. >> yeah, joe goldberg with a wink and a nod.mp says the same with reporters, they'll make a new friend and everyone knows that means sexual assault in prison. as the woman on the prison, i need to say, the focus of sexual violence, prostitution, sex, sex, sex, is so shocking. i needed to raise it. the point about the journalist, the side thing that trump says about making new friends, we know what that means. and trump's focus on these odd sexual things is part of the narrative of a machismo 1970s type of guy and animates the mafia tone that's going on in the white house. i'm going to stop them from doing this. you need to stop the investigation. >> josh, hold your thought. i need to ask michael, where's the floor? >> in terms of where mueller will take us? >> no. of decency. >> of decency. it's where people want it to be. they have to make a determination of how they want the narrative of our country to move forward. if they find this is acceptable, then that's where we'll be. if they find it objectionable they have opportuniti

joe degenova thing. the president is a restless client. he's calling up jay -- jay goldberg on the phone. ng to hire joe digenova. he's not happy with his legal team and you see him casting a ballot for legal advice. he either doesn't like the advice he's getting or doesn't like the way in which the lawyers he has present themselves. a big part of why he wanted digenova, is he wanted someonon to television arguing a vigorous case for him. he doesn't like these lawyers that sit around and do what lawyers do. he wants a television lawyer. he sees giuliani and says that's a guy that will go out and do what he did during the campaign. be a fierce surrogate on the tv. take the fight to mueller and rosenstein. i'm sure that's a large part of it. the second thing is the notion that rudy giuliani is talking about his role is going to be to strike a settlement with bob mueller. >> it's also -- >> in the next couple weeks. >> that's matt miller, what i was going to next. we can't overlook the fact the reason he said he's looking to negotiate a settlement and in the next two or three weeks. how would

after a year of trump and joe scarborough who stayed up way past his bedtime at least four or five hours to help us make sense of it all. joining me a great panel, michelle goldberg, elie mystal, shelby holiday, "wall street journal," and you guys will stay right there. i want to begin at the white house where president trump is having dinner with the republican leaders. halle, what's lapping right now. >> hot drama in the building. you have donald trump sitting with the guy who just announces he's no longer going to run for re-election. at the table are two other guys who will be fighting most likely to replace paul ryan. steve scalise and kevin mccarthy. scalise was a late add to the dinner. you saw the photo that the president tweeted. everybody all smiles and a big thumbs up. you can see the president in a good mood with these guys. that's because he likes to have these conversations. here's what we are told. when it comes to the battle for who replace paul ryan, it is as you framed it up potentially defining for the trump agenda, how it moves forward in congress, if in fact republicans can hang onto the house come midterms in just about six months from now.

goldberg, "the atlantic" put out a moving commemorative issue about dr. king's life and legacy. tell us about it. >> well, the whole idea of that, joessue that sort of turns him into a plaster saint that ends the story in 1963. we wanted to look at through a journalistic lens the unfinished legacy particularly as it relates to the triple evils he identified, racism, poverty and militaryism. and so this is an issue filled with journalism about this moment. it's not just about king and what he achieved and what he didn't achieve because his life was cut short in the 1960s. but, you know, i'm so curious and if i can ask peter this question, you know, when he died -- this is one of the things we try to rez rukt in this issue, this idea that people would like to forget that martin luther king at his death was one of the more unpopular people in america. my question is was when it pivoted against vietnam, when he made militarism, was that the moment when a lot of white liberals and white democrats said, oh, this guy has gone too far. lunch counters are fine. don't question some of the great priorities of our democratic government? >> i th