"reason" magazine editor-in-chief matt welch. and his last name is latin for "request a twin bed." comedian michael loftus. okay, let's start the show. ♪ rachel maddow released president trump's 2005 tax

katie pavlich, joe devito and matt welch here to weigh in.ary johnson leaves the lib taishian stage and now there is a -- leaves the libertarian stage and now there is a platter of libertarian. we want kmele foster to relationship for president. >> the greatest rapper. kmele would be great. the presumed next guy is somebody who used to work in this building, austin peter on. john mcafee. kennedy: i think he's too busy traveling around south america building hammocks. >> this will open the door. there is something there. they are on the ballot in a bunch of states they weren't on the ballot before. talking about their point of view, the party itself -- kennedy: jill stein, i want a recount. 3,000 votes weren't counted for libertarians. it turns out i was cassandra. >> they want a hope grown. kennedy: kmele is the homest grown. you laugh at matt welch. >> if he wants aleppo. i'll take never being president for $500. kennedy: bill clinton and hillary clinton had gaffes, and with their handlers and they were never able to come forth and say i tot

"reason" magazine editor-in-chief matt welch. and his last name is latin for "request a twin bed."edian michael loftus. okay, let's start the show. ♪ rachel maddow released president trump's 2005 tax returns, and now all questions about his finances are resolved. good night, we'll see you tomorrow. late tuesday, the msnbc host announced on twitter "breaking, we got trump tax returns tonight, 9:00 p.m., msnbc. seriously." her scooper veal that trump paid $38 million in federal taxes in 2005, on income of $153 million, and reported $105 million write-down in business office. he pulled over twice as much as i did that year. over. the white house was outraged that maddow had exposed how much money trump made, turning attention away from russia and g.o.p. infighting over health care. but ultimately, there was no smoking gun. and the liberals had such high hopes. hillary clinton's former press secretary that it was going to be the holy grail. but as maddow's show dragged on, the mood of her fans started to shift. they realized there was no bombshell, no evidence, no new information. just

the matt s though welch won the debate -- that matt welch won the debate. jonathan lost some ground. he lost nine percentage points. he started with 31% and he went down to 22%. matt went from 50% to 74%, 75%. so he picked up votes. it looks as though matt wins the tootsy roll. congratulations, matt. jonathan will be signing books. [applause] jonathan will be signing books. we'll be over there talk with you. jonathan, you can stand. >> i'm sorry that 50% of you were ready to think obama was a great president. i wasn't getting that vibe but clearly i've let down the people on my side. >> we'll post that later. all right. jonathan will be selling books over there. signing books. so if you want to talk to jonathan, you should walk over there. we have wine, we have food, we've got matt welch sticking around as well. if you want to beat up on him. let's do that. thank you very much. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable

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i want to bring in jason johnson and matt welch.iana law does not prohibit public officials from using personal e-mail accounts. just because it is legal, if you think abtd the nonstop attacks on hillary clinton, what do you make of this? >> it is, it was legal. but an aol account? >> you've got mail? >> it's silly. it's sloppy. it got hacked. that's a problem. i don't think it's a direct analog to what hillary clinton did. she was the secretary of state. >> russians? >> she lied about it a lot. mike pence hasn't lied about his e-mail system. yes, it is sloppy and ironic. >> hypocrisy is the mother's milk of a presidential campaign. so many things people lie about. hillary clinton is secretive. donald trump won'tive tax returns. i don't think it's a big deal. mike pence, if this is an example of him being the honest guy, he may be the only person that comes out clean. >> we are not going talk about breast milling on tv. rachel maddow obtained a department of homeland security intelligence assessment document. i'm not going to make y

speaking for the negative will be matt welch. jonathan is a regular political columnist for new york magazine and the author of the just published book "audacity: how barack obama defied his critics and created a legacy that will prevail." he will be doing book signings and selling in the corner, which you can talk to him about after this. taking the negative is matt welch, a reason magazine editor, a featured player on the regular podcast, the fifth column. our debaters decided to do something offbeat. they each get 10 minutes to do their pro and con, and then 20 minutes of informal discussion between them, before we go to the 30 minutes of questions from the audience. jonathan, you have 10 minutes to establish in the affirmative the case for the proposition. take it away, jonathan. thank you. [applause] jonathan: if you are expecting a formal debater you will be disappointed. i don't have any experience in that. i do argue with people. and i've argued with plenty of libertarians going back to college, of course. and the thing i

speaking for the affirmative will be jonathan and speaking for the negative will be matt welch. jonathan chait is a regular political columnist for "new york magazine" and the author of the just-published book "audacity, how barack obama defied his critics and created a legacy that will prevail." he will do book signing and selling over in the corner. looks are for sale now come up but you will get a chance to talk to him afterwards when those books are sold. taking the negative will be matt welch, a "reason magazine" editor at large and featured players on the regular podcast "the fifth column." our debators decided they will do something slightly offbeat. they will get 10 minutes to do their pro and do their con and then there will be 20 minutes of informal discussion between them before we go to the 30 minutes of questions from the audience. so jonathan, you have 10 minutes to establish for the affirmative the case for the proposition. take it away, jonathan. thank you. [applause] jonathan: if you are expecting a formal debater you will be disappointed. i don't have any exper

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rhonreason magazine editor matt welch is here. let's take apart his performance. how did conservatives grade judge gorsuch as he had several interesting back and forths. >> i think they gave him an a plus plus plus to close the christmas story. he doesn't like hype threat kals as we heard in yesterday's testimony. the democrats were trying to give up these made up fictional scenarios and asking him to rule. he said no, i ruled in over 2,000 cases. go read them and get a sense of how i ruled. i thought he did a great job. like you said, the questioning was leaked on the part of the dem -- was weak on the part of the democrats. kennedy: did they ask the right estions? instead of worry being their own politics and how they see th world through their political lens which is all about self-preservation and raising money, did they ask questions a jurist would have to ponder for decades? >> dick durbin asked questions about the dissertation of his advisor from 30 years ago. you have 30 minutes to talk about all kinds of things, do you think the 14th amendment aflies this

jeweddian -- matt welch, and sitting next to me cohort operations officers of llc, mike baker: okay let's start the show. >> attorney general jeff sessions says he will recuse himself from investigating russian medaling. russian medaling will investigate itself. the ag strongly denied allegations he misslead law makers. >> let me be clear. i never had meetings with russian operatives or russian intermediaries. if i was "part of continuing exchange of information during the campaign between trump surrogate and the russian government" is totally false. >> when he was asked what they discussed during their two meet tph-gz july and september he couldn't recall. >> i don't recall. most of these ambassadors are pretty gossipy. >> yes. [laughing] >> the russian ambassador praobl wanted the dish on who selena gomez was dating. >> that's not really true. here a pair of tweets. found by red eye regular charles cook from 2013 and 2015. you have been cooked. matt, what do you think of this? what do you think of the response today? the proper thing? >> it was proper to recuse himself from the investig

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debate on the obama presidency with new york magazine columnist arguing for the administration and matt welch, editor-at-large for reason magazine arguing the opposing position. the soho forum hosted

>> and a debate now on the obama presidency with new york magazine columnist jonathan chate and matt welch, editor at arge from reason magazine. dave smith will get the event started. >> now