ari fleischer. especially can. can. >> ari: a sad week, and the american tradition.istorically. >> harris: we will continue our coverage with you along this hour. president trump expected to meet with the bush family this afternoon. the president tweeted this morning, "looking forward to being with the wonderful bush family at the blair house today." the former first lady will be coming over to the white house this morning to be given a tour of the christmas decorations by melania. the elegance and precision of the last few days have been or mark will. yesterday the president and the first lady visited the late president's flag-draped casket. the president saluted president president bush as the first lady placed her hand on her heart. meanwhile, president george w. bush's son, president george w. bush and his wife laura, also at that ceremony. top lawmakers at the ceremony included, and he spoke, as well. vice president mike pence, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, house majority leader paul ryan. here are brian and pants on bush 41's legacy. >> throughout his

i'm sorry, ari, i disagree with you.k the charges together and do -- they do represent illegal activity, if they are proven to be true. >> harris: i want to go to -- >> ari: the cohen charge -- 's piece on the ami issue, if donald trump directed it, it's probably trouble magic. let me also say, the idea of media corporations not playing a role in campaigns as a joke. does anybody remember when 60 minutes suppressed information about barack obama, contradicting what he said in one of the presidential debates about benghazi being caused by terrorism? 60 minutes sat on that, didn't make the information public, that he was contradicted in the interview. they suppressed the news until the day before the 2012 election. media companies do play roles in elections, and everybody knows it. >> judy: but barack obama did not pay "60 minutes" and cbs not to run that story. >> ari: that's why i said, if donald trump directed it, it's different. payments make it different. the idea that a media corporation doesn't do this -- donald tru

ari melber needs to fall back in 2018. i knew ari melber when no one watched it. >> what?e was like this multimedia sensation. but he had a show, and it was very good. he was a standout on the show, then awful, pow! like chris redd on "snl." >> doing the sound effects out here. >> why are you trying to turn this into a roast, craig? that's question number two. >> because i wanted to tell you how proud i am of "the beat" and ari melber. seriously. >> that's very nice. who needs to fall back in 2018? >> the mcrib. >> the mcrib needs to fall back. >> you were just talking about this. >> i was just talking about this. it's like, i like the mcrib. we don't know what it is or what it's made of. why are you pretending you're going away when you know you're going to be back? i don't like that. just like a person on facebook is like, i'm leaving facebook, i don't like facebook, i hate it. then the next day, they've got a status "good morning." to who? >> they break up. i'll tell you what i hope falls back next year, those detergent makers that have come out with the pods. the pods

>> not at all, ari.f you look at the russia investigation, michael niflynn lied, paul manafort lied, roger stone's story has been all over the place. i don't see why we need to agree with his version. i don't think he's telling the truth. >> what about the notion that other people may have matched michael cohen's now admitted lies about trump tower and thus also lied to congress, is there anyone else that you think has that situation, or may have lied to the house or senate? >> we will know start thing january. the democrats in the house get subpoena power. we can conduct investigations and subpoena witnesses, subpoena documents. wet're going to know if people lied to congress. >> at this point, you don't have the view whether there is anyone in that group? >> not a this point. >> congressman, appreciate you joining us very much tonight. >> thank you, ari. >>> now i turn to something i said i was excited about, my interview with james comey's lawyer. the firing and interactions of trump comes next. we're

be, ari? >> i would put it like this, nothing in today's filings from new york or the special counsel give us any better answer to that question. there's a reference to people keeping in touch with trump organization executives, whoever those people are should be worried, but i can't say that -- on my reading it tells us whether those are other executives or family executives. >> that is the hard part here. we know that al len wiseleberg, a vice president of the trump organization was providing some limited cooperation there. this is from the mueller filing, the defendant also provided information about attempts by other russian nationals to reach the campaign, november 2015, cohen received the contact information for a person who could offer the campaign sin erji. but it wasn't felix sater. >> no, it wasn't. >> and it may not have been the lawyer. they don't mention the lawyer -- we know about the lawyer in the trump tower meeting. you have the george papadopoulos, i feel as if -- i wish we h

joining me, ari melber, host of the beat.d former federal prosecutor and professor at georgetown law. i was going to ask you, ari, before i saw the piece, what's going to resonate into 2019, but as i'm watching it, everything it seems, pretty much. the mueller investigation isn't going to go away, the impact of a new justice on the supreme court will be significant not just next year. the me too movement isn't going anywhere. it was an extraordinary year. >> in looking back, as we all do in news and in life, donald trump is a unique president and controversial one, the evidence shows it was larger than trump. the me too movement. those kind of convictions. prosecutors taking women's testimony and acting on it in ways they didn't used to is a huge change. the other story we had about police, i think everyone understands it's rare to see police charged let alone convicted of murder and most officers never even use their firearm. the fact that we're seeing juries react differently. there's a lot of change in the country that goe

ari melber is in for lawrence tonight. good evening, ari. >> good evening, joy. thank you very much. as mentioned i am ari melber in for lawrence o'donnell. we begin tonight with a basic truth. this is not normal. the federal government entering its sixth day of a shutdown that the president said would be his fault. the stock market continuing wild swings down and back up today which is at least partly linked to the chaos in washington and as democrats ready to take over the house next week polling shows opposition to trump and a widespread view he does indeed own this shutdown. >> i will take the mantle. i will be the one to shut it down. the last time you shut it down, it didn't work. i will take the mantel for shutting it down. >> tonight americans agreed by a 14 point margin saying trump is to blame for this young shutdown. 47% say trump deserves most of the blame. 33% blame the democrats. 7% blame the remaining republicans in congress. another poll finding another 43% blaming trump, and those bad vibes for the shutdown they're spreading and contimeinating tr

>> ari melber needs to fall back. ari melber needs to fall back in 2018.i melber when no one watched him. when he was this multi media sensation. he had a show and he was very good. he was a stand out on the show. all of a sudden, like chris red on snl. >> doing the sound effects out here. why are you trying to turn this into a roast, craig? >> i wanted to come on and just tell you how proud i am of the beat and ari melber. >> that's very nice. who needs to fall back? >> no, i got nothing. the mcrib needs to fall back. >> you were talking about that. >> i was talking about that. i like the mcrib. we don't know what it is. we don't know what it's made of. why pretend you're going away when you're going to be back? i don't like that. just like a person on facebook, i'm leaving facebook, i don't like facebook, i hate it then the next day they have a status, good morning. to who? >> they can't break up. i tell you one thing i hope falls back next year. those detergent makers that have come out with the pods, the pods that made like, you know, a couple hundred

ari melber picks up the coverage. ari, good luck. >> chuck, i want to hold you over if you have a second. >> go for it, i'll take it. >> there's been talk about political synergy from this new mueller filing. we have new synergy and we'll pick whereupon you're leaving off. that's my comment. my question is take a step back from the law. what do you think it means for america when you see a filing, you see the news today out of new york, the feds are saying the president of the united states directed a campaign-related crime by his lawyer? >> i think we're going to learn in the next couple of weeks how much power the president has over this supposed 35% or 40% of the country. we know a good 30% to 40% of the country lives in another world, has an alternative reality at times of what facts are and what are alternative facts, to borrow a phrase. i will be curious. these are legal facts. these are done by a republican named bob mueller. i'm curious to see how much it penetrates. keep an eye, though, on some senate republi

. >> better season than arie's? >> yeah, and i love arie. >> you ready?he's a injuvirgin, she's nev been kissed. i call it with those two already. >> chris also broke the news to us he will be officiating arie and lauren's wedding. i don't know about that. that's happening january 12th in hawaii. >> spreading the love. >>> still ahead -- >> that's perfectly beautiful. >> trimming the tree jlo style and you won't believe how much mariah makes off her christmas hit. ♪ all i want for christmas >>> then not so secret star santas. >> can i sit with you? >> dax shepard spreading cheer to young patients with inspiration from wife kristen bell. >> she's a better person than me by a factor of at least six. >>> and imagine your christmas gifts already paid for. the stars making this holiday dream come true. >> go get your stuff. merry christmas! >> closed captioning provided by -- ♪ when you have doctors working as a team for your health, you get the care you need to help you thrive. ♪ visit kp.org to learn more. kaiser permanente. thrive. ♪ ♪ >>> jennifer family's

i'm ari melber. that's tonight's last word. i am ari melber. you can catch me 6:00 p.m.right here on msnbc. i wish you a very happy new year. keep it locked right here on msnbc. >>> president trump threatens to close the border, again. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening, i'm steve kornacki in for chris matthews. the partial government shutdown now in its seventh day with no end to the shutdown stalemate in sight. president trump renewed his demand today that congress fund a border wall, adding a threat to shut down the southern bo

>> i think you just said it, ari. what's really relevant here is you have a -- one you have a document that makes very clear that there have been significant contact between those in trump's sphere and russia. we actually already knew that. what we see now is the reverse side of it. meaning we have a long history between george papadopoulos -- beginning with george papadopoulos in march of 2016, who understood his job as connections to the russians. and in april and may communicating up the chain with the trump campaign about meeting with russia. but we also find out that trump moscow tower deal was happening at the same time and back in november 2015, the russians were also directly reaching out to the trump world. so we already knew that there was lots of contact with russia, even before this document. what we're seeing is that there's a lot more that we did not know about. that we also know that there's going to be a continued investigation into it. that's quite clear, both from the michael flynn filing as well as

so, ari, i would go to you. what does the holiday mean to you?condolences if he didn't get the little jewish girl. i wish he did. i will pick up that spirit. my children are 14 and 12 and they get a dollar for every year of the allows. they are required to split that three ways sfwlchlt can my 12-year-old gets $12 a week. my 14-year-old gets $14 a week. they have to split it in three buckets, save, spend, charity. one of the eight nights for hanukkah, we go into their one year's worth of savings for charity and they have to give a charity present to somebody else for hanukkah. each of my children has found their causes and they give for hanukkah. >> what does your wife get? what do you get? >> i give them their allowance. >> holiday story. when i was in the fourth grade, i switched schools. i used to go to a little catholic school where everybody believed in santa claus. by fourth grade, the kids were getting a little sf savvsavvy. i decided to do some research on st. nick. he was a real person and a real being. so i wrote a nice big paper on san

ari melber is in for lawrence tonight. >> two things, joy. one positive about you and one positive about rachel. >> let's do it. >> i'll start with rachel. as someone who used to read a lot of court transcripts i have never seen them have more urgency even though they are just the facts than what you just described in the process and obviously a lot of people working hard on it. >> she gives them life. >> she gives them life which gives us life. point number two, i am so excited to see what you're going to do with what will be all accounts be speaker pelosi in the town hall and a lot of stuff happens. but this is if not the first time and it will be the first week that donald trump has ever had to deal with divided government, with someone else having real power, subpoena power, tax and legislative power, all of it. >> it's going to be a challenge for donald trump because nancy pelosi has been to this rodeo before. she was speaker before and highly effective. she knows what she's doing. so that mono e mono will be one of the most fascinating

>> ari, this is the stuff i love. my doctorate is out of chapel hill.teeped in north carolina politics my entire process. what this basically boils down to is this. there are two things that can happen. either we wait 34 days, governor cooper of north carolina puts a brand-new elections committee together, they call for a new election, and you end up probably with mcreedy, the democrat ends up winning, he ends up getting seated in the congress sometime over the summer. that can happen if people are willing to wait that long. or nancy pelosi next wednesday when she gets in office, if this is something she cares about on her agenda, she can say look, we have reason to believe this is a fraudulent election. we will not seat anybody you have from north carolina's 9th district unless we get to conduct an investigation as the house and we may suggest you have another election. so one way or another, i think we're going to have another election. it could come from congress or it could end upcoming from the governor of north carolina. >> it's a fascinating one,

you pointed out a fact that ari is running from.ill clinton took $500,000 from a bank that was intimately involved in gaming the financial viability of the uranium one sale. you have a problem meeting with russians, but you don't have a problem taking money from a russian bank? that doesn't strike you as odd? >> the republicans in the senate don't have the guts to impeach the president. >> hold on. judge jeanine: don't tell me to hold on. >> the day after the president lose the election and melania leaves him. judge jeanine: leave melania out of it. she is a class act. >> michelle obama is a class act. if we can write a book without plagiarizing, i would be friend with melania. but she is going to leave the president. judge jeanine: you are out of line, ari. >> does it bother you the clinton dossier she paid for -- that doesn't bother you. he's paying off porn stars. and it bothers me the family values in this country. paying off here and prostitutes. judge jeanine: even christopher steele admits he can't verify the dossier. the hea

i want to bring in ari melber, who has been brilliant on this tonight. he is the host of "the beat." ari, i love the way you put it up tonight. i want to go back to the deeper question. when trump got away for a few weeks with the "access hollywood" tape, that everybody said was going to kill him, reince priebus was going to walk over it. smart republicans, decent republicans said the smell is too terrible here to withstand and survive. and here we have a president basically being charged by the federal district of new york up there with basically covering up a couple affairs with money and power and doing it in a way that i can get away with this crap. this is stuff i get away with. i get this fixer lawyer here, cohen. he does this crap for me. i get a magazine that is going to buy this crap and kill it for me. i got it all wired. i can get away with it, just like he said in the "access hollywood." i can get away with it. i thought it was interesting the way you talked about it tonight. >> well, you just laid it out, chris. that attitude that was caught

. >> and our breaking news continues with ari melber. i don't know if -- i don't know if breaking news is enough to describe everything that is happening right now, but the trump white house might be unraveling. >> i heard you say nightmare and unraveling. we have the language here, bry let you go, of general mattis say you have the right to have a secretary of defense that whose views are better aligned with yours. where do we go from here? >> and if you believe jeremy bash who said the president -- that secretary matt is was never going to resign and the president would have to fire him. so it is some form of resignation or protest or firing, but either way, major >> and one of the people that was held out as part of the civil and military service that were the guard rails. we have a lot in our show as you did, chuck, thank you so much. >> thank you, sir. >> you heard it right there. we are in the middle of what is, and i mean this literally, one of the wildest days of a very wild presidency. jim mattis announcing formally he's steppin

ari melber, surprised at all? >> this is significant. this grows out of all of those debates and reporting we've seen from "the washington post" and elsewhere about how the foundation was being accused of being a slush fund for donald trump's other interests, personal and political. that itself can be illegal. what we're seeing here is the triumph of the new york a.g. who has more than one investigation going in basically saying yes, this foundation's busted. trump had moved previously, okay, i'll scrap the whole thing and run off. the guy who never settles, the guy who is a mass negotiator. what then happened is the new york a.g. said, no, we want that under court supervision. we want to have the files. the normal things you'd want. this today is a victory for the new york attorney general and a loss for trump: you know, there was an old saying i'm not a businessman. i'm a businessman. >> yes. >> that applies here in a little bit different way. this is a court supervised order saying i'm not a foundation. i'm kind of an illegal slush fu

you came here straight from buenos aries, argentina, at group of 20 summit and you presented the wto annual trade monitoring report to world leaders. this year the conclusions were rather grim. can you summarize for us what you saw in the report. >> the report shows that there was a very large increase, a dramatic increase on the amount of trade that has been covered by restrictive measures around the world. i would say a lot of that is attributed to the increased tariffs between the united states and china, so it does show that a much larger portion of trade is now subject to restrictive measures than we had before and the -- the liberalized measures are not keeping pace. they are way behind those numbers. >> so i would like to try and put that broad conclusion into context and as we're talking about before, you're the guy who's job is to scrutinize the world trade system and assess the risks and dangers and you know the bullet in the economic scientists is the doom day clock, how close we are for destroying our world and this year it set it two minutes to midnight which is the clos

jasmine is no for ari. i don't know how to say your last name. but who does?> why would you want to say my last name when you just ended the show with puppies? i can't top that. >> that was the best part of my day. >> let's all go home today. i'm in tonight for milissa rehberger. we' >> trump may have committed impeachable offenses, but they may not want to go through the trouble of impeaching him. the next chair of the black semiautomatic is he caucus is on that. trump is scrambling to replace john kelly. and michael cohen's guilty plea. >>> we begin the feds revealed new details of michael cohen's crimes. "the new york times" learning that federal prosecutors in new york are looking at whether other trump organization executives who were involved in the hush payments to women during the campaign, and investigators requested more documents from the trump organization in recent weeks, suggesting their work isn't over, even though cohen pleaded guilty. trump today denying cohen committed campaign finance crime, calling the hush payment a simple, private transac

in for ari melber. >>> and tonight a storm of investigations slamming into donald trump on multiple fronts. and late today trump announcing a new point man to help deal with it all. current trump budget director nick mulvaney will be new chief of staff and he will be facing a deluge of investigations immediately from day one. his appointment coming just hours after michael cohen spoke out for the first time since his sentence rebutting key claims made by the president. and as newly surfaced audio of donald trump obliterates his own defense on hush money payments, you heard there's a tweet for everything. in this case there's an actual recording, and we are going to play it for you. also today, bob mueller undercutting trump's arguments about michael flynn. in a new court filing. but we begin with nick mulvaney coming in as the new chief of staff for the white house. this as michael cohen gives his very first nrlt view since being sentenced to three years in prison that trump told cohen to make hush money payments to women even though trump knew it was wrong. >> nothing of the trump organiz

ari? >> i think what was great about this election is the number of people who actually came out to vote. >> record numbers. >> and the number of women and minorities who stood for election at every level, municipally and state skplefand congress and won. we changed the complexion of america's legislators and state houses and the congress this time around. and i thought that was a great move. there were more democratic successes, but the message is go out and vote. that was the big win. >> and that he did. even in the deep south we saw three statewide elections where blacks got very close. they did win, something you may not have thought of. >> they turned florida a little more purple. stacy abrams way to the left. >> they won congressional seats. >> and these are red states. >> how did brett kavanaugh make that list of one of the good moves of the year? it was one of the worst things of the year. for me, here it's not the candidates, it's the people who voted to make the blue wave happen,

i am ayman mohyeldin in for ari melber. there's a brand new criminal investigation into the trump inauguration. i'm going to talk to the "wall street journal" reporter who broke this story a short while ago. also nbc news reporting that donald trump was in the room for secret talks about hush money payments to women. plus, trump now responding for the very first time to the michael cohen sentencing. we'll have that for you. and conflicting reports tonight on whether jared kushner is being considered for chief of staff. but we start with the "wall street journal" reporting on a possible pay-for-play probe into trump's inauguration. federal prosecutors now investigating whether the inaugural committee misspent a portion of the $107 million it raised from donations. investigators trying to determine if the committee essentially sold access to the incoming trump administration. now, the probe being done by the same federal office, the southern district of new york, that prosecuted michael cohen. "the journal" reports the invest

>> ari melber needs to fall back. ari melber needs to fall back in 2018. when no one watched it, he was a multi media sensation. he was a stand out on the show. all of a sudden /like chris red on snl. just blew up. >> why are you trying to turn this onto a roast? >> i wanted to come on and tell you how proud i am of the beat. >> who needs to fall back? >> the mcrib needs to fall back. i like the mcrib. we don't know what it is, we don't know what it's made of. why are you pretending like it's going away when you're going to be back? i don't like that. like a person on facebook. i'm leaving facebook, i don't like facebook, i hate it. the next day they have a status, good morning. ooh, to who? >> they can't break up. i tell you one thing i hope falls back next year. those detergent makers that have come out with the pods. the pods that made like, you know, a couple hundred kids sick. now they have a contraption, looks like boxed wine. it's almost as if these detergent makers want children to drink the product instead of using it. >> i would get my butt whipp

and a happy anniversary weekend to your family. >> thanks very much, ari. much appreciated it, my friend. >> thank you, to rachel. >>> today, we begin with this thought that is a fact. a united states president, arrives at a major foreign policy summit with the world credibly wondering whether that president is actually there representing the united states, which is what he is supposed to be doing, or is he there representing himself? as a private businessman? who simply uses his role in american politics and global geo politics to that effect? is he a compromised former candidate who owes russia? that question hung over the scene you just saw there, because of what i was just discussing with rachel. donald trump's former lawyer, michael cohen, admitted things in court this week that actually go beyond crimes, which of course matter, because there was a crime, but go towards something else, which is u.s. national security. cohen telling the world he lied about the president's business interest in russia, as they were being pursued, during the campaign, and

this april, ari emanuel cohosted a dinner in l.a., the one who apparently ordered khashoggi's murder. jeff bezos from amazon was there, of course. here is a "vanity fair" described that evening. topics that were deemed off limits included the prince's bombing campaign in yemen which has b killed thousands of civilians, the objection of the prime minister in november, and the repression of independent media and journalists, one of whom was recently imprisoned for five years for insulting the royal court." so ari emanuel and his fellow hollywood liberals wanted to make sure that nobody asked the saudis these uncomfortable questions. the left cares deeply about human rights, but not when it gets in the way of business with the saudis. we should pause here in the interest of fairness, two things. it is not just democrats who have taken truckloads of saudi money. republicans in washington definitely have done so, too. second, the saudis are not the only people making america's ruling class richer. hardly. many of our leaders on both sides

. >> better season than arie? >> yes, and i loved arie. >> that's setting the bar low.hris said he'll be officiatiin arie and lauren's wedding. in hawaii. >>> the year marks a the marriage of lisa bonnet and jason mamoa. >> they're sitting in there eating popcorn, waiting for me to come in. >> a family affair. >> yeah, yeah, they're all so excited to see the movie. >> the other family excited, the mamoas. jaycen and wife lisa shared a red carpet kiss and did a red carpet dance. >> it's respect to the god of water. >> when did you teach their kid that? they were right in there. >> they just learned right now. they knew it and we added two together. they already had it done. >> now, nicole talked about her other star-studded movie, the upcoming drama based on the downfall of roger ailes. >> both actresses are bringing the scandal to the big screen. here is everything you need to do know. >> i just saw a picture of you as gretchen carlson. gretchen tweeted out not the most supportive tweet. did you see it? >> i don't see any tweets. >> it's an important story. we need to t

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. >>> i'm in for ari melber tonight. a storm of investigations slamming into donald trump on multiple fronts and late today, trump announcing a new pointman to help deal wit all, current trump budget director mick mulvaney will be the new chief of staff and he'll be facing a deluge of investigations on day one. hours after michael cohen spoke out for the first time since his sentencing rebutting claims from the president. as new audio of donald trump obliterates his own hush money payments -- you heard there's a tweet for everything. in this case there's an actual recording. we are going play it for you. >>> also, bob mueller undercutting trump's comments about flynn in a new court reporting. mick mulvaney the new chief of staff of the white house since michael cohen being sented to three months in prison, saying trump told cohen to pay hush payments even though trump knew it was wrong. >> nothing at the trump organization was ever done unless it was run through mr. trump. he directed me as i said in my elocution and i s

as his final media conference for other reasons to train crews following the summit for a simple as ari's. finally we got the confirmation from flag spokesperson that there has been some sort of contact between the presidents but b. won't be able to find out any more details until the russian president gets to speak to the media that's going to happen later on on saturday however we won't be able to hear anything about it from mr trump and the journalists here had so many questions for him about the council meeting with a lot of our about his former lawyer about china and finally why he's been in such a horrible mood here and what aside it looked like he wasn't even trying to hide that but right now donald trump even canceled his press event because of the sudden passing of the x. prize to george h.w. bush a lot of our putin chose to spend his spare free time now that he has it after the cancellation of the problems with the tarka stuff man. and from mr heir to one it's been reported that we hard he thought it was a good idea to hold another summit on what's going on in syria is that and

twenty summit in fact to conclude just yesterday and what has ari's leaders ever tackling a raft of crucial issues including the u.s. china trade war ukraine and strengthening. operation generally. among the highlights the u.s. president held a keenly watched meeting with his chinese counterpart at the summit on saturday but neither gave a news conference afterwards unlike those two leaders the russian president did talk to reporters though to share his thoughts on the gathering in south america our correspondent who was in the argentine capital covering it all for us. one of the top reasons why this g twenty summit was meant to be a real attention grabber is the one on one between the man whose limo is parked right there it's about to depart the russian president vladimir putin and his american counterpart donald trump but just one day before the summit kicked off donald trump sent all of us into breaking news mode by tweeting out right from on board air force one i won't meet with putin because of ukraine and we were all left guessing whether they'll at least shake hands or have some sort

thank you, ari. go ahead. >> why is cohen not getting credit for cooperating with the southern district? they say in the document because he refused to answer questions about other crimes they were investigating and past criminal conduct, which is bizarre, because he seems to have fully cooperated with robert mueller, but for whatever reason, he would not -- he only met with the southern district prosecutors a handful of times and he refused to answer their questions about manners they cared very much about, and that's why they're bringing the hammer down him and he's facing 3 1/2 years in prison. >> we're also receiving a sentencing memo in the case of paul manafort, who as we learned last week, you got all big three tonight, allegedly broke the deals of his plea deal by lying to prosecutors as well. and the sentencing memo on manafort says he lied about his contacts with his russian business partner who mueller was previously described as someone with ties to a russian intelligence. more significan

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so, you can't win, can you is it and now all the sudden they hated 43 ari, now they love him.ake him back in a minute. no, they wouldn't. he this would be all over him in five seconds. >> i remember in the 2,000 campaign when george h.w. bush was running against john mccain, the press was all for john mccain. i remember thinking to myself as soon as john mccain were to beat george h.w. bush they will go against john mccain. that's the way they always are. >> sean: michael. >> look at the way john mccain was treated when he ran against barack obama. then he was just another dirty republican. they loved him in 2,000 but by 2008, he was just another dirty republican. enough to he is dead so he is great. >> sean: yeah, amazing. save the lies if i ever pass away. just speak the truth. say what you really feel. all right. when we come back, we have got an update. remember the story we brought to you earlier this week that school, that teacher ruining christmas for five and six-year-olds? got an important update. you won't believe why one church put christ in a cage to make a cheap p

"the beat" with ari melber. i got the announcement of an announcement of a deal to have a deal to create the process to create a process for the deal. maybe you can figure out another version of this. >> i don't know if i can figure it out but i think you're on the right path of the narration of it which is a lot of complication for what still looks like are you keeping it open or not? we have a lot tonight. what is your tip for how to understand what's real as the night goes on and the shutdown looms? >> i guess how does the president cave without looking like he's caving? >> that's fair question. >> that's what they are trying to design. can they make a deal to make it look like he didn't cave to ann coulter and rush limbaugh. >> thank you. >>> we have the senate floor live. the talks are under way. the idea is to avert a government shutdown that whatever you think of this president, this is now real as we are within six hours of a shutdown tonight that affects americans and the world. the government will, if

a lot happened and ari is going to break it down. we honestly missed your voice. >> when do you try to pick to vacation. >> i vacation whenever i can. >> i had thought wrongly, and this is an example of me being wrong, i thought maybe mid december would be a slower time. no. >> it's always bad. you have to -- this is what i told our bosses, between christmas and new year's, or fourth of july, sometime when everybody else, including the mueller team, is on vacation. >> there you go. >> which is why i argued for next week and got it, and then they pulled me back in. >> they always do. i'm going to take a vacation from this conversation. >> see you later. >> i appreciate your time. katy tur, good to be back. donald trump is now rebuking his former lawyer michael cohen as a rat. we have a lot of stories tonight that. is one of them, with lanny davis to respond. and a former executive with the "national enquirer" also here. should be interesting. and later, the man trump just picked to run the white house, he called donald trump a "terrib

it was the home of the navel orange culture, the first navel ari sree's introduced here in introduced here in 1873. it made the community a really wealthy place. we are going to drive up past california state historic park. i'm proud to be part of the planning for this state park. often we think about real estate or the movies or oil as what made southern california, but really it was citrus first. we are looking at california citrus state historic park which now has over 200 acres, bearing late navel orange groves. it is not fully built out but we are working on that. to interpret how significant the industry was not only to the economy but how it influenced the culture. land companies, transportation systems, railroads. california fruit growers exchange was so powerful -- it is known as sunkist now. they renamed themselves in 1951. here you see a fruit stand. he manages the grows for the state on contract. this is what old riverside would have looked like, when we had 20,000 acres of navel oranges surrounding the city. it would have been incredible. growing howorchard , does that --

ari melber is in for lawrence tonight. good evening, ari. >> good evening, joy.much. as mentioned i am ari melber in for lawrence o'donnell. we begin tonight with a basic truth. this is not normal. the federal government entering its sixth day of a shutdown that the president said would be his fault. the stock market continuing wild swings down and back up today which is at least partly linked to the chaos in washington and as democrats ready to take over the house next week polling shows opposition to trump and a widespread view he does indeed own this shutdown. >> i will take

ari fleischer is here, democratic strategist and lawrence jones.i want to touch on something that michael did. the president should be concentrating on the good and not getting in the weeds with the bad or the controversial, for example, the cohen jail sentence. what do you think of that? >> well, i don't think the president should be talking about it because it's an ongoing legal matter. i think it's something that quite frankly he should be allowing his attorney to deal with. the more the president focuses on what is happening in america as it relates to the country i think is the best for the president. but again, the president is a tweeter. he's going to react to things as they come out. so i don't see him staying away from it. >> neil: ari, is it your thinking here that he scores a trade deal, a significant one with the chinese, that would be a big development. it would justify, you know, pretty brass knuckles tactics. too early to say. the chinese have to make good on their promises. what do you think of the significance of that? >> if all of

> ari: always fun to be here. thank you to you. >> kennedy: we are back on the couch at noon eastern tomorrow, so much more to discuss and keep it here. for continuing coverage of the memorial of former president george h.w. bush. right now, here's "outnumbered overtime" with harris. ♪ >> harris: the final farewell for the nation'st president. on outnumbered overtime today, our coverage continues. i'm harris faulkner paid thousands of americans are paying their respects right now to president george herbert walker bush. he is lying in-state in in the capitol rotunda. his flag-draped coffin resting on the same wooden frame used for president lincoln. tomorrow the casket will be removed to the national cathedral for president bush's state funeral. peter doocy has the latest from capitol hill. peter? >> harris, right now the wait to get into see the president lying in state is about an hour. you can see behind me, there are a couple thousand people out here in the cold. once they get inside, they meet a security chec

bush as you can be. >> it is totally opposite, tom -- i'm sorry ari. completely opposite.was an institutionalist and he had respect for anyone who worked and served in the government, whether military or intelligence or otherwise and he treated the media with respect even when he was being criticized. this is an enormously decent man. i knew him when he was cia director and i was a very new cia employee. only there a year or two. and i recall for example he would walk the halls, he would meet people, he came into cia at a time when the cia was under great criticism that your other guests may remember, the period of congressional investigation, the first real investigations that led to oversight and the morale was on the floor. he picked it up immediately by being such an open decent individual, available to employees. i recall as a brand new employee he would have the saturday morning coffees with new people. and i was invited up a couple of times to sit around the table with him with ten or 12 other people and just talk about how things were going and also to brief him on

. >>> i'm in for ari with a lot of developing stories. the fallout. after an extraordinary clash on camera between nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, trump, and the silent mike pence. why schumer called it a quote temper tantrum. >>> new reporting on trump republicans sounding the alarm as mueller closes in. and a provocative legal take. prison or the presidency? how a trump loss could mean jail time. that reporter is here. >>> we start with breaking news in the russia probe. a legal storm surrounding trump and his own allies now worried. moments ago paul manafort's legal team saying they need until january to respond to mueller's lies and crimes. accusations the judge asking mueller's team for more details on how manafort lied about contacts tied to russia in the trump administration this year. now manafort needs more time. >>> also breaking from a different justice department investigation, accused russian foreign agent maria butina now cooperating with the feds. she's accused of working at the direction of a russian official quote to establish unofficial

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