that's donald trump jr. committee how a completely false statement was delivered to the new york times about his meeting with russians at trump tower during the campaign. joining us now jennifer ruben, a conservative writer for "the washington post" and msnbc contributor. i suppose if you're a member of the trump family, you can believe the donald trump jr. testimony, but it seemed very protective of his father. >> yeah .. and very improbable for anyone with an iq over room temperature. donald trump would not be meeting with russians. he would not be looking for dirt on hillary clinton without his father knowing. do we really think that donald trump jr. had the independence, had the authority to be acting in this fashion without the knowledge of the president? it's absurd on its face. and what we do know, even in these little lies is oh, by the way, he does acknowledge talking to hope hicks. well, talking to hope hicks is just as -- he might as well have been talking to the president himself. so even their l

remember, it wasn't just donald trump jr. room, paul manafort was in the room, you had jared kushner, you had people who were in the room who would have direct contact with, then, candidate trump. paul manafort was the chair of the campaign at that point in time. so to suggest that, oh, i don't know if anyone happened to mention to my father this was going on, was there anyone in the room that could give me any information, also the context of this, not too long after this meeting happened, or the meeting was promised, wasn't there a campaign trail discussion by the president of the united states talking about information that was forthcoming about hillary clinton. all of those things and those pieces come together to say, this was an exercise by donald trump jr. about trying to create plausible deniability and the reason why it's not, you know, fatal to the investigation of robert mueller to suggest that maybe donald trump didn't know directly or no one maybe told him directly is because people have this misimpression that m

>>> if there is a me too movement of people suing donald trump for lying about them, donald trump isthe rest of his life. threatening people with lawsuits for lying about donald trump used to be a donald trump and michael cohen specialty and donald trump's threats were effective about scaring people. donald trump tried it with me in the second year of the show, saying i heard that lawrence has made many false statements about me last night maybe i should sue him. i was the only person on tv calling him a liar when he spoke of president obama's birth certificate. that was shocking to him because no one attacked him on television before, no one called him a liar the way everyone does now. and it was more shocking to donald trump that i was not intimidated by his threat to sue me and i dared him to sue me so i could get him under oath in a deposition and, of course, he never mentioned suing me again. so tonight there is an irony in watching donald trump's tactics be used against him. and this time it's by someone who's not using the donald trump investigation of the game. a couple weeks

the big question for donald trump and his lawyers tonight is can donald trump possibly survive an interview like this with the special prosecutor and how will donald trump handle the follow-up questions that he and his lawyers cannot see coming? according to the "new york times" report, the president's lawyer, former lawyer, john dowd, received these questions in early march when he was still the president's lawyer, the questions made john dowd more convinced that the president should 23409 sit for an interview with the special prosecutor. the times reports the president disaagreed with john dowd and john dowd announced he was leaving donald trump's legal team. joining us is the "new york times" reporter who helped break this story tonight. matt, i want to get you on the point of the authorship of the questions, the ones we're reading were actually written by the trump legal team after john dowd heard all of these questions verbally presented to him by the special prosecutor's office? is that how this list came to be? >> yeah i mean, so as mike was explaining to rachel, this is the result o

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 be alst 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 and p

it's a no from donald trump a sea announces the united states is now out the iranian nuclear deal previously reached by numerous countries following the use of tools. and while france germany and the u.k. regret trumps decision to withdraw from the deal the e.u. says that it remains committed to the agreement because it works. very good if you two ten pm here in the russian capital my name is neil harvey this is on t. international where we start this hour with breaking news because starting from house is expected to announce its decision on the iran nuclear deal saying that the u.s. is leaving the agreement let's go to new york caleb maupin has been following events for his stateside. delivering what have been on to see page he was particularly scathing though in the way delivered it takes us through the salient points. well throughout his presidential campaign donald trump criticized the jay c.p.o. way the result of the p five plus one nuclear talks the nuclear conclusion and agreement with iran now he criticized that he called it a bad deal and he ultimately intended he said to rip it up

enter donald trump.ompletely different animal, and he loves this world of lavish living and money. and it would not be outside the realm of possibility that they saw a man that finally would play on their field to where gifts, emoluments, money, bribes would actually work. >> and jeremy, when you pull all these threads of the story together in the daily mail in your reporting and elsewhere, on it so far, if this is substantiated, what you're seeing is a qataris and kuwaitis thinking exactly the way malcolm just described and kind of rushing to get in there to figure out how do we deal with these people and who do we have to pay what to deal with these people. >> well, what you have when you talk about such transactional, you know, exchanges is that it's not just about getting something in exchange for something. it can also be about being punished for not fulfilling on something. and the trump administration turned around at the top level, basically president trump, the country's position on qatar in the

>> the interesting thing, 40% of the ads being run in the primaries mentioned donald trump, mostly byepublicans in a positive sense to get those trump voters because that is the challenge, to get those voters that turned out in huge numbers for donald trump and his victory in 2016, to make sure they turn out in off year elections, ted cruz has his own brand but is also going to rely on the pres. to help especially with turnout. >> arkansas we have hutchinson against jared henderson and at the same time let's bring up donald trump's tweet about the arkansas governor race, the great governor of arkansas is in the primary tomorrow, has done an internal job focusing on lower taxes and goes on talking about military veterans. >> nothing better in the republican primary than getting a tweet from donald trump before it happens. you have seen in general elections in the general election survey, it is up by 40 points over his democratic opponent so that is one where hutchinson has done a great job tying to the president it has a good record as governor, he will be successful. >> donald trump w

your president, donald trump, calling for a doj investigation into whether or not the fbi or doj infiltrated or surveilled the trump campaign for political purposes, and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the obama administration. trump teeing off these reports as part of the fbi investigation into russian election meddling, there was an informant who spoke to unpaid advisers to donald trump. now, the doj can take trump's tweet and file it away or ignore it, politicians say all kinds of things. but trump appointee and the supervisor of the mueller probe, rod rosenstein, rushing to essentially give credence to all these and operationalize trump's demand, announcing they will look at this issue as part of a probe that's already open and was opened specifically under pressure from house republicans over the infamous nunes memo, which was about why carter page was surveilled. some legal experts say that probe, this whole thing could go nowhere. others responding by saying this is disappointing. take eric holder who said it's going to risk time-honored doj independence. no

that was donald trump. third, new financial disclosures from the white house suggest that the president knew about the hush money payment to stormy daniels and then misled the public about it. after all, it made it on to his financial disclosure. fourth a bombshell story from the "new york times." potentially undermining the president's claims of an anti-trump bias at the fbi. the report details the secret origins of the trump investigation revealing the fbi's evident the keep their counter-intelligence investigation secret, out of concern that the mere knowledge of its existence might devastate the trump campaign. i wonder what hillary clinton is thinking about that right now? joining me now is den delanian msnbc intelligence and national security reporter as well as our panelist here. katy tur, my colleague here at msnbc and host of the 2:00 p.m. hour and every monday on this show. and zerlina maxwell. ken, let's break things down today. there is a lot out there. can we sort through what's new first and w

donald trump closed that deal. he could win out the access hollywood tape and lives you told trump that he could win after the access hollywood tape and lives grabbing women by the pussy. what made you so sure that voters wouldn't reject the president on on august 13th when he stepped in and took the job as ceo? you know he's 16 points down is down. i said to 100%, metaphysical certitude you will win. if you focus on the handful of messages about the american working man and woman in our country. on billy bush weekend where people were losing their heads and running around and you know were going to have mike pence and condi rice run as a ticket and trump's got to drop out of the race. paul ryan says i take back my my support of donald trump, and everybody is bailing out i said look, as we went around this thing, i said you still have 100% certainty you're going to win. he got up say don't give me a hundred percent, tell me what the real numbers are. they‘ re fighting for their country. trump had talked about grabbi

pompeo and donald trump.thank you pompeo for bringing our citizens home, glad the first lady and second lady where their too, hashtag winning, welcome home gentlemen. if this doesn't make you overflow with pride you are not a true american. gb tweets thank you, mr. pres. for fighting for americans abroad and at home. auto warmbier is one of the top trending topics nationwide, a lot of people remembering him and his family including the president and the vice president. >> one of those things that hits all of us and especially donald trump really hard, you heard him overnight after they got off the plane mention that otto was in his thoughts. >> really good news to see these three men able to walk up the plane. rob: remain skeptical of north korean -- donald trump press for the safe relief of three americans being released in north korea. jillian: our next guest is an expert on the north korean regime, remembers when bill clinton bent over backwards for kim jong-il in 1999, he says donald trump will not back d

but donald trump won't talk about that. on this issue, the trump show script hasn't changed since he came down that escalator. >> they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists. >> these aren't people. these are animals. >> when the ms-13 comes in, when the other gang members come into our country i referred to them as animals and guess what i always will. >> he has a presumption of responsibili responsibility nunt spontaneity, but it's rehearsed. trump huddled with jared kushner and stephen miller in the oval office to talk immigration. trump reminded them the crowd loved his rhetoric on immigrants on the campaign trail. acting as if he were at a rally, he then read allow a few made-up hispanic names and described potential crimes they could have committed such as rape and murder. and then the crowds would roar when the criminals were thrown out of the country. according to the report, miller and kushner laughed. trump made up names and described potential crimes they committed such as rape and murder then

donald trump securing the release of those three brave men from north korea.us xm 115 here with reaction pouring in online. >> one of the things i keep thinking about is how happy the families must've felt to see their loved ones for the first time on television standing next to the pres. what an amazing moment, that joy is being seen on social media as a flood of happy tweets for into twitter, let's get to that. lisa says i'm filled with an enormous amount of pride and gratitude as i watch this historic moment unfolds. congratulations to our president and mr. pompeo. what an amazing moment, truly grateful. can says never doubted trump's ability to deliver as president, who would have thought was possible for trump's policy, congrats free men. natalia tweets what an amazing moment, welcome home. gail on twitter says what an american moment, proud to be an american, so happy for these free men, freedom is so precious, goes on to thank the pres. and vp, the first lady and second lady for all the hard work and representing the country. elijah tweets welcome home,

>> you can be forgiven for losing track of donald trump juniors, trump allies and other explanations for that meeting. what the transcripts make clear is from the very beginning the run up to this meeting to the moment they were in room till the end of meeting, members of the trump campaign, senior members of the trump campaign expected to and eager to receive danieling information about hillary clinton from the russ n russians who were offering it. >> reporter: senate judiciary transcripts make clear at the 2016 trump tower meeting with russia russians, trump's son was expecting the russians to supply dirt on hillary clinton. this is despite trump, his son and others repeatedly claiming otherwise. a russian lobbyist present for the meeting told snartd r senators that donald trump junior was in charge. he admitted he was interested in listening to information about hillary clinton adding quote, i have no way of assessing where it came from but i was listen to listen. this is a direct contradiction of the misleading story put out by the white house and donald trump junior claiming the

it is about donald trump, it is about the ratings. >> why won't the media give donald trump credit? president of district media group. thanks for being here. that was such an american moment. i thought, they will give the president the credit is due but not so much. >> something that should bring all americans together with you are republican or democrat regardless with the work in the media or not, bringing home three american hostages is a huge victory, talking about hostages from north korea. this does not happen often. think about the state that otto warmbier was in, horrific conditions. to have this moment, the pres. meeting with three individuals when they landed at andrews air force base, a huge moment. we heard a lot about russia yesterday, stormy daniels and this should bring americans together. >> a few hours after the hostages returned we devoted our entire 60 minutes during my time in the church a coverage of the north korea situation. flash forward to the evening news, nbc, 2 minutes and 20 seconds, abc, 3 minutes, cbs 2 minutes and 5 seconds. than msnbc total primetime

i and i go to church and i love god. >> donald trump doesn't go to church. donald trump plays golf.ingle most important concept in the religion he claims as his own, which was at the founding of christianity one of his most revolutionary concepts, is that god lives in every person, every person. and that is the concept that prevents christians who actually understand christianity from ever equating people and animals. here's a trick question for donald trump. who said, whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do to me? another trick question for donald trump, next time he's publicly showing off his christianity is, can you quote a single thing that jesus christ ever said? for i was hungry, and you gave me something to eat. i was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink. i was a stranger, and you invited me in. i needed clothes, and you clothed me. i was sick and you looked after me. and i was in prison, and you came to visit me. if you went to catholic schools like i did, you memorized passages like that. you memorized those words of jesus christ, and you remember them fo

this wasn't just any aid to donald trump? >> no, he was his guy that would really fix things. ump started getting really political on the birther issue, it was cohn that set up the meeting with trump and i where trump wanted me to stop calling him a racist and saying that the birther movement was race based and cohen sat next to him in the meeting. so cohen did all types of duties on behalf of donald trump. >> and what do you think the price was put on those dealing? >> as much as donald trump was capable of trusting someone, it would have been cohen. i don't know that he has a lot of trust in anybody. >> are you saying that donald trump has trust issues? >> i think that very strongly. i think donald trump is for donald trump, which is why i think cohen has some very serious thinking to do about what he's going to do now that hess facing serious time if any of the reports that we are reading about end up becoming true. >> shelby, you've been covering this story since its inception. it wasn't clear where the stormy daniels case would go. but everybody remembers those words that

thing to say about michael cohen pulling in multi-million dollar paychecks by selling access to donald trump, or both. as expected. we're learning more about the big payments to michael cohen every day. but president trump's audience in indiana tonight seems to have heard nothing about it and the speech writers for one of the most corrupt, if not the most corrupt administration in history, actually put these words in the president's teleprompter tonight. >> under my administration we're fighting against the lobbyists, the special interest, and the corrupt washington politics. >> one of the special interests that paid over $1 million to michael cohen for the first year of the trump presidency is now admitting that it was a big mistake. the new ceo of the pharmaceutical company, novartis sent an e-mail to his employees today saying we made a mistake entering into this engagement and as a consequence are being criticized by a world that expects more from us. one senior employee speaking on the condition of anonymity said they feel disgusted. added people are angry and confused because it makes

i always said donald trump always looked like he was going to lose before he wins. and he's going got a remarkable capability of winning so i have donald supporter and have watched him and when he began to run for the presidency i was very enthusiastic. again, just like jones, donald trump is going to be disruptive. and he's going to be a disruptive presidency to this leftist agenda because they don't want confrontation. they want the american people to wake up, whereas in the the internet, there's this red killing and it certainly if you follow some of the things like this on which has been posting on the chance which i identified with one of the military intelligence people working closely with trump. that you know, this is a narrative that is, to that the constitution is going to be preserved donald trump is going to turn the tide. he has weathered the first attack . the molar attempt, the special counselor to impeach donald trump has failed. and i say that because all mueller has is an of over 13 wacky russians who posted some things on the internet even the depa

sobre su informe mÉdico dice que el propio donald trump se lo dictÓ.o que podía ir o no por su parte la casa blanca afirma, que se tratÓ de un procedimiento regular de la unidad mÉdica presidencial para obtener los archivos de salud del mandatario. el mÉdico presidencialquien retirÓ su candidatura para encabezar el departamento de asuntos de veteranos tras enfrentar una serie de alegaciones sobre conducta negligente en el trabajo aclarÓ recientemente que donald trump podrÍa vivir 200 aÑos por su estado fÍsico. muchos pacientes envidian al presidente, su doctores y sobre todos los reportes mÉdicos que se escriben sobre Él. desde new york blanca rosa, univisiÓn jorge: 18 legisladores republicanos dominaron el presidente de los estados unidos donald trump al premio nobel de la paz para el 2019. segÚn los congresistas del mandatario debe recibir el galardÓn en reconocimiento por el trabajo que ha hecho para desnuclearizar corea del norte. despuÉs del anuncio de que la embajada estadounidense serÁ trasladada el 16 de mayo en israel, el primer ministro israe

[applause] >> donald trump promised to rebuild the military restore the arsenal of democracy. one month ago donald trump signed into law the largest investment in our national defense since the days of ronald reagan. [applause] >> our president promised to enforce our laws and secure our borders. we have taken on sanctuary cities. we are ending to end catch and release and close the dangerous immigration loopholes in our laws. the pres. signed into law the biggest funding increase for border security in a decade and ordered the national guard. under this pres.'s leadership we doubled the arrest of vicious gang members, ms 13, and thanks to the leadership of donald trump congress approved funding for the first 100 miles of the border wall. [applause] >> i will make you a promise. when it comes to that big border wall, we are going to build it all. [applause] >> this president has also stood for the god-given liberties enshrined in our constitution and i have to tell you i couldn't be more proud to serve alongside a president who stands without apology for the sanctity of human

the thing most in doubt about donald trump, his sanity. you have to see this, because you might never see this again unless trump goes on fox news again and "fox & friends" hosts are trying to get the president of the united states to shut up and get off their show. >> our justice department should be looking at that kind of stuff, not the nonsense of collusion with russia. there is no collusion with me and russia. and everyone knows it. >> we could talk to you all day but it looks like you have a million things to do. >> you could. >> i hope you can join us again, mr. president. >> thank you, mr. president. >> ansley, good luck with your book. >> thank you. >> happy birthday to melania. >> we'll see you next thursday, mr. president. phone lines open. call in again sometimes. >> good. thank you, bye. >> call in again sometime. well, if we're lucky, he will. >>> up next, what made george will declare that someone in washington is actually worse than donald trump? george will will explain. when e in the middle of the night. hold on dad... lib

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and so instead of announcing the appointment of a new deputy attorney general today, donald trump washe has confidence in rod rosenstein. >> do you have confidence in rod rosenstein? >> what's your next question, please? >> you don't have to be an expert in trump speak to realize what the answer was to that question. and so the president stated very clearly right there that he does not have confidence in the deputy attorney general, and he really looked like a president who wishes he was being asked if he had confidence in his new deputy attorney general, who the president had just chosen to go into the justice department and fire the special prosecutor and end robert mueller's investigation. the lead editorial today in "the new york times" entitled trump versus the department of justice is outraged that the president is launching a self-interested assault on the justice department. "the times" editorial says it's up to those people who have devoted their lives to the nation and to the rule of law like deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and the fbi director christopher wray, both

donald trump retirÓ a estados unidos del acuerdo.erdo de irÁn era otra promesa de campaÑa, ahora cumplida de donald trump. [habla en inglÉs] dijo que le habÍa quedado claro que el acuerdo no previene que irÁn desarrolle armas nucleares. el mandatario volviÓ a las sanciones econÓmicas de antes del acuerdo. en el departamento de estado dicen que no habÍa otra opciÓn. >> queremos paz en la regiÓn, queremos que el rÉgimen iranÍ termine con estas actividades y vamos a seguir usando nuestras herramienta diplomÁticas y econÓmicas para renegociar. janat: algunos analistas dicen que esto es un fracaso diplomÁtico. >> no hay otra palabra. los mayores estaban unidos en tratar de convencer a donald trump de quedarse en el acuerdo. janet: el pacto que se firmÓ en el 2015, levantaba la sanciones econÓmicas a cambio de que el paÍs pusiera restricciones a su programa nuclear y permitiera instrucciones para comprobar su compromiso. francia, inglaterra y rusia, anunciaron que se mantendrÁn en el acuerdo. el presidente obama que firmÓ el acuerdo, dijo

like donald trump. so rudy giuliani gave it an even wider blanket of knowledge in effect to donald trump about the general operations of michael cohen, which i have to say sounds realistic, and also intersects, kind of importantly, with the story you're talking about in terms of the michael cohen raid material and what's in it and how donald trump and michael cohen aren't really telling the president's lawyers what they think is in it. >> michael schmidt just reporting on our air moments ago that the president's lawyers don't know what's in those documents because michael cohen and president trump won't tell them. michael cohen and president trump definitely know what's in those documents but they won't tell trump's own lawyers what's in them, so president trump's lawyers can't prepare what to make of that case or what threat the president might be under in that case. but it now sounds like rudy giuliani -- the way you describe it it's like he's prepping it like there's a million stormy danielss. this i

a choice between a candidate who stands up to donald trump when he is strong and who believes donald trump can do no wrong. from franklin and marshall college, at least for now, casey has the edge. >> kept the connection to the working-class unlike a lot of other urban democrats. i would like to deck out casey is from scranton, you are not an urban democrat. >> part of the working-class theme is the sign of one word, not the last name, just lose. he says before this election is over every pennsylvanian will know unlike lou. >> it is like madonna or eric. thank you for your report in the midst of this stuff primary season. let's turn to policy editor and editor of the halftime report for analysis of these races. what do you make of what has happened in pennsylvania? >> poor rick succone must wish he had never came out of the state house. we think of politics as power and all this stuff. we are talking relatively small numbers of people grinding out tough races that union halls. in a year like this with so many people running and i mean so many, democrats coming out of the woodwork to r

decade. >> it will take more from the democrats if you consider how hillary clinton ran against donald trumpecause look at the facts so much of her message was anti-trump, do you think that is going to work this time? >> it is different from congressional or senate race. what can you do for me and what have you done lately, democratic candidates will answer that question and republicans delivered a tax bill that is not working for a lot of middle-class families and union support has gone down tremendously. the pres. isn't talking about his tax-cut plan but the economy, democrats will have a question of what is left on the table. they promised it infrastructure package and lowering prescription drugs and the opioid crisis. we are still waiting and democrats will have that conversation with voters and local districts in states across the country. >> the opioid bill dropping in june, infrastructure would be moving forward and tax cuts are benefiting those demographics you mentioned in every low-income, middle income group especially in the rustbelt and pennsylvania, especially in places where r

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attorneys, michael cohen who sought reimbursement of those expenses and donald trump fully reimbursed them in 2017. the offices the pres. has now met the reporting requirements. breaking information tonight from newly released transcript regarding the trump tower meeting where donald trump junior met with russian lawyer who supposedly had damaging information on hillary clinton 5 months before the presidential election. >> donald trump junior said he kept his dad in the dark in june 2016 when russians came calling with dirt on hillary clinton. congressional investigators asked did he say why wasn't i told about this meeting? do you find out? no because he wasn't aware of it. the meeting almost didn't happen according to the music reporter who set it up, rob goldstone said i believe that was a bad idea and we shouldn't do it and gave the reason being that i'm a music publicist, politics i knew nothing about. once the meeting started things unfolded like this. according to a us citizen of georgian descent works for a group run by russian oligarch mr. trump asked if they got anything on

going to be disastrous for donald trump. >> every person deserves a lawyer, donald trump deserves a lawyer. if i were one of his lawyers, if he had to sit down with an interview with mueller, i would tell him to take the fifth because he's just a loose cannon, is a very sort of minimalist way of saying what donald trump is off the cuff, and he can only dig himself a deeper and deeper hole, including all sorts of stuff that mueller doesn't know about. it would be, i think, a disaster. even worse than the political disaster of a sitting president sitting down for an interview and taking the fifth to everything. >> it's worth noting, mueller knows a lot so the president talking off the cuff and contradicting what mueller already knows to be true could get the president in a lot of hot water. everyone please stay with us. coming up paul manafort's appearance in trump's tangled web. manafort may have been the one in court but as jonathan was saying it was still all about donald trump and his impeachment. >>> later how john kelly went from calling the president an idiot, reportedly. >> ev

but of course donald trump won't talk about that. xican worker for your summer crab cakes isn't in the script. on this issue, "the trump show" script hasn't changed since he came down that escalator. >> they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists. these aren't people. these are animals. when the ms-13 comes in, when the other gang members come into our country i referred to them as animals, and guess what, i always will. >> he enjoys a presumption of theatrical spontaneity from many who observe him. donald trump's demagoguery is scripted, calculated, and rehearsed, as in donald trump literally rehearses it in the white house. this from "the washington post." in february 2017, trump huddled with senior adviser jared kushner and adviser steven milliner the oval office to talk immigration. trump reminded them that the crowds loved his rhetoric on immigrants along the campaign trail. acting as if he were at a rally, he then read allow a few made-up hispanic names and described potential crimes they could have committed

donald trump's going to go to washington and he's going to fight for us. mind, you dumb mother [ bleep ]. you are poor. he's fighting for me. >> chappelle's critique of trump indicts the man and the rest of us who can fall into his attention seeking web of trolling. here chappelle was the weekend after trump's november upset. >> america has done it, elected an internet troll as our president. >> what the [ bleep ] is wrong with this guy. >> what is wrong? a qulif hanger surrounded by military people you'll find out. oh, will trump give human at this time the rose? >> it's not just the "t" word. remember jon stewart took on both parties. >> here in the united states we have our own powerless legislatures called democrats. basically the democrats seem like the kind of people who switch to geico and lose money. >> and chappelle was part of the "snl" skit that roasted both trumpism and entitlement in certain parts of our country. >> but i guess there's like a nightmare scenario where he wins the popular vote. >> really? that's your nightmare scenario huh. >> o

look at the policies and donald trump will say this is just a good start. >> reporter: donald trump seeking ban on 20 week abortions which gain support by the house but not yet. heather: he says democrats trade too far from american values was we want to know what you think -- >> they seem to agree on these platforms we have been asking on social media. ron on facebook says democrats failed american since hillary lost the election in 2015, they can't hide behind the russians did it forever. pretty much, they fell off the bridge, the world, the end of the world. not surprising our viewers think that but people across america feel the same way and democrats may have issues come the midterm, donald trump standing by what he said in the campaign. heather: the acting director of ice firing back at a democratic using the agency of being anti-immigrant. reminding who who makes immigration laws. >> that is not the complete facts, the anti-immigrant agenda. >> to say it is anti-immigrant is wrong. is it okay to enter the country illegally, that is wrong. heather: the homeland security hearing saying

this was a payment to a guy they thought had the ear of donald trump. might be able to put his thumb on the scale. and make the deal go through. a new report says on the very first business day of the trump administration, the president's personal attorney, michael cohen, signed a contract with at&t to receive $600,000 to consult on long-term planning as well as its pending merger with time warner, which the justice department eventually sued to block last november. documents obtained by the "washington post" show cohen made the deal on january 23rd, 2017. within three days of president trump's inauguration. and just four days after cohen publicly announced he would represent trump as president, and would resign from the trump administration, the organization to avoid a quote perceived conflict. at&t says it paid cohen for insights, but the "post" found it unclear what insight cohen, a long-time real estate attorney and former taxi cab operator could have provided at&t on complex telecom matters. the health care news site stat reports that the $1.2 milli

las regiones continÚa despuÉs que donald trump, indicÓ que se referÍa a los integrantes de lasnos testimonios. juan: ernesto quien se gana la vida vendiendo paletas en las calles de los angeles indica >>el hombre no debe de humillar al mÁs humilde. juan: esto por los comentarios del presidente donald trump al indicar que mucha gente que estÁ tratando de cruzar la frontera que no son personas y no animales, sin embargo tratÓ de aclarar a quienes estaban dirigidos sus comentarios. asegurÓ que se referÍa a miembros de la pandilla ms13 cuando utilizÓ la palabra animales. y agregÓ, son animales y siempre me referirÉ a ellos como animales. tambiÉn atacÓ el gobernador de california, indicando que por la ciudad de santuarios se ha generado mÁs crimen. >>lo que ha hecho ha sido muy peligroso, porque rÁpidamente se estÁ acercando en direcciÓn de causar una explosiÓn racial dentro de los estados unidos. juan: donald trump estÁ mintiendo con respecto al clima y a las leyes de california presumiendo, unas polÍticas que no cambia nada, los ciudadanos de la quinta economÍa mÁs grandes no esta

but i'm asking you donald trump walks away from the deal find by both parties and others, is there ain your opinion of the iranians deciding, we all was a nuclear programme as a result, if you're going to have sanctions then we will go down that path again. is that a realistic risk? of course, that a realistic risk? of course, thatis that a realistic risk? of course, that is not a risk but iran would have their right to do that within the framework of international law. even before the nuclear deal iran was abiding by the npt. and pompeo, when he was still head of cia, he admitted that iran before the deal before the nuclear deal, was not heading for a nuclear weapon and this month against 15 years of anti—iranian propaganda from the united states. of course the reason why he made this admission was because he wanted to say do not worry, if around exits, if the us exit the agreement then the iranians will not be heading for a nuclear weapon because before the deal were not heading for a nuclear weapon. but iran will definitely push forward in my opinion if the deal falls apart, they

donald trump won the electoral college with lower road than a lot of people thought possible. e states when people treat me badly my general attitude has been to fight back very hard. we are about to explore in a point with the coauthor of that book, tony schwartz. he issued today trump's dirty approach is being rewarded and even mimicked. he argues this is actually testing our values as a nation as we reckon with a barrage of cruelty. >> now the poor guy, you ought to see this guy. i don't know what i said. i don't remember. >> on carly fiorina telling rolling stone look at that face, would anyone vote for that? can you imagine that? the face of our next president? >> maxine waters a very low iq individual. >> although we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago, they call her pocahontas. >>> when trump is pressed on these comments he will often default to claiming these are jokes. many people don't consider them funny. and they point out each if it is a joke, he has power, and this is very cruel. the larger question we want to explore tonight ri

is leaking about donald trump. >> and donald trump is leaking about donald trump. about maggie haberman. maggie haberman, never talked to her before. >> never met her. hardly know her. every president i've covered going back to the late 1980s have had relationships with reporters. they've called outside the normal channels of communications. they make phone calls to people, sometimes drop stuff out there. there's no way to monitor the totality of trump's communications with reporters, but certainly we just read at the beginning of the week you start with hannity who he is talking to apparently doing pillow talk with apparently every night and think about the people in the conservative ecosystem who he talks to constantly. mainstream ones he denies he would ever cozy up to but we also know he has a whole array of reporters at places like the failing new york times and the new york posts who he likes to talk with frequency, too. it's the most -- >> washington post he likes to call. >> there's a staggering level of comical hip ok rasy and transparency to these claims.

he thanked donald trump for his tweeted support yesterday. he defeated congressman jenkins who was part of the presidential shout out was the target of more than $1 million in negative ads ordered by democratic super pacs. third-place, don blankenship who tells me the constant attention on his conviction, conspiring to violate mine safety laws was a real drag on his campaign. associated with mitch mcconnell, spent million dollars on negative ads against the republican but mcconnell's political team has sent an image of a smiling mcconnell, thanks for playing dumb. blankenship you talked to every person that wanted to talk to him at this party which is very rare told me he thinks the pres.'s tweets telling voters not to support him really hurt in the end. blankenship has no plans to call the atty. gen. to congratulate him on tonight's victory but he does get some good news, his probation ends at midnight. >> let's check in with results in another key state. >> i realize that. >> in ohio, the senate and gubernatorial races no major surprises bu

donald trump jr. and a russia lawyer with ties to the kremlin. senate judiciary committee released thousands of pages of testimony about the meeting today from donald trump jr. and others who have come before them. among the headlines here, donald trump jr. was anxious for opposition research or dirt on hillary clinton. but meeting attendees said no valuable information was provided. donald trump jr. said he didn't recall telling his father about the meeting, but as nbc news points out, trump jr. was, quote, grilled about a phone call he made to a blocked number during the planning stages of the trump tower meeting, but said he didn't remember who he spoke with. asked whether his father used a blocked number, trump jr. said i don't know. this as the senate intelligence committee released a report today that backs the conclusion from intelligence officials that russia interfered in the 2016 election with the goal of helping donald trump. and finally, shannon pettypiece of bloomberg is reporting today t

jr. -- donald trump's campaign at the donald trump jr. hosted meet, that in exchange president trump would go easy on russia. that's exactly what happened. >> trump junior was asked about whether the campaign or there was any discussion in this meeting about the hacks of the e-mails, dnc e-mail hack, and i want to read a little bit of this interaction because donald trump jr. says no, he didn't recall any specific discussion in this meeting about those hacked e-mails. and then later says, i just don't know that if someone had a passing conversation with me and said, hey, what do you think about that? but, no, there was no substantive conversations that i can at all remember about any of that. >> i mean, claiming that you don't remember is not a definitive know. i think he said i don't know or how i recall 103 times during the interview because he's not being transparent. >> to play devil's advocate, could he really have just not remembered or not known? >> this is a significant meeting you had planned before you attended. if you're sitting

to be very hard. >> i want to remind everybody that after everything indira laid out about what donald trumpd and rudy giuliani said, trump this morning said to reporters that giuliani needs to get his facts straight. let's listen to this in the president's words. >> i'll tell you what, rudy is a great guy but he just started a day ago. but he really has his heart into it, he's working hard, he's learning the subject matter. and he's going to be issuing a statement, too, but he is a great guy. he started yesterday. he'll get his facts straight. he's a great guy. i will tell you this, i will tell you this, when rudy made the statement, rudy's great, but rudy had just started and he wasn't totally familiar with everything. >> and as the president said, rudy giuliani did release a statement this afternoon. here's part of it. the part about the campaign and the funds. he said, first, there is no campaign violation the payment was made to resolve a personal and false allegation in order to protect the president's family. it would not have been done in any event -- goof been done in any event, whe