john mitchell will be calling you, et cetera. the voice of richard assm. nixon, the president of the united states of america giving directive to j. edgar hoover to get rid and move on these black panthers. that year, my black panther party offices were attacked all across this country, over 20 offices all across this country. in the beginning of that year, john mitchell, united states attorney general under richard m. nixon is up on national television by the end of this year we'll be rid of these black panthers. i mean, this is a concerted effort. so when nixon was elected, he had a meeting with j. edgar hoover a week later after the election in november and the first week or so of december is the first time that j. edgar hoover is on national television. the black panthers are a threat to the internal security of america, the black panthers are the only reason they have guns is to come into the white community and shoot and kill white people. and we are running up and down the streets and protesting with thousands of our white loving radical friends. i

in fact, he convinced the mayor of new york, john mitchell, to hold all demonstrations in sympathy is either side august 1914. mitchell, a democrat and a member of wilson's party, was quite willing to do that. it was in the interest of national security to do this. however, through the diplomatic policies he chose to adopt, i think wilson undermined his own social rhetoric. this is controversial, and we can talk about this during the discussion. period . wilson made intervention possible if not inevitable, because he did nothing to compel american business to stay neutral either in thought or deed. by early 1915, jpmorgan and company had become the sales agents to the british, giving them 1% commission on everything the british bought in the u.s. american food, american steel, they were increasing the war effort for the british. all of that helped lead the u.s. out of serious recession. unemployment rate was roughly 11% in 1913. by 1915, it had been cut in half. warilson's choice for a over one side of neutral rights, and that the other side, britain's naval blockade, which we hurting

chain is now -- with these notes the chain is pretty much complete from nixon to haldeman and john mitchell to anna chenault to the south vietnamese ambassador and saigon. the great question that still is out there is how much did this -- how much did this influence the south vietnamese government which was having its own internal political battles and so how great a chance was lost? the saddest thing that i found was a note in the lyndon johnson library from his national security adviser which said almost mournfully to lyndon johnson, this is the best chance we've had since 1961 to get out of this mess. this has been very painful. i'm here with your generals. we think we should go ahead, we think with determination we can make this work. so we can look back now and say, boy, those north vietnamese were incredibly stubborn, this was never going to happen, but at the time, johnson and his advisers believed this was -- this was more than viable. they thought this was a potential breakthrough. >> and jack, a final point here. why didn't lyndon johnson reveal publicly what he knew about this be

and an investigation that had already led to the indictment of nixon's first attorney general, john mitchell. the pace of resistance and defiance to the president by judges and the attorney general now was much, much faster than it was in the nixon presidency. elliot richardson resigned on that saturday night when he refused the president's -- to execute the president's order. the acting attorney general who carried out the president's order to fire archibald cox the next day, the newspapers call ld it the saturday night massacre. there is in the history of the presidency no worse sign for the future of a presidency than an attorney general defying the president. so the nixon presidency lasted only ten months after elliot richardson refused to carry out president nixon's order. sally kulian yates was confirmed by the senate as deputy attorney general in the spring of 2015 and one week, one week before that, ann marie donnely had her confirmation hearing for a federal judgeship, usually chosen by senators of the president's party in the state where the judge will serve. as tradition has it, t

john mitchell is a father from portsmouth who has been fined twice by his daughter's school. thousands of pounds. why did you take your daughter out in october?m pounds. why did you take your daughter out in october? it was my elder daughter's gcses last year, and it was her reward for doing well. it is myjumper daughter that well. it is myjumper daughter that we have received the fine for. did you have to go away then? the trip was to florida. it was halloween that my daughter wanted to go. halloween only occurs in october. the previous year, the school had actually given us two weeks' holiday in october. i had anticipated they would do the same again, but they did not. you have been fined how many times? once. you took her to disneyland paris for her birthday. you refusing to pay. we did ask the school, we said in a letter, it went to the board of governors, they turned it down. they said, can't you ta ke turned it down. they said, can't you take her when it is the school holidays? have you seen the prices of holidays in the summer? we paid an arm and a leg to take a two di

billionaire businessman john paul desoria, the co-founder of patron tequila produced in mexico and john paul mitchellmber, the tax that president trump is again threatening to put on inputs from mexico to pay for the wall. you make and then export patron from mexico. if the tax comes into effect, what happens? >> if it comes into effect, unfortunately with all due respect, the mexican government doesn't pay for it, the u.s. consumer does. if the tax comes across, we have to raise our prices. we can't make the tequila in the united states. our quality tequila has to be made in mexico by law, can't make it here, so it's passed on to our distributor, onto the retailer, which will pass on o e the consumer. when that happens, will people stop buying patron? probably not because people want to treat themselves to the quality, but will it affect the mexican government? i think it will affect the united states citizen more than the u.s. government, i really do -- or if the mexican government. >> in your individual case, a few dollars more with that tax? >> it will be a few dollars more a bottle with the tax

[applause] john: chris adverts and dan mitchell. to talk about the american dream house government often kills us as it does it keeps growing and it depresses me bed grover norquist keeps smiling president for americans for tax reform has fought that tax simplification for 30 years and you have failed. is less simple than it ever was taxes are higher why are you so cheerful? >> the majority of the members of that task -- of the house we have not had a tax increase as long as the republicans controlled the house we stopped the bleeding as long as they can hold up one part of the government. obama what did trillions of higher taxes and republicans said no tax increase period we have to run a half trillion of spending restraint with 23 percent of gdp that is the federal government to stop the bleeding and it takes new leadership. john: politician say we have to get rid of this. >> is the one big victory the american people have against illicit and obamacare. but look to the states to see freedom flourish. home school was illegal and all

john mccain. >> andrea mitchell, thanks for waiting and watching with us. always good to have your perspective. let's go to kristen welker because she's in the room. we saw you ask a question at the end of that lengthy press briefing. a lot of back and forth, a lot of different subjects covered. as the white house correspondent who's there every day, what did you learn? >> reporter: well, i think one of the headlines is what andrea was talking about. the tone was so different in this briefing room today than it was on saturday when press secretary sean spicer came out with these very fiery remarks. and he stressed the need to deliver the facts. as andrea said, that was important. there were a number of other headlines that really struck me. one was he was pressed on the president's appearance at the cia over the weekend. of course, the president made that appearance, his first stop to really try to extend an olive branch to intelligence agencies after opening a rift with them, criticizing their assessment that russia tried to meddle in the u.s. election. th

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i'm andrea mitchell in washington, awaiting general john kelly's first press conference as secretaryhomeland security. the cloud of controversy regarding the travel ban and reports of top cabinet secretaries being kept out of the loop will be front and center. joining me is peter alexander at the white house, nbc justice correspondent pete williams in our newsroom. peter, we have a situation steve bannon and steve miller, the two top white house aides along with other top

i'm andrea mitchell in washington, awaiting general john kelly's first press conference as secretary of homeland security. the cloud of controversy regarding the travel ban and reports of top cabinet secretaries being kept out of the loop will be front and center. joining me is peter alexander at the white house, nbc justice correspondent pete williams in our newsroom. peter, we have a situation steve bannon and steve miller, the two top white house aides along with other top officials in the white house excluding these cabinet secretaries as well as the state department which is now without a leader, of course, rex tillerson not yet confirmed, what do we know about how they're trying to fix this situation and their close connection with the attorney general senator sessions who is up for conffirmation and apparently working behind the scenes on all of this. >> reporter: what's notable here, house judiciary aides, not the actual bosses, not the members of congress in the house judiciary committee but their aides were a party to this effort to try to draft the executive order that was

republicans led by, you know, john mccain, lindsey graham, and others, are deeply upset about this and they are prepared to be somewhat public about it. >> andrea mitchell, you leave us where i want to pick up with the panel again. trump praised the wikileaks founder on twitter. assange's appearance on "hannity" and said julian assange could have hacked john podesta. why was the dnc o careless? also said, russians did not give him the info. ben, i'm going to put you on the spot here. how do you feel about donald trump siding with joule young assange over his own intelligence community? >> well, what it's done is create great rifts within republicans as andrea reported. and this is now going to come down to very much a contest on the hill to get legislation passed. this is going to be a distraction among core republicans from being able to achieve. >> we've been hearing republicans not afraid to speak out on this. michael lind say graham spoke about donald trump's tweet about assange, here's part what have he said. >> mr. assange is a fugitive from the law, hiding in an embassy who has a history of undermining american interest. you shouldn't give him an

they lie down in a grassy open field, and a 42-year-old corporal named martin k mitchell waits while his buddy, sergeant john mcknight, is brewing some coffee on the campfire. one of a very few pleasures. and then there's another pleasure. just as corporal mitchell is lying down stretching out, he reaches out with his left hand and attach a something in the tall grass in the field where they are. and what it touches are three cigars. they are an smoked. they look pretty good. he starts asking for a light, and his buddy, sergeant, says wait a minute, once those papers they are wrapped in? they look at the papers covered with dense handwriting and assess on the top, general order 181. this looks serious. and it is signed by adjutant general rh chilton, chief of staff, robert e lee. woe. they take it to the captain. he takes it to the major. they go on and on and on up the line with these orders because this could be important meanwhile,, the cigars are lost which is considered a tragedy. the three most important cigars in american history. they take general order 181, te famous lost dispatch, they take it to g

mitchell, waits while his buddy, guy named sergeant john mcknight, is brewing some coffee on a campfire. one of their very few pleasures. and then there's another pleasure. just as corporal mitchell is lying down, stretching out, he reaches out with his left hand and it touches something in the tall grass in the field where they are. and what it touches are three cigars. they're unsmoked. they look pretty good. he starts asking for a light, h and his buddy,ing their the sergeant sauce, what. what their paper they'd were wrapped in? they looked at the papers covered in dense hand writing and says on the top, general order 181. okay. this looks serious. and it is signed by a general r. chilton, chief of staff, robert e. lee. they take it to their captain, he take athletes major, up the line with the orders because this could be important. the cigars are lost, which is considered a tragedy. the three more important cigars in american history. they take general order 181, the lost dispatch and take it to general mcclelland. he has the good sense to interrupt a counsel with his associated ge

short time ago my colleague and friend andrea mitchell sat down with secretary of state john kerry, it was an exit interview of sorts. she asked him about president-elect trump and his choice to value pro-russian opinions over those of the u.s. intelligence community. it was a wide-ranging conversation. andrea joins us with more of what he said. i enjoyed the part where you encouraged him to bring out his inner joe biden and he promised he would after january 20th. >> who wants to wait to see john kerry unplugged? john kerry very carefully and diplomatically if you will did make it clear how he feels about the disparagement of the intelligence community in this russian hacking by the president-elect. let's watch. how damaging is disparagement with our allies, our adversaries, and our work -- >> it has an impact obviously on the workforce, and i think it's going to be really important for the incoming president to repair this relationship to create a relationship, in fact, because it is vital for the president to be able to work effectively with the intel community. >> and not helpful a

plus my colleague andrea mitchell just sat down with outgoing secretary of state john kerry.'ll join me live with highlights of their one-on-one. on the outside you have to feel healthy at your core. trubiotics a probiotic from one a day. naturally helps support both your digestive and immune health. feel a difference in two weeks or your money back. take the trubiotics 2 week challenge. will your business be ready when growth presents itself? american express open cards can help you take on a new job, or fill a big order or expand your office and take on whatever comes next. find out how american express cards and services can help prepare you for growth at open.com. >>> you're watching msnbc. i'm stephanie ruhle. we have breaking news regarding donald trump. a new interview about the russian hack just out online. hans, this wasn't even in today's paper. it just came out, donald trump speaking to the "new york times" about the potential russian hacking and he hasn't even been briefed yet. that briefing doesn't take place for another hour. >> it's an indication to the extent

john mccain pops up in the story. >> sure, brian, i have to be careful of what nbc confirmed tonight with the help of pete william us and andrea mitchell. we know of two-page addendum of the materials that were presented to president obama and president-elect trump and senior leaders of congress, the gang of eight. that addendum summed up a larger group of allegations damaging, potentially explosives about donald trump and don't know if those allegations have been vetted by the u.s. intelligent community, some of them are verified and don't know the extent of what the fbi have sought to verify them. it is a felony to talk about of these officials and presented to president-elect trump. the russians had information on a lot of different people and republicans and democrats and only chose the leak of information of democrats. secondly, they want to make sure they made trump aware that this information was circulating in the intelligent community before it leaked. >> andrea mitchell, it is being reported two kind of prongs to this. the salacious and the officials, if you will, that's the notion that contacts were going on between the trum

mitchell has more. >> reporter: agreement between republicans and democrats, but many believe russia did it. john mccain even calling the hacking of the dnc an act of war. most of the senators supporting the tellen officials after trump's repeated attacks. >> who actually is the benefactor of someone who is about to become commander in chief trashing the intelligence community? >> i think there is an important distension here between healthy skepticism. i think there's a difference between skepticism and discouragement. >> reporter: james clapper retiring after 53 years in intelligence, serving every president since jfk, saying he's a-political, but preparing to brief a tough critic, the president-elect tomorrow about the russian hacking tomorrow face to face. >> you're going to be challenged tomorrow by the president-elect. are you okay with being challenged? >> absolutely. >> reporter: and just two hours before today's hearing, perhaps an olive branch from trump. backing off a tweet wednesday, seeming to support fugitive wikileaks founder julian assange over u.s. intelligence. trump tweeting, t

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mitchell reports" live on capitol hill. as washington readies for a transition of power, backlash, more fallout today after congressman john lewis' comments to chuck todd on "meet the press" and donald trump's response tweeting the civil rights leader who was almost beaten to death in selma is all "talk, talk, talk, no action or results." >> i don't see this president-elect as a legitimate president. i think the russians participated in having this man get elected, and they have destroyed the candidacy of hillary clinton. >> for someone to use his stature to use terms like this is not a legitimate president. it's just, it's just deeply disappointing to me and i hope he reconsiders it. >> on this day honoring martin luther king jr., john lewis, who was there. >> if it hadn't been for martin luther king jr. i wouldn't be a member of the house of representatives since 1987. if it hadn't been for martin luther king jr., i don't know what would have happened to our nation. he freed us. he helped liberate us to make our nation a better place, to make our world a better place. >>> trump care, donald trump says after rebealing oba

john mccain saying the law is the law and that americak torture. back to you, martha. >> martha: thank you very much for joining us now, dr. james mitchellauthor of "enhanced interrogation, inside the minds and motives of the islamic terrorists trying to destroy america." dr. mitchell has interrogated some of the world's worst terrorists, including 9/11 mastermind, khalid sheikh mohammed. doctor from a very good happy with us tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> martha: in terms of the news that broke today, when you read the story and you heard about this document that has been circulated, which talked about bringing these things back, what went through your mind, where do you think this came from? >> i have no idea where it came from. in my mind, it would make perfect sense for the new president to try to get a handle on whether things are working or they weren't working. i don't know whether that document is a fake. i have no inside knowledge about that. but it does make sense to take a look at whether or not the current measures that we have, what we need to have to protect ourselves. >> martha: after 9/11, you were asked to come ove

john paul ii, president ronald reagan and general colin powell. the surprise ceremony capped the day spent talking to the news media, including a wide-ranging interview with our own andrea mitchelloking back now, president obama said that he could have defeated donald trump. could joe biden have defeated donald trump. >> oh, i don't know. i don't know. i'm not going to speculate on that. >>n your heart of hearts, the criticism is there was a lack of an economic message, that's your ballpa. pennsylvania, the rust belt, your home territory. regrets? >> i have no regret in the sense that did i make the wrong decision. i made the right decision. and -- but do i regret that my point of view is not going to be reflected in the next administration because we have mr. trump? yeah, i do regret that. >> he says that he can get obamacare repealed and replaced on the same day in the same hour. what is he missing here? >> i'm much older than you but remember the expression you would have when you passed around your yearbook to be signed and someone would say "lots of luck in your senior year." lots of luck in your senior year, mr. trump. he lost the popular vote and but for 175,000 votes in

yesterday on capitol hill meeting with senators of both parties including mitchell mcconnell and marco rubio and lindy graham and johnain. many high profile republicans are skeptical. last month on twitter rubio blasted his ties to russia and asked on wednesday if he could support tillerson's nomination, john mccain said, quote, sure. there is also a realistic scenario that pigs fly, end quote. here is senator graham with some concerns of his own. >> if rex tillerson, donald trump's nominee for secretary of state, if he does not agree with your assessment, if he does not see what you see and others see with regards to russia, does he have your vote? >> he'll have a hard time getting my vote because it's clear. you don't have to be sherlock holmes. the russians why undermining democrats by the entire world and taking land by others by force and they hacked into our political system and doing it to other political systems and they need to pay a price. sanctions are coming, president-elect trump. >> "the washington post" reports that behind closed doors, tillerson has sought to deliver tough message about how he sees ru

mitchell has more. >> tonight we're in agreement among democrats and republicans. donald trump has doubts, but they say russia did it. >> every american should be alarmed by russia's attacks on the nation. >> reporter: johnccain calling the hacking of the dnc an act of war. most of the senators supporting the intelligence officials after trump's repeated attacks. >> who actually is the benefactor of someone who is about to become commander in chief trashing the intelligence community? >> i think there is an important distinction here between healthy skepticism, but i think there's a difference between skepticism and disparagement. >> james clapper retiring in 15 days after 53 years in intelligence. serving every president since jfk. saying he is apolitical, but preparing to brief a tough critic, the president elect tomorrow, about the russian hacking report, face to face. >> you're going to be challenged tomorrow by the president elect. are you okay with being challenged? >> absolutely. >> just two hours before today's hearing, perhaps an olive branch from trump. backing off a tweet wednesday seeming to support julian assange over u.s. intelligence. trump tweeting today, the dishonest media likes saying

mitchell says hi, rick. >>> shares of alibaba is getting a boost after jack mah saw president-elect trump. john harwood is here. >> kelly, that's the second most important bit of news we've gotten out of trump tower this morning. the first of course is jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, is going to be named as a senior advisor to the president. you were talking in that market discussion about the uncertainty over what policy gets implemented. jared kushner is going to have as much influence as anybody in the entire trump administration on what those polling sis aicieg to be. real estate developer, married to ivanka trump. now he's been trying today to switch the focus back to economic issues, the president-elect has, and he started by taking credit for the fiat chrysler expansion, which is an economic development move that fiat chrysler started talking about a year ago. he also met, as you've mentioned, kelly, with jack mah of alibaba at trump tower. they talked about jack mah's desire to let american small businesses sell on the alibaba site and that's a way that he says that he's goin

john mcenroe got my seat. clayton: i could see that. abby: i don't blame you for that one. >> so i called mitchell last night, any ticket you want at anyi know you're going to keep your promise. you make a promise, a year and a half later. abby: and, joe, you've been lifting weights for it. >> yes, we've been working out. abby: you're looking good. good to have you. >> i knew ed would get on me. ed: elevating the level of excitement on our show. [laughter] ed: meanwhile, the mainstream media hits the panic button over the president's immigration order. >> chaos, confusion and protests. >> there was chaos and confusion at airports today -- >> chaos, confusion and fear. ed: lieutenant colonel tony schafer is here to separate fact from fiction next. abby: plus, trump's big, beautiful wall getting a big endorsement this morning, but from who? you're going to have to stick around. ed: foreign leader maybe? ♪ ♪ ♪ you know how painful heartburn can be. for fast-acting, long-lasting relief, try doctor recommended gaviscon. it quickly neutralizes stomach acid and helps keep acid down for hours. relieve heartburn with fast- acting, long-lasting

mitchell is with us now. he's been with the washington post of the worst, the al-qaeda operatives who did 9/11 and wanted to do 9/11. you ask them. is johnists because we put a ban, temporary pause on them? >> i don't think so. in fact, if that's the issue, if the point that drives them to decide to take up arms and kill us is the fact that we want to check out who's coming into our country and be sure that they are who they say we are, then we have a much larger problem with muslims than i think that we do. any -- my experience with talking to mohammed, he ran the media committee for al-qaeda for a while doing their propaganda videos, their recruitment videos. and what they told me is they can take any position our politicians take and spin it in a way that it looks like it's the mistreatment for muslims. so, for example, let's imagine that we opened up our borders and let everyone in from all of these countries that wanted to come in. what al-qaeda would probably say there is we're over in their homeland bombing their cities driving their people out and then luring them into our country to poison their minds with western democracy. the