desert and we'll see what happens again for mark reporting live from inside this fortress, i'm chris matthews back to you. >>thank you very much. chris, yes, chris matthews in vegas will have the highlights later tonight, so which sharks warriors both of our area teams in some up early postseason drama about that i think the word is going to be a little angrier testy when they go la so i don't think that bodes well for the clippers will see how she was always out him and thank you mark. coming up. tesla killer, but it is a car that could turn the head of james bond. we'll have a first look at aston martin's new electric car. it may be the perfect time to plan. >>many the national park service says it will kick off national park week. my waiving all interest fees on saturday this year national park week runs from april 20th through the 28 and there will be several theme days to mark the event including military and veterans recognition day on the 21th and park ranger day for pets on the 27th. of course the entrance fee waiver does not cover amenity or user fees like camping transportation and

chris matthews. >> i think that kelly is great. kelly has there upbeat personality. even you know unless the story is true and tragic, she has a smile on her face. she's truly an old style straight reporter. no politics from her at all. i have no idea what the politics are of anybody at msnbc news. i work at the network side of things, gex at others. i have to tell you, she is a spark. a spark of personality to work w. i tell you. she has done it for 25 years. who is it that said she still looks like she's still in college. hasn't left a mark on her. good for her. >> an amazing white house correspondent now. elyse jordan is with us, oh, association rick stranger, she is held up by our biden coverage. we wanted to talk also about some of the other new developments on the biden front. he's, his policies on foreign policy, he has been criticized for the vote in favor of the iraq war, yet he hand dig luger, his colleague -- dick luger, his colleague, questioning every issue. he has a long history there on foreign policy, which you know so well. >> i will lead up to it. i

and chris matthews is joining us. chris. >> i've been watching your great coverage. i think nicolle hit it on the nail a number of times. but a couple things i had the leisure of sitting here watching you rather than just -- i've been able to read it over and over. the first thing that struck me was the political brilliant of bill barr four weeks ago. had he said then what he came out on sunday with 48 hours no i to stay what was in the report, if he had come out and said that i disagreed with robert mueller on obstruction of justice, that word disagreed, if he had said that then for the last four weeks, it would have been the reigning headline of the story. i disagreed with the mueller report on obstruction of justice. he did that this morning as part of a soft landing he was what we call rolling disclosure, in politics where you soften the band landi bad landing. what you will hear in the actual mueller report is not what i agreed with. i don't think that there was obstruction of justice. i don't like those cases he pointed out. i felt they were wrong. so that is o

don't go anywhere, "hardball" with chris matthews is up next. >> from russia with love. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews from washington. donald trump is smart to fear the mueller report. it makes sense that he is preoccupied with defending himself in the wake of mueller's findings. the fact that he is screaming bloody murder and tweeting with such nervousness shows his critics grasp the danger to donald trump from mueller's central finding that the russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion. what we are witnessing right now is a president who knows history will chalk up his election in 2016 to the help he got from the russians. trump fears his presidency will have an asterisk next to it in the history books like a major leaguer whose performance is chalked up to drug use. the president is afraid that reports of russian election interference might lead the public to question the legitimacy of his election. it's so profound it is causing at this time white house to turn a blind eye to the russi

"hardball" with chris matthews is up next. >>> if he won, why is he so angry.ews in washington. we are following breaking news for the second time. the trump administration has defied the congress on the president's tax returns. this has nancy pelosi speaking out about impeachment. jared kushner made a ridiculous statement about the mueller investigation. all of that is coming up. donald trump tonight is in a troubled state, spraying tweets in all directions andeh

i'm chris matthews in washington. with 36 hours until the mueller report gets released, a terrible anxiety inside trump world. those inside the white house are wondering who among them will be outed. who has given evidence against the man in the oval office. nbc news is reporting that current and former white house official who is spoke to pluler's prosecutors are worried that thursday's report will expose them as the source of damaging information against the president. according to several witnesses of concern is how trump and allies react with who shared information with mueller. one former official said they got asked questions and told the truth and now they are worried the wrath will follow. william barr stated that the special counsel interviewed approximately 500 witnesses throughout the investigation and among them numerous current and former trump administration officials cooperated with prosecutors voluntarily and any of them could have provided damning testimony against the president. they include official

i'm chris matthews of washington. nothing concentrates the mind, wrote samuel johnson, like the thought of imminent hanging. with the mueller report expected to portray his campaign as a dupe of russia, not to mention deliver alarming new evidence of obstruction is determined to now change the subject. he called the mueller investigation an attempted coup and encouraged the justice department to make war on it. >> this was an attempted coup. this was an attempted take down of a president. we beat them. what i'm most interested in is getting started hopefully the attorney general, he mentioned it yesterday. he's doing a great job. getting started on going back to the origins of exactly where this all started. this was an illegal witch hunt. what they did was treason. what they did was herible. what they did was against our constitution and everything we stand for. hopefully that will happen. >> now it appears that william barr is supposed to deliver on the president's wishes. he said he intends to review the conduct of

i'm chris matthews in washington. we have breaking news in a stunning new report "the washington post" reveals that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein had an effort to keep his own job with the president after the "new york times" reported last september that he offered to wear a wire to record the president. when trump called him demanding answers, he sought to diffuse the situation and assures the president he was on his team, assuring him he would make sure trump was treated fairly. according to the new administration official, rosenstein said i give the investigation credibility. here's the key line. i can land the plane. i can land the plane. his reassurance to the president was ominous given that he and the attorney general cleared the president of obstruction of justice after the special counsel had not. the other big story is that the president is waging a pervasive disinformation campaign in the wake of the mueller report itself. he is going to say anything to elevates him in the eyes of his people. he is

i'm chris matthews in washington. big political news on two fronts.ion to defeat donald trump shot up in three major polls. the man he targeted for defeat is escalating and suing his own banks to block the subpoena to turn over financial records. we will get to that soon. joe biden is o

i'm chris matthews in washington. we ever looking at the possibility that the mueller report will turn out to be far tougher than william and donald trump have been saying. this could explain why the president is bashing both the mueller report and the democrats who want to see the document in full next week. the attorney general was on capitol hill speaking basketbally for the first time since he obtained the report almost three weeks ago. barr said he's on track to deliver a redacted version of the report within a week. >> my standpoint, within a week. i'll be in a position to release the report to the public and then i will engage with the chairman of both judiciary committees about that report and further requests they have. >> barr said he has the full report that could prompt the issue of that is subpoena they authorized last week. the most significant thing is barr refused to say what anyone at the white house has been briefed on the contents of the report. >> did the white house see the report before you relea

chris matthews of "hardball" is with us from our washington bureau. chris, what sadness. >> you know, brian, i was thinking of someone who was in our business, back in 1938, when the hindenburg crashed and herb morrison oh the humanity, watching all of those people die in front of him, when the great airship blew up in front of him. it wasn't humanity today, it was history, the civilization lost today, a millennium of civilizati civilizations. us roman catholics you went to paris it was what you saw seeing the notre dame cathedral, this is the true church, the universal church. if you studied art at all in school, everybody took a little bit of art history that was the great gothic cathedral with the flying buttresses and a symbol of everything people learned. i love the way that george weigel talked about kenneth clarke saying this is civilization. what a statement about one building, it's civilization itself, and i was just struck by, you know, hitler, when he was winning world war ii, starting in '40, going into france after going through the low co

"hardball" with chris matthews is up next. >>> the silent truth. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington where we are getting news from inside the mueller operation. last night the "new york times" revealed that members of the special counsel's team told associates they believed that william barr "failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry that were more troubling for president trump than barr indicated." reporting on this simmering tensions between robert mueller's investigators and the justice department that exploded in the public view. n nbc's reporting goes further into the substance of the heart of that dispute. an official said they described the evidence on obstruction as compelling and said it includes more information that has been made public, specifically lie believe the evidence is stronger than barr suggested. it's bad news for the president when it comes to russian interference in the 2016 election. "some on the special counsel's team said the findings paint a picture of a cambridge a

i'm chris matthews of washington.oncentrates the mind, wrote samuel johnson, like the thought of imminent hanging. with the mueller report expected to portray his campaign as a dupe of russia, not to mention deliver alarming new evidence of obstruction is determined to now change the subject. he called the mueller investigation an attempted coup and encouraged the justice department to make war on it. >> this was a

i'm chris matthews in washington.ibility that the mueller report will turn out to be far tougher than william and donald trump have been saying. this could explain why the president is bashing both the mueller report and the democrats who want to see the document in full next week. the attorney general was on capitol hill speaking basketbally for the first time since he obtained the report almost three weeks

i'm chris matthews in washington.stunning new report "the washington post" reveals that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein had an effort to keep his own job with the president after the "new york times" reported last september that he offered to wear a wire to record the president. when trump called him demanding

i'm chris matthews in washington. joe biden is in the race for president, saying he can bounce trump from the white house. the former vice president launched with a 2020 nomination with a clear message to wavering democrats, i am the one who can beat president trump. in his announcement video, he drew a battle line with the president, invoking the images of the deadly white nationalist rally in charlottesville and ex-coreiating the president'ses response about there being very fine people on both sides. >> with those words, the president of the united states assigned a moral e 85 lens between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. in that moment, i knew the threat to this nation was unlike any i had ever seen in my lifetime. we are in the battle for the soul of this nation. i believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces is an ab rent moment in time. if we give donald trump eight years in the white house, he will forever and fundamentally alter the cha

i'm chris matthews in washington.r report gets released, a terrible anxiety inside trump world. those inside the white house are wondering who among them will be outed. who has given evidence against the man in the oval office. nbc news is reporting that current and former white house official who is spoke to pluler's prosecutors are worried that thursday's report will expose them as the source of

img chris matthews in washington. hours from now the american public will get its first look at the 400 page report from robert mueller's investigation. just tonight on the very eve of the revelation, we have the disturbing new that is the trump white house had the guts in its hands for days. they issued a report tonight revealing that the justice department officials had numerous conversations with white house lawyers about the conclusions made by mr. mueller in recent days according to people with knowledge of the discussions. the talks have aided the legal team as they prepare a rebuttal and strategies over the war of its findings. the fact that those conversations occurred raises questions of course about the propriety of the attorney general's decision making after he issued that four-page letter. this comes after the president himself broke the news that general barr will hold a press conference to address the special counsel's report. the president announced the attorney general's press conference. think about

"hardball" with chris matthews is up next. >>> the silent truth.ning. i'm chris matthews in washington where we are getting news from inside the mueller operation. last night the "new york times" revealed that members of the special counsel's team told associates they believed that william barr "failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry that were more troubling for president trump than barr indicated." reporting on this

i'm chris matthews in washington.d the mueller report, you have company here because according to "the new york times," that guy right there, the president of the united states has yet to read it. not even a cursory reading. it charges him with obstruction of justice, the point is it deals with the question with what's going to happen now. plenty of lawmakers have read the report, including senator and presidential candidate elizabeth warren who is calling for congress to go into impeachment. she's ready to move. >> i think each person has to stand up and be counted in a democracy. that's why we're elected to the house and to the senate. and there are times when it's beyond politics, when it is a point of principle to stand up and say no president can do this. because it matters not just for this president, it matters for the next president and the president after that and the president after that. >> senator warren is not the only white house hopeful, so is south bend mayor pete buttigieg. >> i'll leave that to congr

i'm chris matthews from washington. donald trump is smart to fear the mueller report.ending himself in the wake of mueller's findings. the fact that he is screaming bloody murder and tweeting with such nervousness shows his critics grasp the danger to donald trump from mueller's central finding that the russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.

i'm chris matthews in washington. race for president, saying he can bounce trump from the white house. the former vice president launched with a 2020 nomination with a clear message to wavering democrats, i am the one who can beat president trump. in his announcement video, he drew a battle line with the president, invoking the images of the deadly white nationalist rally in charlottesville and ex-coreiating the president'ses response about there being very

let's play "hardball." >> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. we know president trump's very first reaction was as dramatic as revealing. a moment of political terror captured in mueller's report showed a president realizing how much his life of cutting corners could be coming back to haubt him. he said oh, my god. this is terrible. this is the end of my presidency. i'm f'ed. that rings true in light of the evidence today. robert mueller believed he had a case of obstruction of justice against president trump. he declined to prosecute because of the view that a sitting president should not be indicted nor officially accused while in office. the reason we are only hearing this today is because of the four-week effort to keep mueller's findings from us. it was not until earlier today that barr even admitted that he disagreed with a special counsel on the obstruction matter. >> far although the deputy attorney general and i disagreed with some of the special counsel's legal theorys and felt that some of the episodes did not amount to obstruction as

"hardball" with chris matthews is up next. >>> if he won, why is he so angry. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. we are following breaking news for the second time. the trump administration has defied the congress on the president's tax returns. this has nancy pelosi speaking out about impeachment. jared kushner made a ridiculous statement about the mueller investigation. all of that is coming up. donald trump tonight is in a troubled state, spraying tweets in all directions and behaves like a man under siege. ever since the redacted version of robert mueller's report has been out, donald trump has been enraged and emboldened. attacking any perceived slight barrelling through anyone who o pos him. he barks on the predictable order of the day. i answer to nobody. i'm the boss. >> nobody knows the system better than me. which is why i alone can fix it. >> nobody is going to be able to do the things i can do. the that matters is me. i'm the only one that matters. that's what the policy is going to be. >> i'm smarter than the

he triumphed over fidel and can you still hear the distant echo of elation and to borrow from chris matthews, does the thrill still single? [laughter] for the truly important night that was for this movement of ours and what a truly important accomplishment is election and senate service was and remains. one more part of amazing resume, the tenant, united states navy served his country abroad the 1013 a floating shoebox as he called it stationed on the 50-yard line of okinawa and other major pacific battle's. back to me. [laughter] a few years ago, in connecticut at a party to celebrate the 90th birthday of the now late sister priscilla buckley is fierce also as he would call her, i found myself standing next to him so i turned it to the judge and the senate hello, your honor im jack fowler. i always felt the need to introduce myself to him. i couldn't fathom someone of this nature would recall, but he smiled and said to me i know who you are. i could have left out i felt like sally fields winning the oscar. [laughter] but seriously, who among us here or what conservative who knows anything

i'm chris matthews up in new york.er report has pitted congress against the department of justice over the attorney general's testimony. it comes after william barr threatened to cancel his scheduled appearance before the house judiciary committee just days before the hearing this thursday. barr is objecting to the proposed format of questioni

i'm chris matthews in washington. mueller report, you have company here because according to "the new york times," that guy right there, the president of the united states has yet to read it. not even a cursory reading. not a skimming of the report that basically charges him with obstruction of justice. the point is he says i'm still president and that's the issue. anyway, the point that deals with the question now that ware going to get to is what's going to happen now. plenty of lawmakers have read the report, including senator and presidential candidate elizabeth warren who is calling for congress to go into impeachment. she's ready to move. >> i think each person has to stand up and be counted in a democracy. that's why we're elected to the house and to the senate. and there are times when it's beyond politics, when it is a point of principle to stand up and say no president can do this. because it matters not just for this president, it matters for the next president and the president after that and the president

i'm chris matthews up in new york. the latest clash over the mueller report has pitted congress against the department of justice over the attorney general's testimony. it comes after william barr threatened to cancel his scheduled appearance before the house judiciary committee just days before the hearing this thursday. barr is objecting to the proposed format of questioning, specifically he's refusing to take questions from counsel on the committee's staff. according to "the washington post," a justice department official said that if the democrats insist on following their plan, barr might not come. however, democrats are threatening to subpoena barr if he doesn't comply, accusing him of trying to dictate the terms of his testimony. here's the chairman of that committee, congressman jerry nadler of new york, today. >> it's not up to the attorney general to tell the committee how to conduct its business. we will decide what the most effective way of asking questions are, and that's what our decision is. >> have you

img chris matthews in washington. hours from now the american public will get its first look at the 400 page report from robert mueller's investigation. just tonight on the very eve of the revelation, we have the disturbing new that is the trump white house had the guts in its hands for days. they issued a report tonight revealing that the justice department officials had numerous conversations with white house lawyers about the conclusions made by mr.

i'm chris matthews in washington.ump, who promised to create jobs, made his bones, of course, by famously ending them. >> you're fired. >> in the past 24 hours, the president has done just that to two top officials at the department of homeland security. last night dhs secretary kirstjen nielsen resigned under pressure after meeting with the president at the white house, and just this afternoon, secret service director randolph alice,

i'm chris matthews in washington. big political news on two fronts. the man who man who built a confrontation to defeat donald trump shot up in three major polls. the man he targeted for defeat is escalating and suing his own banks to block the subpoena to turn over financial records. we will get to that soon. joe biden is off to a blockbuster start and a triad of new polls in the last 24 hours show the former vice president with a jacked up lead over democratic rivals, making him the clear front-runner. quinnipiac has him up nine points. cnn has biden at 39. more than double his nearest competitor and morning consult has him at 36. he is focusing on the man he hopes to replace. he didn't talk about the youthful leaders. no more reminiscence with grandpa finnegan. the need to replace president trump and the battle for the soul of america. he sounded like a general election candidate skipping over the primaries. it worked. he stayed on message during his first visit to iowa as a 2020 candidate. let's watch. >> our very democracy, everything that made a

i'm chris matthews in washington. donald trump, who promised to create jobs, made his bones, of course, by famously ending them. >> you're fired. >> in the past 24 hours, the president has done just that to two top officials at the department of homeland security. last night dhs secretary kirstjen nielsen resigned under pressure after meeting with the president at the white house, and just this afternoon, secret service director randolph alice, who answers to nielsen, was removed from his post. the latest shake-up comes just days after the president with drew the nomination of another dhs official, acting i.c.e. director von vitiello, who he tapped to lead the agency permanently. before leaving to visit the border this past friday. >> we're going in a little different direction. ron's a good man, but we're going in a tougher direction. we want to go in a tougher direction. >> tougher direction. tougher direction. and that desire reportedly led to nielsen's departure "the new york times" reports that the president call

and apart from chris matthews, does the thrill still tingle? what a a truly important night that was for this movement of hours, what actually important accomplishment his election in senate service was and remains here and one more part of an amazing resume. james buckley, lieutenant, united states navy, served his country aboard the and gloriously named lst 1013, 101, offloading shoebox, as he called it, stationed on the 50-yard line of okinawa and other major pacific battles. back to me. a few years ago in sharon connecticut at a party to celebrate the 90th birthday of the knowledge sister priscilla buckley, is fierce friend also as he would call her, i found i so standing next to him. so i turned to the judge and said hello, , your honor, i'm jk fowler. i always felt the need to introduce myself to him. i could not fathom that some of jim barclays nature would recall this particular schmo, like he smiled and he said to me, jack, i know who you are. and i could have wept, i felt like sally fields winning the oscar. [laughing] but seriously,

let's play "hardball." >> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. we know president trump's very first reaction was as dramatic as revealing. a moment of political terror

i want to turn now to my colleague and host of "hardball," chris matthews. good to see you. >> how are you doing? i'm learning from you as we go. i want to add a couple points. >> sure. >> i think there's still questions here. it's almost like, how did we -- it is hard to keep in mind exactly what we went through that sunday afternoon, when barr gave his first four pager. his quickie synopsis of the whole thing. it was disorienting, distra distracting, and dishonest. he seemed to put out the word they didn't go by that attorney general guideline, that you don't indict a president. seemed that wasn't the reason he didn't indict. in fact, we get the full report today, the actual report from mueller, and it makes a couple points. one, i'm not going to indict because i'm following the guidelines. two, therefore, i'm not going to accuse, following what is, if you're not indict, don't accuse, which is what comey did to hillary, in a way that probably hurt her campaign in 2016. i think that's what -- we could have used this information amazingly well if we'd gotten

i also had chris matthews. he had kind of a rough time but it's on youtube you can type it in and listen to it. it wasn't a video but it was on radio. for the last hour we've been talking with author and radio talkshow host larry elder. thanks for helping us put

chris matthews, host of "hardball," a longtime -- and cliff and susan del perc yo. i thought what was unique, chris, is you didn't hear anything about tax policy, health care policy, about nitty-gritty issues. he was trying to make a big and dramatic statement of purpose with his candidacy. is that something that somebody who's 76 years old, who would not conventionally be a candidate, be considered a candidate? is that what he has to do? >> well, the president of the united states is a leader of the world. that's a role you don't hear the other candidates talking about. he's also head of state. he personifies in country to itself and -- these are the grande roles. that's why he's in the history book or she potential, but his real strategy today i think was strategic. he wanted to warn the democrat rank and file, look, hey, take this seriously. if we lose to trump, he's got eight years. i know you want to solve your simultaneous question and get a candidate and left as possible and still beat trump, but be careful, you have to beat trump, too. you can get your flavor

chris matthews, sound the alarm. tell people how you really feel, hide it like you used to do. take a look. >> what do you mean? >> i don't see how he wins again with the numbers he has. >> have you seen with the democrats are doing? >> you can't beat somebody with nobody. >> they are resisting. going to the democratic primaries is not the same as going to the country. >> sean: the media reporter with the hill and w of 0, the host the world winning journalist laura logan. we have lived through this before. barack obama mania. the only difference is that they are pushing harder to the left. i don't think you can stop that, do you? >> i'm not a politician and not a political reporter. i don't know whether you can stop it or not. my concern as a journalist is trying to figure out what the facts are. try to figure out what people are actually representing and what they're trying to do in the election. as journalists it seems to me, our job is to do that. that is our duty. i really want to know, are the opinion house? are

they employ chris matthews.why america thinks the media is less trustworthy than lawn darts? it's because they seriously entertain ideas like that. firing someone is now workplace violence. you know, maybe it feels like that for the nonskilled people in the media who know they can't be employed anywhere else except maybe a carnival dunk tank. they never get fired. they only fail up the prime time lineup until they get jobs running cnn. these are the same clowns will abide when trump called immigrants and animals when it was ms-13. these groups were more offended over calling killer thugs animals than the acts by the gangs themselves. that is the media's m.o. everything is a crisis except the actual crisis. we've all had a friend, when the booze ran out at a party would drink from a band and cups and polish off the listerine. that's the media with the collusion keg run dry, they are now desperately looking for anything to numb the pain. now we are back to trump's personality again. he's mean, unstable. when he do

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i'm chris matthews in washington. president trump put aside killing obamacare and his threat to shut down the border. he has given up all together his birtherism theory about president obama being born abroad, but one thing he has never celia up on is his obsession to hide his tax returns from it is american public. now democratic congressman richard yale is using his powers to force the irs to turn the returns over. neal is setting a 1924 law that states upon written request, the secretary of the treasury shall furnish such committee with any return with any information. the law could not be more clear, the president is talking as if it doesn't apply to him. big surprise. here's trump earlier today. >> i'm under audit, but that's up to whoever it is. from what i understand, the law is 100% on my side. >> hours after those remarks, the president's lawyers meads it clear that trump will fight to keep his tax returns secret from congress in a detailed letter to the treasury department, they wrote chairman neal cannot le

up next special coverage and analysis of the mueller report with chris matthews. ♪ >>> thank you, reverend good evening. welcome to msnbc special coverage of the mueller report. special counsel mueller offers damning evidence that president trump attempted to obstruct justice and the yet the "new york times" reports today that those close to trump the president has not even read the report. the irony is that right now it's democrats, not republicans who are divided

. >> ashley parker, let's channel our mutual friend chris matthews and play a little "hardball" politics here. and that's joe biden. it was kind of clear today watching the biden event, two guys who share a generation, joe biden went right at donald trump in two ways. he said in effect the road to the white house goes right through here. he mentioned western pennsylvania and included the whole state wisely, and then he also took a poll of the crowd, how many of you benefited from the tax bill? i didn't think so. no one did because as he pointed out, it was for the top 1%. we're starting to see even though we're eight months from the first primary, we're starting to see why trump seems completely preoccupied on social media about just one democrat. >> we sure are. we're seeing biden's strategy which is to leapfrog over his democratic competitors by pretending they don't exist and go into a general election fight with the president. and we're seeing a president who is kind of happily taking the bait. i was talking to campaign adviser the other day who is it makes sense, the president views

i'm chris matthews in washington.de killing obamacare and his threat to shut down the border. he has given up all together his birtherism theory about president obama being born abroad, but one thing he has never celia up on is his obsession to hide his tax returns from it is american public. now democratic congressman richard yale is using his powers to force the irs to turn the returns over. neal is setting a 19

. >> when you were asked by chris matthews if the president as an agent of russia, you said yes. do you regret saying that? do you believe the president is an agent of russia? speak of the act on their behalf. he puts their interests to half in the head of our own interests. >> would use the agent, what you mean? >> if he wasn't taking orders, he wouldn't take the interpreter's notes. if he wasn't taking orders, he would release the report that hw said he's 100 why does he act so suspiciously with russia? >> sean: either he's completely ignorant of the world around him or he's just lying to you. for example, president trump ramped up sanctions against putin's regime. he was compromised, why would he expel 60 russian diplomats, why would he authorize military action against putin's dogs in syria during a battle that resulted in a major public embarrassment for the russian dictator? don't forget president trump also pushed for increased military spending in the european allies as a deterrent initiative against russia, and pollutant. thanks to this administration, the united states

i hope you will join us, but keep it locked right here because "hardball" with chris matthews is up nextafraid of. >> president trump is doubling down on the assertion that there was spying on his, trump's 2016 campaign and the u.s. justice department is changing wikileaks founder, julian assange with experience. assange was dragged out of the embassy in london by british authorities. he has been living there for nearly seven years until it was

i'm chris matthews in washington. the democrats' virktry last november gave them the weapon they need to make war on donald trump. the subpoena. the power it demand testimony, document, whatever they need to drag the truth from the people around this president. let's see where and how they are using it. today the house oversight committee led by elijah cummings voted to authorize subpoenas of white house security clearances. tomorrow the house judiciary committee led by jerry nadler will vote to authorize the subpoena for all 400 pages of the special couple's report without redactions. that's because the justice department failed as of tonight to deliver the report by the committee's deadline, which was today. now president trump who insists he has nothing to hide is bashing democrats for seeking the full report. >> will the white house fight it? >> it's ridiculous. we went through two years of the mueller investigation. the attorney general now and the deputy attorney general ruled no obstruction. they said no obstru

i hope you will join us, but keep it locked right here because "hardball" with chris matthews is up next. >>> who's afraid of. >> president trump is doubling down on the assertion that there was spying on his, trump's 2016 campaign and the u.s. justice department is changing wikileaks founder, julian assange with experience. assange was dragged out of the embassy in london by british authorities. he has been living there for nearly seven years until it was rescinded. he was changed for skipping bail, but he was arrested on a second charge from american prosecutors. an unsealed indictment alleges he conspired with chelsea manning to commit computer intrusion in leaking classified military files in 2010. u.s. prosecutors want assange extradite and his attorneys said they will fight. he has not been charged with anything related to hacked democratic e-mails. that was a major part of candidate donald trump's closing argument against hillary clinton in 2016. >> did you see another? this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. >> this wikileaks is unbelievable. what we have learned about her and h

i'm chris matthews in washington.try last november gave them the weapon they need to make war on donald trump. the subpoena. the power it demand testimony, document, whatever they need to drag the truth from the people around this president. let's see where and how they are using it. today the house oversight committee led by