president trump replaced mcmaster with former u.s. ambassador to the united nations john bolton back in april. >>> we have new details to share with you tonight about bay area activists who protested outside a facility that they claim houses immigrant children. two members were arrested outside bcfs baptist child and family services in fairfield this afternoon. protesters say at least a dozen children forced apart from their parents at the border are believed to be living in this facility. it also houses unaccompanied minors who showed up at the border two years ago. the activists say they tried to deliver toys, books and blankets to the children when police asked them to stay on the sidewalk. two of them refused, and one of those arrested had spoken to us just hours before about her concerns. >> i am very concerned about the fear they must have, the trauma they must be having, and how they must be feeling so absolutely terrified and have no one who can comfort them. >> police say the two were released shortly after being booked. >>>

hr mcmaster had been the national security adviser replaced mike flynn. thought that was a moment for a chance for stability and reasonableness. mcmaster and others and jim mattis and rex tillerson persuaded the president to walk back the damage he had done. i think that has been an under appreciated and under reported part of what happened over the last few months. he didn't get along with him and trump didn't like him that much and mcmaster kept things on track. mattis and pompeo would if they were left alone would check trump and be in the white house. i'm not sure john bolton is trying to do what hr mc master is doing. finally trump got and hr master is no longer security adviser. >> you have 30 seconds to be brilliant before we have to take a break. he is meeting with our oldest and best friends. nato summit and the u.k. the president calls the putin portion the easiest part of his trip. >> what do you think if you are a nato ally and putin is consistently treated better than than all of our nato allies. it's an amazing thing that i said that, but th

i do not think there is any personal split as there has been with mcmaster and tillerson and others, but on policy, the policy is clearly drifting away to where secretary mattis would prefer to see us go. >> there is a development overnight in the defense department has been asked to house as many as 12,000 12,000nt families -- immigrants on three different bases. what do you think is the appropriate level of congressional oversight and press access for these and speaking of , how dosecretary mattis you think it is being received at the pentagon that they're being asked to pitch in? pres. trump: we should not be -- >> we should not be incarcerating women and children. there is a better way to do this , to handle asylum-seekers then to lock them up. bases isitary particularly troubling. we should not be incarcerating them. second of all, we want our military bases to be preparing to defend the country. this undermines their ability and their readiness. when president obama speculated about doing this in 2014, the republicans were outraged that he would use the military. it would under

mcmaster when he was there, secretary tillerson, who have pushed back and said, no, we need to work with the rest of the world. a lot of those people are being pushed out. you have seen it reflect in some of the policies that the president has advanced. in terms of getting closer to putin, to china, and in closer getting closer to kim jong-un. and getting farther away from our traditional allies. clearly, it appears that secretary mattis is not having the same influence on the president that he used to have, particularly when it comes to the tariffs. i know secretary mattis is concerned about getting involved in a trade war and how it will undermine alliances at a crucial time and you the president is engaging in it. there have been a lot of articles written about how the resident is feeling increasingly empowered to do what he wants to do, and not listen to a key advisors like secretary mattis. it seems to be moving in that direction and that has troubling implications for the foreign policy, obviously. >> when secretary mattis comes to the hill and gives you assurances on something, do

mcmaster.ibility of invading venezuela, whether that may be an option to consider. the senior administration official who confirmed this to me emphasized there were no iminent plans for any kind of a military strike on venezuela and characterized it really as the president thinking out loud. he didn't just do it one time. he was doing it with his advisers talking about the possibility of a military invasion of venezuela and then also probed several latin american leaders about it in the subsequent month. the colombian president and latin american leaders. >> if you take that idea to latin american leaders, that sounds like the prpresident was seriously considering this. >> he was doing a focus group session with these latin american leaders about invading venezuela which would be a serious escalation of the u.s. response. this administration has been tough on venezuela imposing numerous sanctions but this would be taking it to a whole new level. >> jeremy diamond, thanks very much. for more con

laughter ] "excuse me, could i speak to your mcmaster." [ la ] [ cheers and applause ] according to "the new york er times," fohite house press secretary sean spicer is developing a talk show. it's called "late night with such liars." [ laughter ] [ applause ] president trump today accused democrats of wanting, quote, "unlimited crime." cocidently, unlimited crim was also the most popular class at trump university. [ laughter ] french president emmanuel macron met with pope francis for 57 minutes today, setting a record for the longest meeting tween the pope and a head of state. said the pope, "but it wasn't the one that felt the longest." [ laughter ] he's having a good time there. after harley-davidson announced it would move some of its production outside the u.s., dapresident trump tweeted quote, "a harley-davidson should never be built in another country, never." you should talk. half of your campaign was builtn nother country. [ cheers and applause ] a new study has found that re almost 60% of s say they get stressed out trying to ke

mcmaster is gone, bolton now in his place. bolton has always been very tough on russia. it's amazing to me that, you know, you talk about shame. nobody seems to resign anymore. nobody seems to kind of stand up and, you know, raise alarm bells. >> right. and dan coats issued, you know, the dni, issued a statement saying we stand by our intelligence. >> which was an extraordinary statement. >> it was. it was extraordinary. and i guarantee you it wasn't cleared by anybody. i think he just released it. and don't forget, the president went over there armed with these indictments against these dozen russians, and they -- it was very strong and very detailed, and he had actually, according to cnn's reporting, told rod rosenstein, look, i want you to issue this before i go there. that was what he had. he was armed with that, and he could have thrown it at vladimir putin and said we have you. we know what you have done, and instead, in front of the world he caved. >> right. and it was chris wallace who literally was throwing -- handing the indictments to putin, who didn't take it

mcmaster urge the president against the invasion. they have warned such a dramatic response to the political and economic crisis in venezuela could back fire. our source chalked up the president's comments to thinking out loud. but the following day mr. trump said it out loud. >> i'm not ruling out a military option. and we have troops all over the world in places that are very, very far in which. venezuela is not very far away. and the people are suffering. and they're dying. we have many options for venezuela, including a possible military option. >> over the next month the president kept pressing latin american leaders about invading venezuela. including on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly. all leaders firmly opposed the idea. president trump has repeatedly tried to ratchet up pressure on the socialist government of the president. overnight madur. ordered the force nos not to lower the guard saying the no kbir is choosing for them. >> dmar testing is being conducted on separated parents and children as part of the reunif

mcmaster and others warned that military action could backfire. >>> new this morning, another couple rushed to the hospital after being exposed to an unknown substance near where a former spy and his daughter were poisoned. >> reporter: they are investigating an incident. this time in the brand new housing community that's only been open for a few months. this small town just several miles away where in march a former double agent and daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent. they are in a critical condition being treated in the same hospital as sergei. it's thought they may have been exposed to an unknown substance. police working around the clock to find out what may come into contact. the incident just a few months ago and a few miles down the road is on everyone's mind. authorities say it's uncertain if there's any kind of connection with the attack. >>> if you're getting ready to head out and fire up the grill you have to look into this next story. the unexpected risks that one of tools you could be using to your and your family. >>> gust winds show the camera ci around opinion f

mcmaster is gone and there's a sense that the axis of adult has lost power in the white house. they can't restrain trump anymore. he's feeling his full trumpiness, as it were. so he's acting on his most deeply held beliefs, which includes this innate hostility towards american trade partners. >> for many, many years has raised serious questions. why does the united states need troops in germany, need troops in japan, need troops in south korea? that's another issue we can discuss down the road. let's talk about north korea very quickly while i still have you, max. wrapping up some high-level talks. the secretary of state mike pompeo in north korea over the weekend. he issued this statement. this is the north korean state, i should say. the u.s. is fatally mistaken if it went to the extent of regarding that the democratic people's republic of korea would be compelled to accept out of its patience the demands reflecting its gangster-like mind set. the president tweeted this in contrast. quote, i have confidence that kim jong-un will honor the contract we signed and even more impo

mcmaster who left the white house after clashes and after failing to guarantee loyalty the former fbi director james comey was fired and while deputy director anthony mccabe became a punching bag for the president at the agentt si, and opened up an investigation into his campaign. and the president tweeted five times about mccabe before he was ousted. so if you are taking away the clearances for a perceived payback, our question is what does that mean for the voices of dissent still inside of the white house. we are joined by our panel. peter, i want to ask where the president got this idea, but i believe he got it from rand paul. and listen to the rand paul. >> i told the president in private what i have been saying in public, that i think that there is a great danger of having talkingheads on tv who are ex-cia agents with clearance, and there is a danger that they might inadvertently reveal classified information. >> and peter, is that where this came from a suggestion from is s senator rand paul? >> it is off the cuff statement by the white house and the press secretary following r

mcmaster, then nsa advisor, no longer,r, who were saying no.either of them are there right now. >> that is right. you don't know -- you don't know what they would do, but again, they are committed, their organizing other countries. this could never happen if he years ago when you had less governments in argentina and santos in even colombia had taken their site on these questions of hemispheric relations. so now you have all of these right-wing governments, so you have what is euphemistically called in the u.s. media the international community, but is really just the united states and right-wing allies trying to topple this government and using every means that they can, short of the military option that trump himself had proposed. juan: you mention the role of marco rubio in terms of insolence and the administration . what is the connection? clearly, there is a large community of wealthy venezuelans who fled venezuela and are now settled in south florida in the miami area, but is that the reason why rubio is so interested in what happens to v

tweeted, the one thing mcmaster gets wrong is i won because i was a great candidate. this was without even saying, you know, coats took it to another level . he said, i kind kndidn't know wt on. he was dismaced with what the president said in the press conferen conference. and had that amazing reaction to andrea telling him in real time that he could be invited in november. the president already had no real affection for dan coats. they don't have a particularly good close relationship. >> jonathan, indulge me here. when those senior sources in the white house call you on the phone and say, oh, my god, are you watching this, this is unbelievable, do you ever ask them why in god's name do you continue to work there, knowing that this is what the president does to all of you, and clearly he's hiding something? >> i've had conversations along those lines. >> and what's the answer? >> well, different reasons. some of them think they are doing public service by being there. let's put it in the category of the people who are concerned by the president. there frankly are peo

the fold is a contemporary label, fonded by polly mcmaster in 2012, that embraces fashion and aims tonow. your background was in financial consulting. you decided that few had to have a few outfits that looked the part and it inspired you to start this business? that's right. i was working in consulting and private equity, very male dominated. i found consulting and private equity, very male dominated. ifound i needed to be very competent at work and dress the part. when i went to my wardrobe in the morning ifound it not very inspiring. if you are trying to put your best self together in a really important presentation going for promotion or an interview, you need to feel that inner confidence. do you feel with women there is an androgynous look they need to go for, like a power dressing outfit would help them get on in terms of career ladders and prospects? certainly not androgynous. i think a power look is about feeling empowered and confident. i think what's lovely is that over the past few years that has taken a far broader scope than it used to. the days of it being a traditional

in a lot of ways mcmaster didn't lead to the president the decisions the president already wanted. and that's what scott pruitt did so masterfully. he told president trump according to all kinds of reporting the regulatory state is harming business. it's holding back animal spirits and that resonated with donald trump. just real quickly andrew wheeler who will be acting, leon caldwell sent an interesting notah round. he was confirmed, 53-45. the new epa acting administrator is a former lawyer and lobbyist for the coal industry. previously he was chief of staff, andrew wheeler, for center enhoff in oklahoma. a big climate change i don't want to sigh r say deny error s. it is in the mold ideological of scott pruitt. we'll see if he's in the same mode ethically. nicolle? >> peter baker, you and your colleagues have been reporting on scott pruitt for longer than just about anybody. and scott pruitt was interesting because he was president just doing donald trump's bidding at epa. he was a very ambitious politician in his own right and there is some reporting in recent weeks that has bu

and mcmaster as if he were changing tides.ing that his client is innocent because accused behavior fits this m.o. is a joke. the president refuses to be questioned by the special counsel about obstruction of justice. the one area where his accuracies are so well-known they require little detective work. tweeting may be trump's impulsive choice of weapon that doesn't exempt him from the law. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starting now. >> tonight on all in. the mueller probe closes in on obstruction. >> did he fight back? you fight back. oh, it's obstruction. >> as the money man for the trump organization faces michael cohen's grand jury. >> i have spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up. >> tonight, the growing legal trouble for the president. >> he knows where all of the financial

also says when hr mcmaster explained how an invasion could backfire, the president pushed back. son of venezuela's president has responded, vowing his military would retaliate. >>> a couple in critical condition tonight in england after being exposed to an unknown substance. police found them in a house eight miles away from where a former russian spy was poisoned with a nerve agent back in march. british investigators say the two incidents are not connected, though. moscow denies involvement. >>> it is a race against the clock in thailand. the threat of heavy rain is forcing crews to move up their timeline to get those 12 trapped boys and their coach out of a flooded cave. more rain could push water higher inside that cave. thai officials are considering a rescue attempt within the next 24-48 hours. the boys are getting a crash course in diving wearing full face masks. many of them don't even know how to swim, let alone scuba dive. >> we'll try and get them comfortable with the mask and breathing, create an environment where they can safely get away. that's feasible. >> the you

he said and hr mcmaster said you cannot be this guy's friend. we have seen it with kim jong un as well. he said if i can get in a room with these guys i can pull something off, and others in the party are very skeptical of this. >> i fully expect the white house to backtrack on this today, but it is done. it is out there, the message is out, it was received in the diplomatic community, including the american diplomatic community and it was received in the kremlin. >> thank you, gentleman, for that reporting. so a member of the intell committee will be here to react to all of these developments. until her laptop crashed this morning. her salon was booked for weeks, having it problems? ask a business advisor how to get on demand tech support for as little as $15 a month. right now, buy one hp ink and get a second at 30% off at office depot officemax let someone else do the heavy lifting. tripadvisor compares prices from over 200 booking sites to find the right hotel for you at the lowest price. so you barely have to lift a finger. or a wing. tripa

trump was impatient with mcmaster, but he established some process, some ability to stop really crazy things from happening. madison tillerson did their bet in defense and state. john bolton i don't believe is standing in any way in trump's way. john bolton has written that a hawk on russia for 20 years and now he is just going along with trump because he wants to be in trump's good graces. bill shine is now in there as the deputy chief of staff, the former top guy at fox news who has his own record there and who is entirely a trump guy, and it's all about trump pr. some of the things that were stopping some of the craziness before those things that eroded i think. >> go on, april. >> okay, don. we've got the top staff. here's the bottom line. ever since the president walked away from that podium in helsinki, the white house has been trying to deal with damage control. someone is going to take a fall for this so that the president doesn't look so bad. they're trying to basically throw the blame on someone else. someone or people will take the fall. someone will fall on the sword soon,

mcmaster. rex tillerson, advance prebus, but that is not the case with pruitt.mitted his resignation. we'll learn more likely in the coming hours what finally pushed scott pruitt to the edge to submit his resignation. a lot of bad headlines will do that for you. but not the president who fired him, brooke, it was him who submitted his resignation. >> if you are just joining us, embattled epa chief no more. scott pruitt has resigned from his spot there. kate insaid it, he's been facing 14 federal probes. and a lot of questions swirling, including why now. all of these ethics violations have been piling up whachlt has happened for this to be it for him to tender his resignation? sarah has been standing by. sarah what happens to these investigations that have been piling up against him? >> reporter: that's a great question, brooke. jumping off something kaitlin just said, was doing them. these investigations were looming. and one has to really wonder what may have been beginning to trickle out maybe making its way back to the white house about what people were find

hr mcmaster the national security advisor and now the incoming member of the teaching team at stanford responded very negatively to susann rice about living with nuclear weapons by saying that deterrence theory does not work with governments like that. how do you deter that government that has unspeakable brutality against his ownts people? he doesn't care about his own people. he killed his brother or his uncle in brutal ways. my answer to that is to tailor your deterrence to what really matters and to be conditional for our allies. and to reduce collateral damage to the north korean peopleak with that deterrent threatf if push came to shove. to be half right and half wrong he shows he does not have that deterrence. to say we will totally destroy north korea? if they continue to threaten the united states here is a preventative war threat. vp pens also got it wrong in terms of conditions that just before the summit and then as the president put it we went in to decimate qaddafi that would take place if we don't make a deal most likely. but we will attack you only if you attack us? tha

mcmaster, in private, others talking about whether or not the president is competent. the story going on about this investigation closing in and how psychologically trump is reacting. telling the country that he is a stable genius while those in the white house are saying, well, he doesn't look very stable right now to us and he didn't look very much like a genius to us right now except where he obviously is ingenious. and that is in his political skills and mobilizing his base, which is his big offensive to keep the facts from emerging in this story. the base and keeping them energyized against the press is absolutely essential to donald trump fighting and furthering the cover-up. look, there is a cover-up by the president of the united states. but we don't know what the cover-up is about yet. we don't know the facts yet. why he has, from the beginning in this investigation, and the trump tower meeting is the best evidence of it. the cover-up is demonstrable because he helped create the cover-up story on the airplane, which has since been disproven about what occurred

mcmaster strongly urged against it. they warned it could backfire and said u.s. allies in the region were opposed to such action. nicolas maduro's government instructed his armed forces not to lower their guard. this information coming out just now. the discussion took place last august, it happened in the middle of charlottesville andeer things the. president and people thought was flailing around asking all sorts of questions whether or not he did want to invade venezuela who knows but interesting the subject came up. >> maybe that's his starting point. >> this is bonkers. put aside whatever is happening in august, if this is the president's impulse, to invade venezuela, something not on the menu of american national security, among the many problems probably pointed out to him at the time is the left wing government of chavez and now maduro has decimated this country but if you want to secure the position of that government you would bring in the old accusation of yankee imperialism by trying to invade the country. it's so counterproductive it's shocking it wo

i would commit to hr mcmaster's book, dereliction of duty. incredibly insightful and an account of what happened in vietnam. the failure of what happened in communication to the policymakers. so one of your strongest qualifications may also be a disadvantage. where chain of command following orders is an absolutely important part of the job. you been trained to do that for 30 plus years. sure me that you are not going to follow orders. that you will chase intelligence where it leads. reported as it appears, and not shade information because of pressure. it may not even be overt pressure. often it is human nature to want to give the boss what they want. it does not have to be shades of the material. you have to work within your agency to counteract the human tendency to provide information pleasing to those higher up. >> senator king, i don't need a reminder about the stakes that the nation is under. i have lost friends in this fight. i realize it is real. i concur with your comment that although we have made tremendous strides, we still have

mcmaster at the time saying, no, we really can't do this, the president also called up some foreign leadersders, and spoke about this idea. when they hear that from the u.s. president, do they take it seriously? >> well, they have to take it seriously because it's the u.s. president, and the united states exercises a very large voice in latin america, even to this day. he raised it with some leaders at the united nations general assembly last september where he met with a number of them from latin america. but the news was not necessarily that the president raised it, it was that the leaders one by one knocked it down and said now's not the time to be thinking about that. that's not the right approach. we have a regional approach to this issue. it is a crisis. we understand that. but we have to work together and the military action would be counterproductive under the current circumstances. >> well, maybe the president listened to them then. the situation on the ground in venezuela, still very messy. what positive role could the u.s. have there? >> it's a terrible situation. venezuela used

i met for dinner with the former national security adviser hr mcmaster the other night and he wanted me to send my regards to you. my question is when you were the speaker oatthe speaker of the hd wrote the contract with america. 20 years later and it kind of seems like congress is in a perpetual state of gridlock. what changes do you think we can make to get out of this, and do you think this is an issue of incompetence or partisanship? >> we are not in a perpetual state of gridlock. we passed the largest cut in american history. they passed a number of other bills. but there is there's a very den divide, and i think there's at least two parts to what's going on. one is the gap between the right and the left as i describe it in trumps america we are in the middle of a cultural civil war and i mean that literally. cities arso these are profound differences about the nature of america and i think that makes it a real challenge. second, i think you have to have a personality who can deal with it. i personally would have had no idea how to deal with barack obama because i think he was a

i mean, although he's sort of been forced into this by the staff around him, my mcmaster, kelly, mattisby others over the last 18 months. doesn't seem that he really understands what this is about. for example, if you wanted to do something to deal with china's unfair trade practices, well, that's what nato is about. because it builds the bonds with europe and say, this is about security for all of us. we have to deal with the unfair trade practices before they're totally out of control but instead he picks a fight with everybody. now, that may be good campaign rhetoric but to try to do it all simultaneously going to get tangled up over his own feet and not going to go where it should go. >> previous administrations have expressed concern about this russian pipeline into germany. president trump said today that germany is, quote, captive of russia because of this pipeline. what was your response to that? >> well, of course, it would be better if they weren't buying any gas at all from russia. i would like them to buy liquefied natural gas from the united states. each country has problem

mcmaster, dunford, and secretary mattis said when they brought this up, can we attack, use a militaryy probably attempted to talk him off the ledge very quickly and thought it was over. the a.p. article, the thing that struck me the most was that he brought it up again, the south american government -- >> south american leaders. at the u.n. on the sidelines, and apparently he got this resounding no. >> right. >> if you're, you know, our friends down south, what are the risks of the president floating this idea, you know, trying to gain support for that from our allies? >> how many times have we talked about words are important, words matter when they're said by the president, and they are read all over the world, and consumed by foreign intelligence, friendly and foe. yeah, i'm sure there were several south american nations whose intelligence sources kind of perked up their ears saying, w what, an invasion in venezuela? even though it may have been an off-the-cuff statement and he was feeling around which this president tends to do, having been in command of a large force on the europ

mcmaster, and john bolton, have both acknowledged russian meddling.calling it, quote, an act of war. why does the president repeatedly gloss over putin's meddling? analysts say one reason is his insecurity. >> for trump, this goes against the very legitimacy of his election. he. wants to be able to say, i won this election fair and square. i defeated hillary clinton. and nobody helped me. i did it myself. >> reporter: but the president repeatedly, unapologetically, takes putin's side on several fronts. reportedly, he told g-7 leaders in canada that crimea, the part of ukraine that russia invaded and annexed, is russian, because everybody who lives there speaks russian. it's similar to what he said once to abc. >> the people of crimea, from what i've heard, would rather be with russia than where they were. >> russia was kicked out of the g-8 after invading crimea in 2014. but trump says putin should be back in the alliance. >> russia should be in this meeting. why are we having a meeting without russia being in the meeting? >> analysts believe another

noting in your reporting you wrote two of the men who talked the president out of this idea were mcmaster and tillerson. obviously both of those guys are gone. so the question is, is there other ideas like this that come to him where are the moderating voices? will they be able to talk him out of it? >> the story is very much in some ways a snapshot of the past. this is august and september of last year, all these conversations about a possible military invasion. none of the advisers are part of the inner circle today. i think importantly tensions between venezuela and the u.s. have actually eased quite a bit in many ways since then. especially since president maduro's election. neither of the two sides want to escalate tensions any further. obviously it's not a great relationship. but i think there's an accommodation taking place right now. i don't want to give the suggestion this is currently on the president's head. >> you could make the argument obviously there are other people who are dictators who could potentially be in the crosshairs. cuba, nicaragua. have your thoughts on that on

mcmaster, the then national security adviser, got fired and president trump probably has no idea whaty bizarre as a 32-year veteran of the government, that we now have governance where not only is the president issuing and signing documents that he then publicly takes positions opposed to, every member of his cabinet is in 180-degree different place than he is. we now have pompeo, we have bolten, all of them warning about russia. but president trump believes this is going to be the easiest meeting for him to do this week. >> what could go wrong? what is the worst case scenario for trump's meeting with putin? you have spend time with vladimir putin. >> i have been support staff in meetings with president putin. he is a very wily guy. he will have studied president trump and what makes him happy and what makes him move. he will have watched very carefully singapore summit with kim jong-un where that was also supposed to be a summit where they just got to know each other and then hard work would get done. instead our president comes out and announces the suspension of a major military ex

hr mcmaster is national security divisor now an incoming member of the research team stanford and yale colleague responded to the susan rice offense saying we can live with the north korean nuclear weapons here he does not work so hard you need to or a government that can meet commitments and speakable brutality against its own people or less than * or kills his own half-brother or his uncle in brutal ways? my answer to that is that you tailor your deterrence to it really matters and to be conditional with his aggression against the united states or his allies to reduce collateral damage to the north korean people to make it more credible that he would execute a deterred threat if push came to shove and the trump administration's got it half right and half wrong. .. .. will apply as the president said, is that the president put it, we went in and decimated qadhafi, and that would take place if we don't make a deal most likely. we attack you only if you attack us. the nuclear posture review is a movement in the right direction because it says and i'm quoting from here the north korean s

. >> it's a false -- >> i want to bring up the fact that hr mcmaster, retired lieutenant general, classmate years different. a friend. >> a friend of yours. national security adviser. he would the president thinks he can be friends with putin. i don't know why or why he would want to be. >> i think the reason why president trump wants to prove that he can do it is because everyone says he can't. i think the same thing with north korea. president after president tried to solve the north korea issue and didn't and so trump said, you know what? i'm special. i'm better, different, i'll make it and really nervous about the meeting with putin is look at what happened with north korea. president trump went in, gave a lot of what they wanted, which was the ability to have a north korean flag on a stage next to the american flag, shake hands with the american president. that's a dividend that's been paid to them as a result of them having a nuclear weapon. that's not good. when pompeo shows up over the weekend and says, no, actually, there is stuff that you have to do, gangster talk and mixed messag

mcmaster or rex tillerson, you don't last very long. think dni coates is in an impossible situation. he's the highest ranking intelligence officer in the community and i think he's caught between trying to defend the interests of the republican on one hand, by validating the fact that the russians have consistently interfered, assaulted our political system and the elections, and frankly, maintaining his job in the trump administration. presumably he believes that it's worth staying in order to defend the interest of the republic. i think this was inevitable because the white house, fred, made it very clear, certainly to the "new york times," that they were very unhappy with coats' remarks in aspen. >> so many people have described dan coats as being a real patriot and his tenure in public service etch plus fies his allegiance to the intelligence community. senator marco rubio had thoughts this morning saying a lack of experience led to some of the president's stumbles this week. listen to his point of view. >> because he's not a politi

mcmaster.hey pushed back but trump relented, citing the invasion of grenada where invasion raised. the senior administration official and two high-ranking colombian officials tell the associated press, and on the sidelines of the u.n. assembly in september he once again discussed the idea in greater length with leaders of four latin america allies including colombia according to the same people. the official tells the a.p. trump was told not to raise the issue and it wouldn't play well. however, the first thing he said was, quote, my staff told me not to say this. >>> congressman jim jordan denies allegations of sexual harassment. he told "politico", it is not true, i never knew about any type of abuse. if i did i would have done something about it. look, if there are people who are abused, then that's terrible and we want justice to happen. three former wrestlers told nbc news it was common knowledge that the team's doctor richard straws regularly showered with students and inappropriately tou

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governor mcmaster in south carolina who talks to the president often, he has not said a peep about thatobs at the volvo plant, the bmw plant, i think that is more significant than a more expensive toyota. >> the president's view is there might be disruption in the next year or so but it'll be settled before he runs. one of the so-called globalists the president listens to occasionally anthony scaramucci, he's still in contact with the president. he's a hedge fund guy in new york. his message to the president is watch it, you're approaching the danger zone. >> the escalation of the trade rhetoric is causing a loss of confidence. that's very bad for market psychological. i'm just sending up a warning flare to my friend. >> do you think the president is damaging the country in creating a trade war with our closest ally across our border? >> i would say not yet, no. i don't think any real damage has happened yet. >> but will it happen if he doesn't reverse course? >> well, i think that the market is telling you that. >> look. i mean, the president is on an island. wilbur ross is there, pete

mcmaster, by trying to speak truth to power. >> that's very true, he's in a very difficult position. think he's walked that line very well. but look, he is not -- secretary mattis is not going to be able to persuade our allies that donald trump believes in our collective security because he doesn't. and that's all too clear. what i hope general mattis can persuade our allies is that, sadly, the president is an outlier in the united states. on a bipartisan basis, we do support nato, we do support our collective security, we recognize how this has improved the quality of our lives, our economy, and our security. that's the most he can hope for, to impress upon them that in this respect the president of the united states does not speak for the united states. >> he seems to have also confused our trade issues around the world with our security issues, because nato is a defense alliance. it's not the wto, it's not a trade treaty, it's not the g-7. >> i think this is part of donald trump and his whole aura of victimization. everybody's out to get the united states, everybody's taking advan

. >> thank you for coming i actually met for dinner with former national security advisor mcmaster theother night and he wanted me to send my regards to you. my question is when you were a speaker of the house he will do contract with america. you seem to have an uncanny ability to work with president clinton to get things done fast forward 20 years later and congress is a perpetual state of gridlock. what changes can we make to get out of this and is this an issue of incompetence or partisanship? >> first of all we are not in gridlock they pass the largest tax cut in american history and a number of other bills. but there is a very deep partisan divide. one is a gap between the right and the left as i describe in "trump's america" we are in a cultural civil war and i mean that literally. but these are profound differences of the nature of america. that makes it a real challenge. second, you have to have a personality you can deal with. personally i would've had no idea how to deal with barack obama. because he was opaque. he got up every morning knowing the brightest person on the pla

mcmaster was quoted as having said, you know, he wants to be friends with putin, and i don't know why he would want to be. this is a consistent theme of his since he became president. he did not want to confront vladamir putin on this. take away the sentence he says was mangled, and the rest of the press conference still stands. he was offered a chance by jonathan's question to say would you condemn russia here and now for what they did? instead of doing that, he condemned the fbi for investigating it. you can see why john bolton, a long-time russia skeptic or mike pompeo would be alarmed by this and try to nudge him back onto at least safer territory. >> jonathan, let's go back to the question that you asked. did you have the sense when he answered that he had misspoken or from here, it all hung together quite well? >> certainly not. there was no suggestion that he misspoke. >> anyone talk to you on the trip back and say we pulled the transcript and we don't think that's what the president meant to say? >> not at all. >> anyone call you this morning and say we looked at that exchange

. >> people who stood up to donald trump have been moved out of office, mcmaster stood up to donald trumpin private and was moved out of office. this was a diplomatic day. and i think we all need to confront that. members of the administration and republicans in congress need to do something more concrete. i don't think the president's ego is a sufficient argument anymore. it was in the president's interest to have a show of standing up to putin yesterday and he didn't do it. that raises much more difficult, disturbing questions that we need to get to the bottom of. the mueller probe is in the process of it, but it's time for members of the administration to look the president and ask themselves and him those tough questions, why the president is unwilling, uniquely among humans on planet earth not to stand up and criticize vladimir putin. why? >> it is past time for internal disagreement. i think the striking thing about this administration, you've had one oh my god ban after another. locking up the small children, charlottesville and had almost no resignations on principle. the only one

trump is patient with mcmaster. he established some process, some accountability to stop crazy thing from happening. john bolten, i don't believe is standing in any way in trump's way. he's been a hawk on russia for 20 years, now he's going along with trump because he wants to be in trump's good graces. the deputy chief of staff, the former guy at fox news who has his own record there, entirely a trump guide. all about prk r. some of the thing that were stopping some of craziness before, those things have been e eroded i think. >> go on april. >> okay, don, we got the litany of the top staff. here's the bottom line, every seasons the president walked away from that podium in helsinki, the white house has been trying to deal with damage control. the republicans are behind the closed doors and trying to talk to the president. someone is going to take a fall for this so that the president doesn't look so bad. someone or some people will take the fall. someone will fall on the sword soon. it could be cotes, we don't kno

general mcmaster referred to him as a dope and an idiot. karl rove call him an idiot. duncan hunter said he's an a-hole but he's our a-hole. the director of the national council called him as an idiot surrounded by clouds. were all of these negative character sayingses of donald trump part of a deep state gop conspiracy engineered by you and your friends? >> no. >> were any of these part of a conspiracy you organized? >> no. >> although it's overwhelmingly republican if it exists, balance compels me to ask you about bruce springsteen. springsteen is a democrat and he said the republican is under siege by a moron. did you tell him to say that? >> no. >> is it part of a deep state conspiracy against president? >> no. >> mr. strzok, this hearing has been a circus and a kangaroo court run in republican fashion. my colleagues have disgraced themselves today in their attack on the fbi and the justice system of america. how can we recover from the hole that has dug here today? >> sir, america is strong. i have -- however bad i think i've seen it in my life, i'm confident that

mcmaster. or omarosa. or marla maples.r maybe even his two good friends, bill and hillary clinton. he's got the best instincts, he really does. meanwhile, back at home, a federal judge yesterday approved the $85 billion merger between at&t and time warner, despite the trump administration's efforts to block it. at&t executives said they need to get into content creation and distribution in order to survive against technology companies like amazon and netflix. another way to survive would be to fix your cell phone service, but you know. [ laughter ] now that the merger has been approved, you can now wait at home all afternoon for your cable to get installed by the same technician who missed your morning phone service installation. the new company will be called at&t warner. not time warner, they're getting rid of time. not the word time, the actual measurement of passing events. [ laughter ] that's how powerful this company will be. [ applause ] i think they'll be eliminating distance and space. and it's exciting. who would