. >> always been a bit of a question about how jerry falwell jr.'s decision to endorse of all people noted serial adulter and new york libertine donald trump in the very crowded gop primary field just days before the iowa caucus. and we just got a story that denials to the contrary notwithstanding, maybe shed some light on that endorsement. so it turns out that michael cohen, yes, that michael cohen is buddies with the falwells. that's pretty established. i didn't know that, but that appears to be true. also, according to reuters, at least, cohen claimed to have helped jerry falwell jr. and his wife with a racy photo problem and helped make it go away, just months before falwell endorsed trump. that's according to a recorded conversation reviewed by reuters. nbc news i should note what not had a chance to review a record ogg after that phone call. in a source from reuters the phone call were separate issues 67 in a carefully worded while the falwells have a long-standing friendship with michael cohen, they never paid or engaged cohen to represent th

but when jerry falwell jr. decided to endorse trump in january 2016, he not only endorsed him at that key moment ahead of the iowa caucuses, he also heaped praise on him, calling trump, quote, a wonderful father and a man who i believe can lead our country to greatness again. he said, "in my opinion, donald trump lives a life of loving and helping others as jesus taught in the great commandment." i mean, right, that is so obviously about donald trump. you wouldn't even need to see the word "trump" there. you'd know somebody with that kind of quote, that would be the obvious choice for that kind of endorsement. what? i mean, ted cruz had literally launched his 2016 presidential campaign with his family at liberty university. he launched his campaign there, around telling his whole story of his father's, his own father's life as an evangelical preacher, just like jerry falwell. but nonetheless, jerry falwell jr. snubbed ted cruz and all the other candidates and threw his support to trump instead, describing him a

but nonetheless, jerry falwell jr. snubbed ted cruz and all the other candidates and threw his support to trump instead, describing him as the most jesus-like of all of the candidates. trump seen here in his cameo role pouring champagne all over the playboy symbol on the limo in the playboy movie he made in the year 2000. jerry falwell jr. threw his support behind trump at that key moment. what was that all about, right? well, tonight, there's this from reuters. "months before evangelical leader jerry falwell jr.'s game-changing presidential endorsement of donald trump in 2016, falwell asked trump fixer michael cohen for a personal favor said cohen in a recorded conversation reviewed by reuters. falwell said someone had come into possession of what cohen described as racy, personal photographs, the sort that would typically be kept between husband and wife." according to a source familiar with cohen's thinking, the person who possessed the photos destroyed them after cohen intervened on the falwell's behalf. reuters re

jerry falwell jr.cohen describes as racy, quote, personal photos being leaked months before his 2016 of donald trump. falwell approached cohen in 2015 after someone attempted to blackmail him with photos normally kept between husband and wife. according to a source familiar with cohen's thinking, cohen then met with an attorney for the person making the demands and arranged for the photos to be destroyed. but cohen claims to have kept one of the racy pictures which he reportedly described as, quote, terrible in the recorded conversation. nbc news has not had an opportunity to hear the audiotaped phone call. months after resolving the incident, cohen repeatedly reached out to falwell ahead of the crucial aisle of caucuses and pleaded with him to back trump. falwell did that. reuters claims to have no evidence that the two matters are directly related. jerry falwell jr. denied the report yesterday and told fox radio that he's never solicited cohen's legal or professional time. >>> still ahead, markets su

what do you make -- i'm astounded at the friendship between jerry falwell jr.donald trump told them perhaps that michael cohen's a good fixer. and they had a personal problem -- i think they've parsed the issue neatly by saying it didn't involve a legal matter. >> he flew down to florida to talk. >> yeah. there's no indication that there was a legal matter. there seemed to be personal embarrassment involved. i don't want to think about what might be in the photo. >> they're terrible. they are terrible. >> yes. you know, the evangelical community's support for trump has always been a curiosity at best. here's a president -- >> confounding. >> it's confounding. he's consorted with porn stars, cheated in a serial fashion on his spouses. he is not a moral paragon. he's never going to church on a regular basis. he is not somebody who's a bible thumper, but he understands the uses and abuse of power. and i think the fact that the evangelical community has come behind someone who doesn't really embrace most of their values, there's two things here -- either he's a use

he'll retweet like he did there to jerry falwell jr. about potentially extending his term two years which is obviously not at all a realistic idea. we'll talk about maybe mueller shouldn't testify because i want this to be over. we know from our sources at the ap that the president is concerned about the optics of what a mueller hearing would look like healthcheck doesn't like the idea of all this attention being put on mueller, of everyone relitigating the details of the mueller report. the idea of this person who is very well respected standing up there giving extra gravitas to the details in the report and rehashing them. from all indications it does sound like he will eventually be allowed to go. >> and sam, to the politics of all this, our new poll we came out in the last 24 to 36 hours, trump's approval rating as all of this swirls in our poll, up to 36%. it had been 43% the last time we polled it. gallup a few days ago measured trump at 46%, suggesting here for at the very least the for the president the bottom not falling out. h

often times are members of the religious rights go back to jerry falwell and not much before that. there has been attention to segregation and racism at the segregation of those being formative but also the fight over sex education was critically important and would continue to be after the early decades. look at one of the most critical issues dividing us today, an issue that has split much of the nation today and it is in the news day after day, and that is sexual harassment. you will remember from december 2017 -- again, that was the month my book came out, that when al franken resigned from the senate, and this was after eight women accused him of making unwanted sexual advances, and at that time he resigned right away, but he bitterly noted and this is a quote "the irony in the fact that i am leaving while a man who has bright on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the oval office." and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the senate with the full support of the party. that was roy moore at the time. indeed, donald trump remains the preside

then you see reverend jerry falwell, billy graham, powerful evangelical leaders who were blaming gay people for the aids crisis. again, a setback for the community because these powerful spokesman of faith were pushing back against there is rights. next week come to the section about the historic ruling that led to same sex marriage being made legal across the country. the first amendment gives every american the power to petition the government for change. if there are policies or loss or things that are happening that they don't like. that is evidenced throughout the exhibit. this man had been planning to marry his longtime partner but in their home state of ohio, it was illegal for two men to marry. mr. arthur was dying of an urological disease at the time. he died a few months later -- he was dying of a near n eurological disease at the time. he died a few months later. they joined 14 other couples in a supreme court case in 2015 that made same-sex marriage legal across the country. year you can see the jacket and bowtie he wore on his wedding day and on announcement day. and the

falwell? mr. lou? mr. lou votes no. mr. raskin votes no. mistype all votes no. miss dennings votes no. mr. correggio votes no. miss scanlan? miss scanlan votes no. miss garcia votes no. mr. negus votes no. mcbath votes no. miss dean votes no. miss escobar? miss escobar votes no. mr. collins? mr. collins votes aye. aye.ensenbrenner votes mr. chavez votes aye. mr. gomer? mr. gomer votes aye. mr. jordan? mr. jordan votes yes. mr. buck votes aye. mr. radcliffe? miss robie votes ayel. . mr. gaetz votes aye. . mr. biggs votes aye. mr. mcclintock? miss lesko? miss lesko votes aye. klein? mr. klein votes aye. mr. armstrong votes yes. mr. stevie votes yes. rep. nadler: has everyone voted? the gentleman from florida. >> mr. deutsch votes no. no. johnson of georgia votes miss bass votes no. rep. nadler: anyone else? clerk will report. >> 15-22. motion isr: the approved. the gentleman from florida is recognized for the purpose of amendment. oh. we just -- ok. excuse me. acorn being present, the question is on the adoption of the motion. those in favor -- >> mr. chairman. re

the possibility of an overt us intervention at all because that would be extremely dangerous for falwell's ability and cause major problems for the american economy in fact if you look at the economic multiplier effect and other financial factors going on at the moment whereby gold is being bought and the dollar is being turned away from except the exception so i think it's empty rhetoric rhetoric frankly. thanks thing without international the saving are always welcome i will return with updates on our top stories and often. during the great depression which are old enough to remember there was most of my family were working class there wasn't it was bad you know much worse objectively than today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. of there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america where shade by the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solidarity engineer elections manufacture consent and other principle holds according to know on chomsky one set of rules for the rich after several from. that'

they really spread that falwell in london that's what we're going to see for tonight. you have to worry about the rain but we will see some patchy drizzle again along the coastline. so maybe a little damp when you wake up along the coast. once again otherwise. 7 outside this evening, not a bad evening in many spots of temperatures very comfortable into the 60's around the bay area now looks like a fall will thicken up though throughout the evening that we've got the drizzles specially after midnight guys back to you. broken mother is speaking out tonight after her child dies. from the teething necklace the legal action she is now taking against a popular retail website. >>heads up if you are takeover or left why you might have a heart time get no right to work tomorrow morning and after the break san francisco making is this our new car? it's a new buick envision. and i got it with wi-fi for all of your wi-fi stuff, wireless charging for your phone. cool! wait til you check out the back! that's a lot of groceries. look at my strong man! don't patronize me... the new bu

afternoon, nice breeze out there this time and that is going to carry with it the low clouds and falwell on shore. so some drizzle again out along the coast line tomorrow cloudy start that is going to be a mix of some sunshine and some clouds all throughout the day and then a series of storms of you believe that a series of possibly impact in the bay area. he was unusually wet right through next week. temperatures outside right now 72 degrees in redwood city, a 72 also of freeman 63 degrees in hayward 55 over the hill and cooled civic at 56 in san francisco, 61 degrees in berkeley. all right, we've got a low pressure off the coastline. we've got the front right out here but as this low that's really going to impact us i believe it's going to kind of a un trade some of this moisture on the backside of this front and approached the bay area's we get in though a wednesday, especially wednesday afternoon things will be picking up the possibility of some thunderstorms and rain could be heavy at times starting wednesday afternoon. all right lawrence, still ahead. >>and high school students to

the president retweeted that jerry falwell jr. should get an extra two years tacked on his term. you can dismiss it as constitutional nonsense. but the sitting president of the united states retweeted it and referred to two wasted years in a tweet of his own. this comes hours after speaker of the house nancy pelosi told the "new york times" she was concerned the president would not leave if he were defeat indeed 2020 unless it were by a wide margin. the peaceful transition of power is a hallmark of american democracy in both the speaker and the president are calling it into question. live pictures from a camera outside michael cohen's home in new york city. michael cohen heading to prison. the attorney for the southern district named president trump individual one in that investigation as well. a live look at the market futures. the bets traders are making on the markets. tough after after they said he would increase tariffs no later than friday. that's not all. today is the day of the treasury tent is supposed to turn over the pr

jonathan falwell followed in the footsteps of his father, dr. jerry falwell, as senior pathors of thomas road baptiffs church. he was founder of liberty university, one of the largest christian universities in the united states. in addition to his role as senior pastor at thomas road, he also serves as executive vice president of spiritual affairs at liberty. on this national day of prayer i extend my thanks to jonathan falwell for his devotion to christ, his family, and community. madam speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain up to five further requests for one-minute speeches on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, last year was an abject failure in addressing the climate crisis in both policy and real world emission reduction

presidency, collusion, delusion that we'll never be able to get back and he re-tweeted this from jerry falwell. i now support reparations. trump should have two years added to his first term as payback for time stolen by this corrupt failed coup. does that sound like bluster to you, or are you actually worried? >> speaking of delusions, that sounds like the delusions of a king or someone who thinks he's a king. you know, the president is -- donald trump is not a king. he's a president. he's accountable to the american people and to their representatives, namely the u.s. congress, and -- and right now we're kind of in a situation where we are staring at a challenge right in our face which is do we do nothing and allow these subpoenas and various tools of our oversight to go uncomplied with, or do we try to enforce them, and i say we have to enforce them to the hill, and we have to make sure that the american people are able to conduct oversight, not only of donald trump but of future presidents as well. this is not a partisan issue. >> speaking of oversight, what we were just talking about, con

kennedy, what about jerry falwell saying we owe president trump and after two years.ke someone is trying to lay the groundwork. >> kennedy: no. no one owes anyone anything and everyone knows that's not how the system works. hillary clinton i believe in st. louis talked about her greatest fear is that president trump, then candidate trump, wouldn't concede the election when she won and that our elections have consequences. i wish she would go back and read some of those words. instead every once in a while, she will sprout a -- they're out to "i take full responsibility." then she goes through the laundry list. the russians, james comey, macedonian hackers. >> brian: barack obama had to convince her to concede. >> kennedy: de peter baker book, he's written a book about how disgusted president obama was. blames her and her soulless, scripted campaign. >> juan: nancy pelosi saying if we hadn't won overwhelmingly 40-plus seats in the 2010 midterms, a slighter amount, four seats, president trump one of said not true. would've challenged the results of the election. >> jess

election were close that the president wouldn't accept the result and on the heels of that jerry falwell jr., a is a supporter tweeted he was owed another two year because the first two were stolen from him. the president repeated it and amplified on it. do these things concern you? do you take them seriously? >> they better concern you when you hear people in high offices in the land wanting democratic norms and saber rattling threatening what makes us distinguished on the planet earth. we are a nation of laws and traditions that peaceful transition of power we almost take for granted others have the same constitutions, these documents are ultimately worth what they're written, the ideals because of american and women hold them to be true. when men and women betray those documents, these institutions will fall. i don't think that that's going to happen. but when i hear that coming from the president of the united states, i take it seriously and frankly it makes me want to double down and in speaking out against that and work even harder to replace him in 2020. >>> coming up on "the axe

i could do an hour just on the falwell story tonight, but all that other stuff, too. >> i look at stories sometimes and i say it's not going to fit. it is not going to fit in this hour. but somehow it fits in these two hours somewhere. it's in there somewhere. and that's what i'm counting on, rachel. that's what i'm relying on you for. >> we need each other. sdp >> you know what, over the phone we'll fill in the rest of this. >> i'll talk to you about it in the morning. >> thanks, rachel. she really is the greatest. >>> we've been showing you video of lindsey graham, and we've showed you extraordinary videos that show you just how much those republicans have changed on all of the issues they were declaring to be matters of principle to them. back then when they were trying to impeach a democratic president. an ever republican serving now in the house of representatives and the senate who voted to remove bill clinton from office is now using a completely different set of principles today in defending president trump. but at the end of this hour tonight, you will meet someone who has remain

it started with a tweet by evangelist jerry falwell jr.ations two additional years added to president trump's first term because of a time stolen by this corrupt failed coup. the president echoed that sentiment on twitter about an hour later. quote, despite the tremendous success that i've had as president, including perhaps the greatest economy and most successful two years of any president in history, they have stolen two years of my/our presidency, collusion delusion that we'll never be able to get back. the word stolen certainly raised eyebrows after house speaker pelosi said should he narrowly lose if there is a close contest, pelosi said he would poison the public mind and challenge the races and say you can't seat these people. we had to win, imagine if we hadn't won, oh, don't even imagine so as we go forward, we have to have the same approach. with me now is cnn political commentator steve cortez and analyst kirsten powers. do you think there is any valid concern from speaker pelosi that the president might try to challenge the el

is the falwell retweet where he sort of makes this dumb joke about reparations.have two years added to his first term as payback for time stolen by the corrupt failed coup. there is all this coup talk and now floating the idea running up the flag pole. like maybe the president gets two extra years. >> erdogan. or how many dicktorial heads of state have we seen who haven't claimed there was an attempt for a coup. it's in the textbook. >> erdogan really did have a coup. >> but still. you start with page one. you have to kind of empower your enemies and place them in a position of where they poll as much more jeopardy. >> the stabbed in the back meta story which is both sort of broadly cultural, but specific to the security services, the fbi. here you have the -- i mean, you have the head of -- this is the head of the rnc saying that comey's fbi sent undercover agents to spy on donald trump. stunning revelation the lengths they went to. we actually investigate how this whole hoax started. >> this is a structure. this is a sfruk cher from anti-semitic conspiracy theo

this came after the president retweeted jerry falwell jr.ho said trump should have two more years added to his first term as payback for sometime stolen by this corrupt failed coup. who are these people anyway? >> wants a do-over. >> anyway, as politico described it, trump floated the idea of extending his constitutionally limited time in office himself. what do we make of this? trump's claim that he somehow deserves some sort of compensation, some restitution for investigating his russian deals? >> i think it shows that he realizes that the mueller investigation, even when it's over, is actually something that really plays to his base. i think that's part of the reason for reversing course on the tweets. it might not be some sort of order to his attorney general not to let mueller testify, but instead he wants to keep bringing this up. he wants to see -- he wants his base to see him facing off against robert mueller. he's someone who tried to bring them down. that's why he said they shouldn't have a do-over. they've already done round one o

his friends may be owed more time as president, the conservative religious leader and ally jerry falwellr the best week ever for @real donald trump, no obstruction, no collusion. "new york times" admits barack obama did spy on his campaign. i now support reparations, trump should have two years as time stolen by this corrupt, failed coup. and who do you think retweeted? of course, president trump. >>> then sent a tweet of his own, two years of his presidency was stolen. lamere, i ask you, honest to god it seems psychotic to ask this question. do you think trump in his mind somewhere thinks he is owed two more years around he might somehow be able to get it? nancy pelosi thinks he may not leave? >> i saw that, mr. speaker, i don't think the president is taking steps beyond running for election to extend his term. certainly i know there are people who are concerned if he were to lose in a year-and-a-half or so that there might be some resistance, if not from him, the president, himself, from his supporters, we saw what he did before 2016, suggesting the outcome is rigged, he might not peac

. >> it's sort of a mix of boogie nights and eric falwell jr. >> you can't say the words eric falwell-- >> it what i don't understand is it will be like 99 degrees and they'll be playing baseball atlanta and these kids will have beards down to here. they'll be like burle ives. >> it does not look good on nn. >> it looks pretty good on. >> civil war. >> that's strong. >> mika? >> wait a minute, as we go to brac the "morning joe" book club continues. >> oh! yeah. >> hold on one second. number four yesterday with a bullet. >> remember the song "i'm 18 with a bullet"? >> yeah. >> bill geist! >> it's a memoir. it's my dad. >> we're going to sit down with your dad. >> and we're going to be joined by daniela. >> yeah! >> from an immigrant to best selling author. if you could shut your mouth -- >> say it again. >> i said from undocumented immigrant to dreamer to best selling author, daniela will be joani joining us. >> so cool. so cool everyone's got to listen to mom. when it comes to reducing the sugar in your family's diet, coke, dr pepper and pepsi hear you. we're working together to do ju

. >> of course he said all that standing next to jerry falwell jr. really? really?embarrassed what you're doing. jerry falwell jr. and donald trump? and you're trying to sound like billy graham there? it doesn't work. context is so important. >> with us, reverend al sharpton and the author and founder of women for women and also member of the ways and means committee, bill pascal of new jersey. reverend al, i of course watched "politics nation" last night. how do you not watch in a? it like tuning in and having james brown like singing and moving across the stage. i'm just saying that because you got to write that book on the godfather of soul. you said you're going to, right? >> i tweeted you back. i am going to do it and you're going to run the foreward and we're going to go to one of your sets one night and do a book signing together. >> yeah, it's not quite the same ning as them singing "sugar sugar." the way you signed off last night, what a wonderful tribute to your mother. i'm wondering for some of our frnds that were busy last night and downsidn't see that,

this about-face comes as the president was tweeting various things including a retweet by jerry falwell jr., suggesting he should get two more years in office because the mueller investigation stole those first two years. we're seeing different kinds of tweets from the president but clearly the mueller probe front and center on his mind and i think the president is very cognizant of all of this playing out in front of 2020. it's ironic that a lot of political observers keep slamming democrats from bringing up the mueller probe. however, the president is doing that ahead of 2020. it won't just damage democrats ahead of that race but the president as well. hearing a lot of different things, as to how both sides can really proceed on this, but this is something that's playing front and center in the president's mind right now. >> julie, democrats had been eyeing may 15th. democratic caucus told me on the hill if they couldn't get may 15th and wanted mueller to testify before that committee before the end of the month. what do you see as the next steps for these lawmakers, not just on the i

. >> he's got a jerry falwell jr.nd julia ansley will join us as well. >>> plus, i sat down with dr. jill biden in philadelphia yesterday. we'll show you that including that amazing story meeting a student while her house burned down. and responding to critics who say her husband is too old for another presidential run. that is all ahead on "morning joe." hey allergy muddlers... achoo! ...do your sneezes turn heads? try zyrtec... ...it starts working hard at hour one... and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. zyrtec muddle no more. noso let's promote ourke summer travel deal on choicehotels.com like this: surf's up. earn a fifty-dollar gift card when you stay just twice this summer. or.. badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com this and even this.hark, i deep clean messes like this. but i don't have to clean this, because the self-cleaning brush roll removes hair, while i clean. - [announcer] shark, the vacuum that deep cleans, now cleans itself. on a john deere x300 series mower. beca

party and other candidates also scheduled at the convention including senator kamala harris and eric falwellresident joe biden has not announced whether he will attend the convention that runs friday through sunday. >>> massachusetts on the list scheduled to have a town hall friday taking place before she addresses things saturday in san francisco. the doors open at 6:30 friday night and the event begins at 7:00 . >>> president trump has had a running feud with jeff bezos. but now 2020 presents a hopefuls are taking aim at the company on the campaign trail. the main issue is with the company hurting federal taxes. a closer look at the issue. >> zero, zero, zero,. >> reporter: amazon the worlds most vital company is already a prime 2020 campaign issue for democratic presidential front- runners. nearly trillion dollar company paid zero dollars in federal income tax in 2018. >> they don't want to hear how much amazon paid in taxes last year? that's right, not a nickel. >> we want to rain and the companies that think they get to rollover everyone. >> reporter: the internet juggernaut dividing de