he's clearly under psychological duress. >> psychological dur ress, jonathan lemire. you cover the president on a regular basis. this is not the first time the president has gone on a crazy twitter tweet storm. we see these things as mike said regularly, number one. number two, it's not the first time people questioned his cognitive state and mental fitness. talk about what it is normally and do pattern recognition here, what normally brings about these kind of outbursts? >> in the past it seems these are triggered by impending bad news, pressure being applied. in the sense the last day or so around the president is a few things at once. he is, like we all are, waiting for the mueller report. we don't know when it's coming. i spoke to rudy giuliani late last night who said their guess is as good as ours. they think soon. they have not been given's heads-up when it could be. you have the ongoing pressure applied to house democrats investigation after investigation after investigation. third, the president is complaining around him, and we saw this a little on twitter t

. >> joining us is our jonathan lemire and our washington correspondent and contributor, kimberley kimberley atkins and jonathan cohn. jo jonathan lemire, why is the white house want to take this up for an issue today. >> three things. republicans are stepping on what has been his best news cycle the best couple of days for his presidency at least in a while. the attorney general's findings and the mueller report and arrest of michael avenatti. it has been a good couple days for the president here. there was not a lot of appetite among republicans to pursue obamacare right now. for the president and some of his staffs including the chief of staff have admitted this is the time. for the president, it is personal. it is something that he night after night as you well know to replace obamacare during the 2016 campaign. it is something he held a grudge when the republican effort in 2017 went down in defeat because of senator john mccain casting that deciding vote on the senate floor well after mid night. >> it is personal about mccain and it is personal because it is called obamacare. he's runni

and snch and jonathan lemire, it's sot deposing. not quite as bad as the last night in seattle? are they going to make us give back our friend the 9th. >> my fear is the red sox open up with this 11 game road trip and instead we'll have to wave a right flag sfchg now that we call them the worst team ever. which means we may actually win tonight, but i did not say that out loud. >> so you had trom. from i mean, going tull nm in a state where a poll came out that nominate -- is that is that why the president is ramping it up more or does his campaign knows that mirn in and really needs to put a his under water poll numbers. they feel there's nch yes, it was politics in 2020 pu it was as we've noted since we haven't seen what's under lying the muller are the but this was an 82-minute rally, spol he opened up with a fiery die tribe against had the case pal wall him. in against the. that, look the they came at me. this was a treasonous attempt to undermine our democracy. basically painting it as a. if the democrats jept looking no. and that would be the example. and what we shaw (is

that's according to "ap," jonathan lemire who writes.ll produce what he insisted all along that there is no clear evidence of conspiracy of russia and his 2016 campaign. trump and his advisers are considering how to weaponize those findings. joining me jonathan lemire and our law professor joyce vance. john, how are they plan to use this report? >> well, let's make two things clear up front. >> no one knows what's in the report yet. number two, the mueller investigation is far from a witch hunt. we know the totals of indictments and charges. having said that, people around the president have been saying recent days and weeks as we reported in our story that there is not going to be anything new or a smoking gun or some sort of bomb shell they're unaware of. the president is going to try to take that. instead of running from the port which i think most of us anticipated, the idea pointing out suggesting his claim would be there is nothing here. this has been two years and tens of millions of dollars. it obstruct my agenda. are they going

joining me, msnbc chief, halie jackson and our associated press reporter, jonathan lemire. >> how did this go out? >> i don't know, slowly and suddenly is the way to answer the question. >> bill shine went to the trip to vietnam that the president went on. the president kind of got tired of shine. there was a sense that he was going to do more to shake up the white house's communications team which he led at the time. as of today, he no longer does. there would be more shine could do. the one that the president cares about the most. there is nothing he focuses on so much as his image when it relates on how he's portrayed on television or the media. this thing just came to an end here, to a close. it does not seem like there is a ton of bad blood and shine is moving on to be a senior adviser to the campaign would reflect it. he lasted 22 scarramuccis, eight months. >> the president, i read that he was excited for shine because shine promised he would get better coverage, better news and the fox who certainly got good news. coverage did not change anywhere else. you are not going to sud

joining me, wbr, msnbc contributor, kimberley atkin and jonathan lemire is joining us as well. t, jonathan, between the two branches of government and what we have seen is congress willfully handed over a lot of their power to the executive branch over the years. this is the moment where republicans stood with democrats, no, we don't want to give you that money for that purpose. you will have to find it another way. now he's going to have to over rule it? >> yes, he is. i thought republicans have been good allies of the president at this point. i am going to quote this. a sense of waking up to our responsibilities. he felt the body gotten a little lazy deferring to the white house. there are few and far between. this is a significant repute. the president made it clear that he'll veto with all caps with exclamation points on twitter. he's going to do it at 3:30 this afternoon and white house officials suggest it to us that there had been an effort to stem the tie to keep republicans in line. more than ten broke with him, the president is going to remember names. this is somethin

jon meacham and jonathan lemire and joining the conversation associate editor of comment tear magazinetor karin. and jonathan you're real smart and in washington. first of all, i didn't get a thank you from my mother for her funeral a couple weeks ago. should i hold this against her. >> stop it. no. >> it is difficult to send thank yous from onthe grave typically. >> please, do brag. >> well, i don't want to brag but the hard ball you guys were talking about the mccain segment. i was on that hard ball segment. >> i would like to you explain as you did on the mystery version of hard ball. >> so great. >> what exactly did donald trump not get wrong? but what did he get right about that statement? and please explain whether he is the one making the decision about whether he lies in state in congress. about whether the ceremony is at the national cathedral, et cetera? >> he got far more wrong than right. he did play a small role in the mccain funeral proceedings. but no president approves the funerals of members of congress. congress decides who lies in state. the washington national cathe

joining me now, jonathan lemire, white house reporter for "the washington post." great to have you. let me get your thoughts quickly on mitch mcconnell. he's not known to do things that are for theatrics sake. we remember that when it is the government shutdown. he thinks this is how it's going to play out. the president's rebuke for the national emergency declaration will pass the senate. it will be vetoed by the president, but it will not have a veto-proof majority. >> that seems to be where we're going. this is a moment where some republican senators, and rand paul included have the ability to say no. they can make a stand on principle. they can we don't agree with this national declaration. we're worried that it takes away power from the congress. but also worried about the precedent it sends for a future democratic president. at this point, they can safely cast that vote knowing that the numbers aren't going to be at the point where they'll be able to overturn the veto. >> there's an exit ramp for them at least. >> more of a symbolic vote than anything else because the presiden

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joining me now is jonathan lemire, white house reporter for the associated press and an msnbc politicalst. margaret carlson, a columnist for the daily beast. jonathan, fact check. the president likes to blame the media, but he brought this up in tweets over the weekend, and he brought it up in that speech in ohio. but the question remains, why. are the president's attacks on mccain a strategic appeal to the base, or is even much of his base puzzled by this? >> it is -- the attacks have been relentless, and you're right, the president himself began this, it wasn't in response to the media. there is certainly some here in the white house who are dismayed by them, feel like they're a distraction but they also throw up their hands and realize, this is the kind of thing they can't control, the president is wont to do this. i don't think there is a strategic plan here. it's the president blowing off steam about something that irks him. he saw the reports over the weekend about the dossier and that it was linked to mccain. his original attack during the campaign was that he preferred war heroe

. >>> i want to get into more of this now, with me matt miller, betsy woodruff, and jonathan lemire, white house reporter for the associated press and a political analyst who has written about the president's plans for retribution. jonathan, because you're in front of me, i want to start with you. trump surrogates going all out, let's take a listen to that and then i want you to comment on it. >> there are a lot of people out there that have done some very, very evil things, very bad things. i would say treasonous things against our country. >> this was the greatest farce every perpetrated. >> i think they're shameless. i've seen them already ignore it. i mean, we did spend enormous amounts of money and time. we had very skilled people who had a bias against the president. >> they've made donald trump look like the victim here. >> so greatest farce, treas treasonous, biassed. what are you hearing from inside the white house right now and how they plan to move forward? >> it's a sense of relief, this is what happened, the mueller cloud has lifted thanks to attorney general barr's lette

nbc news national political reporter heidi przybyla and associated press white house reporter jonathan lemire. let me start with you, joyce vance, and take us through this framework laid out in politico about what these final chapters, if that's where we are in the mueller probe, could bring in terms of revelations and if not mueller sort of pulling back the curtain, then what we might learn in the court dates and deadlines this week. >> so i think it's always important for us to remember that prosecutors know a lot that's not public about an investigation. so we're reading their tea leaves, sometimes we're successful, other times not so much. but i would be cautious about what we can expect to learn in the coming days. doj policy is not to reveal the existence of let alone the progress of investigation, so when we learn that investigations are in progress, in the southern district of new york, typically that's because somebody had been subpoenaed to a grand jury and that witness chooses to talk or we see a search warrant being executed. we learn these things in little dribbles and drabls. bu

here on set associated press white house reporter jonathan lemire. nbc news national political reporter carol lee. matthew miller, former chief spokesman at the department of justice, and jean-pierre, senior adviser to moveon.org. it cannot be repeated enough how fast the mueller report was and 0 because sometimes how opaque it was we talk about the collusion probe, obstruction probe, but it was at its heart a counterintelligence investigation. >> yes, and you went through questions at the beginning and there are many more. did the president know about the trump tower? did the president direct an aide to get in touch with roger stone about ricky leaks? did the president himself talk to roger stone about wikileaks? these are all important for criminal reasons and counterintelligence reasons. often the two get jieneoined. counterintelligence investigations produce criminal charges. but at the heart this was opened as an counterintelligence situation and the underlying question, has the president been compromised is something they have to answer for the

i'm alongside katty kay, white house reporter jonathan lemire, staff rattner and kimberly atkins. we've got a lot to cover this morning, including beto o'rourke's presidential bid. we'll talk to the author of the vanity fair profile that just dropped ahead of today's announcement. plus paul manafort's legal trouble went from bad to worse. new york wants a crack at him in a criminal case that the president cannot pardon away. >> also ahead, we'll talk about the college cheating scandal and the staggering 750 families who may have been involved. plus matt whitaker has left the department of justice but some things he said to congress last month just aren't going away. it surrounds his comments with president trump about michael cohen. but we begin with former congressman beto o'rourke this morning officially joining the fe field of 2020 democratic candidates. his three-day trip will include visits to eight counties that voted for president obama in 2012 and chose donald trump in 2016. o'rourke, who najust narrowly lt his senate seat to -- said "i'm just born to be in it and want to

with us msnbc contributor and so much more, mike barnicle, white house reporter jonathan lemire, crista anderson and author of "the death of expertise" tom nichols and author of "power up" jacqueline alemani. joe and mika are off this morning. joe is tending to the funeral of his mother as you heard here. >>> key people, who along with don jr. signed off on a check reimbursing michael cohen for paying off stormy daniels. the general services committee holds the lease for the building that houses the trump hotel in washington. the nra received a document request, as well as the "national enquirer." committee chairman jerry nadler said the initial request for documents are limited to those that already have been submitted to the special counsel, the southern district of new york or or congressional committees. the chairman explained what sets his investigation apart. >> our job is very different from other law enforcement agencies. the special prosecutor has a specific manndate to investigat only the russian interference in the election or possible collusion or interference and to look at

i even thumped in jonathan lemire and we saw the red sox in fort myers, of course we got kicked out in the first inning for yelling at the red sox that they were blowing it. one of the wonderful things about baseball is it's beautiful, there is a simplicity to it. it's interesting that people that aren't from america doesn't get it, which is very interesting. george mitchum always loves telling the story about how he was with queen elizabeth and they were at dinner the night she came to visit, i think it was in '89 or '90 and she had gone up to see the order nalls play and george mitchell asked her she put everybody at ease and she could not think of a diplomatic thing to say about baseball. instead the queen just replied, well, nothing much really happened out there, did it? >> not a thing. >> she anyway, so there is a beauty and a simplicity to baseball. not so much with health care as we make our turn. and we go back to a lip from last year. drft -- after saying who easy it was going to be to reform health care during the cam pan suddenly figured out it's not so easy. ta take a look

we have with us susan del percio, eddie glaude jr., jonathan lemire and national correspondent and authored half before beto entered the race and half after, beto did not catch much of a bounce. former vice president joe biden remains atop the field at 35% with bernie sanders at 27%, kamala harris and o'rourke receiving 8% each with elizabeth warren at 7%. joe, tell me about those numbers. >> we're very early in the process. if you went back to this stage of the 2008 cycle, you wouldn't be hearing about john mccain or barack obama, you would be hearing about how hillary clinton was going to be going up against rudy giuliani. listen, joe biden has incredible name identification. his positives, he's plus 65 net positives. bernie sanders still doing very well but, no, you're right, beto o'rourke stuck down at 8% but again, this is a marathon. 8% is where he starts. just like you have mayor pete, he's sitting at 1% right now. you can expect that to go up considerably in the coming months. but steve kornacki, i'm still surprised by elizabeth warren at 7%. and, again, perhaps -- again, they've

but, mike barnicle, jonathan lemire and i were in for the myers watching the red sox at jet blue field. we didn't see you. you missed a great game. the red sox won. we said to each other, this is a team that we surely can slip ahead of the orioles and maybe finish in fourth this year. we're very excited about the red sox. >> i'm very optimistic they'll beat out the orioles in terms of placement of the american league east, joe. nothing to worry about there. i'm glad you had a good time. fort myers is always fun. jet blue is always fun. have i i have to inject this based upon the opening of the show. i think one. classic tweets of this weekend was from bill crystal who urged members of the republican party to look at all of the president's tweets yesterday. don't avert your eyes, he said. don't avert your eyes. look at the tweets and then ask yourself is this the man you want representing the republican party? joe, as you pointed out, it was horrendous, horrendous. >> i have always made it, mika, always made it my goal in politics to never take any attacks personally and i rarely do. i

with us, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, white house reporter for the associated press jonathan lemirerichard haass and former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele and joining the conversation, political writer for "the new york times," msnbc political analyst, nick confessore and now msnbc political analyst claire mccaskill is with us. >> mike, you're the boston catholic. what is up with the pope? should they put up a sign, do not kiss the ring? what is going on? >> i think it is the pope's inner humility and out were the humility that he's reluctant to do that. he doesn't abide by it. he doesn't like it. i think it is refreshing in terms of long held traditions where people get on their bended knee and kiss the pope's ring. he doesn't want to do that. i'm happy he's doing -- look at that. that's great. you know what it is like, it reminds me of the old -- you hold your hands out, and someone else tries to slap your hands, he would be great at that. great reflexes. >> very good reflexes. what i don't understand is we come to the set, you talk about humility you