new york times" reporter and msnbc contributor managing director of senior adviser to jeb and michael steele. okay. now that we've gotten through all of that, michael, the president has kicked a pile of major problems -- in a normal situation, if we were talking about any one of these, it would be something that we spent six months on. what do you see as the end game here for the congress? is the president just setting himself up to run against them in four years? what's going on? >> look, there's an element to the dog catching the mail truck in this. the executive branch is overstepping its authority, that congress should act and they have called their bluff and he said, you're right, you figure it out. so what i hope that means is that congress has a historic opportunity to step up, get some things done and deal with the issues that they've been talking about for half a decade or more and with the support of the president, get things done to help the american people and make us more safe. >> it seems to me they are much farther behind than they otherwise might have needed to be. they could

. >> michael steele? >> as someone who believes in house majority and republican majority in the house of representatives is good for the nation in the world, i am an unabashed supporter of nancy pelosi, remainor democratic leader in the house. i think she's huge for us. >> i think i'll say in the conversations with democratic aides, while there are very few people who want to come at nancy pelosi on the record, the party is starting to grow frustrated with the fact that she's there and democrats if you think about it, the last time there was an open primary for the president was something like 2004. there's a feeling that they have stifled their own growth with clinton running and running and with the democratic leadership, they are not reflective of a bernie sanders wing of a party that is increasingly having more and more voice in the party. >> she's not going anywhere before 2018. >> she's not? >> that said, can they sweep the house if republicans get to run against her. >> they have a better chance i

national political reporter carroll lee with me, michael steele, former press secretary to john boehner. nbc news diplomat sit expert chris hill, former u.s. ambassador to south korea and other countries and "new york times" correspondent mark landler, part of the team that wrote the corker story today. kristin, first to you. the fallout at the white house as they grapple with all of this and as people try to interpret the president's meeting. >> well, andrea, the white house is pushing back hard against the criticism from senator bob corker as you can imagine. top adviser kellyanne conway essentially accusing corker of playing politics saying look, he's not running for re-election. this is why he's waging this war of words with the president. but this really exposes a rift between the president and top members of the republican party that is bubbling up to the surface. the fact that you have a senator corker saying that the president could be leading the country toward world war iii is significant. and it raises questions about whether some of his other top republican colleagues will j

. >> and joining me now are the men of steel, michael steele, former press secretary to speaker johnd legal analyst, governor of maryland. would you mind if i called you mike? would you answer to mike? >> okay. >> you're mike from today, you're michael. >> gotcha. >> michael steele, this feud between senator corker and the president only hours before his first trip to the republican caucus lunch. how do you explain this? >> it's a little bit how you describe crazy. it makes no sense for the president to get up and just start the day by going after senator corker. i don't know if anyone in the white house really appreciates how important senator corker will be to this process over the next few months. and the alienation of him and others is not smart politics. the senator is right, this event will probably be nothing more than a photo op. very little substance will be garnered from this luncheon. they'll talk around a lot of things, i'm sure, but the meat of this is going to require a lot of handholding and face to face with people that the president right now seems to be wanting to a

intelligence committee member eric swalwell, managing director of hamilton place strategies, michael steele and white house reporter thank you all for joining me. let's talk about the nuts and bolts of what we're likely to see happening tomorrow. i'm getting concerned that we won't be able to see that tomorrow and we're left with another day of the speculation. what are you expecting from bob mueller tomorrow? >> well, look, as the previous clip showed, i think how many ways can you say we have no information about that and there is obstruction of justice on the jim comey firing. i don't think we're going to see anything like that tomorrow. and then there are al buck cut of things that don't have to do with the 2016 election but may implicate people like paul manafort other people that are involved. mueller can investigate any matters that arise and i think we're likely to see a charge or charges against an individual, one or more, tomorrow on that sort of third bucket. >> let's walk through where we stand here. five months into special counsel robert mueller's special election interference

i asked michael steel this question. the answer is, no, no, no, the growth will take care of this. >> when you look at the growth potential. historic growth around 2% over the last eight years or so on average. already at 3%. if we can get that to 3.5%, maybe even 4%, you're talking about up to $2 trillion in additional revenue just off the growth it will create. there is some room there. is the cbo going to score it that way and how can republicans go out there and say this is how we're going to do it and also with your interview with senator paul you'll get cutting of spending. >> is this a plan that john boehner could have supported? >> absolutely. >> it's the opposite of what you -- >> a supply side republican in the 1988 primaries. i think he supported this and the grand bargain we worked on with president obama in 2011. implicitly included the growth from tax reform like what we're contemplating now. >> what kind of impact could the president have with the wrong tweet on this bill? would it -- could it sink the who

michael steele, press secretary for former house speaker john boehner. andrew sullivan, pioneering political blogger writing for "new york" magazine and kimberly adkins for the "boston herald." andrew, you normally sum up a mess like this week in words. but how unprecedented is it to you, obama, bush, mccain, and in a different way paul ryan, all in the same week. this doesn't feel like a coincidence. >> no. it feels like responsible people attempting to notify the world that we do live in an emergency with this president. the vulgarity, the cheapness. the -- the hostilities of the constitution. all of it is creating a crisis in this country. and it's spawning also its opposite. spawning the kind of tribalism on the left, too. >> yes. >> which is driving the two groups further and further apart and the ability for us to talk to one another with any civility at all, even one to empathize with the other and think about where they're coming from is being vanished. it's vanishing on college campuses, vanishing in the white house, vanishing on twitter, now a

i have teased -- michael steele, started with you. put up percentages breakdown here. i thought against, a great job of splitting this us uniquely. core conservatives, market conservatives, market republican and new era enterpriser, put them, four coalitions here. so i guess michael steele, the majority clearly right now is this fused together country. you sthaep? accept that, driving the party -- >> no. less gap between the core conservatives and the enterprisers. i think most smart core conservatives, the first category, understands the party has to grow for the future meaning bring more latinos -- >> they don't believe this. the middle categories. >> exactly. if the first and fourth categories work together as they usually do, what happened that was unusual in the 2016 presidential nominating process, those two categories were split among at times eight or ten presidential candidates, whereas the two in the middle, ohcoalesd around one. the history of presidential primaries is almost always a mainstream candidate challenged from the right, defeating that challenge m

joining me back ashley park, michael steele as well. kelly o'donnell is also standing by over on the white house north lawn. kelly, quickly, what was your takeaway from what you heard from the president there? >> i think what the president gets out of this is a shot in the arm. having a crowd that he knows reliably votes and is supportive of a lot of his ideas. this is like an oxygen tank treatment for the president at a time when he's been under fire. so that's my biggest takeaway. these are voters who reliably and dependably cast their ballots. this is the sort of thing that can reshape the president's demeanor and outlook at a time he's got very big issues on tap. and when he gets re-enforcement from things like supporting the flag, that just further, i think, convinces him that some of these issues and the way he's leading, that he's on track. again, with this particular type of voter. >> kelly o'donnell, thank you very much. kelly is hit ogen the nail on the head of what the four of us were talking about as we listened to that spee

joining us tonight michael steele, former chairman of the republican party. both are msnbc analysts. michael, what do you make of that? if a heart surgeon said i'm going to open you up, 30% chance we're going to be talking on the other end. would you take that chance? >> probably not. with bannon you never know. i think what bannon was getting on that not so much the president was somehow in peril, but sort of re-emphasizing to him why the mission was so important and to make it very clear he's got enemies on all sides, even inside his own cabinet. and the fact of the matter is they want to hunker down now. bannon has declared war on the republican party. nationally he's going after imcumbent elected officials. now even talking about governors and state legislators. and so this is big problem, and i think that is just sort of a one off. i don't think that bannon is sitting there thinking that the president won't make it through the rest of his term. i think he's just emphasizing the importance to the president of just how difficult those around him have been f

secondly, why was he paying michael steele? why was the fbi paying michael steele?sean: for the phony dossier, the propaganda, the misinformation and the lies that were fed to the american people that were tried to be used, the russian phony dossier to influence an election. all right, peter, back to you. the one talking point that you here and even like liberal joe and all these idiots in the media, you know, they are out there saying well, the fusion gps first was hired by some republican donor. but the fact is -- >> -- not true. >> sean: it was general op. research prior to christopher steele who went to the russians, paid for the lies that the media and the democrats spread on donald trump to lie to the american people. >> that's exactly right. i mean, look, the problem with this dossier is not only is it inaccurate and wrong, but when it first came out, there was no corroborating or stashiating information. what have you uranium one in the clinton scandal you have the actual transference of money. nobody disputes all this money went to the clinton foundation. h

michael steele of formerly of the republican national committee. what are you saying? how did you react having been in many of those press conferences with many different presidents dealing with in this long period of war, the longest period of war in the nation's history, people talking about this. what was your reaction to it? >> i was there when he was telling this, this story. first of all, he is mailing a letter tonight. he is mailing it tomorrow. but then when he couldn't resist taking a jab at president obama, that's when i thought is there no situation, mr. president, where you cannot resist taking a jab at obama? we're talking about four soldiers killed in action. all that was asked is are you going to send some kind of condolences to these families. and as you and josh pointed out, all he had to say is i am. it isn't unreasonable to say i wanted to give them a little time, if that's what he wanted to do. but once he started doing these comparisons that he had no fact basis on, and i applaud nbc's peter alexander for getting in that follow-up question. because

michael steele, head of the party for some time. you heard what the definition of the civil war is about. what is it about? have you figured it out. >> yeah. it's been in the making for quite some time. it guess back to the end of the reagan era where people began to realize that the promises made were not the promises kept, and that then played itself out during the bush years where there was spending and growth in government. there was the war and a bunch of other things. certainly the social promises made on abortion and health care and the like have all sort of come to a boil within the party. so as your prior guest noted, there is sort of a constitutional versus sort of -- >> give joel credit. never heard of constitutional populism but he constructed it in an eloquent way. >> touches to the core of the tea party. that was my time in office, when that came to be. so you can see the fissures and line. the problem, the party never belt with it. absent frustration growing beneath them, if you will, they sort of papered over it, unt

. >>> michael steele and conservative columnist for "the washington post." i went back and forth about using the word feud. it's a word that gets used with the president a lot. but it tends to be unilateral. a feud implies that there are two sides that are feuding or prone to feuding. but when you list all the people that the president has gone after, you know, he went after steelworkers union boss, meryl streep, the house freedom caucus, kim jong un, the musical "hamilton." there has been a wide variety of people the president has again after there is one thing in common in that category. it's the president. it's not any of the other people on the other side of the feud. >> yeah. listen, donald trump here is just doing what he does which is being a bully. as you say, a feud not only implies that it's going both ways, but there is some kind of moral equivalence, that either both sides are being equally disingenuous, or both sides are being equally honest. that's never the case with donald trump. he doesn't have his fax. he doesn't have any sensibility about

we have a lot of michael steels who are friends of this show. christopher steele, the former british intelligence official. do you put the two developments around steele squarely into the collusion investigation oir is there any potential overlay from that obstruction of justice investigation? >> i think most of the detail in the dossier really go to the larger issue of what leverage the russian federation has over the trump organization, people inside trump's inner circle and ultimately the president of the united states. if you think very broadly, what is this investigation by the congressional intelligence committees, by the senate judiciary committee and bob mueller, what are they ultimately about? they boil down to leverage. in what ways has an adversary of the united states exerted and can they exert in the future leverage over the policy and decision making of the united states, and when someone like jim comey came to investigate those ties, and the president removed him from his position in hopes that would shut down the investigation, th

michael steele, so far, donald trump has managed to run circles around his party. >> in some way, heer strange in alabama. i think you don't win power, the kind of results we're looking for, whether on tax reform, repealing and replacing obamacare or anything else on the legislative checklist by targeting safe republican votes, making them spend money to defend their seat, making them work for that in a way that is just counterproductive. you do it by expanding the playing field. going after democrats. particularly senate democrats in those states that were up for e re-election next year in states the president won with huge margins. those should be the targets for anyone trying to get conservative reforms done. >> and i also want to gring brink this medical update from the u.k. unfortunately, hillary clinton on book tour has had a minor accident. she was late p for a couple of interviews today with a bbc and turns out she broke her toe. tripped going down a staircase carry iing a cup of coffee. she said not looking where she was going and turned up with her foot in a boot. some sort

curt, political strategist for br breitbart and michael steele. so, let me start with you. we've got this -- we need a wall to get welfare reform and he's in the room with the person he's going to need to get all that done right now. which is mitch mcconnell. but he take as shot at him by saying he gets where steve bannon is coming from. so do we have some sort soft expectation they're going to come out of the that meeting and say hey, everything's cool and we have a legislative agenda and we know how we're going to get there? >> i don't think we'll have that, but i think we'll be mcconnell's part at least sort of bringing this down so they can figure out what this is. what mcconnell and ryan are not used to is a white house that has no clear directional point to go to. typically, in this situation, you get some keys to the white house, you could roll some things by them. they're shop and the hill are on the aim page. that's not the case here. the president is on again, off again on health care. he's on again, off again on a number of foreign policy issues. the only thing h

. >>> former rnc chairman and friend of the show, michael steele, matthew and jill also back with us. so, here's how we put it in "nightly news." the republican resistance at this point appears to be capped at 2. the silence from capitol hill is speaking volumes in all of this. but another fight happening because we can't let a day go by without a civil war somewhere. >> of course. >> steve bannon and mitch mcconnell. pull up that "washington post" headline, again. trying to feud with steve bannon. how is this fight going to go? >> it could be interesting. look, these guys have weapons of their own that they can use. and, you know -- >> you're talking about mitch mcconnell. what are the weapons they can use? >> legislation the president wants to get through the congress. so, at the end of the day, you do have to be smart and careful about how you hit. i think people make a false assumption that, you know, the president say, oh, yeah, only a battle with two. no, there may not be a lot of voices that are speaking, but the sentiment is shared that both corker and flake had put out there

, former senior adviser to jeb bush and former press secretary to house speaker john boehner, michael steelemichael, great to have you here at the table. i want to start with you. how hard is paul ryan's job right now and how tenuous is his position? >> i think his job is incredibly hard, but i think he's incredibly dedicated to it. he had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the speaker's office. he was convinced he could get big things done that helped people and that's what he believes tax reform is. it's going to help create jobs, help people get higher wages, help bring our economy back to life. and that's the reason people elect republicans. that's the reason people elected president trump. and that's what he'll give everything he has to try and do. >> so far it's not exactly going very well. he keeps saying we'll be fine if we just pass our agenda. the agenda is completely stalled and the president is piling up health care, iran, all these other things ahead of his priority. >> the president either doesn't know or gets bad advice about what he needs to do on capitol hill. especial

they made the point that michael steele has shown no interest in going before the senate intelligencettee -- >> christopher steel. >> and that does not surprise me at all, because christopher steel is a former officer of the british intelligence service, and former intelligence officers are not prone to going before governmental bodies and let alone one that is not their own to disclose their sources and me methods. >> do you see a subpoena? >> i am not sure how far it would get us, because he is not an american citizen and not someone who has taken to divulging the methods throughout his career, and so i don't see it starting now. >> and so, thank you. i want to have you two sticking around because we want to look at the fallout of an extramarital affair that has congressman murphy opting for an early retirement. we will have details after the the break. kevin kevin kevin kevin trusted advice for life. kevin, how's your mom? life well planned. see what a raymond james financial advisor can do for you. our recent online sales success seems a little... strange?nk na. ever since we swit

. >> we came upon this inmate, michael steele, who was sitting outside his cell with his items all packed 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 down. 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

. >> michael steele was a uk former british agent, christopher steel.a former uk intelligence agency accessing sources. this wasn't russians coming to hillary. >> it was russians. >> and saying we've got the goods and them saying great. you're missing a few steps here. >> let's go step by step. ooi hillary clinton's campaign and the democratic national committee paid a cutout lawyer who paid fusion gps who paid a british spy to buy information from russian spies, russian intelligence material. a lot of that is -- that's a chain of events in an opposition research process that is beyond the pail of what's accepted in campaign. >> that's not true but continue. >> your concern is about papadopoulos. >> you do this all the time. how they accounted for it when the russian spies -- there's funny money all over the campaign. >> when did british spies get involved, chris? >> they didn't go to hillary clinton and offer his information. this is such apples and bananas. >> it's still fruit, chris. it's still fruit, chris. both of them need to be -- >> fruit of the

who hired michael steele, that was not republican.research firm that brought back dossier proven false, handed over to the fbi? they knew, they had to know it would boomerang back on them? >> well there are a couple different pieces to this. it is hard to keep them all straight. the uranium deal, uranium one company, all ties to the clintons, that was revealed in the "clinton cash" book. we ajudicated that a fair amount although there are new details last couple weeks. melissa: christopher steele, was the investigator at mi6. go ahead. >> christopher steele, one of the way democrats are deflecting this story, there are a lot of rank-and-file democrats, liberals across the country had no idea this would eventually perhaps make its way back into the democrats backyard. we know now that robert mueller was investigating the podesta group in connection with this investigation. but with this deflection that i was about to talk about, some of the folks are say, on the left, oh, this was a republican initiated, sort of investigation oppositio

be a problem, he should have said that but it seems like it really is the terms and honestly, michael steele'srageous to me. he seems quite justified in saying i don't want to reveal my sources. and we're getting diverted from the real fact which is what are the facts? it doesn't matter who hired him. it doesn't matter who paid him. did he discover things that are true? and some of his report has clearly been verified. the willingness of the russians to provide negative information on hillary to help the trump campaign seems to be true. the fact of the trump tower and construction in russia, that's something we didn't know about that's definitely true. >> right. or you might care who paid for it because it goes to incentive, motive and the original context of the gathered information. mueller might ultimately try to determine that but the notion that the republican chair says i don't want to sit down with you to get some of what is true or allegedly true, i don't want to talk to you until i can know everything, that doesn't strike me as a normal investigative process. >> i agree with you. agai

. >> and again, just to distinguish, is there a difference, if you are michael steele and you are concernedbout your sources, is there a difference between talking to bob mueller and team versus talking to the senate intelligence committee? >> i think there is because we have to remember the investigation into the russian interference in the election did not begin with the special counsel's office. it started as an fbi investigation, i would presume. and so what happened is those investigators who were working on that investigation got rolled under the supervision of the special counsel. so if mr. steele is a former intelligence officer, he would have been used to working with other foreign intelligence services like fbi agents and so he would understand sort of the parameters of the secrecy by which an interview would take place. he would have less experience obviously, there would have been no reason in the past for him to working with and talking to congressional investigators and i think he would probably be more cautious, particularly because their deliverable is a report to the public

joining me now, political analyst chairman michael steele, and ron mcclain, senior administrator of the obama administration. you are a lawyer who worked on the hill as well. >> yes. >> so you know all the legal ramifications of what the president was tweeting. for the last time, i was just saying when i heard anything like this, jorichard nixon was the white house. i wasn't here yet. i was a kid reporter wannabe, but he was threatening catherine graham for taking away all her stations around the country. >> now we know what twitter would have looked like had it existed at the time, because we're looking at the lawless presidency that richard nixon did, but with the added factor that donald trump doesn't even try to hide it, he just puts it out there on twitter for all to see. he's a bully, he's trying to intimidate the news media, trying to intimidate football players and trying to intimidate anyone who disagrees with him and this is a test for us as a country. will our institutions be robust enough to stand up to him? people stand up to him and insist that our democratic principles st

michael steele, lamar alexander, this is not a guy who's new to this game. he's been around the block and pretty risk oh verse. he's not going to climb out on a limb he doesn't think he's by himself on. you don't sign off on deals in this town when you do these deals if you don't know you've got, in this kashgs the white house and your senator leader with you. all of a sudden it looks like the president's about to saw off this limb. >> absolute legislative malpractice on the part of the white house. their lead shop has been woefully incompetent from the very beginning in terms of -- >> you blame them or -- >> tell you what -- >> has the president made it job harder for -- >> exactly right. no coordination between the oval office and that lead shop in terms what they're communicating to the hill and their legislative office in terms where they'll going to go. so you have senator alexandersying, i had a conversation with the president who told me this -- >> right. >> i then to your point go out and rely on that when sitting in front of a reporter and say, yeah

michael steel is the former chair of the republican national committee and eugene robertson a columnistith the washington post. so in order, heidi, why would this president attack mccain when it's so clearly that mccain will win this moral fight. >> why does he attack anyone? because we're on a sand box and somebody hit him so he's just punching back. that's how he interpreted that speech and frankly that was an attack on the president. mccain didn't make up america first. he's being aggressive about trying to warn this country that we're at a pivotal moment right now and i think particularly it's no mistake that mccain is of the gop foreign policy advisers and former officials who have been warning us since the campaign, you remember, the one group that was completely unified in being resistant to the president were the 50 foreign policy experts who signed the letter and that's mccain. that's who he is. >> but he also got to the heart of trumpism, this white america basic nationalism based on ethnicity, not on ideas or values and he really hit him. >> he hit him hard saying basically t

fact that they appeared on capitol hill to family members of using gps behind the dossier that michael steele worked on, they took the fifth. they pled the fifth behind closed doors. why would they do that if they stand behind the work of what they collected in the dossier? >> i have no idea. i have no idea what's in that dossier. and i think that is part of a very big troubling picture here. but for the president to be tweeting about it, how is he helping the situation by tweeting about it all the time? he is repeatedly tweeting and his attacks on the russia investigation, calling it fake, his attacks on the press calling it you fake news over and over again. and this is not helping him in the russia investigation at all. they are investigating him for obstruction of justice. it is indicating that the president is really psychologically eupl poimbalanc he is tweeting for no benefit for himself, for the white house, for the country. he needs to put away the twitter and do his job or step down. >> eric, when it comes to that moment on capitol hill earlier this week behind closed doors with tho

and i got so confused because i didn't know if they were talking about paul manafort or michael steele or jared kushner or jo-wilfried tsonga dr. there are a number of people who appear to have violated federal laws. it could be any one of them tomorrow and we'll wait and see. >> okay, we were talking about ty cobb earlier. i wanted to play what he said in an interview published last night, conducted on thursday, the day before the news of the indictment broke. here's that. >> i think he would be sad for them, as a friend and a former colleague, if the process results in punishment or indictments. but to the extent that that happens, that's beyond his control. and obviously, he's not trying to influence that in any way. but the president has no concerns in terms of any impact, as to what happens to them, on his campaign or on the white house. >> so are you interpreting his confidence there as a signal that whatever paul manafort or mike flynn possibly did can't be traced back to president trump? >> that's not how i interpret it at all. both that statement as well as today's statement s

. >>> former rnc chairman michael steel joins me now. when you look at what is going on with trump and corker and you think we have a lot to get done in this gop congress, there is not as much time left as we may think thr think. the run up to 2018 is going to really start gaining steam in the next year, democrats could maybe get control back in the house if nothing happens, maybe potentially in the senate. what goes through the mind of the former head of the rnc? >> all of this is exhausting. and it's unnecessarily so. the fact that you got a twitter battle between sitting united states senator and the president of the united states is embarrassing and the fact that this sentiment that senator corker expressed is one genuinely felt by majority of senators and some house members is also problematic. and i think this idea that anything is going to get done in this republican congress of substance becomes more and more problematic every day. the fact that you are alienating the one guy in the senate who can help you bridge a couple of brid

joining me here in the newsroom to talk about all of this is michael steele, former rnc chairman andt and bill cristal, the weekly standard. two of my favorite republicans in twilight in the trump administration. >> i reject that. it's dawn. twilight and dawn look similar. >> fair. talk to me about what you heard from steve bannon, calling bush's presidency the most destructive. >> speaking to the california republican party, i mean the republican party -- this is a drawback in the past few decades but also a strength is a pretty loyal party. they sort of like their -- respect the people who ran for office before, whether it's bob dole, won or loss, bush or dole or mccain. >> there's been a traditional deference. >> yeah. >> you follow the tea party insurgent, thrp assimilated into the party. a story about bannon personal y personality, it's a genuine attempt to destroy the current republican party and replace it with something else. the only question if our adult lifetime, you weren't born at this point, early 60s, hated lyndon johnson more than they hated republicans. he hates geor

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also joining me, "the new york times," glenn tlush, former republican national committee share, michael steele, and "the washington post's" ann garrett. it seems to me like there's high dungeon at the white house. >> there's certainly anger. the president was already angry at rex tillerson because of what he said saturday in china about being open to direct talks with north korea. then when he had tweeted out tweets objecting to what tillerson said, then he was hit with our report, and was furious about that report, as he was preparing to go to las vegas. so for a variety of reasons, according to the white house, namely that john kelly, the chief of staff, had to work on other management issues at the white house, but also, according to our reporting, that he wanted to manage this firestorm, he stayed behind. he did not take that trip. he later in the day met with both tillerson and defense secretary mattis at the white house, to figure out how to go forward with so much turmoil and with the president so angry at his secretary of state. >> how does one go forward when your top diplomat in the

joining us onset is katelyn owens reporting for axios and political analyst michael steele. nancy and jill are back as well. katelyn, at some point after the phone call with the senator and before we came on the air for the show, the president tweeted he's supportive of lamar as a person and also of the process. but he says he can never support bailing out insurance companies who have made a fortune with o-care. so he's not so into what senator alexander and senator murray are talking up. >> i think he's gone back and forth on this. we have seen a lot of confusing statements coming out of the white house yesterday. he's been tweeting and talking. it's back and forth. i think something that alexander said this morning at the event is he doesn't want to play his hand too early. he still wants leverage here. >> meaning the president doesn't want to play his hand here. >> right. yes. it is not surprising that he hasn't thrown weight behind this because republicans want the best deal out of this. >> what other headline stood out from the conversation you just had with the senator

michael. and what he loved. and dana sounds like this is his passion, too. >> i'm proud to wear his tools and keep him on the steel reporter: now that dana has michael's tools he's ready to go back on the job on monday. in san pablo, matt keller, abc 7 news. >> tht is a loving mom right there. >> when i was out there yesterday and the day before, i had literally people coming up to me saying i have money. i have supplies. who can i give it to? someone with just a huge chunk of money said i need to find someone deserving of this. >> so many great stories coming literally out of the ashes. >> the love that is there in spite of all the disaster is incredible. >> okay. so what we can hope for now is that we'll have some better weather today. is that the case? >> it is. it's a double-edged sword. you don't want the winds for firefighters. without the wind the air is stagnant. you have the haze overhead, the smoke settling over us. the air quality will be unhealthy to very unhealthy across the region. but with those calm winds firefighters once again have a good window today getting a better handle on these fires. visib

michael. and what he loved and dana sounds hike this is his passion, too. >> i'm proud to wear his tools and keep them on the steel>> reporter: now that dana has michael's tools, he's all ready to go back on the job on monday. matt keller, "abc7 news." >> isn't that a great story? let's check in one last time with sandhya patel, who is tracking wind conditions on the fire lines. >> right now the winds are light. clear conditions, but the winds will be increasing, especially in the hills friday, 5:00 p.m. until saturday at 11:00 p.m. we have red nflag warnings. low humidity, you can easily see fires starting and spreading. as we take a look at this time lapse, you see what the smoke did. it did a number on the bay area with thick smoke, just hovering over the bay area today. causing respiratory issues for many people. and it's not going to get much better. when you look at the air quality the next couple of days, it's going to be poor to unhealthy friday and saturday and even beyond. hazy tomorrow, highs in the 60s to 70s. smoky skies. accuweather seven day, windy, smoky conditions saturday. by sunday, lighter wind

. >> it's like a testimonial to michael and what he loved and dana sounds like this is his passion, too. >> i'm proud to wear his tools and keep them on the steelanson has michael's tools he says he's going to be ready to go back to work on monday. >> always look for the helpers. >>> operation barbecue relief is deploying to the north bay feeding the victims affected by the wildfires. >> that organization provides meals to displaced residents and emergency personnel during times of disaster and now they're coming to napa and sonoma counties. they posted this on their facebook page. they will start cooking today. the organization usually averages 3,000 to 4,000 meals a day so it's a big operation. they're expected to be here for a week and if you'd like to help can you. a $25 donation will provide 25 meals. we're posting a link on our website abc7news.com. >>> and back here at the live desk air quality officials say the smoky air we've been having from the fires is both unhealthy and unprecedented. the dangerous air quality prompted the closure of schools in the mt. diablo district and the east bay campus in concord. they say it is carrying invi

. >> it's like a testimonial to michael and what he loved and dana sounds like this is his passion, too. >> i'm proud to wear his tools and keep them on the steel. >> hanson says now that he has michael's tools he is going to be ready to go back to work on monday. >>> a santa rosa couple who just came back from their honeymoon is among the hundreds who lost everything they own. >> all the wedding presents and belongings are gone. abc 7 has their story. >> reporter: the couple lives in this neighborhood. their home is unrecognizable. for blocks everything is black, burned, and flattened. it was the picture perfect wedding set in wine country, oscar and katie couldn't wait to start their lives together as husband and wife. the groom works in marketing while the bride is a nurse in santa rosa. >> just worked so hard to get to this point, the very first paycheck as a nurse, i put it towards moving into this house. and making it a home. >> reporter: they just returned from a two-week honeymoon in mexico. they went to sleep that night but their dog molly started barking, alerting them to smoke filling their house. >> i realized something was bad. som

>> michael, what should be make of that? >> well, steele is a former british intelligence agent who many current and former intelligence officials have vouched for, saying this is credible guy. he compiled a report on trump and his possible connections to the kremlin. people should remember when they're looking at the dossier, which is available online much to the consternation of donald trump, a lot of that is raw intelligence. the u.s. intelligence committee gets information, analyzes it and decides what is or not true. but the cosyea itself was not reporting to be the definitive final word. that said as you go back and look many assertions in the dossier are consistent with assertions that have come out in this investigation. it's not clear why steele is quite so elusive, and it would be great if he would meet with investigators and he would fully disclose his sources and methods. you've to keep in mind to some degree, assuming what he was doing was credible and legitimate work, it's very dangerous. he purported to be getting information

. >> i want to add into our discussion, michael isikoff, a chief investigator, has said that christopher steele was an fbi asset assisting in the investigation. i want to add your reporting and views to this. donald trump and his allies may wish the dossier would go away. as i've just reported, you have a republican chairman talking about, i want to get to the bottom of this. you have mueller reports, according to reuters, looking at it. which you would expect. and then the politico headline, the hunt for trump dossier, inflaming it. saying two travels to russia there summer trying to -- they traveled to london trying to track down christopher steele. >> i think it is worth remembering from what we know, as christopher steele was working on the dossier, and developing this information, long before it became public. he himself reached out to the fbi. the account he's given is that he was so kerneled about what he was doing finding. he thought the fbi with whom he had a relationship ought to know it. and there are at least two contacts. one in july and one later, august, september time frame, whe