. >> my name is don trachte jr. iblings and i were supposed to inherit from our father one of norman rockwell's best-known paintings. what we got was a mystery. what the heck had dad done with it? >> hi, don. i'm jamie. >> hi, jamie. >> so nice to meet you. so great to be in vermont. what is this place? >> this was my dad's studio. >> back in the 1950s, don's dad, donald trachte sr., is a syndicated cartoonist working on the popular strip "henry," which features a bald-headed boy, simply illustrated with clean lines and minimal backgrounds. can you support a wife and four kids drawing "henry"? >> it was a good living. my dad had to come up with all the gags... >> really? >> ...and he would have a sheet of paper next to his drawing board, and usually, he'd come up with about three or four gags at a time. >> were they gags about you kids? >> well, sometimes they were. >> so life for the trachtes is pretty good here in arlington, a picturesque artist's colony with a world-famous resident -- norman rockwell. how did your

aside from don jr. retweeting it which is disgusting and appalling and must be bigger news but we're living with the trumps. ergo, it's what we're seeing on a monday. there is this digital black face that gets performed. it happened in 2016 where a bunch of accounts start up, they purport to be black americans and then they engage in racist content. we saw that exact message pop up on multiple accounts right after the debate. so this is not a real human being who said this. this is not a real black american upset about kamala harris. this is a coordinated attack. we don't know by who. >> really helpful context. thank you for opening everyone's eyes to that. >>> we've been talking about big fund raising numbers in the fund raising. nothing compared to some of the money being thrown around in the nba right now. two of the league's biggest stars not going to the new york knicks. the bleacher report next. ♪ play it cool and escape heartburn fast with new tums chewy bites cooling sensation. ♪ tum tum tum tum

to be fair, every meeting with don jr.olves limited intelligence. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) but still-- still-- ♪ ♪ >> jon: yeah, yeah. >> stephen: still, this is a big change. just last weekend, don junior's lawyers drafted a letter to the committee, telling its members that donald trump jr. would not submit to open-et cluded multiple democrats running for president. well, come on! you walk into any room, you'll find multiple democrats running for president. ( cheers and applause ) i bought, this morning-- this is true. this-- this-- i bought a coffee this morning, i bought a coffee this morning, i'm 90% sure my barista was beto o'rourke. ( laughter ) so at the last minute, the committee agreed to an interview with the questions limited to about a half-dozen topics and the time limited to no longer than 2-4 hours. that's a good deal for him, actually. as the "times" put it, the move was "straight out of his father's playbook: set the terms of the debate at the most extreme end of the discussion by saying he wou

(as don jr.)still remember those grueling days playing game boy in the limo while dad refused to pay the contractor." ( laughter ) ( applause ) "yeah. i remember." this is true: in the "about the author" section, it says don jr., "is an avid outdoorsman and when he's not on the campaign trail, he can be found on streams and in the mountains all over the world." yes, legends say he's in the mountains all over the world. no one's been able to get a photograph so far, just imprint of his see the and broscat. this fall, we'll be searching for him in the new cbs hit show "finding big-douche." ( cheers and applause ) we got a hit! we got a hit! >> jon: gotta look for the foot print! >> stephen: but don jr. isn't even the most embarrassing person in trump's orbit. that title goes to commerce secretary and man who lives by the phrase, "soup before beer, you're in the clear," wilbur ross. ross has led the commerce department for more than two years, and in that time, insiders say the agency has reached an

don jr.'s comment was this. is it true? wow. malika henderson is cnn's political reporter and nia reston. and nia, first to you. what we have from the spokesperson from don jr. told the "new york times" that he was expressing surprise at harris being half indian and deleted it after his words were misconstrued, right? that's their camp. but the harris campaign, several of the 2020, you know, rivals and others say it was downright racist when his own father, donald trump, pushed for birtherism against barack obama. and it is racist right now. >> i think that's right. i mean, it's such a dejavu moment. and if anybody is paying attention to the way in which donald trump rode to prominence in the context of the 2012 campaign and certainly in the 2016 campaign, he was at the forefront of birtherism. and this certainly has echos of that, this idea that somehow because she has parents who were -- have sort of different nationalities, she's not an american. and you have a coordinated effort online around this with many people retweeting

the hearing began with don jr.worn in on a stack of maxims and then re-icing his keg of natty lite. senator kamala harris grilled the president's son about the trump tower meeting. don jr. responded by shooting the last white rhino. later in the hearing, 75-year- old maine senator angus king fell asleep, and the president's son drew a penis on the senator's forehead. the hearing came to an abrupt end when it rn

the contents of don jr.'s skull? >> vacuum. ( laughter ) >> stephen: sir, to you, what is more disturbing, donald trump welcoming interference from the russians in our election, or the trailer for "cats?" >> donald trump. >> stephen: finally, sir, you've been investigating the president for over two years. can you say anything complimentary about donald trump? >> i'd have to pass on that. >> stephen: thank you, sir. i'll now yield my time to the opening credits. >> it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight, the mueller retort. plus, stephen welcomes chris wallace and jamie bell featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! crt! you ( band playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: beautiful! happy wednesday, my friend. thank you very much. thank you. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. our viewers out there, around the world. welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert! today, special counsel robert muel

the book is called "triggered" and this is a preview of what don jr. he's a hunter, a fisherman, in some ways he has more of a natural affinity with the people of trump country than his father does. during the 2016 campaign, he traveled the country extensively, tons of talk radio in trump country stations. we're going to see him out there again. right now he's doing some fund-raisers and will do more of that. here with "triggered" the title which is aimed at triggering people who are -- who are -- people who don jr. would say is overly politically correct, that anti-politically correct message is a big part of this book. we're told the topics include censorship and big tech. so that idea that conservatives are being pushed around on platforms, many of which are debunked. very little evidence of this. but we see the trump administration, the trump family, sees it as a helpful issue like with the social media summit the president had the other day. >> all right. mike allen, thank you. we'll be reading axios a.m. and have a great week as well. to our view

a spokeman for don, jr. said that his tweet was misunderstood. but folks, including the entire democratic field are having none of it. great to see you. what are you hearing about this. >> the campaign certainly isn't buying it. the harris campaign, that is. basically what we are calling this entire tweet, this entire episode from don, jr. is, quote, a racist attack. as far as kamala harris herself, she is trying to float above this controversy. she wants to try to push her missage. but in conversations with reporters over this weekend, they did address the online onslaught that she's seen. >> we are a nation that has a lot to be proud of and there are aspects of our history that we cannot be proud of. we need to be educated. it's a history of race and segregation in this country is real. that conversation may make some people uncomfortable. >> she did also say that, you know, it makes people uncomfortable. it was a little difficult to hear her there because she was speaking after she was taking part in san francisco pride. but you know who is sp

as don jr.y by retweeting then deleting a birther-style conspiracy theory about senator kamala harris. joining me now to discuss, the "washington post" and sarah set mire. welcome to you both. ivanka had front row seats for nearly every televised event at the g20 event in japan. but she has absolutely no diplomatic experience so why was she really there. >> well, actually, laura, i would love to know what the end game was here. it was clear that she was there by design. she was in a role that is hard to define but occupies several spheres. she was clearly there as family member. someone her father is comfortable with. she's an adviser. it's an amorphous portfolio. has been from the beginning. things that did have some relevance there. particularly women's empowerment and trying to get international capital in the hand of women in the developing world. a couple of issues she actually has worked on for quite a long time were under discussion there, so there was reason for her to be there, but ther

don jr. taken up the knife as well. he retweeted this last week, part of it reads, "kamala harris is not an american black. she is half indian and half jamaican." don jr. later deleted the retweet, but like his father, he opened the door to another birtherism-style conspiracy playing with race, and obviously it's against a democrat. now, his spokesman says, it's a misunderstanding. is it, or is it exactly what it looks like? that's the start of tonight's great debate. with michael eric dyson and patrick griffith. patrick, thanks for taking up this case. not an easy one. what is your defense of the obvious? >> well, chris, i come here not to defend trump or donald jr. i come here because i think it was a mistake. i think that when you do this kind of thing, and engage in this kind of thing, you take a narrative this week for the president that is on everything but what they should be talking about. the president had a summit meeting, the president went back to see chairman kim, the president g

many say don jr. is a racist because he retweeted a tweet and he agrees with don lemon. what do we get out of this? >> absolutely nothing. black americans don't get anything about it. let me tell you something about the donald trump jr. racist conversation. how is he a racist for sharing the same conversation that don lemon had on cnn? the exact same thing. what is going on in the left, they're trying to twist any question about kamala harris's lineage to a birther style attack which is garbage. she's the child of a jamaican father and indian mother. she was born to two immigrant parents. she's not african american, right? what she does, when you see the situation that she had with joe biden at the last debate, she tries to muddy the waters. when she says she's a child of bussing, she tries to muddy the waters to pretend that she comes from the jim crow lineage or lineage of slave. that's not where she comes from. it's not racist when don lemon had it on cnn and it's not racist for me or other black voters to have it and it wasn't racist for donald trump jr. to ask the qu

. >>> and the president's son don jr. appears to delete a tweet, questioning kamala's harris. good morning, everybody, it is monday july 1st. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside white house correspondent geoff bennett. president trump making history, becoming the first sitting united states president to set not in north korea. it's something the president alluded to on friday, tweeting this, if chairman kim sees this, i would meet him at the border just to shake his hand and say hello, question mark, exclamation point. kim jong un apparently saw that tweet and yesterday met and led trump over the border at the heavily fortified demilitarized zone. they walked several steps and held a brief photo op for north korean photographs. in hostile territory, since the united states is at war with north korea, trump reciprocated the gesture and led kim jong un into south korea, along with south korean president moon jae-in. the president also announced that the stalled denuclearization talks would resume and said he would invite the north korean dictator to the white house. >> i would invi

the hearing began with don jr. being sworn in on a stack of maxims and then re-icing his keg of natty lite. senator kamala harris grilled the president's son about the trump tower meeting. don jr. responded by shooting the last white rhino. later in the hearing, 75-year- old maine senator angus king fell asleep, and the president's son drew a penis on the senator's forehead. the hearing came to an abrupt end when it turned out the rhino was playing possum and trampled the president's son. >> announcer: it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight, trouble in poll land. plus, stephen welcomes beto o'rourke and billy porter. featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: wooo! hi! delightful. hey, everybody! how are you? thanks, everybody. welcome. welcome, one and all, to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. folks, here's something-- both joe biden and donald trump were in iowa camp

then you have don jr. that's a real help in the fund-raising category. he is working california this week at the same time president trump is going to be a new jersey. you're able to raise money simultaneously across the country because of don jr. , the guilfoyle will be out there as well. it's been an amazing run and it's continuing. >> neil: where will the proceeds be allocated? we tend to focus on poles and get this national disadvantage but forget the fact that he scored his victory largely as a result of flipping democratic largely industrial states. how is he doing and will those resources go to those states? >> sure, there's going to be a lot of resources and historically blue states. the rust belt is going to get a lot of attention. 123 million cash on hand at the end the quarter. we are going to going to next year after the primaries and after we go through the convention, were going to have hundreds of millions of dollars in cash on hand and a fully funded campaign, fully staffed up. different in 2016. the democrats are probably going to come o

. >> this tweet, tara, the man behind it, the tweet that don jr. retweeted, you know, he identifi identifies as african-american. but the attacks have also come from the right and the left. so my question to you is, what's the end game? is this about, you know, suppressing the black vote? if there are any doubts about who c who c w who cam kamala harris is? >> first of all, it's a disgusting asinine campaign online to try to question kamala harris' blackness. we saw this division fomenting online during the 2016 campaign, pushed by the russians. this part of that, you know, interjecting the racial division and questioning this is something that the russians saw and capitalized on in this country. and it's outlined in a lot of detail in the mueller report, as well as in the indictment of the russians in abstentiona in st. petersburg that was taking on identities to try to push these kinds of racial divisive mar actives during the elections. they know the american people can respond to these things and it can go viral. that is a concern to me, that t

and now the idea that don jr.w she was half indian, that's how you express that kind of surprise is with millions of people on twitter. do you buy it? >> it's a plausible deniability. we don't have to say accidents don't happen. you always intended for the thing that occurred to occur. we know that it was intentional even if inadvertent. we know he wants to play with race. and the best way to do it, throw rocks, hide your hands. this is not the kind of nastiness. but they keep doing it. they keep repeating it. this is a constant reoccurring theme with the president, implied racism. i'm not a racist, i don't have a racist bone in my body, but those muscles are awful bigoted. we have to come to grips that the far right has used this to their advantage, and then when they get caught with it, they claim they didn't want dessert. this is feeding and fueling a nasty, vicious, anti-black sentiment in this country that continues from the white house on down. >> i agree with the central part of your premise. he doesn't nee

yep, he was so happy, he came c thisse to hugging don jr >> steve: really [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, yeah he thought about it. trump was so happy, he formed his hair into a party hat. >> steve: oh >> jimmy: yeah, yeah [ laughter ] he was so happy that he rehired jeff sessis and then fired him again. [ laughter ] he was so happy, he thought about taking a victory lap, just made an intern do it for him. [ laughter ] he was so hay y, he offered to flthe squad back to where they came from on air force one. [ laughter ] that's how happy trump was i heard that yesterday tal president watched seven hours on tv. but today he went back to his usual schedule of watching seven hours of tv.ht [ lauger ] well, after the uearing, trump said mller's performance was, quote, "one of the worst performances in the history of enthe country. and thtormy daniels was like, "second worst. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause and get this, i heard that during mueller's testimony, melania tweeted that she's already prepping for christmas at the white house not a good sign for trump. he's hearing that he c hld

>> correct. >> and don jr. was made aware that the russians were offering dirt on his opponent, correct? >> i don't know that for sure, but one would assume given his presence at the meeting. >> and when you say you would love to get that help, that would constitute acceptance of the offer? >> it's a wide open request. >> and it would certainly be evidence of acceptance if you say when somebody offers you something illegal, you say i love it, that would be considered evidence of acceptance. >> i would stay away from addressing one particular or two particular situations. >> this particular situation, i'll have to continue in a bit. now yield to mr. stewart. >> mr. mueller, it's been a long day. thank you for being here. i do have a series of important questions for you. before do i that, i want to reemphasize something my friend, mr. turner, has said. i have heard people state no person is above the law. many times recently they have not even the president which i think is blazingly obvious to most of us. >> i'

whether or not don jr. formally invoked the fifth amendment in testifying. but these are not game changing pieces of evidence. so saying we're going to pick this court case, it's going to take a long time, and it's not going to produce that much relevant information. >> what could produce some relevant information is they're going to court monday or tuesday to get don mcgahn the white house counsel to come before congress and testify. >> so again, don mcgahn's testimony could certainly be incredibly significant. actually could have sort of that game changing quality of having him be forced to talk about the obstruction episodes that he himself participated in. the president of the united states directing him to have robert mueller fired including director mcgahn to create a false record. robert mueller in his testimony confirmed that he believes mcgahn's story is credible. and so that again is really significant. but once again, don mcgahn is not the only relevant witness here and he's not the yaess to pull in. little bit of a question why they're focusing o

mueller, according to the report, you know, don trump jr.aid he loved the idea of receiving help from the russian, is that correct, mr. mueller and he of course would have to say yes, i don't imagine he's going to do a dramatic reading. again, one of my colleagues said it best. there's a difference between reading the book and seeing the movie, and part of the objective here is that bob mueller bring this thing to life. it's important for reasons far beyond what you think of donald trump. it's important because americans need to understand how they were manipulated on social media. we need to understand how network vulnerabilities can lead a country to damage our democracy, and enough americans sort of haven't learned the lesson that's in volume one. whatever you think of the politics, there's real lessons in what happens tomorrow! have you seen this memo from nancy pelosi. it is literally hot off the presses, hot in my hands, it just came out, and it is her guidance for house democrats like yourself of how you are supposed to talk about thi

like talking trash about derek jeter at a yankees game or avocados as brunch or hedgehogs at don, jr.s only added fuel to the fire. we're learning these days, anything you say in private will not stay private forever. you text them, they are not going to say that. you want to tell your friend a shitty joke, there's only one way to do it, drive to the middle of no, where meet your friend in an empty field and you whisper the joke in their ear. and when your friend turns around, you shoot them in the back of the head. you might go to jail for murder but you won't get canceled. you can come back for murder. look at o.j. if anything, he's going to get canceled for his tweets. people would be, like, did you see what he said on twitter? what he allegedly said on twitter! most politicians would resign after 900 pages of their texts released but not this governor. >> ifn under increasing pressure and several members of his staff resigning amid controversy, still the governor refuses to step down. >> he says he won't resign. i am not proud of what i did. i need to move forward and continue on

meanwhile at the white house, trump was like, why does the cake i ordered for don jr. say lizard?we have the host of saturday night politics, donny deutsch. "new york times" reporter jeremy peters. republican strategist and msnbc

a spokesperson for don jr.d it was him asking if it was true that kamala harris was half indian because it's not something he had ever heard before and once he saw that folks were misconstruing the intent of his tweet, he quickly deleted it. a lot of people saw this early attack on kamala harris and said, here we go again with reflections back to the birther movement of which donald trump was the lead cheerleader. >> well, what we learned from donald trump jr. deleting that tweet is that birtherism 2.0 likely will not work. because people have seen it. and let's put it out plainly. when you're questioning someone's background of african-american descent it's racism there. somehow her being of indian and jamaican descent doesn't make her have the african-american experience,when she was born and bussed in america, it gets to the core of the issues we're dealing with still which is that people want to look for ways to really divide the african-american community and say, well, your boat stopped in jamaica or hait

for instance, they met don, jr. at the top of trump tower. ( laughter ) finally, mueller's entire hearing will be accompanied by the secretary of slide whistles. example -- trump said, oh, my god this is terrible! this is the end of my presidency! i'm ( bleep ). ( slide whistle ) >> announcer: it's "the late show" with stephen colbert. tonight, honey, i ruined theki.y juliaÁn castro, tony hale, and musical guest niluÜfer yanya, ma and now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( theme song playing ) >> stephen: thanks, everybody! oh, my gosh, that is a thrill ride. welcome to the "late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) i'm a man of some faith, and there are some words of the gospel that come to mind from time to time. my mother used to quote, "it were better a millstone were hung around your neck and be cast into the sea than you would lead one child astray." well, today, donald trump strapped on a millston

more old, some 20% or more americans think barack obama was not born in the united states, what's don jron for why he retweeted that? >> i think you are right when you talk about donald trump and appealing to the base on this. i think there are a certain percentage of people who feels this is something that's kindred with him on. that's speaking with president trump's own base. in terms of donald trump jr., his spokesperson is out with a statement to us over the weekend saying that he was questioning and he had not heard she was half indian. he put that tweet out questioning something he was not aware of. he deleted it when he saw it was being misconstrued on twitter. we have to watch history repeating itself specifically on this birther front and several other candidates including joe biden are seeing shades of what we talked about in the birther movement. i think that the other candidates were quick to call it out. there was round condemnation for kamala harris. >> talk to me about what kamala harris does about this beyond this. she's enjoying the supporter of her fella candidates. she

this is one of the hottest issues and you have his eldest son, don jr., probably more than any othertart of what i think is going to be a pretty aggressive -- i think it will be a campaign issue. i think president trump will incorporate it into his campaign for sure. >> it plays right into the trump brand of grievance politics, you're right. >> 100%. yeah. >> jonathan swan, thanks. >> thanks for having me. >> stick around. k

discern, each of the presidential candidates had some sort of comment about that in response to what don, jrdid. that was a disturbing story behind the troll farm that created that moment. >> that strikes me as donald trump, jr. manages to unite all of the democratic candidates after a debate. who else could do that? >> it's true. we will call on him often once we get to the general election. >> we will squeeze in a break and we will continue with more of the information in the polls and some new and positive information for the buttigieg campaign. that's next. campaign that's next. hmm. exactly. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. nice. but, uh... what's up with your... partner? not again. limu that's your reflection. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ when you rest on a leesa hybrid mattress, bedtime is no longer simply the time you go to sleep. it's time to switch off and catch up. enjoy me time, and we time. 40 winks or 8 hours solid. the leesa hybrid mattress combines two technologies to give you deeper rest an

discern, each of the presidential candidates had some sort of comment about that in response to what don, jrdid. that was a disturbing story behind the troll farm that created that moment. >> that strikes me as donald trump, jr. manages to unite all of the democratic candidates after a debate. who else could do that? >> it's true. we will call on him often once we get to the general election. >> we will squeeze in a break and we will continue with more of the information in the polls and some new and positive information for the buttigieg campaign. that's next. after my dvt blood clot... ...i wondered, is another one around the corner. or could it be different than i thought? i wanted to help protect myself. my doctor recommended eliquis. eliquis is proven to treat and help prevent another dvt or pe blood clot... almost 98 percent of patients on eliquis didn't experience another. ...and eliquis has significantly less major bleeding than the standard treatment. eliquis is fda-approved and has both. don't stop eliquis unless your doctor tells you to. eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases

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he also has an op-ed on cnn.com today titled ivanka trump and don, jr. put on a ludicrous show.the many surreal moments during the g-20 summit you found ivanka's presence as a sort of in a diplomatic role at some of these high level meetings i think to top the list. what did you see? >> well, you saw in her a person almost acting as decoration, a representative or face that the president wanted to see. but i don't think it's possible for her to make a concrete contribution to any of the talks. her background is in real estate and television. she is an aide to the president, but her main qualification is that she's a trump. in a lot of ways this is what we should have expected. donald trump has always run his enterprises as family affairs, so we have the first daughter playing a big role in the summit and in north korea. and we have donald junior playing politics with an eye on the 2020 election. >> i think domestically people did assume that ivanka would be an advisor to the president, he relies on her a lot. but i think where the confusion comes in is the international summit q

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we asked don jr.'s attorney if he did that. he declined to comment. but we know that lawmakers are keenly interested in this meeting, particularly chairman of the house intelligence committee told kristen welker that this was the kind of meeting, this kind of evidence that he wants his committee. he intends to ask questions robert mueller about because it pertains on the idea that there was potential collusion between the trump campaign and the russian government. and in adam's schiff's words, even if there wasn't enough evidence to bring charges, it doesn't mean there wasn't some sort of wrongdoing there. >> now for some analysis, nico, let's talk about this. before i do i want to play this sound bite and what he said to brian williams about robert mueller. take a listen. >> i think it looks like they're trying to gag mueller and trying to say that anything that's not in the report is presumptively privileged. mueller is so by the book, i suspect that will influence him greatly. . >> two parts to this. one, what do you make of the doj letter? is it a

applause ) well, we'll-- we'll have-- we will have more-- we will have more on this tomorrow, unless don jra powder. now, there's more juicy news, because the "new york times" got trump's taxes! from-- what is it? '85. taxes from 1985 to '94. it's not exactly what you wanted. it's spending christmas stranded at the tampa airport-- not great but still christmas. now the "times" dove into ten years' worth of trump's tax return information, and the biggest takeaway is that, over those ten years, trump reported $1.17 billion in losses. that's $2 billion in today's money. that is more than the g.d.p. of gambia-- or, as trump might put it: ( as trump ) "i'm a (bleep)-hole country now!" ( cheers and applause ) he might-- he might say that. didn't say he would. keep in mind, '85 to '94 was trump's prime. those were his salad days, minus the salad. trump was everywhere back then, pushing his carefully crafted billionaire image. just look at the article's lead photo. we finally found the central park dracula. ( as trump dracula ) "i vant to suck. and i do." everything we thought we knew-- ( cheers an

i guarantee you eric or don jr. bought him that set for christmas.e assumed it was a documentary and watched it and went oh, my god. the question now is how do you get him to stop saying horrible things about baltimore? and the answer is show him the musical about the stuff he starts every morning with. "hairspray." okay? [ laughter ] watch that and sing "good morning baltimore." every day as he empties aqua net onto his cotton candy head. trump may also be running oust things to blame obama for because on friday this is the best he could come up with. >> a lot of times you go and they do a lost work in the white house. for instance, the obama administration worked out a brand new air-conditioning system for the west wing. and it was so good before they did the system. now that they did the system it's freezing or hot in here. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: by the way, he used that as the reason he has to go to his golf course. he's planning to spend some time at his golf course. he blames obama for the air-condi

despite that he still held a press conference today to demand indictments for president trump, don jrhope hicks. >> we cannot turn a blind eye to this conduct and allow it to be swept under the rug. we are talking about criminal conduct aimed at securing the highest office in the land. >> tucker: criminal conduct aimed at securing the presidenc presidency. creepy porn lawyer. looks can't see themselves in the year. software and is not his strong suit. it used to be easy to remember the things in america that were racist. they were obvious things. burning crosses, wearing white robes, swastikas. you get the point. now almost every day something new is being declared racist by whoever decides what's racist. betsy ross is nonracist for the national racist. and now as of this week, one of america's first flags, the gaston flay, the one that reads "don't tread on me," it's been a pro liberty symbol for almost 250 years but when actor chris pratt wore a shirt with the flag, yahoo which is the sort of news organization, ran an article suggesting that shirt choice reflected "white supremacy."

here is what don jr. retweeted from a guy named ali alexander. kamala harris is not an american black. she is half indian and half jamaican. i'm sick of people robbing american blacks like myself of our history. it's disgusting. now using it for debate time. these are my people, not her people. freaking disgusting. what would you like us to see between the lines here? >> see the coordinated attack behind this. ali alexander is an actual person, a black american. but that exact message was written out on almost a dozen tweets immediately following the debate. so this was something that we saw in 2016 where the right, russia, we don't know who's doing it at this point but they would engage in digital blackface where they would pretend to be black americans who are angry about something racist perceived in the democratic primary. we're starting to see this happen again. and we saw it with that tweet which populated across twitter coming from different places. some are bots, some are real. we don't know. but when you see things like this, it's import

. >>> and the president's son don jr. appears to delete a tweet, questioning kamala's

his son don jr. tweets about it all the time.ght the president's attention because he thinks he might be losing followers or losing interaction because of some supposed bias. it's not like trump has not done well on social media. you can argue convincingly that no politician has done better on social media, in terms of twitter and getting his message out. you see a lot of conservatives, a few have been kicked off facebook or twitter for violating the policies that these platforms have on racist language or, you know, sensitivity language, and that's what he's now worried about. >> let's turn and talk about the labor secretary, alex acosta and the fallout he's facing over the jeffrey epstein arrest. we're hearing that the administration, if he does leave, if thhe is forced to resign, there are those in the administration including the chief of staff, who feel like acosta hasn't been fast enough to enact the trump agenda such that it exists over at the labor department. what's the axios reporting on this? >> exactly what you just s

there's a little leeway he gives don jr.he meeting that many prosecutors wouldn't give them. the russian interference is such a critical piece of this and i hope very much it doesn't get lost. there's no question about that. >> this is going to be dealt with mostly in the intelligence committee hearing. the judiciary committee will handle obstruction of justice issues and justice will do the collusion. >> criminal conspiracy, that's an area where republicans could get themselves into trouble. if they don't use that phrase, they have to be very specific. that's what was not found. but if they blunder into these statements wanting mueller to say absolutely zero evidence, the report says plain as day multiple links. >> more to say about president trump's claim that robert mueller exonerated him. we'll be right back. can my side be firm? and my side super soft? with the sleep number 360 smart bed you can both adjust your comfort with your sleep number setting. so, can it help us fall asleep faster? yes, by gently warming your fe

as for don jr., a spokesperson said he was genuinely asking the question whether or not kamala harris was of half indian descent. he didn't know the answer to that. once he realized, the spokesman said, his intent was misconstrued, he immediately deleted the tweet. phil mattingly, cnn, washington. >> so let's take a closer look at all of this with political analyst michael jen veez. he is the president of the global policy institute at loyo loyola marymount university. thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> so let's start by taking a closer look at that new cnn poll taken after last week's two democratic debates, showing joe biden's support plummeting ten percentage points since may to 22%. kamala harris and elizabeth warren both doubled their support, shooting up to 17 and 15% respectively. and bernie sanders dipped four points to 14%. of course it's early days yet, but what do you make of those numbers? >> well, political science research tells us a few things that are very clear. one, in a primary election, debates matter a great deal because in the general it's two warring trib

tweet out such a tweet but in a sense it let joe biden off the hook because we're talking about what don jr. did as opposed to what joe biden did. he needs to sit down and get good advice, of course, from african-americans, on how his words are perceived. so he can learn to communicate what he actually means and not provide more fodder for the next round of the news stories that will negatively impact him. >> state representative moore there are some democrats who've criticized harris's debate strategy with regards to joe biden, politico reporting that harris is facing debate backlash. "biden supporters and democrats are describing harris's assault on biden as an all too calculated overreach after she knocked him on his heels in a grilling over bussing and his remarks on segregationist senators." former illinois senator said her ambition got it wrong about joe. what's the campaign's response to that criticism? >> well, i think it's misguided. listen, senator harris talked about it when she first announced that she was running for president, that she would speak truth to power no matter who

stupid is with tight and genius." [ laughter ] when they heard trump say "loose and stud," eric and don jr'd into the oval office and said, "you asked for us dad?" [ laughter ] giddy up [ cheers and applause loose and stupid duh, yeah. [ applause ] later, reporters asked trump if the u.s. is gonna strike back at iran, and trump said,on "you'lind out. >> steve: ooh. >> jimmy: that's reassuring. the presidenis treating war with iran like a cliffhanger on "the bachelorette. [ laughter ] it's like, we're gonna find out when we come back. i saw last night, trump called into sean hannity's show on fox news, and at the end of the show, after the president had talked for 45 minutes, hannity had a little trouble getting him off the phone. watch this >> i want to get along with cha, and i think we will i'm meeting actually both of them next week in japan and --r. >> let me, president - >> i think it's impoant that the united states gets along you know, the united states is paying for nato. >> mr. president - >> you had a lot of countries that were delinquent gonna have a - >> mr. president - >> i ho

. >> how would you characterize the contents of don jr.'s skull?g, donald trump welcoming interference from the russians in our election or the trailer for cats? >> donald trump. >> according to robert mueller, the president can be charged with obstruction of justice once he leaves office so you know what that means? trump is never leaving office. yeah. he hears that, the secret service is going to be banging on the oval office like, you need to leave. he be like, no housekeeping, thank you. >> i like stephen colbert's, you know, airline, bring it in right here. >> there are people speculating that the twitter that the republicans were saying over here, over here, over here to make it look like he didn't know what was going on. there were conspiracy theories. >> that seems a little whieldish. >> interesting. >>> puerto rico's governor resigning after weeks of protests so let's get right to the breaking news. >>> today i announce that i will be resigning from the position of governor. >> an explosion of joy. people here in old san juan after they le

that technically was selling access to the president and his family in exchange for money and maybe don, jr. and eric shouldn't come to that event. now, this decision in arizona about the little town of benson and the mammoth proposed housing development that would something like septuple the size of the town, when trump was elected, this was done. the month before trump got elected, there was a decision made that was going to have to be lots more scrutiny and a decision about land in arizona. the fish and wildlife service, they weighed in at the field supervisor level and got a decision. they need months more scrutiny and assessment of the environmental impact and the federal government made its decision. not long after trump was sworn in the summer of 2017, a number of things happened to change the course of events. this has been pieced together by brilliant journalism starting with "the arizona daily star." their initial work on this is very good work and picked up in advance by the associated press at the national level and cnn has done very good work advancing the story themselves. wha