james fallows david k. johnston. mayor ellen, jennifer thank you. david johnston, thank you for helping us get through this hour. stay with us live because the live coverage of this presidential speech continues into "the 11th hour with brian williams." >>> the breaking news we're covering tonight. donald trump lets it fly in arizona. he reargues his response to cartsville, he launches a huge new attack on media, some by name and in the next sentence insists he loves all the people in our country. he also said there weren't as.protesters outside as promised. when he heads back to washington, there's a problem. "the new york times" reporting the president and his majority leader aren't talking and for now there's no trump legislation moving. il

. >>> david k. johnston is the pulitzer prize winning investigative journalist who earlier this year got his hands on the only bits of donald trump's federal taxes that have ever been released. david k. johnston is the reporter who obtained two pages of trump's 2005 tax returns which the white houseauthentic. he is a specialist on tax issues and financial reporting. he is also the founder of d.c. report.org. mr. johnston, it's great to have you back. thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you, rachel. >> you saw my opening remarks there about the window that we have had in the past into the president's finances. special counsel robert mueller is reportedly looking into the president's business transactions, his financial transactions. you know -- you know more about donald trump's financial past than almost anybody else on earth who is not named trump. given what you know and gin what we now understand about the mueller investigation, it doesn't strike you as strange that the president doesn't appear

so david k. johnston, this report says that the president was yelling, swearing at the senate majority leader, for not controlling the senate investigations of donald trump's campaign and his involvement with russia. >> well, that may, as was pointed out, may well be a criminal offense because it may have been, depending on the exact words, an effort to interfere with an investigation by congress. but i think that event and what we just saw are all connected. trump knows he is in deep trouble. he knows he is highly highly vulnerable in the investigation of russia. and he signalled that to us without a question bp so holding a campaign rally for 2020 is part of an effort to make sure if things go badly for him, he will have people out there in the streets who will be acting on his behalf and who will be disrupting our democracy. central thing about donald trump is donald is about donald. he is about himself and nothing else. >> there is a politics story at the heart of this new york times story. that is do

james fallows david k. johnston. mayor ellen, jennifer thank you. david johnston, thank you for helping us get through this hour. stay with us live because the live coverage of this presidential speech continues into "the 11th hour with brian williams." >>> the breaking news we're covering tonight. donald trump lets it fly in arizona. he reargues his response to cartsville, he launches a huge new attack on media, some by name and in the next sentence insists he loves all the people in our country. he also said there weren't as.protesters outside as promised. when he heads back to washington, there's a problem. "the new york times" reporting the president and his majority leader aren't talking and for now there's no trump legislation moving. we will cover it all as "the 11th hour" gets under way. busy night here good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters in new york. day 215 of the trump administration. and it wraps up with a campaign rally in phoenix, arizona. for those of you joining us live, 11:00 p.m. eastern time, it is still going on

joining us now, david k. johnston, pulitzer prize winning journalist, and back with us, mieke eoyang. david, the "national enquirer" obviously for years now has been very, very friendly to donald trump. i've already said in the show that this article today strikes me as the equivalent of a trump tweet. what do you make of it? >> well, there's two aspects to this relationship. this case is dirtying up paul manafort. trump knows about this raid, and he is now taking steps to solidify with his base. he can't believe anything about paul manafort. he's a terrible person. he's having an affair with a woman younger than his daughter. the other side of this is the "national enquirer" has hushed up stories for trump, including making a settlement with a former playmate of the year to make sure she said nothing about her alleged affair with donald trump a year after his marriage to now first lady melania. and she agreed not to write columns for them, which we never saw, and she also agrees forever to never speak of any relation

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james fallows david k. johnston. mayor ellen, jennifer thank you for joining us thank you for helping us through the hour. stay with us live and msnbc because the live coverage of this presidential speech continues now into "the 11th hour" with brian williams. >> the breaking news we covering donald trump let's it fly in arizona. he reargues his response to charlottesville. he launch as huge knew attack on the media some by name and in the next sentence insists he loves all the people of our country. he also said there weren't as many protestors outside as promised. and about the business of the presidency when he heads back to washington there is a problem. "the new york times" reporting tonight the president trump and his majority leader aren't talking. and for now there is no trump legislation moving. we will cover it all as the 11th hour gets under way. >>> busy night here and good evening once again from the nbc news headquarters in new york. day 215 of the trump administration and it wraps up with a campaign ra