. >> we heard a detailed set of demands for how an investigation ought to proceed according to chuck schumerhe's trying to set the highest bar possible for what would count as an independent inquiriy because the bet on the part of someone like chuck assuschumer democrats and some skeptical republicans is that whatever investigation results will the no be enough. >> he said attorney general sessions may become the subject of the investigation and called for a separate investigation of the attorney general and potential ties to russia, something completely different than the attorney general's office is now investigating to make it even more complex. gloria, he also called for an independent counsel law to be reinstated by congress, something that has expired. why would that matter? what would that do? >> the independent sense of it, the idea that this is an objective, neutral person, i think this has become very political already within these few days of donald trump being in office, i think there has to be a sense that this is not a witch hunt by the democrats, that they're not upset by losi

. >> let's bring in senate minority leader chuck schumer of new york. senator, thank you very much for being on bus this morning. >> good morning. >> you have been quoted saying the speech had an air of unreality. explain that. >> this president's speech has mean less than about any others because what he says and what he does, how he walks and talks are totally different. we have heard a lot of talk about infrastructure in the campaign, when he was president-elect we democrats put together a plan and showed it to the white house and haven't heard a peep out of him. trade, he says he is going to be tough on trade. on the first day he could have called china currently manipulator and said he would do in in the campaign. they have backed off. in his budget he proposed he is slashing education and even spending for medical research which he talked so touchingly about, maybe above all, he has talked about draining the swamp and even mentioned it in the swe speech last night. his cabinet is the swamp. it's billionaires and wall street. he talked to the worki

filling a supreme court seat in such circumstances. >> back with us now is senate minority leader chuck schumeras been remarkable, senator schumer, from my perspective, to see this incredible ornate and still unfolding scandal around the trump/russia stuff and then to see stuff trying to be politics as usual, moving the health care bill, moving the supreme court nominee. are you making the argument that nothing should happen? that the president shouldn't do anything -- particularly anything big as long as this fbi investigation is under way. >> i think that's not the case but with the supreme court justice who has a lifetime appointment and such profound influence on all of our lives, yes. plus the fact, whose seat is this? mitch mcconnell he was held -- sorry, mitch mcconnell did it but it's the seat that merrick garland was nominated for. mitch mcconnell held it up for a year. well, if they can hold that seat up for a year just to elect a new president under a president who had no investigations, they should delay it for a while. i'm not saying forever, i'm not saying an amount of time but le

why is chuck schumer making this appear more likely? umbrellas!! you need one of these. you wouldn't put up with an umbrella that covers you part way, so when it comes to pain relievers, why put up with just part of a day? aleve, live whole not part. tell you what, i'll give it to you for half off. (vo)have to happen?idn't i didn't see it. (vo) what if we could go back? what if our car... could stop itself? in iihs front-end crash prevention testing, nobody beats the subaru impreza. not toyota. not honda. not ford. the all-new subaru impreza. more than a car, it's a subaru. >> moving on from the healthcare fill your. president trump and the republicans are looking to take on tax reform, which could be the first overhaul in three decades. chairman of the ways and means committee is expected to have a meeting tomorrow. reince priebus thinks some democrats will be on board. >> moving forward, the president's vision on lowering taxes for every american is what is going to unite the republican party and some of the democrats will come on board as well. if we can provide one o

i sat down with the senate's top democrat, minority leader chuck schumer. we started by discussing the future of obamacare. >> democrats are united. the places that would feel the loss, the repeal of aca the most, are rural red state areas. when our senators from the writer states that trump carried go home, they are getting huge support for not repealing. >> bret: you do say that fixing obamacare is necessary. and do you disagree that it would implode if it's left to go? >> the cbo in their report, and cbo to us is reliable, the head of cbo was recommended number one by tom price. now the s hhs, chosen by donald trump. he said it's not going to collapse. our view has been simple. once president trump and speaker ryan, leader mcconnell say they are no longer going to repeal, of course we want to make aca better and we will work to improve it. if you repeal it, you can't do it. you have nothing. they are having a great deal of trouble replacing it. >> bret: the markets for obamacare show demand has leveled off. prices for premiums and deductibles are skyrock

i sat down with the senate's top democrat, minority leader chuck schumer. we started by discussing the future of obamacare. >> democrats are united. the places that would feel the loss, the repeal of aca the most, are rural red state areas. when our senators from the writer states that trump carried go home, they are getting huge support for not repealing. >> bret: you do say that fixing obamacare is necessary. and do you disagree that it would implode if it's left to go? >> the cbo in their report, and cbo to us is reliable, the head of cbo was recommended number one by tom price. now the secretary of hhs, chosen by donald trump. he said it's not going to collapse. our view has been simple. once president trump and speaker ryan, leader mcconnell say they are no longer going to repeal, of course we want to make aca better and we will work to improve it. if you repeal it, you can't do it. you have nothing. they are having a great deal of trouble replacing it. >> bret: the markets for obamacare show demand has leveled off. prices for premiums and deductibles

can chuck schumer measure up, is he?it's interesting if you look at where harry reid had been in recent years, he was in the bush administration and similar circumstances and learned a fair amount from that experience. also temperamentally, he is different and how he approaches. chuck schumer was much better known as a dealmaker and somebody who was interested in finding ways to make these things happen through negotiation, and they both approached after the election, i think they probably believed not do similar things about what the democrats proper posture relative to the trump admonition ration would be but had a very different sense about how to go about pursuing that. chuck schumer came in basically saying that we would like to work, be happy to work with trump on something like an infrastructure bill if the following conditions are met, and we are going to put the ball in his court in terms of those conditions whereas harry reid was clear about really arguing there were certain lines they should not necessarily be

if you go back and look at chuck schumer's statements after the election chuck schumer is clearly opentructure? on immigration? >> right. >> i think they could if they go first and could repeat the same mistake bill clinton did. >> i always say same mistake barack obama made, health care. >> if bill clinton had have led with welfare reform. he started with hillary care and he lost the midterm. >> sequencing matters. the average person doesn't pay attention but -- >> the president cannot lead with a democratic -- >> you're right. you're probably right. if there was one, it would be donald trump because he is so outside the norms of republican and democratic politics. baugh mark is probably right. i think it still would have been an interesting attempt. i think now -- you saw last night. joe, you're on the floor. this always happens but there was just no -- very little democratic applause outside of joe manchin and heidi heitkamp. democrats willing to do it and i don't know if that is who he is or the six weeks that what went before this. yeah, it's going to be a giant fight and the thin

this is not something that's been created here or somehow fabricated by chuck schumer. it's real on the streets. the reality is you have people who think my family, my grandmother is going to be thrown out. hang on a second. there was a tape of a young woman in her car being driven to school by her dad. the data is pulled over and suddenly she's making a video with her cell phone of her dad being taken away and she has to go to school. that is real fear, greg. that's not games. a lot of this is tied to the idea, illegal immigrants are criminal. we have several studies in the last few weeks that say no, lower levels of people. >> lisa: where were these people, where was senator chuck schumer when president obama was deporting illegal aliens. at a higher rate. >> juan: the whole idea was let's take this off the table. let's get immigration reform. they said obama was de porter in chief. they went off on obama and said he was trying to make friends with the republicans on a debt difficult issue and sacrificing hispanic voters. >> greg: i want to get dana. the border wall b

filling a supreme court seat in such circumstances. >> back with us now is senate minority leader chuck schumerit has been remarkable, senator schumer, from my perspective, to see this incredible ornate and still unfolding scandal around the trump/russia stuff and then to see stuff trying to be politics as usual, moving the health care bill, moving the supreme court nominee. are you making the argument that nothing should happen? that the president shouldn't do anything -- particularly anything big as long as this fbi investigation is under way. >> i think that's not the case but with the supreme court justice who has a lifetime appointment and such profound influence on all of our lives, yes. plus the fact, whose seat is this? mitch mcconnell he was held -- sorry, mitch mcconnell did it but it's the seat that merrick garland was nominated for. mitch mcconnell held it up for a year. well, if they can hold that seat up for a year just to elect a new president under a president who had no investigations, they should delay it for a while. i'm not saying forever, i'm not saying an amount of time bu

we expect to hear from nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. nancy pelosi: good afternoon. the counting is in and the cbo has reported that the republican bill pushes 24 million people out of health care. and is a remarkable figure it speaks to the cruelty of the bill that the speaker called, "an act of mercy." it is not an act of mercy to the or twowho lose jobs hospitals they close in rural areas. i do not know if he thinks this is an act of mercy for people on opioids who look to medicaid for answers, like many republican governors do. we are taking millions off of coverage and they are implementing the biggest transfer of wealth in our -- going- $600 billion to the richest corporations in our country. in terms of insurance coverage, this is immoral. in terms of giving money to the workingthe expense of families, it is not decent and it is wrong. the republicans are confused. discreditingsay the cbo and others are glorifying pushing off 24 million from coverage. they see the numbers and they should know how that transfers into the lives of people. how can they look their

attorney was counsel to chuck schumer, chuck schumer was his patron, chuck schumer got him the position of being u.s. attorney by telling barack obama he should nominate him. so that was a gesture. since then relations between president trump and chuck schumer have become increasingly toxic, trump has insulted schumer and schumer in turn called for an independent investigation into the russia thing, he said jeff sessions should resign. they are not friends anymore and that may be why this deal that sort of was thrown together capriciously in november when things looked very different no longer was that attractive to trump or to sessions. >> if we ever find outs about the presence or absence of any trump-related investigations out of the u.s. attorney's office you'll probably be the guy who writes the amazing book about it. charlie savage, pulitzer prize winning correspondent for the "new york times." thanks. >> thank you very much. >>> i love friday nights, buckets of news every friday night. we're just getting started. stay with us. >>> colorado senator corey gardner, donald trump's co

as pressure grows leader chuck schumer as pressure gi’ows on leader chuck schumer as pressure growsns. after the washington post reported he met twice last year with the russian ambassador to washington. they are going to hang on because we understand he is not far away. this revelation casting fresh cloud over donald trump's administration. all right. last night when night read the revelations regarding attorney general sessions and his decision to mislead congress about those contacts mislead congress about those co nta cts i mislead congress about those contacts i felt not in the pit of stomach. i worried about the future of our country with foreign influence in our elections. it goes to the very wellspring of our democracy. for weeks i have said that attorney general sessions needs to recuse himself from any investigation into contact between the presidents and his associates on the presidents and his associates on the campaign and transition in russia. for weeks i made clear that i believe his close relationship with the tramp campaign requires that the recuse himself from the

he have said chuck schumer was a clown then an hour later said he's fake news or fake tears chuck.e things about marco rubio now he's on the team this hour. he said this generals lost chief ryan owens in that yemen operation then last night he spoke as the commander in chief. he said the media is the enemy of the people then used this emt to spread word he was compromising on immigration then he forgot that, that was not the news this hour. i watched him do this through the campaign, say thing that dropped them in the next transmission. then we gotten a hour of president trump acting presidential. another hour with the man who lives in hours, forgetting the hour before. what's coming the next hour of donald trump? no one knows. i'll bet not even he knows. that's "hardball" for now in this trump world. thanks for being with us. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> a new national pride is sweeping across our nation. >> the agenda of the president's address "nationalism with an indoor voice." >> i have ordered the department of homeland security to

attorney was counsel to chuck schumer, chuck schumer was his patron, chuck schumer got him the positionf being u.s. attorney by telling barack obama he should nominate him. so that was a gesture. since then relations between president trump and chuck schumer have become increasingly toxic, trump has insulted schumer and schumer in turn called for an independent investigation into the russia thing, he said jeff sessions should resign. they are not friends anymore and that may be why this deal that sort of was thrown together capriciously in november when things looked very different no longer was that attractive to trump or to sessions. >> if we ever find outs about the presence or absence of any trump-related investigations out of the u.s. attorney's office you'll probably be the guy who writes the amazing book about it. charlie savage, pulitzer prize winning correspondent for the "new york times "new york times." thanks. >> thank you very much. >>> i love friday nights, buckets of news every friday night. we're just getting started. stay with us. i know, we need to talk about this. it'

we're waiting here for senator chuck schumer, the democratic leader, to come here and talk to us. he was one of the first people to lead these calls for sessions to recuse himself. he was doing this before this news broke, had been for weeks. what else might schumer be looking for as far as an investigation goes, whether that might mean hearings or something with the inspector general. hallie. >> kasie hunt there on capitol hill. i will let you get over to that senator schumer press conference, which is set to start any minute. we will be bringing it to you live when it happens, as we do expect this to be one of the first things if not the only thing that the senator talks about. i want to bring in our political panel here. moments ago one of our collea e colleagues on capitol hill caught up with senator marco rubio, who said he had real questions about this and he wants to see jeff sessions answer these questions. that happens in the basement of the capitol as they get on the subway and head in and out. he can go before the senate judiciary committee to clarify remarks to answer

. >> this has the chuck schumer, he has enough to filibuster. the problem is if he tries a filibuster, senate majority leeward mcconnell could say, we are going to abolish the filibuster, which is probably what chuck schumer would have done if he had a majority and president clinton. then, as you say you have tremendous pressure from the left of the democratic party who want resistance at all costs who may even threaten primary challenges against incumbent democrats running in wedge states in 2018. this is a tight rope chuck schumer is going to have to walk, it is not easy to figure our what he does. >> sreenivasan: political strategy that is happening and building, let's talk about the hearings thesms. themselves. what can we expect? >> anything like the last 30 years you can expect a kabuki theatre, when justice bork went down to defeat, nominees have been extremely reluctant to give any indication what they actually think. they abide after the ginsburg rules, named after ruth bader ginsberg, and there is a dance, do you believe there's a righ

and ambassador chuck schumer.hical. and we really need in these investigations to stick it to facts but everybody's leaping to conclusions. >> i love the fact that they're releasing all of these photos with schumer having hot dogs with putin. tit for tat, goose for gander. if you're going to embarrass me -- but of course that's not the issue. the issue isn't physical meetings. the issue is whether you're conspiring to affect the election or going behind the back of the 4th president and saying whatever his policies are, we don't care about that. we have our own agenda. just be patient. >> well, that's a great point. we had some sound -- we can play it again i believe from the russian ambassador or u.s. ambassador to russia under president obama who narrows in on that point. it's about -- was there actual collusion and what exist? >> with respect to coordination about the campaign, that's the number one question. okay? that's the watergate moment. that's when everything gets released. and up to this point, there is

you're chuck schumer. okay. you can be mitch mcconnell. >> what have you got, mr. trump. >> mitch, know what you want. chuck, what do you need? what do you need? >> i need a load of corporate tax -- >> what can't you take? what can't you take? exactly. >> what can't you take? >> he can't take individual tax cuts that favor the rich, precisely what -- >> i can simplify. >> simplify is a code word. >> we understand, we all agree we want to flatten the tax code. we want to lower the corporate tax rate not for the most powerful corporations but for the people in upstate new york. >> joe, you're exactly right. >> this is easy. it really is. this is easy. if that's where your start. if you start with, chuck, what do you need? mitch, what do you need? i'm going to talk to paul later today and find out what he can live with. that's where you start. you don't start with heritage acti action. i'm not knocking them, that's my wing of the party. that will never pass the party. never. >> this is what happens when you have a white house with policy they outsource like the judicia

it because of democratic base right now. >> trump made schumer's job easy. chucke could have ten democratic senators up in 2014. what schumer was getting back was cries of betrayal and treason. just absolute opposition. >> the president can squeeze him on the other side. because of the direction that donald trump has chosen, schumer have to keep the base very happy with the democratic party without feeling pressure to come to the middle. >> donald trump is 36%. donald trump stood on the ballot in 2018. clear is in missouri and joe's mansion. there is a lot of democrats that would actually be helped by dealing with this administration. >> this gorsuch thing. i just -- i will tell you what. i will keep saying it and democrats will keep on saying it. i am totally wrong. mayor garland is not going to matter to democrats and conservative states in 2018. what niese senatoe these senato do. if you are in west virginia or missouri or some of these other red states that are voting with the democrat incumbent, looking extreme and making new eastern span any pelosi happening

stay with us, we'll listen to senate minority leader chuck schumer. let's listen. >> are you a senior? trumpcare means higher costs and less coverage. are you a woman? trumpcare means higher costs and less coverage. are you or someone in your family living with a disability? trumpcare means higher costs and less coverage. in fact, trumpcare is really a tax break for the rich, not a health care program. that's the real motivation of so many of our republican colleagues, to take people whose income is above $250,000 and give them an average tax break, to take the top .01% and give them an average tax break of $200,000 while making these people pay more. it's horrible. president trump has talked about helping working america. but the plan he has bravehe has trumpcare, helps the rich and hurts the average american. his administration has developed a pattern. health care is part of that. they talk like populists but act like those helping wealthy special interests time after time after time. look, no one likes this bill. hospitals, doctors, governors, cons

report: t senate docrati leader chuck schumer sayinover the weekend, yes, the democrats will work with the white house and republicans on tax reform but he said i, i think they will repeat the same mistake they made on trumpcare with tax reform. not sounding like he will jump into the fray to help him out, right, david. david: his good friend, president donald trump. we'll see if anything comes of that. peter. thank you very much. >>> with dems smelling blood in the water after what happened last week can the white house get any democrats on board for tax cuts? joining me americans for tax reform president grover norquist. i don't think chuck schumer would ever go with the president on anything these days but there are certain democrats who have been calling for tax cuts for a while. art laffer, your friend and mine, grover, spoke to this point earlier today. i want to get his comment and get you to respond. play the tape. >> i know a number of democrats there, and it is a large group, stuart, maybe 45, 50 of them who really think the corporate tax rate is way, way way, too high. i kno

let's get reaction from the top democratic in the united states senate, the minority leader chuck schumer. senator, thank you so much for joining us. >> hi. how are you doing? they were turning the monitor off. >> i know you have a nice smile on the face. i want to you to listen to the reaction of the president to having to pull the health care bill back. >> i think the losers are nancy pelosi and chuck schumer because now they own obamacare. they own it, 100% own it. this is not a republican health care. this is not anything but a democratic health care. and they have obamacare for a little while longer until it ceases to exist, which it will at some point in the near future, and just remember, this is not our bill. this is their bill. >> okay. senator, your reaction. >> well, it's a tall tale, another one by president trump. they never reached out to us, they never talked to us, they never said how can we work together to make it better. the failure is completely among the republicans. president trump and the congress. they weren't even trying to get democrats involved. and now it's abo

snort chuck schumer is desperately pushing for president trump to say i'm sorry.irector james comey is on the hot seat as questions are looming over russia and he tries to set the record straight. congressman mike turner is here incomes to weigh in. >> if the trump campaign or anyone associated with it aided or abetted the russians it would not only being be serious crime, it would represent one of the most shocking betrayals of democracy in history. special edition? because, actually there's five. ooohh!! aaaahh!! uh! hooooly mackerel. wow. nice. strength and style. it's truck month. get 0% financing for 60 months plus find your tag and get $5500 on select chevy silverado pick-ups when you finance with gm financial. find new roads at your local chevy dealer. connell: this is the big story of the day. fbi director james comey spending most of his day on the capitol hill hot seat. questions fired at the director finding out or trying to if russia played a role in the 2016 election and if there is evidence of president trump's wiretapping claims among other things.

. >> chuck schumer said last week he would be willing to work with republicans on healthcare reform if full repeal is off the table that soind sounds, a welcoming but they don't have much of an incentive to help republicans sick seed on healthcare or any other issue. when it comes to running for reelection, running in 20189, democrats want republicans to look as bad as possible, so it's a conflict between governing and politics once again so that's going to be very difficult for republicans as they try to work with democrats on things like infrastructure spending which would be a natural democratic issue for them to team up on. they really don't have a political incentive to help

i am here with our minority leader chuck schumer, and my friend and former attorney general colleague dick blumenthal to call for a little bit of daylight into the dark money that is presently shadowing the nomination of judge gorsuch. during the course of the hearing, we explored the supreme court's role to arbitrate fairly between parties when litigation comes to the highest court in the land, as we saw over and over again, there are 5 -4 partisan decisions from the past supreme court that have a very distinct trend. if it is republican interest versus democratic interest in election cases, they came down in those 5 -4 decisions 6 - 0 for the republican interest against the democratic interest. when cases came before the court that put a corporation up against a regular person, in the 5 -4 partisan decisions, they came down 16 - 0 in favor of the corporation against the person. the court has another role then to arbitrate fairly, and that is that it has a place in our constitutional system of democracy, our balanced constitutional democracy to help safeguard and protect the popular

with vladimir putin and called chuck schumer a total hypocrite. on that note, senator schumer joins me now. good morning to you, sir. to finish up this tweet back and forth. there are so many to keep up with. you responded. happily talk. read my contact with mr. putin and associates took place in '03 in full view of press and public, under oath. with you and your team, obviously that's you challenging them, under oath. this morning the president's press secretary said the following. reports concerning potentially politically motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling. president trump is requesting that as part of the investigation into russian activity the congressional intelligence committees exercise oversight to determine whether powers were abused in 2016. is that a fair ask of this administration? >> well, look, president obama has flatly denied that he has done this. and either way, chuck, the president's in trouble.

i just heard chuck schumer suggest exactly what he did.

senate minority leader chuck schumer said this yesterday. >> because the department of justice shoulde above reproach for the good of the country are attorney general sessions should resign. >> jesse: but schumer had a different reaction after loretta lynch had a highly controversial tarmac meeting with bill clinton. >> she said nothing was discussed relating to the investigation. you have a choice to say it didn't matter or she's lying. i don't think she's lying. >> jesse: you are my congressman and i have to put you on the spot here. your fellow new yorker. >> did you vote for me or not. >> jesse: i did not. i am not afraid to say it. your colleague, a new york guy said one thing about loretta lynch and takes her at her word but doesn't take a former colleague jeff sessions at his. hypocritical. >> no, it is not my focus. jesses jess it is my focus. are you dodging. >> it is a distinction between the two. there was not a question of jeff sessions or loretta lynch perjurying and it didn't involve the russians. >> jesse: i will let you slide because you are my congressman and i am ter

. >> neil: the president was making nice overtures to chuck schumer. why? he says be careful, mr. president. be very careful. >> neil: a lawmaker saying, i want to warn illegals in my community when ice agents will be around. can you imagine the reaction of the legal community to that? sheriff what did you think of that? >> i didn't hear what you said. i apologize. >> neil: this representative who had gone to great lengths to give a heads-up to illegals in her district when ice agents would come by. what did you think of that? >> i can't think of anything more unreresponsible than what this state representative did. she ought to be ashamed of herself. she should be looked at for a minimum of ethics violations and i'm sure there's some review of whether or not she compromised some investigation involving ice. >> neil: we called michelle dubios. it's one thing to be a sanctuary city. it's quite another to encourage illegal activity and to give a heads-up to those that are illegally when there's a legal crackdown on them. >> you're right. here's the real important issue. she doesn't

he even if chuck schumer were the majority leader, we would be revisiting obamacare. so the status quo would of been unacceptable. he house, senate, administration have all come together behind a proposal we confident will be a dramatic improvement over the status quo. we hope and expect to get that from the house sometime in the next few weeks. if so it will be on the agenda here in the senate in the april recess. in the weekihood before the final week when we are heading to the final supreme

. >> remarks by chuck schumer speaking about the legislative agenda in the senate. i am pleased by my colleagues, believe masako and -- i want to say one thing based on what we have seen so far, it looks like it's playing ball with the committee and he's bent over backward to avoid his philosophy or the concerns of the american people. there is no rationale for not answering the question he was asked. he wants to hide his view from the american people. if the house and the senate are successful and looking like they are, the american people will remember who crippled the health care system. when premiums go up, when health insurance doesn't cover what the use to, when seniors are charged more they will know trump did it and when 24 million americans try to save the bill but it amounts to an old coat of paint. the car won't help or help the american people. seniors are charged more than they can afford for coverage. once again the only people helped by what the house is proposing or the wealthy. they get the brakes a little sooner now. despite this, we want the ameri

he said chuck schumer, the minority leader and nancy pelosi, he's blaming them. as we got past this partisan, he started talking about if obamacare explodes -- that was the word he kept using, maybe he could come back take it off the shelf and craft a bipartisan bill with democrats. i said, would you be more comfortable with that? my sense is covering president trump that east a nonideological republican. he said a lot of people said i'd be better cutting a deal with the democrats. what's next on healthcare on everything? is this -- is he going to continue to be lockstep with speaker ryan? or can we expect a new kind of president trump? i want everybody on this. phil: i think he wants to get to tax reform first. he's got this big infrastructure plan. he wants $1 trillion on roads. he wants those big agendas before returning to hale care. you can see him taking a different approach. the failure for this is not for lack of trying. he was the ultimate chess master and he just couldn't do it. >> i wonder if there comes a point where he just discovers with tax reform,

senate minority leader chuck schumer says democrats may decide to block his nomination saying there's a great deal of skepticism about him. >> his record in his career clearly show, he harbors a right wing, pro-corporate special interest agenda. he enacted it time and time again on the tenth circuit, and if given the chance, i have no doubt he would do it again on the supreme court. the >> harris: democrats may have the votes to block course edge. republicans could go nuclear, changing the rules to require a simple majority vote. i'm a little confused by this, because i have read that former members of the obama administration had worked with him and liked him a lot, found him to be very evenhanded and thoughtful. >> ari: i think all of us would be billionaires of we got a dollar every time chuck schumer used the word right wing or extreme. when chuck schumer is a broken record on these things, every time he's up against someone he doesn't like, this is the standard line. i think he is faced with a man who is up for reelection and states, almost all of them are given serious thought t

and bharara is very close to chuck schumer, now he wants to punish schumer. in its defense is actually admitting that, a, the transition was chaotic, they're kind of throwing it on trump, and, b, that this is political payback for one of the most important prosecutorial jobs in the country. if they are willing to say that and push aside questions about the emoluments clause and other things he might be looking at, that only demands that we ask more questions. it's very odd. >> it seems like that's what they keep doing. they keep triggering more questions. >> they dig their hole deeper, definitely. yes, the idea that you would do this to punish chuck schumer is sort of a corruption that we should not see in the meddling with the justice department. so the idea that that's their cover story is really insane. and i guess i don't want to go overboard with this, but the fact that he didn't resign, the fact that he -- this is a customary thing that people just expect that they're going to have to do. the fact that he insisted on being fired is telling us something.

he had been chief council to senate majority leader chuck schumer. humer has now emerged as one of the chief adversaries of donald trump. back in wine, schumer encouraged president obama to appoint bharara after one of his investigations led the then attorney general alberto gonzalez to resign. bharara's office ended up prosecuting everything from percents li terrorists to russian crime bosses to the hacking group unanimo anonymous but bharara going after wall street corruption cases but this "time" magazine cover from 2012, i think we can show you, maybe not, but it said "time" said in 2012, this man is busting wall street. they called him the enforcer. he's greatly feared there. he prosecuted dozens of insiders trading including bernie mado madoff's brother. the corruption cases went well beyond wall street but also going after both democrats and republicans and known for non-partisan. the offices of the two most powerful and his office is about to try several is former aides to andrew cuomo and bill de blasio and pay to play. that's what his office

he said the democrats led by head clown chuck schumer know how bad obama care is.ing about the minority leader as head clown and then thinking, oh, now let's go to work with him, i don't think we've seen that before. >> chuck has got thick skin. he's not laying awake at night worrying he was called a bad name or said something about him by trump. it does give him an excuse and a reason to approach trump with an ask rather than an offer. now the democrats have an opportunity by making it long and painful and difficult. >> and they'll make it worse. >> oh, yeah. the republicans have the biggest majority in the house, they control both houses of congress and they're not going able to agree with themselves to keep the government open. they'll need democratic votes and chuck schumer is going to say here are the ten things i want. >> thank you for setting the suspense up for the next big story here. rick wilson, thank you for joining us. i really appreciate it. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> coming up, the science guy on what donald trump wants to do with clean coal. various:

i'll answer them for you. >> meghan: is chuck schumer this powerful? were an up-and-coming young democrat trying to change the face of a party, i think i would say get out of here. >> bill: i've known schumer forever. i used to be a local reporter. whenever i see him, i make fun of his book and him and he makes fun of me. i have a fairly good relationship with him. he's unbelievably powerful and that party. >> meghan: you can't be that spiteful. >> bill: he's an old school -- if you don't do it my way, i'm going to hurt you. >> melissa: echoes back to the question at the beginning. why is there a difference in loyalty and the parties? >> bill: because the democrats basically coalesce around two or three issues, abortion, that's one. entitlement society that the government owes money to certain americans, and republicans, their issues are all over the place. there is moderate, conservative, democrats funnel within. it's a lot easier to control her membership. >> sandra: this next story has your name on it. at the pc police out in full force. a stray a s

wait until you hear what chuck schumer said when the shoe was on the other foot.ater, remember this, controversial professor called trump selection an act of terror in her classroom in front of her students? what did she get for that? and award, of course. ♪ >> we want to focus on the serious violent criminals. we want them to do our job and we want to do our job. i think the rhetoric is in the way. >> martha: that was l.a. mayor eric garcetti with tough talk earlier as the sanctuary fight heats up across the country. today, he and other major players made their case was 48 8 hours after attorney general sessions threatened to pull federal dollars from sanctuary cities if they refuse to play ball with the feds. democratic dallas mayor mike rawlings was in that meeting. he will join us in it moment to talk about what went beyond by the close doors. first, we turn to doug mckelway with news that just broke on this front. >> that involves the seattle, washington, mayor who is suing the trump administration for its proposed crackdown on sanctuary cities. it accuses th

"we should start an immediate investigation into senator chuck schumer and his ties to rush s and putin. total hypocrite" he calls the senate minority lead. what's he saying here, joel? >> oh, these are two totally distinct arguments. because senator schumer met with president putin, president obama met with president putin as well. diplomatic contacts are not the problem. the problem is what they're saying and what they're doing, and the white house has not been forthcoming enough about what it has in its understanding of what its people have done and engaged in, in the past, and dip row mattic relations are normal, and to compare the two and integrate them as if it's the same meeting with schumer, being the same as these contacts about a meeting that was not disclosed, nor provided in sworn testimony, that's just two totally separate things and it's trying to mix the message. >> i'll do you one better, craig. you have all of these serious questions. you have the attorney general saying he's going to recuse himself from part of this, because of the serious questions, and then you have

i think there is great opportunity and chuck schumer wants infrastructure spending too. something donald trump is a fan of. there is a lot of wiggle room here. with trump having blown up the normal business as usual on the republican side there's a lot of opportunity. >> harris: we shared a little this with the congressman on earlier, can we pop up the president trump tweet and let it sit on the screen long enough to take it in. it's about obama care exploding. and what would happen in terms of piecing together healthcare plan for the people. do not worry, the importance is this is a double-edged sword. you just talked about how republicans have gotten her, democrats too. they have to come to the table. it still has president obama's name on it. >> it does. the risk is a lot greater for republicans at this moment. >> harris: isn't the worst for the american people? and we get real about that? >> absolutely. that was lost in the conversation on friday. democrats are gloating like this was a victory. >> the crazy thing is democrats are still celebrating same because you or

dems chuck schumer.s easy for republicans to be critical of obamacare when you thought it would stay in place. now the chance of repeal is real, people are much more worried. we are on offense and united. they are on defense and divided. the opposite of what people would have predicted a month or two ago. speaking of schumer, he and house minority leader nancy pelosi joining a so called save my care bus tour. as it end two micros country track in washington today. progressive groups getting in on the battle to save obamacare. the washington post reporting, the energy of the anti-trump forces since january 20th has surprised even his most fervent opponents. the question is whether democrats can turn activism to victories and success at the poles. it's shaping up with a defining test for policy and politics. democrats have high hopes here clearly. >> yes, i think that bus tour is stupid and ridiculous. i think that's employeely -- completely wrong. the problem with republicans, we've been running on replac