ainsley: thank you, joe. steve: ainsley, what is coming up?o head-to-head in the super bowl. steve: sandra smith with preview of her show in couple minutes. >> clam chowder is good or this chilly day. will democrats oppose the release. president trump and says the american people need to see what is in it. senator rand paul, karl rove, governor mike huckabee as we await its expected release. super bowl sunday, who is your pick? patriots, the current favorite over the eagles. fox sports jim gray joins us on the big game. join bill and me coming up in moments. "america's newsroom." nicoderm cq. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. it's the best thing that ever happened to me. every great why needs a great how. ainsley: as america gets ready for the eagles and patriots to kick off the super bowl this weekend, philly and new england are here to face off in another type of challenge, a super bowl cookoff. brian: joining us two of america's oldest restaurants, chris mullins, chef gor

ainsley: dirty dancing.ing worried i saw eli in snippets before the game i thought oh my goodness i hope it pays off and it did pay off. steve: it did. brian: playoffs main focus. devin nunes comes out with it we get a look at it and debate began around it. if you thought this memo wasn't progressive enough or explosive enough. expect as many as five more memos from inside the intelligence committee including a democratic memo that could be voted on as early as today. steve: right. that is separate from the 5. according to axios, of the intel committee is considering releasing five more. they wouldn't go through the same process very elaborate. vote on it and the president to decide up or down and then they are not going to go through that process. but apparently it would show politically motivated wrongdoing by the fbi, the department of justice. and the department of state. and a lot of republicans are saying, look, we have got to show you what's going on behind the curtain, folks. ainsley: well, devin nun

ainsley: all right. were in d.c. we all remember and issued sanctions. but the current administration right now, this president tweeted obama was president up to and beyond the 2016 election so why didn't he do something about russia meddling insinuating he didn't do enough. do you agree with that? >> well, look, i think it's fair to ask ourselves if this particular project was as big as the news media claims it was, then why didn't the national security agency or why didn't the fbi, why didn't the central intelligence agency, somebody is supposed to pick it up, so you do have to say to yourself, there is a long stretch in there where either the system broke down or we have a much deeper need to rebuild our security system. and this is not about obama personally, but that whole structure, you have to say to yourself, if it was as big as mueller seems to think it was, somebody should have noticed. steve: absolutely right. because, look where we are now. meanwhile, newt, let's talk a little bit about this.

ainsley: yeah.hen the nra spokesperson or president, he said, wayne lapierre, he said we should, if we are going to guard our banks, we should at least guard our children. if we are going to give police officers, i mean, if you are going to give politicians police officers to guard them, shouldn't would he be guarding our schools? that brings us to this next topic. we are learning new information this morning the armed guard assigned school resource officer for that school down in florida just before the shooting, he was standing outside. and he did nothing except call for backup. steve: yeah, the sheriff and the superintendent after the shooting last week in parkland were asked hey, there was a guy on campus with a gun. where was they go well, we don't know exactly. so they reviewed the video and they discovered the deputy scott peterson, who had been with the school since, i think 2008, 2009. something like that. he went to the building, stood outside of it for four minutes. keep in mind the entir

ainsley: i love that show.nching a action pack teenage girls called princess in camo. here to tell us about it missy and m mia robertson. >> good morning. >> what's the reason behind this. >> fiction. reality versus fiction. here we go with fun little stories. what's neat about these is that it is based on mia and all of her cousins and the way they interact together but lessons they learn along the way. brian: mi awmplet how would you describe life with your cousins? what's it like being part of your family and extended family. >> there is never a dull moment with our family. we are always up to something. we are always doing things with each other. and it's a lot of fun. brian: do you do anything wrong? you always seem to do -- everything you guy does is in fun. ainsley: moms says no. >> that's the power of editing. >> that's the power of fiction. brian: everything do you is fun. >> we do like to have our fun. steve: give us for instance some of the high jinx in the book. >> what's your favorite part in one o

ainsley: ---the lights changed. ainsley: i like that. that feels good.ount of signals missed from the killer. ainsley: kids are saying there is going to be a march on n. washington on march 24th. demanding action on the gun control debate using protests and political action. please stop allowing us to get gunned down in our hallways. steve: starting a new viral #never again. never again will a bun man terrorize a school building and leave a community grieving. the president over the united states over the weekend reached out of to somebody who was involved in some bipartisan background check changes. the press secretary sarah sanders issued this statement. the president spoke to senator cornyn in texas on friday about the bipartisan bill he and senator chris murphy introduced to improve federal compliance with criminal background check legislation. discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered, the president is supportive of efforts to improve the federal background check system. the president also on wednesday of this week is going to meet

ainsley: yeah.ollars and crumbs in the same category. ainsley: how many children do you have? >> i have two. > ainsley: this isn't the hand lotion jergens is it? >> manufacturing company. me personally i work for asg which is a division of jergens and we build a controlled precision fastening system called the x pack. steve: that's cool. >> we build and repair that system in-house. ainsley: that's awesome. good for you. steve: jessica melendez from jergens inc. ainsley: have a fantastic time on your vacation this summer. >> thank you so much. ainsley: coming up dana loesch, ben shapiro and rand paul coming up on the show. steve: busy, busy. ♪ running a business is not for the faint of heart. luckily, office depot® officemax® is here to take care of you. ♪ taking care of business with print services done right. on time. guaranteed! expert tech support. and this week all dell pcs are up to twenty five percent off! save even more when you purchase a dell monitor. and make sure you protect your investme

ainsley: good morning. >> good morning steve and ainsley.one who has devoted their life law enforcement, when you look at the failures of what happened down there on the 14th day of february, you've got to scratch your head thinking what went wrong? >> right. i mean, the sheriff came out very quickly after this incident and said that he was disgusted by the inaction of one of his deputies. and he took immediate action to have him dismissed. but in the last few days, we have seen a number of things. i have to caution things like holding medical personnel back is not an unusual thing to have happen in a case like this. so i think it's really important that we take time out to do a thorough and objective investigation and then move forward with our findings on it. that being said, i don't think the sheriff has helped himself with some of his public comments. and so it's difficult to understand that. ainsley: yeah. at first when we read that the school resource officer and we heard those reports what he had done, we were all fla grabber gassed.

ainsley.esterday it was vice president mike pence her bashing him that got a lot of coverage and attention. look at this. >> he's extreme. i'm christian. i love jesus. but he thinks jesus tells him to say things. and i'm like jesus didn't say that. >> it's one thing to talk to jesus. it's another thing when jesus talks to you. >> exactly. >> that's different. that's different: that's called mental illness if i'm not correct. >> my question can he talk to mary magdalene without his wife in the room? ainsley: is this a new low for the abc show? here to weigh in on this is host of truth exchange cathy barnett. cathy, what do you think about that? >> yeah. it was sad, wasn't it? >> it really was. it was really sad. because, you know, on one hand we recognize that these women are just blind and they and what we typically see from the left is if they don't understand something, they have a tendency to try to despise it or mock it because they don't have a personal relationship with jesus christ. the

all right, ainsley? ainsley: thank you, steve.ut where was her 8 hour speech defending angel families and the victims of illegal immigrants? like our next guest whose 18-year-old son joshua was killed by illegal immigrant back in 2010, joining us now is laura wilkerson with her side of the story. good morning to you, laura, thanks for joining us. >> good morning, thanks for having me. ainsley: you are welcome. for folks at home many of us have heard josh's story. for those who vice president, will you tell us what happened? >> sure. josh was asked to give a kid a ride home from school. he was brought here illegally from belease by his parents. and i think overstayed a six month visa. he asked josh for a ride home. josh gave it to him. what he did was beat him to death. torture him, strangle him. after death, tied him up like an animal. dropped him in a field and set him on fire. he did this so that he could scrap joshua's truck for some money. he needed some money and didn't know how to make it he had to do that. that's what he re

ainsley: dr. are a good man. >> good to see you. ainsley: newly wed vanishing during a honeymoon cruise and now someone has been charged with murder. the president honoring 12 of the nation's finest at the white house including our next guest, a deputy who responded to the san bernardino terror attack. so what was it like meeting the president? ♪ we can be heroes ♪ in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. when this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night, so he got home safe. yeah, my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. what?! you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. was a success for lastchoicehotels.comign badda book. badda boom. this year, we're taking it up a notch. so in this commercial we see two travelers at a comfort inn with a glow around them, so people watching will be like, "wow, maybe i'll glow too if i book direct at choicehotels.com". who glows? just

ainsley? over to you. ainsley: thank you, pete.ing it clear what he thinks about nancy pelosi and how she is hurting the democratic party and maybe even helping republicans. >> so nancy pelosi again said that's crumbs. well, she is a rich woman who lives in a big beautiful house who wants to give all of your money away. she is our secret weapon. [laughter] no, she is -- i just hope they don't change her. ainsley: so is nancy pelosi republican's secret weapon in the mid terms? joining us is author of the new american revolution, the making of a populist movement kayly mchaney, journalist and talk show host. >> hey, ainsley. kayleigh, i will start with you as you a republican here. i wanted to ask you is that a good strategy in the president says in the midterm elections we need to hammer the democrats and he says republicans need to tie all the democrats who didn't vote for the tax cut plan to nancy pelosi. good plan? >> absolutely. let's be clear here. nancy crumbs pelosi has an approval rating languishing in the 20's and 2010, $50

that's a look at your headlines, ainsley? ainsley: thank you, jillian.eason is almost the worst in a decade. far from over. this morning a question many of you are asking if i already had the flu once, can i get it again this season? here to answer that is fox news medical a team dr. marc siegel also the author of "swine flu the new pandemic." good to see you. >> good to see you. ainsley: if you already had it this season can you get it again. >> first question did you really had it. last week or so everybody coming in thinks they have the flu. i have a cough. i have the flu. i'm congested. i have the flu. you don't have the flu. you proible have bronchitis or cold or respiratory infection. fatigued and muscle aches and have to lie down and high fever and sniffles that's probably the flu. i can tell. ask your physician. make sure a physician says to you you have the flu or get tested for the flu. that's how you know you have the flu. and then you can definitely get it a second time ainsley because the strain that's been causing all the problems this year

ainsley: wow.iver and the linebacker, they were in the car and linebacker was getting sick. so they pulled over on the side of the highway. and they i were outside of the car. that man right there, allegedly ran them over was three times the legal limit, was drunk. and one of the individuals he hit flew into the middle of the road. was run over again. this guy has been deported two times, once in 2007 and once in 2009. steve: apparently, as soon as it happened, he took off. and. ainsley: on foot. steve: tried to run away. when he was caught, he told the police i'm from mexico. he is not. he is in the country illegally from guatemala. he is currently being detained by the local authorities on behalf of the feds. a state rep out in indiana, todd rikita tweeted this out. this news should make all americans angry. twice deported illegal immigrant is suspected of killing two hoosiers including colts linebacker edwin jackson. we must do more to get these dangerous illegal immigrant criminals off our stre

ainsley? ainsley: thank you, steve.>> america will not overcome this epidemic overnight. but just like americans always will, i do think we have to change our ways and we will. but we will prevail. we're going to beat it we're going to get tough. we're going to get angry. and we're going to win. ainsley: our next guest knows the reality of this epidemic all too well. her name is sue. she lost her son nick to opioid addiction. this sunday she is accepted ago to the president putting a name. she writes nick's addiction became noticeable and began to bear its ugly head. nick came to us and revealed he had a drug problem and needed to go to rehab. he was addicted to opiates and i had to google what an opiate was. she joins us now. sue, first of all, i'm so sorry for your loss. i cannot imagine. i'm a mother, too. you are the mother of three children and you lost nick four years ago when he was 20 years old. what happened? >> so, nick was struggling for a few years. it turns out his -- he was the starting center on his varsi

ainsley: yeah.r tweet us as well. president trump strikes a deal with boeing for brand new air force one. it will save taxpayers over a billion bucks. boeing executive is going to take us inside the negotiations with potus and boeing coming up. brian: yep, cancelled it and now we bought them. plus, march madness is around the corner u janice is celebrating with mascot and she is having too good a time. even the mascots can't keep up with her. steve: she is our weather mascot ♪ everyone lives for the music go around ♪ bright lights and music r the p number spring clearance event' on the only bed that adjusts on both sides to your ideal comfort, your sleep number setting. does your bed do that? it's the last chance for clearance savings up to $600 on our most popular beds. ends soon. visit sleepnumber.com for a store near you. it's 6 am. 40 million americans are waking up to a gillette shave. and at our factory in boston, more than a thousand workers are starting their day building on over a hundred y

ainsley: got it?are already covered in the collins rounds plan but then it adds an additional group of people not from the cut off date for daca, cut off date for president's plan is june of 2007. the cutoff plan for collins rounds plan is 2000 12. another five years of people that become eligible. i don't know how many that adds up to. it will be more than 1.8. steve: busy day there in the senate. we thank you for joining us. >> thank you. ainsley: we still don't know why the school shooter did it but the debate over gun control is heating up. tammy bruce takes a closer look. ♪ ♪ ♪ brian: state of florida reigle at this hour after 17 people, yep, 17 people were killed at a high school making one of the deadliest school shootings in recent history trailing behind sandy hook. ainsley: almost immediately after lawmakers turned their focus to gun control but our next guest warns jumping to conclusions. steve: why should we do that tammy bruce. >> look, clearly we all want if we can immediate solution. it

ainsley: we are on the mexico side of the wall. if anyone swims through the rio grand and come here this is what they face. we don't have a wall all the way across the border. you would like that to ham. correct? >> president trump made a commitment to the american people that we're going to build a wall. that means we're going to have a physical barrier on our southern border.

ainsley: wow.e fbi agents that interviewed flynn, one was peter strzok did not believe flynn lied to them or any inaccuracies in his answers were intentional. as a result some of those in attendance came away with the impression flynn would not be charged with a crime. nine months later, mueller are in charge, comey gone and he is charged in the trump russia investigation. flip appliedç guilty of one cot of making false statements to the fbi on january 24th in his questioning. we know he will be sentenced they believe in may for what did he get in exchange? i sentence one. reasons mike flynn decided to cut a deal because he was running out of money. he had to pay his rent. he has expensive lawyers and pay his mortgage, rather. listen i can't keep going on like this. let me cold cut a deal. steve: so many, so many dots are starting to be connected. we're not quite there. i have a feeling soon enough we'll know. maybe it call comes with the inspector general, department of justice. brian: maybe eagl

ainsley: really? she said the president -- that's not even been a concern of his u at least he hasn't expressed it to her. brian: let's rebuild what happened. remember, the memo comes out. it gets brought to the white house. and they want to take a look at it at the time chris wray looks at it and fires andy mccabe the next day. people assume this has got to be related. steve: but it's not. there were stories that came out andy mccabe was removed from his job due to what's going on with the inspector general. horowitz' report coming thought a month or. so. ainsley: it's all still connected. it's all one big investigation. steve: we understand we have kellyanne back. kellyanne, thank you very much. sorry about the audio problem. since you are out in west virginia. we should ask you a little bit about the republicans' winter retreat out there at the greenbrier. the president got a hero's welcome yesterday from a lot of republicans who about a year or two years ago were not squarely in his camp. >> he di

ainsley: 39. brian: 39 times u no arrest record. if i could see that i think it would help the gun owner and help people survive should that guy be a psychopath. >> no. i think all the ideas that you talked about are really good ones. all of them are ideas we should look at. again, a dangerous person who poses a threat to his community, threat that his family is identifying, should be taken care of and should be looked at on the front end and we're not kind of scrambling after a traditional tragedy like that. steve: well, the system did not work last week. all right, raj, thank you very much for joining us on this presidents' day.

ainsley: if you look back at 2016 -- steve: the top two.insley: they tweet out, obama sends record $4.4 trillion spending plan to combat global warming. 2015, congress send budget plan to congress sending help for the middleç class. >> ap, cnn, abc, alphabet soup from the mainstream media. they cover this president very differently than cover the last president. we're frankly used to it. when you look at this president's budget it, outlines our priorities. it rebuildings the military. gives funding that this president has requested, that secretary mattis and generals have requested to insure our national security. it funds priorities like helping our veterans, the opioid crisis. it make as down payment on our infrastructure plan to rebuild roads, bridges and airports. so it's a great plan but also has serious deficit reduction which the associated press ignores with those tweets. it has over $3 trillion lars in deficit reduction, which is the largest deficit reduction of a budget in terms of a 10-year outlay that we have ever seen. it lays

ainsley: that is great. pete: i have learned a little about it i would be interested in learning more. what was the liability once on energy is now a massive point of leverage. and this administration has made that a big focus. it's great to see. >> yeah. and i talked about cyber security and innovation vs. regulation. this is really down that path if you will. because innovation is what is completely changed out energy scenario in this country. the previous administration just wanted to regulate it. steve: all right. day two of cpac in maryland about to commence out there in national harbor. governor, thank you very much for joining us live. ainsley: thank you so much. >> you are welcome.

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the afore mentioned julia ainsley is with us tonight. we also welcome back chris mcgarren. she is leaving for a job as executive vice president of wal-mart, she was raised in michigan and iowa. she is a harvard graduate. she is described as all business. even the attorney general called her a lawyer's lawyer, so why not stay? >> that's a good question. and, of course, a lot of factors go into anyone's job decision. what we understand is wal-mart approached her about this job some time ago but someone with that resume you just red gets approached by private sector jobs often and rachel brand throughout much of her career has decided to stay in public service. she's making this change amid frustration at the justice department because of vacancies. a number of the divisions she oversees does not have heads. and more importantly she felt she could cast in the spotlight that rod rosenstein finds himself in now where she would have to oversee the mueller probe if she was fired. and we know the president has been openly critical of rod rosenstein and his job has been in question

the aforementioned julia ainsley is with us tonight. we also welcome back chris mcgarren.o fill in some blanks for our viewers. she is leaving for a job as executive vice president of wal-mart. rachel brand was raised in michigan and iowa. she is a product of harvard law school. she clerked at the supreme court for justice kennedy. she is described as serious, all business. even the attorney general called her a lawyer's lawyer. so why not stay? >> that's a good question. and, of course, a lot of factors go into anyone's job decision. there are push and pull factors. what we understand is wal-mart approached her about this job some time ago but someone with that resume that you just read, brian, gets approached by private sector jobs often and rachel brand throughout much of her career has decided to stay in public service. she's making this change now amid frustration at the justice department because of vacancies. a number of the divisions she overcease, like the civil rights and civil divisions, do not have heads. and more importantly she felt a fear she could be cast i

julia ainsley, great points there. we'll talk to you again. >>> still ahead, the latest in the gun debate playing out on capitol hill. some republicans are slowly moving towards gun legislation, but party leaders are not promising a vote. and later, the next presidential election is more than two years away, but president trump announces his pick for campaign manager as he sets his sights on 2020. those stories and of course a check on your weather when we come back. c this is the story of green mountain coffee roasters dark magic told in the time it takes to brew your cup. first, we head to vermont. and go to our coffee shop. and meet dave. hey. why is dark magic so spell-bindingly good, he asks? let me show you. let's go. so we climb. hike. see a bear. woah. reach the top. dave says dark magic is a bold blend of coffee with rich flavors of uganda, sumatra, colombia and other parts of south america. like these mountains, each amazing on their own. but together? magical. all, for a smoother tasting cup of coffee. green

and we have julia ainsley one of our political reporters, national security reporters. and as i mentioned, msnbc's ari mel burr. guys, thank you all for joining us. ari, i want to get your legal take on this. we have this four-page memo from devin nunes. it is talking about a fisa warrant on carter page. ken delaney was saying four different fisa court judges approved this warrant. so you can infer from that that they had to go through the bulk of evidence against carter page each time. this wasn't just somebody who was saying, i've done this before, sure. four different people who would need to see all the evidence four different times. >> right. there's a legal process. and this four-page memo criticizes the outcome of the process and suggests a do-over. maybe carter page's surveillance which was authorized in october 2016, maybe it shouldn't have been approved in the first place. that's a hypothetical argument and that's something we often see from people in the process. not to belittle this, but sometimes a court case is like a football game. when it's over on monda

kristen welker and julia ainsley. and i'll keep you posted on the markets. we're now 630 points lower on the dow. almost 2.5%. >>> i want to get to mike mem alley with reaction from capitol hill. this is where there is dissent at capitol hill. there are some republicans who didn't think this was i good idea, pretty much all democrats didn't think it was a good idea and it is noteworthy that the chairman of the house intel committee, devin nunes did not even share the information with his counterpart at senate. so congress is not speaking with one voice on this memo? >> no. absolutely not. for sure we're seeing democrats almost across the board decry not only the specifics in the memo, adam schiff we heard from him in a conference call in addition to the statement that kristin referred to earlier where he said those who were expecting this -- who had built it up as revealing crimes that were worse than watergate must be bitterly disappointed but we've heard from republicans on the senate side questioning if not the memo itself, what it represents in terms of

for more on what this means at the justice department, i'm joined by julia ainsley.e ask you the obvious question. why would thinking she might be in charge of the russia investigation because she gets promoted or rod rosenstein recuses himself or the president fires rod rosenstein, why wouldn't someone want to become that senior in the case of a lifetime. >> gosh, i think there are a lot of reasons why people leave a job. there are personal reasons and professional reasons. we know that rachel brand did not want to step into that position because this position -- you could say it is a case of a lifetime but also a place where you would constantly be under the fire of your boss's boss, the president of the united states. just like rod rosenstein is now. i don't think a lot people want to change places with rod rosenstein now. he's trying to be in two places at once. he wants to be the deputy to jeff sessions but jeff sessions recused himself so he put mulener that spot. and then he gets pressure from the president for appointing mueller in the first place to oversee

thank you, julia ainsley. great reporting. and malcolm nance for your analysis. prognosis too. >>> up next, as president trump wrestles away control of the republican party, where are the moderates and the regular conservatives? how long can they stay in hibernation? we're going to ask the former governor of new jersey, christine todd whitman. this is "hardball," where the action is. er, we were amateur players. they were the best team in the world. we were about to pull off the greatest upset in american sports history. but we were more than american... i never realized we were from all over. italian, middle eastern, jewish, turkey, iran. that's what makes america what it is. we all came together as one. that's what made us champions. ythen you turn 40 ande everything goes. tell me about it. you know, it's made me think, i'm closer to my retirement days than i am my college days. hm. i'm thinking... will i have enough? should i change something? well, you're asking the right questions. i just want to know, am i gonna be okay? i know people who specialize in "am

like he's going forward and backward trying to play hardball politics but at the end of the day the ainsley can simply wait this out and they can say listen mr zuma we're going to take you to a vote of no confidence in parliament the n.c. have gone to two hundred forty six out of four hundred seats in parliament so it's something that they can do but it will do them significant damage ahead of elections in twenty nineteen what to south africans make of all of this wrangling i mean is this being seen as internal a.n.c. politicking or is this really a battle for the soul of the country it is increasingly becoming a republic or friction of the extent to which the a.n.c. africa's oldest liberation party is split and divided and the internal fighting within the a.n.c. is split over the opposition parties the democratic alliance and the economic freedom fighters the two major parties in parliament of course seizing on this opportunity calling for a vote of no confidence and insisting on marches and and even court action to force the the a.n.c. to come to a conclusion because they are exploiting t

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. >> julia ainsley, national justice reporter, thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> i want to read the statement on behalf of paul manafort from his spokesman. paul manafort is innocent. he is confident he will be acquitted of all charges the new allegations once again have nothing to do with russia an 2016 election interference/collusion. mr. manafort is confident he will be acquitted and his violation rights will be released. let me ask you, i see conflicting reports about. i don't know what to make of it. paul manafort's recommendation seems stable. rick gates' reputation does not. he had an initial lawyer that dismissed him. he had three different lawyers, now dismissed them. maybe. >> maybe. >> now then the third lawyer and some interesting reporter from betty woodriffe from the "daily beast." do you have any clarity on this? >> so we have not confirmed the daily beast reporting. we know that tom green was on the filing we saw tonight. he is now representing rick gates. he put out a statement saying i am rick gaethjes' lawyer. the daily beast is standing by i

expressing that they're happy about this and i can also see that it makes life easier for for the ainsley leadership the party did not want to have to go to parliament and and back an opposition led motion of no confidence really it's a voice that you can do an election is coming up next year they need to re brand essentially and go to the public and say we flee into house we've cleaned the cabinets look we've brought you so or i'm opposed to the markets have welcomed him he's going to clean up the corruption in cabinet he's one of the africa's wealthiest men so a lot of celebrities have the sense that he's not in this for the money so to say if you're an ally of jacob zuma are you worried today christine because we saw for example a bit earlier the police basically swooping in on the property of the good does that's one of south africa's richest families apparently there are allegations of corruption there between that family and jacobs and the himself are we going to see a charges being brought are we going to see arrests perhaps to the does the public want that the public once that the

peter baker, julia ainsley, jennifer rodgers, many thanks. more of what we discussed with peter baker and another stop aide resigns amid allegations ever physical abuse from his two ex-wives, and the west wing now facing questions tonight of who knew what and when. >>> and up next, the man who wrote the book on russian hacking of american elections is here with a warning about a story we mentioned earlier, russia's ability to reach into our midterm elections next time around. we're just getting started on a wednesday night. hi, i'm the internet! you know what's difficult? armless bowling. ahhhhhhhh! you know what's easy? building your website with godaddy. get your domain today and get a free trial of gocentral. build a better website in under an hour. >>> among other topics, already in this hour we've been talking about the threat to our elections at the hands of the russians. tonight a new nbc news poll is out showing a majority of americans 57% now think it's likely russia will interfere with our upcoming midterm elections. >>> with us thi

with thanks to our guests tonight, julia ainsley and joyce vance, this was, again, another interesting day in this investigation. >>> coming up after a break, steve kornacki is among our guests tonight. he's going to be at the big board with new numbers on how we all feel about guns and gun safety reforms in the wake especially of this high school shooting in florida. "the 11th hour" back after this. m all out of the water. hydro boost from neutrogena®. with hyaluronic acid to plump skin cells so it bounces back. neutrogena® >>> i was at the school when this act of terrorism occurred. i heard the gunshots, and my classmates died. that happened. and the fact that this is just so close to home, it even is home, the school is practically in my backyard. i live five minutes away. we were named one of the safest cities in the country, and it still occurred. it doesn't matter who you are, and i don't think the politicians understand that this could happen to their son or daughter, it could happen to anyone, and we need to prevent this from happening in the future. >> how impressive have thes

governor ainsley of washington state told the president a little less tweeting, a little more listening. >> a lot to break down. let me bring you in for a moment. the law enforcement president. they're obviously under investigation, we know that. and today we heard from the lawyer representing the deputy scott peterson. that it is unfounded. he lays out a different time line of events from what we've been hearing. >> reporter: that's right, eamonn. this is the first time we're hearing from anyone in scott peterson's camp and his attorney is offering some type of explanation for his inaction. he believed he was responding to a call for firecrackers not for gunfire. and on that initial survey when he realized he was responding to gunfire, he thought that gunfire was coming from outside the school building rather than inside. now the reason this is so important is that police protocol depicts you respond differently if gunfire is coming from outside a school building rather than inside. this could explain why another officer who responded to the scene also took up a position outside of the

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joining me now is national security and justice reporter julia ainsley.this is your exclusive scoop. last week we were told she got the job at walmart. is that the whole story. >> that is not the whole story as as -- as it never is. this is a result of rachel brand being unhappy at the justice department for months. she was complaining about feeling unsupported and not enough key positions filled and she was seeing the tea leaves when the president was being critical of deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and if he were to get fired, she would be next in line to oversee the mueller probe. that wasn't a position she wanted to be in. she's been a long time attorney at the department of justice. she's a conservative but she served under george w. bush and barack obama. and that just wasn't a political hot spot that she felt like she wanted to jump into and when this walmart job came along it was something she jumped at the chance to do. >> julia, doesn't that imply rod rosenstein might be on his way out, sooner rather than later? >> so that is definitely

so two stories, two big headlines, lots to talk about with nbc news national security julia ainsley is here with us now. julia, let's start with donald trump talking abowith the speci counsel. we've talk about how there's real questions of whether or not that will happen. whether or not the white house might look for an out so the president doesn't have to come face to face with bob mueller and his team. >> we were reporting this a few weeks ago and the time we were having these conversations, it may be coming to a point where they would be sitting down and another thing that was coming up in the "new york times" piece is the fact that they would like for the president to respond to written questions. that's something you and i were talking about and it makes sense when you have a client like donald trump that you would want him to be able to have time, you would want the lawyers to review those questions because he's someone who could mouth off and be candid and he could incriminate himself by saying things his lawyers very much not him want to. >> julia, paul ryan is taking questions

. >> to that point on page 17, i'm joined by nbc news national security justice reporter julia ainsley. you and i have been going through it separately. on page 17 it says defendants and their coconspirators engaged in operations primarily intended to communicate derogatory information about hillary clinton, to denigrate other candidates such as ted cruz and marco rubio and to support bernie sanders and then-candidate donald trump. that lays out a political agenda which i remember was just referring to. it certainly makes it very clear what the aim of this russian operation was. >> the justice department gave us his narrative. he's pulling straight from the indictment here. he's showing a lot of these people knew u.s. politics very much from the inside. there were russian operatives who came to the u.s. under false identities years ago before the election to start understanding these politics and to try to sew discord. he talked about a time where they deported through social media campaign one rally against donald trump and one for donald trump in new york on the same day. in some cas

over to julia ainsley in washington, our national security and justice reporter.ulia, i neglected to say earlier, you were at this event. and on top of the substance, as you listened to it unfold from rosenstein, and we had very little advance knowledge, we're not even used to hearing his voice. robert mueller, americans have not ever heard him speak since being named to this job. that's kind of the aura of anticipation around these officials. and to chuck's point, we just learned a small, a small part of this investigation today. >> it is a small part of the investigation. and, yes, i was there at that press conference. the deputy attorney general took very few questions from reporters. we all had a lot more questions, especially ones you're asking now, brian. what does this mean going forward? he would only talk really just about the indictment. he said that there is nothing in the indictment that alleges this had an outcome on the election, but of course we know there is more to it than that. you can't possibly draw that conclusion from what's here. >>> another

. >>> let me bring in julia ainsley, nbc's national security and justice reporter. julia, thank you for having me. >> thanks for having me. >> first, i want to read the statement we got on behalf of manafort from his spokesman. manafort is innocent of the allegations set out in the newly filed indictments. he's confident he'll be acquitted of all charges. the new allegations against mr. manafort once again have nothing to do with russia and 2016 election interference/collusion. mr. manafort is confident he will be acquitted and violation of his constitutional rights will be remedied. let me ask you about one thing i've seen conflicting reports about, i don't know what to make of it. manafort's representation seems stable. rick gates' representation does not. he had an initial lawyer then dismissed him. then he had three different lawyers, now dismissed them. maybe? >> maybe. >> then the third lawyer and now there's some interesting reports from betsy woodruff at the daily beast that maybe the third lawyer tom green has been dismissed and there's a new lawyer. do you

julia ainsley, phil rucker with "the washington post" and an msnbc political analyst, and jake sherman is a senior writer with politico. guys, welcome. jeff, where do we stand right now? will he or won't he sit with robert mueller? >> well, that's the big question, katy. the president's legal team is say they expect within weeks to arrive at some agreement with the special counsel team. of course, they've been telling us that for weeks. not a whole lot of clarity on the issue of timing. but as we've reported, the president's legal team has been negotiating with the special counsel team to avoid a sit-down face-to-face interview, to include the president filling out a questionnaire or even signing an affidavit, you know, stating his side of the case. what is new, of course, is this reporting from "the new york times" that the president's attorneys are so afraid welcome given his history of making false or contradicting statements that he could end up perjuring himself. one thing to point out, john dowd is the president's personal attorney. he represents mr. trump himself. clearly, he wo

we'll talk about what it means potentially with julia ainsley joining me with the latest.ert driscoll is here as well. julia, let's start with senator ron johnson because his request for all of these communications includes e-mails, texts, voice mails. why is he doing this and what do you make of it? >> so this is all stemming from just a few months ago if you remember, hallie, when the justice department released just a handful of these text messages between fbi agent peter strzok and this lawyer at the fbi, lisa page. both of him who were saying derogatory things about then candidate trump and they seemed to be a little more positive about hillary clinton, but really a read a lot of these and they disparaged almost everybody. what they really got republicans to was it started to build their argument and it's leading to the moment we're seeing with the nunes memo now where they're saying we can't believe anything coming out of this investigation into russia, collusion with the trump campaign, we can't believe the results of the clinton investigation that eventually let he

only way is then parliamentary process and if that happens that can be more you many a saying forty ainsley and for president zuma in see isn't that keen because this all went to a motion of no confidence on the table that was table by the opposition and they want to keep control over the process they want to keep it in their own hands so they are still hopeful that maybe tomorrow zuma will say i'm loyal to my party and i'm going to listen to them. yeah but in the meantime i mean you know if we just look at the background if we just look at jacob zuma the politician he was replaced as deputy president of south africa back in two thousand and five when he was implicated in the corruption scandal he has really been dogged by scandal ever since but the party has stuck by him until now so walk us through what has changed . yes no indeed the departed stuck by him and a part of the party is zoom out loyal and that's also why yes so they want to party and decided to recall him this was a meeting that also thirteen hours so that says enough it says that there are still people within the party that

pete williams, julia ainsley, ken dilanian and mike memley. extraordinary coverage. it's a privilege to be part of this operation and our breaking news coverage of this unprecedented day in national security and intelligence continues with katy tur in new york. >> as you said, none of this is normal. let us reset. it's 1:00 here in the east. good afternoon from msnbc headquarters. i'm katy tur. we'll continue our coverage of that breaking news of the gop memo release. a short time ago president trump approved the release of the nunes memo which was compiled by republicans on the house intelligence committee because he says it shows people in the doj and fbi should be ashamed of themselves. >> i think it's a disgrace what's going on in this country. it's a disgrace. the memo was sent to congress. it was declassified. congress will do whatever they're going to do, but i think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country. when you look at that and see that and so many other things, what's going on, a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves. >> among the allegat