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john heilemann, he loves his people. the president actually went to that point. and this is the same president who made so much of the otto warmbier case, a death that he blamed on kim. >> we know the president doesn't know very much about very much. that's been on vivid display throughout his presidency.and t anybody either when you w this performance, you see a moral cipher, someone who is the guy who came on this network when he was running for president and said that he admired vladimir putin's toughness, and when it was pointed out that vladimir putin had murder journalists, he said well, so what? it's better than barack obama who is weak, and we've killed people in the united states too. there was an abject kind of horrifying moral vacuousness that happened in singapore yesterday. i've been pretty depressed during this administration. >> nick, you've been to north korea multiple times. your reaction to what happened yesterday. >> well, look, north korea is not just one more repressive country. it is the most totalitarian country ever. a u.n. report noted it

with us on the set, we have john heilemann.n i say he doesn't read, he doesn't read. the former aide to george w. bush alease jordan is with us. we have a lot to get to. new numbers. milania trump makes an appearance. he was horrified by the fact people were wondering. i like it. >> we all did. >> john heilemann, it was shocking. i mean, donald trump is correct, i mean, john, who in the world would be so cruel, so hateful -- >> right. >> -- would be so despicable, so utterly lacking in character to suggest -- to make something up about someone having a facelift for the sole purposes of trying to damage or humiliate them. i know, it's nice to finally be able to agree with the president, this guy i have known ten, 11, 12 years, he's in the white house. finally, he says something i agree with. yes, you would have to be utterly despicable, a classless man to say that about a woman. >> total scum bag. grotesque. you have to be the most repulsive, disgraceful, ma tick louse, asinine person in the world. >> low life. >> here is the th

philip rucker, jill colvin, john heilemann, difficult night for discussion. our thanks to the three of you for starting us off this evening. >>> coming up, a deeper dive on the toll the president's separation policy is taking on the ones who do matter the most here, and why some have labeled this using the serious charge of government-sponsored child abuse. we'll ask our next guest, the president of the american academy of pediatrics, who's been allowed to visit some of these children. >>> and later on, a message posted to twitter intended for an audience of one, sent from the president's newest campaign manager. what he thinks trump should do next. "the 11th hour" just getting started tonight. ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohn's. entyvio works at the site of inflammation in the gi tract and is clinically proven to help many patients achieve both symptom relief and remission. infusion and serious allergic reactions can happen during or after treatment. entyvio may increase risk of infection, which ca

national affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc's john heilemann. and "morning joe" economic analyst, steve ratner. and author of the book, "a world in disarray," richard haas. and reporter heidi pryzbila. >> john heilemann, mark sanford survives career-ending -- what should have been a career-ending scandal as governor. lies on going on the anticipate la a appalachian trail. no one thought he would be elected back to congress. two years ago he votes with trump maybe 90% of the time. >> 87%. >> says one or two things about trump that people don't like -- >> off with his head. >> -- and is so conservative that conservative -- really conservative. not a trumpist. so conservative that even the freedom caucus said we would not have passed the tax cuts without mark. there is no more conservative person on protecting tax dollars, balancing the budget, paying down the debt. mark's -- that's been mark's sole obsession since 1994. but primary voters, no, you know what? we don't care that he's one of the most conservative people in congress. he said one or tw

and john heilemann back with us in new york, author of "game change" and "double down," co-host of "the circus" on showtime in addition to being a contributor around these parts. john, take it wherever you wish. sessions, pardons, manafort. what are we witnessing right now? >> just another day at the hallucinatory ranch, brian. it's like, you know, you just said almost normalize. we got to keep fighting to let any of this seem normal or be normal because it's not. >> it's almost a daily basis. >> it's more than a daily basis. a fusillade of craziness and things we never thought we would see. the tweet about jeff sessions this morning, i was on morning joe, and it has become so common that we didn't really pause to let it sink in. the president was essentially contradiwhat his lawyers had said in those documents that we saw in "the new york times" this weekend where they said, no, donald trump always knew there was going to be a russia investigation. he always knew it was going to go on. he did not fire james comey in order to end the russia investigation. here he's contradicting it flat

john heilemann, donny deutsch and the a.p.'s jonathan lemire are still with us.e conversation, pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the "washington post" eugene robinson. washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay. and staff writer at the "new yorker," susan glasser. good to have you all on this hour. j joe/kn joe, i know we're all clear about donald trump and what his policies are and his views towards people and race, but what about the people around him? what about mike pence? want the secretary of homeland security who was trotted out there to bumble like a lying fool in front of the cameras for this president? with what about vaupg? what about jeff sessions. the list goes on. what about every member of his cabinet? what did george bush say? fool me once, shame on me. fool me twice -- won't be fooled again. [ laughter ] in this case, you don't have to go back to 1967 to pick up a trend, to decipher a -- you don't have to be -- have a beautiful mind and connect all the pictures with strings and headlines and decode things. dona

election comes closer how can mexico recover and change after this brutal and violent campaign john heilemann reports now from mexico city i want to just read weaker right now from here to make. up for grabs than ever before but all eyes on the president saying everyone this is a guy that i recall there were no use in those big rallies like stories like this morning going to be independents destroyed in. the second place in the polls. to mexico which we dream of is one where there's no corruption in which the government is almost mexico we dream of is one in which no one lives in extreme poverty in which we have found. together because i know it's running for a left right coalition this same more than i said. you know the tea and the running but i'm not someone who is going to rock too much to the status quo completely the opposite end of the overwhelming front runner and it is money well nope it's all going to dog and old school left we're gonna have this is a land of wipeout poverty of erosion the notion of morality now on how we do it but where is an official bridge or is leaving her fully

and the north american free trade agreement john heilemann reports from mexico city . after the u.s. put the squeeze on neighbors and trading on those mixed growing canada imposing steel tariffs retaliation quickly followed both the dollar for dollar surcharges on u.s. imports these tariffs are totally unacceptable canadian prime minister justin through and his foreign minister chrystia freeland denounce the us is actions this is sixteen point six billion dollars of retaliation this is the strongest trade action canada has taken in the post-war era mexico's economic minister called this the worst case scenario and said the country would put tariffs on some u.s. steel products apple's grapes pull in cheese today. the damage to the mexican experts on this. but this dispute was the last thing either country wanted with a powerful and until recently mostly friendly neighbor the kind of the terrorists will hit the tickly hard about ninety percent of it still head south of the border it's the us is biggest supplier but mexico also is one of the topics of steel to the united

says john heilemann reports from the state of michoacan that will be a tough campaign to fulfill. the mix can countryside decimated by poverty and empty but migration over decades. is one of the aging population of small scale farmers struggling to compete with industrial scale operations in the world the mexico and the us for all that i know i produce grains but not money he says. that many communities young have either left or turned to more lucrative ventures. they sell drugs they kidnap they live well for a few days and then they get killed just next to my house or there was kind of a kidnapping. this man promises to change that presidential front runner andres manuel lopez obrador has made the neglected mix can country side a campaign priority. he said here we're focused government support from large industrial produces to smaller farms seek help them get quality seeds technological know how better access to loans and to guaranteed minimum price for their crops it's all part of an ambitious plan for mexico to produce its own food. they're buying everything abroad that we coul

and in a turbulent time domestically a political veteran is riding a wave of populist support john heilemann has more. the sixty four year old and that is money well look has opened the door it's looking like third time lucky in his quest to win the mix can president say this time he's the overwhelming from the no by his in issues. he has a simple message. to the clintons will listen to everyone will respect everyone but our priority is the poor for the good of everyone the poor. that plan has polarized because to some he's a danger ready to turn the country into the next venezuela two of those he's a deliberate from a corrupt political cost inequality when you ask people and those rallies what they expect from him many say the same thing change despite the fact that he's been on the scene for a long time he still feels himself as an outsider to the political establishment to the point where he's treated the story party the party more in a maybe new but i'm most often labeled an old school populist who believes in a strong state he wants to provide monthly payments for students double pensio

john heilemann, he loves his people. the president actually went to that point.he same president who made so much of the otto warmbier case, a death that he blamed on kim. >> we know the president doesn't know very much about very much. that's been on vivid display throughout his presidency. and this will not be news to anybody either when you watch this performance, you see a moral cipher, someone who is the guy who came on this network when he was running for president and said that he admired vladimir putin's toughness, and when it was pointed out that vladimir putin had murder journalists, he said well, so what? it's better than barack obama who is weak, and we've killed people in the united states too. there was an abject kind of horrifying moral vacuousness that happened in singapore yesterday. i've been pretty depressed during this administration. >> nick, you've been to north korea multiple times. your reaction to what happened yesterday. >> well, look, north korea is not just one more repressive country. it is the most totalitarian country ever. a u.n. r

with us, we have national affairs analyst, john heilemann. >> he's good. >> republican strategist, susanew york times reporter, michael schmidt. author of "the soul of america: the battle for our better angels," john meachum. president trump's lawyer, rudy giuliani is calling on the justice department to suspend special counsel robert mueller's probe and launch an investigation of the investigators. giuliani's statement came after yesterday's unusual silence about the doj report on the fbi's investigation of 2016 presidential candidates. hours before ex-trump campaign manager paul manafort heads to court for a bail hearing over witness tampering claims, he pleads not guilty to charges, including fraud and money laundering. giuliani says he speaks for himself. he claimed the report had bearing on mueller's legitimacy. even though mueller removed agent peter struck last summer when he learned of anti-trump text messages to his lover, fbi attorney, lisa paige. >> we supplied 1.4 million documents. who are we supplying to? people who concluded to frame donald trump. agents who started a phon

i'm john heilemann. >>> the road to singapore.ening, i'm chris matthews in washington. here's where things are headed this friday night. we've got the latest of course, but who knows how long this latest is going to hold? trump is headed to singapore and now he says he never wasn't headed to singapore. samantha bee is getting lined up with roseanne barr before a right-wing firing squad. and there are new reasons to ask questions about the other far east meeting, the one in the seychelles. it looks like

results almost half of the around ninety million eligible voters under the age of thirty five john heilemann reports from mexico city. a quick tucker break before a national louder than get on with cramming for their finals to finish in university at a critical moment the mix can elect tour the race is gearing up and they clear what they see is the key issues that was for. them to work that at least there was work for those of us who are heading out of university that and crime we don't have security almost anywhere pollsters say that ties in with what many young voters want more and better paid jobs lower murder rates and less corruption. candidates should be listening the young vote is all important this election almost forty five percent of the electorate is under thirty five they could swing it for the winner they're overwhelmingly urban online a more educated than their parents are also more likely to vote left good news for front runner money well and that as lopez obrador that is if they turn out well why the young vote tends not to mexico is notoriously corrupt political class could

time and the debate was one of the last chances the other candidates had to attack that lead john heilemann reports from mexico city. musclemen it was the final presidential debate may be the last chance for andres manuel lopez obrador as rivals to land a blow against the overwhelming front runner a tried. but a simple as nothing seem to stick you're good but. it's not my fault that you're tired at the bottom and you're thinking of that you're going to get back thirty points i understand you're desperate to calm yourself. amid the bickering key issues raised in the country's monstrous inequality and the poverty in which more than fifty million mexicans are trapped for second place tricolored one night in the answer would be a monthly payout for all mexicans for third place told me to meet better access to education like the candidate said the public money could be rustled up their plans by stamping out official corruption and did official. the front runner in particular insisted that government corruption was at the root of all of mexico's problems but is only strategy to eradicate it seems

i'm john heilemann. >>> the road to singapore. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. here's where things are headed this friday night. we've got the latest of course, but who knows how long this latest is going to hold? trump is headed to singapore and now he says he never wasn't headed to singapore. samantha bee is getting lined up with roseanne barr before a right-wing firing squad. and there are new reasons to ask questions about the other far east meeting, the one in the seychelles. it looks like mueller is still hot on the collusion trail. finally is donald trump planning to pardon himself out of all of his russian business. let's talk about trump's bromance for despotic north korea. was henry kissinger, is power the greatest aphrodisiac? there was a remarkable scene at the white house as senior north korean official spent about an hour and 20 minutes inside the oval office. there he is meeting with trump. kim yong-chol delivered a personal letter from the north korean leader, kim jong-un.

front runner lopez obrador has bound to reverse decades of decline and poverty in rural areas john heilemann now reports from the states and. that'll be a tough campaign pledge to fulfill. the mix can countryside decimated but poverty and empty by migration over decades. is one of the aging population of small scale phone was struggling to compete with industrial scale operations in the world the mexico and the us. i produced grains but not money he says. many communities young have either left or turned to more lucrative benches. they sell drugs they kidnap they live well for a few days and then they get killed just next to my house where there was a head of a kidnapping. this man promises to change the presidential front runner and raise money well look. who's made the neglected mix can country side a campaign priority. he said here we're focused government support from large industrial producers to smaller farms to help them get quality seeds technological know how better access to loans and a guaranteed minimum price for their crops it's all part of an ambitious plan for mexico to produc

national affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc john heilemann.got -- how about this, donny, ad legend, marketing god donny deutsch. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> that's much better than donny. >> yeah, like why is he here? >> yeah, exactly. also we have former aide to george w. bush's white house and the state department's elise jordan. we have columnist and associate editor for the "washington post" david ignatius, nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kas kasie/d.c. on msnbc, kasie hunt. and we have white house reporter for the associated press jonathan lemire. we lost last night 4-2, jonathan, but tonight is another night. we have chair of the department of african-american studies at princeton university eddie glaude jr. and pulitzer prize winning historian and author of the new best selling book "the soul of america, the battle for our better angels," jon meacham. david ignatius, let's talk about italy. we've seen what happens in poland, what's happened in bulgaria, sort of this populist move that's going across europe and ma

and john heilemann.nd a national security analyst jeremy bash and nbc corresnde correspondent kasie hunt. but the press briefing seemed like sarah sanders is protecting herself or how would you read that. >> >> she's not protecting herself if she gets caught telling a lie either because she knew it was untrue or because the president lied to her. so she's not really protecting her reputation. in fact, she's hurting her reputation by referring it to somebody else. she knew the correct answer. the correct answer was either i did not tell you the truth or the correct answer was i was you know, you could even polish it up even more than that by just saying i was not given complete information during that briefing. you don't refer it to outside counsel in that case, because it's your credibility that's involved. now, speaking of credibility, i found yesterday absolutely fascinating. i know we'll get to the main manafort story, but you saw throughout the day, we started talking about yesterday morning about ju