jill wine-banks, and jason johnson, the politics editor at the root.com. all three are msnbc contributors. and i want to begin with this political point, jason, so i want to go to too much had and that is alan simpson's words today were surely chosen carefully knowing there was a double intandra there, but to say things with donald trump sitting right in front of him saying how he never hated anyone, how it corrodes a person, is something i know alan simpson deliberately intended to apply to donald trump. and i'm sure americans watching that today had to think about that comparison about donald trump's relationship to hatred and hating people versus president bush's. >> yeah, at this point between, you know, aretha franklin and john mccain and president bush, i don't think we're going to have a large funeral in america that does not include criticism of president trump at some point or another. but i hope to the degree that he goes to these events as a pouting surly 70-year-old, which is usually how he seems to behave when he's in the room, that he takes so

. >> joining our discussion now richard stengel and jason johnson, politics editor. snbc contributors. and jason, your reaction to these two reports and the targeting of black voters. >> i'm not surprised, lawrence. i mean this has been going on for a while. you have prominent members of black twitter who have said for years you have these sort of hostile bots going after active feminists and sewing discord. as much as russia may have tried to exploit existing racial divisions in the country there were existing racial divisions. hillary clinton had her own problems with black people. the russians did not make her say super predators. the russians did not make bernie sanders say all live matter. so i think as problematic as foreign intervention is, it is a reflection of pre-existing problems and democrats need to be aware heading into 2020, to not let this happen again. >> let's take a look at one of the memes the russians put othere in social media. it's about voter discouragement, about trying to grab onto those elements, attach points jason was just mentioning and i

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i want to bring back in as promised jason johnson. i have the easy part because gerry did the heart pardon. and it is certainly complex. but at bottom, what do you see happening here, and if it does look like a kind of a stand still with a lot of recrim nating, you know, fights back and forth inside the state, what do you see pelosi and the house democrats doing? >> ari, this is the stuff i love. my doctorate is out of chapel hill. i was steeped in north carolina politics my entire process. what this basically boils down to is this. there are two things that can happen. either we wait 34 days, governor cooper of north carolina puts a brand-new elections committee together, they call for a new election, and you end up probably with mcreedy, the democrat ends up winning, he ends up getting seated in the congress sometime over the summer. that can happen if people are willing to wait that long. or nancy pelosi next wednesday when she gets in office, if this is something she cares about on her agenda, she can say look, we have reason to b

all the way to the moon and back. >> jason: johnson was flying combat missions in vietnam. h mission, he was shot down. captured by the north vietnamese and taken as a prisoner of war. buzz honored johnson by wearing his pow bracelet when he landed on the moon. what did that mean to you when he wore that bracelet of yours up on the moon? >> well, meant a lot. >> jason: johnson endured seven years as a prisoner of war. >> we didn't stop fighting from inside the cells. caused them a lot of havoc while we were there. we ended up, they put us in single cells. place we called alcatraz. >> jason: 42 months, more than three years, was spent in solitary confinement. >> fortunately tapping on the wall was a code that we had, you could maintain contact with the other guys. >> jason: you came out of it. was it through prayer, thinking of shirley? >> all of that. thinking of shirley, of course, and praying to god. >> jason: while sam is a hero to many, his hero was his wife shirley. >> she was the greatest lady in the world. >> jason: i heard at dinner she would set a place for you. >>

we're back with our panel, sam steen, inevery ruben, jason johnson and dana.t's the word, on the throne? >> should we even bother talking about it, this is undebatable. it's not just because the daily beast reported it. that you were fired while on the can is the most inglorious, dehumanizing of a way -- >> are you sitting down? >> this man was running exxonmobil two years ago and then to end in this fashion, unreal. >> it's not like they had footage of it. >> we have a mental image that will never go away. >> john kelly should get honorable mention because they had this nice agreement that he would be on a friday that he would be fired on a monday and trump goes out and fires him on saturday. he had the disgrace, too. i think overall if not the final moment for jeff sessions, the long bit like trump -- tweet after tweet, cut off his leg and then his arm and everything else. it was the extended year long disgrace sort of punctuated by him just going like this. >> and he was being rewarded for being the first goo i to rally to trump in the beginning of the whol

jason johnson, politics editor for the root.com. david mill bank, also with the washington post. let's get to the first award of the night. the category is best division in regards to the mueller investigation. when news broke about the russia investigation, these nominees did their best to change topics. the first nominee is the president himself who, when it comes to the original crime of hacking, doesn't even believe it happened. >> all i can do is ask the question. my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others. they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> the next nominee is president trump's lawyer rudy giuliani, who made this mind-bending comment about the nature of truth. >> when you tell me that, you know, he should testify because he's going to tell the truth and he shouldn't worry, it's so silly because it's somebody's version of the truth, not the truth. he didn't have -- >> truth is truth. i don't mean to g

i want to bring in jason johnson, maya wiley and general wesley clark. jason, there's plenty of blame to go around washington. i ask you for your considered judgment as we begin the hour tonight. are we witnessing a failure of the congress or the failure of the president tonight? >> we're witnessing the failure of both, ari. the president does not know how to negotiate in good faith. he stabbed mitch mcconnell in the back, his own party. this is the example of the consistent failed leadership of mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. this is a perfect way for paul ryan to end his career in congress. despite running both houses in the white house they couldn't get the most basic promise they made to their constituents done which is get money for the wall. forget get money from mexico, they couldn't get the wall paid for themselves. now they face a situation where democrats can objectively say they were never really going to vote for this outside of daca but now we had a midterm election where republicans tried to scare people into wanting the wall for talking abou

for that we turn to jason johnson, political editor at the root and professor of politics and journalismto be here. >> let's start going through california. so, california, first of all i think for a lot of people who have been annoyed that iowa and new hampshire have so much power, 37% white, asian-americans are 15.2%. african-americans are 6.5%. so it's a very diverse state. >> right. >> so, in that sense, how does that change the dynamic for that primary? >> well, what it does is it makes you as a candidate if you're running in 2020 with the 50 million people who are going to be running, they have an opportunity to demonstrate i can connect with these different people early on. they don't have to necessarily say, i can show it in nevada, they can say, look, i can speak to latinos, central americans, immigrants. but the problem is it's really expensive if you have any money to do so, and the other issue is the money will dry up faster. now that california is part of super tuesday, if you don't win one of those three states -- >> it could literally be over by march 3rd. this is march 3r

i think it's a pretty wise choice. >> let's go onto jason johnson.cut your microphone. >> i'm just warning you. >> yeah. she a wonderful example of how everyone and you still win. people hated him as a real estate when he poisoned even more. they hated him in the state senate. they hated him in congress. they hated him at the consumer protection bureau. they didn't want them to be able to protect themselves. he assembled himself of being chief of star. this man won the week. he called trump a terrible person and still got to job. >> yeah. that's a very very excellent point. i love him. don't call me. nobody tweet me. he is a great guy. that's a wise clois. it will be difficult determine who is correct and who is wrong. who won? >> for a change the joits senate. one was to condemn the saudis for the opinion writer. it was a rebuff of trump and his service who came out to try the say there was no smoking gun. it was probably mike pompeo. it turned into a genocide dal disasters. they badly want to support it because the sauds are in charge there. the yi

and we do most of the time. >> jason: johnson could have retired an american hero.ut instead he decided to become a states man. >> not everyone was happy with our government. but my fellow pow buddies and i decided we would stop griping about it and start working to fix it. >> in 2016 the ways and means committee honored johnson by naming this hearing room the sam johnson room and redecorate trisha garcia in his honor. they put a note that you wrote in there. do you remember what you wrote? >> freedom has a taste to those that almost died to protect it will never know. that's what we fight for here day and night in the united states congress. freedom for every member of the united states of america. many thanks to "fox & friends" putting that story out there. i think in this country we use the word hero a little too loosely but you know what? he is a true american hero. unfortunately that is all the time we have left this evening. many thanks to sean hannity for a will you go me to host. be sure to check out my new book, if you get a chance, if you're looking for th

joining me to talk about this is msnbc political contributor, jason johnson. lot of predictions about this election coming up and new york times op-ed columnist. jason, we have these new polling numbers. iowa caucus is more than a year ago. do you think these top three we're hearing now are going to remain at the top the closer we get to 2020? no one thought donald trump would ever be where he is now. >> no. at this point, two or three years ago we were talking about ben carson and jeb bush and marco rubio will be the new doi n due nam dynamic leader of the united states. i don't think the polls matter that much. a lot of names that are very popular in the media are unknown to local activists in iowa. there will be a lot of this determined by name id. a lot will be determined by how much money people can raise. a lot will be determined by how the president is doing. we'll see an interesting list of people probably make their decision around february or march of next year especially depending on what the environment looks like. >> voters tend to idealize people

as i was talking to jason johnson about that.eted one thing, all of these black women came after me. they posed as black women. they pretended to be angry black women and they went after certain people to change the narrative. >> so we know from the washington post a little quote from the russian effort on instagram, all five of the most liked posts created by the russians were aimed at after amg women. they included #black power, unapologetically black, black lives matter. i can't breathe. they voted for hillary clinton. was this message more effective on african-american men than it was women? >> so they were targeting african-american women because they are the ones that get out the vote. so that's the key part but the issue is that they are very pragmatic so they vote -- they vote consistently and regularly. he -- the black men bass siical are the ones that did not vote. >> 30 facebook pages established, 10 youtube channels. 571 videos related to violence against african-americans. this isn't new. >> no. no. >> russia has not

for that we turn to jason johnson, professor of politics at morgan state university. >> glad to be hereugh california. for a lot of people who have been annoyed that new hampshire and iowa have to pumuch power. asian americans are 15 .2 %. african americans are 6.5%. native american and alaska are 1.6%. it's a diverse state. in that sense, what -- how does that change the dynamic for that primary? >> what it does is makes you has a candidate if you're running in 2020, the 50 million people running, they have an opportunity to demonstrate i can connect with different types of people early on. they don't have to say i have to show it in nevada or south carolina. they say i can speak to latinos and central americans and immigrants. it's an opportunity to show what you have early on. the problem is it's really expensive. if you have any money to do so. the money will dry up faster. now that california is part of super tuesday, if you don't win one of the first three states, the spigot is over and you can't go to hollywood. >> it could be over by march third. this is march third. this is sup

congress woman sheila jackson of texas and jason johnson and jack flag luzzi. >> and we're at six trump operations under criminal investigation. the trump campaign, the trump transition, the trump inauguration, the trump administration, the trump organization, and the trump foundation. how dangerous are all of these investigations coming from six dictions at trump? and following weeks of voter fraud allegations in the race of north carolina ninth congressional, democrats and republicans are faced of a possibility of a do-over for the primary and the general. we'll have the latest on that from the chairman of the north carolina democratic party. and celebrity apprentice chief of staff edition, after a chaotic search for number one, trump announced via twitter tonight that mick mulvaney, the current director of the office of management and budget will become his -- catch this -- his acting chief of staff. isn't that redundant. they're all acting. >>> and a moral echo of what happened on this day six years ago and we must remember it. this is "hardball," where the action is. rch, read earn

jason johnson, political editor of theroots.com and franco is a former advisor to the great john mccainthank you. kimberly, as a reporter, what do we make of this day. a lot of lead stories at the top of the fold. >> it is. likely they are linked to one another. it's not coincidentally they are all happening. president trump rattled by the sentencing hearing earlier in the week decides to drop the syria news on everyone including general mattis. >> that's connection? help me there. >> general mattis has never been a fan of a full and sudden pullout in syria. if you recall, he walked president trump back from that in the past and president trump relented after bashar al assad engaged in another gas attack of people there in syria, his own people. this time when president trump dropped that and is considering that in afghanistan, it seemed like it was a bridge too far. he made it clear that he disagreed, that's why he was walking back. >> it seems that a lot of things are going on. we have a president agitated gearing up for a fight and he's getting them. >> mueller coming out and the sto

defense one, barry mccaffrey, a former battlefield commander in the persian golf and with us on set, jason johnson, politics editor for the root. i have to start with you, general mccaffrey. your reaction? >> well, i think the most important assertion i'd put on the table is there is no national security process in the u.s. government. we ended up with bolton and the state department rep and pentagon and chairman of the jcs and others reassured the international community we would not withdraw. and it's clearly good news for the iranians, for hezbollah, for the russians and most importantly for assad who will now see a chance to finish them off. it looks as if it was cooked up essentially one on one between erdogan and mr. trump in which he says, look, the turks are buying a bunch of our military equipment and he ceded the battlefield. this is speculation to the turks. >> general, what do you make of all the background noise? just this week, the president's former national security adviser mike flynn had two of his former colleagues indicted for crimes around their business activities with the tur

johnson. going to give us a preview of that now and look at the entire thing later in the show jason jason congressman of the longest serving prisoner of wars in the history of our nation nearly seven years as a prisoner of war and then he went to the last few decades everybody in congress loves this guy and i hope you stay tuned because later in "fox & friends," we're going to introduce you to somebody who is retiring in just the next few days. katie: thank you. pete: i met him once before. great guy. >> there are people that are iconic and then there are american heroes. sam johnson is an american hero. katie: looking forward to it jason chaffetz thank you so much. jillian, over to you. jillian: thank you. following a number of stories this morning. jason, how are you? let's start with this. alarming report reveals dozens of psychiatric hospitals still treating patients. the "wall street journal" finding more than 100 full will you accredited hospitals with serious safety violations that include lapses linked to death and abuse. the issues include lapses linked to abuse or assault of patients. the c

jason. peach, you, by the way, have met representative sam johnson and my husband has served with him. couple things i learned about him from my husband is his wife set a place for him for dinner every night that he was gone in those seven years. that's amazing. he likes warm cookies, something he really missed when he-- who doesn't? he always indulges in that whenever he can peer jason? >> he really is-- the humility that that person has is amazing. we use the term hero a lot. this guy is a true american hero. no one has done more for his country than sam johnson and we all go him a great gratitude of thanks. ed: we do and jason chaffetz, we salute you for honoring an american hero. rachel: well done. ed: nancy polos he has a new climate crisis committee, but surprisingly not all democrats are happy. the fresh fallout from the left coming up speed to look who here. anthony scaramucci live and in the flesh sharing his biggest winners and losers and maybe a few predictions for 2019. hey kurt, are you watching the best of geico ? i sure am, linda. they've been saving folks money for years

johnson. a special man, amazing personality, a true american hero. thanks, mark. >> thanks, jason.to this edition of hanty. i'm in tonight for sean. yesterday, president trump made a surprise visit to the al-assad air base in iraq where he visited the brave men and whip serving abroad during christmas. back at home the mainstream medish

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jason, ken, tim, thank you very much. >> thank you. charles: one of the biggest market movers today, johnson & johnson. check this out.he stock on track, it will be probably the biggest percentage drop in more than a decade. we're talking about wiping out $24 billion in this company's market cap. this after a reuters report that says the company knew its baby powder was contaminated with asbestos. j&j has been battling some 6,000 cases, claiming its products caused cancer. now this news. wow. it is shellacking what was the strongest group in the market, health care. >>> coming up next, one of the president's top economic advisors, peter navarro, he is going to join us, with his take on today's great economic data. of course i will slide in something on china. see how we're doing there. i have a feeling he will be pretty excited about it. so stay with us. ♪ think your large cap equity fund has exposure to energy infrastructure mlps? think again. it's time to shake up your lineup. the alerian mlp etf can diversify your equity portfolio and add potential income. bring amlp into the game. before investing, consider the fu

johnson advisors. that is a good point. jasonink that a good point what a genius you are, because clearly he is turning to you for your market insight. carol: once in a while, you get it right. jason: i don't know what you ate for breakfast, but i need to get some of that. carol: watching the markets, retail moving ahead, which shows the strength of the consumer. that has been an interesting trend we have been following .we talk about how important the consumer is to the economy. jason: the collision of tech and retail is amazon. carol: coming up next, the latest from washington as the partial shutdown continues.in the next hour, or special edition of bloomberg businessweek continues. -- our special edition of bloomberg businessweek continues. ♪ carol: back in bloomberg headquarters in new york city. i'm carol massar. we're doing a special edition of bloomberg businessweek. jason: i'm jason kelly. great to be with you. merry christmas. carol: merry christmas. jason: have not seen you in a few days. i was down south. one of the th

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johnson, a special man and a true american hero. so thanks, mark. we appreciate it. welcome to the special edition of "hannity: trump vs. the swamp". i'm jasonsean. yesterday president trump made a surprise visit to the air base in iraq where he visited the brave men and women serving abroad during christmas.

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jason: it is the men's -- amazing how you mentioned the cfa, even so subtly. she got off a plane this morning from san francisco. for more on the market moves, we are joined by jenna johnson -- janet johnson. let's catch our breath a little bit here. what a wild ride it has been on the markets. as you look at the tape today, what is jumping out to you? you heard taylor walk through the numbers. it wouldn't be unusual to test of the lows of the market if we did put in a bottom yesterday. i think there are some really good signs. wasadvanced decline line strong, the second strongest since the bull market started in 2009. bloomberg put out an article yesterday, only one stock down in the s&p 500. the s&p 500 were up. this price action in the fourth quarter is more indicative of a panic that a recession. -- than a recession. we still don't see hard data that the us economy is entering a recession. jason: what is worrying investors? while the back and forth? >> the big worry centers on policy. in 2017, the administration had progrowth policies, with tax reform, with the deregulation. year, are we in a trade war? are we in a cold war? yesterday, wilbur ross said auto tarrifs, t