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betsy woodruff, maya wiley, and franklin foer, thanks to each of you. >>> coming up, a feds open up a new front in the michael cohen probe, and it could be a new point of pressure. also, trump's legal team prepping a new move against bob mueller trying to avoid the entire obstruction questioning. >>> also, tonight, i'm happy to say we have a very special, and we believe important conversation on race in the trump era with some special guests. >>> and then later, because it's "the beat," something very different, a legal fight over this. >> look, a snake's up in the tree. honey badger don't care. it just takes what it wants. whenever it's hungry. and it eats snakes. look at that digging. >> look at that digging. i'll be joined by the man who created one of the most viral videos in the history of the internet that's led to a high stakes court battle. i'm ari melber, you're watching "the beat" on msnbc. & the staff needs to know, they will & they'll drop everything can you take a look at her vitals? & share the data with other specialists yeah, i'm looking at them now. & they'll drop eve

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michelle goldberg and betsy woodruff, thank you both for being with me. >> thank you. >> after the break the mueller >>> so as of last week we now know that the trump organization is part of the mueller investigation. thanks to last week's bombshell plea agreement from trump attorney michael cohen and news of an immunity deal for allen weisselberg, the company's chief financial officer. we don't know where the investigation is headed, at least the one in the southern district of new york, but we do know that long-time trump confidant and former campaign adviser roger stone, who we just mentioned, has a legal defense fund and that he predicts another member of trump world could soon be indicted. >> i predicted yesterday based on excellent sourcing that the special counsel is going to charge donald trump jr. with lying to the fbi. >> donald trump jr. you just mentioned him. is he going to be -- is mueller going after him next you? said they're going to try to get him for lying to the fbi. >> i think so. notice they're not going after him for the underlying crime because there is no crime.

betsy woodruff is with the daily beast. betsy, let me start with you and the statement from stephanie grisham we saw in a tweet from the white house correspondent for the ap indicating that the first lady disagrees with the president when it comes to lebron james and what he's been doing out in ohio and around the country. how do you read into this? this is a week where we've seen a lot of discord. the president saying one thing. his advisers saying another. given that, what does this say to you, other than the fact there might be marital discord on this issue between the president and the first lady? >> it's the latest instance of melania trump sort of quietly and to be fair quite subtlety thinking a little bit of daylight between herself and her husband when it comes to some of these issues. in the past, she telegraphed skepticism or concern about the family separation issue. although there's no evidence she played a role in changing the president's mind or she had a -- she led on that, she did indicate she was uncomfortab

mimi rocah, and betsy woodruff, great conversation, thanks all around. dana scheckter as well for the reporting at the top. >>> coming up, a year after the violence in charlottesville, the city braces for another weekend of protest as the president takes to twitter. is he actually stoking more division? this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. we're live from somerville today. stay with us. i don't keep track of regrets. i never count the wrinkles. and i don't add up the years. but what i do count on... is staying happy and healthy. so, i add protein, vitamins and minerals to my diet with boost®. new boost® high protein nutritional drink now has 33% more high-quality protein, along with 26 essential and minerals your body needs. all with guaranteed great taste. the upside- i'm just getting started. boost® high protein be up for life boost® high protein your digestive system has billions of bacteria but life can throw them off balance. re-align yourself with align probiotic. and try new align gummies with prebiotics and probiotics to help support

. >>> i want to bring in betsy woodruff, a reporter for the daily beast and gabe, let me start with you. what we have heard from the president on this thus far. it's confined to 280 characters. the riots in charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division. we must come together as a nation. i condemn all types of racism and acts of violence. peace to all americans. let's go back a year ago, the extraordinary press conference that took place here in new york in trump tower in the marble foyer. how has his approach to this, his awareness changed at if at all? >> i don't think it's changed much at all. i think there are some se plant cal differences on the margin. he understands his solid base comes from the alt-right, so he wants to keep them in the tent. as i reported in a piece in the "vanity fair," speaker of the house ryan called donald trump and he said, listen, these people hate your daughter and son-in-law because jared kushner and ivanka trump are both jewish. the white nationalists hate his family and he needed to condemn them. we saw even then he did not come

. >>> and to help me break this down, i'm joined by a reporter at the "daily beast," betsy woodruff and glen kirschner, who spent his more than 30-year career working in d.c. betsy, first to you. give us the broader picture of what we can now conclude that mueller is looking into. >> we know mueller is deeply interested in some of the more fringe figures sort of on the periphery of the trump campaign. this indicates he's casting a wide net. there's two different ways of reading mueller's investigation of roger stone. one possible interpretation of all the evidence that we've seen thus far, all the reporting, mine, yours, everything that we're hearing, is that mueller is genuinely on the trail of finding something potentially unlawful that roger stone may have been involved in. sources have speculated to me that it could be a financial issue, kind of analogous to the trouble manafort has gotten into, that there is potential law breaking that would have nothing to do with trump or the campaign that mueller could be investigating. that's one possible reading of all the reporting, one way o

that's absolutely right. >> betsy woodruff get you in on the next story. increasingly open criticism by the president by top intemperature officials likely has roots in earliest days of trump's presidency. even transitioning to the white house president trump was unsparing in criticism of the u.s. intelligence committee. december, 2016, remember, the "washington post" reported 0en a secret cia assessment that said russia was trying to help trump win the white house. the transition office responded in part that the report came from "the same people that said saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction." after buzzfeed published the steele dossier in january, president trump erupted on twitter writing, intelligence agencies should never a allowed this fake news to leak into the public. one last shot at me. are we living in nazi germany, he asked? he echoed that sentiment at his first news conference. >> i think it was disgraceful, disgraceful, that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned 0 ut to be so false and fake out. i think it's

michelle goldberg and betsy woodruff, thank you both for being with me. >> thank you. >> after the break the mueller investigation has reached trump o grchlt. the news that has the president so wound up white house officials reportedly thought about staging an intervention. that story in two minutes. ntion. that story in two minutes. a steak. luckily for brad, this isn't a worry because he's discovered super poligrip. it holds his denture tight and helps give him 65% more chewing power. leaving brad to dig in and enjoy the tastiest of t-bones. super poligrip, helping you enjoy the foods you love. need a change of scenery? the kayak price forecast tool tells you whether to wait or book your flight now. so you can be confident you're getting the best price. giddyup! kayak. search one and done. this is moving day with the best in-home wifi experience and millions of wifi hotspots to help you stay connected. and this is moving day with reliable service appointments in a two-hour window so you're up and running in no time. show me decorating shows. this is staying connected with xfinity to ma

congresswoman elizabeth holtsman, betsy woodruff. john flannery, stick around with me for a bit. >>> did trump accidentally confess to a crime in his fox interview? plus this. >> i'll tell you what, if i ever got impeached, i think the market would crash. i think everybody would be very poor. >> i'm going to talk live to progressive billionaire tom steyer who is leading the impeachment charge. >>> also joining tonight the wife of the guilty trump aide who's been cooperating with the mueller probe, her first interview since the cohen news broke. and trump rebuked by the south african government over a bizarre tweet. he lifted straight from fox news. you're watching "the beat" on msnbc. s out into the world, full of hope. and we don't want something like meningitis b getting in their way. meningococcal group b disease, or meningitis b, is real. bexsero is a vaccine to help prevent meningitis b in 10-25 year olds. even if meningitis b is uncommon, that's not a chance we're willing to take. meningitis b is different from the meningitis m

with us at the table betsy woodruff, politics reporter for the daily beast. let me start with you, peter. and on this reporting which seems to have ignited even for this president a particularly overheated and hysterical response, 14 tweets since this article first posted on saturday, just on the topic of the reporting itself, don mcgahn and the special counsel investigation. this is obviously struck a never nerve. >> it has struck a nerve. he's taken it to a will you new level. his tweets this morning use adjectives to describe robert mueller he hasn't done before. he's attacked robert mueller's operation and the special counsel investigation, but he hasn't used the words like discredited and disgraced to describe mueller before. that seems to be one more level up for him. he's trying to in fact make that a reality. he's trying to discredit robert mueller. but obviously what he's worried about is what don mcgahn could have told robert mueller and the prosecutors because he doesn't really know. i'm sure don mcgahn has given him and the other lawyers around hi

i'm joined by betsy woodruff, politics reporter for the daily beast, and ken dilanian who was at theken, in terms of the basics, the meat and potatoes here, what exactly is it that gates was admitting to today? >> to everything, steve. it was really rather remarkable. i mean, we knew most of this was going to happen, but still, to see him walk into that courtroom, paul manafort's protege of ten years. worked for him from 2006 to 2016 and sit down at the witness stand, just feet away from paul manafort, was something incredible. and manafort was staring him down, and gates tended not to look at manafort's direction. nonetheless, he was a pretty calm and compelling witness. a little nervous, but he testified that he had been charged with paul manafort in these bank and tax fraud indictments, and he admitted he was guilty of all those charges. and that he had cut a deal with the prosecution to plead guilty to a lesser charge, a charge involving lying to the fbi, in exchange for a reduced sentence if he cooperated. he laid all that out, then he also explained in the course of this plea a

betsy woodruff several months ago said that that was happening, although the department of justice won'tment on it. i suspect there is no review of hillary clinton's e-mail case in which james comey wrongfully in defiance of the law cleared her. what do you think? >> i agree, and the problem is, you know, what's left over. all the people with guilty knowledge, or many, many of the people with guilty knowledge of hillary clinton's activities at state are still there. these are deep state operators, the same people that are currently going to great lengths to undermine an elected government in guatemala by shoveling money at them, trying to undermine -- trying to empower this u.n. official who is unaccountable and the leadership at the state department need to be going in one direction but all the political operators, all the deep state creatures, they don't give a damn. they are doing whatever they please. people get away with this stuff all the time. gregg: in my book, "the russia hoax" i spend several chapters talking about the conduct of james comey. there it is. number one three weeks

. >>> joining me now, betsy woodruff and msnbc contributor and vivian salama from the "washington post." reach out to you first, vivien. what what does the white house look to achieve? what are they particularly looking at a growing list of intel officials rebukes directly this president's decision? >> essentially, obviously the white house is trying to show the president does have discretion and authority to take these measures and he will do so seriously if they believe that they have a case for such irrevocation of a clearance. what we saw with john brens was potentiwas -- brennan was the first of a series of clearances that could be revoked from very widely respected officials. >> to that point, has anybody been able to put two and two together and say this is what john brennan did or said and it's a violation of national securi security? any incontrovertible proof to say, here's why we did it? no. on the contrary. the white house said basically they felt he was potentially risking national security with his comments criticizing the president, and taking a partisan approach, but th

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joining me now, nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, and betsy woodruff, the daily beast correspondents attorney general by his boss and the pushback from some leading republican senators, although that wavered a bit yesterday, how does sessions continue this way? >> the way he has continued since all this started, over the fact that he was going to recuse. it should have been obvious to the white house people that the attorney general had to recuse himself because he worked on the campaign. it's black letter recusal requirement. and it was obvious from the moment he stepped into the role as attorney general that this was what he was going to do. every time we asked him, he said he was thinking about it. clearly he was headed in this direction. why nobody told the president he was going to recuse himself is a bit of a mystery. what they're saying to us, people who know sessions well, is the reason he hasn't pushed back like this is that in the past the president's comments were about specific things, about recusal, about strzok and page, about getting the documents to the hill that rep

. >> great to have you, betsy woodruff from "the daily beast."ounced they are ready to escalate their fight over supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh's records from the national archives does not respond to the freedom of information request. >> today we say we are ready to sue the national archives for judge kavanaugh's full records if the request is not granted. the american people deserve a methodical and thorough examination to the supreme court. >> democrats want all of kavanaugh's documents released including the three years he served as white house staff secretary. republicans have refused to request the information from the national archives and the archives said those documents could total several million pages. yesterday's threat is the latest attempt by democrats to obtain the documents before the start of kavanaugh's nomination hearing, set to begin september 4th. so fargt senate republicans allowed release of over 1,000 pages of kavanaugh's papers, including documents from his time in the bush white house and as an aide to special c

let's bring in our panel, geoff bennett, betsy woodruff and also charlie savage. geoff, i'll start with you. what was going on when the president made that comment about omarosa? >> the president was in the middle of a photo-op there at his private estate in bedminster, new jersey. he was surrounded by trump supporters known as bikers for trump. and the voice you heard was that of maggie haberman part of the press pool and she asked if the president felt betrayed by omarosa. that is when he leveled that scorcher calling her a low life. but look, this is what the president tends to do to people whom he views as being disloyal. i think it is worth pointing out that the relationship between the president and omarosa has always really been mutually beneficial if not entirely transactional. she was able to use him to increase her public standing with that high profile white house job. and he was at times able to use her for a certain amount of political cover when it came to some testy issues involving race. >> you bring up a really good point about the relationship be

also, politics reporter for the "daily beast," betsy woodruff. also in las vegas, former assistant director at the fbi, jeff brouwer. you listened to what rudy giuliani told us. what do you make of it? >> in the interview with the president yesterday, we asked specifically about what giuliani said, about the perjury trap. he agreed, which is what you were discussing with kristen. he said, yes, it is possible. that is right. if i had an sbeinterview, sayin something that contradicted what comey said, comey is best friends with mueller, and he'd believe him, making me a liar. he used the word liar, clearly concerned. we asked him, as a natural follow up, will you then do an interview or will you not? he said, i'm not going to comment on that. >> that's not the only headline out of your interview. you also talked with him about this idea of maybe his presidential power, you could say. the president told you that he believed he could run the russia investigation if he wanted to. says he would be totally allowed to be involved and to do whatever, quot

politics reporter for "the daily beast" betsy woodruff. welcome. i want to start with anna first. she has some breaking news to bring us on the sdny investigation. i'm sorry i didn't introduce you, but you are one of our reporters here at nbc. what exactly have you learned? >> kristin davis on wednesday met with robert mueller's team. she has -- >> who is kristin davis? >> she is the manhattan madam. you'll remember when eliot spitzer went down, she claimed that she had provided prostitutes to him and became instantly famous. he has denied that. she spent four months at rikers island. i met her when she came out of rikers island. she was doing interviews at the time. she wound up running for mayor. she is quite a character. she has been working with roger stone on his political campaigns. she has done web work for him. robert mueller wants to talk to her probably about finances and following the money. >> i'm sorry. i misspoke earlier. i meant robert mueller. i said sdny. so many investigations to keep track of. how does she tie into donald trump other than roger stone? are they l

. >> well, let's get the inside scoop from a "new york times" politics reporter and betsy woodruff, politics reporter for the daily beast and msnbc contributor. a statement from laura trump in rebuttal to what you just heard, ms. trump says in part, the discussions about a position with the campaign took place in numerous phone calls over the course of several weeks. woman to woman, i shared a connection with omarosa, as a friend and a campaign sister, and i am absolutely shocked and saddened by her betrayal and violation on a deeply personal level. betsy, your response to that. >> it's interesting that the story of these tapes that i think has been the most significant is the potential for the rnc and the trump campaign to essentially operate as a holding cell for these former white house employees. this is something that people have been sort of pointing out to me for a while but that we didn't have as much firm evidence of, until this tape came out, which is that a number of former white house employees have gone on to be quite gainfully employed, getting cushy, well paid jobs, getting fu

to read something from the daily beast, a piece that talks about -- it says over the years -- betsy woodruff piece. over the years manafort's firm made millions of dollars by representing a rogue gallery of clients, dictators, guerrilla groups and desk pots with no regard for human rights massive amputation ands oversaw state sanctioned rape. the list of manafort's clients is a horror show long before you got to ukraine and russia. mubutu, incredible array. what is that, the fact that paul manafort liked to deal with strong men and donald trump seems to like to have some affinity for strong men. what does that tell you about some of the things that might bind them together? >> and, by the way, that wasn't a red light for donald trump. the thing, john, that i actually know a lot about here is ukraine. i went there three times when i was with the state department. ukraine in that era when manafort was there, was an incredibly corrupt place. so, yes, did he hide money from taxes? yes, because he was getting money in paper bags, millions of dollars from people. the thing that people also have to