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what did donald trump get from it? ruth lea.something out of it. —— briefly. sometimes he does not appeal to other world leaders. there is a feeling that sometimes he is a world leader who goes its own way. that he puts america first and ignores the rest of the world. he looks like an international statesman. when he stands alongside emmanuel macron he looks like that. similarly, he is addressing big issues that sometimes donald trump is not regarded as dealing with properly. at the same time, he also got a good friend out of it, let us be honest. chris buckler, thank you so much, talking to us from washington, dc. early today, many macron addressed both houses of congress. he warned of the dangers of nationalism and the threat of global prosperity and urged america not to retreat from the international stage. despite reservations expressed, manual macron said he stood by the deal to limit the iranian ability to produce nuclear weapons. his report contains lush photography. present arms! the social high point of a state visit is

jay goldberg represented donald trump in what was the most important litigation of donald trump's life, until now, donald trump's first divorce. that was the case in which donald trump's first wife, and mother of his first three children, accused him of raping her during their marriage. michael cohen was the ignorant lawyer who said, when the trump marital rape story was revisited during the presidential campaign, that it is legally impossible for a husband to rape his wife. jay goldberg, who handled that case, an accomplished lit ga or the, knows better and successfully steered donald trump through what had already become a very messy scandalous divorce before jay goldberg became donald trump's lawyer. the wall street journal reports that the white house confirmed that president trump did indeed pick up the phone and call jay goldberg seeking legal advice on friday. friday. when michael cohen was foolishly hanging out in manhattan pretending not to be worried and smoking cigars at the same time michael cohen's lawyers were trying to get the judge to block the fbi from reviewing docume

another victory for donald trump for not attending. p lovers and even a large number of trump haters were miserable. what was your take? what was the read in the room? >> people were definitely uncomfortable. i've been fortunate enough to attend the dinner now, this is my tenth year in a row, i have to say, every single year the comedian reflects the administration, and in this case it was uncomfortable. she was speaking truths. there was a level of accuraciness. yes, we have to be able to speak to those truths. what she said was not wrong. if we cannot use comedy to actually face those truths, it makes us -- we can be disingenuous. what i would love after all of this she book ended and said, and flint still does not have clean water. whatever's happening right now get over yourselves because policy is not being done. >> absolutely. she was very blunt and straight to the point. i want to play a couple of montage for those that didn't see it. it's on youtube, about 20 minutes long. here more wolf talking about sarah huckabee sanders. thi

donald trump -- donald trump, though, donald trump -- donny deutsch, this is out of a steve miller song. he's "flying like an eagle." donny, i'm telling you even in donald trump's most grandiose lie about how much money he's worth -- he would have to multiply that 100-fold to even be able to sweep jeff bezos's driveway. >> i know, i absolutely know for a fact that what does drive him crazy is the actual number. this is how sick he is the president of the united states, the number that bezos has. you know that donald trump is the great promoter. several hours ago probably one of the moment momentous international events that donald trump could co-opt, historically happening, with south korea. so to me, this a-plus president, who is so brilliant, and so straight of mind would this morning be jumping all over that. taking all the credit. what happened? i'm confused. >> donny, i go back to what i said last block. there is no rational 72-year-old man who -- who acts this way. and i'm not joking. everything willie, everything he does seems to be against his own best interests. you can talk ab

we also have a statement from president trump and his wife. president donald j. trump and president trump join the nation in celebrating the life of barbara bush. ms. bush was an advocate of the american family. among her greatest achievements was recognizing the importance of literacy as a fundamental family value that requires nurturing and protection. she'll be long remembered for her strong devotion to country and family, both of which she served unfailingly well. the president and first lady's thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of mrs. bush. the statement out tonight from president trump and the first lady melania trump. i should mention the date on it is wrong. it says it's april 17, 2017. actually 2018. but other than that, there you have it. that does it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening. i have to say about barbara bush. from anything i've ever heard from her children, her grandchildren, everything you hear from them about her

because he worked for donald trump, even though he said shouldtrumprun was independent of donald trump. it's an interesting precursor about whether michael cohen made illegal campaign contributions in the whole stormy daniels affair. >> the fec sided in cohen's fairer in 2011 and trump's lawyer supporter continued to stand by his man. >> the way he described it to me was a father/son relationship. when i asked him why he had done certain things or why he has blind loyalty, he threw the question back to me is, would you do this for your father. >> michael cohen and others outside of the orbit of the trump family can say they are like family. at the end of the day, the only people donald trump considers as family are his own family members. anyone who considers themselves to be almost a trump family member should really take a reality check. they tend not to stay around very long. >> over the next few years, cohen would stay. and take his loyalty to a whole new level. >> coming up, the price of loyalty. michael cohen has been a devoted fixer for president trump for years in public

you look at donald trump's jr.'s reaction to the e-mail. >> yeah. >> where he's offered dirt on hillary clinton by someone who claims to be linked to the russian prosecutor and he says, yeah, bring it on, i love it. it seems pretty witting to me. it always seemed witting to me. this information ties her, as jeremy said, if there's a criminal case brought, it's possible this will aid bob mueller into actually indicting natalia veselnitskaya -- >> veselnitskaya. >> it's possible that they will have -- this will have importance implications in courts of law or at least in legal proceedings. but in terms of what the trump people knew i feel as though we have known effectively whether they were trying to do russia -- advance russia's interest is still a little obscure. whether they were willing to work with russians in order to try to advance their own interests, i.e., in defeating hillary clinton, i think that's been clear now for a little almost a year. >> jeremy, i saw your face. react to that for me. >> yeah, and let

before he came to donald trump. when he was the head of breitbart news he opened up a breitbart news rome to report in the vatican. a plan to do the same thing in germany italy and france. he did not manage to do that but he believes that donald trump election was part of a global right wing nationalist uprising that swept across europe, and swept great britain and manifested itself in brexit. the top selection was not necessarily due to anything that donald trump had to say himself but rather that he was the vessel of the beneficiary of these energies. i spoke to him in the white house last spring during the elections. in one of the great frustrations it was that because he was in the white house, he was not able to go over to france and help marine le pen in her election. steve bannon thought he would be able to do that that she might have won. it is really no surprise to me that now that bannon is for the time being there with h america politics he has csmoved over to europe to back a lot of these right wing, in

so not only was putin one of the first people to call donald trump after his inauguration, but trump was apparently incensed about the return time of those calls. diplomacy. and another unusual interaction getting a lot of attention tonight. comey writing that trump brought up the russia dossier repeatedly, that he denied those very salacious allegations that we've reported on and saying although they weren't true, they were apparently allegedly discussed with putin. now, i'm only telling you this because it's right there in these unusual contemporaneous memos that james comey chose to keep. last night in an interview we've discussed on this show that we're waiting for that has now occurred, rachel maddow pressing comey on that whole conversation. >> he told you that he'd had a personal conversation with president putin about hookers? >> yes. >> did you believe him, or did you thunk he was speaking hyperbolically? >> he didn't seem to be speaking hyperbolically. >> that's an important and new exchange because rachel's getting at the question of was this just more puffery, hyperbole,

under president donald trump exports from the u.s. including energy, aircraft, and others have increased significantly. further, following the bold tax reform, japanese companies investments have been gaining momentum. that creates a large number of jobs in the united states and contributes to the expansion of the exports in the united states. in order to benefit the -- both countries will expand trade between both countries. building on that foundation will realize economic development in a free and fair trade in the pacific region. to make that happen at this time president donald trump and i agreed to start talks for free, fair, and reciprocal trade views. i hope there will be a very fruitful discussion. all over the last two days, president donald trump and i have spent more than seven hours ago -- together over meals and golf. i was able to further deepen my friendship and trust with president donald trump. i would like to express my appreciation to mr. and misses trump . thank you. >> questions ? >> thank you very much. mr. pres

if you were, say, a biographer of donald trump in the future, looking to know the man, an almost word for word account of the dinner where comey says they go an hour and 20 minutes, trump never lets him have a word in edge wise, he's dodging and returning again and again to certain subjects on his mind. the whole thing had this literary quality that really struck me. i also think his habit of reciting the facts gives us valuable information without his really saying it. so we know now that he thinks rudy giuliani is a brow-beating megalow maniac. and maybe loretta lynch wasn't up to the judge. but he's not saying that. he's giving very precise observations that put us there and let us make the conclusion. over all, as a literary document, i thought it was valuable for the probe and also sort of as a historical window into what trump is like. >> i want to share a passage that i think is the kind of thing you're referring to in terms of the literary quality of the writing, which includes important powers of observation. in the memo of the dinner these two paragraphs, the conversation wh

make up the ninth circuit there are eight vacancies and with republicans controlling the senate donald trumpas the power to dramatically change the ninth circuit which is a thorn in his side. the ninth circuit ruled against trump's travel ban and his plan to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities. this would not turn the court conservative but it will tilt it that way but california sen. dianne feinstein, senior democrat on the judiciary committee vowed to fight trump's nominees. on the outside republican members on the senate judiciary annoyed with democrats slow walking judicial nominees and bowing to change the rules to speed up the process. heather: thank you very much. critics claimed he wants to fire robert mueller, the legal team says that is not the case. let the panel decide what this means from the president today loretta lynch breaking silence on that infamous tarmac meeting, james comey and much more. ♪ hey, sir lose-a-lot! thou hast the patchy beard of a pre-pubescent squire! thy armor was forged by a feeble-fingered peasant woman... your mom! as long as hecklers love to

donald trump has no interest in any of the ethical rules. fe. on debt, on scamming people, taking money from trump u. students. so nothing has changed. and he's found people equally corrupt and equally bad at their job. and nothing is going to change until the midterm elections. because the republicans don't care. >> jennifer ruben, josh earnest, ron klain, joy reid, thank you all for joining us on this extraordinary hour tonight. really appreciate it. >> thanks, lawrence. >> that's tonight's last word. up next, catherine lucey, the associated press reporter on air force one today who you heard ask president trump for the very first time about stormy daniels and get an answer. she is the first guest in "the 11th hour with brian williams" and that starts now she is the first guest in "the 11th hour with brian williams" and that starts now. >>> new tonight, president trump breaks his silence on stormy daniels and that payment to keep the porn star quiet. the reporter who finally got him to answer the question joins us. and breaking tonight, lat

i don't believe in giving of these guys halos for working for donald trump. r the media, we'll see if kelly makes it to lunch because trump may indeed fire him. trump wants to fire somebody. >> that's the question. how long can john kelly survive that quote because donald trump's going to have to decide who does he believe, john kelly, nick kristof, or what he believes in james comey's book. >> he's been on thin ice before. i think this maybe he plunges through. >> nick, i want to get your view on the possible scooter libby pardon. nbc news is confirming that the president is planning to pardon scooter libby. he was dick cheney's former chief of staff. scooter libby was convicted of lying to the fbi and obstruction of justice. and as you know very well, james comey was the deputy attorney general who appointed the special prosecutor who got the conviction on libby of obstruction of justice. >> you know, i obviously disapprove of what scooter libby did, but in general i do think that our justice system is too punitive, and he has been punished. he has been barr

i'm a day one donald trump critic.r's summary of trump's character flaws. i only read the excerpts. but there's something petty about this. he could have made the larger observations in an op-ed peace and gone quiet dignity, which is apparently illegal in washington officials anymore. these details are getting press now and if you're comey and know the president has an al tern gnat reality problem and you know the president doesn't understand how things sort of work and he's a fragile personalty, do you poke him now with this gratuitous stuff and the pressure of the mueller thing. i can't disagree with his fundamental opinion of the president and he was there to see it upclose. >> this was the first. all presidencies now have the insider book come out. this is the first one from someone who was inside the trump administration for a relatively short period of time, it turns out, but in a very important position. so he is delivering us what his experience of this was. >> yeah, and i see mike's point. but i also do think

because up until this hour, donald trump personally had no denied that he made this payment. quite the opposite, since trump joined the case against daniels, seeking millions of dollars. michael cohen never said whether donald trump reimbursed him for the payment. so the president, there on air force one just added more questions and more suspicions to this very unusual story. let's get right to it here with the first response to this news is stormy daniels lawyer, michael avanatti. i appreciate you coming on "the beat" here on a night when i know you're in big demand. the first legal question to come out of this, if donald trump didn't make the statement and doesn't know where the payment came from, does that call into question if there was a valid agreement in the first place? >> first of all let me say merry christmas to you. because it's a very merry christmas here in our camp. this is what happens when you have an undisciplined client. we waited for christmas and lo and behold it's arrived. the statements that donald trump made on air force one are serious for donald trum

donald trump planea aumentar el nÚmero de deportaciones.tar mÁs que obama. documentos del departamento de justicia a los que univisiÓn tuvo acceso en exclusiva, muestran que donald trump planea deportar a 400 --por lo menos 450.000 emigrante. la meta es deportar 300. 000 a travÉs de ice. un 4% de los 11 millones de indocumentados que viven en nuestra naciÓn. se busca establecer un nuevo rÉcord. el lunes se dio a conocer que el gobierno le puso una cuota anual a los jueces de 700. >> lo interesante va a hacer si la corte federal dice que esa meta de 700 casos por vez es legal. claudia: el departamento de justicia dice que no quiere cuotas de deportaciones. le preguntamos a ice y no nos contestaron. un reporte el gobierno, tambiÉn obtenido por "noticias univisiÓn", dice que la meta es de 300,000 deportaciones. el reporte no incluye el objetivo de la patrulla fronteriza. la meta de 450.000 deportaciones al aÑo, busca superar las deportaciones del aÑo 2013. estadÍsticas muestran que en el primer gobierno de donald trump se deportÓ a poco mÁs de

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but that's something that donald trump has denied and we also have donald trump summoning women to his hotel rooms, it's unsubstantiated, but we're starting to see more and more evidence that donald trump has had these patterns of behavior in the past. so it does cast doubt on the words offing james comey. donald trump's words matter, they matter over women who have come out and how he has slammed them in the past, they matter legally when michael cohen goes to court and donald trump says you didn't know anything about the payment, you can't have attorney client privilege if you didn't know about the payment. >> and it raises the theory at least that some of what donald trump says and does is either not fully thought out, or against his own interests. ask michael cohen, saying i never did it. he could have said i didn't do it that night. he said i would never do that kind of thing, and we have a woman who has corroborating proof, and saying it is something he would go which adds to the record. >>> we're going to fit in a break, we have a lot more tonight, donald trump saying he's done

and i think the world's best hope right now is emmanuel macron persuading donald trump that there is stay in this agreement. and if he doesn't, if president macron cannot persuade president trump of that, if his new national security team of bolton and pompeo get their way, we are going to see an incredibly dangerous scenario unfold in this highly dangerous part of the world. >> laura hame, if the united states pulls out of the deal, that leaves france, the united kingdom, germany, russia, iran. that leaves a deal still there with the remaining parties. does emmanuel macron have a strategy for preserving the deal without the united states? >> at this moment, i think he really wants to convince president trump to stay in the deal, and there was something quite striking a few moments ago when emmanuel macron arrived here, was in front of the delegation, and he says something which was quite interesting. he said you know the values in the united states are based on courage and liberty. and i think with donald trump, that's what he's going to try to do. he's going to show him that you sho

en un comunicado indicÓ que putin no habÍa dicho eso, porque no se tÉcnico con donald trump antes de ." antes de ser presidente, donald trump dijo haber hablado directa e indirectamente competir. la pregunta es quiÉn esta mintiendo. el inspector general del departamento de justicia investiga. el departamento de justicia enviÓ estos documentos al congreso bajo la presiÓn de legisladores republicanos, que tenÍan como objetivo daÑar la credibilidad. presentadora: cuando regresemos de la pausa, miles de estudiantes dejan las aulas para exigir leyes mÁs stree las stre-- las -- estrictas del control de armas. ♪ ♪ ♪ presentador: para conmemorar el 19 estudiantes de todo el paÍs salieron hoy de sus aulas para protestar nuevamente por un mayor control a la venta y la posesiÓn de armas en la masacre ocurrida el 20 de abril de 1929, donde perdieron la vida dos estudiantes y un maestro. presentadora: el lÍder de partido demÓcrata anunció su intenciÓn de presentar una propuesta para despenalizar la venta, posesiÓn y consumo de marihuana a nivel federal. la iniciativa dejarÍa a manos de cada estado

el vÍdeo en el que donald trump presume la forma en donde acosaba a las mujeresen el centro de la acusaciÓn fbi da su abogado. de sumando ciudades a la lista deentidades que rechazan las leyes santuarios en ese estado. y la administraciÓn de donald trump impulsa una propuesta para exigir exÁmenes toxicolÓgicos a los beneficiarios de cupones de alimento, comenzamos. locutor: Éste es un noticiero univisiÓn edición nocturna, con enrique acevedo y patricia janiot. patricia: bienvenidos, en reciente allanamiento de el abogado del presidente donald trump ha dado un nuevo giro el vÍdeo fue grabado en el 2005 y se hizo popular aÑos despuÉs durante la campaÑa presidencial que ganÓ donald trump estarÍa entre la bÚsqueda de realizada por el fbi en las oficinas del abogado del presidente. alardea que se aprovecha de su fama para tocar las partes Íntimas de una mujer, vamos a ver el informe de claudia. claudia: este famoso vÍdeo en el que donald trump habla inapropiadamente de las mujeres habrÍa sido parte del objetivo del allanamiento de las oficinas del abogado del presidente, agente del fbi buscaba c

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they want donald trump to succeed. they want donald trump to continue being president. and look how worried they look for donald trump this morning. that is basically the way they looked for almost every second of the 31 minutes that donald trump was haranguing them and their audience this morning. rupert murdoch, the creator and current boss of fox news wants the trump presidency to continue. so at minute 25 of the ranting of donald trump this morning, rupert murdoch had had more than enough. rupert murdoch who was one of the guests at the first trump white house state dinner this week with the president of france told the fox news control room to shut it down and a director in the fox news control room told them to shut this down as fast as they could because it had become a harmful appearance to donald trump, the president, and to donald trump the suspect in the robert mueller investigation, and donald trump also known as david dennison in the stormy daniels case. there's no other way the president of the united states calling in to a cable news show would have been

director and he also calls donald trump or equally donald trump to being a mob boss listen to this. i felt this effort to make us all maybe this was their intention but it's the way it felt to me to make us all of mika no stress we're all part of the messaging we're all part of the effort the bosses at the head of the table we're going to figure out together how to do this how strange is it for you to sit here and compare the president to a mob boss very strange and i don't do it lightly and i'm not trying to buy that by the way suggested president trump is a break in legs and shaking down shopkeepers but instead what i'm talking about is that leadership culture consulate comes back to me when i think about my experience with the trump ministration. maybe i'm president if he has such strong words between people and that level however pap's even more importantly the content of this interview could have implications for the future of that white house right. boy it sure could sammy and primarily because if obstruction of justice charges are brought against donald trump and that's a big

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with michael threaten but the fact that he failed to convey a message from putin fast enough for donald trump>> it has been a top priority for trump during the campaign and as president. we have seen it time and time again. even when our policy is forced by putin's own actions to be somewhat tougher on putin. he hates the probe -- he wants to get along with president putin and i hates the probe. >> reynaldo, do you find it extraordinary as i do that donald trump is tweeting today in defense of michael flynn who is i believe an admitted felon, right? he copped a plea. this is a man who is an admitted criminal. yet donald trump is using the power of the presidency and his twitter feed to still to this day defend him. i fine that astonishing. you? >> i do, too. regarding michael flynn, what i find astonishing, here's a man who is still going and endorsing republican candidates. he is doing speaking engagements. sis son on is twitter blasting the prosecution, blasting the democrats, blasting mueller, blasting the fbi. when i was a prosecutor, my witnesses -- my people cooperating on my side were

has he worked with donald trump on foreign-policy?t only been working with donald trump but had a close relationship with him. that is important that secretary of state have that kind of personal relationship because he is going to be the chief foreign-policy advisor and doesn't hurt he is head of the cia. heather: mentioned 90 days is critical. why 90 days? >> we have the north korean summit, not just happening right now but probably the summit between donald trump and kim jong un. syria is a major area, tariffs and trade issue, part of that as well as commerce and a lot of slots need filling throughout the state department. the other people on the frontline, the face we present the world. >> the need for him to get started working immediately which he did. in terms of north korea let's talk about the meeting between kim jong un and south korea's leaders today, remarkable video of them shaking hands, smiling, kim jong un looked to be enjoying himself. what do you make of that? >> a couple things. both sides are incentivized to put th

asking, for example, was he following the political tweets from donald trump? he following white house press briefings, which is bizarre, if he was working during the day. he also learn it was not just trump asking comey to let michael flynn go, it was also trump's chief of staff asking about flynn. >> was he asking if mike flynn is currently under surveillance or if mike flynn is under a very serious form of investigation? do you know what he was getting at by asking you that? >> not for sure. i think he was asking, is there current electronic surveillance under the foreign intelligence surveillance act of the national security adviser? >> mm-hmm. and you did give him an answer? >> correct. >> trump fired comey, and he said it was over russia. now, later, there was, of course, comey's deputy, andrew mccabe, who was run out of the doj in one of the most unusual firings ever. we've reported on that, but there is so much more now in these memos that came out last night. comey is depicting trump as obsessed with mccabe. in january of 2017, he asked if mccabe would

yet could because if obstruction of justice charges are brought against donald trump and let's remember that's a big if we don't know if that's going to happen yet but if they are presumably jim comi would be a star witness in that why because when trump fired komi last year he publicly said he was fired because of his handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation but later trump in an interview with n.b.c. news said insinuated that he fired komi to stop what he viewed as an unjust russia investigation that is potentially what led to a series of events at the justice department that then led to the appointment of the special counsel robert mueller that is now looking into not only the russia ties with donald trump or alleged russia ties with donald trump but also and this is key potential obstruction of justice by donald trump for firing robert sorry for firing james komi so if these charges are brought against donald trump there you have it you would be called he would probably be a star witness so what he said in this interview is basically potentially a foreshadowing to what h

as recently as 2017 he tapped two prominent lawyers linked to donald trump. the top attorney who is left on trump's defense team in the mueller probe. toensing's husband recently joined the team and they both bowed out over alleged confli s conflicts. he's trying to explain why he hires so many trump lawyers and hides the fact. fact says they have surprise at this odd news and are backing hannity. he's called the scrutiny on him corrupt. >> yeah, i did have an attorney client conversations mostly over real estate. it is just so corrupt. it is such a double standard and it is so obnoxious on so many levels. >> michael cohen never represented he in any legal matter. i never retained his services. i never paid michael cohen for legal fees. i did have occasional brief conversations with michael cohen. he's a great attorney about legal questions i had. they never involved any matter, any, sorry to disappoint so many, matter between me or a third party or third groups at all. my questions almost exclusively focused on real estate. >> pay no attention to the lawyerly

going to flip on donald trump.s story that donald trump is maybe a bad boss, this is part of the narrative that's going to get us to the moment when michael cohen turns on donald trump. >> i think it is very, very possible that michael cohen is looking at this from a different perspective. how many times do you know someone who says, i'll take a bullet, until somebody points a gun at them and now you're looking at a real bullet. and what michael cohen now has to assess is the character of the person he's been working for. if "the times" story is right that he was poorly treated, that's only icing on the cake. the cake is that he knows he can go to jail now for real. this is not something saying something that will ingratiate himself to the boss. you've got to sit there and look at your family and say, am i really going to go down for this guy when i know this guy doesn't care about anyone, anywhere. and i think cohen is having the biggest reality check of his life. >> do you think this is also cohen sending a messa

imagine if donald trump -- the 2017 version of donald trump had been the same as the 2015 donald trump. and he joined the big infrastructure program, sustained the social safety net as he said he would, opposed upper income tax cuts, all of which were demanded by the country as a whole and republicans. he may be a more dangerous president than he is. instead donald trump signed on to the paul ryan program, the massively unpopular tax cut. he signed on to the attempt to repeal -- spend the first half of his most powerful year in office attempting to repeal obamacare. it's a funny thing to think about but steve bannon's political instincts may have been sharper than paul ryan's, and it may be if the trump ship goes down, paul ryan will be the person to put a hole in the bottom of it. >> a republican source said today on axios, this is going to make every republican do nor believe the house can't be held. >> absolutely. for a speaker of the house to make himself a lame duck with this much time left in the year and for mitch mcconnell to say we have much to do, no you have nothing to do. y

and those people turned on donald trump. >> yeah, that's exactly right. ink that's a pretty good metaphor for how trump has conned his fans. and it's a good metaphor for his critics to use and to think about how they're going to go about separating him. but i also think that it's not just a matter of scandals and corruption, but this is i think a way of talking about trump that ties in his legislative agenda, right? because it's about making himself rich. it's about making his family and his friends rich. and that's something he is not only doing through his behavior and the way he is running his business, it's a way his cabinet is behaving, the way that they're helping themselves to the public till constantly across the government. and it's what they're doing in congress, the tax bills they're voting on, the health care bills, it's the regulation. it's all about protecting their own economic interests. >> yeah. so your recommendation to democrats campaigning, as i read it in your article, is forget about stormy daniels. the voters already knew that's trum

the first big admission michael avenatti legally forced out of donald trump is that donald trump is, indeed, david dennison, the president of the united states actually used the alias david dennison. when president trump's lawyer first went into federal court in los angeles to move the stormy daniels case out of state court, that was the first time that the president officially admitted in a court filing that he is david dennison, the name that appears in a confidentiality agreement with stormy daniels. that was a huge thing for the president of the united states to formally admit that he used an alias in a confidentiality agreement with an actress and director who calls herself a porn star. and he was forced to admit that because of the legal steps taken by michael avenatti on behalf of stormy daniels and then because michael avenatti continued to press his case in court and in the court of public opinion, michael avenatti forced donald trump to answer this question. >> mr. president, did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. >> then why did michael cohen make

mara: donald trump is looking at those numbers and saying what i'm doing is work. i'm operating from my gut and my numbers are going up and this method of leadership works. gayle: i think president trump is in office because he threw out the washington established playbook. howie: this is not a smoothly functioning machine. it's a significant rise. is there a disconnect? >> the media want to play by the old rules and measure him against a set playbook. the voters who supported this administration, just like that roseanne piece, they want things shook up. they want the established playbook thrown away. they see this as a fulfillment of his promises. in a business you fire people who don't conform to the mission of the organization. howie: i love it that we are quoting roseanne. the "times" has jeff sessions, nobody is above the law, that's a quote. sessions deciding against a second special counsel to investigate such matters as related to hillary clinton. the clinton foundation, the fisa warrant surveillance business regarding carter page and the u.s. attorney in ut

it is incredible with donald trump's diplomacy...f his flaws, anyone who gets in those positions are not stupid. there is clearly something about him, and obviously people underestimated him and to some extent that is to his advantage because expectations were so advantage because expectations were so low. it will be held as a great breakthrough. when we come to it, obviously north korea has to give up its nuclear weapons. that is a different level again, as to whether they get to that point. also, kim jong—un loves the publicity as well. not shy of being in front of the camera. we will see if it leads to that. and i have to ask you about the donald trump visit when he comes here. we had so much about that and they finally announced that he is going to come. do think that is to and in protests? of course. definitely. i think 80,000 people who have already signed up to a facebook group where people are saying i would like to go and demonstrate on that day. there will be protests. donald trump knows that he had over a year to get to th

trump stand today? guest: i think so in some ways. donald trumpso was doing what donald trump does. i don't think anybody expected him to break the rules as much as he did in terms of the core of and -- d corum and response. after john mccain did the thumbs down about repeal and replace, i think trump realized that legislation and the maneuvering of congress was not history. he was going to move toward the cultural side and that is where the power was for him. he was not going to get into a tit-for-tat with members of congress and it takes a while for the to realize it. cataclysm, the charlottesville moment, or 35 members of the senate and house right text messages and tweets back and forth to the president. the relationship falls to a low trump is doing what eric cantor tells us in the beginning of the film, which is this is a guy who was elected by his base and others to come to washington and grab it by the lapels and shake it. what you just listen to and watched on our film tonight is that. it is trump shaking washington by the lapels. , the venerable mitch mcconnell, he is send

what i did for new york donald trump will do for america. must commit ourselves to unconditional victory against them. >> well, now rudy's about to star in a new role as trump's new lawyer, seriously. the former mayor and federal prosecutor brings his own baggage, along with him giuliani was vice chair of the trump transition team, which the special counsel is investigating. on thursday jim comey told rachel maddow that as fbi director he ordered an investigation into the sort of leaks that may have led giuliani to make this cryptic comment two days before the fbi reopened the clinton e-mail investigation. >> then i think he's got a surprise or two that you're going to hear about in the next few days. i mean, i'm talking about some pretty big surprises. >> i heard you say that this morning. what do you mean? >> you'll see. >> stay tuned. >> well, let's bring in my panel. barbara rez, and thank you were being here. barbara, you worked for the trump organization f quite a long time, several periods of time. >> yes. >> can you talk about the wa

patricia: bienvenidos, en reciente allanamiento de el abogado del presidente donald trump ha dado undeo fue grabado en el 2005 y se hizo popular aÑos despuÉs durante la campaÑa presidencial que ganÓ donald trump estarÍa entre la bÚsqueda de realizada por el fbi en las oficinas del abogado del presidente. alardea que se aprovecha de su fama para tocar las partes Íntimas de una mujer, vamos a ver el informe de claudia. claudia: este famoso vÍdeo en el que donald trump habla inapropiadamente de las mujeres habrÍa sido parte del objetivo del allanamiento de las oficinas del abogado del presidente, agente del fbi buscaba comunicaciones del abogado con el presidente sobre ese vÍdeo, aÚn no se sabe porque pero es fÁcil presumir que eso aumente aÚn mÁs la curia del presidente contra la el investigador de la trama rusa a quien hoy culpo por las tensiones con moscÚ. en un tweet escribiÓ que buenas parte de las malas relacionescon rusia es por la falsa y corrupta investigaciÓn. no hay colusiÓn y por eso enloquecen. ayer la portavoz de la casa blanca dijo que el presidentetiene el poder para des

i think it tried to flatter and cosy up to donald trump, tell him how great he is, andi donald trump,t he is, and i think that has given him license to criticise donald trump. i can't think of any other world leader who could get away without. i think he has shown the other is a masterclass in how you handle this particular us president. but, as you say, the proof will be in the pudding of where there are concessions from donald trump. but i thought it showed extraordinary self—confidence and a man determined to establish himself as the torch bearer of the alternative vision to trumpism or america first, what everyone to call it. it was a call to action. ijust everyone to call it. it was a call to action. i just wondered everyone to call it. it was a call to action. ijust wondered if it was won over the bounds for congress? some of the criticism has been, when it comes to the worst tendencies of donald trump, congress has stood up to him? i was trying to watch closely whether cheering was coming from, andi closely whether cheering was coming from, and i think you will find that democr