maggie haberman is back with us.ing us, james clapper, the former director of national intelligence and a cnn national security analyst. and lisa maniaco, she was once robert mueller's chief of staff and is a national security analyst. james clapper, i want to start with you because you area director of national intelligence when some of the first questions, start tock raised about trump campaign officials and operatives, their activities, what were they doing? why were they talking to russian snooze now th ? now that robert mueller has come out and said they will not be charged for any crime or sp conspiracy of coordination of crimes, are you surprised? >> actually not. as lisa can attest, all of us in the administration that were in a position to observe this were concerned about numerous meetings from -- with members -- between members of the trump campaign and the russians. but i do want to point out that in our intelligence community assessment that we rendered on the 6th of january of 2017 and briefed then pres

maggi haberman is here. bill crystal, and jim acosta, from hanoi. >>> plus, why sean hannity is under pressure from democratic lawmakers. and later an exclusive interview with adam mosk. hear his forecast for the future of magazines. >>> but first, what year is it? president trump is cursing and complaining about crowd size and calling journalists sick and whipping up his base. meanwhile, the bigger crowd this weekend was over at the bernie sanders kickoff event, where he hit the same themes as 2016, and even used the exact same logo. the same outrages, the same argument. so what is actually new? where is the news for us to report? well, this is news. house judiciary chairman jerrold nadler saying he believes trump has obstructed justice and on monday is issuing document requests to over 60 different people and entities. that news in the past couple hours. the mounting evidence of unethical and illegal conduct is what's new. and this week, this part is important, this week it was he will advised in a new way

he's attacking maggie haberman as fake news at the same time he's giving her an interview. he's doing it so the public when the "new york times" and "the washington post" both report on this -- obviously the "new york times" broke the story. it was confirmed by the post. he hopes his supporters won't believe that. they'll believe the false statements, the one youmaggie. the one ivanka trump made to abc news so he can get them not to believe anyone but himself. >> this is a political issue, not a legal one. it's clear he has the authority to do this. ek grant this security clearance. if he can do it, why not brag about it which he's done in the past? house democrats have said they want to know more. add this to the list of what they are calling a ten-course meal of things they want to investigate after the cohen hearing, testimony behind closed doors. michael cohen will come back. felix sader will speak. weisselberg will testify. what do you think we are likely to see here. what do you think democrats will focus on? >> one of the things you heard elijah cummings say was foll

and i thought that that was significant to note. >> maggie haberman, thank you as always.nk you. >> the book, again, is called "kushner inc" by investigative reporter vicki ward. i want to check in with chris, see what he's work bing on for "cuomo primetime." >> you must know having vicki. >> i don't think i do. >> when you see her and hear her, you're going to be -- >> "vanity fair" i know -- scl she's been a fixture in new york for a long time. i've known her a long time. this book is going to be waves of coverage. it is going to be something that the media will fixate on initially. the president is going to have very limited appetite for it. not because it's unsubstantiated, but because it is substantiated. then you're going to have second and third-wave interest because of the depth of the analysis of how intensely personal it's going to be. so you are right to seize upon it. i think this is going to be a chapter, not that it means anything existential, but once again, this is going to be a character portrait i think many people have not been aware of. so, tonight, we'

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. >> that's maggie haberman's interview with the president. the house oversight committee has been requesting specific documents and interviews relating to white house security clearances. for more than a month and last night threatened to subpoena them if they don't come soon. house democrats aren't done yet with michael cohen. after three straight days after testimony before three separate congressional committees the president's former lawyer and confidant is coming back wednesday for more closed door q&a with the house intelligence panel. joe johns is at the white house this morning. two reports, two separate papers, a lot of good reporters on the lines on the white house isn't denying reports about the president mandating kushner get the top secret security clearance. >> nothing so far from the president indicating otherwise. look, there are a couple of questions raised by the "new york times" reporting. first, what is it in jared kushner's background that's raised the issues in the first place? we have never gotten to what specifically t

on january 31st, less than a month ago maggie haberman sat down with the president and asked him about this. listen to this moment. >> you tell anyone in the white house to overrule security officials? >> no, i don't think i have the authority do that. i'm not sure i do. but i wouldn't -- i wouldn't do it. >> okay. >> you never -- >> jared's a good -- i was never involved with his security. i know just from reading i know that there was issues back and forth about security for numerous people, actually. but i don't want to get involved in that stuff. >> i was never involved with his security. we now know that not to be true. >> fundamentally false. let's do a close reading of that. that is the art of the lie. look how he lies on so many levels with some facility. i'm not even sure if i've got that kind of power. but if i did i definitely wouldn't use it and i would never get involved with the security of my children. then tweeting also using the fake news it's a false reporting, you know, droublioub down on the lie. it's stunning that a president has ann stinct to lie on that many leve

maggie haberman shares the byline on this. she joins us on the phone. ie, you walk us through what happened here based on your reporting? >> sure, anderson. this has been going on for quite some time, as you know. jared kushner's background check has been a problem for him and by extension for the white house since he joined the administration. his initial application was lacking a bunch of key meetings and contacts that he had with foreign officials in various capacities. you know, they said there was a clerical error that was being updated. he was operating with a provisional clearance for some time. it was downgraded at least once, and it was downgraded in february of 2018 at a time when they were reviewing a bunch of security clearances. and this is very frustrating to jared kushner and ivanka trump, both who reported at the time felt as if john kelly and don mcgahn, the white house counsel, were targeting them. but the fbi and the cia had concern about the extent of foreign contact by jared kushner and by his involvement with his family business, hi

it's in no small part due to maggie haberman's reporting. "the new york times" white house correspondent and a cnn political analyst and joins us by phone. >> so maggie, what was the president's mood like up on capitol hill today? >> ebullient for him, anderson. as ebullient as he gets. he clearly felt vindicated, made that clear. described the last two years with, you know, a curse word to describe what he had been through. then ticked through a litany of either pet peeves or concerns or legislative issues. said he wanted the party to focus on health care. he thinks that's incredibly important. he was critical and he had charts accompanying him on the amount of money that the government has spent toward puerto rico after hurricane maria. and that i think caught a lot of attention afterwards. but look, this is feeling valedictory for him and it's comparable to how we saw him right after the 2016 presidential election. >> it was just yesterday we were learning back in february the president was talking about ways to limit aid to puerto rico. s

probably a few weeks ago maggie haberman, the force that she is, got a -- got a tip that the president ordered these clearances. and then we had a chance to interview trump. the story wasn't fully baked but we conferred and we thought why not ask trump the question. let's just put it to him. it wasn't a gotcha moment. we weren't trying to trap him. we just thought maybe he will just tell us. because he can be -- sometimes he can be unusually open. and we put it to him and we were surprised by his response. we also real i saysed -- realized the raised the bar of putting the story out. and then my other colleagues, mike schmidt and annie carney came in and we -- we got this thing over the edge. and as i tweeted, we live in the age of contemporaneous memos. i'm a big fan of them. i did the reporting on the 25th amendment and the wire comments that rob rosenstein made, deputy attorney general, so we knew there was something out there we needed to get a handle on. there were knowable facts in thesis memos. >> it's such a fascinating peek into your process and you're right, there was a bold-

so why -- it's so strange when you hear maggie haberman's audio of asking president trump about this hear him lie when john kelly and don mcgahn right notes about this. why was he not truthful on this one? >> that's the big mystery about this white house. there have been so many mistruths that have been told to the american public from the stormy daniels situation to the security clearances to talk about trump tower moscow that it's hard to know exactly why the president, why the people around him have been so willing to lie to the american public. and i think that is the mystery that -- and that's the reason why we have so many subpoenas that are going over from congress to the white house to get to the bottom of why there's been so much deception and figure out if there's anything nefarious about it or whether the president was trying to protect his children from embarrassment and say i didn't have to bail them out when they were being seen as potential national security threats. it's hard to know. but we have seen and my newspaper has documented more than 9,000 lies and mistruths

maggie haberman, appreciate it. thank you. joining us is "usa today" columnist kirsten powers, former rnc chief of staff mike shields, and cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. jeff, i mean, does it make sense to you that ivanka trump, a, has a clearance, b, claimed her father had nothing to do with it, and c, it appears according to the reporting that her father did have something to do with it? >> well, it makes sense because i've covered the trump administration and i know that nepotism is one of the guiding forces. but the real question at the heart of this here -- and let's stipulate that the president has the right to declassify any documents he wants, he can give security clearances to anyone he wants. but why -- what was it that the intelligence agencies saw in the background of jared kushner and ivanka trump that made them want to deny them security clearances? what was the financial, the personal, the political -- what was the issue? because that's why they review people for security clearances, because they want t

in an interview with maggie haberman of "the new york times" she asked, did you tell general kelly, the chief of staff at the time, to overrule security officials? no, said the president. i wouldn't do it. i was never involved in jared's security. we heard denials last month from ivanka trump on abc. >> there were anonymous leaks about there being issues but the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. zero. >> what were the probleming early on? >> there weren't. >> the trump family very firm, this didn't happen. "the times" said there's internal mem rows of general kelly and don mcgahn documenting the president's order to give clearance. congress asked to see the documents, kris. >> thank you, scott. >>> we just learned new information of a deadly taser incident on the peninsula. the district attorney will not charge the deputies. last october deputies used a taser on 36-year-old okobi in a confrontation. since then, the district attorney's office has been investigating and body camera just released we are going through it in the newsroom as we

maggie haberman reports sources view jared kushner as the defac defacto chief of staff. >> i thunk that'se feels like chief of staff. mu mull ve mulvaney is acting chief of staff. what you have is also ivanka and jared serving as the chief advisors to the president. not only are they the chief of staff, but on a number of issues, think of family s separation, ivanka could go to her father and say cut that out. ivanka's 37 and her father is 72. s she says look, my dad believes what he believes and there's nothing i can do that's going to change his mind. >> this whole thing was wrong, trump doesn't understand the mores of why history says nepotism's wrong. >> there's a reason why after bobby kennedy's tenure, they decided to change the nepotism laws. trump has created a back door and playing in that space. woor arer here unless there's some type of action that's going to be taken for whoever is lected. if trump's reelected, these folks will still be unplay. he's not taking them out of play. >> how does a father say to his chief of staff get them out of here anden the we all observe he's no

according to new reporting from annie carney and maggie haberman at the "new york times," mr. trump is focused on vengeance after the investigation led by the special counsel and his aides are indulging him, attacking the democrats and the reporter who is have written about it. earlier today trump resurrected another favorite. >> bwe have two big caravans frm guatemala. massive caravans walking through mexico. mexico is tough and they can stop them and they chose not to. now they are going to. if they don't stop them, we will close the boarder and keep it closed for a long time. i'm not playing games. >> marco rubio was nodding in agreement. this means shutting down all trade with mexico that amounts to almost $2 billion a day. jonathan allen, nbc news political reporter and annie carney for the "new york times." annie, is this all base all the time? it's not a great way to win new customers, but we have been wrong about that in the past. >> the president has shown very little interest in new customers. this is going to play out with his campaign. his 2020 campaign that maggie

new york times political reporter, maggie haberman always has the inside scoop. she said last night someone close to her was not trying to close a doorman and was surprising how definitively hip played. they said the clinton team is waiting for their mueller report to drop before making a decision but everyone knows hillary will not be able to resist running again. so will the third time be a charm? three strikes and she's out. the panels back, alexandria wilkes, jason meister -- >> you're going to get it. kennedy: i know! and jessica tarlov. i think democrats by and large are that hillary was not running like, finally, moving on!new page! clean slate! >> is been the case for a very long time. then we keep going back to this narrative that the right wing obviously loves. and you just think, there has to be a definitive no go on this. i understand her frustration that people talk about joe biden who has failed running for president or john kerry that failed and everyone is fine with them being there but it's a problem that she is. but at the end of the day unfortu

getting in the race, then there was some pushback from some of her, you know, close allies, telling maggie haberman "i didn't mean to be definitive about that," and she got into this whole "mean girl" kind of tweet with the president, because the president tweeted, crooked hillary clinton confirms she will not run, aww shucks, does that mean i won't get to run against her again, she will be sorely missed, and that of course led to her response, yamiche. >> it's one of those things that hillary clinton continues to be this bogeyman that president trump likes to use. i was at cpac where people still had hillary clinton for prison on. i think as heidi and you were talking about, this idea of billionaire fatigue, i think there's also hillary fatigue. the reason we see this large field of democrats running is this is the first election where there isn't a big name in the race like an obama, like a clinton, and democrats feel like they can finally run and whoever wants to run can run. of course michael bloomberg is saying that's too crowded for me, i'm not going to do that. we're seeing hillary clinton m

we want to bring in maggie haberman, the white house correspondent for the "new york times" and a cnn political analyst who gets to share the table with allison in washington. maggie. >> very lucky. >> let me ask you. you got a recording of what happened behind closed doors yesterday. the president was with republican members of the senate and those senators said, yes, he was enthusiastic, post-mueller. but he was talking about a number of things. one of them was healthcare. because we woke up yesterday shocked, frankly, that the white house signed on to this legal argument saying that obamacare should be invalidated immediately. the president dove in with these republican senators. explain. >> the president was not demurrer, john, as you say, he often isn't in these moments. look, i think the president is mindful the republicans had campaigned on depeeling the affordable care act, including him in 2016. there is this existing suit. i think the white house is trying to figure out how you deal with nevada that sa deal with that. that said, the chief of staff, the first ideologue the pr

our friend maggie haberman of the "new york times." good morning, maggie. >> good morning. >> how did jared kushner get his security clearance? >> well, according to our reporting it was ordered by the president by way of john kelly despite the objection of some career personnel security office folks and the white house counsel, donald f. mcgahn. john kelly wrote a memo saying that he was -- the president ordered that jared kushner get a clearance. kelly thought whatever it was the president was saying he took it as an order. why it's striking, among other things, the president has the authority do this. but he told me when i asked him in the oval office several weeks ago that he had no role in this. ivanka trump said publicly her father had no role in it. and abbe lowell, jared kushner's lawyer said last year that this went through a normal process, a point that he made i think on cnn as well as to us after the clearance came through. there has to be a reason why it was that everybody did not want to point to what had actually happened

ahead of the issue in 2020, a fight democrats are happy to have when "new york times" reporter maggie habermans of trump's best two days in office, well, that official dead panned. quote, too much positive news. we need to change the subject, i guess, and go back to doing destructive things. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is wednesday, march 27th. with us we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, white house reporter for the associated press jonathan la lamier, richard haass is with us, msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele is here this

maggi haberman is here. and jim acosta, from hanoi. >>> plus, why sean hannity is under pressure from democratic lawmakers. and later an exclusive interview with adam mosk. hear his forecast for the future of magazines. >>> but first, what year is it? president trump is cursing and complaining about crowd size and calling journalists sick and whipping up

intervening on his son-in-law's behalf, including in this oval office interview in january with maggie haberman of "the new york times." >> there's been a story in the news the last two weeks about your son-in-law's security clearance. [indiscernibible] pres. trump: i don't think i have the authority to do that. but i would not do it. is a good -- i was never involved with his security. amy: jared kushner's wife -- and president trump's daughter and senior advisor, ivanka trump -- also denied president trump played a role in winning a security clearance for kushner. she was speaking with abc's abby huntsman. >> there were anonymous leaks about there being issues, but the president had no involvement pertrtaining to my clearance ory husbsband's cleaearance. amy:y: on thursdsday, white houe press secretary sarah h huckabee sanders responded to "the new york times" report saying, "we don't comment on security clearances." in afghanistan, taliban fighters attacked a major army base in helmand province friday, with initial reports indicating as many as 20 afghan soldiers killed. the violence came as

white house sxornlt cnm political analyst, maggie haberman. >> what is your understanding of why bills actually leaving? >> when he announced he was leaving, knowing that it was about to be made public. he said there were two reasons. one was that he was leading a life of solitude in washington. he missed his family. he ate alone every night. he spent most of his time alone. i think that's. true he complained about that for a while of he also said that he had become a distraction for the president and he would continue being a distraction. it is not clear what he was talking about there were headlines around his tenure at fox news or future stories coming out. but my understanding is this has been coming for several days. very small group of people who knew about it. the president didn't seemed particularly worked up about it. i don't think they ever had a great deal of chemistry. ironically, bill shine lasted the longest in this job with any of the six people that have had it. >> it's incredible when you see six people have had this job. it says a lot about -- well, i don't know what

against the failing new york times, and yet he continues to give the paper interviews, he talks to maggie habermane want the paper's approval even as he criticizes? >> i think the reality is he's going to criticize people when he feels he's mistreated, but he's going to give them the opportunity to make it right. in this case perhaps he's given them too many occasions to make it right. howard: you're a bit of a brawler, why do you dive into those other controversies? for example, when lori loughlin and felicity huffman were charged in that college admissions scam -- >> because they seem to have an opinion about everything that relates to us. it's always nice to -- again, i've got a bit of the counterpunching gene. it probably took politics for me to realize i was more like my father than i perhaps thought before this. [laughter] again, it's more about rallying against a lot of the hypocrisy that's out there. everyone has an opinion on this. the second something happens on that side, it's not news, it's covered up -- howard: sometimes maybe i should have let that one go? >> i don't know that i've e

joining us now on that note, maggie haberman, white house correspondent for the "new york times" and a cnn analyst. you were part of the team that broke it wide open last week. your story focused primarily on jared kushner and a contem contemporaneous memo john kelly wrote saying he was concerned the president was overruling him for clearance for jared kushner. ivanka trump adds color to that. also with her televised denial which is not unlike the president's denial to you. >> i think it is within the realm of possibility ivanka trump didn't know. it is unlikely but it is possible. i asked the president in january. it's a yes or no question. did you order official -- i asked about jared kushner. ivanka trump's clearance came through -- i think it was a few days later, but around the same time as jared kushner's in may of 2018. it was a yes or no question. did you tell officials to give him clearance. he not only said no but said i don't think i have the authority to do that. he does have the authority to do it which is why it's interesting there was such an effort. and we have report

joining us from "the new york times," maggie haberman, also a cnn political analyst. and something of a trump human decoder ring. maggie, thank you for being with us. this latest statement from the president, maybe we should just say no. i have a hard time believing that this is a real, literal, genuine threat to block the release of the mueller report. is this just more of, "a," him messing with people on a friday night because he can? or, "b," sort of moving the bar, no pun intended, so the part of the report that does get released by barr, he can say, look, we're being completely transparent. i didn't have to be. >> it could be all of the above. i think some of these tweets of his where there's not much utility in trying to figure out what the motive is. in this one he could be trolling the press very successfully right now, he could be reacting to television coverage which he often does, or he could indeed be thinking, and i tend to think it's a little less that, that he's setting the bar at a different point. look, i understand why the white house feels very good

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the one thing we've found and we hear, you know, we hear from washington reporters, you know, maggie habermanll come on and talk about who seems to have a thermometer on his mood, that it very much, very much has -- reflects the trouble he thinks he's in. >> it's an ear thermometer. tsung mi a conflict between the executive and congress, there is a new conflict between the executive and congrus because the senate will vote on the president's emergency declaration to get funding for the border wall and senator rand paul says he will vote against the emergency declaration side wlgt democrain democrats. it does seem there are the votes to block this from happening, at least before the president vee toes it with rand paul coming out ads he did. >> rand paul is the fourth vote that the democrats would need to get the supporting of the resolution of the president's national emergency in the senate. i expect that number to go higher. most like i upper single digits, maybe even ten republican senators, that's how deep this opposition to the president is. i mean, you're talking about a fiery speech fr

preet is joining us tonight along with our maggie haberman.ing what stands out to you in it? the fact that he wrote it and made clear that there is no instance of a decision or a proposed action by the special counsel was over ruled by the justice department. i don't want to read too much into this and we'll engage in all sorts of speculations. the fact that he says he may be in the position to give the principal conclusions to committee members as soon as this weekend may indicate that not so terrible for the president. and wait and see if there is a strategy for not providing some of it or all of it. this is an inflection point in the investigation. it is not quite the end because there are other cases that other offices are dealing with. before we know the details of the report and give some thanks to robert mueller no matter what the conclusions are. he spent most of his life for the public and representing the country and both in war and court. after someone has tried a good case, you want to give them a compliment before you know what th

want to bring in maggie haberman. dp does the president really want us to see the unedited report? >> you have the answer to your own question. he said it and it was followed immediately by that's up to the attorney general. for instance when he would say he wanted to speak with mueller's investigators and would he do it under penalty of perjury. for a time he did want to do that. even when he was still saying it publicly after a while he have wasn't going to. he would say, it's up to my lawyers. my lawyers don't want me to. it's their view. he often says one thing and contradicts it very quickly after. i think it is why there is sort of a diminishing return in thinking this has anything to do with what will happen with the report. he could say he wants the report to be made public and have it be the directive to the a.g. but i see no evidence of that now. >> it gives him a fallback to say, look, i said i want it out there. it's not my fault. >> one of the things he was extremely skilled at during the campaign and since but particularly during the campaign is he would take both sid

in an interview with maggie haberman of the "new york times," she asked, did you tell general kelly,ef of staff, to overall security officials? no, said the president. i wouldn't do it. we're keeping an eye on that. you can follow me on twitter, i'm @scottmcgrew. >>> there say push to bring back your neighborhood camera store. >> nbc bay area's digital journalist jonathan bloom is looking at the issue of smartphones phasing out the old school cameras. he talked with the owner of local bay area stores and a group that's launching a new campaign focusing on keeping cameras relevant. you can watch the full story, which includes a gallery of cameras, on nbcbayarea.com. >> i can't find the charger for it, but that's the problem. >> hold the charge, batteries, you can't order them anymore. >> the disposal cameras you get, i want to find a place to get them developed because these date back to seventh, eighth grade for me. >> get out of town. >> yes, science camp and all that cool stuff. >> oh my goodness. >> get on them, time is ticking. >> cute, we get to see baby vian vianey. her baby wa

she did speak with the maggie haberman herald. >> she didn't answer the question whether she knew sexng. she told us she's no longer in the spa business, doesn't know president trump and she's planning to move to washington d.c. >> reporter: it should be noted yang was not charged in the bust that led to misdemeanor charges against kraft and the closing of several spas in south florida. the white house declined to comment on yang, but the president did speak about the charges against kraft. >> it's sad. i was very surprised to see it. he's proclaimed his innocence totally but i'm very surprised to see it. >> reporter: as for yang she donated upwards of $35,000 to the trump campaign according to the fec filings. she's a self-made entrepreneur who showed little political interest before the 2016 election and she had not voted in the ten years prior. again, yang has not been charged with any wrong doing. it's the optics of her being in that picture with the president and this indirect connection to the spa. and, you know, also there is an update with kraft. kraft will have to appear in p

well, trump not only flatly denied it in an interview with maggie haberman, he called a similar report neu news w back as the transition. man calling everyone a liar, seems to be lying. and go back to the longest shutdown in history. trump said that the white house had no strategy for the shutdown. well, the absence of strategy was widely reported by white house and congressional sources and the results, the shutdown where president trump got less money for border wall than had been initially offered by democrats, that seemed to confirm all that reporting. or given last week's underwhelming nuke summit we can look back to november where he said, quote, the story in the "new york times" about north korea developing mix basins accurate. cnn's reporting as well as the congressional testimony of trump's own director of national intelligence contradicted the president's optimistic assessment of north korean nukes. finally to round out most recent top 5, in the run-up to the midterm elections they published an interview with the president with this headline. trump tells ap he won't accept bl

in an interview with maggie haberman of the "new york times," she asked, did you tell general kelly, chief of staff, to overall security officials? no, said the president. i wouldn't do it. i was never involved in jared's security. we now know that is not the case. we are following everything that is going on in washington. you can follow me on twitter, i'm @scottmcgrew. >>> 5:48 right now. as both of us can tell you, when it comes to live television, you just never know. >> you never know and the latest case in point, former 49ers coach jim harbaugh coaches from michigan and attended last night's college hoops game. that's where espn grabs an in-game interview which was suddenly video bombs, that's michigan's basketball coach not liking the ref's foul call or maybe he didn't like what harbaugh was saying, but we think espn was calling foul as well. i want to know what the other coach has to say about that. he has to be going, oh my goodness. >> more entertaining to watch that than what harbaugh was saying. >> you wonder too, why the camera was so far away. how would he know they're

. >> i want to read you a tweet from the great maggie haberman.mp has usually gotten a positive reception at his rallies what he has gone after mccain. but today at an army tank plant where potus said a third of the workforce is comprised of veterans, there was a very quiet response. and then there was this tonight, michael. this kind of broke my heart to see it. the mccain institute felt the need to put out the facts ant john mccain's life. and it broke my heart because in our line of work, you committed these to memory long ago. you know the story of john mccain because john mccain's story was the story of incredible military achievement of survival, as a p.o.w. for almost six years, and being one of the more consequential members of the senate. >> you can have political disputes with him, you can disagree on some policy, idea, or initiative, but you cannot take away the legacy of the man. you cannot take away the commitment he made as a very, very young mid-shipman at the united states naval academy to this country. and no matter what donald tr

>> well, as maggie haberman reported in conversations with officials, way too much good news.hing else. this is what they've chosen to shift it to. why? because in many respects, they still see hanging this particular noose around the political neck of democrats to work on a broader national scale. you can target individual congressional races where you may have a leg up as a democrat, but as -- and remember, republicans did not engage on this issue in the 2018 cycle. so democrats were largely left to their own devices and their own narrative and their own messaging. they want to create a much more competitive space on this front, and that's the thinking of those inside the party and inside the administration. i don't necessarily know if i agree with that. i think the points that have been made are important with respect with an individual's ability to get coverage and sustain that coverage. if you're now taking it away, as the polls are showing, majority of american people have come around on this issue. i think it's going to be a hard harder narrative on a national basis tha

as the "times'" maggie haberman and michael schmidt put it, i'm quoting, "the president hosted a foreignder in the oval office then wrote a check. he haggled over legislation then wrote a check. he traveled abroad then wrote a check." $420,000 in all according to court documents in the cohen case including $130,000 for the payoff to stormy daniels. no comment now from the white house on this, not to us or the can the times." the paper also got no comment from jay sekulow, one of the president's tv lawyers. as for the president, himself, you'll recall he initially denied he knew anything about the payment to stormy daniels. >> mr. president, did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. no. >> why did michael cohen make it if there were -- >> you'd have to ask michael cohen. michael's my attorney. and you'll have to ask michael cohen. >> do you know where he got the money to make that payment? >> i don't know. no. >> well, that wasn't true. eventually, the president's other tv lawyer, rudy giuliani, admitted that the daniels hush money had, in fact, been funneled to co

we have tom llamas, maggie haberman from "the new york times," who broke that story on jared kushner'surity clearance, and author of the new book "if we can keep it." real study of how we got to our polarized politics today. great book, michael. let's begin with the week. matthew, you look at the week. you look at the cohen hearing. seven hours on capitol hill, the collapse of the north korea talks. maggie's story about the security clearance which we saw congressman nadler call an abuse of power, but one thing this screams out is president trump emerges this week with his republican base completely intact. >> i mean, what we're seeing now is because we have been operating in this sort of chaotic environment for two plus years or three years if you include the campaign and everything that happened in that, i think people at this point in time, the people that are opposed to donald trump are solidly opposed to donald trump. the people that are for donald trump are basically solidly for donald trump, and all these pieces of information don't seem to change that equilibrium. i think the c

. >> i want to read you a tweet from the great maggie haberman.e has gone after mccain. but today at an army tank plant where potus said a third of the workforce is comprised of veterans, there was a very quiet response. and then there was this tonight, michael. this kind of broke my heart to see it. the mccain institute felt the need to put out the facts ant john mccain's life. and it broke hmy heart because n our line of work, you committed these to memory long ago. you know the story of john mccain because john mccain's story was the story of incredible military achievement of survival, as a p.o.w. for almost six years, and being one of the more consequential members of the senate. >> you can have political disputes with him, you can disagree on some policy, idea, or initiative, but you cannot take away the legacy of the man. you cannot take away the commitment he made as a very, very young mid-shipman at the united states naval academy to this country. and no matter what donald trump says, no matter how he says it, to whom he says or tweets it

and then maggie haberman pointed out, it's not just about john mccain and voting down the health care situation. john mccain ties to the dossier. the dossier gets you to mueller. mueller then drums up the southern district of new york, all which creates a massive hornet's nest, the only hornet's nest that matters to the president. so while the white house is telling us he's beaming with confidence, how could we say he's getting more and more confident when the reason he's truly going after john mccain is because he points to mccain for creating all these true legal issues. >> one of the disturbing things for those of us who make a living writing about this stuff is that really no one's advanced beyond shakespeare. so, this is "macbeth." you know, he feels guilty. i think -- this is my sense --. i think he feels guilty because he knows at least corners were cut involving russia, perhaps far worse. the fact that mccain was trafficking in this or allegedly trafficking in this would be one data point. the fact that mccain's a genuine hero would be another data point. and i think he ends u

ahead of the issue in 2020, a fight democrats are happy to have when "new york times" reporter maggie haberman asked why they would challenge the affordable care act on the heels of trump's best two days in office, well, that official dead panned. quote, too much positive news. we need to change the subject, i guess, and go back to doing destructive things. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is wednesday, march 27th. with us we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, white house reporter for the associated press jonathan la lamier, richard haass is with us, msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele is here this morning, and nbc news national political reporter heidi prisbila is with us. what is going -- what are they doing, joe? i hate to take their side, but i think they're making a mistake. >> don't worry, nobody will ever think you're taking their side. that's what a lot of republicans are asking right now. i'm glad we showed the clip of the morning after the election because, remember, this was the biggest landslide in the hist

. >> i want to put up, zerlina, maggie haberman of "the new york times."he tweeted, but this is something several trump advisers believe and they see it as part of a personal ration malfor seeking a second term. is it really feasible that this is one reason why the president would be running for re-election because there's the policy of not indicting sitting presidents? >> yes, i think likely he's had that conversation with somebody who at least thought that far ahead like a steve bannon, for example. i can imagine a scenario where one of his advisers did posit out this scenario where they were talking about the fact that he does have a certain level of immunity from prosecution as the president. but the bottom line here is that ivanka does not have the that immunity. jared kushner does not. donald trump jr. does not have that immunity from the prosecution. i think donald trump is going to eventually have to make a decision between protecting his family members and himself. that's not a position i think anybody would want to be in. unfortunately, that's wh

>> i think when the president told maggie haberman a couple weeks ago when he had a "new york times"he mueller report, i've been told i'm not a target and she said what about the southern district, he said i don't know about that, i think they're cautiously optimist nick teric of they stopped the indictments. you had the private russians and then the gru and then on roger, it almost -- they almost got there but didn't. i thought in my grand jury testimony, especially when i had follow up questions from gene reed, that they were going to go there and -- >> they were going to go to roger stone? >> no. that people connected to trump were part of this conspiracy to defraud america. remember, rick gates, paul manafort, pled guilty, found guilty of conspiracy to defraud america vis-a-vis their ukrainian work. >> right. >> he was with lindsey graham last night. you and i talked about this last night and i realized this is one of his favorite nights at mar-a-lago. the palm beach gop having their annual dinner. lindsey graham has said he's chair of the senate judiciary committee, if it doesn'

maria: maggie haberman tweeted out a conversation she had with someone close to hillary.ately pivoted to gender bias, saying how -- why aren't you asked john kerry if he's not running. well, because you ran against trump and lost and you won't go away. you gave this speech in alabama over the weekend, that you lived in the south for much of your adult life and you still can't sound like a southerner and she was blaming the voting rights act being chipped away at as one of the reasons she lost. >> she is also blaming people in minnesota or michigan on race, basically, that -- >> wisconsin. >> wisconsin, excuse me. that's right. i mean, really, get over it hillary, please. dagen: 1994 crime bill, later which was -- she lobbied for, her sus signed into law. she referred to young black men who were in gang as super predators. remember she said that she wasn't going to drop out of the democratic nomination process against barack obama in 2008 because she said remember, kennedy got shot in june. do you remember that? and now she wonders why a black american -- why black america

when you listen to the interview with maggie haberman, it was flat out -- i'd like to come back to something you mentioned. i've been watching in and i have my doubts as a businessman as to exactly what jared's agenda here is. jared seems to be spending a lot of time in countries and people that is a lot of money. in saudi arabia, in qatar and and i sometimes wonder if jared is thinking as much as jared and the kushner familiar think and their next life and how they're going to finance their next life and using this in a way as a form of crony capitalism, a florm with which he'll build a bunch of relaugsships with wealthy sovereigns all over the world that he's going to take advantage of in his next life. >> that's a great point because mika and i had grave concerns during the transition and we expressed those concerns. actually, i expressed them to skra jared and to others that he needed to decide whether he was going to work inside the white house or he was going to raise money for 666. you couldn't do both, i told him, stupid me, little diknow he was going to do both. his father's doing b