by the way, cory booker, i always those was politically savvy.ot a politically savvy move unless he's trying to elevate himself as the bad guy of the democratic party. nancy pelosi referred to them as crumbs and lost democrats within her own party on that issue. you have keith ellison coming out and saying $1,000 means something to my constituents. charles: cory booker has been seen as a potential contender for the white house. when he first ran for mayor, one of the first people to back him was jack kemp. a moderate republican who pushed end prize zones. i just think it's a mistake to keep dissing the tax plan. >> we are having an ideological battle. cory booker is trying to be whatever whoever this control of the democratic party is shaping him to be. if i had $1,000 for every idiotic thing nancy pelosi or cory booker said i would be taking a trip to europe. if i had $1,000 for everything donald trump said that was side i would fly privately. charles: he didn't even know what he was going to say. when he's passionate about something, he's cryin

so now cory booker today quite masterfully puts him on the spot and says you were on this radio show where they talk about things like muslims wanting to impose sharia law in america and muslims should be prosecuted for this. you didn't speak out about that. so he turned his own words really on himself. when you are questioned directly and say do you believe being gay is a perversion, do you believe that gay sex is a perversion and the best can you say my record is unambiguous, you're essentially saying yes, you do believe that. you could explain. >> you could explain. whether religion is okay, there's a simple answer to that question. when you compare the state of play today on the issue of islam compared to say george w. bush visiting a mosque day after 9/11 make a very public and definitive statement about it and others in the trump administration, mike flynn made similar comments about the muslim faith. that's a slide backwards. there is a simple way to answer that question, which is ri respect islam as much as i do judaism or any other religion. >> the president tweeted yesterda

>> oh my. >> cory booker, stabbed me. i was like, "cory booker." oh my god, cory!one, was that the hbo one? >> oh, my god, yeah, like 20 years ago. yeah, yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: i love that one, the one with farley. >> that was -- yeah. i was with farley. >> that was before there was a a netflix. >> yeah, pre-netflix. >> jimmy: pre-netflix. that was the original netflix. hbo. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> yeah, that's true. >> jimmy: yeah. but farley was in it. >> farley came on in the middle of the show. actually -- >> scary. >> when i did my hbo special a a long time ago, farley -- i would sing a haunted song. >> jimmy: yes. >> and then every night on tour, a different guy would come out and run out and pretend to be the mad man who lives in the house. and so i was doing the show in chicago. farley goes, "hey, can i be the guy?" i said "yeah, yeah. most -- just so you know, a lot of times the guys come out in their underwear." and he goes, "oh. well, my manager told me i shouldn't do that." [ laughter ] and i said, "okay, you don't have to." he goes, "yeah, he said that i'v

i hope cory booker brought his comfort bonnie. how do you know pompeo deserves the good?> please remove. >> greg: she totally nailed it it. pompeo isn't a diplomat. that should be on his business card. when you reduce people to gibbering fools, you know you have a winner. see this tweet from al gore. senators should reject mike pompeo. he denies the climate crisis and has been doing the bidding for fossil fuel interests his whole career. well, gore does no fossils. he's about as up-to-date on world events as fred flintstone. again, if al is a "no," pompeo is a "yes." here's another. over 180 national orgs covering issues for national security and women's health to climate change and human rights have publicly opposed pompeo. #stoppompeo. unlike those groups, pompeo is no pacifist. ask isis if you can still find them. without nonpacifist, pacifists would be bones under a dictator's boot. it's easy to be a holy man on a mountain or on capitol hill but in the real world, things are more dangerous. diplomat is nice but a realist is better. we need pompeo, not deepak chopra. w

>> i've met cory booker many years ago, i was very impressed. i'm not impressed anymore. it was ridiculous. do you approve of gay sex and lgbtq? it was a waste of time. there's a lot of poison in the air and the closer you get to these hearings to these november elections, the more poison there's going to be. a lot of this was directed at mike pompeo. he was sitting there, but these were corner shots aimed to get after donald trump. pompeo is a more nuanced guy than donald trump. they were trying to make him as uncomfortable as possible, but as pete said, he's smart. a tough week for the senate by the way. there is about 80 iq points on the average senator there, so it's a tough week for them by comparison. i didn't like the way they behaved it all. it was really bad, it tells you where things are and washington right now. >> martha: it really does. i agree that cory booker when he came on the scene, he was so impressive in so many ways, but it appears to be so transparent what he was trying to do in there today. you also have to wonder why it's not all right for a secret

senator booker: hello, i am senator cory booker from the state of new jersey. about a week ago, hundreds of thousands of our fellow americans went out and marched to demand action on gun violence in america. this was not a right or left, republican or democrat, this was a movement about right and wrong. these were americans joining their voices together in a hallowed tradition demanding freedom, and in this case, freedom from mass slaughter, freedom from fear, freedom from preventable violence. people stood together, marched together, lifted their voice in this american tradition. where change doesn't always come from washington. it must come to washington from citizens standing up and demanding change. and what they are yearning for is not out of the margins of what we all believe most americans, gun owners and non-gunowners, republican and democrat, old and young, agree that there are common sense things we can do to drive down gun violence in our country, including loopholes that allow people with ill will that allows criminals to obtain guns, whether it is

senator cory booker joins me on his bipartisan bill to defend mueller. >> there will come a time when you will be tested. >> then. >> mike cohen is a very talented lawyer. a good lawyer in my firm. >> the history of shady deals done by trump's fixer and why it may have the white house worried. >> i want to tell you about the real donald trump. >> plus, why trump pulled the plug on new russia sanctions. >> does everybody like nikki? otherwise she can easily be replaced. >> why more republicans are headed towards the exits. >> there's a big wave coming. some members have to get off the beach. >> when all in starts right now. >> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. the president and his allies are stepping up their assault on the justice department and the rule of law in the wake of last week's fbi raid on trump fixer michael cohen. tonight, in a press conference with the prime minister of japan, the president once again quite pointedly and clearly did not rule out firing the special counsel or the man that supervises him, the deputy attorney general. >> have you concluded that i

auditioning for 20/20 was cory booker. >> is being gay a perversion. >> when i was a politician i had clear view on whether it is appropriate for two -- >> do you believe that gay sex is a perversion? yes or no? do you believe that gay sex is a perversion? >> now, democrats claim to be against discrimination except when they are discriminating. so if you're someone who holds a traditional outlook like any facebook catholic or other christians should we assume you need not apply to any of these positions? then there were swings and misses like this one. >> you were criticized at the cia for undermining policies of the previous administration to improve deiversity at the cia. >> i don't know the criticism you're referring to. >> michael weinstein founded the military religious freedom foundation says he has been seeing increasing complaints from those in the intelligence community under your leadership. >> the number of no fear complaints decreased from 2016 to 2017 by 40%. >> good. >> laura: i like the good. even dianne feinstein who is usually more reasonable and voted to confirm pomp

this is cory booker who perhaps trying to position himself for a democratic run against the president. take a look. >> whose getting the most? >> yeah. >> we're getting crumbs and, by the way for all of us who have gotten, those people who may have gotten a thousand dollars in your, in your, from the, as a bonus, remember that is not free money. it is coming with a cost of driving up our debt. trish: he has his talking points down, did you see him looking at his notes, trying to remember the term crumbs? i would advise him personally not to use that. i don't think it served nancy pelosi very well. you know what, a thousand bucks, that ain't crumbs to most americans out there. you heard from so many people in the rose garden, what a difference that extra 1000 bucks means in their lives. cory booker needs to understand what it's look to be up against it and how $1000 really does matter, but he is just going pack to his talking points. he has something written on a page where he is supposed to say $1000 is crumbs and $1000 is going to cost the country in the long run. really, how will it

democratic senator cory booker is one of the sponsors of the bill. i am wondering why you and your fellow senators decided to submit legislation today. >> first of all, i want to be clear, i introduced this legislation with lindsey graham last year. there has been a lot of movement on legislation, but you are right, a renewed sense of urgency and vigor to move this forward. i am hopeful that we are going to get this into our committee and out of our committee and god willing perhaps to the senate floor for a vote. >> we learned, the fbi sought communications between then candidate trump and cohen on that "access hollywood" tape. >> first of all, we have a constitutional crisis in the making should we ever have between now and the future of history have a president who he himself or his associates are under investigation. in this case, we have seen his associates be indicted and still obtain the power without good cause to fire or order the firing of special counsel. and if we can't figure out a way to check that power, we can make for a serious finan

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cory booker of new jersey, senator booker brought up lgbt issues with this candidate. talk to me about that. what's the take away for the american people on that? >> there are various perspectives on that issue. the problem i find, we saw some democrats ask really serious questions, on china, for exampl example. the problem is cory booker and others who are either trying to gin up their base, playing to those cards, it undercuts the notion that america has a role in terms of its members of congress asking tough questions of the executive branch about matters of importance. clearly when you are interviewing someone who wants to be the next chief diplomat of the united states, i would suggest the lgbtq rights are not as serious concerns as russia or china or iran or our allies that senator booker claims president trump so disregards. >> harris: sure. it's an interesting set of topics we've seen rollout among the 21 senators on that committee who will ask the first two questions and then get a second go around as they eventually take a break. we are covering it all. presi

cory booker is one of the sponsors of the bill. i talked to him earlier tonight. g why you decided to introduce legislation today. you have to believe there's urgency to protect the special could be sell right now. >> i introduced this legislation last year. we had a hearing about this. >> okay. >> so, there's been a lot of movement on the legislation, but you're right, anderson, there seems to be a renewed sense of urgency to move this forward and i'm hopeful we're going to get this into our committee and out of our committee and god willing, perhaps even to the senate floor for a vote. >> we obviously learned today that during the fbi raid on michael cohen's home, the office, the hotel, the fbi saw communications between then candidate trump and cohen about that "access hollywood" tape. i'm wondering what you make of that and does the president's reaction to that raid add to the concerns about mueller? >> yeah, well, first of all, we have a constitutional crisis in the making, should we ever have between now and the future in history have a president who he himse

auditioning for 2020 was new jersey's cory booker. >> is being gay a perversion? was a senator graham i had a very clear view over whether it was appropriate for two same-sex people to get married. >> do you believe that {gay sex is a perversion? >> laura: democrats claim to be against discrimination except when they are discriminating. if you are someone who holds a traditional outlook, like any faithful catholic for instance, other christians, should we now assume that you need not apply to any of these positions? then there were swings and messes, like this one from senator jeanne shaheen. >> you were criticized at the cia for undermining policies of the previous administration to improve diversity at the cia. >> i don't know the criticism that you referring to. i have to tell you, i didn't undermine a single policy. >> i would just say come on michael weinstein, former air force officer who founded the military religious freedom foundation says that he has been seeing increasing complaints from those inside the intelligence community under your leadership. >>

and cory booker has asked the d.o.j. and the ftc to weigh in on what he called the rising c tide ofporate concentration. corporate monopolies are generally considered bad because any allow companies to overcharge for their products but amazon is getting slammed for lowering prices too much, something that consumers actually like. >> the violate anti-trust laws it's not just because you are big. u have to be anticompetitive, you have to be hurting consumers. nobody is making that case. >> reporter: cazon'stics say the company is using its pricing power to squeeze its suppliers, vendors, and even its workers. but it's tough to prove that's anticompetitive and not just good business. >>> our guest tonight says the iticism and attacks on amazon could continue to put pressure on the stock near term, joining us timothy lessco of janrity investment advisors. >> thanks for having me. >> we should point outtou are exactly a bull long term on this stock. you think it's expensive, yes? >> i think it is expensive from a valuation st

sexoesn't like gay because cory booker -- and cory booker is a homosexual.ost: we will leave it there. ross in illinois, republican line. go ahead. caller: yes, i think mr. pompeo is qualified for the korean problem, but in the middle east, it is in shambles. the reason it is in shambles is leduse a few conservatives netanyahu takedown seven countries. syria is near conservative for. host: fractured thoughts on mike pompeo, why do you think he is -- back. thoughts on mike pompeo. whitey think he's qualified to handle that? caller: just a second, they want to bomb iran. that is all this is about. i do not think mr. netanyahu's foreign policy is what they damn. host: ross, back to the secretary of state question, why do you think he is qualified for korea? the man seemsjust generally qualified to do it, but the principle -- host: the specifics to korea, what makes him qualified? curious on why you think that. caller: well, i really cannot tell you, but he comes across as a person qualified. host: ok, republican line. there is ankorea, op-ed in "the washington

i'm equally optimistic and pessimistic you know you only you know you know cory booker correct so corey is an old friend of mine we've known him since before you as the mayor of new york and when he was a great guy wonderful man and when he was elected to the senate or when he joined the senate he called me up and the first thing asked me he said he said to what can we do to help animals because i've committed animal rights activist and we started talking and we were talking about martin luther king jr quote the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice and we realize that like if you look at the last couple of thousand years of humanity from like the code of hammurabi on it's been one of slow but fairly steady progress you know granting rights to disenfranchised people but and so that is my cause for optimism you know i think that humans do eventually figure out how to do the right thing even if it takes them a while my pessimism is climate change you know in order effect in order for us to progress as a species in order for us to live happy healthy lives we need a

cory booker joining the chorus. >> we are getting crumbs. might have gotten $1000 as a bonus, that is not free money. it comes with the cost of driving up our debt. todd: the text form would benefit average americans. james comey taking cheap shots of the president in his first interview since leaving office. the promotional clip raising eyebrows this morning. >> how strange is it for you to compare the president to a mob boss? todd: comey's comments left everyone stunned. it is to promote his latest book a higher loyalty that is due out april 17th. jillian: house speaker paul ryan is retiring. his announcement coming ahead of the midterms barking fears that a blue wave is imminent. will his departure help or hurt republicans? here to debate, contributor to the hill jim turns and democrat strategist michael starr hopkins. do you see a blue wave coming? >> there's a tidal wave coming. this is a sin army. there is no stability in the republican party. you will see more republican stand up to the president and when it comes to fundraising they

that is plain and simple and i don't understand cory booker.y what he is saying and embarrassing. stuart: let me play the other side of the coin. i see numbers that worked out who is paying what after these tax cuts are in place. the top one 10th of 1%. 0.1%, a tiny fraction of top income earners, they used to pay 18% of all federal income taxes. they pay 22% of all federal income taxes. >> the total amount of taxes collected much larger and paying larger percentage of the larger number. it is when/win. stuart: pure politics. >> cory booker should be sending birthday cards, thank you notes, candy. treat him like we treat customers. when you get someone to give you money don't you love those people? not the government, they hate people who give the money and went to go after them. they are the best customers the government has and we should treat them respectfully. rich people, jobs pay taxes. stuart: you are right. stuart: all-americans want to climb the income chain, get out and compete to make some money but as soon as you make some real mone

gillibrand and cory booker also have jobs plans. who decides where the great free jobs come from?ho gets them? as soon as the phoney do-gooders start playing god with the job market the highway will be on the road to hell. how about not free housing, food, cars, selfie vacationsjoi. kennedy: they will make new medals for the olympics that will be platinum. >> this is how fractured the country is. pelosi should be the third person in a car on a sonic commercial. she looks crazy to me, yet they believe in her. they believe in sanders, sanders offering kids a full-time government job. you would think kids would turn up their nose and run. but they voted for him. the last time i saw a bar set this low it was at a dwarfs lake. kennedy: it must be so much fun being bernie sanders. all you do all day long is offer people free stuff because you know your plans will never get implemented. and you can spend your time being an angry old man. >> why don't they turn on him. that's what worries me. i wonder is this country that far gone that a man who made it to age 40 without a full-time job c

but kirsten gillibrand and cory booker, they have similar plans.emocrat and you want to be president, you will have to give a bunch of free stuff away. then what will happen is bernie sanders is going to have to make this walk of shame down the red carpet in the dmz asking for help and forgiveness once the united states failed into ruin. >> we have established the right to healthcare and house. the right to education. the notion of a right to a job isn't too far off. this is what's being taught in our schools today. kennedy: why stop with the right to a job? don't i have a right to a tesla? >> you know, people's needs are endless. as long as you make and set up the ideas that others' needs are a mortgage on your life, anything becomes a right. if bernie cared about creating jobs and democrats cared about people's welfare, they would be advocating for capitalism, not socialism. socialist north korea. semi capitalist south korea. where would you rather live? kennedy: i would much rather live in south korea. people claim the youth there is very superf

at what happened last week to mike pompeo in that disgusting congressional hearing with senator cory booker who was grilling mike pompeo and telling him he was not qualified to be secretary of state because of his religious beliefs regarding marriage. when the average american steps back and sees that going on, they know they made the right choice when they cast their vote for president trump. charles: there was a gathering that whe wheaton college where e issue of politics came up and some walked out. is this something that's going on within the republican party self? >> i tweeted out yesterday that this is highly unfortunate. christians don't find our identity in donald trump. our identity is in jesus christ and jesus christ alone. jesus christ is our standard, donald trump is not our standard. to say we need to start changing terms because evangelicals say they are supporting trump, that's ridiculous. christians can still call balls and strikes and say adultery is wrong and profanity is wrong. but we can cheer on a president when you are delivering in the supreme court and the lower cour

cory booker chapel beyond enterprise zones. jack kemp backed him for mayor in part because of that.dissing the things he stood for before. why doesn't the republican party say these are the things progressives wanted for years and we got them donnell. >> even if you look at -- we got them done. republicans are typically horrible in delivering a message. i think the tax reform package is the area they need to focus on. tax reform happened in january. i don't think we'll see any more republican victories with mid-terms around the corner. people remembering the omnibus and how much money they are spending at the same time. charles: ford, the likelihood of making these tax cuts permanent this year? >> i think it will be very, very hard to make them permanent. essentially everything is dead on capitol hill and everyone is running for reelection. i would tell the republicans to say tax cuts and the growing economy hasn't stopped. our promise to you is to make this permanent for everyone. you are going to need the tax cuts and actual need some contrast issue ofs to remind people how zany t

and likewise, there is a bill in the -- in the senate introduced by cory booker and bernie sanders just signed on called the marijuana justice act, which would go even further and withhold funding from states that maintain criminalization and also allow expungement of -- allow expungement for marijuana offenses. so there is actually quite a bit of movement on the hill right now, and i think it has to do with a lot of the same reason that john boehner is now an adviser on a marijuana company, it's -- the politicians keep their fingers to the wind pretty closely and they see that this is going to be a big deal, and, you know, that they have the political will behind them to do something without a lot of backlash. >> let's move on to mary in martinsville, virginia. good morning, mary. >> go >> -- >> caller: good morning. i oppose expanding the laws. can you expound on the difference of decriminalization and legalization? >> did you hear any of that. decriminalization versus legalization. >> decriminalization, for example, in a lot of places makes marijuana not a felony offense. like in d.c

most attractive people in our simply known as pilfs 4 that's "politico i'd like to friend"-- as, cory bookerul ryan, and rand paul. ohhh, i totally see it. i would love to run my hand through his hair, then use my other hand to dislodge my first hand. i don't know what that is up there. i don't know what he's got. >> jon: don't bite the hand that feeds you. >> stephen: i hope it's an herbivore up there. but bad news if you were excited about this year's edition for some reason, because "the hill" is getting rid of its "50 most beautiful" list. yeah. now where will i find pictures of passably attractive people in ill-fitting business attire? ( laughter ) it's just you and me now, j.c. penney catalogue. but this news hit some members of congress hard, including utah senator and lawyer who beat atticus finch, orrin hatch. hatch tweeted this in response to the news: "you wake up early every day to comb your hair and pick out the brightest shirt/tie combo with your strongest pinstripe suit, thinking this is going to be the year, then this happens." ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. ( applause ) don't you have othe

pompeo is facing more democratic opposition on the foreign relations committee as john mccain, cory booker and others are voicing opposition along with republican rand paul. it's possible he would be the first nominee for secretary of state since 1925 to be reported to the floor for a vote without support from the foreign relations committee. this is a critical time on foreign policy. russia an north korea, syria, a host of other issues. madeline albright. >> thank you very much for having me on. i decided it was worth talking about personal experience in this. i am concerned about various things that are happening around the world in terms of steps that are being taken that moouve in e direction of facist ideas. >> do you believe that mike pompeo is the right person to uphold values despite serious questions raised by critics on his committee about some of the values he holds. not believing in gay rights although he said he would uphold homosexual rights but not being as committed to human right, women rights and other concerns that have been core values for the state department. >> i've

cory booker i don't know if he is raising money for a pac but clearly a potential candidate in 2020.ey're worried about, financiers i'm talking about, megadonors, you get a crowded field and you get a candidate with that's very narrow, has a very strong base support like a bernie sanders, or a elizabeth warren but does not represent the country, does not have a broader populist appeal. donald trump won, it was an amazing victory. he won very narrowly in the electoral college he basically stitched together five or six states by a few votes. lost by very wide margin in the popular vote. it is hard to replicate that. they're worried if we get a trump-like candidate we'll not beat a real trump. the other thing that worries them, this is kind of interesting, when they talk to these folks, when they veer away from taking a back the house and senate to 2020, they're saying the financiers are saying why do you want to win? what comes back all the time is not, here is how i think we should run foreign policy, here is how we do the domestic, change the tack code back where it was. mostly about

for cory booker of new jersey to bemoan that tax cut and call it crumbs again as did nancy pelosi, he lot of them on the left must be arguing this is something that will resonate with americans. that they're not getting a big cut of the manna from washington. conversely the republicans seem to pound this in speech after speech, event after event as their signature triumph. who is right? >> well, with good reason it is the biggest legislative achievement for republicans for the president in his first year in office. it is the biggest tax reform that this country has seen in more than three decades. so, they certainly do have a legislative achievement to run on. obviously they would like to do more in the final months leading up to the midterm elections but this is something people all around the country can notice in their paychecks that they receive every two weeks or so. they notice that their take-home pay is greater than it was last year before the tax cuts went into effect. obviously the president wants to tout this not only here at the white house, which he did last week but also

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and he supported the legislation and now cory booker and myself and other democrats along with republicansn the finance committee got that bill passed in the law and every state is 12340u looki now looking at the ways to create opportunities. so the rhetoric cannot be thenful, but tthe helpful, but i said help me find a path forward and you had to con seeds that t concede as well as the legislation are helpful targets, but we still have to wrestle with the receipt tore kihetoric hurtful. >> and that is valuable because it illustrates one-on-one when you are together and dealing with somebody you can see them as a humid. but when you are lobbying, toxic tweet attacks on somebody, and i don't just mean the president, i mean everybody, it is much harder. >> hard to hate something you know and hard to hate up close. >> and so do you think more republicans should tell the president to change that tone from the top? >> i've never met or had a conversation with the president. mick mulvaney is the closest that i've come. i'm a big fan of persuasion. insults don't persuade. living by a separate set

senator cory booker joins me on his bipartisan bill to defend mueller. >> there will come a time whend. >> then. >> mike cohen is a very talented lawyer. a good lawyer in my firm. >> the history of shady deals done by trump's fixer and why it may have the white house worried. >> i want to tell you about the real donald trump. >> plus, why trump pulled the plug on new russia sanctions. >> does everybody like nikki? otherwise she can easily be replaced. >> why more republicans are headed towards the exits. >> there's a big wave coming. some members have to get off the beach. >> when all in starts right now.

i think cory booker is right and most mainstream democrats are in that position of we are not talking about impeachment. we are letting an investigation play out. we will get to the end of that and we do micro read mueller's report and come out with their own conclusions about what that should mean. i believe that is where the mainstream of the democratic party and where our candidates are. most importantly, candidates across the country are not running on impeachment. >> is a winning issue for democrats? >> ari: is a terrible issue for them and the democratic caucus, very powerful issue, a sentiment issue which is do you hate trump enough? >> harris: it's a litmus test. >> ari: she lost her primary for being the endorsed candidate in california to a liberal who wants to impeach the president and she is getting increasing support. it reminds me of what happened to joe lieberman when the democrats don't and that of their party because he was a liberal enough and he was a nominee for vice president. i think the same thing is going to happen. you see celebrate 2019 and when you have to 2

. >> cory booker asking his views on gay sex during this confirmation hearing when you have all of thislook ridiculous. it's hard to take people like that seriously. i think it's a real risk for them that they hurt themselves because all of those are political issues that they are trying to gin up because we have the midterms coming up and they are trying to take political advantage. it's obvious. and i think democrats have to be very careful in addition to what steve said about who comes next but just looking silly. and on serious when we have very, very serious -- >> chris: i 15 seconds. does he get confirmed? >> yes. >> yeah. >> i think so. >> i think ultimately he does but i can't tell you which democrats are going to vote for him. >> it's going to be 50/50. >> chris: all right, that's it for the panel. when we come back from a look at mark zuckerberg's worst nightmare. this is a story about mail and packages. and it's also a story about people and while we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget... that your business is our business

one of them between cory booker and thom tillis. and kunz and lindsey graham. the special counsel per this effort would only be calcify some of the information, some of the investigation work happening in a place that it doesn't just disappear. >> peter, thank you for joining us on this. good to see you in real life. and ken, thank you for your reporting. >>> we have a live report from beirut as the region prepares for possible u.s. strikes on syria. this as russia promises to shoot down any u.s. missiles that are fired there. first, just a reminder about syria. american troops are on the ground there right now. there are approximately 2,000 americans serving there providing support to local militias that are battling the remnants of isis. since the war began, there are now 5.4 million syrian refugees. 6.1 million syrians are internality displaced. in the country but not in their homes. 13.1 million syrians are in need of humanitarian aid. nearly half a million syrians are dead. you're watching velshi and ruhle live on msnbc. >>> welcome back to vel shi and ruh

since then, harry reid was involved, cory booker was involve.johnson was the first heavyweight champion in the world, which at that time was the most important sports personality in the world. he was charged, prosecuted and basically lost the championship on phony charges, the fact that he, under the map an act, he ha girlfriend, his career was ruined and he tried to make a comeback. his career was ruined because he was a black man. john mccain and i both thought here in 2008, especially, you have the first african-american president of the united states and the white man defeated by barack obama, both john and i passed the resolution calling on the president to give him a pardon, which he didn't do, which was really unfortunate. again, it's rectifying injustice and a way to bring the country together. to say this is a stain on the country and we are taking it away by jack johnson, it was a bad investigation with false charges against him. and it was targeted for being an african-american. >> have you spoken to president trump about this? >> no,

you have certainly cory booker has been on board with this, you have john mccain on board with this. and so i think it has merit. now in terms of why he's doing it, i question the timing. you mentioned, wolf, scooter libby. why are we talking about pardons now and the second aspect of the time is general presidents do this in the latter part of the term. why you are discussing issues of pardons now and it raises the specter of reminding everyone involved, whether it is michael cohen or all of the president's men, so to speak, that i have your back and i'm the president and i have this pardon power in my pocket and you stick with me and i'll stick with you and it is all good. and so it raises concerns for sure. >> i'm sure it does. bianna the president tweeted about this being a complete witch hunt and his words -- complete witch hunt. the white house today said the president -- they have no intention of firing the special counsel robert mueller. how do you square all of this? >> well i'm not sure the president gives the white house a heads up before he issues a tweet first of all, th

. >> please remove -- amy: new jersey democratic senator cory booker question pompeo over his opposition to past,ge equality in his take a sex is a "perversion." >> do you believe gay sex is a perversion? yes or no? that is what you said here. yes or no, do you believe gay sex is a perversion? >> i'm going to give the same answer i gave you previously. >> at a time that we have an increase in hate speech and hate actions against jewish americans, muslim americans, and in americans, hate acts are increasing in our nation and you're going to be representing this country and their values abroad. untoldividuals are under persecution and violence. your views do matter. amy: president trump unexpectedly reversed a signature campaign promise thursday, telling a group of state lawmakers he wants the u.s. to rejoin a massive trade agreement known as the transpacific partnership, or tpp. as a candidate, trump frequently railed against the tpp, calling it a disaster and a horrible deal. the trade agreement has faced years of global public resistance by activists who say free trade deals benefit cor

there has been bipartisan legislation sponsored by lindsey graham and cory booker that's been presentedone anything about it. i've heard some republicans in the senate say, well, why should we move on this when donald trump is not going to sign it? he may not sign it. he probably will not sign it. but it will mean that the republican party has stopped enabling him for once, and it's actually taking action and sending him the strong message. the public perception will be that republicans are enabling obstruction of justice if they don't do something, and if they don't do everything in their power to stop this from happening. they should do it for the good of the country, but they should do it also for the good of themselves because the people will flood the streets of the united states and they will go to the ballot box in november. the republicans are already going to get beat. most probably in november. but they are going to get slaughtered if donald trump wakes up one day with no -- absolutely no restraint, no impulse, throws one of his man-baby tantrums and gets rid of mueller. >> ok

obama group and from lots of other ambitious democrats around the country, including people like cory booker that national democratic attention in this case seems to have -- certainly didn't hurt. it may have helped. >> we're going to be continuing discussion of this "washington post" breaking news story tonight. we have robert costa, the co-author of that piece joining us this hour with the latest on what they're learning about the president being a subject of the investigation. and president trump actually thinking that's pretty great, that he's just a subject instead of target. any other president of the united states being told you're the subject of a prosecutor's investigation would just be horrified that it had come to that. >> you can't -- i feel a little embarrassed admitting this, but you can't really help thinking it's strategic. tell him he is the subject. he likes being the subject. >> we're going discuss with some people who have experience in this just how often that occurs, that there is a little bit of shading of it when they're just on the verge of switching you into target.

you have bernie sanders who presented this bill, you've got cory booker, i don't think anybody thinksg to pass. >> martha: full employment as a 5%, so we are already below that. is this what they want to tackl tackle? >> again, this is bernie sander bernie sanders. as we get closer to the primary season pass the midterm, going to the president, will see more and more democrats fighting for that piece of the pie in the primaries. >> martha: here's what the gallup poll says, do you support or not support, 52% so they don't support it, then they asked people the more important question, are you wanting to pay higher taxes? 54% said no absolutely not. >> i think that now that bernie sanders is in support of work, that's a good thing. but why doesn't he support lowering the income tax on people who currently work for a living? that would be a great step in the right direction. going back to your time and the soviet union, can you imagine the quality of life that those hall monitors add in the soviet union? it must've been dreadful. >> martha: not great. thank you, great to see you bot both

and $1000 are not like nancy pelosi or cory booker have you to believe are crumbs. they are seeing more money and that they're taking home and all of that is very good. our corporations are also getting the opportunity to save a whole lot more, to bring in a whole lot more revenue to their companies. hopefully that spurs more hiring, et cetera but what i would like to see, and i bring this up on a very important day, tax day, i would like to see more done on the individual side, i really would because i want you to take a look at the screen, everyone. if you look at this, what you see after standard deduction with no other write-downs, a small business owner who makes $150,000, will pay about $13,000 in federal taxes but an individual making the same amount working, for say that small business owner pays more than double in taxes, over $27,000. so you see what is going on. if you're the poor sop working for somebody you pay more. if you run the business, you pay less. this is while tax cuts for business owners and small business owners is a god thing do, we ought to

you and cory booker, i think, are on that piece of legislation together. it seems like there's a breakthrough now with the democratic party on this issue. >> well, you know, during my campaign, i talked about it. i was one of the many issues that was just too radical. but you know what, prohibition doesn't work. studies show that over half the american people smoke marijuana. it is insane to be arresting some 600,000 people a year for possession of marijuana. states are moving forward with decriminalization. legalization, vermont moved forward with legalization. the time is now to say that we are not going to punish people for smoking marijuana. states want to go forward and legalize it, that is their right. >> but doesn't the logic of that extend past marijuana? >> to -- >> crack cocaine, heroin, ecstasy. if the issue is prohibition, they're all prohibited substances. >> in portugal, with i think, has moved in that direction. >> they have. let's take one thing at a time. this is a major step forward. the issue that really hits me here is that you have tho