michael steele. into adopting exactly that view of nancy pelosi and saying because y'all said she's a zombie hoarding demon, enormous and giant floating over the city that they should drop her as their leader. >> the art of the brand. no. you know, it was a big battle inside the party because i was hell bent in not making the 2010 election about barack obama. many of my party did. they wanted to take this fight directly to the president. i said no, you need to take this fight directly to the people. and the people's house is where this war needs to be waged, not at the white house, but in the people's house. so we went on, we talked about if you want to take back control of your government, you want to take ownership in decisions you make, the only person stopping you from doing that is nancy pelosi. whether you run for dog catcher or governor of your state, the goal was to tie it all back to how you as an individual or family or community could reempower yourselves by taking control of congress. the

and former rnc chairman, my pal michael steele. michael steele, i have to start with you. because i was the second person hired for president bush's reelection effort. and it was about three -- almost three years into his first term. what is happening tonight? >> this is a focus on something other than what needs to be focused on. there are pens that have not been filled at senior levels in the administration. there is no legislative agenda to speak of of any merit. you can see what's happening on health care. the white house is looking for the senate to lead, or the hill to lead. the hill is looking for the white house to lead. there is a general unrest out there around the country about the issue of health care broadly speaking. but then also, now you're beginning to hear, nicolle, even supporters of the president going, i raelly would like to see this thing get better than it is. they don't like the disruptions, they hate all the investigations going on. the president doing a fundraiser i think is just ill-timed. okay, you're going to get your money, that's not an issue

. >> we are joined tonight by the former chairman of the republican party michael steele and longtimeadio talk show host in the wisconsin charlie sykes. gentlemen, welcome. michael, just from a television standpoint, they make it too easy. that's an open net. >> i know. >> that's due diligence. we have to do that. that's very basic. so from a human standpoint as i keep saying here night after night, real americans are scared to death about the status and future of their health care. michael, what's about to happen and what should happen? >> well, i think what's about to happen is going to be not that much far removed from what is already happened with the house bill. and that is i think the senate for all of the machinations and the noise that has been built up around this bill it's going to hew pretty close to what you see in the house. the idea is not just to get a bill that won't get through conference. they need a bill that the house and senate republicans can at least come somewhat to the table on. i think that's going to allow them the space they need to do that. last night's el

i agree with michael steele about this. everyone has to accept the notion that these fundamental things are not going to change. they're not going to change. there's no wishing him to be -- the idea that we're ever going to have more conversations even today, like it's not presidential. he's not going to behave in any way that anybody has considered presidential before. he never has. he's not going to tomorrow or the next day. and the wishing won't make it so. so what we have is we have his behavior. we need to apply appropriate political and moral and ethical and social standards and we should treat him like the way we'd treat a ceo. no ceo who would still be the ceo of their company at this moment if they had said -- if they had tweeted what he had tweeted this morning. not one. look at uber. it took a few weeks, and the ceo of uber is out for doing a lot less of what donald trump did today. at least we shown taking about -- should be talking about the fact that the president of the united states should be held to the sam

and joining our panel today michael steele a former spokesman for boehner. and a russian expert in her own right and an msnbc contributor jonathan capehart. jeremy, i wanted to come back to you on this question of obviously not one of us has any of the security clearances anymore. but if you were to guess what's in the intelligence committee assessment of the current state of russia's attempts to ultimately have the capability of impacting our changing or altering the outcome of an election what would you guess russia's determination is to do that? >> highly capable, highly motivated, probably the best capability to conduct cyber attacks against voting systems of any nation state in the world. china would be up there as well, but i think russia would certainly have that motivation and that capability. and it was really interesting in jeh johnson's testimony on the house side he said he tried to get the states to acknowledge that they need to be part of critical infrastructure and they pushed back. they said we don't want to have a federal takeover of the ele

joining me, michael steele, former senior adviser to jeb bush. former spokesman for john boehner. speaker john boehner. jen palmieri, former clinton campaigns communications director. matthew miller, former spokesman for the justice department in the obama administration. my tv husband for the day. we've been on the air since 9:00 a.m. an msnbc analyst. in washington, d.c., nbc legal contributor, former federal prosecutor, paul butler, who doesn't rise to husband status but we've also been on the air all day. i feel like we've been having this conversation since 9:00 this morning. the dramatic moments to me today seem to fall into three categories. one, what donald trump asked comey to do that was just so outside the realm and the norm and we'll have this debate about whether or not it was illegal, obstruction of justice. two, for all the interactions we had with the sitting president which is not normal, your old boss, my old boss, did not call the head of the fbi down for dinner and ask him for loyalty pledges, but u for all those interactions, never one question about russia. w

joining me now is michael steel.s, because climate change, as the president cast it, is the enmy of all things economic, but the facts are not backing it up. >> it is very interesting point to make, because it is not about the facts and all about the politics. the president understands at a gut level after listening to the coal miners, the workers in wisconsin and elsewhere, that this is a sweet shot, but the argument is not about protecting the climate, it's about i have to get you a job today, tomorrow, and next week. >> so when it is about jobs, dropping the temperature of the planet a tenth of a degree in ten years, and that is a powerful argument that resonates -- >> but the numbers don't add up. >> there is half a million jobs now being created in the renewal energy. >> no one is making the case or putting into place the program that will transition those coal miners into those jobs. i'm sitting here and you're telling me i will be unemployed and out of business. when you're talking about coal miners, you're ta

and former rnc chairman, michael steel and berry bennet. >>> former advisor to the trump campaign and earlier in the endless election cycle, campaign manager for dr. ben carson's primary effort. welcome to you both. i'm going to go to you because you had the byline reporting today. >> you know we had heard about a shake up beforer the international trip. since the firing of james comey, the president wasn't thinking. now they're home. yesterday was the first day all the white house staff was back and there is unrest. still so much leaking happening. we know the jared news -- and there was rumblings, the president making a lot of calls. but who could be the back up? a lot of names have been floated around. you're not seeing many people raise their hand, say i'd like to step up to the plate and take that job. reince priebus has a very hard job. >> so share some of the names j they people with business management experience? or had their names been on a ballot? >> many people see on cnn often but he had been adviser to the trump campaign since the beginning? he has a deep understanding?

but it's hurtful to the president and his agenda, and it's gotta stop here. >> michael steel, i'll go here advisedly. when you work in a white house environment, you want to be jazzed up about it. there's ideally an esprit de corps and you're all there rowing together toward a main purpose after an exhausting and victorious campaign. last night's twe could not have left employees and staff and appointees feeling great about the guy sleeping in the residents. >> yeah. i think there's so much that plays into that, brian. it's not just last night's tweet. it's the culmination of things. it starts at the top. starts with the head. the president sets the mood and the feel and the environment and the space in which everyone, the staff, and the chief of staff on down operate. when there is considered an -- and accepted dysfunction, then that's what you're going to get. the only person -- at the end of the day, we could talk about who's going to be chief of staff and who's coming and going, it don't matter. because this is the environment the president allows to exist. he perpetuates it in hi

. >> joining me, michael steel. i think the republicans are doing something they never would have done. they're knew trying to fix a problem. they liked the system before obama. >> replace with it the system they had before. there was something there. there were 30 million people, give or take a few, who did not have health care at the time. that's how this started. so there was a health care system in place. it wasn't where obamacare took it for sure. here's the problem. this is now in the blood stream of this economy and this country. you are not going to take -- >> do they know this? >> they do. and that's the frustration that lisa murkowski and others have. they see the writing on the wall. >> your party has people like rand paul who is an abolitionist. he doesn't care about the replace part. how could you replace and repeal. >> you cannot do anything unless you repeal. >> the problem is trump has promised the moon. he said he would give everybody health care. he sounded like, bernie. >> that's where his heart i

. >> we came upon this inmate, michael steele, who was sitting outside his cell with his items all packedp. he was convinced he was going home that day. and it was becoming a problem for the prison, because nobody could dissuade him from this notion. >> i've been in prison since november 3rd, 1988. for a crime that i was charged with and i'm not guilty of. >> okay. what's going on today? >> that's why i'm leaving prison. >> is it time for you to leave? >> my prison time has expired. >> what are you doing sitting here? >> to be released from prison. >> how long have you been waiting here? >> approximately 14 minutes. >> in reality, he was nowhere near his release date. he's serving 110 years for murder and attempted murder. >> which one of these cells was yours? where did you sleep at night when you were here? did you sleep in one of these cells when you were here? >> the more i asked for details about him leaving, he started to shut dn. it was almost as if i was breaking his belief system. the staff then started to move in and they were making it very clear to him that he was going to hav

let's talk about this trump reaction, michael steel. typically american presidents, the first knee jerk response is to say w stand wit our friends and allies in london. that's usually the first respse you see out of an american president of either party. this president did not do that. your thoughts? >> the president has a particular agenda that he wants addressed and it is the one he wants right in front of the supreme court. so that was his focus and his priority was to remind -- two things, one was to remind the court he wants them to look at this matter and more importantly to a base of supporters out there that this is a fight that we're all too familiar with and we want to, quote, protect the american way of life by putting in place this particular travel ban. here is the problem. he's referred to it as the very thing that the courts have rebelled against, and that is this concept of a travel ban. so he has not done himself good before the supreme court in my view. he's made it more difficult to make the argument that it is not ba

. >> michael steele, there are guardrails in our system.an just laid out essentially all the different ways where the president essentially said, i'm going to run into the guardrail and take it out. >> that's right. republicans seem to be privately concerned and publicly wary of expressing that concern. >> i'm so glad you are asking me this question. i want to go on the record and say, can we stop being stupid for a moment and recognize exactly what dan just laid out. stop making excuses that somehow, why didn't you expect -- we should have expected. this this is how trump is. we all knew this. we did not expect the presidency to be roiled in this kind of a mess four months in. we did not expect this level of independent investigations to be during. if anyone thought this would be the case back at the time during primary or the gentle election yrgs didn't you step up and say something? you have the house and the senate leadership talking about we have an agenda. we're going to move forward on taxes. you're not moving forward on anything. ge

nbc's hallie jackson, todd stern, and michael steele. also bill neely. thank you very much for being here, everybody. the president is set to announce his decision on the paris climate accord if you've already forgotten because we've been talking about it all day. in just 40 minutes at the top of the hour, brian williams is going to bring that to you live in special coverage. up next, so many headlines about russia, so little time. the data set for the fired fbi director james comey to testify before congress. stay with us. is to always keep track of your employees.r micromanage them. make sure they're producing. woo! employee of the month! you really shouldn't leave their side. vita coco coconut water, hydration comes naturally. beneful grain free is so healthy... oh! farm-raised chicken! that's good chicken. hm!? here come the accents. blueberries and pumpkin. wow. and spinach! that was my favorite bite so far. (avo) new beneful grain free. out with the grain, in with the farm-raised chicken. healthful. flavorful. beneful. thithis is the new new york.e

democratic strategist anthony cutter and michael steele, stephanie you have to defend the loss. lot of the spin, a win is a win, a sloss a loss. how many buts do have you in there? >> none. are you right, a win is a win, a loss is a loss. but we just we heard from the political report that this is not a district that democrats should even be competitive in. yet, we were competitive in and forced republicans to spend tens of millions of dollars. the outside money that came in in the last weeks of this campaign were two-to-one for hands el against ossoff. so look i have been through these cycles several times, including when we took over in 2006. in 2005, we weren't winning special elections, but we saw the same size we saw now. that's the jenngeneric ballot. democrats are way up in the republican districts, we've invooes creased our margins by double digits. there is enthusiasm. you know, we have a lot of work to do, absolutely, including understanding it's not just about being against something. you have to be for something. you have to be the plausible alternative. so we have t

msnbc gary is on the hill for us along with former rnc chairman michael steel joining me on set.is. i want you to preview the action on the hill. talk me through the timeline on this. >> you have to work backwards here. republican leadership wants a vote on a health care bill before they go home for their july recess. that is only two weeks away. unlike the house and the senate they have to wait for the congressional budget office to score the bill to come back with their analysis. that can sometimes take as long as -- you don't have to be a mathematical genius to know they are out of time. they have to get a bill finished essentially in the early part of this week to guarantee they can get it scored. democrats know this, too. that's why starting tonight when the senate comes back into session, they're going to be ing all the tactics they have, which aren't frankly a lot of options forinority party, but they're going to try a number of different things to gum up the process here and slow things down. we know a number of democratic senators who are going to be giving speeches on t

joining me right now is ken dilanian, michael steele, bianna golodryga, and eli stokols, white house correspondent with "the wall street journal." who can i start with? what do we make of this three strikes you're out problem with jeff sessions? he said he didn't have two meetings. then he said he didn't have a third meeting. >> the important thing is they flatly deny on the record, the spokesperson for the justice department flatly denies that jeff sessions had a private meeting with kislyak at this event. but at the same time, we've got current and former officials telling us there is some classified evidence to the contrary. and now we know that the congress is investigating. the fbi is also interested in this meeting. this was a widely understood meeting. it was reported on at the time. nbc news was there. it was a foreign policy speech that trump gave. before the speech there was a vip reception. kislyak and other ambassadors were there. >> why is trump giving a speech at a russian leaning think tank way back last march? i mean this russian, russian, russian thing, what is it ab

. >> joining me now i michael steele, republican strategist, former spokesman for john boehner who hadout another health care vote when nancy pelosi was in charge on the house side. john mccain has just spoken out about this. let's watch. i think we have that. >> we used to complain like hell and the democrats ran the affordable care act. now they're doing the same thing. >> so -- >> this is a normal part of the process. aides and senators work behind the scenes on the bill before it is revealed. >> women are overrepresented and the people who suffer from health care -- >> that's why every senator, man, woman, white, black, latino, will have the opportunity to offer amendments before this bill passes. >> the question that chuck schumer asked last night of the leader was, we'll get ten hours to look at it and counterfeit our amendments and didn't get an answer to that. >> there will be a cbo score before the bill is voted on. is this is a fairly normal part of the process at this stage. >> let me say, this is not really normal to see a bill of this -- you're laughing. you can't even kee

i'm joined by the "hardball" roundtable, jay newton-small, eugene robinson, and michael steele.let me go right now to gene on this, and the question is the bottom line. today's impact in history? >> the bottom line, i think it was a very tough day for president trump. i think jim comey got his story out. he got it out the way he wanted to get it out. it's not every day you hear the outgoing or departed fbi director call the president a liar, you know, on national television in front of the senate. it's not every day that you hear an encounter or encounters, a series of encounters, that may add up to obstruction of justice described in detail with contemporaneous notes. it was a very significant and pretty stunning day. >> michael, where is the action going to be six months down the road? is it going to be the russia investigation or the obstruction of justice investigation? >> i think it's going to be a combo of the two, because i think they do intertwine, and i think one reinforces the other in some odd way because of the cast of characters involved and because largely the way

with me michael steel, former chair of the republican national committee and ed randall, former pennsylvaniaer chair of the dnc democratic national committee. everything is getting pushed outside the white house and no questions are being answered and i don't think these lawyers will be giving press conferences. how much chaos is there at the white house do you think as we look at it from the outside? >> well, a boatload of chaos. this is a way of thinking, if they can pull it off, a way of compartmentalizing. get all the attention to the outside counsel and have the remaining white house staff try to push the substantive agenda. i think to do that, though, they're going to need a new chief of staff. reince priebus is a very nice man, but i don't think he's strong enough to push the agenda, strong enough to stand up to the president. i think they need someone strong enough to deal with the congress effectively and to tell the president when he's wrong that he's wrong. now, if the president won't accept tt, it's not going to work. the whole thing is going to collapse. but i think that's what

steel tariffs. we hear headlines that president trump still wants a 20% import text, which would very much affect germany and ruffle feathers over there. michaelermany and we do from china these days. they will probably not allow -- announced something today -- we are told. their self-imposed deadline -- they really have until next year to get this out, but they may hold it until after the g-20 meetings. the question is is donald trump holding it because he wants to talk to allies, or is it because they are not ready because it is a complex issue? partner just to the north of us, canada, is our biggest steel importer. at this point it is not as -- as much about china as other members they are meeting. anna: they were just talking about south korea. jonathan: a huge week for markets, but we have to talk about panda diplomacy. someone else pays my paycheck. if i was working for free, i not come to this. and a diplomacy. matt: look at that adorable panda. these are a couple of pandas given to germany by china to smooth the relations. one thing that goes under the chinese are going to come here before the g-20 summit in hamburg. while they are her

steele. this is a bit odd, anderson, because the second sentence from michael cohen is false. e dossier has not been debunked by its author, christopher steele. steele has said that not all of it is fully verified. we know from our reporting that some of it has been corroborated. so a little bit of an odd defense there from that second trump lawyer, michael cohen. anderson? >> strange to put out a statement that has something not factually accurate. athena jones, thank you. gloria borger, jeff toobim is back, harvard law school's alan dershowitz, you say this actually strengthens his position against director comey. how so? >> let's look at the constitutional picture. the president could have told comey you are demanded, directed to drop the prosecution against flynn. comey acknowledges that. he says in the statement historically presidents have done that to the justice department. we've had a few years of separation. that tradition doesn't create crime. remember what the president could have done. he could have said to comey, stop this investigation. i am now pardoning flynn.

let's bring up michael blake, as at mcgillss mentioned china and steel.nd the white house is looking to have a position going into g-20 and be confrontational when they meet with xi jinping. allhina has dumped steel over the world, tremendous overcapacity, half the steel production in the world. the u.s. has been putting tariffs on china for years now. taxident obama put a 580% on chinese steel imports. there is not much we can do to bring down chinese steel imports into this country. but because they have them all over the world, it depresses the world steel price, so still from everybody else is being made and sold at a lower price. it is not clear at all what he is talking about doing what have any impact. what might happen, and some people have suggested is a good idea -- and do not have a lot of faith that is what the white house is thinking -- he says to everybody else in the g-20 let's sit down with china and negotiate a deal where they pull back their steel exports to the rest of the world, and then we can actually accomplish something. scarlet: p

christopher steele, the british spy -- former british spy and that was the annexed part to the briefing that president trump and outgoing president obama and various congressional leaders got, michael cohen is alleged to have met in prague with the russians to kind of trade information or maybe receive instructions. again, this is unverified. we don't know if it actually happened. a lot of journalists have been on this case and have not been able to turn up anything. but he seems to have a lot of ties to russia and the former soviet union, to some pretty salacious people going back decades, and he might have a lot to say. but it seems like he would have even better reason to invoke executive or attorney-client privilege than attorney general jeff sessions. >> our great thanks to our leadoff panel tonight, robert costa, julia ioffe, jeremy bash. >>> coming up, a former water prosecutor, former counsel to the director of national intelligence weigh in on all of it. we're back right after this. >> most of the questions that have been presented to you were predictable. so my question to you is did you then review with the lawyers of your department, if you as the top lawyer are unaware

michael at tamara. they dialed can that back a little bit. >> they dialed that with the "man of steel," no longer truth,nd american way. they turned them into global citizens. they lose a little core of their essence that makes their essence. wonder woman was created during world war ii to fight nazis in america and equal rights for women and created by americans for americans. to sell her something loses a little something. neil: do they take offense showing a china ors where that if america is always front and center like, you know, captain america, you know, some would say director of that movie said he will no longer be a flag waver. just a good person. that is america. >> two things at play. one is global box office. 0% of revenues for hollywood come in overseas. that is a big number. domestic -- neil: you don't want to make it american-centric. >> china is fastest-growing market. neil: but do you tick off americans watching it? >> that is a big debate. yeah, you do. i get a little ticked off by it to be honest. neil: people making it, i didn't notice, she is not raring the red white blue outfit. >

michael mckee, bloomberg's international economic and policy correspondent. great to have you with us as we count you down to thursday with jonathan ferro, alix steel, and david the u.k., and ecb decision and the comey testimony, one for each of us. alex on draghi, david on comey and myself on the u.k. election. as we wrap up bloomberg daybreak, here is the state of affairs. -1/10 of 1% on the dow and on the s&p 500. we pulled back from record highs. pulled back from 2017 lows. we are still down on the session by four basis points. 2.14 is your yield. from london and new york, good afternoon and good morning. ♪ vonnie: it is 10:00 a.m. in new york and 10:00 p.m. in hong kong. mark: welcome to "bloomberg markets." vonnie: here are the top stories we are covering from bloomberg and around the world. havens rally, gold heading for a seven-month high end of the yen yen climbs. testimony this thursday. in an exclusive interview with bloomberg, tim cook says president trump's decision to quit the paris agreement was just wrong. plus, president trump originally said he wanted to defuse the --sis in qatar