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let's bring in charlie dent of pennsylvania. charlie -- >> how do you do this, charlie?s great to see you. i want to read to you what lindsey graham said after the president made those surprising and hopeful remarks. he said this statement represents presidential leadership on immigration that will allow us to solve a difficult problem, appreciate president trump making it clear that he supports a path to citizenship for daca recipients. a path to citizenship would surprise people in the republican caucus in the house but that's a starting point, is it not, for some negotiations for all sides in getting an immigration deal? >> yeah, joe, and mika, yes, it is. first, let me say this, we can absolutely pass a bipartisan bicameral daca deal with border security. there will be some kind of a pathway to citizenship for these young people. there's no question about this. this is within reach. the real challenge for us on this daca issue is going to be the house. once the senate passes a bill -- and i believe they will -- the house is going to have to take up that bill. right n

it's john yarmouth, a democrat, and republican charlie dent of pennsylvania. >> clearly the threat or the order to fire the special counsel is evidence of obstruction of justice. and i'm really amazed that not every one of the republicans in congress has not stood up and said this is inappropriate. >> it begs the question, why then interfere with the investigation? i'm not saying obstruct, but interfere. it just seems to, you know, contradict what the president has said publicly. he said he's done nothing wrong. well, then, it would be logical to let the investigation come to its natural conclusion. >> reporter: we should say attorneys for president trump say they've offered unprecedented cooperation to not only the special counsel but also the congressional russia investigations. but the levers that president trump could have pulled, the political and legal levers he could have pulled to fire mueller in the past are still available to him, alex. that's one reason why you see democrats and even some republicans acting with new urgency to put in place some legislation that would protec

charlie dent, i appreciate you coming on the show. it is not easy to get republicans to come on and talk about what's happening in the white house right now. thank you for doing it. you're always welcome to discuss issues that matter to the american people. >> thank you. >> be well. >>> so top house democrats unveiled this resolution to try to censure the president, why? the attack on immigrants. can they actually get bipartisan support behind this effort to do it. democratic congressman jerry nadler is leading the effort. he'll join us next. soil is amazing. so we give farmers like win more plants. to grow more delicious coffee. which helps provide for win's family. all, for a smoother tasting cup of coffee. green mountain coffee roasters. ♪ ♪ there are two types of people in the world. those who fear the future... and those who embrace it. the future is for the unafraid. ♪ all because of you ♪ ♪ the markets change... at t. rowe price... our disciplined approach remains. global markets may be uncertain... but you can feel confident i

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shery: representative charlie dent is a close associate of senator flake, and says trump was a factorown decision not to seek reelection this year. he joins us now from capitol hill. congressman, thanks so much for your time. we understand you haven't watched the speech, however, i -- ato ask, this rhetoric the end of the day, will it help or hurt the working congress is trying to do? i just heard senator flake and his speech. i tend to agree with the senator that a free press -- an independent judiciary, these are the requisites for a democratic society and democratic government. to the extent there are these attacks to the media, it is very unhelpful in the long term for this country. it sends messages to the people in other parts of the world where you have authoritarian and justify silencing critics within their own countries. i think that is hyper rhetoric from the president -- it is extremely unhelpful and not keeping up with our democratic traditions. does: at the same time, this type of language, criticizing the media, going beyond criticizing. is it play well to the republica

listen to charlie dent. he is retiring, but there are congress men running for reelection who will get asked this question. do they say this? >> if you have to stand up and say you are stable, i guess that raises questions about your stability. i will leave it to the mental health professionals, but i think the behavior called into question called into question his fitness for sure. >> you are trying to preserve your house majority and districts like charlie dent's, that doesn't help. >> that's hard for senate republicans who are running primaries and you don't have to worry about the general elections. you have to use trump in the primary and how you deal with the general election. in nevada they have a primary opponent from the right who is lashing very closely to trump. if he wins the primary, he will face a general election where he has to distance himself from the president. how do you deal with the president's fitness and it will be fascinating to watch the balancing act. >> this is a bit of a footnote

i mean, charlie dent, he's from my state, he's an exception in that there is no political capital he loses by making a statement like that because he's not running for re-election, he's resigning at the end of this year. i'm a little murky on this, maybe because it's not my area of expertise but, you know, i look at this as, like, look, he almost did it, but then he didn't do it. and cooler heads prevailed. i don't know -- >> except this is like, you know, a broken record, you know, this has become so many occasions that people are now analyzing or explaining away or, i mean, it's very curious. it's just not -- >> right, i understand that -- >> go ahead. >> i often wonder how many other presidents or leaders have gotten to the point where they've like internally fired someone and then walked it back because they're, like, okay, this is really wrong. i can't do this. so, i mean, there's other things that obviously bring things into question. maybe i'm just not seeing it with this one. again, i'm not a lawyer. i don't understand all these things. >> so patrick -- go ahead, patrick. >>

democratic nomination for the house of representatives in the 15th congression district now that charlie dent is not seing re-election. >>> is raising the of contestants. >> present trump and protesters are heading to the national championship of college football. >> reporter: you have to be careful on the roads and especially the secondaries and sidewalks especially as the freezing rain and sleet and light snow moves in, i'll have that on the seven day along with much milder weather later in the week. >> 4:42 a.m., the march of the icies, ice fragments, so darn cold around here,ver, that the river that normallydoe. action cam along with delaware. >> that soundse the name of an opera. the march of the belcaria. >> that's what i was referring to. [laughter]. >> reporter: as we look outside, we have sky6 live hd, there was penns landing in the delaware river with the ice chunksehigh l that stuff. it is interesting up there, actually when you see, up north around bucks county and farther north the big chunks of coming through, sometimes its damming and all, be don't have it that bad this time ar

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joining us is republican congressman charlie dent. good morning, congressman?> good morning, alisyn. great to be with you. >> great to have you. do you know about this nunez memo and what's in it? >> i know the memo. it was a memo prepared by i believe republican staff of the intelligence committee. i have not yet read it. but i mean there's a lot in there that has been discussed. >> such as -- i know some of it is classified, but in broad brush strokes, can you tell us if this is a bombshell memo or if these are chairman nunez's sort of cliff notes on something he's seen with fisa? >> since i have not read it, i can't comment on the content. even if i did read it, i couldn't comment on the content because it's classified. as i read in public reports, there's some suggestion that sa rules or laws may have been olated in the context ofhis investigation. i think that's what the allegation is. again, having said that, just based on news reports, without having read the memo. >> here is the point. some of your republican colleagues seem to be in overdrive trying to

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charlie dent, it's great to have you home, you're a sane person. you're from lee high valley. it seems to me the democrats decided one of their main constituent groups going into the next 20 years are latinos, hispanics and they have a sentiment largely in favor of people and these daca people and liberals do, too. on the republican side, you have a very hard line, anti-league of immigration people who don't want to get caught with anything that brands them with amnesty for anybody who came here. so how do we find a compromise of these adversarial views? >> i think there's a very easy way to solve this problem. one, we reopen the government, whether for one day or five days. we get off the treadmill of continuing rest lieolutions. but we also also reach agreement on the daca amendment. when it gets to the house, the speaker must allow a vote on that bipartisan compromise on daca, even if it means there will not be a majority of house republicans voting for it. i think that's the way out of this. >> that's never happened before. you had a bipartisan senate vote which was a real

joining me now, congressman charlie dent of pennsylvania.s a member of the problem-solvers caucus, but more importantly, a member of the fly eagles fly caucus. he has very graciously taken a break from the eagles game. you can put the hat on, sir. that's like totally fair. there we go, there we go. that's excellent. it's 14-7. we're up in the second quarter. so, for all of you sitting here watching this shutdown coverage with baited breath instead of watching the football game, there is your update. thank you for sticking with us. sir, what is going to unfold tonight? do you think -- what are the odds they can get to a deal in your view? >> i don't think they get to a deal tonight. first the government must reopen. once the government reopens, it is incumbent on us to find a buy part son buy camera agreement. we can get off of this treadmill of continuing resolutions which is very frustrating. this budget agreement is critical. we're not going to get a budget agreement until there is some consensus on daca, you know, the dreamers. and pairin

charlie dent announced he will not be seeking re-election. >>> super cold wintry mix coming in this afternoon, david what can you tell us. >> reporter: this afternoon will be icy anyway, especially on sidewalks and streets that have not been treated or haven't maintained that treatment for the last precipitation eventful weekend as we looking at storm tracker 6 live we're dry this morning. taking a look outside there's sky6 live hd. there's the airport, it's wintry and cold this morning, although it's dry for the morning commute. temperatures 19 degrees, the winds not all that strong at 8 miles per hour that's enough to give you a windchill of 9. once again as has been the case recently you have to bundle up a little bit as you head outside. future tracker 6 shows you if you do see sunshine early it will give way to increasing clouds in the morning. by noon we'll be on the look out for the far northern western areas for the on set of light snow mixing with sleet and freezing rain in the northern and western suburbs. 3:00 p.m. this is pushing closer to i-95 and pushing past it into parts of so

joined by republican congressman charlie dent from pennsylvania. thank you for joining us.ive us the reporting on this. first of all, the fact that rosenstein is now in the target zone, and the fact that tray gowdy is out there saying i still trust mueller to do his job if he gets the time and resources to do it and he isn't interfered with. how do you put that into partisan politics terms? >> it's not surprising that rosenstein is still in the target zone. this is someone who president trump refers to as that democrat from baltimore. this is someone he has complained about since last summer when he gave the order that he then backed down on to fire mueller. what was striking to us is that president trump, who by all accounts has sort of been tamed a bit by his lawyers was still this past week talking about wanting to fire rod rosenstein and more specifically, he was talking about how this memo that now increasingly looks like it will be released would sort of give him the pretext or the foundation to fire him and make other sweeping changes at the justice department. >> we

joining us now is congressman charlie dent.ment of justice says the text messages are missing because of an archival problem affecting 10% of phones of the fbi between that period. do you take the justice department at its word or share president trump's suspicions? >> no, i accept the justice department's explanation. i think a lost my colleagues got to take a deep breath, be a bit more measured and i think they ought to step back from some of these conspiracy theories, deep state. for heavens sake, sounds like we're talking about the ulliminati for heavens sake. i think we should be more measured. we've been the party of law enforcement at the state and local level and certainly been supportive of federal law enforcement. we shouldn't be doing things to undermine the american public's confidence in the justice department and the fbi at a time like this. >> it does seem startling to hear this coming from the republican side, talking about, you know, this idea of a deep state, but also, you know, secret societies within the fbi

joining me now live from washington is congressman charlie dent he's a republican representative for the pennsylvania fifteenth district welcome congressman dent thank you for talking to us on not what do you make off president trump's first hundred days do you think he's made america great again that was is about objective. well it's the first year not first one hundred days i have to say it's been a rather chaotic year to put it mildly we've never really dealt with this level of a chaotic government it's just been a it's been a new experience for all of us that's all i can say there's been a lot of dysfunction and discord in the white house and a lot of disruption and that has made legislating frankly a lot more difficult than it should be. critical of some of president policies why well there when i've always said when there are areas where i agree with the president i will work with him and support and when i disagree with him you know i will serve as a check that's our job as members of congress to be a check on the executive branch and if the president goes off the rails as we

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earlier this morning, democratic congressman steve cohen and republican congressman charlie dent told me this reported step by step as the president crossed the line. >> mueller is in jeopardy. because what does trump do but fire people? i think they've kept him on a leash for a while. but he's a bulldog. and they keep him on a leash. he likes to be in the epicenter, and it's bad for him. >> why interfere with the investigation? i'm not saying obstruct, but interfere. it just seems to contradict what the president has said publicly. he said he's done nothing wrong. it would be ledge cogical to le investigation come to its natural conclusion. >> in the senate, "the new york times" and "washington post" say democrats plan to include legislation to protect mueller. this is part of continuing budget negotiations. republican senator lindsey graham co-sponsoring yet another measure. helping us navigate through the latest, nbc white house correspondent geoff bennett. "time" magazine's jane bennett small. we will talk about with former federal prosecutor cynthia oxney. geoff, there's new reac

let's talk about john morganelli, who has said he's one of the many people jumping in to run for charlie dent'sssional seat. dent's saying he's not gonna run this fall. his name -- i was looking at the other names running -- of course, his stands out. is he sort of the giant stepping into this race, and he is kind of prohibitive to everybody else? >> well, first, i want to get my shot on the last point. >> okay. >> if rich lazer -- i don't know him -- but obviously was given a lot of credit for helping to bring about a labor settlement with district council 33, which had been elusive. if rich lazer is in this race, realistically, this is all a setup. i mean, bob brady is not going to face rich lazer. there's not gonna be a division of the building trades over -- a primary over bob brady. so this strikes me as brady getting ready to step aside, whether it's this session of the congress or soon -- >> there have been rumors about that. >> well, look, he's been in there a long time. i once spoke to him about it. i'm not one of his favorite people, but i spoke to him about this, and, you know, the f

he said how come you let charlie dent off the hook because charlie is a moderate republican. why don't you say to charlie how come can you let this guy ryan let nunes run around with his memos? >> because paul ryan it appears either is a lackey and a flunky just like devin nunes is or paul ryan is so invested in what he can get from the donald trump. remember, donald trump is the person who obviously sells the base on paul ryan's agenda. paul ryan wants those tax cuts for the rich. paul ryan wants donald trump's right hand with a pen in it and doesn't care. >> i mean, we know -- i worked for one of these speakers in the house. it's a constitutional office. it's a greater office than senate majority leader in the line of success. there's there because the founding fathers wanted it there. to think you work for the president? >> as you he's afraid. they've gotten the big prize. they've gotten the tax cuts through. now it's about short-term political survival. he's afraid this president will turn on the republicans who obviously are standing there in the rose garden with him on

the senate who have announced that they are not going to run in the fall of 2018 whether it's charlie dent, darrell issa, orrin hatch. some are leaving because of tenure and age others, clearly, because they face either primary or stiff election tests others because they're just freaking fed up. what's happening here and how -- how much risk is the gop in of losing the house not just the senate. >> non-partisan election observers say that the gop house, majority, definitely at risk republicans i talk to every day at the capitol say, look, even though they've got a tax bill through it may not be enough for me to sell that to a suburban voter in my district voters are increasingly concerned about president trump's conduct and behavior not all bought in on the trump agenda and the worrying signs for republicans. what happened in virginia and out in alabama democrats got a foothold in the south of all places and that was a worryi ining sign to republic. >> bob, brian sullivan donald trump doing that 55-minute visualized press conference saying he's go to davos. now this maybe donald trump can

. >> congressman charlie dent, thank you so much for your time today. >> thank you. >>> all right. hardship overseas, 95 dead now and more than 150 injured in kabul after an ambulance packed with expositives detonated. now the taliban claiming responsibility. >>> plus, a bipartisan house committee wants answers from the u.s. olympic committee and usa gymnastics. how did larry nasr get away with sexually abusing over 150 girls for two decades? stay with us. julie is living with metastatic breast cancer which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of her body. she's also taking prescription ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor, which is for postmenopausal women with hormone receptor positive her2- metastatic breast cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. ibrance plus letrozole was significantly more effective at delaying disease progression versus letrozole. patients taking ibrance can develop low white blood cell counts which may cause serious infections that can lead to death. before taking ibrance, tell your doctor if you have fever, chills, or other signs of infection

republican congressman charlie dent who has given up on continuing his congressional career is free togs like this today. i believe now that this revelation has been made public there will be increasing pressure to protect mueller. joining us now congressman adam schiff, the ranking member of the house intelligence committee. thank you very much for joining us tonight. i really appreciate it. i want to get to -- i got to say as a house watcher, i think you and i probably have never heard someone say i can't talk about the most important issue of the day. i have to two to a copyright hearing. i think that's a new one. >> it's hard to top in terms of interest. >> i want to get your reaction to something that michael wolff just said on this show. it's an issue that in a criminal case would be left to a jury and in an impeachment case would be brought to you. that is if there's an obstruction of justice case, that is presented to the house of representatives and one of the elements of the obstruction of justice case is the president ordered the firing of robert mueller. what michael wolff

charlie dent and the orange county retirement representatives, those are seats that republicans depending on how frank they are being if they say they are either gone or definitely in danger. more of those retirements that , the more concerned republicans should be and the more optimistic democrats are. host: how much of a force will he be in those midterm elections as far as campaigning and other matters? glimpse later a this week. he's going to southwestern pennsylvania. another special election for a house seat should be safely republican. democrats see an opening here and the president is going to shore up the base and keep them engaged. it's an open question. very interesting caller saying he is going back to the democrats because the president has not been able to make these deals. i think you're are absolutely right that republicans in both mccarthyand i'm sure has delivered this message to theyresident this weekend need more accomplishments to really begin campaigning in earnest. every time the president seems to take a step forward in dealing with congress he takes and it's these

. >> the republican congressman charlie dent said the pattern on race was troubling. >> if it had not been for the fact the president had previously made statements about mexicans and muslims and his failure to denounce david duke in a timely manner and the charlottesville situation, those previous incidents are cause for concern that have made this situation even more alarming. >> mitt romney weighing in today as he prepares to rejoin the political debate through a likely senate run. the power of the nation of origin. >> the president is flying back washington after a three-day vacation in florida. what is at stake is the three-day shutdown on friday. look for meetings to happen here at the white house. one adviser told me he hopes they can move beyond last week's meeting and make progress. we'll see if that happens this week. in week three of this new year. >> that's right. tweeting about dick durbin on the eve of these meetings may not be the most constructive way of moving on. my panel is here to discuss all of this. democratic strategist, executive director, i want to start with

today for instance, the republican congressman charlie dent of pennsylvania said his colleague should cease and desist from some of this rhetoric. >> we were mortified when many on the far left were launches these attacks against police. now here we are as a party, you know, trying to brand ourselves as somehow suggesting the men and women of the fbi are not as professional as they ought to be. we need to get behind law enforcement, show some respect here and move away from these conspiracy theories. >> shepard: conspiracy theories. other republicans are calling for the memo to be made public and that americans should see it and judge for themselves. the trump justice department warning lawmakers say that would be extraordinarily reckless unless the department reviews the document first. >> the information in the memo is classified. so that's classified for a republican. it has national security implications and if there's ed of wrong doing, we want to see it while it's classified. >> shepard: the number 2 senate republican says it's up to the house whether to release the memo. he say

representatives first planned to vote to repeal and replace obamacare, the republican party had too many charlie dents. >> we did not have quite the votes to replace this law. >> during the next effort to repeal and replace in may, there was 14 million americans who were going to lose their medicaid coverage because the president expanded medicaid. it passed the house. >> this is a real plan, this is a great plan. >> but it hit a snag in the senate. president trump tried to muscle the bill through, with some trademark arm twisting, such as this public teasing of nevada senator dean heller. he wants to remain a senator, doesn't he? >> as well as his typical twitter taunts. so important republican senators under leadership of senator majority leader mcconnell get halth care plan approved. after seven years of o-care disaster, must happen. it didn't. >> measure not agreed to. >> with the ultimate bill on the table, it failed. with this dramatic thumbs down from republican senators john mccain. the repeal and replace of obamacare that president trump promised would happen on day one was dead for the year.

joining us now is congressman charlie dent. missing because of the archival problems.you take the justice department at its word or do you share president trump's suspicions? >> i accept the explanation. a lot of my colleagues ought to take a deep breath and be a bit more measured. for heavens sakes sounds like they are talking about the illuminati for heavens sake. we certainly have been supportive of federal law enforcement and we shouldn't be doing to undermine the american public's confidence and the fbi at a time like this. >> it seems startling to hear this coming from the republican side. this idea of a deep state and secret societies within the fbi. it is not the kind of thing as you point out that traditionally republicans would be arguing. >> yeah. two years ago, many of us on the republican side was appalled by some of the rhetoric used by some of the left by the law enforcement on this country. mortified by the attacks on police and law enforcement. i am surprised by this 180-degree turn at least in respect to the fbi. these agents are doing anti organized

that they feel like just as charlie dent had said and mitch mcconnell, they are not sure where the president stands on some of these issues. >> yeah, i do have a sense that they have decided to move on. i think that mcconnell has been very patient, basically saying they were waiting on the president. they wanted, you know, the president to take the lead, et cetera, et cetera. but we're facing monday, and we're in a shutdown. and we have people who are, you know, not going to be able to go to work, who are not going to get paid, and that's a dangerous position for all of us to be in. and we should do everything that we can to lift this shutdown, and so i do think that mcconnell has decided that they have got to keep going, that they can't wait until the president decides what he wants to do. >> and according to some of my cnn colleages, some of my colleagues eyewitnessed senators mcconnell and schumer going off together and maybe even meeting. how encouraging would that be, and what would that say to you if that were the case? >> that's a good sign. don't forget, senator schumer tried to get

one will be at charlie dent's office.he other at representative lloyd smucker's office. >>> 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with philadelphia's suing drugmakers for their role in the opioid crisis. the pharmaceutical companies have created an unprecedented health crisis. nbc 10's aundrea cline-thomas is joining us. explain why city leaders feel they have a case against these companies. >> the city outlined its argument here. more than 100 pages in this lawsuit. basically saying, and accusing the pharmaceutical companies of using deceptive practices to market those opioid s and not saying just how dangerous they can be. >> when i was like 15, 16, i broke my hand and had a plate put in it. and when i got out of the hospital, they prescribed me percoset. >> reporter: it was first used for his physical pain and then became used to numb something much deeper. >> doctors didn't warn me what could happen. >> reporter: addiction happened quickly for zachary and michael. >> took about two and a half years to destroy everythin

. >> earlier today, republican congressman charlie dent echoed that very curiosity.n. >> if the president, as he has stated, that he has done nothing wrong, i don't understand why he seems to want to interfere with this, with this process. i thought it was a mistake to fire director comey, at least the way it was done, was terrible. >> so, sam, how is it that the president doesn't see that, you know, constantly trying to undermine law enforcement, you know, the special counsel only makes the questions more glaring as to what -- what is there to hide? >> fred, that's a great question. the other question that i asked myself is why would the president want to make russia's job that much easier. you know, all these threads are like the gift that never stops giving for vladimir putin. as shawn pointed out, the intelligence community has assessed that russia is trying to undermine confidence in our democracy. the rule of law is a core pillar of that democracy. we've seen a pattern of the president and his administration consistently attack the fbi and the department of jus

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one of them charlie dent. >> i just didn't want to have to go through a year trying to explain the chaosnd dysfunction. don't get me wrong. i expect a certain amount of dysfunction in government. i hate to say it. now at the white house they've taken the fun out of dysfunction. it's not that fun anymore and it's not that funny any more fighting about crowd size and that's really not why i came to congress. >> also stepping away from the senate, republican jeff flake. >> we must stop pretending that the degradation of our politics and the conduct of some in our executive branch are normal. they are not normal. >> flake announced his retirement in october following a scathing attack on president trump's conduct in office. the reason, the trump critic, a man who had positioned himself as the moral center of his party, had determined he could not win his primary. >> the president is very popular with the base, and the base votes in republican primaries. i couldn't embrace this president and those positions. i couldn't run a campaign that i'd be proud of. >> in the senate, democrats now need

people like charlie dent, a moderate in pennsylvania. the most anti-trump republicans are getting out of town. >> matt nussbaum, yamiche alcindor, thank you so much. steve kornacki, you are sticking around with me, because coming up, with so many headlines to choose from, how will history judge this week of the trump presidency? "the 11th hour" back after this. >>> this weekend, the president will be focused on his agenda for the coming year. but it seems there's at least a decent chance the events of this week will matter for months if not years to which. so with us to look at how this week might be interpreted down the line, presidential historian and author john meacham and msnbc's steve kornacki here with us. john, i want to give you a chance first to tell me how you think this tweet this evening will be judged by history. >> well, you know, if we'd had twitter during watergate, this is roughly what it would have been like, i think. these tweets are going to be hugely important because they're like -- to use a generationally challeng

. >> i tried to explain to them -- >> republicans such as congressman charlie dent from pennsylvania. >> it really caused me a lot of heartburn. >> why? >> i got a text message from my son, joey called, hit family's at the philadelphia airport, they're not letting them in the country. >> at the philadelphia airport and airports across the country, chaos. >> their visas revoked while they were in midair. it took ten days to get the family back in, and we did get them in. >> by then a tone had been set. the u.s. president refusing to be constrained by traditional presidential protocol. >> why are we not having a press conference today? >> this delighted millions of his supporters who wanted him to disrupt. >> we just had a press conference. >> while millions of other americans were horrified. >> i like real news, not fake news. you're fake news. >> the media's fake. >> the president insisted on attacking facts as fiction. >> all i can say is it's totally fake news. just fake. >> and he was unafraid to say untrue things. >> obamacare covers very few people. it was the biggest electoral c

people like charlie dent, a moderate in pennsylvania.ost anti-trump republicans are getting out of town. >> matt nussbaum, yamiche alcindor, thank you so much. steve kornacki, you are sticking around with me, because coming up, with so many headlines to choose from, how will history judge this week of the trump presidency? "the 11th hour" back after this. mom, i have to tell you something. dad, one second i was driving and then the next... they just didn't stop and then... i'm really sorry. i wrecked the subaru. i wrecked it. you're ok. that's all that matters. (vo) a lifetime commitment to getting them home safely. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. eight hundred dollars when wet switched our auto and home insurance. with liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of your brother. hey. oh. that's my robe. is it? you could save seven hundred eighty two dollars when liberty stands with you. liberty mutual insurance. >>> this weekend, the president will be focused on his agenda for the coming year, it seems there's at least

republican charlie dent, who wants congress to give robert mueller some job protection, joins us nextare, don't let another weekend pass you by. get the lowest price when you book at hilton.com >>> 11:00 p.m. here on the east coast in washington live tonight with huge and disturbing breaking news on the russia investigation. republicans on the house intel committee voting along party lines to publicly release a controversial and one-sided memo written by chairman devin nunes, a political ally of this white house, and a member of the trump transition team, with a record of

. >>> congressman charlie dent, a pennsylvania republican. congressman, thank you so much. so what is going on? let's talk about this controversial memo. what is going on with the house intel committee? do they have any credibility left when it comes to the russia investigation? >> well, early on this investigation seemed to get off track. devin nunes having to recuse himself early. it seemed the senate was on a much better trajectory to produce a bipartisan report and release findings i think that were going to be more acceptable. i think this is just further evidence that the house process is just not going as planned. >> does this concern you, that this memo would be released without the source documents? the justice department warned it would be "extraordinarily reckless" for the house intelligence committee to release this without giving the fbi and justice department time to review it. >> well, i have a lot of reservations about releasing this four-page document. i was chair of the house ethics committee. like the intelligence committee, we have to deal with very sens

. >>> joining us now is congressman charlie dent, republican from pennsylvania. we've heard from the president this weekend reacting to this book vigorously, defending his mental state, tweeting out that he is, like, really smart and that he is a stable genius. is his defense helping or hurting? >> well, i can't say that helps. if you have to stand up and stay that you're stable, i guess that raises questions about your stability. look, the president made an error in judgment by bringing steve bannon into his orbit in first place. steve bannon kind of represents anihilism in a way that's bad for the country. but he's gone. the president said he would bring in good people and he brought in steve bannon who is not a good person for this type of work. bottom line is the issues raised in that book do raise concerns for most of us because clearly the whole idea of impulse control, lack of focus -- and we heard this before. the book more or less just confirms what many of us had been hearing. so i wasn't really shocked by those revelations. what i was shocked by was th

in our region alone republican charlie dent deciding against another run. scandal leading the gop's pat meehan to for go a re-election bid. dem crack chaka fat at a in prison and now bob brady saying goodbye at the end of this his& tenth term in office. the man who defined blue collar in congress announced his departure wearing a black long sleeved eagles t-shirt and told reporters after 20 years in washington, it it was time to put his family first. >> my daughter single parent could use some help. i'd like to take my grandchildren to school. i got a great grandchld, have another grandchild on the way. and i just think that i choose them. >> brady touted his record in d.c. claiming authorship of 14 bills that ultimately became law. noted his cloud in delivering for his constituents. >> i brought back 15.5 billion, with b, billion dollars to the city of philadelphia and this region. >> in deep blue district brady was never tested on election day but a scandal involving payments allegedly made to entice a primary challenger to drop his bid have dogged the in

charlie dent of pennsylvania. he's one of the republicans calling it quits. so good to have you on. thank you for joining us, how are you doing? >> i'm doing great, don. great to be on tonight. >> wednesday again today, president trump was very forceful in was no collusion between his campaign and the russians, he said since there has been no collusion, it would be unlikely there would be an interview with robert mueller's special council? >> do you think he should be interviewed? as he's said in the past he's willing to do. >> i've been one of the people saying, let director mueller do his work, i'm not going to prejudge anything, i don't want to speculate whether there was collusion. other than that, i trust director mueller and his team to do the job. again, the president said he would testify, i believe that's what he stated publicly, i think he should honor that request, that's not my call. >> yeah, he said he would do it under oath. >> for people who are watching and may not be involved in politics every single day. explain why you're not going to run? >> i've been in elected

my voting card, and charlie dent's voting card has our pictures on it but it doesn't blonde to us.t belongs to the people we represent. >> do you think the fbi is biased against the president. i think the fbi has engaged in activities that they shouldn't be engaged in. let's take the most recent "new york times" report that came out over the last few days. in that report you have six reporters reporting anonymous sources. but in the actual report they talked about the fact they have interviewed agents both current and former agents, fbi, doj agents, for their story. now, what agent would actually opine or give a reporter information on an ongoing investigation? it is a cardinal sin and they can't do that. >> this is an i issue all the time. >> i do think there are people at the very top of the fbi that are not carrying out their constitutional duty without bias. >> let me ask you this, if they were so antitrump why did they keep the investigation into the president as a candidate secret and why did they reopen the investigation into the president's opponent? this is where the facts

joined by charlie dent of pennsylvania, national political reporter covering this over bannon.sman, you're from the establishment wing of the republican party as many people understand. i don't imagine you're too excited about a lot of these bannon backed primary channels. these candidates, kelly moore, arizona, tarkanian, nevada, i'm with the president, the establishment is trying to fight him. i'll have his back, they won't. they still have that message. now it looks like they're not going to get any help from bannon. does having bannon on the sideline affect their ability to win? >> oh, i -- i don't know about that. look, the issue here isn't really steve bannon. i mean, the issue is the president. the president exercised the bad judgment to bring bannon into his orbit in the first place. i think that's the terrible error of judgment. also, i'd say in a battle of donald trump and steve bannon, donald trump wins. steve bannon, the only thing he can accomplish is he lost a seat in alabama. he's really not delivered much of anything. in fact, he essentially pulled the pin out o

one of them is charlie dent. i spoke with the congressman just before we went to air.today lindsey graham doubled down saying my memory hasn't evolved. i know what was said and i know what i said. do you have any reason to doubt senator graham? do you think the president said that? >> i do not doubt what senator graham has said. he was in the meeting and i accept him at his word. i think really the challenge for the president is it's one of these here we go again moments. the president has a history. he made incendiary comments about mexicans, muslims. there was charlottesville. and now this. so people aren't going to give the president the benefit of the doubt on an issue like this. >> "the new york times" reported three weeks ago the president had said that haitians, they all have aids and talked about people from nigeria as people who lived in huts. white house denied that. this was in a bipartisan meeting. the question is if one believes the senators who say it happened, are the others lying or did they mishear? >> i can't speak for those senators. i wasn't in the