former rnc chairman and former analyst michael steele. chief of staff to al gore and joe biden and the other michael steele. they have never been together. in full disclosure when i have hear from the other, i heard my name, no, i'm not on -- >> it's true. >> television history right he. >> i'm bringing people together. ron, we have to get to you right away on just how unconventional it is for a president to dis his own attorney general for following the law. >> it is unprecedented. cows are flying defending jeff sessions but i worked in the white house council's office and there are tensions between a white house and a justice department. >> sure. >> for the president to say to "the new york times," hey, this guy shouldn't have followed the law is unprecedented. what's more, he also ignores what happened here. jeff sessions this information came out during his confirmation process that he had the meetings. >> right. >> he had forgotten about the meetings so he recused himself. this is a case of jeff sessions doing for what he was suppose

. >> white house correspondent for reuters and by phone michael steele. ael, i'm going to start with you because reince priebus has been out doing exit interviews and explaining how he thinks it is just a dandy idea he was booted out of the white house. i want to play i believe -- let's see. let's pick something. let's go with e-3 and this is reince priebus on cnn on friday and he's talking about the white house just wanting to go in a new direction. >> i think the president wanted to go a different direction, i support him in that. and like i said a couple of weeks ago, i said the president has a right to change directions. the president has a right to hit a re-set button. i think it is a good time to hit the re-set button. >> michael steele, there is this thing where people who are not in the business of politics feel that reince priebus is sort of throwing his dignity overboard. in the service of a president who clearly didn't respect him, clearly didn't want him. but could you just explain to folks who may not be living in the world of republican polit

michael steele, if chris matthews were here today, i feel that i can channel him. he would say at the end of the day at a certain point, governing is supposed to be about doing things. having an agenda and doing they will. it feels like 80 to 90% of this white house's time and energy is consumed with infighting, back biting, back stabbing, front stabbing. who is the person who knows anything about getting bills passed, governing. is there anyone who can do it? he may be a brilliant guy but he doesn't have a back ground in that either. >> you assume that's the goal here. when you're creating reality tv presidencies, it is not about those times of objectives, which have been fairly traditional. it is about the moment and this president has been about creating moments whether they serve as a distract or an opportunity to create another narrative. that's our new reality. this is a presidency that is going to be continually transitioning toward whatever donald trump is feel or thinking or tweeting at that moment. so the policy and the agenda on legislation, you're talki

michael steele, republicans are divided here. have conservatives and moderates. >> uh-huh. >> will rand paul realize, hold on, if i don't let this thing go through and we end up with a sort of bipartisan resolution, that's even worse. why wouldn't those guys say, let's at least get us on the same page? >> well, i think probably because guys like rand paul are arguing for principle position. they had a compact, part of coming into power, if you will, was, hey, we're going to repeal obamacare and we're going to fix it with certain solutions. none of that is in this bill. so this farcical story line that, oh, yeah, this is going to repeal obamacare. well, no, you're keeping in a great deal of taxes to pay for all the goodies you want to hand out to convince moderates that, oh, yeah, you can slide on medicaid. i don't know how rob portman or senator of west virginia come back and go, yeah, okay, we can live with that now because you sweetened the pot on opioids. it's just not how it works. and the reality is this thing has a cost to

michael steele is an msnbc political analyst.e me your thoughts on this i heard some republicans say, if you don't know what the specific steps of the bill are after seven years, you really haven't been paying attention. on the other hand there are people who say, look, we can't do this. in an ad-hoc way. this is a sixth of our economy, it affects millions of people. what do you make of what you're seeing on capitol hill right now? >> a couple things. there's been no bill, except for what was gerrymandered together over the last few months by the senate in a rush to get something out in front of the public. they had no operational bill or platform. you hear a lot of folks say there were committee hearings on a lot of things. that's just hogwash. it was not a concerted effort toward a particular bill. those republicans who are concerned about what this process will now unfold should this moment afford him to actually deal into a bill. we don't know what this looks like. we don't know where this is going to go neither does mitch mc

joining me theresa kumar, caidones do dawson, michael steele.ith you and give you the gift of the trump tweet out of his 37 tweets or however many this morning he tweets, anthony scaramucci endorsed jeb bush, he was originally for scott walker who didn't run and he went to jeb bush. he endorsed a lot of other people before donald trump we wasn't for him and trump now tweets in all fairness to anthony scaramucci, he wanted to endorse me first before the republican primaries started but didn't think i was running. it's weird but i guess falling in love with donald trump and telling him how much you love him is part of the job. what do you make of his migration from trump critic to this? >> one of the things there was a great piece done by politico basically saying that scaramucci really desperately wanted to have an ambassadorialship. that's what he was really going after so when you look at it in the totally of wanting to go abroad, this is not his first choice. kind of like the president was not his first choice and so i think that there are a l

joining me by phone is michael steele former republican national committee chair. michael, this is a very big deal for sean spicer, the white house spokesman to be resigning in protest over the hiring of anthony scaramucci. >> yeah, it is a big deal. and there are two things here to make note of. one is that sean felt that he had reached the point where he was up against the wall in terms of managing and running communications operations on a day-to-day basis to put out a consistent message. i was laughing to myself listening to some of the surprise from folks oh, shaean resigned. it's been clear for a while that sean and the white house were on two different pages when it came to communication. you see with the president a decision he's made he's now going to -- wants to do what he wants done on communication. he has been effectively working as his own communications directs director. he now has someone in anthony scaramucci who he feels will best articulate him, meaning the president, out to the public. that's something certainly reince and sean spicer could not t

i want to go quickly to michael steele, obviously, one of the wings that is shrirnging in the orbit of donald trump is the rnc wing and everyone associated with it a. former chairman of the rnc. where does that leave the organization now? you already have donors eassume they are going to donald trump's legal bills and issues like that? where is the rnc at this point? >> a good question. i think a lot of people are asking themselves that and trying to figure out exactly what it means. certainly this is a disruption in the party flow. i don't think it will impact money or organizations or things that the chair woman is doing at the moment. but it does lead to a proder disruption that the party has to face in dealing with, you know, grass roots activists, how they feel about what's going on, whether they're pro trump or fought pro trump and that's going to be a very delicate thing. this instability in the west wing makes it very difficult for the party, to organize itself and to begin to sort of put in place the building blocks they will need for next year. >> when you say the word instab

i have famed director rob reiner as well as michael steele. two dramatic and insightful men.o you think about understanding donald trump as a toon? >> i think, you know, that's -- that's demeaning toons. this guy is below toons. he is in some kind of other level. if you went into an office in hollywood and you pitched the idea of this idiot becoming president of the united states from a reality show, they would throw you out of the office. but i have to say one thing that, i've been watching all of, you know, unfolding saga of this trump russia thing. and the one thing that nobody seems to talk about is, let's say for the sake of argue. . first of all, i don't believe that jared kushner and don junior didn't know what was happening in that meeting. but let's assume for the sake of argument, that they didn't know it, they are idiots, they didn't know what was going on, there was a man and michael steele knows better than anybody, there is man sitting in the office, paul manafort. this guy has been around campaigns for the last 40 years. he is a professional. he is trained. he

joining me now, political analyst michael steele be a went with me onset, former campaign adviser, jess mcintosh. we are showing images of the protest on the screen, so you guys wouldn't know that. jess, let's start with you. actually, i will start with michael. this is more after question for you. donald trump used images of disorder during his campaign at his rallies to his advantage. by saying he would be the law and order candidate. >> yeah. >> do you expect he will try and use these images in the same way or at the very least, are they going to have that subconscious effect on those who believe in donald trump? >> i think for those who believe in donald trump, this is a european affirmation of what they already know about what's going on here in america, for example. so the dot is connected in that regard. i don't think these protests in hamburg will have any real impact on what donald trump says or does. he may reference it offhand. he may juice the goose a little bit, if you will, katy, to you know, get some play back here at home for his base. but i think overall, i think he kno

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what is it going to take to get a true investigation whether it, the former intelligence agent michael steeleher steel. and all the characters that seem to be showing up in various places thanks to the obama administration. ed: someone at justice should make this part of the investigation. lou: randy, your thoughts. let's stay first with fusion gps and its role in all of this. >> i don't think we'll ever know all there is to know, but they do seem to be a common thread. they seem to have common connections with the democratic party and they seem to be illusive in terms of anybody wanting to look too deeply within them. at the end of the day it will be a lot of nothing about nothing. lou: you mean as far as president trump and his family. >> absolutely. lou: i would definitely agree with that. but there is culpability here and cause and effect at play. and i want to know what in the world fusion gps was doing, why, and with whom. because they seem to be threaded into every aspect of this, randy. lou: you are going to talk to me like you talk to a group? isn't there something special about our

joining me now, sabrina siddiqui and michael steele. existence of that e-mail has changed the way i feel about this. and you've got to think that the senators and republican congressmen on capitol hill know that they are watching themselves. >> they do. they are nervous about it, angry about it. they realize that there's very little they can do about it. why? the cement that has blocked them in around their feet are the very voters who are running 80, 90% still in support of president trump. so they can't do any chipping away at this at all. >> they could. >> they could. >> let's be clear. we're free agents. >> are you willing to take the risk? what matters most? >> right. >> you've not got on the table the country and the party that could be a real mess if this is allowed to play itself out coming down a pike a year from now saying, by the way, this is the litany of things that are problematic. what do you do and where do you go? that's their reality right now. you want to get to the legislative agenda which is as messed up as it possib

michael steele former spokesperson for john boehner. walk us through.ssage do people want to send to washington right now? >> well, hallie, democrats can smell blood in the water on this health care bill and they very much want takeep to keep the fo this bill. the more it has been talked about, the more unpopular it becomes. senator tim kaine of virginia will have a roundtable with doctors and with families who are beneficiaries of medicaid. the local press coverage in places like virginia and other states is uniformally negative. more than $1.4 billion worth of medicaid money that essentially would not make its way to virginia under this bill. things like that give democrats hope. also giving democrats hope is the poll numbers are also almost uniformally terrible and rarely breaks 20% in favorability polls. you're seeing this even in deep red states. one of the few republican senators who held any kind of open town halls over the break were jerry moran in kansas. a very, very ruby red state. this is some of the reaction he got. >> why not work together

michael steele, former adviser to jeb bush and former spokesman for john boehner. chael, why can't we see strength in confronting vladimir putin? >> because any mention on the issue of the election undermines his -- in his view, his legitimacy as president of the united states and that's intolerable to his ego. look at the ego we're seeing on display today. news reports suggest the reason he chose poland as the first stop on this trip is because the ruling party promised cheering crowds to greet him. he couldn't be guaranteed that in germany or paris or anywhere else in western europe or old europe. but in poland, the regime is able to muster those crowds on command and they've promised to give him a cheering welcome. >> in his defense, most american presidents are very welcomed in poland. and let me bring you in on this sort of -- you know, eli and i were talking about the dual tracks that the white house operates on. there's general mattis who is by any analysis a serious president, respected the world over. hr mcmaster, a serious person. he was managing the north

. >>> michael steele former adviser and plus joining us senior washington correspondent for politico anna palmer and matt visor and kasie hunt is also hanging out over on the hill. let's start to russia. michael, i'll go to you. what would be talking about today if the president wasn't on twitter trying to defend himself? >> we were talking about health care and the efforts to repeal and replace obamacare with something that will lower costs and help the american people. tax reform and getting our economy moving again. infrastructure and deregulation and all the things they're doing to help the american people. >> health care is hanging by a threat. senator john was on this morning and here's what he had to say on cnbc. >> we need to delay the vote until he gets here. we need all 50 votes. >> every senator will speak for themselves. we're working with all of them together. this is going to be a completely open amendment process. >> he seems very optimistic. he is acknowledging you need all 50 senators, anna. >> it's good to be a che cheerleader. i think everybody says the longer this

michael steele, alex coanyone. thanks for coming in and being flexible. nothing like breaking news. >> always an adventure. >> our political units we musd about the wheel's coming off president trump's white house. even before this after's news those wheels certainly seemed to believe in the rear view mirror. wegsd it before but this week's turmoil may have been the worst one yet. here is a little time capsule. >> that tweet is essentially the president calling on his own democratic of justice department to investigate his former political opponent. that's what that tweet is and that's what has really raised some eyebrows here in washington. >> i am disappointed in the attorney general. he should not have recused himself almost immediately after he took office. >> i think he's crazy. >> i'm worried. >> i mean, i don't -- >> we have a few of them up here that we feel like we can at least give you an idea of how scaramucci described reince priebus and steve bannon. let's put up a few of these quotes now. what have we got ready on screen here? reince is a ex

joining me now is michael steele, former rnt and previous administration, but a law professor and the law school. you've got people lining up to point out that this is legal ethics, this is procedure that jeff sessions had no choice but to recuse himself for conflicts of interest. >> right. well not only is it exhausting, andrea, it's also problematic in the sense that people now are beginning to see exactly how this administration is positioned itself on these very important ethical and legal matters. and the reality is there is, you know, regardless of the politics here, there are some very bright lines. and i believe jeff sessions, you know, stayed true to those lines when it came to his responsibility. and what is surprising, it's not like jeff sessions didn't telegraph nor tell publicly what he intended to do if he was required to do so. and that was to recuse himself. it came out in his hearings, he was skasked directly about it lg before the vote to affirm his appointment. so the administration knew this. this wasn't a surprise to the president and his team. all of this phony,

. >> michael steel, where does this leave us humanizing, i spoefr, because his family -- >> his family is his family, and i think everybody appreciates that. and it's less -- it really is in that sense when you're talking to grandkids and all of that, it's less about -- it's really about the man himself. >> right. and what he's doing in the officials right now. >> all right. that's is it for today. thanks for our panel. that does it for our hour. i'm nichole wallace. mtp dale yid starts right now. >> i think you mean michael steel scared, nichole. >> yeah. i'm not good at math. i never know how that works. >> great show today, as always. and if it's thursday, president trump's red line and red meat amid a red scare. are you ready? >> tonight, president trump fight ens his circle of trust. >> essentially, he should have never recused himself. >> i love this department and i plan to continue to do so as long as that's important. >> but why is he repeatedly taking aim at his own? >> if emd somebody to take an action, he would make that quite clear. >> plus, where do the russia investigati

the white house staff seems to be doing everything it can. >> michael steel, ron klain, great to have you both here, thank you so much. >>> coming up, compound interest. russia's new threat over their suspected spy outposts. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. your joints... or your digestion... so why wouldn't you take something for the most important part of you... your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is now the number one selling brain health supplement in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the name to remember. only tylenol® rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast, for fast pain relief. tylenol® there's nothing more important so when i need to book a hotel, i want someone who makes it easy. booking.com gets it. and with their price match, i know i'm getting the best price every time. visit booking.com. booking.yeah! for years, centurylink has been promising fast internet to small businesses. but for many businesses, it's out of reach. why promise something you can't deliver? comcast business is d

but michael steel, so u jared kushner getting advice everything you know, get it out. that ain't the way trurm works. >> no. so that is a clash that i'm wondering how long can it last? you hit a very sensitive point between the jared kushner world and the trump world. i mean, the jared kushner world is like r look, we're not all up into this. let's get this out here. we're listening to our lawyers. >> he's listening to his lawyers. >> and the trump team is like, we'll play it a little bit loosey googsy and loosey goosey is not going to win the day on this. >> "the new york times" reported and plit co's own reporting also suggests that the president's lawyers are increasingly frustrated with him and that the reason that trump is at odds with his lawyer marc kasowitz is because he's listening to jared kushner. and so the real, you know, the real disagreement is between jared kushner and the president's lawyers, which i think hints at the disagreements that you suggested. >> go ahead. >> well, jared kushner has two experienced washington lawyers. >> who have been through

. >>> here with me now, michael steel, former house speaker, also jason johnson. it is so wonderful to see you. michael, let's start with you since this is the republican health care bill. this amendment is trying it's best to find a middle ground between the conservatives of the party with the ted cruz amendment and the moderates, but is it going to get someone like susan collins on board? >> we're inching to the finish line. you're seeing changes on both sides. changes like additional resources for the opioid epidemic, more state exchanges, that is the conversation we're having now. >> big cuts to medicaid still. >> it is on an unsustainable path, there needs to be changing to survive. >> jason? >> they kept some of it to pay off the senators on the fence. the opioid finding, the $70 billion, it is basically to get the waivering republicans, it is just as problematic as trying to maintain the current bill as it is. it subpoena a short-term payoff. it is just short sided thinking. will they pass something in probab probably. >> it was pretty wildly unpopular befor

joining me now, political reporter for the guardian and michael steele. ichael. i found the existing publication of the e-mail has altered the way that i think about this whole thing. and i asked congress lance about this. and i got to think the senators and republican congressmen on capitol hill are watching themselves being lied to. i know that. >> they do. they're nervous about it. they're angry about it. but they realize that there's very little they can do about it. why? because the cement that has blocked in them in around their feet are the very voters running 80%, 90% in support of president trump. so they can't do any chipping away at this at all. >> they could. it could cost them politically. we're free agents. >> my attitude is are you willing to take the risk. what matters most. you've now got on the table the country, the party and a whole lot of other stuff that could be a real mess if this is allowed to play itself with mueller coming down the pike a year from now saying by the way, this is a litany of things that are problematic. what do yo

national security analyst malcolm nance, and form he chair of the republican national committee, michael steele. hallie, i think you have a great question to him. you got to ask it. what did you make of his answer? it was the russians but wasn't the russians. they were contradictory. the very sentence was contradictory in itself. >> there are a couple things that were notable that we've been looking at and following the fallout. that's number one. something that was a little unusual for a sitting proceeds foreign soil. to go after president obama for in the words of president trump, doing nothing to stop putin over the sull where the obama administration learned about the intensity of the russian interference. now some democrats will argue that president obama hadn't done enough to try to stop putin. to say he did nothing would not be accurate when you look at the sanctions the obama administration put on people. when you look, for example, president obama describing how he personally confronth vladimir putin. the other thing baltimore president trump was kind of casting shade on his own intell

. >> sabrina siddiqui and michael steele, that is all for this evening. >>> tonight at this hour, i have somebody here that i'm very happy to have lended. the deputy director of the state department for years, senior director for russia at the national security council for years, senior person at the pentagon on russia for years. he has stuff to tell us and he is going to be here tonight for the interview. i'm really looking forward to that. but there is, there's a bunch going on tonight. a lot of news has broken in the last 24 hours. let's get right to it. the 2014 winter olympics were held in sochi, that was controversial of course because all of of the things controversial about russia. you might remember right before the sochi olympics, just a few weeks before the opening ceremonies, vladimir putin made a concession to his human rights critics trying to take sam some of the heat off of russia for hosting the olympics, people were upset about their human rights, international aggression, trying to take the heat off of that. just a few weeks before the olympics started, putin released

michael steele, the former republican chairman.en this broke this week, thought this is something where you might see some republicans in washington who hadn't previously, just republicans in general who haven't previously distanced themselves from this administration will blow the whistle. i haven't seen it yet. >> and you won't. >> it doesn't surprise you. >> no. the glue that allows these folks to stick to trump is the base behind him. that percent an of the gop base that is 80%, 90% with president trump. regardless. you hear that consistently throughout and that is enough to allow for the president to sort of leverage and say what he says. and for the leadership, to have to go out and soft peddle. >> is that because the republican base you're talking about, that it will be with president trump. is the message to them anything you're hearing about russia, anything you're hearing from the democrats or the media, it is just people who are refusing to accept? >> whether we like it or not. the fake news narrative is now baked sow th

. >> former rnc chair, michael steele. and former clinton campaign jess mcintosh joining us on this hectic day. it is 9:00 p.m. in hamburg, germany. that's where donald trump is. he is there at g20. he just met with angela merkel, german's chancellor. there are a number of violent clashes between protesters and police have have been ongoing for about the last hour and half. this all comes right before donald trump has his very first face-to-face meeting with the russia president tomorrow. all ice will be watching that. i will hand it off to my colleague. ali, take it away. >> this is not how i thought the day would go a few hours ago. hamburg, germany, center of the universe ooze every major world leader is showing up for the world summit. chaos in the streets. about an hour ago, tension boiled over. water cannons and some sort of gas tossed into the crowds to get them to disperse. let's get right to the action this afternoon. pair of first-rate journalist is for us. kier simmons has been in that mess for a while. kier, le

>> michael steele, the national committee chairman said he was trump before trump in terms of the new i think if you look at the republican party, you think back to the obama era. 2010, 2011. he was clashing with the teacher's unit. the president is also a consequence of that same impulse in the gop base. >> do you remember when corzine ran against him? he ran a terrible ad with. the big white shirt looking very overweight. he said that's a cheap shot. fat shaming this guy. i thought he would beat him. then he came off like ed koch. i liked that too. you know what? he is really a bully. >> it played well for the first year or two. then when he randal, he was talking about kicking hillary clinton's you know what and almost locking her up as well. you're right. he played a bully and then i became a bully. >> it worked until 2013. >> he went to the beach with president obama, hands together, almost, a buddy buddy system at the beach. >> that was the other side. >> that showed very smart optics. >> he got 60% in fundraising in 2013. it all came down to the bridge. he had 60% of the vote a

. >> michael steele, rob reiner, thank you so much. that does it for me. thanks for watching our debut, we're back tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. eastern. you can find on on facebook and water, @thebeatwithari. chris matthews starts now. >> whatever it takes, let's play hard ball. ♪ ♪ ♪ hall good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. we begin an explosive week if trump land. anything is possible. president trump displaced no limits to what he will do to protect himself. he accept node limits of what he will do now. the presidency is his and he will use every weapon at hand. the greatest of which is his personal readiness to use all of them. he fired men and women in his way and he will fire more. he will fire until he gets what he wants, north korean caliber of the owe pabedience. no attorney general. no special prosecutor is safe the moment trump decides to dump him. he tweeted he has the complete power to pardon. this morning he took another shot at attorney general sessions. quote, so why aren't the committees and investigators and our beleaguered, there's

interestingly, former rnc michael steele said i know people want to write this politically, people want go away, but this is someone who does not go away. he also went on to say that christie was trump before trump. i thought it was interesting in reading. >> i don't care what the media and some of the my critics are saying? i don't know about him being trump before trump, trump has been trump for so long. even though he wasn't in the political eye and the nation wasn't thinking of him as a political figure. trump has always been a wild card. so, chris christie was someone as someone thabd make deals and govern, but this incident shows that chris christie has a lot to come back from. he in some ways feels as though he can do what he wants to do and his critics will say what they want. in reality, have a future in the republican party, he's going to have to convince people and if he wants to be a national figure. >> means what he says. and he's doing it here as well. i'm not necessarily surprised by this. you've been covering new jersey for quite some time, talk to me about that. >> righ

michael steel, you know i'm coming to you first. you knew it. >> why?cause we're talking about the republicans and their bill. it is fair to say that this is not, you know, this is projections of just essential rl repealing obamacare and not having anything else. and the republicans do say that they will have a better plan in place in two years. >> as opposed to the last seven. okay. i'm following you. >> there you go. congress doesn't have a very good reputation, track record for meeting the deadlines that they self impose. >>el, it's not just about meeting the deadlines. it's getting within the caucus some sense of how we want to do this. what is our purpose and goal here. how and why can't we get on the same page so that we can go before the country and give them the confidence that once we repeal this that there will be in fact something there that will work as a placeholder while that process is unfolding and then at the end of that period have something ready to go. the only thing the american people have to look at, quite honestly, is the last se

joining me is michael steele, former republican national chairman and msnbc political analyst. >> hey. >> welcome. good to see you. >> yes. >> as the twitter stream from this president on his way now to, you know, his second foreign trip, tweaking the chinese who only, you know, yesterday met with miracerck merkel, the day h putin, how does this work? >> it is just generally unsettling. the bottom line is foreign policy by tweet is not just not smart, it is -- it is unsettling for our allies who, you know, in the diplomatic community, which you covered for years, you know, there is a certain consistency, there is a dependency. you can have aberrations where you know people color outside the lines, but that's all trump does is color outside the lines. so for the diplomatic community, whether it is merkel or foes like china or russia, and probably less russia because he tends to be more favored towards them, there is this sense of where is this president going with this foreign policy what does it mean when he says, okay, well, we now know there is not going to work with china, let's mo

michael steele, senior advisor to jeb bush's 2016 bid said "aside from the candidate himself, the campaign manager's time is among the most valuable resources for any campaign. it would be very odd for the campaign manager to appear at a meeting with a more or less random foreigner claiming they're pedestrian willing opposition research." "from experience when working on a presidential campaign and contacted by a foreigner, prudent to mention it to, one, your foreign policy team, and, two, the fbi." the chief strategist on the 2012 romney-ryan team wrote on twitter, "if you can find someone in another presidential campaign who has received oppo from foreign interests, please share." a veteran of the 2000 bush-cheney campaign also wrote, "when gore campaign was sent bush debate briefing book, they called the fbi. if foreign interests offer you info on former secretary of state, you call the fbi." >> switching gears here. a tragic story. 16 people there in mississippi believed to be dead after a military plane crashed in rural mississippi. officials said there were 16 people on board, and mo

and michael steele, former rnc chairman, and also an msnbc political analyst. good to have all of you with me on a friday afternoon. naveed, let me start with you. you are quite familiar with russian intelligence techniques. based on this newest revelation about precisely who was in the room for that meeting, what does that tell you? >> well, it tells me that it follows a pattern that makes sense. that this would be, in fact, a russian operation. and that pattern is the fact that they use what we would term a cutout. look, the russians have a very robust and large network that i believe operates the united states. i had personal experience with these sort of questionable dotted line people that kind of trace back to the kremlin. so it would make sense to use someone who was a trusted entity. but then again, allowed the russians to have, well, plausible deniability. of so that totally falls in line with their portfolio of how they use this stuff. >> a cutout. what's a cutout? >> a cutout specifically means it is someone who you can -- as we would call the circle

he was raising money to get out of the debt that michael steele left the republicans. he was asking people for donations to pay off overdraft. that was so bad. little by little, they regained it. they know what happened. scott brown was the first victory. he deserves a lot of credit. donald trump had no ground game. jeb bush would have had a ground game. he had to make the rnc the ground game. he deserves a lot of credit when the rips started with your nemesis, paul ryan. he was the one that kept saying, listen, he's a good buy. the bully bush tape not his best moment. >> good point. >> really? >> yeah. >> everybody is doing it. like we rehearsed. >> good job, team. >> here's what it comes down to. it was time for a change. there's a season for everything. reince was important for putting together this ground game that you described. the democratic party has fallen apart. under reince's leadership, the republican party has dominated. he deserves credit for that. >> brian, you mentioned afghanistan. what general kelly -- we never know what the next chapter will look lik

. >> michael steele senior advisor to jeb bush's 2016 bid said aside from the candidate himself, thetime is among the most valuable resources for any campaign. it would be very odd for the campaign manager to appear at a meeting with a more or less random foreigner claiming they're peddling opposition research. romney ryan campaign manager wrote from experience when working on a presidential campaign and contacted by a foreigner, prudent to mention to one, your foreign policy team and two, the fbi. the chief strategists on the 2012 romney ryan team wrote on twitter, if you can find someone in other presidential campaigns who has received oppo from foreign interests, please share. >> stop on stevens. keep that up there. this is really the challenge. this is what -- this is the challenge. we could have all these people saying we've never done it, we've never done it. stuart actually puts this the right way. if anybody who is listening to this show and most the people that are influences in washington, a lot of them listen to this show. a lot of people have run presidential campaigns, l

a lot of people who work in steel voted for him. michael's political base. is not a planted negotiate a bilateral trade agreement yet . one piece of news -- the u.s. has canceled its post meeting press conference. jonathan: is michael mckee, gret to catch up with the. that does it for us at "bloomberg daybreak." this years of records -- it's a series of records on the u.s. equity market. the nasdaq on a nine day winning streak, the longest since february 2015. from new york, you're watching bloomberg tv. ♪ vonnie: it's 10:00 in new york. i'm vonnie quinn. ra: welcome to bloomberg markets. ♪ vonnie: here in the top stories we are covering. is there a new king of bonds? morgan stanley pulls more revenue than goldman sachs for the second straight quarter. what morgan is getting right. president trump's agenda looks evermore in peril. getaunches a bid to senators moving. more questions after the president held a second previously unreported meeting with vladimir putin. our commercial real estate valuations running too hot? we will speak with ra

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