shame on donald trump. this is a racist remark and we need to call it for what it was. >> well said, congressman luis gutierrez, thank you very much. thank you for being here. joining me, msnbc political analyst jason johnson "the root," former senator barbara boxer, democrat of california. jason, a couple more responses from members of congress to what donald trump said. ileana russ lateen, she said the president calling haiti an s-hole country ignores the contributions thousands of haitians have made to this country. cbc chairman cedric rich man of louisiana, whose population largely was drawn from haiti over overthrowing the napoleonic government, president trump's comments are another indication of his racially ignorant views. it reinforces concerns we hear every day that "make america great again" is code for "make america white again." >> we've been saying this a long time. the president is a white supremacist. we heard in charlottesville. our president is a terrorist sympathizer. our president is a c

i'm lynne and i am a donald trump voter. tely get richer with trump in office. are you rich? no. i would love to be rich though. i would love to be rich. but no, i'm not anywhere near rich. what about the poor? i think the poor will get richer with trump in office for sure. yes. i think that is his strong point. that and keeping us safe. lynne, a former professional cheerleader, now runs a pr company in west palm beach. not farfrom donald trump's private club. i have met him a few times. i had a great rapport with him. iliked him. he remembered my name. friendly guy. she is a big fan of donald trump's tax reforms. the biggest tax cut, the biggest reform of all time. i like the new tax reforms bill. as a small business owner i think it will help me with tax cuts so, the companies that hire me have more money and my small business will grow and i can hire people. but some of donald trump's biggest promises haven't yet been fulfilled. we are going to build that wall, it's going to be a great wall and let me tell you, mexico's go

what they ask is, are you with donald trump. hat's why the fight is not even close between trump and bannon. >> that was the way fire & and fury describes their relationship, that trump had no real relationship with the mercers. he'd only had a few conversations with bob mercer, who mostly talked in mono syllabl syllables. trump didn't resist. he only expressed vast incomprehension at why anyone would want to do that. do you suspect that kellyanne conway will drop him too? >> i think that everyone sees the writing on the wall here, that steve -- he's a dead man walking. it's almost like we're about to witness a mob hit. everyone's just waiting for that trigger to be pulled. everyone, all the bannon allies, i don't see too many folks defending him right now. he's literally on an island and he's brought it all on himself with his arrogance, the way he demeans people, the bully mentality that he has, the bombastic charismatic, trying to mimic donald trump almost, it's put him in this position. >> thank you. >>> coming up, trump's on

donald trump! >> donald trump taking down vince mcmahon! the hostile takeover!uite a long time as a punchline to jokes about the excesses and the failures of the 1980s, and he'd become, you know, a human shingle and a punchline. the apprentiturned all of that on its head. >> new york-- my city, where the wheels of the global economy never stop turning. >> ♪ money, money, money, money... ♪ >> he became seen as a credible businessperson with a real track record, even though that was at odds with reality. and the guy who became a reality tv star vthe apprentice learned that he could become a reality political star. >> who will succeed and who will fail? and who will be the apprentice? >> narrator: for 14 seasons, millions of americans watched a carefully crafted donald trump. >> he's perfectly made up. he's perfectly coiffed. he's perfectly lit. he's in the high-back chair making tough decisions. what does he look like? he looks like a president. >> donald connected with the american public because they wanted to be like him. they aspired to be just like him. they

and donald trump's base is with donald trump, not with steve bannon.abama and they went, "ah...| don't think so." so they're already beginning to back out of the idea of running, this is not going to go... you're not going to see a situation where steve bannon is going to be promoting candidates on one side and donald trump's going to be promoting candidates on the other. that's a mismatch that won't even stand the test at all because bannon has no base. what bannon has, though, is a populist idea that has taken hold that trump has used to some degree, but even there, donald trump has sort of created this own space for himself. let me ask you a broader question about race in america today, and it's something i've seen discussed in recent hours in the united states quite a lot — the idea is that if the democratic party, for the next presidential election, comes out with an out and out left—wing candidate, maybe a bernie sanders or elizabeth warren, and they are running against donald trump, there are people in this country who believe that whatever misg

nbc news reports donald trump says basically he doesn't recall asking mccabe about that voting record. the white house doesn't deny that trump, though, asked the question. >> does the president have a habit of asking career government officials their voting habits? >> not that i'm aware of. >> did he ask mccabe how he voted? >> i know that president trump and mccabe had nonspecific conversations. there are widespread reports of his retirement, we're making sure that we're focused on the fbi and doj is serving all americans fairly and efficiently and we're going to move forward from there. >> that's a yes or no question, he did or didn't ask. i wasn't there, i don't know what was discussed. i know he didn't ask me, i can tell you that. >> what do you make of these reports of the president asking andrew mccabe who he vote for, is that appropriate? >> no, it's not appropriate. >> i have never heard of that being done before, i think it's inappropriate. >> that kind of question is totally improper and evidence in fact of obstruction of justice. >> there's evidence pointing to the fact of

and donald trump's children. and one of the great personal pains of barack obama's childhood and life is that his father did, indeed, go back to africa to kenya and luckily for us for the united states he left his son here. and that son of that temporary immigrant from a country that donald trump hates became president of the united states and that has always been the unique story of the united states. we never know where greatness is coming from. we never know which country greatness is coming from. the leak of the president's hateful comment today was credited to a democratic source and we know there was only one democratic senator in the room when he said that but senator durbin probably had at least one democratic staffer in the room with him and that does not mean that senator durbin or his staffer leaked it directly to the press. one of them could have said it to another senator in astonishment or to several other senators or several other staffers when they got back to the senate and then anyone could have

the american people elected donald trump. frank are experts in republican voting, who have been tracking trump voters over the last year. the idea that russia will be the thing that brings down trump's presidency is almost an accepted fact among a lot of democrats. whereas if i do a focus group of republican voters, the word russia will not even come up. it is not on their radar. if you love donald trump he is innocent, if you hate him he is guilty. trump voters look at this as pay back for the clinton people for losing. the democrats are a bunch of spoiled brats. they remind me of fourth grade little kids that don't get their way and they fall on the ground kicking and crying and... they lost the election. they don't care about the country. the only time they care about people is when it is election time and they want them to vote. they tried everything. one minute they say he is unstable. they try to say he was a sexual predator. all unfounded. this new hoopla about me too and i was touched, well i was... the american peopl

new year, same old donald trump. not a day goes by without any new media storm over a presidential comment, tweet or announcement that had democrats decrying him at an fit for office and republican, well... what? what do they feel and do about their de fa cto do they feel and do about their de facto party leader? my guest is michael steele, a former chairman of the republican national committee should the party stand with or dump trump? michael steele, welcome to hardtalk. it is great to have you here. i want to ta ke it is great to have you here. i want to take you back to that date in november 2016 when it became clear donald trump was going to be the next president of the united states. for you as a long and loyal republican, how did you feel? i guess the emotion would be, here we go. let's strap in and get ready. i had worked with donald trump in the past, i know what kind of campaign he had run over the past 1.5 years. i had predict the his eventual win early on. but not in neutral fashion. early on. but not in

donald trump's mother was scottish. trump said in the past he feels scottish. his grandfather was from germany. his father fred trump changed the name to trump in the 1940s concealing the family's origins claiming they were swede itch because fred, a real estate developer in queens, new york recognized being german in the midst of world war ii was bad for business. fred trump was also arrested at a clan rally in new york in 1927. he and his son donald settled a complaint by nixon's justice department in the 1970s to discriminating by black would-be tenants. that's the story of the trumps. when donald trump talks about what he thinks america should look like going forward what he wants to see is more frederick drumpf's and fewer people like my mother and father who emigrated to the u.s. in 1960 from british guyana and the democratic republic of congo. places that according to donald trump are "shithole countries" as are apparently haiti, el salvador, honduras. as first reported by dick durbin, the president's assessment of much of the plant net where the majorit

note this true tidbit buried deep in this new yorker profile of donald trump from 1997. "when trump and writer mark singer were aboard his private jet, trump was playing movies on the vcr and got "bored" with the movie "michael." that's the one where john travolta plays an angel and switched to the 1988 jean claude van damme slug fest called "blood sport." then he made his son eric skip past the boring parts of the film so he could watch the fight scenes. "assigning to his son the task of fast forwarding through the plot exposition. trump's goal being to get this two hour movie down to 45 minutes. he eliminated any lulls between the kidney terrorizing and shin whacking." >> come on! come on! [ grunting ] >>> it is well documented the president of the united states watches "fox and friends" and tweets live responses. tuesday morning "fox and friends" ran a story and trump tweeted about crooked hillary and huma abedin. commercial jet deaths in 2017 and it was reported there was zero deaths in 2017 and took credit for it. in fact, on tuesday morning alone according to politi

is donald trump the leading figure of this new shift to the right? donald trump: america first.hat is theew, overlap between donald trump, trumpism, and far right populism in europe? matthew: the overlap is that many of the same forces that drove donald trump into office are also present in europe and has been for some time. this backlash against globalization for example, the worry about migration and the refugee crisis. i would be careful though in assuming that donald trump has had an effect on european politics directly. in the immediate aftermath of his election in fact, we had several elections in europe where the populace did not win or perform as well as feared. where marcon -- macron won. this is a phenomenon though in the western world, this populism and it will not end soon. at -- it isnce virulent at the moment. notough the populace did win many of these elections, they overall have done pretty well in europe in the last year. i think this is something that europeans are going to have to continue to deal with and the last word on this with germany with the alternativ

. >> how did that donald trump. >> get out. >> become this donald trump? >> i'd like to punch him in the face, i'll tell you. >> there were 36 years between those two moments, years in which a young developer transformed himself into a president. by now dramatic pronouncements about donald trump. >> why is it lie after lie after lie? >> have become commonplace. >> this is the most serious charge ever made against a sitting president. >> the truth is trump's time in office has been chaotic. so it's crucial that we understand exactly how this man became president. >> you may say it was russia or hillary or comey, but there's an even larger question. how did this utterly unusual candidate win the nomination against 16 formedable rivals? how did he even get close to winning the presidency? >> go out tomorrow and vote. >> 63 million americans voted for him, and tens of millions remain fiercely loyal. this is the story of the deeper reasons why trump won. we begin with the most fundamental aspect of his character. donald trump is a performer. >> life is acting t

dishonesty is donald trump's hallmark. donald trump is a phony, a fraud. his promises are as worthless as a degree from trump university. >> joining us now, john earnest, former white house press secretary for president obama and an msnbc political analyst. also joining us marks boots, senior fellow for national security at the council on foreign relations and a foreign policy adviser from mitt romney's 2012 presidential campaign. and josh, here we are once again on something you could not possibly have conceived of when you were working in the white house, a president tonight casually tweeting about the possibility of nuclear war with north korea. and indeed, encouraging that possibility. >> well, lawrence, we typically have relied on american presidents to actually be a stabilizing influence in the international community. and when faced with the responsibility of protecting the american people, we have a stockpile of nuclear weapons in place and ready and maintained around the clock by highly trained professionals to protect the united states so that we

i want to play you what omarosa galt said about donald trump. this was in a frontline documentary about him running for president. >> every critic, every detractor will have to bow down to president trump. it's everyone who has ever doubted donald, whoever disagreed, whoever challenged him. it is the ultimate revenge to become the most powerful man in the universe. >> is that not just becoming the president of the united states, that enough in your view to have cowed all of these senators who have gone from trump critics to trump fans, in some cases just in the last eight weeks? >> you asking me? >> yeah. why do you suppose so many united states senators have done exactly what omarosa said they would do, bow down? >> yeah, well, the office of president has a lot of charm, i suppose. but i think what you're underscoring here is that we really must depend upon the vice president and the cabinet ultimately to come to a conclusion that this president is incapable of responsibly and prudently and even sanely discharging the offices and duties, the pow

again also his spokeswoman in a press conference sad that steve benen is not that important that donald trump's base is not affected i don't think that's true in the way the white house and on trump are not playing to to trying to downplay the role of steve bannon is ridiculous he might not have been the mosque the mine that some in the media have described him but definitely he played a role in the campaign he played a role after that and he still talked to president trump even after he left the white house and he certainly played a role in the fact that donald trump eventually supported roy moon bamma the conservative candidate who was accused of sexual misconduct would then last that safe seats for the republicans and a democrat won so all this played a role and until now steve benen definitely had some influence on donald trump and the white house and as you say that investigation is ongoing how damaging is this likely to be for the trump presidency. it is going to be damaging because simply because steve benen is clearly. still powerful he is the head of a bright box which is right wing in

of donald trump's own staff. michael wolff book "fire and fury" says this about how the trump staff views the president. for steve mnuchin and reince priebus, he was an idiot. for gary cohn, he was dumb as -- for h.r. mcmaster, he was a dope. the list went on. and an e-mail that the book describes as purportedly representing the views of gary cohn, white house economic adviser, said trump won't read anything. not the brief policy papers. nothing. he gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored. and his staff is no better. kushner is an entitled baby who knows nothing. bannon is an arrogant -- who thinks he is smarter than he is. trump is less a person than a collection of terrible traits. no one will survive the first year. but his family. i hate the work. but feel i need to stay because i'm the only person there with a clue what he's going. i am in a constant state of shock and horror. republicans continued to hide under their blankets in their cribs today as the president tweets us eve

sebastien again, donald trump, the front page of the observer still, trump plays the blame game.ad this curious thing with a budget was not passed on friday so there is no functioning us government on monday morning. federal employees will turn up and not get paid. it is interesting how this has been framed because chuck schumer, the democratic leader in the senate calls this a trump shutdown and donald trump calls it a schumer shut down. really it is extraordinary that the republicans control all three branches of the us government and this still happened. it shows you the unpredictability of donald trump. you cannot know what he says. i agree to some extent that this president is more difficult to deal with than others but it is not the president who determines budget, it is congress. the president does not have as much power as those at home i think. he'd does not get to set a legislative position. this is the 19th shut down since the 1970s and it isa 19th shut down since the 1970s and it is a lot scarier than it sounds. as it continues more and more people will see paycheques

trump. last month he even wrote about his life with the donald. the best evidence may be trump's own track record. remember when trump used to be his own publicist going by the name of john barren or john miller and calling up tabloids to brag about himself? like in 1991 when his marriage with marla maples was ending. >> he treats everybody well. you don't know him, but he's a -- >> no, i have met him. >> have you met him? he's a good guy and he's not going hurt anybody. the one article said he was going to throw her out out of the apartment is total nonsense. >>> there is a consistent and alarming pattern in michael wolff's new book on the trump presidency in which the people closest to donald trump describe him as someone in no way capable of carrying out the duties of the presidency. in the book wolff writes about the feelings of trump's campaign advisers. quote, not only would truch not be would trump not be president, almost everyone in the campaign greed he should probably not be. once trump assumed office even his administration mocked his i

hollywood elites flocking to new york city for a night of disrespecting donald trump ahead of the stateion address. >> the one silver lining in trump is we have created the mother of all movements. we have come together. the need to remove him. >> that is at this point a moral imperative for each and every one of us. the nazi party had approval rating of 37 back in the day. don't feel complacent about the trump administration's dismal approval ratings right now. >> they packed the town hall in manhattan and got riled up by a speech by bill diblasio as well. the night celebrating remarkable growth of the resistance movement. what do you think about that? the grammys got political. the hollywood reporter said ratings were down 24% from last year's show. the biggest drop for the grammys since 2013. the year after the show swelled following the death of whitney houston. i wonder how many people -- new cause for concern as facebook rolls out and apps to pool kids under 13 years old into the social network warning all parents need to hear. notebook, pencils, plan b pills, the college vending

here's the question from robert mueller that could bring down donald trump. mr. president, did you try to fire me. if trump says, no. he's guilty of perjury or false states. if he says yes, he's guilty of obstruction. he's just corroborated all this evidence he had a corrupt intent to influence the investigation. >> and that is the point. right. either way, he's in trouble. i want to play you a piece of video might find interesting, nick. go ahead. let's play it. >> the tonight show will not be seen tonight so when they bring you the following nbc news special report. >> i read in one of the newspapers this morning the headline of cobs defiant. i do want to say i don't feel defiant. >> good evening, the country tonight is in the midst of what may be the most serious constitutional crisis in it's history. the president fired the man you just saw, the special watergate prosecutor because of the president's action the attorney general has resigned. >> you worked for him. you were sitting in front row. is this situation analogous to the one we saw in watergate. >> it'

and donald trump was invited to russia. a went to russia and tried to make a deal to build a trump tower there. >> that deal never happened. >> there was talk of trump tower in moscow. >> but again and again trump would keep on trying. >> donald tried at least five times to build a trump tower in moscow. >> donald trump has an enormous ability to deny reality. reality is, that during the campaign, not just in ancient history, during the campaign, he was negotiating for a hotel to be built in moscow. >> aaron, we learned that michael cohn, his personal lawyer was in talks with moscow about a proposal to build a trump tower there. >> that is the definition of business dealings in russia. >> the deal, outlined in a nonbinding letter of intent signed by trump in the fall of 2015 fell through. but not before trump's attorney reached out to the kremlin for help. >> cohn said he e-mailed vladimir putin's spokesperson for help on this project on behalf of the trump organization. >> we could make deals in russia very easily if we wan

donald trump speaking. ijoined around the globe. donald trump speaking.ald trump speaking. ijoined by the editor in chief of the economist magazine. speaking. ijoined by the editor in chief of the economist magazinem was pretty extraordinary. i was there before he spoke, and i went into lesson in the room, because i wanted to gauge the reaction nlm. they had mixed frankly the most obsequious introduction, and donald trump start speaking and he is clearly an italo proctor, —— on the teleprompter on his best behaviour. it is almost a year to the date when he gave that speech about american carnage. this is the same country he described as carnage a year ago, now comic he took credit for the stock market, the seller can —— the strong economy. but it was more interesting when he got off the teleprompter. that is the champ you like. that was donald trump on vintage form. and it is king of engaging. that is when eve ryo ne is king of engaging. that is when everyone pays attention. i have a lwa ys everyone pays attention. i have always been very successful at ma

trump. last month he even wrote about his life with the donald. nce may be trump's own track record. remember when trump used to be his own publicist going by the name of john barren or john miller and calling up tabloids to brag about himself? like in 1991 when his marriage with marla maples was ending. >> he treats everybody well. you don't know him, but he's a -- >> no, i have met him. >> have you met him? he's a good guy and he's not going hurt anybody. the one article said he was going to throw her out out of the apartment is total nonsense. it happens when people connect with nature, with culture, with each other. day after day i'm the first to see change. to see people go out, and come back new. princess cruises. come back new. sail with the #1 cruise line in alaska. 7-day cruises from $599. visit princess.com i'm to help you park safelyball danin your garage.ring it's part of my new year's resolution: no more mayhem. making sure your car is pulled in far enough... but not too far. ♪ get ready for centrum micro-workouts. the bottle curl. the

donald trump's lies just passed a milestone, crossing the 2,000 mark. according to "the washington post," which keeps an ongoing tally of the lies since trump took office, and it must be hard work to stay on top of it. because the lie counter is only updated through january 9th. which mean the "post" will get around to counting this lie from today. trump tweeting, reason i kaens selled my trip to london i am not a big fan of the obama administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in london for peanuts only to build a new one in an off location for $1.2 billion, bad deal, wanted me to cut ribbon, no! we want to make the case this should count, not as one lie but as three. we'll tell you why, "thing 2" in 60 seconds. >>> we here at "all in" believe the lie-o-meter for the donald trump presidency should count this tweet as three lies. "reason i canceled my trip." top right there. trump canceled his trip because of overwhelming pop sister in britain and the nefshlg protests. london mayor sadiq khan saying today, it seems he finally g

because he is donald trump. he gets up and got up and gave all those speeches at all those rallies off the top of his head. he thinks he can charm people and convince people of whatever. that's what his lawyers would be worried about. i don't think any competent attorney would allow donald trump to put himself in that or be put in that sort of situation unless there was no choice. i think it might come down to a subpoena from a grand jury. it may come down to a direct clash because, look, if i were his lawyer, i would throw myself bodily between donald trump and that interview because everything can go wrong and very little can go right. >> and this real turn took place, jen, between the inquiry into collusion and questions the that have started to come out really with much greater frequency about obstruction of justice. and the people around donald trump, the people who try to paint a picture and put as positive of a spin on it as they can while maintaining their credibility. they are few and far between. i'm c

russia. >> donald trump sure seems pretty keen to distance himself from russia. ial counsel robert mueller has requested a large swath of documents from the white house. at the same time, zeroing in on trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort who according to "the washington post" offered private briefings to russian billionaire in july of 2016. >> this is just the beginning of the tip of the iceberg. >> yeah. >> as the next year goes by, maybe in the next six months we're going to start seeing indictments. we're going to start seeing people actually having to pay for the things that they've done. >> ladies and gentlemen, we have an indictment. special counsel robert mueller's office will issue its first indictment in the russia investigation. >> federal investigators have enough evidence to bring charges in the investigation of trump's former national security adviser, michael flynn, and his son. >> lock him up. lock him up. >> he has been caught, and mueller has done what i've always known he would do, starting to connect the dots and bring them in. >> we'

what is it like to work with donald trump? how can you work with donald trump? and what is the -- how do you feel having worked with donald trump? >> and i want to get to the substance of what you've written in the book in a moment. just to clear this up, because the president is saying it's full of lies. that you didn't have the access you said you have -- >> one of the things we have to count on is that donald trump will attack. he will send lawyers letters. this is a -- a -- a 35-year history of how he approaches everything. >> do you have recordings of some of these interviews and some of these conversations? >> well, i work like every journalist works. so i have recordings. i have notes. i am -- certainly and absolutely in every way comfortable with everything i've reported in this book. >> would you release any of those recordings since your credibility is being questioned? >> my credibility is being questioned by a man who has less credibility than perhaps anyone who has ever walked on earth at this point. >> before i leave it, i will say the president, t

and the family and others in the white house, testified that donald trump is a candidate, donaldmp ordered him to make contact with the russians. >> that turned out not to be true. brian ross did apologize for that mistake. time magazine, the president has a love-hate relationship with time magazine, they received an award after a reporter said the president removed the bust of martin luther king jr. from the oval office, sarah huckabee sanders tweeted a picture of the best proving it is still there. the president also didn't forget a time washington post reporter said that no one showed up to a rally the president was holding in florida but that picture was taken before anybody entered the arena. last but not least the russia collusion story, there is no collusion. what was the reaction to these fake news awards? it does depend how you feel about the president's tweeting and the president calling out members of the media but a lot of people thought it was great, funny including cj who said fake news awards attract so much attention the site crashed in minutes, this man is the go

he thought donald trump was a joke. he thought donald trump had no business running for office. he was horrified by him. and then when he won, he started to kind of move back towards him. then beginning of the administration, when donald trump was saying outrageous things. not saying anything as a change. lindsey graham was often to reporters on-camera not in agreement. lately, much more conciliatory and explaining the president away. >> he sees a lot of power being one of the president's favorite senators. they've gone golfing, have a lot of phone calls together. a lot of small group meetings at the white house together and i think graham feels like he can advance some of the conservative republican policy agenda with the president by being close to him, but it's moments like this graham has to decide. will he stand up for his own values, moral beliefs and his own compass or defend the president? lindsay graham was a republican saying the gop needs to expand the tent. need to change the way they talk about immigration, the way they talk about hispanics and latinos and people of

galo: las encuestas no favorecen a la imagen de donald trump. y un 36% lo aprueba. >> obama fue un presidente admirado en todo el mundo y ahora viene donald trump, es uno de los mÁs odiados y eso ha impactado el capital polÍtico estados unidos en el mundo. galo: el 20 de enero de 2017 asumiÓ el poder. fue la investidura presidencial con menos gente. todo comenzÓ con el despido de james comey. el mandatario le habrÍa exigido lealtad y luego lo despidiÓ en mayo. los Últimos 12 meses, muchos de sus colaboradores han tenido que rendirle cuentas a la justicia. su comportamiento gÉnero crÍtica. sus constante publicaciones en twitter lo han hecho una tendencia de la redes sociales. para los deportistas que se han agachado durante los encuentros en la parte del himno por los ataques a la comunidad emigrante. cancelÓ el programa "daca". impidiÓ el ingreso de algunos ciudadanos de paÍses musulmanes. >> el muro lo quiere hacer desde su primer aÑo. galo: en materia de economÍa, en el primer aÑo de donald trump se crearon casi 2 millones de fuentes de trabaj

mourdock had donald trump's ear. p it was one of the key elements of donald trump's appeal. p would brag that mourdock was always calling him. mourdock would complain he couldn't get trump on the phone. how much of this book happened in part because of the growing feud because of rupert mourdock and roger ales? >> that's part of it, joy. michael wolff around the time he was working on this book about donald trump was working on a book about roger ales that people tell me was a book 2456s going to rehabilitate ales. ales thought mourdock stabbed him in the back. that does not comport with all of my reporting that say ales committed serial sexual harass am. wolff developed this relationship with ales because he liked how wolff's book took down rupert mourdock. he parlayed that and transitioned that into a relationship with steve bannon and that appears to be one of the avenues which he entered the white house. >> can you confirm, there's a story in the book that at a certain point roger ales called up steve bannon and asked if he would be down about creating a new network, trum

the obvious thing about donald trump is is donald trump a major money launderer?at would be the indications of that? >> well, of course there's the famous mansion deal in florida, where in 2008 the real estate market collapses and donald trump sells to a russian oligarch, a house for more than twice what he paid for it. the cover story was the guy was hiding money from his wife. well, if you want to hide money from your estranged wife you don't overpay for property. you find things you can mumbai at a discount because of market conditions, and it smelled deeply of being a pay off. if a state senator in florida had done the same deal, there would have been major investigations of what going on with him. >> and you can see in the transcript simpson's fascination with philip schrader who he knew about and you have also studied. >> yes, felix slater who is twice convicted felon, donald claims he wouldn't know what he looked like. he traveled with him all over the place. there's numerous photographs and videos of them together, is deeply involved in russian crime. ther

donald trump, was, reportedly, willing to pay $130,000 to squash the story. ing him susceptible to blackmail. what do you make about it >>> . >> of course trump is susceptible to blackmail. why do people think he has surrounded himself with a lawyer goon squad. the company he keeps include the american mafia, russian mafia, arms traders, pedophiles and other people involved in white collar crime. when you surround yourself with those sorts of people, your lawyers will be very aggressive. they put out for anybody that trump comes in contact with. they know he is a consistent scumbag. this is just one more example of a pattern of behavior that has been going on for trump's entire life. the idea of him having consensual sex is a novelty. on the level of scandals, this is kind of low but as part of a bigger pattern, it is very alarming and predictable. >> you have reportedly -- they held back the account because they were threatened by a lawsuit which donald trump's attorney. this is what the journal said, in e-mails to the journal this week, mr. cohen didn't addr

there's donald trump. but even the trump accusers getting a lot more attention than they did during the campaign. >> all of a sudden, he is all over me kissing and groping and groping and kissing. >> i think to his great surprise and great dismay, he might grea and great dismay he might have thought to coin a phrase this matter where he was concerned was put to bed. >> i think he thinks and he's certainly sent the press secretary out to say this, that the victory cleansed mihm of all transgressions. that's been their message. >> the president has addressed these accusations directly and denied all of these allegations. >> no one who's been accused of sexual harassment in the work place was spared coming to their company's decision about how to handle it. and it is something different to see donald trump and his allies try to distinguish his conduct from the others. there's no distinction. >>> when we come back, our number one selection on our list of the ten most. >>> this is probably a good time for me to

if the allegations were true, they weren't problematic to them and they were still voting for donald trump because they felt he could better their lives. so i'm not sure how much this will move trump supporters. >> we've heard that. alabama was an example, with a different range of allegations. people were moved by it. it is breaking tonight and i suspect some will wonder, the company that owns the "national enquirer" agreed on separately pay $150,000 to a former playboy center fold model for her alleged story of an alleged affair a decade ago. that's the original november report which is cited in tonight's new "wall street journal" article. walk us through why that matters. you're a long time journalist. sometimes you get an article that has a little piece with this new allegation about a gag order. the "wall street journal" seems to be suggesting we look to a wider history. >> there's an accumulation of charters against donald trump, of nonconsensual and now consensual but paid for sexual encounters. the white house would have you believe, in addition to the base not counting any of this

of course, and the conversation quickly turned to donald trump as he said i didn't think donald trumpident today if doctor king were alive. take a listen. >> do you agree with me? i said trump wouldn't have won if doctor king were still alive. >> i agree. if martin luther king had been alive. doctor king would have been able to lead us to a different place. heather: some of trump avenue supporters a are angry this political, today was supposed to be about martin luther king's birthday. another twitter user disagreed with congressman lewis's political point of you saying he would be in trump's cabinet. so many on social media applauded congressman lewis for his work during the civil rights movement. heather: breast-feeding and a mother booted from chick-fil-a because she was doing that. >> the owner of a chick-fil-a in north dakota has come under fire being a breast-feeding letter to cover up or leave the restaurant. patron macy hornam barely showing more -- the owner came to the table and asked me to cover, she told me if i chose not to cover she would have to ask me to leave. the own

jillian: donald trump breaking the internet with his fake news awards. "fox and friends" first continues right now. >> i never heard this song. i can't wait to see this. you are watching "fox and friends" first on thursday. >> thank you for starting the day with us. straight to our top stories, deal or no deal? the government shutdown just one day away, lawmakers under mounting pressure to deliver a deal. jillian: the last-ditch efforts, good morning. >> that deadline is tomorrow, the other is daca which congress hasn't so much 50 find a solution for. leading democrats won't support any spending bill to give the government open if it doesn't address the dreamers and at this point the white house believes it is likely lawmakers will reach a deal before the deadline meaning republicans will be on their own to avoid a government shutdown and that is why the gop is accusing democrats of playing politics over keeping our military funding. >> real deadline this friday and the real deadlines this friday are men and women in uniform and children's health insuran

and no one in politics knows donald trump better than roger stone. of all the political gadflies in and around the trump presidential campaign, none of them knew donald trump longer than roger stone. roger stone met donald trump 39 years. roger stone's specialty in republican politics has always been dirty tricks, which he began learning at a very young age from the man in republican politics then known as tricky dick, richard nixon, whose own dirty tricks eventually destroyed his presidency and forced him to resign on the verge of being impeached in 1974. roger stone was introduced to donald trump by an even dirtier trick master than roger stone, republican lawyer roy cohen, who was eventually publicly disgraced by being disbarred and charged with crimes before he died in 1986. president trump has complained that attorney general jeff sessions, who we learned today was interviewed by the special prosecutor just last week, has never tried to protect donald trump the way roy cohen did when he was donald trump's lawyer. "the new york times" recently quo

a new nbc report reveals that donald trump's legal teams is in talks with the fbi about a special presidential interview with the special council. trump's attorneys are debating strategies for that potential sitdown. including one that would allow him to avoid the interview completely. yet again, the white house waking up to another russia related headline. president trump's lawyers, trying to figure out how he might answer questions from the special council's office on what else, the russia investigation. >> if it's just an interview. he could politely decline to do so, there isn't anything the prosecution team could do anything about that. >> he's the president of the united states, for him not to testify fully in this particular regular, leads to the obvious political inference that he's guilty. >> if robert mueller asks you to speak with his committee personally, are you committed still to doing that. >> just so you understand, there's been no collusion. there's been no crime. >> we have got a team of reporters and analysts with us this hour. hallie jackson is at the white house. and kara