it's essentially a group started by people like bill kristol. been leading neocons from both political parties. cia officials. people who have basically dissemating disinformation on the entire war on terror. least reliable most war mongering people in washington. they said the purpose of their group was to combat disinformation and the attack on the american democracy by russia and other groups. and their main kind of feature was that they would have this dashboard called hamilton 68 that purported to track the activity of russian influencers on twitter by tracking 600 accounts. nobody knows which accounts they have designated as influence of russia. they are not necessarily russian. they are just people who in the eyes of bill cross toll anbill kristol andhis friends ea or pro-russia themes. and they just constantly make claims about what russia is doing on twitter that the u.s. media in the most shocking way uncritically ingests and puts into their headlines as fact about what russia is doing. >> tucker: so they are basically running their ow

. >> tucker: weekly standard founder and twitter enthusiast bill kristol has helped launch a ventureon 68, and it's designed, they claim, to combat russian disinformation on twitter. it's having a bit of a hard time. it seems to be spreading disinformation of its own. for example, hamilton 60 it was behind the claim that the release the memo campaign to expose fisa abuse by the fbi was just a russian plot with no support from actual americans. glenn greenwald has been covering this. he's a critic of widespread hysteria on this question. one of the many stories that talk to mike fall through the cracks. i'm grateful that you have been on this. what what is hamilton 68 and whs it done? >>n i wrote about it when it was formed, not even a year ago. last summer.e it was yet another example, the most vivid one yet, if this union between democrats on the one hand and neocons on the other. i should say greens since neocons speak began as democra. it's essentially a group that was, as you said, started by people like bill kristol, people have been leading neocons from both political parties,

i'm joined by bill kristol, editor of "the weekly standard" and former chairman of obama's counsel on economic advisers, bill goolsby. this is what paul ryan is saying about a continuing resolution to keep the government open. >> president trump made a very serious and sincere offer of good will with the reforms he sent to the hill. that is what we should be working off of. those are the bipartisan negotiations that the majority leader is conducting on our behalf. we're not going to bring immigration legislation through that the president doesn't support. we are voting on another continuing resolution this week. i will remind you, the only reason we don't have a full budget agreement is because democrats continue to hold funding for our government hostage on an unrelated issue. >> all right. bill kristol, where do we go from here? it kind of gets old to be talking about continuing resolutions and, you know, as i like to remind people, there's only one constitutional requirement of congress, and that is to appropriate funds for the operation of government. >> yeah. nice if they took th

bill kristol and fat joe together again on the beat". i wish you a great weekend. on social media. if you have something to say to joe or bill, hit us up facebook.com/the beat/ari. bring in the moon and sun together always makes me happy. what a week. the news does not stop though. this is a night to keep it locked on msnbc, fair to say. i'm looking forward to "hardball" with chris matthews which starts now. >> hit job. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. to undermine and possibly subvert the zrafgs justice in this country, president trump today declassified the much hyped memo he believes will ultimately save him from the special counsel's russia probe. in doing so, the president ignored the warnings from the justice department which said its release is extremely reckless and the fbi which expressed grave concerns about his accuracy. as we already know, the memo is said to be the product of a

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bill kristol sent out earlier, trump knows nixon-style cover-ups fail.o he's engaged in an oj-style assault on the investigations, which as you recall, succeeded. for more, let's bring in richard painter, chief white house ethics lawyer under george w. bush, and nicholas cristoph, "new york times" column list. i want to get your reaction to bill kristol's tweet. we have to separate the two. while this is unprecedented, ridiculous, we don't like it, it is unprofessional, what is it actually doing? >> undermining our national security. there's classified information in this memo. the only person who is going to benefit from it being released is vladimir putin. he is going to find out more about our sources and how we knew that various associates of donald trump were collaborating with the russians. that's what this is about. it's going to expose our intelligence operations to the benefit of vladimir putin. president trump's own justice department has said the memo is misleading. his own fbi, including his fbi director, says it should not be released. this

joining us now is bill kristol, editor at large at the "weekly standard." good to see you.articulated that this is a technique. this is just another thing that the president can do to strengthen his base by weakening the integrity, let's say, of the fbi. thereby, deflecting from the seriousness of the investigation into the president. >> and ties to the future where he may say no to an interview with robert mueller and he needs his base to support him. if he's forced, he'll take the fifth. six months ago, the president of the united states would have taken the fifth, we'd say, no, it'll be a firestorm. now, looking at the republicans on the hill, the conservative commentators, they'll say, it is a witchhun hunt. the fifth is an important thing the founders put in there. what do you expect the president to do? this has been the shock of the last six months. not the president's behavior. he has a cunning, launching the offensive against the people going against him, making it into a partisan fight intstead f law enforcement. the republicans on the hill have gone along with th

the nra, and conservative american tater bill kristol comments on this too, the nra gives a lot of money to politics. this is money that people have received over their political careers. john mccain there, you can see he's almost at $8 million. that's because he also ran for president and they put a lot of money into presidential campaigns. richard burr, roy blunt, thom tillie, cory gardner. it's money spent on preventing people from running against you or attack ads on components. they will support me, let's say, as a candidate, but the minute i blink and decide i want to have restrictions on one little part of guns. >> even if they're widely supported by the public. >> which they are, they'll find someone like you who won't take that view and the support i got will then move to you. >> it's important to note also it's not just the money. the nra is very effective at mobilizing its base. when i talk to politicians about this, they're not only afraid of losing donations, or donations going to their opponent. they're also worried about the small minority of americans who feel very strong

leibovich, jonathan swan, and joining the conversation, editor at large of the "weekly standard," bill kristolod to have you on board. >> bill, a lot to talk about. >> welcome to washington. >> thank you, we love it here. >> we've been showing rupert murdoch's memos to donald trump. murdoch a man that trump has always had great respect for and the "new york post" going out there talking about his half cocked ideas. yesterday the hidlieadline said "help us." it reminded me as something as iconic as "ford to new york, drop dead." it was one of those if this debate turns, it's -- the "new york post" for people that know donald trump will be one of the reasons why and then you have -- as we've said, ralph peters is not a shrinking violet, he talks about the first time he shot a gun he was seven years old and in ralph peters style it was a sawed off shotgun. he served in the military proudly, he fired a lot of military style weapons, he said this is a military-style weapon we're selling. civilians have no right to them. he said the only reason you would use an ar-15 in hunting is if you wanted to c

bill kristol tweeted: after it was revealed there was a fertility, that tweet was deleted. justice department will need to drop the bribery and corruption case against senator bob menendez. the democrat from new jersey not surprisingly saying they came to the appropriate conclusion. he was charged with trading clinical influence for campaign donations and gifts. after a trial last fall ended in a hung jury, prosecutors said they would retry the case against menendez and longtime friend solomon milligan. last week a judge throughout 7 of 8 charges and today prosecutors announced they would not pursue a retrial. the head of homeland security is in minneapolis to discuss security plans for the super bowl. from our authority say there's no cannibal threats against the big game. they will continue to monitor around-the-clock leading up to sunday for the philadelphia eagles will face off with the new england patriots. new development stemming with the first lady's guess at the stated the union officer ryan holets reveals what happened to the homeless pregnant woman whose baby he

the new center you will hear from : by bill kristol and bill of the brooklyn's institute, people who did not think they would come together offer a new view of policy proposals that can bring us together in our cities and country. i'm a passionate radical centrists. a member of an organization called no labels, as democrats and republicans. i went to the event got to see one of their sessions without there is no better audience than for mayors that believe this. it'll be moderated by evan wright, executive vice president of axioms who many know from work as a public liaison for vice president biden at axis evan is leading the team that delivers news in a way that breaks through the noise and misinformation that give people trustworthy and accessible content. this is an intelligent lunch. were going to take it to the next level. thank you. [applause] >> thank you so much. thank you for the introduction and thank you for hosting us today. from tom who i used to see a mild life i'm thrilled to be here with you what an audience full of mayors who have to be on the frontlines every day an

joining us now, "the weekly standard" editor at large, bill kristol, and pbs "newshour" white house correspondent, yamiche alcindor. bill, let me start with you. where it comes apart for me is when john kelly said he heard something in november that the security clearance was being held up, but he didn't get any detail on it. that is just not conceivable, not just of a marine general, who happens to be the white house chief of staff, but pretty much of any human at all, who says, hey, there's a problem with security clearance, it's being -- >> but ali -- >> -- for someone to say, hey, what's the nature of the problem? >> go through the timeline. "washington post" on thursday, kelly learned in 2017. raj shah on thursday, he became aware yesterday. kelly on friday, 40 minutes later he was gone. sanders on monday, within 24 hours of resignation, had been accepted. it's lie on top of lies and it's the lies the that are causing the problem. >> i partly disagree with you guys. you are too focused -- you keep saying it's an unforced error. why is he lying? well, people lie for a reason. why is john kell

in a political sense, can the president ever -- this is by the way why bill kristol compares this to the o.j. trial and efforts to get to the jury pool. we're all the jury pool if you go by frank's argument. can the president politically afford to say, no, i'm not going to sit down and talk about this case? >> i think it's possible he can, brian. this is where this storyline merges with the storyline around this memo and why is the nunes memo so important to republicans, so important to the president, so important to the white house? because it is a way of undermining mueller's credibility, trying to portray mueller and everyone associated with the investigation as biased, as out to get trump, as having something to hide. so you'll start to see the president invoking the memo in this context. if he's asked about why he might have reluctance to talk to mueller on mueller's terms, he'll say it's not fair. we sleuthed it out. we got to the bottom of this thing. it's not on the level. brian, i don't think the middle of the country is buying that. certainly the left of is not buying it. i

. >>> now i want to bridge in bill kristol, the founder and editor of the weekly standard.ore we get to this debate, let me get your take on this breaking news that was sort of evolving, which is back and forth between the president had a & his own attorney general. the president again attacking him today on twitter. the attorney general not engaging on that level but saying i continue to serve with integrity and plan to do so. what do you make of this? >> it's pretty startling. he's bullied sessions before and mostly he's taken it and got on with his job. this is much different. it's not just the speed of sessions' response but the tone of it. as long as i am attorney general, i am continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor. he's implying that we gin up the investigation. sessions is telling trump, if you want me to go, you got to fire me. if you have the nerve to fire me, you fire me. but as long as i'm here -- have we seen anything like this? the system is working great. i admire sessions for standing up, but this is, of course, not a normal system. >> what

we'll talk about the whole week now with our round table, bill kristol, roland martin, mary bruce, jenhony scaramucci at the round table. we have three people who served as communication directors. >> you guys serve more mooches than me. that's fine. >> i want to start on capitol hill, mary. i made that joke about the state of the union. the shelf life incredibly short. friday everyone consumed by the memo. >> it was a partisan grenade. it went off on capitol hill. it exposed the deep division within the two parties and even within the republican party. the president has put republicans in a really tough spot. speaker ryan is trying to walk the fine line. on one hand he supported the release of the memo in the state of transparency but he said it should not be used to undermine the russian investigation which puts him and several others at odds with the president. a vocal group on the hill, doing just that. >> the president is keeping up this drum beat though. >> i think he's upset. listen, we can agree on certain things and obviously disagree on other things. if you're in his position

i want to bring in dana bash, ryan lizza and bill kristol, the editor at large of "the weekly standard." good evening, to all of you. thank you so much for joining us here on a monday night. dana, what exactly is the president willing to do at this point because sarah sanders said he wanted to be a leader. is he leading on this issue? >> we don't know yet. it's too early to know whether he's going to, as you said, actually do sanjay gupta. but i have to say it is no small thing for a republican president to stand up before a room of governors, republican and democrat, with cameras there and say don't be scared of the nra. sometimes we have to do things that the nra doesn't like. i think that it is a big deal particularly since this president got more money from the nra -- at least the nra spent outside money, but it was to help him. more than $30 million to help him get elected. and this president not even a year ago stood before the nra convention promising he would, you know, change everything in the eight years of obama was dreadful and it's going to be different now. but saying tha

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you know, bill kristol.: co-host of "the view" referring to marion le pen who told last week's cpac crowd that she is not offended when trump says america first. brian: she distanced herself from her father. when her father was running for office. is he nowhere to be found. steve: joy behar's father? brian: marie le pen. big difference. receive steve georgia's lieutenant governor putting foot down as more companies cut ties to the nra. how is he calling out one of the big ones next. brian: president trump promising to revive steel jobs no matter the cost >> let them pay tariffs, okay? maybe it will cost a little bit more but we will have jobs. brian: what does it mean for the industry? we will ask steel workers industry leader just ahead. ♪ i do it for the money ♪ ♪ we the people... are defined by the things we share. and the ones we love. who never stop wondering what we'll do or where we'll go next. we the people who are better together than we are alone... are unstoppable. welcome to the entirely new expe