republican ones. certainly the saber rattling towards north korea. seems to have worked, up to where we are now. i am not sure where that is, but trump is an outsider. and all presidential candidates and presidents have said they were going to move the embassy. he actuallyoo, and did it. haley is a well-known figure. stocking rayburn and the house and senate. what is it like in the trump era, or what have you learned? it was a lot more chaotic in the first year, and it is not as chaotic. something that is especially relevant, which is not really know his policies. there are key issues that he is determined to do, like the border wall and grade. other things like tax reform and obamacare repeal, he did not know the policy details well to command the republican confidence in the house, and sometimes he would just tweet out his ideas and thoughts, and it would be completely contrary to what republican leadership was telling others. the short-term spending

trump, but i give trump credit on judges. he has to appoint them in the first place, and trump has not , i think. the judges when he tweets, it causes trouble and anger and so on. but trump i think knows how important he is, and i think it was also true, and you can probably correct me on this, about tax reform. i do not think he tweeted much on that, did he? >> no. fred: i think trump's inclination is to tweet, and when he does not, that is significant and helpful. bill: haley? haley: i want to say that republicans like to credit trump for passing the tax bill. and what i think they mean is they want to congratulate trump for helping them. bill: a couple of questions, some good ones off of the top. not much legislation the rest of this year. that is probably true. there could be a supreme court appointment. what could happen the rest of this year that could be important? are we sure there will not be immigration legislation, for example? haley: some moderates are trying to force a debate in the house because speaker ryan has told them that they might get a vote, and then he has not done anything

many witnesses who told us about approaches that russians were making to trump family members, trump business individuals, trump campaign officials, and the themes were like this. it was either to give them dirt that existed on hillary clinton or to set up a meeting between donald trump and vlad pleuroputin. so it is a fair question to can what was donald trump's knowledge of all of these efforts. it's very hard for me to believe that he had no idea at all, particularly that one of the outreaches occurred to his son on a floor just below where he was working on a day he was in the office at a meeting set up from a very close donald trump family friend. i can't believe he had no idea about it it. he should sit down in the chair and tell us whether it's the case for not. >> a question whether he had a phone call with his son right before the meeting. > we have evidence that donald trump jr. calls russia, headaches a call to a blocked number and calls russia back. we know donald trump his father used a blocked number at the residence in trump tower. so the republicans on our complete weren'tology subpoena is the p

because trump had -- i don't think that he -- might warrant can answer this, but i bet most of the people, a high percentage of the people that work in the trump dide for trump, not know them beforehand and still might not know that now. hase is chaos there, which led to what is in his eyes, i'm not trying to dump on trump, i think he's done a very good job policy wise and getting things past that are important, but on the other hand leaking to the degree that goes on in the white greaterday is so much than i've ever seen before, and i've covered the white house back to gerald ford. a very nice man, by the way. bush 41. worked in there were some leaking, but nothing like this. when there is this much leaking, it is poison. trump says he's going to stop it. other presidents when there was less leaking so that they would stop it. they all failed and i am afraid that trump will, too. ? white house watch? >> it's why i look so tired and exhausted. >> how much did they stab each other in the back? why is there so little discipline? >> that's sort of the big question for the trump white house. not the administration and the way that it works. there is something th

israel speaking there this was a campaign promise from donald trump but that he followed through on and we did see his daughter ivanka trump trump and her husband question on hand as well as the deputy secretary of state and the secretary of the treasury all joining israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu had of the ceremony netanyahu saying this move will bring peace to the region critics able to the opposite of only inflame tensions. and now we have our correspondents covering this story for us to remind you of china was honest with us here in the studio.

proximity of how close the agalarov family was to donald trump, proximity the meeting was one floor from donald trump and proximity with donald trumptrump jr. and how much they talked about the campaign for a year. so it's hard to believe he didn't know. >> when donald trump jr. said i didn't want to bother him with it, this is someone we heard talking on the "access hollywood" bus, we see him spending his entire weekends playing golf, this is a guy who publically, donald trump, has all the time in the world to discuss all the trivial things that cross anyone's mind close to him, the credibility of i didn't want to bother the big guy with anything as small as this is rather strained in this situation. >> sure. look, you played the clip before of the comment trump made right after this meeting is being set up, which he says he's going to give a speech about some very interesting information about the clintons. and this is right after the e-mail trail shows that rob goldstone is promising the russians meeting at trump tower is going to have some very incriminating information from kremlin files about hillary clinton. so the parallel

trump. so trump's lawyer, rudy giuliani, has a new reason for the trump firing. b mueller wants to hear from trump about it. in fact, the decision to terminate comey is one of the questions, "the new york times" reported on, and all of this coming as we're getting a rare look inside mueller's process. here's michael caputo on his interview. >> the mueller team knew more about what i did in 2016 than i knew myself. and i think they know more about the trump campaign than anyone that ever worked there. they're clearly focused on trying to identify some russian collusion. i'd say the mueller team is spear fishing. i think they believe they know where they're going. they're not asking a wide range of questions. they know exactly what they're looking for and they have e-mails backing it up. and i don't think that they ask any questions they don't already know the answer to. >> back with me, renato maroty and malcolm nance. renato, let me begin with you, your thoughts, your reaction to that inside look into mueller's interview about what they're going after and the info

trump. he is a phenomenon and that's the truth of the matter. trump is the story. >> kimberly: just like trumpey keep trying to kryptonite trump but it's not working. >> juan: the coverage is negative, doesn't mean it's not true. the key here or -- >> jesse: everything he is doing. >> juan: i didn't say everything. a lot of what he is doing. not true. was interesting to me because i thought you guys would all agree with nick kristof that hey, get off trump's back and why are you so focused on trump? but i think you are right, jesse come in terms of storytelling, everyone knows the stories people follow our stories about people and may be stories about events and finally ideas. if you get into myanmar. he listed guns, opioids, high number of people in the country who lack health insurance, and genocide in myanmar. people say it's interesting but gosh, tell me about trump because i know it. i'm following it. following it like a soap opera. >> greg: we talk about guns constantly. the opioid thing was out there. >> kimberly: a miami high school creating uproar after inviting a special guest trip p

trump fans might say -- trump supporters would say this shows that president trump does what he says.aid he would withdraw and he does that and now north korea sees that. others say, especially a lot of people in the diplomatic community, how is north korea supposed to agree to bide by an agreement when the united states show its willingness to withdraw from the agreement they made. >> at will. it is a very valid concern. foeb folks look at north korea and kim jong-un is holding on to his nuclear weapons or lack thereoff because that is in the -- because that is their mode of survival. and so he saw what happened in libya when gadhafi gave up his nuclear weapons and then he was no longer with us. so i really think that this is a -- this is dangerous territory for the white house. i want to say one thing about young people. in hard a poll of young americans every year and in the most recent poll, democrats and republicans and independents notes they are more fearful than ever for this country. the decisions like this coming from the white house are reasons why young people across the b

trump. >> eric trump. >> welcome. they're open for business. critics say he will do for america what he did for the trumprganization. critics say we may be witnessing the reverse, using american power and taxpayer dollars to bail out the trump organization one last time. joined by liz plank and ben clemens, former prosecutor and chief legal counsel to governor deval patrick. ben, is this a problem? >> well, it's more than a problem, ari. and it is more than a conflict of interest. it is a blatant violation of the constitution at a minimum. there may be criminality as well. more information is needed to know whether there's criminality. unquestionably, the latest dealing with the flip flop on what the commerce department did with respect to -- within 70 hours of trump getting the benefit, his organization getting the benefit of a half billion dollars in loans from china is just a straightforward ee mol ments violation. >> you're saying barring gifts from foreign governments. what makes it a gift than a convenient business deal? >> the ee mol u meants clause doesn't prohibit just gifts, it prohibits a fede

trump. michael isikoff of yahoo! news, the headline gets straight to the point. "trump's son should be concerned." fbi obtained wiretaps of a putin ally who met with trump jr. isikoff reports the fbi obtained secret wiretaps collected by spanish police of conversations involving alexander toresion who has forged chose ties with american lawmakers and the nra that led to a meeting with donald trump jr. during the gun lobby's annual convention in louisville in may of 2016. a top respondish prosecutor said on friday. the prosecutor saying quote just a few months ago the wiretaps of these telephone conversations were given to the fbi. and asked if he was concerned about the meetings with donald trump jr. and other american political figures the spanish prosecutor replied, quote, mr. trump's son should be concerned. michael isikoff, coauthor of "russian roulette." jose grinda, who is investigating spanish organized crime, how does he wind up in a story that involves alexander torsion and donald trump jr.? >> jose grinda is a legendary prosecute in spain. he spent years prosecuting russian organized crime figures in his country. and in one of his investigations in

trump before on the show. but trump is -- you guys are now, too, you're a new york city institution. trumpat were you memories of what was donald trump? >> growing up, donald trump was always how new york -- he was, like, the idea of new york. >> yeah. >> but if you remember, new york used to be really nasty. >> yes. [ laughter ] so -- >> a lot of cocaine, a lot of bums in times square and stuff. that was donald trump's new york. >> yeah, donald trump is new york in the '70s personified. >> yeah. >> times square in the '70s personified. being like straight. >> actually, if you remember the early episodes of "law and order." >> yeah. >> like, that's donald trump. [ laughter ] when new york was scary. >> seth: yeah. >> you wouldn't take your family there on vacation. >> seth: yeah. you couldn't go jogging without seeing a body. >> no, no. >> seth: take out the trash without seeing a body. >> you just run pass by like, "oh, wow, another one. okay. he just started decomposing." [ laughter ] >> seth: james comey was on. did a lot of press last week to promote his book. were you guys upset that

trump teeing off these reports as part of the fbi investigation into russian election meddling, there was an informant who spoke to unpaid advisers to donald trump. now, the doj can take trump's tweet and file it away or ignore it, politicians say all kinds of things. but trump appointee and the supervisor of the mueller probe, rod rosenstein, rushing to essentially give credence to all these and operationalize trump's demand, announcing they will look at this issue as part of a probe that's already open and was opened specifically under pressure from house republicans over the infamous nunes memo, which was about why carter page was surveilled. some legal experts say that probe, this whole thing could go nowhere. others responding by saying this is disappointing. take eric holder who said it's going to risk time-honored doj independence. now, if any of this sounds maybe like an internal doj office dispute where the justice department is kind of investigating itself, let's remember the repercussions for the russia probe here legally, and really for donald trump's entire presidency, loom large. because it was the same internal watchdog that donald trump pressured into scrutini

trump over pressure to denuclearize north korea. but hey, lots of stuff trump looks forward to gets canceled. [ light laughter ] in a new interview, one of president trump'smer lawyers said that trump made a mistake by adding rudy giuliani to his legal team for the russia investigation. luckily, all you have to do is say his name backwards and he returns to his dimension. [ light laughter ] inailuig ydur! [ laughter and applause ] the senate judiciary committee today released almost 2,000 pages of transcript about the 2016 trump tower meeting involving donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer. though the transcript is mainly a lot of this. [ laughter and applause ] "let me confer with my lawyer. [ light laughter ] duh." [ laughter and applause ] president trump today congratulated representative lou barletta for winning pennsylvania's republican senate primary last night and called him a friend and a special guy. and a bunch of other stuff you call somebody when you can't remember their name. [ light laughter ] "oh, this guy is a real champ. this fellow -- go and -- say hi to my buddy." "dad, it's eric!" [ laughter and applause ] according -- according to a

trump himself. dr. harold bornstein, president trump's longtime doctor in new york, signed and released this letter with that statement in december of 2015. but now, cnn reports dr. bornstein told them those were trump's words. "he dictate the that whole letter. i didn't write that letter." >> he wrote it himself. >> trevor: yeah, of course trump wrote it himself. really, "the healthiest individual ever electedly to the presidency?" this is the least surprise reveal ever. it's like if at the end of the "sixth sense" they were like, and bruce willis was alive the whole time!" yeah, that's what we thought. i'm just amazed by how everything in trump's world turns out to be a lie. like, even his do,'s note say lie, his doctor's note. in fact, i wouldn't be shocked if dr. bornstein is just trump in disguise. ( laughter ) take off the glasses, you know. you shave the beard, take all the hair on the sides, fut on took place. ( laughter ) ( applause ) i'm just saying. i'm just saying. ( cheers and applause ) so right now, president trump is not on good terms with his doctor, but on the other hand, things have gone south with another one of his lawyers. >> fox news has now confirmed that ty cobb is out as the

trump tower meeting was with russians. is this a whole different trump tower meeting? yes. yes, this is a whole different trump tower meeting. pinch yourself. "three months before the 2016 election a small group gathered at trump tower to meet with donald trump jr. one was an israeli specialist in social media manipulation. another was an emissary for two wealthy arab princes. the third was a republican donor with a controversial past in the middle east as a private security contractor. the emissary from the two wealthy arab princes told donald trump jr. that the princes who led saudi arabia and the united arab emirates were eager to help his father win election as president." okay. now, they were eager to help. emirates and saudi. but it's not clear from this article exactly what the help was that they were offering. they wanted to help. but how did they want to help? that brings us to another one of the guys at this meeting. joel zamel, who's been described as a specialist in social media manipulation from the times's reporting. his company "employed several israeli former intelligence officers." however muc

george pop lpop -- george popadopoulos. >> of course trump knows what he did, and trump knows whether he did or didn't know at the time about the trump tower meeting, trump knows about meetings that he had with jared kushner and his own daughter and manafort will have to testify in those investigations. if trump thinks he's not so innocent, i've got to think he will think at some point that it's less risky somehow to curb, limit or abort the investigation than let it go forward to win. >> "wall street journal's" shelby holiday, betsy, dealers choice on these issues, go ahead. >> it's a great question, there's so much to talk about. one thing that's really important is when we're talking about the length this probe is taking and the complaints that have come from the white house and mueller himself, the president's own legal team seems to be dragging its feet to decide whether or not to let trump sit down for an interview with mueller. that would be whether they make the final determination of whether there was obstruction of justice. jay sekulow said they still have yet to make a decision, even though they have been in talks with mue

trump's popularity is soaring. not donald trump. "the lead" starts right now. >>> breaking news. poll showing most people think are going well in trump's america but other numbers get really stormy after that. president trump unleashing on the russia investigation suggesting legal action against the special counsel team. as any lawyer rudy giuliani suggests he might stop talking about taking the fifth. didn't he say once if you plead the fifth you are definitely guilty, and after the headlines, melania trump has her moment. the first lady launching her platform devoted to stopping cyber bullying and encouraging kindness. has she met her husband? >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> welcome to the lead and we begin with breaking news in our politics lead and brand-new cnn poll numbers revealing americans perception of the donald trump presidency and they look pretty locked in while also becoming increasingly newanced below the s -- surface, 41% approve of the job and 53% disapprove. that is about the same as the end of march. every other elected president of the modern era with the exception of jimmy carter had higher approval ra

trump. but to beat trump, they will need more. trumpvinced tens of millions of americans that they are losing ground because of immigrants, racial and religious minorities and foreigners. what will democrats advance to counter that grim message? did you hear it in what elizabeth warren was saying? i'll go to you, colin. >> it's true before we get to 2020, we can look to 2018 as instruction manual for how the democrats will run. in 2018 it is a referendum on trump. that is their only message. they don't have an economic message. a lot of democrats would admit that. i don't know it will work in 2018, especially with an economy going the way it is and also with the democrats nominating bernie sanders in places like nebraska last night. >> dana: richard, i want to ask you two things. is the economic message what nancy pelosi has suggested to roll back the tax package that president trump was able to advance in december? secondly, do any of the people matter when they are going to one of the forums to test the waters for 2020 if bernie sande

trump. there is a reason why the cable networks are 24/trump. either trump d24/7 trump. cable companies are making more money now than they made in decade, and it's because of one person. it's because of president trump. it makes money. howie: he feels like he's accomplishing a lot more ordinary americans. the coverage is about mueller and stormy. how much does that frustrate him? >> i don't want to speak to the president about whether he's frustrated or not. but i have never seen a politician cape be of take more incoming and more issues and more bombs coming at him that would have sunk almost any other politicians, and they do, one of them. he can take 20-30 at a time and keep going. it's never good. howie: your successor john kelly is calling b.s. to a report that he repeatedly called trump an idiot. what does it tell you that several sources are bad mouthing john kelly? >> i don't think quotes are made up, but i think there are nefarious people out there who make trouble. maybe people with agendas and for whatever reason they are not happy with the chief of staff and

gibbons has not tried to distance himself from trump. >> today's primaries are being a test of president trump's influence. how popular is president trump in ohio? >> he's doing decently well here compared would some other states. he won by 8 percentage points here. there are a lot of working class democrats who are still saying, you know, give him a chance. a lot of republicans still like trump. in the primary here we've seen the republicans trying to be as close to trump as possible generally speaking. he's still relatively popular here. maybe not struggling as much as he is in some other states. >> what house races will you be focusing on today as -- >>> all of today's washington general at cspan.org. we're taking you live to capitol hill. republican leaders are coming out to speak to reporters. >> we're committed to lower taxes. fewer regulations. that's what we promised. that's what we're continuing to do. the national federation of independent business says that 50% of small businesses in this country are either hiring or planning to hire more workers. so the economy is growing. more people are being hired. and wages are going up

trump white house and inside the immediate family of donald trump. the reporting comes to us from michael isikoff of yahoo news and the headlines gets to the point, trump's son should be concerned. fbi obtained wiretaps of a putin ally who met with trump jr. isikoff reports the fbi obtained secret wiretaps collected by spanish police of conversations involving aleksandr torshin, a deputy governor of russia's central bank, that led to a meeting with donald trump jr. during the gun lobby's convention in may of 2016. the prosecutors saying quote just a few months ago, the wiretaps of these telephone conversations were given to the fbi and asked if he was concerned about aleksandr torshin's meetings with donald trump jr. and other american political cal figures, the spanish prosecutor replied, quote, mr. trump's son should be concerned. joining us on the phone is michael isikoff chief investigative reporter for yahoo news. walk us through this a little bit, jose ginga who is investigating, how does he end up with a story involving aleksandr torshin and donald trump jr. >> he's a legendary prosecutor in spain. he spent years pros cecuting russian organized cr

indorsed what we try to do in media we see the big stories that everyone wants us to talk about trump this trump trump did this trump did this so what. what about the everyday people who are suffering who's going to tell their stories who's going to care about them who's going to love them and he showed us how you can just dangle something flashy in wow in front of people who are interesting and will totally turn a blow to the things that we should be looking at and i think i think it was brilliant. you know makes me excited for our interview this is going to be an artist yet when you watch people of that in their reactions and you're seeing some of the reactions from people you know from piers morgan who you know was scared and now it's down thinks it's the. latest so they don't get it though that is it is not affirmative country this country is structure for piers morgan and alex jones to win you know worry about the same things that a person with black skin or a woman is going to worry about they just don't know but i think the hard part is in them being so uncomfortable because it works when i see

trump didn't break it. the system was broken. that's why we have trump. trumps making it worse. >> the word tribalism is used so much. if the definition of draining the swamp to half the country essentially is our guy is in, theirs on the is, where is there room for the system to function as it has in the past? >> i would tweak it a little bit. i feel like draining the swamp is an emotional question. the fact is that it is a swamp. we are getting this object lesson right now in exactly how influence peddeling works in washington. it is a thing. it does -- all of us on all sides of the political spectrum feel like, man, it feels like if you have got money you have more voice in washington than i have got. everybody feels that. but no one really understands how that works. so the question is, who articulates that with the most emotion. donald trump did an intelent job with his drain the swamp idea saying i am going to be on your side. and demagoguing as bill rightly put it, the other side. you know, i think the reality is that there is a swamp. you know? and the

trump junior said i don't. democrats note that former trump campaign aide cory testified before house members that candidate trump's primary residence has a blocked number. a full year later after the new york times first broke the existence of the meeting, the white house initially lamed the meeting was about adoptions. an explanation disproved when an e-mail surfaced showing don junior accepted the meeting on the premise the russians -- he did not know his father was involved in drafting the misleading statement. i never spoke to my father about it but the white house acknowledged that the president took part if crafting the misleading response. >> the president weighed in as any father would. >> reporter: donald trump junior seauing -- saying having left the gym and during the meeting between jared curb mer akushner russian ambassador. >> let's get some more reporting. the president's legal team can't indict a sitting president, won't indict a sitting president. those are the ground rules. all they get to do is write a report. that's a quote from rudy giuliani. what does that tell you? >> i, first of all, have a

trump. plus, a new look inside the june 2016 trump tower meeting between donald trump jr., paul manafort, jared and the russians reportedly offering up dirt on hillary clinton. and rudy giuliani weighing in on the russia probe, telling nbc news that the special counsel's office has told trump's legal team that mueller will not indict a sitting president.

trump voter start to realize the lie? >> think about half the trump voters bought in. they want to believe in trump, and it's going to be a big shock in the real world. about half the trump voters were reluctant voters. they somewhat approve of him, not strongly. for them the moment of prove is november 7 november 7th, 2018, when it's not about pushing back against people like you. people like me, obviously. it's about what do you want going forward? at this point they have to face the question are you comfortable with trump for another four years? maybe we'll make it through the four years. maybe the lies and everything else, we'll have a decent economy, no foreign policy disasters. maybe we'll make it through the four years without a disaster to the country. are you comfortable with another four years? i think it's unrealistic to expect too many trump voters to jump ship in the next few moments. the moment they pivot is after election day this year when it's a question about the future. that's why people like me are so concerned and trying to lead the groundwork for a republican challenge to trum

figures like carter page and george popadopoulos, to scrutinize trump insiders like michael cohen who have been with trump for a decade. it's not trump versus nancy pelosi, or even trump versus the resistance, it's trmp versus mueller. now that trump has employed rudy giuliani to take a tougher tack. it did not start on offense. when it began, trump was careful to avoid criticizing mueller directly. >> the whole thing is ridiculous if you want to know from that standpoint. but robert mueller is an honorable man and hopefully he'll come up with an honorable solution. >> an honorable man. and that actually lasted for the life of this probe, during those nine moth months, he avoided anything mentioning his name at all. trump did attack the fbi and the doj many times, but there was initially something about mueller or mueller's power holding trump back. but now just recently, as mueller works his way up this food chain, securing those five guilty pleas, securing indictments or four others and exposing ties between trump and russia and russian backed witnesses, and putting trump in the witness stand, all of that has made a creative switch

israel speaking there this was a campaign promise from donald trump but that he followed through on and we did see his daughter ivanka trump trump and her husband question on hand as well as the deputy secretary of state and the secretary of the treasury all joining israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu had of the ceremony netanyahu saying this move will bring peace to the region critics say it will do the opposite of only inflame tensions. and now we have our correspondents covering this story for us to remind you of china was honest with us here in our studios and. outside the embassy tanya kramer and let's bring you back in here what did you make of freeman's comments. yeah friedman was very much toeing the line in praising president trump there and banging really hard on this u.s. promise that has been made over and over and over again to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and we should remind ourselves that the u.s. congress did actually pass a law in one thousand nine hundred ninety five saying that they would move the embassy and the u.s. president says that his signing these waiver saying they would kee

trump at the moment he says what he's saying at that moment. do you think you might subpoena mo mo might subpoena trump i think he will almost certainly subpoena trump if trump does not voluntarily to sit down to him and look there's been a lot of discussion larry about you know there are only two options is he going to sit down voluntarily with mahler or is he going to be subpoenaed in which case he'll be forced to i think there's a third door that people are talking about the third or is that he simply says listen i'm going to assert executive privilege i'm going to say listen you don't muck muller have the authority to force me to sit down for an interview because you're going to ask me questions that relate to my specific duties as a president under article two and an article two under the executive branch of which i am the head i don't have to answer these questions and that could create a constitutional crisis where that issue goes up to the supreme court and he doesn't assert the fifth nor does he agree to voluntarily sit down interesting did nixon or clinton ever do that nixon did assert executive privilege lay but he has sort of executive p

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trump twitter archive this morning and discovered that trump has tweeted about fake news no less than one hundred ninety four times since he won the election he has referred to reporters as enemies of the people is this just trump being trump or is he in fact absolutely undermining a free press let's take a look. i. got go ahead go ahead no not you not you your organization is terrible your organization sarah let's go ahead quiet quiet go ahead she's she's asking a question don't be rude don't be rude. don't be rude no not going to give you a quote i am not going to give you a question you are fake do go ahead. couldn't you say ok it's just trumping trump being rude to critics has a long standing tradition amongst politicians and he's simply doing it his own way fear his doing it to someone way and the flu to politics or politicians always have been lying that normal but he is. he's on a new model in this he does it much more and he is not only himself on twitter he has his old stuff they remember his speaker will talk about a star defects that means somehow he states an example for something being worn more spread out and more and more recognized so we have us on a defect that means we have i want narrative it

trump. >> so it's the same reason you see trump really losing it about cohen being a target. so i think that mueller's team is aware that you start to go after the family members, especially ivanka calling them in to question them, trump'so see this as now you're harassing my family. he's going to. >> is ivanka trump a daughter only or is she an operative for the president, as well? >> she's an operative for the president and she's been in the room at key moments in the trump russia timeline. she was there when he made the decision to fire comey, she was on the plane home helping with the don junior statement. >> isn't the smart move to interview trump first, then after you got all you can out of him, you go to her and donald junior? they're going to rat out everything and tell him everything that's coming. > hope hicks has been interviewed. >> they've got their own lawyers. >> her husband jared may be a subject. >> jared has been interviewed. >> the family people unlike all the others being interviewed interrogated cannot separate themselves from trump, can they? >> like either they're saving the family for last because it's the most delicate for a number of reasons or there's no need to call in ivanka. every time she'

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made in october 2015, when donald trump was a candidate, michael cohen was his lawyer and felix saider is suggesting they built a trump tower in moscow, connect donald trump vladimir putin and quote unquote, we can engineer this and elect donald trump president. so, there's long-standing ties that michael cohen had with russia. >> so, columbus nova not the only company to paid michael cohen a lot of money. at&t, which is trying to buy time warner, our parent company. novartis paid him $1.2 million for apparent lly advice on how deal with health care. this is the swamp. this is washington. i mean, you know a lot about this. but is that inherently illegal? >> well, it's the behave your and contact that president trump has promised he would get rid of. and so, you know, certainly it doesn't look like it's illegal. it's certainly questionable, and worth, you know, probing to see just exactly what is going on here, but, you know, the president promised the american people that he'd clean up washington and that you wouldn't see this type of arrangement, and, you know, he should, i think, see this as an opportunity to engage congress and start to put in, you kno

trump himself. they want trump to say no. the last thing they want is trump appearing before mueller, his lawyers. >> david corn, nick akerman, mimi rocca, thank you all for joining this first round of discussion. we really appreciate it. >>> john kelly still has not denied that he called president trump an idiot repeatedly. he has not specifically denied that and donald trump seems to have problems with every doctor he deals with. tonight you will hear from the trump doctor who emerge as one of the most colorful characters in the campaign. he now says he feels betrayed by donald trump and actually used much stronger language than that in an exclusive interview with nbc news. i'm not a bigwig. or a c-anything-o. but i've got an idea sir. get domo. it'll connect us to everything that's going on in the company. get it for jean who's always cold. for the sales team, it and the warehouse crew. give us the data we need. in one place, anywhere we need it. help us do our jobs better. with domo we can run this place together. well that's that's your job i guess. ♪ ge

trump himself. they want trump to say no. the last thing they want is trump appearing before mueller, his lawyers. >> david corn, nick akerman, mimi rocca, thank you all for joining this first round of discussion. we really appreciate it. >>> john kelly still has not denied that he called president trump an idiot repeatedly. he has not specifically denied that and donald trump seems to have problems with every doctor he deals with. tonight you will hear from the trump doctor who emerge as one of the most colorful characters in the campaign. he now says he feels betrayed by donald trump and actually used much stronger language than that in an exclusive interview with nbc news. 58,007 steps. that's the height of mount everest. because each day she chooses to take the stairs. at work, at home... even on the escalator. that can be hard on her lower body, so now she does it with dr. scholl's orthotics. clinically proven to relieve and prevent foot, knee or lower back pain, by reducing the shock and stress that travel up her body with every step she takes. so keep

trump's attorneys by michael cohen. mr. trump fully reimbursed mr. cohen in 2017. the category of value would be $101,000 to $250,000 and the interest rate would be zero. according to trump's lawyers, cohen paid daniels $130,000 right in that 100,000 to $250,000 range. trump is claiming this was no big deal. his lawyer said in the financial disclosure form they were only revealing oat information in the interest of transparency as the payment is not required to be disclosed a reportable liabilities." basically they're arguing this was just reimbursement of expenses not a loan, so is wasn't illegal and trump wasn't required to disclose a payment. you know who is not buying that? the government's top ethics official who released a letter to rod rosen tine in connection with the disclosure. he asserted the office of government ethics had concluded the payment made by mr. cohen is in fact required to be reported as a liability despite trump's claim and added that rosen tine "may find the disclosure relevant to any inquiry you may be pursuing." that's something. indeed, according to david apple's predecessor, the let ser tantamount to a criminal referral. oge reported the presi

trump did. he says he pulley supports president trump -- fully supports president trump's decision on iran's nuclearl. here is what he said. >> president trump did an historic move, and this is why israel thanks president trump for his courageous leadership. his commitment to confront the terrorist regime in tehran and his commitment to insure that iran never gets nuclear weapons; not today, not in a decade, not ever. liz: if the united states is target number two, israel is target number one of iran. iran wants to wipe both israel and america off the face of the earth. you can imagine that israel is absolutely thrilled with this decision. we're looking at defense stocks

trump? >> hard to imagine it won't irritate president trump. but in the end i think president trumpll be happy to outsource that particular activity, that particular duty to pence because i think trump would not want to go to the funeral. you know how trump is, trump will be -- trump is focussed on slates and i'm sure it has annoyed him to have heard that he's not welcome at the funeral. it's also the case of trump being as narcissistic as he is, he would rather be playing golf that day. so he will console himself with the notion, i didn't want to go to that thing anyhow. >> this story coincides with the leaks and the president calling his own staff traitors for leaking and part of the concerns about leaking is what's going on with the pence operation and what might they be leaking? >> the irony of donald trump calling people cowards and traitors for leaking is pretty strong. this is a guy who's been talking to the press for the last 30 years, sometimes under his own name, sometimes john baron or what have you. it appears from the reporting, everyone in trump world leaks. at some le