jason johnson and heidi. that's "hardball."s for being >> a special independence day episode of "all in." tonight we present some of our most explosive interviews of the year thus far. from the fiery steve schmidt. this was our segment with the gentle lady from california. maxine waters.

. >> joining me is elaina plot, anita kumar and jason johnson. anita, let me start with you and this issue of abolishing i.c.e.. we heard from congresswoman gillibrand calling for this. how many lawmakers roughly are pushing for the abolition of this agency, this part of the department of homeland security? >> right. it's gotten pretty quick here that more and more democrats are supporting. it's not the overwhelming number of them but it is gaining steam in just the last few days and a bit of a risky move just because as the president has alluded to, it's not that i.c.e. deals only with deportation and what democrats seem to be talking about but i.c.e. deals with trafficking and smuggling and other things and he's talking about the other crimes. >> ely thaina, there's a hunger washington. we're seeing it in courts, policy and politics, as well. how would this change the situation we have seen develop here over the last months? 2,047 children separated from their parents still? zero tolerance of this poll? >> abolishing i.c.e. doesn't eradicate th

joining me now john fug he will sang and jason johnson back to me. going to come to you and tell you one more bite from that european union as a foe extraordinary interview in the cbs evening knaus. take a listen. >> i look them all. eu is very difficult. i want to tell you. maybe the thing that's most difficult, both my parents were born in e.u. sectors. in a trade sense, they've really taken advantage of us and many of those countries are in nato. they weren't paying their bills. as an example, i have a big problem with germany. germany made a pipeline deal with russia and paying russia billions and billions of dollars a year for energy. i say that's not good. that's not fair. you're supposed to be fighting for someone and then that someone gives billions of dollars to the one that you're guarding against. i think it's ridiculous. >> before i come to you, i want to note the european council -- >> this is a president who has been harder on meryl streep than on the people who attacked our election and attacked our electrical grid. that has to be brou

he can back off from this now. >> thank you, jason johnson.p next, president trump is shouting no collusion from the rooftops but holding back from obstruction. does this mean he is worried? you bet. he won't take any construction about obstruction. headline about reuniting migrant families with their children. will they be able to get those families back together in time? you are watching "hardball." women in the suburbs. like safe driver, paperless. the list goes on. how about a discount for long lists? gold. mara, you save our customers hundreds for switching almost effortlessly. it's a gift. and jamie. -present. -together we are unstoppable. so, what are we gonna do? ♪ insurance. that's kind of what we do here. ♪ moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis was intense. my mom's pain from i wondered if she could do the stuff she does for us which is kinda, a lot. and if that pain could mean something worse. joint pain could mean joint damage. enbrel helps relieve joint pain, and helps stop further damage enbrel may lower your ability to fight i

but, jason johnson, when we look at this, when we look at the case in mobile, alabama, that both ben i have been down there with clemens when we look at what happened with nia in california, are we seeing an emboldening of people that really want to come out and just aggressively deal in a racist manner, are we just seeing it again being exposed because one of the things that i've questioned is why the media has not been talking more about what happened to mcglockton. people argue why does al sharpton and others march if you don't rally and do things, they don't make it a news item. it is like we don't matter. >> yeah, there is several levels to this. i think it is important for the audience to understand the strength of distinction. what happens to nia, that woman in california, that's terrorism. and we have seen a rise of white nationalist terrorism in this country. you see large numbers of vaguely employed white men with bizarre criminal records who are killing black people at random, stabbing them with knives, shooting them with guns, and then, you know, only sometimes running so

joining us now is jason johnson, politics ed door at the root.com. another joining us ruth marcus, and daniel goldman, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. all three are msnbc contr contributors. donald trump has repeatedly lied in public. it is on the record. we have his statements. we have his contradictions. michael cohen, many would say he's not trustworthy because he worked for donald trump and, i don't know, he sumbly he did things that are not truthful for donald trump. we don't have a lot of on the record lies or falsehoods if you want to use that word, from michael cohen. the only one that i can think of is that he told chris cuomo that he wasn't recording him when he actually was. so in the credibility fight, ruth, who do you think is going to have the upper hand? >> well, in the credibility fight you have to ask a few questions. one is who has the greater motive to lie here? one of the things we've learned, say, from robert mueller is if you go to him or his investigators with a false story and lie to them,

and jason johnson, editor of something more calm, the root. congresswoman, you're at the ramparts as we used to say in the '60s. you were out there. y what did your protest involve, and why did you do it? >> 2,500 women from all over the country came to really show their moral outrage at the president and his policy, zero tolerance, zero humanity policy. they were there to say we're putting ourselves on the line. i went to speak to them actually, but i was so moved by how passionate they were and, you know, the stories that we were all telling. and so i sat down with them, and i got arresteds. i believe civil disobedience is an important tactic to push an issue to the forefront. >> it's going to watch. it's participate tory democracy as we call it. he's about to pick the decisive member of the supreme court, someone who will be there for 45 years perhaps, sitting on the bench. >> this is a horrible, horrible thing. i do think if we can make it clear to the american people what's at stake, that this will also help us to get a wave out across th

jason johnson and heidi. that's "hardball." thanks for being >> a special independence day episode of "all in." tonight we present some of our most explosive interviews of the year thus far. from the fiery steve schmidt. this was our segment with the gentle lady from california. maxine waters. >> we have to defeat nancy pelosi and maxine waters, a very low iq individual. have you ever seen her? we will impeach him. we will impeach. but he hasn't done anything wrong. doesn't matter. we will impeach him. she is a low iq individual. >> joining me now is maxine waters. i wanted to give you an opportunity to respond. >> well, you know, there is no response. everybody knows who this bully is. this president has attacked more women, more individuals, name calling, i mean look at this, not only has this talked about senator warren, called her pocahontas, called hillary crooked. me, low iq. rubio little. the fact that he is calling people names constantly and talking about the media in the way that he does. and calling people sob's, i a

i am joined by robin wright and jason johnson. thank you both for being here. you speak, you write in your piece about kennedy and krushov meeting. there was a nationally agreed upon goal and aimed to having that meeting which is not the same thing that can be said of the meeting with vladimir putin. >> there were similarities in that president kennedy thought he could charm khrushchev. the president came out with few deliverables and in the meantime complimented one of america's greatest adversaries. comes in context of two profound months in which the president has alienated the seven most powerful economies at the g7 meetings in canada. insulted the prime minister of our neighboring state. got little that was tangible. the north koreans have not been cooperative ever since and then had a confrontation with germany. and demanded all our allies double what they are contributing. talked about the european union as a foe. and violated protocol with the queen and insulted the british prime minister and you have to wonder where that leaves the united states in ter

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jason johnson, anushay hossein, tiffany cross, thank you very much.heck out my interview with shirley sherrod. you do not want to miss it. you'll hear what she has to say about trump's farm fallout and the gooding gg governeorgia gov. more "am joy" after the break. best price . giddyup! kayak. search one and done. your insurance rates a scratch so smallr you could fix it with a pen. how about using that pen to sign up for new insurance instead? for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >>> that is our show today. "am joy" will be back tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. eastern. up next, alex witt, has the latest. >> what are you doing down there? when are you going to high-tail it up here? >> i may have went to a concert. >>> thank you so much. a good day to you all, i'm alex witt right here at msnbc headquarters where joy is not. apparently, she'll be back tomorrow. trump tower meeting both sides now digging in over what the president knew and when he kne

joining our discussion now, senior editor for business insider and jason johnson, politics editor at the root.com. jason, i always defer to the phds on the set, a political science phd. hard to think of anyone that's backed down more than donald trump and more quickly than donald trump. >> it is not surprising, though. people who write about trump's biography talk about the apprentice. he's always avoided confrontation. he puts it off on other people. with foreign leaders we have seen it. he backed down about the wall. he said i'm going to talk to kim jong-un and we will get denuclearization. nothing happened. he writes a silly memo afterwards. this is a president incapable of backing up his boasts and i'm not surprised. there will be very little anyone can trust him ongoing forward because he never follows through. >> it seems like not just trump supporters but a lot of the media falls for the pose of donald trump the tough guy. >> yeah. i think that goes back to his career in real estate. he would announce all sorts of grand projects that wouldn't get built. he's been talking for 30

joining me now is hans nichols, and with us at the table, jason johnson, politics editor, and jonathan capehart. most msnbc contributors. i have to start with you, malcolm. let me read you this list. who says russia meddled to help trump? the cia, fbi, dni, senate republicans, senate democrats, house democrats and trey gowdy, who doubts that russia meddled to help trump? vladamir putin, donald trump, and devin nunez. did i miss anybody? >> you can throw in there everybody that voted for trump, because whatever he says goes. and whatever vladamir putin says goes for president trump. you know, this is very disturbing, especially that comment about nsa a little bit earlier. first off, 6 million phone calls and e-mails is about ten seconds of collection of nsa. so that's not very significant. but it just goes to show, they are declaring war on anything credible in america. and it will undermine us. it will damage our national security. and mark my words at some point, it will kill someone. >> that's a chilling thought. matt miller, i feel like we started having this conversation before pre

and actually, to be fair, that may be true of most presidents also, jason johnson. >> yeah. i really doubt donald trump is up late at night reading law reviews. he's not doing that, right? i can't imagine these 45 minute conversations he's having with these nominees are particularly engaging either. everybody knows they will play the pantomime here. donald trump will meet these people. as long as they don't personally offend him, he's going to meet him. they will be as milk toast as they can so they can get this opportunity. >> 66 days, gentlemen. we will be on this for 66 days, according to the past precedent. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >>> up next, where are the babies? where are the children? where are the parents? and what is the trump policy on the southern border? the trump administration is not giving answers to any of those questions. eumatologist consider treatments, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. xeljanz xr is a once-daily pill for psoriatic arthritis. taken with methotrexate or similar medicines, it can reduce joint pain, swelling, and significan

let's bring in jason johnson. also joining us is joyce vance. both are msnbc contributors. joyce, i do want to start with you. can you help us understand this idea that it could have been privileged and then waived and where that means this evidence stands now for prosecutors? >> so the context for this evidence coming to light was the search of michael cohen, which produced a lot of documentary evidence. and he was the first one to raise this idea that some of it was privileged because he was a lawyer and that trump as the client would have attorney-client privilege to atert, too. both trump and cohen's lawyers went through the documents and designated certain items as privilege. that was subject to review by a retired mag strait judge who the district judge brought in. the reason all of that background matters, katie, is because somehow we have shifted from this process where trump and cohen were asserting that these documents were protected by the attorney-client privilege to this point where we're told tonight, they decided we'll go ahead and waive it and put it out the

joining us to discuss the developme developments, ashley parker, jason johnson, kimberly atkins, and bill crystal, editor at large. ashley, you wrote the definitive tick to ck which you described s walkback week. this white house still very much trying to undo the damage done by the president'shelsinki. >> they sure are. one of the challenges that you're reporting on and we saw sort of reporting from helsinki onwards is you do have some adults in the room. it's not necessarily that people don't tell the president no or don't tell him you really rattled the global community or that was not a good look. but the president at the end of the day, determines what he's going to do. except for all of the interventions or all of the aides saying, it's not backing down, just reassuring allies, that allies are standing tough. they can do that and the president may hear it and the president will send out a tweet that they don't know that is coming, or an overcorrection or he may say something unexpected or off script at a campaign rally. so it's a walkback, followed by a step in it and another w

rebecca tracer, jason johnson join me to preview the coming fight. just 106 days away. and one of the people on your screen is an elected official. can you guess which one? we'll get to the bottom of it in tonight's triumphant return of thing 1 thing 2 next. >>> we're back, baby. thing 1 tonight, the republican speaker of the georgia house of representatives is calling for a member of his own party, sitting state rep jason spencer, to resign today, saying in part, "representative spencer has disgraced himself and should resign immediately. georgia is better than this." the republican governor of the state also expressing outrage tweeting about spencer, "there is no excuse for this type of behavior, ever. and i am saddened and disgusted by it." strong words. what could this guy have possibly done to deserve that kind of reaction from his own party? well, it wasn't the burqa ban he wanted to pass in 2016 that would have beened muslim women from covering their faces in public. and it wasn't his comments to an african-american attorney that she might "go missing" if she tri

today art, columnist for real clear politics and jason johnson, politics editor for the root and msnbc contributor. eli and jeremy are still with us. jeremy, i want to start with you. governor mcfaul someone you worked with over the years. he's a friend of many of ours. this is stunning. we throw around the term banana republic a little too loosely these days, but this, if anything, is it. >> michael mcfaul has been an expert on u.s. soviet affairs, u.s./russian affairs going back 20, 25 years. he worked on the national security council. he was united states ambassador to moscow. the fact that the president of the united states would talk with vladimir putin about an investigation of a u.s. ambassador of an american citizen and american government official just shows the extent to which i think president trump in that one on one kind of gave it all up, gave it all up for team america. and basically he was led around by vladimir putin, vladimir putin dictated the agenda. we had no agenda going into that meeting. the president didn't know what he wanted to talk about. and when putin said

rebecca tracer, jason johnson join me to preview the coming fight. just 106 days away. one of the people on your screen is an elected official. can you guess which one? we'll get to the bottom of it in tonight's triumphant return of thing 1 thing 2 next. what will you discover with a lens made by essilor? sharper vision, without limits. days that go from sun up to sun down. a whole world in all its beauty. three innovative technologies for our ultimate in vision, clarity, and protection. together in a single lens. essilor ultimate lens package. purchase the essilor ultimate lens package and get a second pair of qualifying lenses free. essilor. better sight. better life. need a change of scenery? the kayak price forecast tool tells you whether to wait or book your flight now. so you can be confident you're getting the best price. giddyup! kayak. search one and done. >>> we're back, baby. thing 1 tonight, the republican speaker of the georgia house of representatives is calling for a member of his own party, sitting state rep jason spencer, to resign today, saying in part

msnbc contributor jason johnson. and chris wilson, who is a republican pollster. fred, i've got to go to you first. i was anxious to see larry kudlow this morning. before he joined the administration, he wrote a piece just a few weeks before urging the president not to move forward with tariffs. he's been a true free markets guy for decades. yet, this morning he claims that this problem was not of the president's own making. please take a listen. >> past presidents in both political parties have tried to fix the broken world trading system. china is the worst. all i'm saying is this is not of mr. trump's own making. this is something that mr. trump inherited. very unfair trading practices. this is a very difficult task. reform always is. there's a swamp for the world trading system, and he's trying to drain it. >> larry kudlow is right. unfair trading practices exist. credit to the president for taking them head on. but larry kudlow is not answering the question. the issue that we're facing today is the impact of these tariffs. by putting these tariffs forward, he

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