i'm joined by steve schmidt.hink trump is doing, and is he aware, to some degree, that denying the publicly reported reality is key to his reelection? >> of course, ari, you talked about 1984. there's the famous scene at the end of the book where winston is being tortured and the party official is holding up four fingers and says to winston, how many fingers am i holding up? and winston, being tortured in tears, says i only see four. i see four. and the party official says it could be three, or it could be five, it's what the party tells you it is. and so it's not just that trump is assaulting objective truth. this is a political strategy. this is about a demand for obedience. this is the transformation of a smaller republican party into a cult or personality where what the leader says is true is true. what the leader feels to be true is true. and if you can subordinate reality at the command of a political leader, you are no longer functionally living in a democracy. whether it's inside the united states, or not

joining us now steve schmidt. go, steve. >> hi, nicolle. good to be with you. >> i didn't think you needed a set up. >> what is the question for steve? >> this is a, this is a very dangerous day for american democracy. this is the move of an autocrat, not an american president. we don't strip security clearances for political reasons from members of the opposition party who have served all of their careers, all of their lives in defense of the country, have sworn oaths to the constitution, not to a party, not to the leader, but, you know, this is part and parcel. trump began politicizing the intelligence services from hour one of his administration when he went to the cia memorial wall and talked about his inaugural crowds. this is just a culmination of his increasingly erratic behavior. and, of course, this occurs a week after he stood up next to the russian president and took the russian president's side in a dispute with america's intelligence agencies. and, of course, then forced his national director dan coats to kowtow, publicly apolo

we present some of our more explosive interviews from the year thus far from the always fiery steve schmidt to our favorite richard painter moment ever and some scott prui pruitt bombshells along the way. our first segment tonight aired back in march just after the president of the united states publicly insulted her intelligence. this was our segment with the gentle lady from california, one maxine waters. >> we have to defeat nancy pelosi and maxine waters, a very low iq individual. you ever see her? we will impeach him. we will impeach the president. but he hasn't done anything wrong. it doesn't matter, we will impeach him. she is a low iq individual. >> joining me now is congresswoman maxine waters, democrat from california. the president has said this twice in the past week. i want to give you an opportunity to respond. >> 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 he talked about senator warren, called her poke haupt s, called hillary crooked, calling me

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there are people inside the republican party who think that, to quote steve schmidt, who used to workublican party today is vile. he will no longer share a party label with people who think it is ok to put babies and children in internment camps. look. steve schmidt — good man, but he works for the most liberal cable news network, msnbc, in the united states. well, he's been republican for many, many years. he's worked on all sorts of campaigns. but he's been a maverick republican, he's not a traditionalist. will what about george will, then, who said he can no longer vote with a party which is aiding and abetting trump's policies in a way which is completely unacceptable. george will, again, works for that same liberal network. i'm not saying they're doing it because they work for the network... what are you going to say aboutjohn mccain, who said the administration's separation policy, when it was still clearly happening. he said it's in an affront to the decency of the american people? there are five people in the republican party who oppose donald trump, and you just named three o

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 am not surprised at all. if he thinks he can stop me from talking about impeach 45, he's got another thought coming. i am not intimidated by him. i am going to keep saying that we need to impeach him. and i am so depending on our special

here is steve schmidt on this network earlier. >> this is a very dangerous day for american democracy, this is the move of an autocrat, not an american president. this president is continuing abuse of power, his authoritarian instinct at full use and it's alarming. >> not a mincer of words, steve shall had michmidt that gave up membership in the republican party. >> they want to chill those people that are critical. the president is tired of hearing those on this network and others criticizing the government. he is sending a message, i can hit back more than you can hit me. if you are aaccusing me of treason, i have something to go after you. it sends a chill after democrats and republicans, people that don't remember anything quite like this in the post watergate era. i cannot remember a time that a president has stripped security clearance from the other party because he was criticized. he is not obligated to give briefings to member ins of the other party. but the truth is to take the security clearance away or threaten it is meant to send a signal and i think steve schmidt respond

strategi strategist, steve schmidt tweeted this. i miss the good old days that no matter people could agree a whack job is a whack job. he joins brian williams with "the 11th hour" starts now. >> and on this overseas trip that's becoming a disruption tour. trump is going to the u.k. before heading to private time with vladimir putin. the mueller's team reveals details of manafort's vip treatment in jail as the judge orders him to sat on alexandria. "the 11th hour" begins now. good evening from our nbc headquarters in new york. the president kicked off with the nato summit with the attack on the alliance. just as few hours ago after midnight in brussels, he wrote this. billions of additional dollars are being spent by nato countries since my visit last year at my request. it is not enough. u.s. spends too much. europe's borders are bad. pipeline dollars to russia are not acceptable." germany buys natural gas from russ russia. >> it is very sad when germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with russia where we are supposed to be guard

here is steve schmidt on this network earlier. >> this is a very dangerous day for american democracy. this is the move of an autocrat, not an american president. this president's continuing abuse of power, his authoritarian instinct at full use here. it is alarming. >> peter baker, not a mincer of words, steve schmidt gave up his membership in the republican party after a lifelong membership because of this president. >> it does smack of retribution and they know and want that. they top the chill people who are critical. the president is tired of hearing people on this network and others criticizing what used to be a government. he is trying to sendai message that i can hit back. you are accusing me of treason, i have something to go after you. it cesends a thrill from democrs and republicans as well. certainly in the post watergate err err. i can't remember when a security clearance was stripped because they criticized the other side. they are not obligated to give briefings. if jeremy bash wants an interview, they don't have to give him one. or to threaten it which is what's happen

steve schmidt, an msnbc political analyst. christine quinn, vice chair of the new york state democratic party. and emmitt siegfried, a republican strategist. i invited a myriad of elected officials, republican, to join me on air today to discuss the president's summit with vladimir putin and across the board they said no thank you. all right, steve, i feel like i'm going to hide under my desk because you're about to let it rip. i want to start by reminding our audience what specifically the president said yesterday when he was asked about election meddling. watch. >> my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others. they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. i have great confidence in my intelligence people. but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. >> okay, well, let's just start with he doesn't see a reason why it would be. as if vladimir putin wouldn't have a m

howie: george will, steve schmidt. all writing pieces saying on television they are so never trump they want the democrats to win in the fall. your take? mollie: i'm interested in this from a media angle. it's the predominance of never-trumpers we see in the media. in the real world they represent a small fraction of the people. in the media world they dominate. you look at papers that won't have a single columnist who represents the average american voter. they get a lot of prominence for a pretty minority opinion. howie: these are serious people standing up for what they see aspirin. but they get a lot of favorable publicity as mollie said. and they command new respect from the left. susan: they are a high-value guest because they can say we found a republican here who hates trump. and better yet, a republican who says vote for a democrat. could there be a more high-value guest? there is a market for these people. i am not saying that's why they have these opinions. but it will keep them on the air. howie: mo, do you

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today, former republican strategist, steve schmidt tweeted this. days that no matter people could agree a whack job is a whack job. he joins brian williams with "the 11th hour" starts now. "the 11th hour" begins now. good evening from our nbc headquarters in new york. day 538 of the trump administration and the president kicked off with a full-on attack with the alliance that continued into the night. just a few hours ago well after midnight in brussels he wrote this, billions of additional dollars are being spent by nato countries since my last visit at my request but it isn't nearly u.s. u.s. spends too much. europe's

others include the republican strategist steve schmidt and george f. will., there republican congress has proven incapable of fulfilling the founders design that ambition must counter act ambition. policy differences don't matter right now. history has its eyes on us. there it is. they're all saying, these are hard nosed republicans saying, vote democrat. i wonder if they mean it. apparently they are meaning it. your thoughts. >> they do mean it. whether it has any expect the an open question. it poses questions for those in the elite including the folks you just mentioned. they may want to speak their conscious. for folks currently in office, that's a tougher thing to do. they know the base is not with them. for comey in march, i don't know if this will have any great effect. he is a despised figure on the right and a despised figure on the left. many blame him. he was reopening the investigation into her e-mails. i don't know that he particularly, despite he has tried to cast himself as a moral voice here, holds a lot of political weight. >> i have a diffe

i don't fault people like steve schmidt for having left. i understand. i also think there's people who are staying begrudgingly, it would be easier to leave, than to carry right now what is the scarlet letter of being a republican. >> i'm so glad we had this conversation, we're going to continue to have it tomorrow. >> it sounds like emotionsal therapy. >> it's emotional. >> we need a couch. >> it's emotional for a lot of people. >>> the white house today officially hired former fox news executive bill shine, he of course resigned among the criticism that he faced of his handling of sexual harassment allegations over at that network. anna navarro, this telling me that his recent passt doesn't really concern this white house. >> and i can tell you that i don't know anybody who should be surprised at that. we have seen that time and time again. look, there was a guy who was a domestic abuser working in the oval office, who did not get fired on the spot. what else do you need to see? what else do you need to know to know that donald trump and his white hous

george will, max boot, columnist, works at cnn, steve schmidt, who ran john mccain, 2008 campaign, they have been highly, harshly critical of president trump. they think he hijacked party from their vision of conservatism that is fine. they're taking this, actually democrats should take over congress to act as a check on trump. go out vote democratic. kind of hard for me to fully grasp. they spent their whole careers warning against democrats, opposing the democrats as party of big government, big pending, weak foreign policy. adam: they refer to it as party of trump. read to you what george will said in today's gop, which is the president's play thing, he is the mainstream. so to vote against his party's towering congressional caucuses is to affirm the nation's honor while quarantining him. george will is no white heat. when george will -- lightweight. when george will is calling president trump a dangerous person, shouldn't middle of the road republicans be listening? >> whether they should or shouldn't, polls show clearly, 90% of the republicans according to recent polls are supporti

that identity crisis or fight within the party right now surfaced with the man you know well, steve schmidtr senatorhe's nounced hise repu party. thatar?: ou're not rto l think of a party t toe the party oftrp idr speaker john boehner, the republican party seems to be a little asleep over here and taking a nap i think he said. we're the party of trump. i don't consider myself in the party of trump. >> brennan: practically speaking what does ha mean for people who may think of themselves as republicans and voting in november? >> it depends. not to walk away i, i'm not criticizing steve he's free to do it, i'll stay republican, may not be voting for a lot of republicans at the moment but i consider myself one and hope the party would restore itself to free trade, no tax, small government, democratic internationalist, strong defense, am the things that madf reagan that is what i would hope others would work to do. some people may think that say party of lincoln you have to destroy the party of trump, that may be true. >> brennan: that means voting democratic? >> let me speak for myself, i'm th

today, former republican strategi strategist, steve schmidt tweeted this.s the good old days that no matter people could agree a whack job is a whack job. he joins brian williams with "the 11th hour" starts now. >> and on this overseas trip that's becoming a disruption tour. trump is going to the u.k. before heading to private time with vladimir putin. the mueller's team reveals details of manafort's vip treatment in jail as the judge orders him to sat on alexandria. "the 11t

here's how former long time republican political strategist steve schmidt reacted to those words earlieroday on this network. >> when you're able to convince somebody what is certainly true is not, when you can embrace the big lie with the same type of effectiveness that fascist movements used it, that hitler used it, that mussolini used it, soviets used it, you are well on your way to doing lasting damage to the fundamental institutional pillars of a democratic republic like the united states. >> with us for this important discussion tonight doris concerns good goodwin presidential historian and author with us here in new york. she's written for starters about president lincoln and -- and bao reality we snap. what do you make of folding tonight's lead story in our times, and what happens when one side sees it as the president's word as no good anymore? >> i think the greatest danger as you were saying earlier to our democracy is the identity of ourselves as a people depends upon truth. what we have got is an erosion because you've got different people saying different things, fake news,

we present some of our more explosive interviews from the year thus far from the always fiery steve schmidtrite richard painter moment ever and some scott prui pruitt bombshells along the way. our first segment tonight aired back in march just after the president of the united states publicly insulted her intelligence. this was our segment with the gentlead

. >>> first, former republican and msnbc contributor steve schmidt offering this take last hour on msnbc. >> very, very clear in this administration. you're either on team america or you're on team putin. it's that simple. right? when you look at this situation right now, you have an american president who is doing vladimir putin's bidding. full stop. period. >> we'll be right back. i can do more to lower my a1c. and i can do it with what's already within me. because my body can still make its own insulin. and once-weekly trulicity activates my body to release it. trulicity is not insulin. it comes in a once-weekly, truly easy-to-use pen. it works 24/7. trulicity is an injection to improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. don't use it as the first medicine to treat diabetes or if you have type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. don't take trulicity if you or your family have medullary thyroid cancer, you're allergic to trulicity, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2. stop trulicity and call your doctor right away if you have s

there are others, steve schmidt who have out and out left the party. >> i think that max has actually his characterization of president trump and his positions. but i will say for every establishment -- >> can you name one falsehood from what i just said? can you name one -- you accused me of falsehoods. could you please list those falsehoods for me. >> i sure will, max. >> he's not catering to racism >>> the first you said was the president referred to hispanics as animals. i think that what he was talking about and was specifically talking atal talking about was these ms-13 gang members. >> that was the cover story. he uses dehumanizing terminology to refer to immigrants. he also says they fests and breed. that is not a falsehood. >> so i can go on. i'm going to use my time to talk about things i think are important. >> i want to hear a falsehood. you accused me of falsehoods. give me a falsehood. >> the president did not talk about all hispanics or people coming across the border as rapists. >> yes, he did. he said they're sending us rapists and murders and a few good ones. look it

.>> steve schmidt who worked beside you on the campaign. he has renounced his membership in the republican party. advocating voting for democrat. what is the future of john mccain's party? >> john mccain's republican party has its ups and downs but the fundamentals. john likes to say the party he belongs to is teddy roosevelt, abraham lincoln and ronald reagan.>> that's a pretty break -- big group of guys with ideas. the vast majority of america would like to assemble behind them. that is the history that we need to cling to. i would add john mccain to that list. [ applause ] >> a young hungry political leader, regardless of where you are in america what kind of job you have, i would not want to look at john mccain's life and say, that is the guy i want to emulate. that is the attitude i should have in politics. to be able to go across the aisle and create change. every major piece of legislation john mccain past did on a bipartisan basin. every major bill in the national defense authorization act has been passed overwhelmingly in congress

mark: steve schmidt, who worked beside you, rick, on the campaign, says he has renounced his membershipthe republican party, his affiliation. george will is advocating voting for democrats. what is the future of john mccain's republican party? rick: so, look, john mccain's republican party has its ups and downs. i mean, but, the fundamentals -- john likes to say the party he belongs to is teddy roosevelt, abraham lincoln, and ronald reagan. now, there is a pretty big group of guys with ideas that i would say, the vast majority of america on any given day would want to assemble behind. and that is a history of our party that we need to cling to. i would now add john mccain to that list. right? and -- [applause] rick: and if i am a young, hungry political leader, regardless of where you are in america or what kind of job you have, i would want to look at john mccain's life and say, gee, that is the guy i want to emulate. that is the attitude that i should have in politics. you know, to be able to go across the aisle and create change. every major piece of legislation that john mccain pass

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should the be another wing of the republican party, jeff flake, nicole wallace, steve schmidt? >> there should be but there isn't and won't be and probably can't be. for a lot of reasons having to do with deep structure of american politics. it's a two-party system, so long as the electoral college, sorry, the presidency is a two-party contest as long as is an electoral college. i don't who voted for ralph nader discovered. if you vote for anyone other than the person you mind a leaked, you get the person you mind most. so long as campaign finance is centered on the person of the president, everything that rippled outward from appear we had to third parties before in the pre-television, pre-campaign modern finance camping air but there were use focus on a single issue, socialism, temperance, greenbacks. we don't have them now except when parties split. they're going to be based upon this president and as he radicalizers, today was another day we radicalize. as he radicalizers the system will be more and more polarized around him. people will rally to him. this is something thos

should there be another wing of the republican party, the jeff flake, nicole wallace, steve schmidt?avid: there should be. but there isn't. and won't be. and probably can't be. for a lot of reasons having to do with the deep structure of american politics. it's a two-party system. so long as the electoral college -- sorry, the presidency is a two-party contest. as long as there's an electoral contest. everyone who voted for ralph nader discovered. if you vote for anyone other than the person you mind least, you get the person you mind most. so long as campaign finance is centered on the person of the president, everything that ripples outward from it. we've had third parties before. in the pre-television, pre-campaign -- modern campaign finance era but they were usually focused on a single issue. socialism, temperance, green backs. we don't have them now except when parties split. so they are going to be based upon this president and as he radicalized, today was another day where he radicalized. he radicalized again. it will become more polarized around him. i'm still a registered re

steve schmidt was live tweeting, former republican. oh, my gosh. he says this -- that was an oversight you know it. harassment, conspiracy theories, wack job, demagoguery wrapped in a blanket. this country needs statesmen and women, you know well. think about stepping it up. i can honestly say after watching trey gowdy first time in my 47 years i can honestly say, thank god i'm bald. okay. so we all start to lose our mind watching this, because it just seemed like, if you were trying to create an produce a show where you could set up a villain, i was not just confused who the villain was, it was very clear who the hero was by the end of the nine hours of pounding this guy. david? >> well, it was a snapshot of political life in 2018, and it was really a depressing one. we are a long way from mr. smith goes to washington and jimmy stewart and, you know, we don't live in that world anymore. i thought peter strzok did himself some good. those e-mails, naked, read, are pretty damning, and he explained them in a coherent way. i thought peter strzok did t