he was the donald trump of american politics before donald trump became donald trump of american politicians. the right wing of politics doesn't need two donald trumps. no one really cares what rush limbaugh says. not even rush limbaugh. the latest crazy thing that rush limbaugh says nowadays never makes it into the american news media because it's not as crazy as what the president of the united states said every day. including what the president said tonight. rush limbaugh had to give up many of his beliefs to become the faithful trump follower that he is and he confessed publicly that they were never beliefs at all. he didn't believe all that stuff he was saying. stuff that he and other republicans were lying about what they believed. he actually said that on his radio show and at the end of this hour, pulitzer prize winning columnist will join us about what donald trump has done not just to the republican party, but to our politics and whether the damage can be repaired. when donald trump won the presidential nomination, this week he said that the damage the presidency of donald trump ha

we don't believe donald trump. other republican who voted not to condemn the president but voted in effect to condemn themselves, they did that, they voted to condemn themselves in history as actively complicit in the president's racism. before the vote the president tweeted "those tweets were not racist. i don't have a racist bone in my body. the so-called vote to be taken is a democratic con game. republicans should not show weakness and fall into their trap." i don't know why the president capitalizes the "r" in the word "racist" the way religious people capitalize the letter "g" in "god" out of reverence for that word. is it donald trump's reverence for the word "racist?" is that what he is signaling to racists with that upper case "r" for "racist?" is that what he's doing? every republican showed weakness and fell into donald trump's racist trap today except those four republicans who voted against donald trump's racism. why is it always the bones? why do racists always talk about their bones, as in i don't ha

your fellow floridian senator marco rubio has called donald trump's let us talk on huawei asa donald a "catastrophic mistake". china is not a friend, huawei is not negotiable, it is a national security threat, president trump needs to stay strong against huawei. are you with marco rubio or with donald trump? so, he's around. they should not be doing business in the united states, huawei should not be. if he is saying that american companies can sell to huawei and while they can sell to someone else, eye can understand that. i don't know if they would do that. my concern is the national security interests of the united states. i don't believe huawei is a part of a trade negotiation. it has nothing to do with that at all. it is almost ready. secondly, on the radial eye... i think it is very little to get a deal done with china. they still intellectual property. china doesn't care about human rights —— they steal. they don't open up their market. they militarise the south china sea. there are involved in venezuela. so eye doubly... and, by the way, namely deal that you've ever done wher

. >> including donald trump. >> including donald trump. and then kavanaugh just decided and was coached to basically blow up and like chew the scenery as we say in the theater, right, to just act basically. perform his outrage and that turned everything, as if it changed somehow the truth of what we had seen the day before. it's a very sad moment in our democracy that the media is creating these rules and being played by donald trump in a lot of ways. >> you're an expert in disinformation. russian disinformation. but we're consuming a lot of it. i don't know if everyone even knows they are. your thoughts on -- just pick up on where heather took us. >> i mean, he's the master of disinformation, donald trump. the same way putin weaponized greefrance in russia and isis weaponiz weaponize grievance among muslims. i remember a mythical time called "tthe '60s, which not everyone remembers here around the table. and the demonstrations for ford increased it. i would be dismayed if there were not more demonstrations. it r

that's interesting because it's a similar issue that donald trump has. where do the mystery millions flow into the trump organization and where do they fall into the funds? that's another thing that will be interesting as the investigation progresses. >> listen to the attorney outlining the specifics of the allegations in the crimes against epstein. >> the beginning of at least 2002 and continuing until 2005, epstein is alleged to have abused dozens of victims by causing them to engage in sex acts with him at his mansion in new york and at his estate in palm beach, florida. the victims all underage girls at the time of the alleged conduct were given hundreds of dollars in cash after each encounter either by epstein or one of epstein's employees. the underage girls were recruited to provide epstein with massages and often did so nude or partially nude. these massages became increasingly sexual in nature and would include or more sex acts as specified in the indictment. as alleged, epstein paid certain victims to recruit additional girls to be similarly abu

>> guest: that is talking about donald trump's presidency, not talking about just how donald trump used television but as president he has been used by it which is to say he is an avid cable news the or, wakes up with fox and friends, gets agitated by television, tweets about it, those tweets become the news, he watches the news reaction to his tweets, tweets further. there is something in the modern media culture where it is like we are living in a show that is being produced for one viewer in chief. the title has larger resonance because one thing the book is talking about as well as donald trump is the tendency in media to move from this monoculture, smooth tones mass media audience to this internet bubble audience where we are broken into smaller and smaller groups until each of us is an audience of one. >> host: do you find yourself with a grudging respect for donald trump's manipulation of television? >> guest: you don't become president without being good at something and donald trump became president because he is very good at directing attention to himself and using attention.

do enough protecting of donald trump, nor enough going after trump's enemies. mean, look at the bang-up job the new attorney general is doing. he's investigating the intelligence community itself. looking for evidence that they were all totally wrong about russia trying to help trump in 2016. now that is loyalty. when trump announced in may that he was granting the attorney general authority to selectively make public any classified information that he wants to, dan coats pushed back, warning about the consequences. coats said the intelligence community would continue providing, quote, apolitical intelligence to the president. we can't have that. so now coats is out and the president is ready to finally have someone at the top of the intelligence community who thinks the investigation into trump is a sham. >> americans need to know this, as they listen to the democrats and socialists on the other side of the aisle, as they do dramatic readings from this report, that volume ii of this report was not authorized under the law to be written. it was written to a leg

but the editorial board pointed out that the republican party is firmly donald trump's party now. they are bowing to the worst of who we are. and what about trump voters? are they okay with a racist president? if you are looking for logic in donald trump's latest public outburst and there may not be any, logic would dictate that donald trump believes his voters are not only okay with it, but they want a racist president. the more racist he is, the more energetically his voters will vote for him once again and maybe a little help from the russians, donald trump can squeak out an electoral college victory with absolutely no hope of actually winning the most votes against whoever the democrats nominate. the "wall street journal" poll which we will discuss later shows the four top candidates for president beating donald trump in one on one polling. donald trump doesn't want to run against any of those four candidates. instead he wants to run against four members of the house of representatives who are not running for president. they are all women of color. they held a joint press confe

having read the talking points scrambled into his hands for almost an entire day, donald trump pulled a full charlottesville, praising supporter who is chanted send her back to attack ilhan omar at his north carolina campaign rally as incredible patriots. yep. 24 hours ago, trump per those nervous talking points claimed that he disapproved of the racist chant about congresswoman omar and even tried to stop it, he said. he got nice headlines that claimed he was disavowing the chant from some of the news media who indulged in the false balance tick of pretending whatever the president said is true and it's a given fact. not everyone fell for it. >> president trump, you said you were unhappy with the chant, however the chant was just repeating what you said in your tweet. do you take that tweet back? >> you know what i'm unhappy with? i'm unhappy with the fact that a congresswoman can hate our country. those people in north carolina, that stadium was packed. a record crowd. i could have filled it 10 times, as you know. those are incredible people. those are incredible patriots. i'm unhap

what does donald trump do? from that agreement, he imposes tough new sanctions on the iranians, and prompts, it seems, the iranians to abandon the limits on their own enrichment programme. you can, you know, you can argue which is the right approach, but, you know, the agreement did not stop their enrichment of uranium. but surely the lesson the iranians are bound to draw, if you acquire nuclear weapons, donald trump, you call him a businessman, a wheeler dealer, a guy who negotiates, donald trump, once you have nuclear weapons, will treat you in a very different way. i don't look at it that way. the way i look at it is he, donald trump, you know, love him or hate him, he believes he can negotiate a deal. that's what he believes. i mean, he wrote the book. he believes he can do that. with iran, his belief, you know, and i think a lot of americans‘, including my belief, is that the deal was not a good deal. we gave iran a lot of the money. they didn't stop supporting hamas and hezbollah. there were involved in i

every foreign nation that wants donald trump to stay in has an open door to come in and meddle in ourelection and attack russians, saudis, israelis, anyone wants to come in and trump and william barr have invited them. in i expect a very ugly eplex in 2020. >> host: i want to -- election in 2020. >> host: what you said is it's disturbing. i opened with the booking powerful but disturbing and i want you to talk but the voter suppression and how it faked florida georgia. nowad two young african-american candidated in deep, deep red south, narrowly lose the elections. queue talk how voting eights is going to be impacted in the aim of trump veals ave those type of candidacies. >> absolutely. and andrew gilliam was a case of the bradley effect, the polls showed him easily winning and the didn't win but a much more complicated race that had to do with absentee ballots and profound amount of voter suppression in florida. florida is where people who hate taxes good to retire. you hate taxes taxes and live in pennsylvania or virginia or new york? you renear florida. so it's filling up with ant

consider voting for donald trump 12%, which would put him up at a maximum to 44%. nning number, definitely not vote for trump, 54%. neera, as you know in campaigning, the hardest thing you can possibly do in campaigning is change the mind of someone who says, i definitely will not vote for you. >> yeah. i mean, this is a flashing red light for the trump campaign, and i think honestly one of the reasons why mitch mcconnell doesn't want to pass an election security bill is because i honestly believe they think they need outside help for this. because if 54% will not support under any circumstance is really a problem for any campaign. and i want to underscore one additional point. when you look at the numbers, actually 49% of white voters are saying that they will absolutely not support him, and only 38% are saying they will support him. so after all this racism where a lot of pundits said that it's actually going to help him with white voters and it's actually a super smart ploy to invoke his base, what you're seeing is that he's actually repelling a majority of the c

donald j. trump. i mean, this was a truly deeply depressing weekend based upon that tweet that he put out. basically, the president of the united states saying to four women of color, go back where you belong. i mean, who hasn't heard that in the past and in this country? >> well, we'll talk about that for a second, mike, but tell me -- i mean, that's a great example though. that's going to be our next story. but that's a great example. once again, donald trump dividing up his 42, 43% on one side and on the other side, my gosh, if you're a person of color, if you're in wisconsin, if you're in michigan, if you're in pennsylvania, if you're in florida, you stayed home in record numbers when hillary clinton ran for president. are you going to stay at home to not vote against donald trump? >> well, you would hope not, but you know who knows? i mean, what he's done is though he continually focuses on the third of the population of this country. his base. he has no interest in expanding his base. so whateve

including donald trump.ald trump has come two or three times to national action network's convention. donald trump called me and asked me to meet with him after he was elected. if you thought somebody hated whites and cops, why would you go to their conventions? why would you call them as president? omarosa manigault wrote in her book he continuously said to get out and meet with me. he doesn't believe that. he believes he can play the race car and prey on people in a demagogic way to try to in some kind of way energize them and to ignite them in a racial divide that would lead to his re-election. i think it's bad for the country, and i do not think it will work politically. >> yeah. and the point about his son owning property, himself -- wonder who owns those buildings because i wonder if we looked into it if people are mistreating the folks in those buildings. reverend al sharpton, michael steele, thank you both for being here and what you did today. appreciate you. >>> coming up next, good news for democr

donald trump was indeed waging a new american civil war. er seeing you and talking to you on election night when the shock was still really raw. and my faerns offense to trump' campaign was built around two pillars, i accepted it because i thought americans will not elect someone who said women will let you do anything when you're famous, can you grab their bleep. she was bleeding everywhere, attacked a former miss america pageant and all of the things we just played and muslim ban, which we didn't play. he running for american president where some of our closest allies for better or worse, he's very close to, the saudis. the racism out in public, i remember thinking on election night that was going to be one of the finger in the socket things for our country, and it has. and you write the best book written today about that. >> thank you, that's very kind. you know who else agreed with that? lindsey graham. he said donald trump is bag oa and not fit to be president. i did a lot of research and read a lot of research to make sure i was clear

donald trump didn't create that. he didn't invent that. duke certainly didn't either but both played upon it and i think what both duke under and what trump understands is that contrary to the belief of a lot of old line republicans who apparently still believe that the republican base sits around -- what duke understood and what trump understands is that the basin creasingly isn't doing that. they're sitting around reading read it threads about hillary clinton's child sex dungeon and facebook books about how law is going to take over river town. these are not people who are believers in small government, it is a white identity cult and unless the rest of us understand that including democratic candidates and talk about this election as the existential threat that it is, we're going to blow it because they are motivated by that belief that the america they love is being lost. we had better take the election just as seriously and it's not going to be done with a bunch of great policy papers and policy positions. it's going to be done the way

donald trump continued to face questions about his relationship with epstein, a relationship that wasly chummy as this video of them 1992 un-earthed by msnbc illustrates. washington post" writes that this period, quote, trump's interactions with women at the mar-a-lago party provide visual evidence of the later behavior he would later brag about in a 2005 "access hollywood" recording that surfaced pe end of the presidential campaign that he could grab women and kiss women. including a former magazine columnist who went public last month with her claim that trump assaulted her in a department store dressing room around 1995. he has denied all the allegations. paul, donna, and the table are back. donna, your thoughts about this intersection and what epstein and that video and these moments, however meaningful or meaningless they were to donald trump, they do as they say, put him in the room. >> well, and donald trump's claims that he had this sort of distant relationship with jeffrey epstein. we can see with our own eyes and hear with our ears that that is simply not true. i think that,

apparently donald trump was not. after going on a twitter tirade, apparently after conoodling with his allies, he ordered the doj to try again. on friday, trump invented a new power that he thinks he has as president saying he's considering an executive order to force the citizenship question on to census. >> we're thinking about doing that. it's one of the ways. we have four or five ways we can do do it. we can also add an addition on. we can start the printing on and maybe do an addendum after we get a positive decision so we're working on a lot of things, including an executive order. >> it should go without saying, you cannot overrule a supreme court decision with an executive order. joining me now is msnbc legal analyst, maya wiley, adam certificaserwer of the atlantic. can one overrule the supreme court decision by having an executive order. >> no. >> so let's move on to the next question. i think it's important. but it's important to make it clear. >> i think what's really important here, is justice roberts in

donald trump's lodge in mar-a-lago, florida. but known from the women, only guests for mr. epstein and trump. the year was 1992, and the event a calendar girl competition. something a american businessman who ran american dream enterprise organized at mr. trump's request. he said, quote, i arranged to have contestants fly in, he recalled on monday. at the very first party i said who's coming tonight? i have 28 girls coming. it was him and epstein. everyone's back. annie, it's your reporting. take us through it. >> we tried to take a look back at what really was the connection between jeffrey epstein and donald trump, who he famously praised to "new york magazine" in 2002 as a great guy and now saying i have not talked to him in 15 years. it's true -- trump is probably telling the truth he had not had contact with him in over a decade because they had this serious falling out and epstein was having problems with the police and trump didn't want to have anything to do with him. but i interviewed george hournay on wednesday who had gone into a business agreementment with trump

quien es ahora secretario de trabajo del gobierno de donald trump.muy poderosas, de lÍderes políticos que utilizaron a estas niÑas. >> michelle tenÍa 16 aÑos cuando la recluto. " me decÍa que era muy hermosa y me hacÍa sentir muy incÓmoda". las autoridades dijeron ademÁs que este caso aÚn no ha terminado y le han pedido a otras posibles vÍctimas que reporten sus casos inmediatamente al fbi. >> california intenta recuperar la calma despuÉs de las rÉplicas que siguen presentÁndose luego del poderoso terremoto registrado el fin de semana. el regreso a la tranquilidad serÁ difÍcil mientras los temblores continÚan y el pronÓstico de un gran terremoto estÉ mÁs vigente que nunca. muchos siguen sin luz, sin provisiones. un gran nÚmero de personas duerme afuera de sus casas por el temor a otro sismo. detalles de lo que estÁ haciendo autoridades. >> la tierra se sigue moviendo en el sur de california y aunque los temblores no son de la magnitud de los terremotos de 6.4 y 7.1 registrados el jueves y viernes pasado, hoy muchos viven con temor. >> estoy en shock.

so it wasn't like we were all cool with donald trump. we were nothing with donald trump. it was like if i guy walked in here right now and was the head of the circus at madison square garden, you know, i might like him or not like him but nobody took him that seriously. you would say to him, oh, can i have that seat or something. donald trump was not a player. nobody was running to him if they were running to office in new york saying i need your endorsement. nobody was saying i need a photograph with you. he was not that kind of figure until birtherism. >> i want to say to you, karine, i think as i look at -- we know trump is a master of distraction, right? >> yep. >> he likes to, he gets in these fights to make you look away from whatever the more important thing is we should be looking at. he went after the squad. he regards them as he sees from his point of view, he looks at them and says they're divisive of the democratic party. there was a fight between him and pelosi. maybe i could drive a wedge in the democratic parties. he looks at sharpton, who has been a contro

lamed donald trump.put up on the screen how some news organizations, this is cnn, reacted to the president saying. he started speaking quickly in order to move past the chant. >> why did you ask them to stop saying that? >> number one i think i did. i started speaking very quickly. [chanting] >> the media counter argued that the president did not do anything in real time. though he did attempt to distance himself. next day he was asked about the north carolina rally goers and he said they were patriots. >> is happened a week ago sunday. he said it and then it is not like the media that night said my god, he let 13 seconds go by. it was not until the next day when trump said the clip that we watched, that they then showed the clock, the timer. and said it is a lie. so it is not that the media was looking to jump on him for time, is that they were calling him out on a blatant lie. he did not try to speed up the speech, he does not try to stop it, he sat there and enjoyed it. >> i generally don't blame poli

would want to live there. >> when donald trump attacks -- >> this is being perceived as racist. do you understand why? >> i understand why. but that doesn't mean that it's racist. >> and here we go again. president trump spends another weekend unleashing another twitter attack at another member of congress who happens to be of color and the president's supporters insist it has nothing to do with race. no, this is not a re-air of a previous broadcast. here we go again. good morning. welcome to "morning joe." it is monday, july 29th. with us we have white house reporter for the associated press jonathan lemire. columnist and associate editor of "the washington post" david ignatius. senior adviser on moveon.org and an msnbc contributor, careen yaen pierre will be with us. and james fellows and nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent host of andrea mitchell reports, andrea mitchell. in a moment, we're going to get to the president's torrent of tweets against congressman elijah cummings. and the city of baltimore. in total, 15 new or shared tweets over the weekend. of course it comes

en breve renuncia el Único hispano en el gabinete donald trump.de pornografÍa infantil y obstrucciÓn de la justicia. se espera que el rey del pop se ha trasladado nueva york para enfrentar las acusaciones que le ha negado estos cargos de abuso durante dÉcadas. en 2008 fue juzgado por pornografÍa infantil y fue declarado inocente. el Único hispano que integraba el gabinete del presidente donald trump renunciÓ esta maÑana. el secretario de trabajo no sobreviviÓ al escÁndalo desatado por un acuerdo de hace 10 aÑos en el que le concediÓ una sentencia leve al depredador sexual jeffrey. >> la renuncia del secretario alex acosta se suma a la decenas de funcionarios que han dejado sus puestos desde que el presidente donald trump iniciÓ su mandato. >> otra instancia donde una agencia importante queda con uun secretario interino. >> serÍa egoísta de mi parte mantenerme en esta posiciÓn y seguir hablando sobre un caso de hace 12 aÑos, en lugar de la sorprendente economÍa que tenemos ahora", dijo el secretario mientras hacia el anuncio junto al presidente en

this is donald trump -- it is not a dog whistle. st bigoted racist supporters. president trump spent most of the day doubling down on those tweets over the weekend attacking a group of progressive women for being critical of the united states, just like the president is constantly critical of the united states during an event that was supposed to highlight american-made products. donald defended his remarks in which he said the four democrats should, quote, go back to the crime infested places they came from. he's talking about cincinnati and detroit and new york city. later in the day, the four congresswomen that he attack stood side by side to denounce his comments. here is a little about how the day unfolded. >> as far as i'm concerned, if you hate our country, if you are not happy here, can you leave. >> our squad is big. our squad includes any person committed to building a more equitable and just world. >> if you are complaining all the time, you can leave right now. >> this will not be the first nor the last time we hear disgu

that's donald j. trump. >> you're continuing to conflate donald trump's criticisms of president obama versus aoc's deep and systemic criticisms of the country itself. >> well, aoc talked about the country being powerful and just and strong and wanting it to get back to that. but talked about donald trump's policies being garbage just like donald trump in 2014 said that barack obama's policies were garbage. so i guess, mika, donald trump needs to go back to scotland because that's where his mom immigrated from. >> more from chris wallace confronting stephen miller on the blatantly racial approach of the president's strategy. and disputing miller's attempt to claim that the president is merely criticizing the congresswoman on their policies. >> the president said that president obama has been the most ignorant president in our history when asked about putin, he said there are a lot of killers. you think our country is so innocent? that isn't his view, that's been sharply critical of the united states as criti

donald trump. and that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in" right now with joy reid sitting in for chris hayes. >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> so the first note that i want to tell children across this country is that no matter what the president says, this country belongs to you. >> four freshmen congresswomen respond to racist attacks from the president. >> it is time for us to stop allowing this president to make a mockery out of our constitution. >>> tonight, the political firestorm over donald trump's racist politics and policy. >> does it concern you that many people saw that tweet as racist and that white nationalist groups are finding common cause with you on that point? >> it doesn't concern me because many people agree with me. >>> and how democratic leadership is responding to the president's attacks. >> weak minds and leaders challenge loyalty to our country in order to avoid challenging and debating the policy. >>> then -- >> we all know that aoc and this crowd are a

cheers and applause] you know, i'm here because i stand with president donald trump, just like all ofwhen this president stands up for american jobs and american workers, i stand with president trump. when this president stands up for faith and freedom and the american flag, i stand with president trump. cheers and applause] and when our president stands up to radical democrats who accuse border patrol of running concentration camps, use anti-semitic slurs, to denounce support for israel, and continually attack america, we stand with president donald trump! [cheers and applause] so our message to the people in north carolina is this, and carry this message out from here tonight, if you are doing better than you were three years ago, join us. if your values are being better defended, join us. if you're proud to have a president who fights for you and is proud of this country nd all who serve her every day , join us and re-elect president donald trump! and we'll keep america great. so bring all your enthusiasm, north carolina, and have faith. faith that when our fellow americans are giv

thank you, donald trump. you have just unified the democratic party that understands you're the party of that 35% may or may not be or identify with you as a racist and the rest of us -- and here's where democrats' strength is, is in their diversity, in their numbers, in the women. i think that that's the winning message going in to 2020. >> make no mistake, this is the play from this white house. the president, tim said it, it's about the base. it's about fighting this election on the same terms as the last election. they can echo these things whether it's dog whistles or fog horns but they can sound these notes and energize people to come out and turn out for the president. this is a fight he wants. last week the discussion of the so-called squad, if you will, congresswomen of color, dominated tucker carlson's show on fox news at night. the president last friday in the south lawn teased this attack a little bit, suggesting he sort of stepped in and tried to defend speaker pelosi saying, look, she should be

the chairman cited several public complaints donald trump has made about the irs, both as a candidateor president and while serving as president. the lawsuit quotes president trump repeatedly saying that the irs has been unfair to him and chairman neal says in the lawsuit that it's important for the ways and means committee to investigate whether the irs has been unfair to the president. one of the reasons chairman neal gives for examining the president's tax returns is to see whether the irs system of auditing presidential tax returns is actually working properly. since 1977, the tax returns of the president and the vice president have been automatically audited. all eight tax returns filed by barack obama and joe biden while they were in the white house were immediately audited and you never heard them complain about that. but president trump has complained about it endlessly, and so the committee is worried that the president may have interfered with the way the irs audits presidential tax returns because there is no law requiring presidential tax returns to be audited, it is just

donald trump. after decades of clear evidence of racism, trump clearly knows exactly what he's saying and to whom, and as president he has consistently backed up his racist talk with policy. he's putting real racist policy on the table designed to excite racially anxious white americans and to terrify people who aren't white. so, yes, donald trump is really racist, fini. this weekend trump added to the ledger targeting four black and brown democratic congresswomen, representatives alexandria ocasio-cortez, ilhan omar, ayanna presley and rashida tlaib, to punish them for criticizing his hideous immigration policies, including locking central american men, women and children in crowded cages where they are told to drink water from the toilet. trump pulled the ultimate barbecue becky telling them they don't belong here. trump in a tweet storm told these four american congresswomen to go back to the countries from where they came from. all are born in america. one in the bronx, michigan, chicago, and on

and got to give donald trump credit. actions speak louder than words.he statute you didn't see is billions of dollars going into black communities because of opportunities with ben carson and donald trump. not just that but 31/2 million african americans are off food stamps and now working. that is where we need to get to as the black community and i could go on and on with these policies, talk about historical black colleges, the former slave population, former slave population in america is the poorest, sickest and most uneducated group of people in america but liberal politicians want to talk about border crisis and letting more illegal immigrants come -- we have a former slave population that is still hurting and it is just not right, not okay. go into the neighborhoods in east cleveland, terrible crime rates. baltimore is like a war zone, chicago, talking dozens of black people killing each other because of systematic issues and something has to change and we got to wake up every single one of our urban areas is run by democratic leaders, there is

donald trump welcome and go but where do we go from here? i think that's something we all have to grapple with. >> we want to open up to audience questions. >> two questions. did trump court cases? the other, on election day, 2016, to happen here? >> first question, no. it was suggested to trump that he pursue john as his vice president but what i said earlier, trump did not view john key of the hoagie townhall as an ideal running mate. he was eventually convinced not to pick chris christie, he was convinced to pick mike pence because pence offset trump in a way that he would not have. your second question, he was asking whether they decided to hear, i don't think -- [inaudible] >> i'm not sure i follow your question. >> [inaudible question] >> i am not in a position to sit up here and make any comparisons like that. only thing i'll say is, the story of the past five or six days in my view is not what trump did and said, it's what people in his party did not do or say. when this vote came to the floor a couple of days ago in the house to repr

now, anybody who voted for donald trump. dia is going to be able to make that excuse. >> study shows it motivated trump's base with racial. people are uncomfortable saying i. each time as donald trump does it, it is a quan do you follow ? half of his supporters are what hillary clinton unwisely. the dough pleplorables are raci. there are 65% of the american public say this stuff is unacceptable and it is wrong and racist. 15% or 20% in there, those are the people who need to be spoken to now. you may not be racist but your vote in 2020 is saying i condone this and i accept it is free to be openly racist. >> we always think of the voters as pristine and glorious person, right. >> there are people who'll openly vote for racism. and suggest to be okay with racism and not racist is really hard. if you are saying yes, i understand this person says derogatory things all the time, he's doing something great for me. it is interesting because there was this anthropological security. this week you saw reporters invite members of congre

donald trump, he believes that donald trump had payoffs from the russians. now suddenly donald trump is in power and suddenly he doesn't care that donald trump is welcoming russian interference in american democracy to subvert american democracy. jim jordan also very critical of donald trump before he came to power. so, again, those two guys appear to only sort of like dogs following the scent of power? >> i guess trump calls them -- >> he calls him steve. >> to guy who believes donald trump perhaps is corrupt, come back to that person, steve, whoever you are. >> i think his name is steve. >> the president doesn't even know your name and he's going to forget it soon. >> welcome to "morning joe." it's july 25th. >> we have willie with us every day along with mike barnicle. national affairs analyst for msnbc john heilemann, and joining the conversation, jonathan lamere. former u.s. attorney and aide to robert mueller now an nbc news law enforcement analyst, chuck rosenbe rosenberg, kasie hunt working way too many hours, and political reporter for the washingto

he is somebody who dislikes donald trump. >> what a difference telling the truth makes. taking on a very different tone about robert mueller after hearing his findings straight from the source. so it's no surprise that robert mueller's upcoming testimony now less than two weeks away has trump and his allies preparing for battle. as greg sergeant writes in the washington post, there's a reason. he would think that that strategy for trump's allies would be to simply sit back while mueller describes those findings. oddly enough that's not what they are planning on doing. the absurdity at the core of this disconnect. joining our conversation former u.s. attorney joyce vance. i never thought i would start a news read with the battleplan to attack robert s. mueller from republicans in the house is x, y,z. robert s. mueller led the fbi in the terrifying months and years after 9/11. he is the only fbi director in our country's history who had his tenure extended. where is the sort of, you know, wake me up, i am in a hellscape of a nightmare? >> it to attack mueller himself. you k

donald trump is a rolling crisis.re so much of the stupid human tricks he does where no one gets hurt. we started this show with a democratic congresswoman concerned about the safety of the lives of the women he attacked and everywhere. on this landscape and in this field, is there any sense from voters do they want to see how these candidates engage trump or do voters in the field really want to get back to policy. >> reporter: it's an interesting point. i don't mean to minimize what's going on here and the base level the president dropped the national discussion. the main reason i look at a different patriotism, people look how kamala harris changed them on the national debate stage and close their eyes and envision donald trump on the debate stage, there is a value how they would deal with his domination of media coverage. that's one of a set of skills, not necessarily the thing democratic primary voters say, look how they responded to trump incident y and will be committed to caucus six or sevennous. >> weigh in o

donald trump jr.g the same kind of questions. questions the president's son-in-law retweeted from an alt right online personality saying kamala harris wasn't, quote, an american black because of her ancestry. with a comment, is this true? wow. and people noticed. donald trump jr. later deleted that tweet and a spokesperson for him -- imagine that job -- later called it a misunderstanding adding this -- don's tweet was simply asking, asking if it was was true kamala harris is half indian because it's not something he have ever heard before. once he saw folks were misconstruing the intent of his tweet, he quickly deleted it. by the way, talking about kamala harris, in the last hour brand-new polling conducted over the weekend after the debates has her surging into second place, five points behind first place joe biden. joining our conversation, alicia menendez, co-host of pbs's amanpour & company. what is going on, my friend? >> oh, my goodness. so many things going on. >> i know. take your time. >> goi

and donald trump knew.ald trump knew, as he said publicly at the time, that jeffrey epstein pursued girls "on the younger side." today the president expressed sympathy not for the girls who jeffrey epstein is accused of sexu sexually abusing, but for alex acosta, who was the federal prosecutor in florida who made a very forgiving deal with jeffrey epstein over ten years ago on similar charges, a deal that meant jeffrey epstein served no federal prison time. alex acosta is now donald trump's labor secretary. >> i feel very badly, actually, for secretary acosta because i've known him as being somebody that works so hard and has done such a good job. i feel very badly about that whole situation. >> and back with us, mimi rocah and zerlina maxwell. zerlina, he feels very badly for alex acosta. >> he either seems to always side with the person accused of rape or somebody covering up a crime. that's backwards. we should have our empathy placed squarely with the victims in this case who were very young and all of

so i firmly believe knowing donald trump that if you said to donald trump, mr. in order to become putin, in order to stay in office forever, in order to loot this country you have to do "x," he's capable to doing wherever your mind can take you for "x." >> michael cohen said it. he is an autocrat. >> i want to start using the word fascist. >> yeah, he's a fascist. >> and many tendencies like adolph hitler. >> at minimum what donald trump has done at the most generous he's taken the republican party of the united states and turned him into the national party of south africa from 1948 until 1990 because that party was purely christian fascists. they made laws in which every black person or brown person would have to constantly show their identity to any police force who asked them. the donald trump has now turned i.c.e. into a national deportation force that can ask for the papers of any american, any immigrant, anybody brown that they see they want to ask, they must show their papers and even they're american they can detain and deport them. he's turned them into

there's nothing about the story so far that seems to have offended donald trump or melania trump or jaredwhoever else has a vote in the west wing. >> no, the problem is we have two things donald trump loves. one, men accused of sexual assault. he feels an immediate affinity for them. he put one on the supreme court for a lifetime appointment. two, shameless. acosta did not come out and say i apologized to the victims or i'm sorry to the victims. he came out and said i did what i did, i defend it. that is the new modus operandi donald trump has been to show the republican party this is how you deal with it. if you don't apologize, the democrats and media will just keep talking about it and then they'll have nothing else to do. it is a rubicon we passed in our politics and i don't know we're ever going to get it back, a sense of shame, a sense of some kind of dignity in the office, whatever it is. whether it's labor secretary or u.s. attorney in miami or president of the united states. i don't know we can get that back and certainly not while this man, who's been credibly accused of sexual