mark murray, donna edwards, martha steel.s referring to her democratic opponent. boy, is this going to be a nasty race. it actually feels like a -- it feels like the george h.w. bush campaign of 1988, patriotism, shoes, combat missions, nothing that has to do with the senate race. >> and on top of that you and i have been talking about the year of the woman for a very long time, the most high profile race in the country, pitting a democratic woman versus a republican nominee. we've talked about florida for so much of this show, but arizona is a really important state, senate race, house races, when we talk about 2020 it will be the presidential battleground. >> donna, the shoe comment. i'm sorry to be asking the one woman on the panel here, but it just sort of -- it just seemed like an odd hit. >> well, you know, i think that this race is going to -- you know, the way it's going to play out you've got the two women, but i think there's going to come a point at which they're going to go this is not about women. and the way tha

donna edwards was faced with ridicule, resentment, and was shunned when she made the same accusations. not only, perhaps two years ago. the time has changed. but i am not as certain or as optimistic to think that these will not the the pan calls and two years later we will be looking around saying what happened to that? as a gone far enough or played itself out? host: dr. calls. liz has been waiting. caller: hello. very happy to have the guest on. i think we need a lot more women at all levels of government. , to date most women who , thep in elected office majority are white but they are also upper middle class to wealthy women or women who ensure it seats because their husband passed away while he was in the seat or their father has a background in politics. it takes extra for a woman to even be considered for a position. i do agree with her on both lack women and lower-class white women, economically better at the working classes and the poor. we need their views at the table. all of them. elite ofneed just the america sitting down to decide policies for the nation. i wish her well

donna edwards. chris collins, republican member of congress, the first to come out for candidate donald trump. i think you served with him in congress. he became prominent because he was the only republican who knew the president well, had worked with him during the campaign. now this indictment is pretty stunning. >> it is. >> a lot of people didn't know you could be on the board of a private company while you're a member of congress, to say nothing of the fact that there are pictures of him on the telephone as he was, according to the indictment, according to records, calling his son and saying, sell, sell, before it was publicly known that this firm was being basically wiped out by the failure of a medication. >> i have to tell you, in my time with chris collins, he did not hide the fact that he was stumping for this company. it is surprising that a member of congress can be on a board and have fiduciary ar responsibilities and still be a member of congress. when i came into congress, i actually

fellowship rucker, donna edwards and jonathan lemire. thank you all very much. >>> and coming up about that manafort trial, lawyers preparing now for closing arguments after the defense calls it quits after calling no witnesses. what we'll be looking for tomorrow, what happened in that courtroom today when we come back. the nature of a virus is to change. move. mutate. today, life-changing technology from abbott is helping hunt them down at their source. because the faster we can identify new viruses, the faster we can get to stopping them. the most personal technology, is technology with the power to change your life. life. to the fullest. >>> mr. manafort just rested his case, and he did so because he and his legal team believe that the government has not met its burden of proof. thanks, everyone. >> that was it. paul manafort's lawyer today summing up his team's decision to rest its case without calling any witnesses, that would include manafort himself. the president's former campaign chairman did speak for the first time in court on

my thanks to donna edwards, john heilemann, the rev al sharpton.ily" starts right now with the facebook lus kbulous k has much better command of her table. >> that's not true. i've got jaud podhoretz today. >> nicolle wallace, thank you very much. if it's friday, we're bouncing around the room. tonight, clearance liquidation. the erratic new promises from the president on revoking security clearances that even trump loyalists are questioning. >> you just have to ask yourself is it too partisan.

former democratic congresswoman donna edwards of maryland.risten welker and "new york times" columnist david brooks. david, where do you do from here? donald trump/omarosa. >> everybody is dirty here that's what strikes me. it's the snake pit in the white house, as she said, everybody is lying to each other. everybody behaving kind of despicably. firing people in whatever manner. trump delegating. it's just a lowering thing to hear about the way that this white house works. we have heard it over and over again and to me the dangerous thing it gets -- it's all intermixed with the most sensitive subject in american history which is race. >> yeah. >> and so you combine poisonous politics with racial bigotry and unfairness, and it could get very ugly. if this tape exists and it comes out in october, that will put race in the middle of the election in an explosive way. the one thing i take away from this, a lot of my friends are trump supporters, i don't pay attention to the nonsense, i like the policies. nobody remembers where george wallace stoo

the panel is back, carol lee, george will, donna edwards.h thing looked like it was getting a little momentum on the democratic side before mark warner threw a screeching halt. here was -- this was the dem basically talking kavanaugh and michael cohen. take a listen. >> i will be casting my appointment with judge -- because i would not extend my -- >> the hearing should be postponed. he's been nominated by a president who's been implicated in a criminal conspiracy. there is no way that his nomination will be untainted. >> no american citizen should be able to choose the person who will be judging them when they're a subject of a criminal investigation should the matters come before the judge. >> you know, donna, i thought as the day was going on, i thought it was interesting, going to put pressure on joe donnelly, and then you see mark warner there. if you can't -- if you don't have mark warner on the strategy, you're not going to get joe donnelly. >> i started the day the same way, especially when i saw senator horono say that. i was surpri

donna edwards, a former democratic congressman from maryland. michael steele, former chairman of the rnc. and benjamin wittes, the editor in chief of welfare blog. so ben, let me start with you on where we ended there. reporting from politico suggests that trump's legal team thinks an obstruction charge is imminent, regardless of anything to do with this sessions issue. what do you make of that? >> i think that the president's legal team, as a criminal matter, i'm sure would argue that the president didn't obstruct justice and would make a defense against that. as a political matter, in the face of a possible impeachment allegation that the president behaved in a way that, you know, impeded the due administration of justice, i think the answer is, duh! right? i mean, you know, they're just facing a certain reality there, that when mueller decides to drop a and line up all the facts that he has amassed, that that is going to be a devastating day for the president. >> and i'm just -- take us through, quickly, this is a mechanical question, but i t

elliott williams, donna edwards, thank you both very much. >>> telling president trump to resign, but first, rats loyalty flipping, it's kind of mob boss language coming from the white house we've never heard before. back in 30 seconds. golden opportunity sales event. get up to $2,500 customer cash on select 2018 nx 300 models. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. >>> now to donald trump potentially undermining his own claims of innocence by using language that is more commonly associated with crime bosses and mob movies. today nbc confirming another top trump figure struck a deal with the feds. the trump organization's cfo getting immunity in the cohen probe. it's part of a pattern of trump associates spilling the beans. this just a day after trump blasted what he calls flippers. >> there's this whole thing about flipping, they call it. i know all about flipping, for 30, 40 years i

still with us donna edwards, philip rucker, jonathan lemire. welcome back, gang. this issue of the truth of course goes to the heart of the investigation they're trying to stave off. and i want to run for you a bit more of omarosa on how worried they are. we'll talk about it on the other side. >> how worried are folks or the white house staffers about this investigation, the mueller investigation? >> they should be worried. >> are they worried? >> absolutely. because they have been hiding things. hiding things from the american people. >> the staffers have been hiding things? >> absolutely. >> like what? >> i can't go into it. >> phil rucker, how worried should they be? >> i wish she went into it a little bit there, told us some examples. look, i think they're worried potentially about what she could say. but it's important to keep in mind she's been gone from the white house since december of last year. and also while she was on the senior staff and in some of the senior staff meetings and had or own personal relationship with president trump she was not in sort

. >> here to discuss it with us, donna edwards, and david jolly, of florida. i've spoken to a number of people all day. some people said he should get out of the race and he should apologize, and i spoke to a spokesperson of andrew gillum and said, what do you think ron desantis should do, and he said to me, he should keep talking. >> well, i think he should. here's the thing. i actually spent some time today because i didn't know the phrase "monkey this up." then when i found all kinds of i had -- idioms with the phrase "monkey," the phrase "monkey it up" does not appear anywhere in the english language. it wasn't a dog whistle. it was a straight-up racist call, and i think the best thing mayor gillum can do right now is run with the best interests of the voters talking about wages and health care and improving the state's economy, and that is going to be a win for andrew gillum. >> david, let me ask you about this. mark caputo sums up the race this way. the upset win on tuesday of andrew gillum, in defiance of polls and conventional wisdom, marked a profound

. >>> with me now to break it all da down, donna edwards, the first african-american woman elected to congress from maryland, serving for nearly a decade. also, political reporter from x axi axios, alessi, along with the correspondent for reuters, jeff mason. thank you for being here. congresswoman, i want to start with you for the latest developments on what we heard yesterday in the briefing room. the fact that sarah sanders couldn't deny there is a recording somewhere with donald trump using the "n" word. >> i think for many of us observing the president, i think as an african-american, i believe that he has used the "n" word, but it was still stunning to listen to the press secretary speaking behind the podium at the white house, unable to confirm that. you know, i think for the american public, i don't know now that we actually need to hear the tape to know that he said it. >> i think you bring up an interesting point. we learned so much from then-candidate trump on the campaign trail. this is someone who launched his career by questioning the citizenship of the first african-ame

to get into it, i am joined by michael conway, and former congresswoman donna edwards.is to correct a myth. what do you hope to come out of it? >> i think to correct the record a little bit obviously at the end of the day there were republicans after the smoking gun tape came out who agreed, at least to the one article of impeachment about obstruction of justice, but up to then, really for two years from the watergate burglary until august of 1974, the partisans rallied around the president. gerald ford said this was a witch hunt, a word we've heard repeated many times now. bob dole then in the senate said that this was an effort by the democrats and the "washington post" to essentially go after the president. even up until the time that the articles were voted -- and yes, republicans did vote for the two main articles of impeachment. the majority of republicans in the house judiciary committee voted against it. trent lott who was a congressman on the committee said he saw no direct evidence that nixon -- >> for all the cocktail party chatter how this will go down, when

my thanks to donna edwards, john heilemann, the rev al sharpton. "mtp daily" starts right now with the facebook lus kbulous k has much better command of her table. >> that's not true. i've got jaud podhoretz today. >> nicolle wallace, thank you very much. if it's friday, we're bouncing around the room. tonight, clearance liquidation. the erratic new promises from the president on revoking security clearances that even trump loyalists are questioning. >> you just have to ask yourself is it too partisan. >>> plus, why the judge in the manafort case says he fears for his safety and the safety of the jury. >>> and raining over his parade. the president loses a fight for a grand military parade, but is somehow still declaring victory. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> good evening, i'm katy tur in new york in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily. " we begin tonight with russia because the president today is not backing down after retaliating against a whole range of officials tied to the russia investigation by revoking or threatening to

joining the table now is a former member of congress herself, donna edwards. what is wrong with these people? >> i must be going to the wrong picnics. >> seriously, if you wrote that in some sort of political pilot, some sort of wanna be house of cards, you'd be thrown out for implausible, stupid. who does that? >> i have to tell you when i heard it, obviously this investigation has been pending for a while. i was not surprised. >> why not? >> just wasn't surprised. disappointed. what's really surprising is that he continued until today to serve on the energy and commerce committee. he has jurisdiction overall of those issues, especially when it comes to medical devices and pharmaceuticals being approved through the fda. >> so talking about not being supplies surprised. he plans to stick it out and run to keep his seat in 2018. but are you not surprised because you were aware of this sort of conduct? i want to read you something jake sherman from politico reminded us of today. something from january 11, 2017. chris collins talking loudly on the phone bragging

. >> donna edwards, he's also being investigated for very specific crimes associated with this conduct. we have ashley's conduct in dwt the washington post" that reminds us today of the federal statute that prohibits retaliating against witnesses, which james comey, andy mccabe and sally yates all are. to the statute is whoever knowingly with the intent to retaliate takes any action harmful to any person including interference with the lawful employment or livelihood shall be find under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years or both. so he's also under investigation pie someone who i'm told is simply investigating crimes and deciding whether or not to charge and prosecute them. that's the mueller investigators. >> well, i mean, the president has actually shown no reluctance at all to continuing to add to the number of things that the special counsel can investigate. and what's really shocking here, maybe not so shocking, is that we've heard virtually crickets from the congressional republicans. and instead we've heard more voices this time than at any other time actually agre

reporters and friends, white house reporters ashley parker, joyce vance, former congresswoman donna edwards and john heilemann is back. tim o'brien, executive editor for bloomberg opinion and author of the book "trump nation." ashley, let me start with you. intelligence community is usually reluctant to wade into domestic politics, viewing their voice as something to preserve for times of war or grave national security crises. i'm told that they view the trump presidency, the encroachment into the intelligence community and their work the disdain they show for their work product, and sort of the obliteration of norms as dire enough to warrant their participation. >> well, it's a striking group, a strikingly bipartisan group of former intel officials who signed that letter and striking the fact that they were willing to take the president on so publicly. i think one thing that's interesting there is you see a disconnect between these members who are willing to speak out and lend their voice which as you pointed out is something they don't ordinarily do because they view this as such a matter

correspondent kristen welker,rk "new times" columnist david brooks, former democratic congresswoman donna edwards, and former republican govern north carolina, pat mccrory. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> good sunday morning. she was a reality tv star who ngwound up worn a reality tv star's white house.by er own admission, omarosa and donald trump used each other. ites,r new book, omarosa "donald and i had a symbiotic relationship as i've said. i gave him ratings and he gave me, a woman of color, opportunities. n at relationship startede apren tis in 2004 and continued through a series of reality v >> i adore you. we've had tres success together. you helped make me a star. dennis, she helped make me a star. but omaros you're feared. >> in 2016, she joined the trump campaign as director of african-american outreach. on the trail and subsequently as the most senior african-amern an wo the white house staff. and she became one of mr. trump'most vocal supporters. >> when i say trump train, i want you want to say choo-choo. y'all ready? every critic, every detractor will have to bow down