setting him up so they can say don trump, jr.eting with this russian agent so we the need wiretaps. this stinks to high heaven. when push comes to shove, we'll see it was rod rosenstein and bob mueller who got those records sealed about the full russian investigation. if those records were out there where they could be viewed, it would put hillary clinton i don't know how she'll look in stripes. but that's the kinds of thing we are look at once we get our hands on that case file. lou: as you take note, gps fusion meeting with the russian attorney both before and after a debrief afterwards with that meeting with donald trump, jr. it stinks to high heaven. we'll continue our -- our conversation with these gentlemen in just a moment. why we are not learning more about what happened with the dnc with the folks who put together the uranium one deal and put all of that money, $143 million to work at the clinton foundation. was that just a coincidence or was it a payoff. more with these three gentlemen on what to expect from attorney ge

to lower taxes that is what us president don trump voce to do companies and families should benefit from the new tax reform he sighs and has a first draft here is more. it's supposed to be the biggest tax cut in u.s. history and the first major tax reform effort after more than thirty years trouble i call it his biggest success but the average citizen would benefit little. especially big companies down to profit with the tax rates had to be reduced from thirty five percent to twenty percent. smaller companies would see their taxes capped at twenty five percent. and income tax for employees could be anywhere from twelve to thirty five percent but families are set to receive more tax incentives. with this plan we are making progress three forms so that yes america can compete with the rest of the world but we're also making it so that families like these that are here can have more take home pay this is it this is a very important and special moment for our country for all americans but these tax cuts would cost the state around two point two trillion dollars over the next decade that's mo

president don trump says he will handle the latest ballistic missile test by north korea china has voiced his grave concern and called for talks to resolve the issue pyongyang claims its latest test launch is a new type of missile and some x. experts believe the to be capable of hitting any city in the united states here's more. north korea triumphantly claims it has become a global nuclear power after a lot of over two months it has fired another intercontinental ballistic missile this one flew much higher than previous ones before landing in the sea of japan. state media announced the news in a special broadcast it said the launch was a complete success and that the new missile represented a giant leap forward. here on young frames this brings the whole u.s. mainland within its reach a direct challenge to president on the tramp but this time his reaction was more muted than before after meeting with his secretary of defense trump refrained this time from issuing threats. you know what we tell you that will take care of it when you have joe most in the room with us and when all this ques

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president don trump has arrived in china for what his aides view as the most significant part of his five country tour of asia chinese president xi jinping and his wife gave the u.s. president and first lady a private tour of the forbidden city a compound in the center of beijing now talks between these two presidents are set to focus on trade and north korea the u.s. hopes that china will ramp up economic pressure on its ally to abandon its nuclear ambitions north korea was also the focal point of trump's last stop south korea before leaving seoul trump delivered a stark warning to be on yang in a speech to south korean lawmakers listen at the regime as interpreted america's past restraint as we can this. this would be a fatal miscalculation this is a very different administration than the united states has had in the past today i hope i speak not only for our countries but for all civilized nations when i say to the north do not underestimate us and do not try. and amend that strong language china's president xi jinping has showered trump with a lavish and warm welcome but that ton

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he reached out to don trump jr.s of setting up this june meet ng 2016 th meeting in 2016 one of the pivotal dates. was it adoption, hillary, all of the above? what happened, who was there, why were they contacted? he can in theory fill in a lot of the gaps and create a parallel narrative to the version of the story that several of the people who are key to the campaign or still in the administration have submitted their own versions of the narrative about. he potentially could be an important figure, if and when he does come to capitol hill. goldstone's lawyer tells cnn, there is nothing on the books, nothing scheduled. they are asking him to come voluntarily. do you think that will happen? do you believe that mueller will subpoena him? >> mueller could conceivably send him a subpoena but that's not to say that he is going to get him into the united states. so he is foreign national living outside of the united states. it may be the powers of persuasion to get him here. what he is important about mostly is his initi

it showed a correspondence between wikileaks and the verified don trump jr., account. it was during the peak of the 2016 election to as late as last summer. not only did donald trump, jr., reply, he followed up on their requests, and after presenting him with a hacked password to an anti-trump account and tweeting out a link, a very strange search function link to his followers to say basically, look, wikileaks has all of these documents, which were, by the way, stolen documents, and if anybody has time to go through them, here's the link, which is wikileaks asked him to do days buyer. >> october 12th, wikileaks asked don jr. to tweet out the link you describe, okay, and don jr. does not respond directly to them, however about 15 minutes later -- >> no -- yes, yes, you are right. >> 15 minutes later, donald trump sr. tweets that link about wikileaks, and on october 14th, two days later, don jr. tweets that link that wikileaks asked him to. do we have that right? >> donald trump, sr., then the republican nominee tweeted about a different part. there was a long message fr

as president don trump has nominated jerome powell to chair the federal reserve from next year he'll take over when current chair janet yellen term expires following along there's a speculation over could be chosen to head the central bank now the man charged with killing eight people in new york with a truck has told investigators he felt good about what he'd done u.s. president donald trump called for twenty nine year old safe to face the death penalty christensen has more from new york. lifelong friends from argentina on the trip of a lifetime they were in high spirits as they rode along the hudson river bike path in new york to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of their high school graduation just a few kilometers later their ride would put them in the path of a truck driver intent on killing five of the ten men died in tuesday's attack the deadliest in new york since nine eleven back home in argentina a vigil was held in their honor there were candles and tears which mark such occasions. in new york consular officials from the country said the men's families would be arriving

would kno something about this statement that was relead from the white house and coordinated with don trump. overhe trump tower meeting that is being investigated. so i doubt, although i doubt it's about trump organization and his life previous to being a canadian. >> previous to being a candidate. >> some say steve bannon should hit back hard. be more combative but not all his advisors agree. her is one who told the post -- i like steve but his advice is not always most helpful in this case, whatever steve says the president should do the opposite. so if we were to listen if he were to listen to steve bannon and nothristopher ruddy and fired mueller what would that mean? >> i think that would be a big mistake from the president's own standpoint because that really would set up a confrontation with his own justice department. as you know the mueller appointment was made by deputy general assembly was trying to retrieve credibility after firing james comey and deputy said he wouldn't permit the firing of mueller unles he was satisfy there'd were grounds and i don't think the president uld co

trump on "saturday night live." unfortunately, he will not be donning his donald trump costume for tonight's event. they'll be taking the stage for a question and answer event in about an hour. >> "saturday night live" right here on nbc tonight. maybe he'll don the donald trump outfit at that point. sergio, thank you very much. >>> still to come, helping kids succeed in the east bay. how the city of oakland is helping hundreds of kids, starting with their very first birthday. >>> and a dry, pleasant evening right now, 56 in san jose, 55 in san francisco. as we see high clouds for now, and we're tracking the rain on approach ahead of the seven-day forecast and the rest of your weekend when we come right back. >>> and lending a hand to the community. nbc bay area's month-long food drive in full gear, kicked off today. we'll show you the outpouring of support. keep it here. born with a coll account. oakland )s mayor libby schaaf launched the city )s"brilliant >>> born with a college savings account. oakland a mayor libby schaaf launched the baby initiative today. that program gives 500 children a $500

president don trump has named jerome powell as he's picked to lead the federal reserve powell is a multi-millionaire who now serves on the central bank's board he was one of five candidates interviewed for the role including the current chair janet yellen his term finishes in february ellen fisher reports. it is my pleasure and my honor to announce my nomination of jerome powell to be the next chairman of the federal reserve this is the man donald trump wants to steer economic policy in the u.s. if confirmed drone poll over the next chairman of the federal reserve a position many call the second most powerful job in the government inside the federal reserve we understand that monetary policy decisions matter for american families and communities i strongly share that sense of mission and i'm committed to making decisions with objectivity based on the best available evidence in the long standing tradition of monetary policy independence the decision to replace janet yellen is not a surprise but it is a break with precedent the last three fed chairman more automatically be appointed even by presidents

know something about this statement that was released from the white house and coordinated with don trump, jr. over the trump tower meeting that is being investigated. so i doubt, although i could be wrong, i doubt it's about trump organization. and the president's financial life previous to being a candidate. >> but she's an interesting person to talk to, since she's been with him so long. i have to ask you, there's disagreement some of them like his former chief strategist steve bannon has been saying he should hit back hard, he should be more combative. but not all of his advisers agree. and here's what one confidant, christopher ruddy, told the post. ruddy says, "i like steve but his advice is not always the most helpful in this case. whatever steve says the president should do the opposite." so if we were to listen, if he were to listen to steve bannon and not christopher ruddy and fired mueller, what would that mean? >> i think that would be a big mistake from the president's own standpoint because that really would set up a confrontation with his own justice department. as you know

pic again showed that the united states under donald trump has a different view on trade to most other asia pacific nations wayne hay al-jazeera donning vietnam. well u.s. president donald trump and his russian counterpart vladimir putin have agreed to a joint statement supporting a political solution in the war in syria the leaders met on the sidelines of the apec summit in vietnam where they reaffirmed their commitment to syria's sovereignty independence and territorial integrity they also called on all policies the conflict including president bashar assad to take an active part in the geneva process. just now we've adopted that document with the prism of the united states it's a very crucial document because we see it for some principle things firstly we continue the fight against terrorism in syria that's the most important for the united states and for us especially in light of recent tragic events which happened there it's of the utmost importance that we reaffirm the sovereignty of syria its territorial integrity that after the fight against terrorism is over we'll start the political process under the auspices of the united n

show you a couple of key quotes from this interview. >> first of all, on the notion of what don junior and the trumpif he became president could do -- let's read that one first because this is based on what i was just talking about. she said that he asked -- he, don junior, this morny, the ziffs, got from rush a do you have any financial documents showing that this money went to clinton's campaign? the answer that she gave was no and according to the lawyer the meeting kind of ended then which kind of matches up with what we've heard from don junior in that it was a small meeting, but there's something else here and that is what the lawyer said that she wanted and what the trump people said ended up being the majority of the meeting was about what is called the magnitsky act which are sanctions put on russians and it has to do with the way an american was treated in russia, but at the end of the day this is a major, major issue and something that wrangles everything from vladimir putin on down. so as part of the conversation she asked if donald trump became president this is something they could do

and new details with contacts like manafort/don trump meeting with -- linked to the kremlin. >> pretext meeting was i have information about your opponent. in retrospect i would have done things differently. before rus omania, wildibuildin up in the press. >> saying allegedly discussed rolling back antiputin law. sourcing of russian lawyer, we don't view everything she says as credible. telling nbc quote nothing was exchanged at trump tower. other new game is billionaire wilbur ross. kept a stake in a company tied to the kremlin. he said there's nothing wrong with a company doing wiz with a russian state firm, only thing quote, misstatement i didn't disclose those on my original form. he listed over 80 entities on this form. failure to release one is drake defense, i don't know how much i actually made, it's a lot. could be defense without intent to mislead. but critics are still asking why does every forgotten meeting or asset always seem to go back to russia. joining me, i start with you and the drake issue. it goes to intent. if you forgot how much you have and made omission in that

president don trump has fired back at the british prime minister theresa may after may's office criticized the president for retreating anti muslim videos from a british far right group on twitter drum trump said made should not focus on him but quote on the destructive radical islamic terrorism that's taking place within you know i came to trumps also facing criticism from american muslim groups they accuse them of sowing division and putting muslim lives at risk. at a brief of some of the other stories making the news this hour hundreds of fosse and croatians held a vigil for the convicted work criminal slobodan shock after he killed himself with poison at a u.n. court in the hague he was instrumental in attempts to set up a croatian state within what is now bosnia-herzegovina and removing muslims from the region a judge upheld his twenty year jail sentence for crimes he committed during the war in the former yugoslav. police in pakistan say gunmen have opened fire on worshippers outside a mosque in the capital islamabad they say three or four attackers on motorbike shot of members of th

the july 9 meeting with don trump junior. stances is what are they going to do the help the trump campaign. you see something really hard. this has been a difficult investigation with so many things in the year. those are the hard pieces because they show the russians working directly to supply information to the trump campaign that will be helpful. >> and willie, the trump campaign actively seeking contacts with and help from vladimir putin and the kremlin. >> and, again, you wonder when jeff sessions testifies before congress, three times that he was not aware of any russian contacts and he clearly was told about this meeting by carter page and others we've learned about since. did he think it wasn't going to come out? did he think somehow people weren't going to get to the bottom of it? whether it was the journalist investigating it or inside one of those committees looking into it? how could he sit up there and saying what he knew that he didn't know of any russian contacts in the campaign, even if they were innocuous. why

>> this is donald trump, don. i mean it is. it's the donald trump that you interviewed during the campaign, that i interviewed, that we watched on the campaign trail. and more importantly, the one who we saw before this presidential run back in 2010 and 2011 when he was very aggressively questioning president obama's birth certificate. it is his personality trait, and it is the kind of thing that he continues to do, to be donald trump as opposed to evolving into the president of the united states and all of the things that go with the traditions of being president. people didn't elect him to be a regular politician. i totally get that. but that's far different from pushing things that are false, pushing things that are not factual, and pushing things that are hurtful to people who had that office not that long ago. >> how is this, salena -- how is this helpful to the president or his base by him making things up? how is this helpful? >> i don't -- i mean as dana said, this is how he was during the campaign. i mean that's the thi

trump. >> i love wikileaks. >> and the message don jr. received, even wikileaks thought hillary clinton would win. >>> also breaking, a new accuser. breaking into tears today, describing what she says senate candidate roy moore did to her when she was 16. and tonight, even before this newest accuser, the top republican in the senate said, "i believe the women." >>> new charges in the alleged hazing death at penn state. authorities say surveillance was destroyed. the fbi has now recovered it, and what it shows. >>> new images coming in tonight. the deadly earthquake. more than 400 killed. >>> the scare at the airport here at home. the smoke coming from a bag, even before the passenger boards the plane. >>> and the major new health alert tonight involving hypertension.en need to know. >>> good evening and it's great to start another week with you. and we begin tonight with donald trump jr., and his secret correspondence, his messages for months with wikileaks before the election. "the atlantic" breaking the story tonight, abc news confirmin

but the key question after this week did president trump and jeff sessions mislead about campaign contacts with russia? >> well, listen, don, the trump world story on their contacts with russia has changed a number of times, because remember the initial story was there were no contacts or meetings. they were dismissed out of hand. that has been proven false overtime. there was documentation of these meetings, e-mails, et cetera. and now you have president trump himself and others admitting that such meetings took place, but dismissing them as unimportant. the next story was that there was nothing untoward discussed in those meetings, that they were a matter of course, normal kinds of conversations during a campaign between a nominee and an important foreign country and officials of that country. but we now learn, and again, there's documentation that there are e-mails that describe that russians were offering damaging information on then nominee trump's political opponent, hillary clinton and in more than one instance, beyond the trump tower meeting in june of 2016. now george papadopoulos describing other russians offerin

gordon telling us on the record tonight don that then candidate trump heard out george papadopoulos as he made this pitch about a meeting with vladimir putin, don. >> so many questions. thank you very much. i know you need to get ready for the big asia trip tomorrow. safe travel. now to evan perez. cnn, evan, is learning that jared kushner has learned -- has turned over documents relating to the firing of fbi director james comey to special counsel robert muellerment what do we know about these documents? >> well, don, just a brief correction here. the sources tell us that kushner has voluntarily turned over documents that he had from the campaign and the transition and that these related to any contacts with russia. now, the documents are similar to ones that kushner gave to congressional investigators. and this comes as investigators have begun asking witnesses about kushner's role in the firing of fbi director james comey. now, we've heard different accounts from sources. some say kushner was the driver of the president's decision. others say this he simply didn't oppose it and it w

>> reporter: don, the trump administration is scrapping an obama-era ban on importing elephant trovebabwe and zambia. and it's putting renewed attention on the president's sons and their enthusiasm for big game hunts in africa, as well as donald trump, jr.'s influence in his father's administration. soon elephants killed on hunts in two southern african nations, products previously banned, will be imported into the u.s. the trump administration poised to overturn an obama-era prohibition on the trophies as conservationists sound alarms. >> it's just thrill killing, bragging rights, trophies for a threatened species, the largest land animal in the world. i mean, shooting an elephant is like shooting a parked car. i mean, there's no sport in it either. >> but the u.s. fish and wildlife service argues the move would actually help elephants in these countries, saying in a statement, "legal, well-regulated sport hunting is part of a sound management program can benefit the conservation of certain species by providing incentives to local communities to conserve the species and by putting m

we know trump called on russia to release the hacked e-mails. rem we know wikileaks was talking the don jr. we know both sides were open to some kind of collaboration. >> it's clear that russian agents were attempting to penetrate the trump campaign, perhaps gauge how game they would be. do you think with the facts we know that it's possible that the conspiracy, in nick's terms, goes just as far as what we know, but that's enough to send the signals back and forth to the two parties of what each side is doing? >> yes, i think we already have all the information we need from these circumstantial bit offense evidence. you're looking for now is what we call the bridge. you want to see the orders, the minutes from the meeting that says, please do this for us, but in the mueller investigation, he has that information. there is just no way he doesn't have it. and the very fact that he's going around through money laundering first, that's how they squeezes these witnesses and works his way. to conspiracy against the united states. for the most part, we are just going to have to be satisfied wi

don junior informed campaign leaders. for months trump junior and wikileaks kept talking. although hedid not engage in their requests, he didn't rebuff either. writing hi, don, if your father loses we think it is much more interesting if he does not concede and spends time challenging the media. but by the end of the night trump had won. wikileaks's response, wow. mary bruce, washington. >>> and toernl jeff sessions leaving open the possibility that special counsel could be appointed to look into the chinten foundation and a uranium deal during the obama administration. >>> a fifth woman is now accusing alabama senate candidate roy moore of sexual assault. the woman says moore tried to force himself on her when she was just 16. he denies it and calls the accusations a witch-hunt. now a growing number of republican senators are calling for moore to step aside before the december 12th election. >> reporter: gop candidate roy moore digging in and responding to sexual misconduct allegations and new calls for him to quit the race for alabama's senate seat. >> this race being jus

don lemon. president trump back in the white house after his two week trip to asia. and he's got a lot on his plate at home. there's roy moore refusing to drop out of the senate race despite stunning allegations from five women who say she sexually abused them when they were teenagers. >> i want to talk about the issue. i want to talk about where this country's going. and if we don't come back to god we're not going anywhere. >> that was roy moore just moments ago. his own party doesn't want him. mitch mcconnell is telling anybody who will listen including the president himself in a call to vietnam, that moore should drop out. tonight the rnc says it won't give him anymore money. but if moore won't quit are president trump's hands tied? >>> also, there's the cloud of the russia investigation the president has to contend with. remember this now infamous march 31, 2016, meeting that included then candidate trump, jeff sessions and george papadopoulos? well, now sessions he remembers it too although he said last month that he didn't. his memory is still foggy when it co

. >> no her husband's foundation -- >> would you take -- >> don aold trump has business in those countries. >> -- would you do this, would you persecute christians and jews? >> no there are better countries to take money from. >> no, but donald trump operate- >> it is amazing how we're back to donald trump. we can't stay on the clinton and hillary. it always goes back to trump. >> that's all you talk about. >> let me ask you both a tough question. we have about 20 seconds each. tomi, let's start with you. what do you do when in the cases when it's he said, she said. then it's he said versus she said, she said, she said. it's important for people to know truth. how do you get to the truth. >> i don't know how you get to the truth. i hope if there is a silver lining young women in the political divide will find the courage to speak up and not wait 20 years. if you have a issue or a problem and don't want to be touched say something. we are in a climate to stand up. i hope women across the board are able and empowered to do that. >> jessica. >> i agree with. that women are having a moment in

don lemon, it's 11:00 p.m. tonight on the east coast. the breaking news is about president trump and his relationship with reality. we're learning before piz inauguration, he had already begun raising questions about whether the access hollywood tape was a fake. trump told a republican senator he wanted an investigation of the recording, even though he publicly admitted it was him on the tape and apologized for it. the times also reports the president is still bushing his false birther conspiracy theory. questioning the authenticity of president barack obama's birth certificate. so much to talk about. jonathan i need to get to you first. president trump continues to talk about former president obama's birth certificate. he asked a senator to investigate the access hollywood tape. what else are you learning? >> well, that he -- that he's still talking about this, this conversation with the senator that we report happened in january, but since then, the president has brought up with his advisers in private his doubts about the authenticity of the access hollywood tape. it's importa

don. first of all, clearly as you say, there is something particularly loathsome about the way president trump as a candidate glommed on to the birther movement as a way to sort of crawl his way to the top of the heap in presidential politics. but leaving that aside for a moment because we've talked about this a lot on your show. let me go into what you just said. that the president -- part of this is about president obama, and part of it is about president trump himself. it's about obama to the degree that, as you say, he still feels like he's in competition with president obama. he brags rightly that the stock market is up 20% since he's been president. but the stock market was up 150% over obama's eight years, and president trump knows that. and i think his behavior suggests that he's in competition with president obama. the part of this that's about president trump and really regardless of president obama or any of president trump's predecessors is that our presidents from george washington to president obama, look, you have to have a healthy ego to run for president, to say, i can be the

don jr. informed campaign leaders, including steve bannon, kelly anne conway and jared kushner. for months, trump jr. and wikileaks kept talking, and though don jr. did not engage with all of their requests, he didn't rebuff them, either. wikileaks wrote to don jr. on election day. even they seemed to think hillary clinton was going to win. writing, hi, don. if your father loses, we think it is much more interesting if he does not concede and spends time challenges the media. but by the end of the night, trump had won. wikileaks' response? wow. >> so, let's get to mary bruce live with us from washington. and as we heard there, donald trump jr. didn't respond to all of the messages, but the atlantic is reporting tonight he did respond to some of them. what are you learning on that front, and we're hearing from don jr.'s lawyer tonight. >> reporter: david, it does appear that this was a two-way conversation. don jr. reportedly just weeks before the election asked wikileaks what they planned to leak next. and tonight, don jr.'s lawyer says they've turned over all of these correspondence to congressi

don jr. had a meeting in trump tower with the russian lobbyists and some others. there were other campaign officials involved in that meeting. and then separately, we know that now that don jr. was communicating with wikileaks. what we don't really totally understand at this point and what we can assume that the special counsel is looking into is, how much don jr. knew about links between wikileaks and russia, what exactly he knew about the campaign that wikileaks and we now know russia was waging at the time. >> one of the problems is that administration officials, vice president mike pence, in particular, was really on the front lines of saying, there has been no coordination. not only no coordination with russia, no coordination with wikileaks. take a look at when i pressed the vice president on potential coordination. did the president fire director comey to impede the russia investigation? >> well, as you know very clearly, and it has been stated repeatedly and the president has been told, he's not under investigation. >> reporter: but intelligence officials h

abc news learning that starting at the height of the campaign donald trump's son and wikileaks were secretly corresponding. don junior released the messages on twitter. as first reported on the "atlantic", the exchanges went on for at least ten months, starting in september of 2016, just two months before the election. the president's son communicating with wikileaks, a group the intelligence community believes was used by russia to spread influence on the election against hillary clinton. even president trump's own cia director has said this. >> it's time to call out wikileaks for what it really is. a non-state hostile intelligence service, often abetted by state actors like russia. >> reporter: wikileaks already started exposing records from the dnc when don junior started receiving direct messages from the group on twitter.

chief', and a stage flanked by fighterjets, president trump was given a rock star welcome by 2000 us troops stationed here in japan. and then, he got to donded at tokyo airport, and been met by prime minister shinzo abe. it is significant that, instead, for the first stop on his asian tour, he has chosen to land here, at a us military base, and to address us military personnel. we've got a lot of stuff coming... when he spoke, it was of america's overwhelming military might. and without naming the country directly, this veiled threat to north korea's dictator, kim jong—un. no one — no dictator, no regime and no nation — should underestimate, ever, american resolve. every once in a while in the past, they underestimated us. it was not pleasant for them, was it. it was not pleasant. minutes later, marine 0ne whisked the president to another of his favourite places, a golf course. there waiting to welcome him, prime minister shinzo abe. these two are now such close friends, mr abe had special hats made up for the occasion. "donald and shinzo", it reads, "make alliance even greater." not the most catchy slogan, but you get the point. then it

don dahler. president trump seems to be trying a new approach to dealing with north korea's nuclear threat. he revealed it today in south korea when questioned by margaret brennan. >> reporter: have you seen any success in your diplomatic strategy so far? and do you still believe that direct talks are a waste of time? >> i think we're making a lot of progress. i really believe that it makes sense for north korea to come to the table and to make a deal that's good for the people of north korea and the people of the world. i do see certain movement, yes. >> reporter: with secretary of state rex tillerson looking on, the president declined to say whether he still thought direct negotiations were a waste of time as he tweeted last month. undercutting america's top diplomat by telling him to, save your energy, rex." the president said he was reluctant to use military force. >> we have many things happening that we hope, we hope-- in fact, i'll go a step further, we hope to god we never have to use. >> reporter: he notably chose not to repeat his ridicule of kim jong-un. >> rocket man is on a sui

one where they were trying to figure out how to -- you know, how to talk about that meeting in trump tower, donunior's meeting in trump tower or jared was at westminster when he decided he wanted to fire comey, i think it makes a lot of sense, as my colleagues have reported, that the special counsel would be interested in jared to find out exactly what his role was, if he had any role at all or if he was a bystander. >> he apparently did not update the security form. >> that's right. the fs-86 form. so i think they're looking at everything as the special counsel should. >> david, there's some interesting poll numbers in the newa new "washington post"/abc poll, for example, papadopoulos and manafort are limited to them, 28% and represent broader wrongdoing, 53% and no opinion, 19%. 49% of the americans, according to this poll, believe that it's unlikely and 49% likely that president trump committed a crime. >> it's worth pointing out i think two points. one, even though not everybody are political junkies like us and following the twists and turns that come out about this, the public at large ar

president trump went on to call lavar ball a "ungrateful fool and poor man's version of don king" butithout the hair. we many is marc lamont hill and bradco hen, lormer and former "apprentice" contestant who supports president trump. gentlemen, nice to have you both on. >> good to be here. >> marc, to you first. the quotes i just read, "ungrateful fool" and "poor man's don king." chris cillizza is calling this a racial dog whistle. do you agree? >> it feels like a racial dog whistle. the entire time there's an undertone of you should be grateful to me. these uppity black people. is isn't just because of lavar ball, it starts with the nfl where he talked about highly paid athletes who should be grateful to be in the nfl. this discourse keeps recurring and directed largely to black people. let me be clear, donald trump is an equal opportunity jerk when he goes after celebrities, he goes after meryl streep but when it comes to athletes it's "you should be grateful." this is bizarre and unpresidential but there is definitely an racial undertone. >> well, the hair comment, i feel for him b

trump make his own mistakes. let him tweet, let him trip himself up. that's why, don, if you look at his approval rating we just talked about, that's why donald trump is doing so poorly right now. it's really self-inflicted wounds. >> the big win for democrats tonight, exactly one year after donald trump's stunning victory over hillary clinton and the presidential election. joining me now cnn political analyst joshua green, national correspondent for bloomsbering business week, cnn reporter henderson, cnn political commentator david axelrod, and dave begala, simone sanders, jason miller, and political commentator amanda carpenter. before i play this, i want to pl play what happened one year -- is biden running? >> he seems to be talking to people about it. he's going on a 40-city book tour which is often a prelude to something. and i expect that he's very much down the road. >> a couple of weeks ago he was in western virginia campaigning for ralph northam. by the way, terry mccullen the democratic governor of virginia, a huge winner here am. a lot of people are going

on the 12 lth, wikileaks direct messages don junior asking for candidate trump to tweet out a link. great to see you and your dad talking about our publications. we strongly suggest that your dad tweets this link if he mentions us. there are many great stories the press is missing. 15 minutes later, this is key, this tweet from candidate trump says wikileaks should be covered more. quote, very little pickup of the dishonest media of incredible information provided by wikileaks. so dishonest. rigged system. >> don junior tweets the link himself, for those who have the time to read about. >> wichlt kileaks, he specifically says. >> right. russian operative in this context. i know there are a lot of fans. you have to look at them in the context of the current investigation. they are an agent of the russian interference. that's how the cia under the trump administration sees them. so, jeffrey, the political question. why did you wait? the legal question -- only a political question because lawmakers had the documents. why did you wait to put them out if you don't think they're anything.

trump. and it's understandable, don, if you know the bush ethos. verything that donald trump stands for. the bushes are emblems of civility and decency and humility. and the notion of putting conservatism itself. >> what you think of them ideologically, they set a standard in many ways. what about george w. bush, he had some very critical words for trump. what did he say? >> he talked about the fact when trump said i am my own advisor, i rely on myself more or less for all of the advice of affairs. of course, you know, there's something wrong about this. because humility is the great hallmark of great leadership. and this guy must not realize what it means to be president. and so so he was a little less direct, and little less blunt than george h.w. bush. but i think he's obvious in his criticism. >> both president bushes have appeared to be somewhat reluctant to speak out or critique president trump. but we're starting to see some cracks here. this is back in october. watch this. >> our identity as a fashion like many other nations is not determine

this is more get smart by james bond. >> speaking of, michael antonio, you know the trumps well. what about donforwarded the e-mails to those at the highest levels in the trump campaign? >> well, there's no way that then candidate trump now president trump wasn't signaled by his father. and i think one of the signs that this is a live story as as michael said, the keystone cox quality of it. we've got the audacious quality of it where they're going to cooperate with wikileaks. the second one is that it's a family affair. and in this case it's certain that by going to donald trump, jr., wikileaks was doing the thing that will work with the trumps. and the last is the spontaneity of it. so we saw that the candidate then donald trump went on the offensive on wikileaks very soon after this communication was begun and was encouraged. when wikileaks said we need your help to get this out there, there was candidate trump talking about wikileaks and tweeting about it. >> yeah. shawn, explain whyia say when reading the atlantic piece nothing is illegal, but a startling picture is being painted. and i'm